"Yeah?", she said.
"You want to get a bite to eat, so we can be in private?", Booth said, quietly.
"Yeah, sure", she said.
This is it, he was finally going to tell Temperance how he feels about her, truly. He did love her and it was about time he actually told her. They were going to have a baby together. Like a real family. Parks was going to get a baby sister or brother. Okay Booth, breathe, we need you alive for this, he though to himself. One they finished lunch and were eating the usual pie dessert, he said it, out of the clear blue.
"Yes", he said, completely one-worded and nonchalant.
"What?", she said.
"I want you, all of you, with me, I love you and I would love to have your child Temperance Brennan", he said, holding her face, passion dripping off of every single word uttered from his mouth.
"For Truth!", she said excited.
"You mean 'for real'. I love that about you", he said giggling.
"I think I love you too Booth", she said.
"Think? What's the variable?", he said, as if a fifty pound weigth has just been thrusted upon his chest.
"I don't know I have some feeling left for Sully, and you, you just don't compare to my beautifulSully, my one true love!", she said laughing. All the old times flooded back in to his head like Hurricane Katerina. The boat, and the sex he acidently walked in on, the cute bickering. He really couldn't compare. He was a complete and utter failure.
Booth felt an ice dagger jam up is throat every time she said his name like that. All sultry and delicious. He wanted her so badly, and she wanted him, end off story. End off perfect plan. No little Tempe's scurying around Booth's apartment any time soon.
Then he woke in an awful cold sweat. It was a dream, but how much off it? Did she really ask him to be her baby daddy, or was that part of the dream, too? Did he really profess his love to her, only to be shot down?
He got up and took a shower, trying his hardest to wash away last night's dream, or nightmare at that. But it didn't work, and before he knew it. He ws off to work, were he had to face realities he wasn't even close to ready for.