Work – Junior Boys
He knew she'd be the only one at the lab this late. What he hadn't expected was to find her in the bone room, listening to loud electronic music. It was no surprise she'd be that focused, that committed to the bones she was examining, but that she was working to the loud, vibrating pulses of a hypnotizing song surprised him immediately.
He stood in the doorway watching her. She was mesmerizing; something about the way she studied every bone, her hands deftly moving over the various objects on the table, her eyes intensely focused on her task. The bright light, which might have been too harsh to reveal beauty in anything else, only seemed to emphasize her own.
She looked up then, noticing him there, silently studying her with an almost wondrous look on his face, and she reached over to the music, pausing the song.
The instant quiet was startling.
"Hi." She said quietly.
He smiled. "Hi."
They just stood there, across the room, staring at each other – it was another of those moments when time stopped, and it was just the two of them. Just his eyes staring at her eyes.
She reached her hand up to her neck. She was sore. He knew it was time to call it a day. That was why he'd come back to the lab, after all. She knew it too. She had stayed until he came for her, because she knew he would.
"Let's go the diner," Booth said.
And finally she moved in his direction, taking her lab coat off as she walked, and his hand instantly fell to the small of her back as he guided her out.
