She heard a sound from the back patio. She turned her head as he emerged into the family room. "Booth" she jumped up and ran to him throwing her arms around him.
"Hey" he caught her and held for a moment. He gently pulled her away from him "Bones are you okay?" He saw the remnants of her crying.
"I am now that you are back. You are right we need to talk."
"Let me take a shower."
"Have you eaten?" she asked with a shaky voice.
"No"
"Okay you shower and I will get some cheese and crackers for our talk." He smiled at her as he headed for his room, taking his shirt off as he went. Watching the muscles dance across his back started a fire in her. "Temperance time for self control, talk, you two need to talk."
She heard him coming up behind her in the kitchen and turned find him standing there with a pair of sweat pants on riding low on his hips. Her eyes immediately went to the waistband of the pants and her eyes slowly moved up his bare chest to his face. She knew her mouth was hanging open and she didn't care, she was having difficulty reminding herself how to breathe. She just wanted to curl up against that chest and feel his hands roaming her body.
"Bones"
"Huh?"
He smiled, "You want some help."
"No, no I…No" she shook her head as she turned back to her tray of cheese, wine, grapes and crackers.
He followed her onto the patio and they sat in opposite chairs. The sat in awkward silence for several minutes, finally Brennan broke the silence. "Booth, we need to talk about us and what if."
"What if?" he had a questioning look on his face.
She looked at him and she seemed flustered trying to explain this to him. "The old me would just say it wouldn't she, no embarrassment right?"
"Yeah, you would."
She took a deep breath, "Booth why will you not have sex with me? It seemed this morning that you wanted it as much as I did, but you left." Her face was turning red and she lowered her head. "I don't believe I just said that."
Booth chuckled, "That's the old Bones." She looked up at him and the smile disappeared from his face and was replaced with a love that seemed to radiate from all around him.
"Bones, you are right, I did want it this morning as much as you. I have wanted you for 5 years, but I almost lost you once by pushing to soon. I can't risk it again. When it happens between us, I want it to be special, because when two people that love each other make love, they surrender themselves totally to that person, when two people become one.
"Booth isn't that impossible."
He smiled at her, "That is sort of what you said back then. You said something about breaking the laws of physics. I said yes, a miracle, and you agreed with me."
"I am confused, what are you saying?
"I have to be sure you are ready to give yourself completely to me before we take that step, because once we cross that line there will be no turning back. I know I will give myself completely to you and if you pull your love back after, I don't think I could deal with it."
"You are afraid that if I get my memory back, I will pull away from you?"
"Yeah and if we do this, I will in over my head."
"Why do you risk it, if I might run away?"
"Bones what we have is that what people look their whole lives for. You are my soul mate, and as cheesy as this sounds it is true, you complete me." He locked his eyes on hers. When I hold you, when you snuggle up to me, you fit perfectly to me; there is no doubt on where you belong, we were made for each other."
"Do you doubt what I feel?"
"No, I know you love me, I am just waiting till you know it too."
"There is one thing apparently I don't forget."
"What is that?"
"You, when I first woke up in the hospital, your face and your voice were in my mind. You were the first thing I recognized that walked into my room. I didn't remember your name, but when I saw you it felt like home, safe and secure."
"You never told me that."
"I know, but I didn't know who you were or what our relationship was. I just knew you made me feel safe." They just stared at each other for a while. "Booth that has to mean something doesn't it? That I could hold your face and voice when I lost everything else?"
"I am sure it does, even if we don't understand it."
"So where does this leave us?"
"Bone's we can't rush this. Let's just be us. Take one day at a time."
The next morning Booth was on the video uplink with Hodgins when Brennan came out of her bedroom. "Good Morning Dr. B."
"Morning Hodgins" she mumbled on her way to the kitchen for coffee.
"As I was saying Booth, those fibers I found come from uniform grade material, such as a police officer, security, etc. Cam wasn't able to match the DNA that she got, but if we find a suspect we do have something to compare it to."
"Thanks Hodgins for everything. Call me if you get anymore." He disconnected the uplink and sat back on the couch. "I hate not being able to go out and catch this jerk."
"If I could remember what I was working on it might help. I am so sorry."
"Bones, don't say that, it isn't like it is anything you can help. We will find this person, I promise."
She plopped down in a chair opposite him and pulled her legs up under her. Holding her Coffee up, she looked over it at him, "So what excitement are we going to do today in our mini luxury prison?"
"I am kind of movied out, how about you?"
"Yeah, as much as I have enjoyed the ones we watched, I could do with a change of pace."
"Well let me look around and see if I can find some games or a deck of cards or something." Booth started to search around for anything that the could entertain themselves with.
Brennan sat there watching him move, I could think of something that would keep us entertained all day and we would not get bored with. Stop it Temperance, one day at a time…while…living together. That just seems wrong.
"Bones, I found a Yahtzee game. You know how to play Yahtzee?"
"I really don't know." She was giving him an annoyed look.
"Oh yeah right, forgot."
Hodgins called once while they were playing to update Booth with some information about Angela back tracking the email that Brennan had received. They had found it had been sent from her apartment building. It was on a public computer that one of the conference type rooms the complex had.
Booth looked at Brennan, "Bones didn't you say you talked to one of the door men and he made you nervous?"
"Yes, I don't remember his name; he was on duty when you brought me home from the hospital."
"Jack is Charlie there?"
"Yeah give me a second to find him. There he is. CHARLIE, BOOTH NEEDS to talk to you."
"Hey Booth, what's up?"
"Get a list of the door men at Bone's apartment complex, check them all out. Also if you can get some pictures and find out which one was on duty the day I brought Bones home."
"You got it; I will call you as soon as I find anything."
"Thanks."
Brennan had fallen asleep on the loveseat outside on the patio. She woke to hear Booth talking to someone. She got up and made her way inside, looking at the man Booth was talking to. "Hey Bones, come here, I need you to look at some pictures." Booth held up his arm motioning her to him.
"Dr. Brennan nice to see you."
"Hello"
Charlie immediately realized she didn't know who he was. "I am Charlie, I work with Booth."
"Oh, nice to meet you."
"Babe" Charlie suppressed a smile at Booth's pet name for Brennan. "Take a look at these photos and tell me which doorman it was you talked with?"
She looked over the photos of the employee's at her apartment building and shook her head. "He is not here."
"Bones, he has to be, all these employee's have worked for your building for the last 5 to 10 years, since it was built."
"Booth, his picture isn't here, could it be a new employee." Booth looked to Charlie
"This building has long term employees, like Booth said that one that has been there the least amount of time is" he shuffles through the photos and pulls up a picture of a man by the name of Tony Letcher. "He has been there 5 years 3 months."
Booth flipped his phone open and called Angela. "Hey Ange, when you come home bring a sketch pad with you, we need you to draw someone Bones saw the other night at her building posing as a doorman."
After he hung up he looked at Charlie, "We need to find out who was suppose to be working that night and why there were not there when Bones left her building. Also talk to Hodgins driver; he might have seen something when he pulled up."
When Charlie left, Booth sat down on the couch trying to piece this together, but coming up with dead ends so far. Part of those dead ends was whatever Bones was working on and that was locked away in that huge brain of hers that didn't want to cooperate.
"Booth are you okay?" he hadn't heard her come up behind him
"Yeah, was just thinking about this. We still have a lot of holes, but it will come together."
"You have a lot of confidence."
"Because our team is the best at what we do. We will find out who did this. Now you pretty lady go put on something comfortable I have a surprise for you." He smiled at her as he backed towards his room.
When she emerged she was dressed in jeans and a t shirt. "Booth, you said comfortable, is this what you meant?"
"Perfect" he walked up to her, took her hand and led her out the back patio and started out across the property.
"Where are we going?"
"You will see."
They left the groomed lawn and walked along a small overgrown path to a small clearing with a tiny stream running through it. There sat a table for 2 with a candle in the center, there was a picnic basket sitting in one of the chairs and a bottle of wine chilling.
"Booth, how did you do this?"
"Having Hodgins as a friend has its advantages."
He pulled assorted fruits, cheeses and crackers and a bottle of wine out of the basket. They sat and ate, Booth filled the evening with talk of his son, things they use to do together, stories of when they first meant and how they didn't get along. Then he reached for one last item in the picnic basket, an IPOD with a docking station that ran on batteries. He turned on the music, got up and held his hand out to her. "Dance with me Bones?"
She smiled and placed her hand in his and allowed him to folder her into his arms. Feeling his body against hers as they swayed to the music, she pulled her head back to look at him. "I don't know how I could resist you. You barely touch me and I am on fire, how could I possible not realize what we have?"
"Shh, just enjoy dancing with me." She rested her head on his shoulder and got lost in the music and his scent."
They walked arm and arm back to the guest house, both feeling lightly tipsy from the wine and both extremely happy. "So, Bones, did you have a good time?"
"I quite enjoyed myself and I wished it didn't have to end."
He wrapped his arm around her as they approached her bedroom door. He kissed her. "Night Bones."
"Night Booth"
