AHHH the reviews the reviews. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! And don't we all love a protective, sexy, shirtless Seeley Booth? I know I do! And who saw this weeks episode! Dying the entire time when she runs into the mob scene and he's running after her. UNF. Now without further ado:
"Bones?" Booth asked her as she sat nestled on his lap in the front seat of his car.
"Yes?" She responded taking a deep breath and inhaling his beautiful scent.
"I can't let you go home to him. How do you put up with all those awful things he does to you?" Booth whispered to her stroking her hair.
"It's better than at some homes. My friend Marianne went to a home where the father did much more terrible things to the girls there. He's the reason she got addicted to drugs. She overdosed on ecstasy only two months in. He never touches me." Brennan said in some form of defense. As she said this his hands tightened into fists in her hair.
"You swear?" He asked looking her dead in the eye. "He never forced himself on you did he?" Booth was so angry he could barely get the words out.
"No no never, and you can't tell anyone about what he does, do you swear?"
"Why?" He watched as she chewed her lip violently. Little droplets of blood formed there.
"Because I'm almost done with high school and the other kids need me." She chewed harder until finally he inclined his head and kissed away the blood. Even when the blood was gone he continued kissing her. He kissed her until he needed to come up for air and then he kissed her even more. This kiss was nothing like anything else, in it he felt her trust and her surprise. He felt her in the kiss and with each second he wanted more and more, but he couldn't he had to control himself she was vulnerable.
This kiss had her head spinning. She could barely breathe and when he pulled away even for just a brief second that second without him seemed too long. It was at this moment she wondered why she had waited so damn long to kiss him and why she would do anything else with her time but kiss Seeley Booth and what she had done with her life before she had kissed him. Kissing him really had Brennan second guessing her priorities.
And then it was done.
"They could all leave," he suggested. Yet the thought of enduring even one day without her seemed painful. He squeezed her closer to him. "I want to protect you Bones."
"And so you have." She said speaking of the boys from before.
"The least I can do is make sure those boys never touch you again." Thinking of them just made his blood boil.
"Why do you care so much Seeley Booth?" The honesty and frankness of her question surprised him and took him off guard causing him to give back the only answer he could think of.
"Because we're partners, friends, because I think of you as more than a friend should. Because you're smart and intriguing and you never do what I think you will do and each day you surprise me is a day where I am happy that I have you in my life." He admitted.
"And what if I stop surprising you?" She queried, surprised at how afraid she was of the answer.
"What if I grew wings?" Booth asked.
"Well that is an impossibility due to the fact that you do not carry the genes necessary for that kind of adaptation." Brennan responded, utterly perplexed.
"Exactly." He said kissing her nose.
"Thank you for saving me, Booth."
"Of course Bones, anything for you," and as those words tumbled from his lips he realized how true they were, he would give her the world. And yet, he wasn't even dating this girl. Oh Angela would have a field day if she heard about this. Yet knowing Angela, she would find out anyway.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" She said to him and he pulled into her drive way. The thought of her going into that house made him sick but he knew there was nothing he could do about it. He sucked it up and let her leave. Kissing her fingertips before she left, looking forward to seeing her in chemistry tomorrow, wondering about the big turn their relationship had taken, and what that would mean. He pulled into his driveway almost absent mindedly when he was bombarded by Angela.
"Where were you?" She began her endless interrogation.
"With Bones."
"What were you doing?"
"Talking."
"And?"
"Angela." He glared. She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Seeley, listen and I'm saying this because I care about you. She is no Rebecca or Hannah. Temperance Brennan is not the kind of girl you just have sex with." Booth tried to interject but she cut him off. "I know you're thinking about it, but I also can see that's not the only thing you are thinking about. Take care of her Seel, because once she's gone she's gone and you don't wanna lose her. Because a girl like Tempe Brennan only comes around once in a lifetime." Angela clucked her tongue at him and went off to bed.
Booth had a fitful sleep that night plagued with dreams of bruised bodies and Brennan being abused then taken away forever by social services. All the while Angela shook her head at him telling him he shouldn't have done that and now he had lost her forever. He was running and he couldn't get to her fast enough. In the dream he was never able to save her and for some reason, she was always just out of his reach. He awoke in a cold sweat, unable to calm himself he reached for his phone and sent the text to her:
Are you awake?
He waited for her response, not expecting her to be up seeing as it was three in the morning, but then his phone buzzed.
Yes, what are you doing up?
He quickly typed back: Couldn't sleep hbu?
Similar predicament
He weighed the next words carefully, but then ultimately decided they were what needed to be said. Midnight coffee run? Thinking of how that made no sense.
Meet me at your car in ten.
