Chapter 3

Cold Play – Fix You (this one is for the last part of the chapter.)

Brennan closed the door behind her quietly careful not to wake Angela. All the cab ride she had a small smile, hypnotized by the events of the evening. From how handsome he looked to the way she felt being wrapped in his arms like that. It was true that she was scared of loving and being loved, but she decided that her past would not define her completely. When Booth told her he was in the army, she knew he was like her. His past was complex and difficult, and she knew that every day he tried to fight against it and find dome beauty, something she needed to do. That was why she hugged him tightly. From now on, he'll teach her how to open her heart and see more than the madness in the world, but the beautiful things it hided.

As Brennan was serving herself a glass of water, Angela tip-toed from her bedroom and surprised her by tickling her. Brennan yelped and dropped the water causing it to break from the fall. Angela was laughing uncontrollably, and even if Brennan was mad at first, she began laughing too. Probably because the alcohol was still very present in her body. As the laughing fit slowed, Angela smiled smugly at her friend and asked was she was dying to ask since she met Booth in the library.

"So sweetie… Is he a good kisser?" She asked as she helped Brennan pick up the broken glass. Brennan blushed uncontrollably.

"Yes Angela, he is." She responded. As she was going to put another piece of glass on the periodic paper to drop it, she felt a cut and yelped grabbing her finger. "Oh god, Ange give me something!" She yelled seeing the amount of blood coming out the cutting.

"OH MY GOD! Yes! Sure… Uh… Here!" She said giving her a napkin. Brennan ran to the bathroom to clean the wound and Angela finished picking the mess up quickly. "You okay Sweetie?" She asked entering the bathroom, but Brennan had already added a band-aid in her finger to help the bleeding ease.

"I'm okay, it was a small cut." She said showing her the finger.

"Oh okay… Well I was going to do a whole interrogation scene of how your date when but you look really tired."

"Thank you!" She said laughing softly. They both got out of the bathroom and as Brennan was about to enter her room, Angela stopped her.

"Just one little question… Pleaaaaaaseeeee?" Angela begged with puppy eyes. Brennan had no other option than to nod. "Is he good in… you know…?" She said wiggling her brows.

"We didn't do it, Angela." Brennan said seriously, hiding a smirk knowing what was coming next by the stunned look on her friend's face.

"You-You didn't!?" She asked in desbilief. "Why didn't y-"

"Night, Ange." Brennan said interrumping her friend and closing the door quickly.

"We're not over with this BRENNAN!" And with that Angela went off to her room.

While Brennan was preparing herself to go to sleep, her phone buzzed with a message. When she saw who it was from, she smiled. And didn't hesitate to answer.

-Tonight was amazing, had a great time :) Maybe we can meet again tomorrow?

-I'll enjoy that very much. Maybe we can go to dinner.

-Sure! I can pick you up and we can go to the new Thai place.

-Sounds good. Goodnight :)

-Goodnight :)

Brennan smiled and got underneath the covers with a smile. She began thinking of how soft his lips were on hers and how his hand seemed made just to protect hers. When they were dancing and he whispered how beautiful she looked and how her eyes were the most perfect thing he had ever seen. But the thing that amazed the most was how good he cooked. His culinary abilities were quite amazing. And as she began drifting off to sleep thinking about their date, her phone buzzed again.

-I'm sorry, I don't have your address. Uupps!

Brennan smiled and typed her address, as she closed her eyes, sleep finally came over lulling her with dreams.

"Okay class, that's all for today…" Professor Michael Stires said shutting down his computer. Brennan began to put all her things away, but when she was about to get out, Michael called for her to stay for a moment.

"Yes, Michael?" She asked impatiently. The class lasted longer than usual and Booth was supposed to be at her house in 15 minutes, even if her apartment was close, it wasn't that close, it may took her some good 10 minutes walking and she had to get ready, she couldn't wait.

"Listen, Tempe… You know there's a new exhibit on the museum, right? Well I've got some contacts, and I'll like you to come with me tonight to the premiere. I've got the tickets." He said flashing her a smile.

"Um… I can't tonight, I'm sorry." She said getting out again, but she felt his hand on hers and in one moment she was pinned on a wall.

"C'mon Temperance. I know the way you've been looking at me for this months. What we had, was amazing, I'd love to repeat it."

"Get away from me bastard!" She yelled and in one moment she had him pinned down. "What we had, was nothing,! You're just one womanizer that calls when his biological urges are needed to be pleased. At first, you seemed nice, but now, you're an asshole!" She yelled furiously.

"WHAT!? Just nice!? I took your virginity, that's never going to change! So fine… You don't want to go? FINE! I'll find someone else, Morticia…" He said walking out of the classroom. "You're just an abandoned piece of shit" He said and then left. Brennan felt all the rage ease off her body as he left, but couldn't shake the feeling of being called Morticia again. Her adolescence wasn't easy, it was really bad, actually, being a science lover and different made the others make fun of her. Well… being a foster girl didn't help much. When she got out of the system, she promised herself that she wouldn't be vulnerable before someone's eyes again, but now, she felt that the only thing she wanted to do was to go home and cry herself to sleep. She felt stupid of letting someone like Michael Stires enter the deepest secrets of her. So that's what she did. She walked home and went immediately to her room without saying anything to Angela, and mostly, forgetting about Booth.

Angela saw how a frustrated Brennan shut the door behind her and how she instantly locked herself on her room. She knew Brennan well enough to know that in this moments, she'll have to leave her alone, and if it went too far, she had to intervene. A few minutes after the whole Brennan chaos, she heard knocking on the door. When she opened the door and felt her mouth hit the ground when she saw no one more than Seeley Booth. He looked really handsome in his button-up shirt and jeans with some daisies in his hands.

"Um… hey! Angela right?" He said nervously, he had only met this girl once and seemed nice, but too wild for him. "Is Brennan home?" He asked.

"I'm sorry… did you guys had a date?" She said nervously remembering Brennan's current state. "She's not home, I'm sorry, big guy…" She lied thinking that it was the best to leave her best friend alone for a while, but in that moment, Brennan decided to emerge from her room to grab a glass of water.

She had red puffy eyes and her hair was on a messy bun. She was wearing some pajama shorts and a T with some silly socks. Booth immediately went onto alpha-male mood and excused Angela and moved to the kitchen were Brennan was serving a glass of water.

"Bones?" He asked carefully. He saw how Brennan tensed up. She looked really comfy on that outfit but when she turned her eyes at him he saw the pain. That pain he always saw in the mirror when his dad hit him, or that pain when some of his buddies where bullying an innocent kid and he did nothing about it.

"I'm so sorry Booth! I forgot!" She began to babble, but Booth stopped her with a hug.

"He, hey, it's alright. Are you okay?" He asked looking on those pain-full blue pools. He saw some tears gathering in her eyes and she moved her head in 'no'.

"I'm just…going to go back…" Angela said, but that went unnoticed by the couple, so she just went into her room and locked the door.

"You want some time alone…or?"

"Come with me please." She said softly. He just nodded and she took his hand leading him towards her room. Brennan hated to admit that right now, she was vulnerable, but the only difference was that Booth wouldn't take advantage of it. She knew that the only place she'll feel save now, was in his arms, so as they entered, she sat under the covers of the bed.

Booth just stood there by the door watching her, so she nodded towards the empty side of the bed for him to join her. He unbuttoned the two first buttons of his shirt, took off his shoes and crawled next to Brennan. He opened his arms and Brennan snuggled against him, feeling new tears gathering in her eyes.

"Hey… What happened?" He asked softly while kissing her hair. In that moment Brennan knew she couldn't be this closed, she couldn't fight it anymore. He opened about the army yesterday, so she'll open about this now.

"I lost my virginity with my Antropology professor." She began. "He seemed nice and had a well-defined physique, but turns out, he was an asshole." She felt how Booth tensed under her arms and how he hold her closer to him. "After our sexual encounter, he continued calling, and we had two dates. In that time, I told him some painful parts of my past, and I thought he was caring, but he just took that against me." She was crying softly by now. "Every time I denied having sex with him, he'll snap and tell me something about my past. And every single time, he does, it makes me feel like this." Booth was holding Brennan tighter now, and his heart broke with every word she said. When she snuggled closely and hid her face against the crook of his neck, he felt the tears in her cheeks. "And I swore, that I'll never, ever, let someone so close. But then, you came, and I knew you were different." She said. Booth took her jaw with his hand and guided their lips together.

"You're safe now." Was the only thing he whispered before they both began exploring each other.

OKAAAY! So here's chapter 3! Thank you for the reviews, they make me know you like the story.