Thanks to all you reviewers! (All twelve of ya!) Thanks so much for the info and suggestions. Feel free to correct my spelling it's not my strongest point.
Here's to Booth and Bones, Ohh and Jared whose going to be driving Booth crazy for the next few chapters.
She was having that dream again the one where she was buried and Parker was already gone. She was crying and screaming feeling the weight of the dirt crushing her lungs. Her mouth filled with dirt as her cries cut off. The dirt was getting warmer and crushing her more intensely. Something was in her hair-probably bugs. She kept on thinking about how she was never going to see any of them again, Booth, Cam, Angela, Hodgins, Zack… It made her feel weak and helpless as she tried to find her was back to them. She felt the world shake a little, holding her more closely. She thought that she had really died this time because all was lost into the blackness. She did not have a nightmare again. When she tried to open her eyes, she was sure she was dead because all she saw was brown eyes, watching her.
She was sure that it was a dream, all a dream, including those brown eyes watching her when she woke up. Most of it was a dream, the brown eyes and the tanned arms holding her were however most defiantly real.
"Booth?" She murmured still squinting in the darkness trying to make out any other features.
"Are you awake?" He whispers.
She smiles a little at his obliviousness. "I'm talking aren't I?"
"Ya well you were screaming before." She hides her face from him then, embarrassed that he would see that side of her.
"Hey, It's okay. We all get a little scared sometimes."
"I hate taking advantage of you like this, you having me stay here and comforting me when I'm sad." The words came out in such a small voice that she is surprised that he even heard her.
"Hey, if I didn't want to be here Tempe, I wouldn't be. It's okay."
She did not really realize that his arms were still around her and that his face was inches away from her own, all she could think of was how good he smelled and how warm she was here lying beside him.
"What time is it?" She asked.
"A little bit after Two, go back to sleep."
She shakes her head scared of what she might see if she closes her eyes. It is almost as if he reads her mind.
"I'll be here don't worry." He murmurs already half-asleep. They both nod off a few moments later.
Waking up without the annoyance of an alarm clock was something that they both enjoyed. However, Temperance was annoyed as she moved Booths had up so she could see his watch.
"Booth, Booth…BOOTH!" She has to yell his name to get him to wake up. So much for army sniper.
"What? What?" he mumbles trying to wake-up from his obvious deep sleep.
"It's almost nine we are late." He laughs then lying back down and holding her down as well. "Wrong, you are late I can come in whenever I want."
"Liar."
"Ya well Cam's not going to fire you for showing up only…An hour…before she does." He teased realizing that his arms were very tight around her and their legs intertwined. A slow creeping blush spread out over his cheeks.
"Well, anyway I think I should have a shower." Tempe mumbles incredibly fast.
"Ya, ya ill make some coffee." They both spring apart, each going their separate ways, each trying not to look over their shoulders at each other.
It took them only forty-five minutes to each have a shower and get ready for the day. Walking into the Jeffersonian with coffee cups in hand, they nodded at the squints before hightailing it to her office.
"Are you just going to sit there?" Brennan asks watching as booth plops himself on her couch and drinks deeply from his cup.
"What else would I do?" Booth asks racking his memory. Sure, he had paper work but that was far away and he was here. He could just sit on her couch while she went and did her science-thingy, got him some evidence and then they could do something about finding the murderer.
"Phone Jared and we have to go see Ladvin's family." She pointed out sitting at her desk and flipping threw her notes already hard at work. She did not even notice that her partner barely moved. "Booth get up we still have jobs remember?"
Shit, what was it about her that made him forget all about what was going on in the outside world; he had put all of his worries and needs away and had been completely focusing on her… "Okay, I'll phone Jared first." He mumbled picking up his cell phone and dialing the familiar number. No one answered but that meant little, Jared was not known for every being there when anyone needed him.
"Try again later." She said not even looking up from her work. "Do you want me to get more evidence or help you tell the family?" She asked still not looking up.
"Wow are you really asking what I want you to do? That's a big step up Bones, actually trusting me for once." He smiled teasing her.
"I trust you." She said still distracted by the notes that Cam had come up for her.
"Thanks." He said smiling at her.
"I thought you weren't going to call me Bones anymore."
"Look I'm making up my mind okay a guy is allowed to try different stuff out before he settles on one thing."
"Booth, your phones ringing." She points out finally looking up at him.
"Ya, right." He smiles at her again and answers. "Jared, hey that was fast, yep, ya umm we need to talk so how about…no…no…I think we need to see each other-ya Bones can come…See you then…" he hangs up and then glances over at his partner. "Would you mind coming to talk to Jared tomorrow with me?" He had not realized that he had been holding his breath until Temperance said yes. "Thanks."
"No problem that's what I'm here for." She smiled at him throwing on her lab coat. "I'll be back."
Booth snorted, trying to muffle a laugh.
"What?"
"I'll be back." Booth mocked in a full Terminator voice.
"I don't know what that means."
"I know just go do your squinty stuff."
She left leaving him with a smile on his face.
"What do we have?"
"Left puncture wound to the right artery and what looks to be a trauma to the right frontal lobe."
"Clark Edison right?" Brennan looks him over making up her mind. "How many times have you been here?"
"This would be my third rotation." He said with absolute certainty.
"Do you like it here?" She asks still studying him.
"Most of the time, can we get back to work?"
"Yes, yes okay now what does that tell us?"
"That Ladvin was hit over the head with something sharp. Then he was stabbed with the same weapon in his neck."
"So the killer knew what he was doing?"
"I believe so there was very little struggle it all happened very fast." Clark was very decisive about it-that impressed Brennan.
"Very good Mr. Edison." She praised before she examined the rest of the remains more closely. "What do you make of these?" She pointed to very small marks along the bones.
"I don't know but I will find out." He murmurs taking the bones away to be examined.
"Dr. Brennan I was just looking for you do you have a minute?" Cam asks striding on to the platform.
"Yes, of course." The two women walk side by side on their way to Angela's office.
"I know you and Booth are close but Dr. Sweets informed me of something very…interesting today."
"What?"
"Apparently you and Booth are living together?"
"Yes."
Cam stopped, grinning from ear to ear. "Temperance as a friend I have some advice, Booth is great, but bureau policy as well as Jeffersonian policy make it impossible for you too to be together, so here's my advice, be discrete and no PDA in the lab." Cam took one look at Brennen's shell-shocked face and gave her a big hug. "Took you two long enough." She whispered before taking her leave.
"Angela?" Brennan called.
"Yes?"
"Do Booth and I?"
"Fight like an old married couple, yes. And Sweets told me about the situation, girl you have some serious self-control I would have jumped the G-man a long time ago. How can you stand it the…"
"Angela, not right now, booth and I have to go and tell Ladvin's family that he is dead."
"Okay, just no funny business in the car cause I want you both alive." She joked.
"Angela booth and I are."
"Ya, ya save it for some one who believes it." Angela cut her off grinning at her best friends as she walked away looking completely confused.
"Tempe? You ready?"
"Ya, ya I'm ready. Ohh we know that it is not my father." She says standing very close to him.
"Really how?"
"It doesn't fit his M.O."
"One down another million suspects to go." Booth said letting his hand fall to her lower back as he guided her out the door.
Not my best chapter but still not that bad. Sorry It took so long I had some technical difficulties.
Ya for Jared next chapter! Ohh for all you people who watched Con Man he's still drinking, Still being a jerk. Things are going to get interesting.
