Alright here's another chapter for you my lovely readers. I'm going to admit that this has been nearly finished for about a week know I just couldn't quite figure out how to do it. But I think I did it, at least ok this time. The time line on this is a little finicky. In relation to the last chapter it's about 6 months later but there are flash backs in it to inbetween points. Also this is from Booth's perspective. I think that's all you need to know now besides the painstakingly obvious that I don't in fact own bones.
Chapter 7 – It's Ours
"Set the couch in that room." I told the movers turning to look at the house, our house, admiring how much it seemed to be a blend of both of us. The movers had been moving things into the house for hours, one truck for each of us.
A few months ago, she'd asked me to move in with her; originally, I'd thought it was a reaction to her spending some time with Parker and him informing her that she was his second mom. But I should have known better, Bones would never ask something like that without being sure. The next day she began talking about whether I should move into her apartment or she should move into mine. We argued over it for a week spending time assessing each other's apartments trying to figure out how we would merge all of our stuff into one of the apartments. It just wasn't possible.
We'd been at each other's throats all week. She'd eventually told me her cold rational scientific tone that it was unnecessary for her to accompany me into the field any longer and that I should go, we would discuss the prospects of our relationship at a later time. After that I didn't hear from her for three days.
Then at two in the morning, I opened the door to her pounding, "Bones, what are you doing here?"
She didn't answer but instead strode into the middle of my apartment, flipping on the lights as she went, before turning back to look at me. I just stood looking blearily at the woman I love wondering what an earth drove her to this rather irrational action. "I can't sleep." She stated and then stood there looking at me a moment longer before elaborating. "I can't sleep because you're not next to me… Which means I haven't slept in three days, because not only are you not next to me, but we're mad at each other."
"Bones…"
"I'm not really mad at you but I don't want to have to give up anything," she looked around the apartment at my stuff, "And I don't want you to have to give up anything either…I like this couch or I like my couch." She put her hands on her hips and tilted her head making that face she does when she's figured out a case. "So the only rational answer I can come up with is that we can't do this."
My heart fell she was breaking up with me because we couldn't figure out whose apartment to move into. "Bones, I know it's hard we'll figure it out. I don't want to lose you because we can't decide on whose dishes to keep…"
She threw her hands in the air, "Break up, who said anything about breaking up? Do you want to break up? I don't want to break up. No I think we should buy a house together, that way there's room for both of our things."
I couldn't help myself, I smiled. "I don't want to break up…" She stood there looking at me not sure if I was telling her the truth. "Come here Bones." I motioned her come over to me, she hesitated for a moment before she came over and wrapped her arms around my waist and buried her head in my neck. "I think we can get a house, but we're going to have to pick a bed we don't need two."
She chuckled against my chest, "We should probably just buy one of those too." She relaxed into my chest, "I'm so tired she mumbled."
"Come on sleeping beauty let's get you to bed." I scooped her up and carried her to bed.
My thoughts were interrupted by a mover with a box, "Sir, where do you want these boxes."
I took one look at the label which read Bone's Books "Down the hall second door on the left," her office.
I went into the kitchen and began unloading the pots and pans placing them into cabinets, remembering the fight we'd had over the actually purchasing of the house. After six months of looking we found a house, a little out of my price point but we'd found it. A four-bedroom townhouse in Georgetown that had room for two offices and a finished basement and a yard. It meant that there was a room for Parker, a guest room, a spare room that we weren't sure what we were going to do with just yet, I was secretly hoping that it would be a nursery one day, and the master suite.
We'd been sitting down to dinner when I'd mentioned something in passing about taking out a mortgage on the house when she stopped what she was doing and asked, "Why do we need a mortgage?" She wrinkled her brow. "I can easily afford the house without a mortgage." She said picking up the box with the tofu Kung Pao.
"Bones if you buy the house outright it's not our house it's your house." I said sitting back on the couch already knowing that she wasn't going to understand why I thought it was a problem for her to purchase the house out right.
"Booth, I'm buying the house for both of us, so it will be our house. Besides because of my books I can easily afford to buy the house, there's no reason for you to get a mortgage and on the house and then end up paying more in the long term when I can buy it now."
A little irritated I said, "Bones, I appreciate that, but I still want to help buy the house."
"Well Booth your being ridiculous, there's no reason why it can't be our house if I buy it, which would be the more financially stable option."
I picked up the sweet and sour chicken stabbing it with more force than necessary. "Never mind Bones you don't get it."
Apparently that was the last straw for her because she set down her plate and stood, "Your right Booth I don't understand what your problem is, but I already sold my apartment and all my things are in boxes so I'm going to go and buy the house tomorrow because it's the most rational and logical way to go about it… Now I'm not hungry anymore so I'm going to bed." And she stalked off towards the bedroom. I sat on the couch and stewed for a while and then watched some TV, wondering if I should just sleep on the couch but I couldn't resist the pull of my bed with her in it, even if I was frustrated with her I couldn't stay away from her and so I went to bed. I'd barely pulled the covers over my body when she wrapped herself around me in her sleep. Despite my frustration, I kissed her head breathing in the brown sugar and chocolate scent that was her and drifted off to sleep.
The next day I was at the office still stewing about what do with the house when a messenger walked in with a manila envelope for me. I took the envelope, and sent the kid out with a stare. I opened it up to find a house deed with a sticky note attached. It read: Booth, I know that you wanted to pitch in for the house and if you really find it necessary, you can pay me half over time, no interest necessary. But I don't want you too unless it makes you happy, I bought the house for us, not for me. I'll see you later. Love Bones.
So she did it, she didn't even talk to me again; she'd just solved the problem in her mind and went with it. I pulled the sticky note off and looked at the deed closely to see the both our names were on the deed. She'd really bought the house for both of us. I realized that I was being ridiculous, and stood to leave when she walked into my office.
"Oh you got it." She stopped and put her hands in her pockets, not knowing how I was going to respond.
"I got it." I looked at her, waiting to see if she was going to jump to defend her actions. But I couldn't wait any longer I pulled her to me and kissed her.
"You're not mad?" She questioned when we broke.
"I'm not mad, but I get to buy the new bed." She opened her mouth to protest. "Hey no complaints you bought the house."
"What are you doing?" My reminiscing was brought to an end by her question. I looked up form where I was sitting on the floor; I'd stopped putting the pans away in at some point during my musings. She was standing next to me setting the groceries on the counter.
I stood and wrapped my arms around behind her, allowing her to continue to unpack the grocery bags. "I was thinking about our bed that sitting upstairs waiting for us to use it." I said pressing my lips under her ear.
She allowed me to stay behind her for a moment before she elbowed me gently. "As fun as that sounds, everyone is going to be here in a few hours and I have to make the food and you need to finish putting away the pans that are all over the floor now before setting up the living room and dining room so we have somewhere to sit tonight."
I groaned, "Bones you take all the fun out of things."
"Hey you're the one that invited them tonight; I wanted to wait a week." She spun round to face me and wrapped her arms around my neck. "But we can try it out later." She said with a mischievous smile. "That would probably be easier on your back than the wall was."
My mind flashed to this morning when we arrived before the movers and the wall had provided the surface necessary. "Not fair." I kissed her soundly before releasing her and going back to putting the pots away.
"Who said anything about fair? Now put those pans away I'll never be able to cook anything if you leave them sitting on the ground."
Hours later the remnants of dinner were spread out on the coffee table in the living room, the only one I'd managed to be able to set up. The squints were all leaving and Bones was kissing her father good-bye as I tried to usher Sweets and Daisy out the door. Max walked over to the door I was holding open and extended his hand. Deciding that he was as close as I ever would have to a father in law I shook it and pulled him in for a hug. "It's a great house," he told the two of us before leaning in and whispering in my ear "but I think it needs some children."
I could help myself from laughing the man was incorrigible. "I'll see what I can do but first I think we need to unpack."
I pulled Bones to my side and we waved him and the squints away as she ask, "What does he want you to do that was so funny?"
"Nothing you should worry about Bones." I closed the door and locked it. I looked up and what currently felt like a rather empty house as nothing was unpacked and then down at her and realized that it felt like home. "Welcome home Bones" I said as I leaned down to kiss her. "Come on lets go test out the new bed."
She shook her head. "We can't leave all of this out; it needs to get cleaned up."
I grabbed her hand started to pull her up the stairs, "That will all wait we need to christen the house and the bed properly on our first night her and that will not happen if we clean up first."
"Fine." She said shaking her head following me up the stairs before her face broke into a smile and she ran ahead of me.
Rather than running to catch her I let her get ahead, I hadn't let her see the bed yet I'd just told her that I'd bought it. Early in the day, I'd taken the time to make it so when we went to bed tonight we wouldn't have to worry about it. I hear her stop and take in a deep breath. I rounded the corner to find her running her fingertips over the cherry wood of the sleigh bed admiring the clean white comforter that was on the bed and the end tables and dresser that matched the bed set. I stood in the doorway and let her take it in for a moment before I asked, "Well what do you think?"
She whirled around her face slightly flushed from running and her mouth open in shock, "its beautiful Booth. You did a good job picking it out."
I crossed to her grabbing her hand and pulling her around the side, "Well Bones should we try it out?"
"That's up to you, you bought it." She said as she ran patterns with her fingers around my chest in a barely there sensation that always drove me nuts
"It's ours Bones. It's up to us." I growled.
She giggled a little, pulled my shirt over my head, and then kissed my chest "Then." Kiss to my collar bone, "we," kiss to my neck, "should" kiss to my earlobe, "try" kiss to my jaw, "it" kiss to my nose "out" kiss on my lips. And that was all I could take before I pulled her into the bed with me.
Alright now the last chapter didn't get all that many reviews, I think it only got one but I'm not positive. I'm not generally bother by that but I do need your help this time. I want Booth to propose in the next chapter and it needs to be ridiculous and over the top so I need your ideas to help me out. Maybe if you give me a really good one then the next chapter will be up even sooner.
Crossing my fingers for a new ep on thrusday. Thanks lovelies
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