Well for starters, I kind of changed the story around, I'm going to add another day until the dance thingy that we have coming up. So that will be all in the next chapter. As for this chapter, it may be a little boring and more of filler than anything else. I hope I didn't go too out of character, even though I did create these characters… haha. Well thanks for taking a peek!

Chapter 9

They sat on the platform, leaning back on the comfortable chairs with their feet on the railing. Theo had a few lollipops and he gave one to Lily, so they sat observing Brennan's office.

"It's really sad that they have no clue, isn't it," said Angela as she approached the duo on the platform. They turned around in their chairs.

"I know," replied Theo. "Are they always like that?" He gestured to how he was sitting on her desk and they were laughing at something unknown to the viewers.

"It's been a lot more lately. It's like they know it, but ignore it. They just need something to push them in the right direction."

"It seems like you've tried," pointed out Lily.

"Can't say that I haven't. Though Bren's got this amazing dress for tomorrow night so I'm hoping that may be the final straw."

"Maybe we can get them to dance to something. Is there a DJ?"

'Actually there is a live band just playing the basics, at least that's what Cam told me."

"Darn," replied Theo. "It would have been cool to sneak a song on there to get them to dance to."

Angela smiled. "Well Theo, according to your Facebook you're a great singer."

Theo turned ten shades red. "I… wha… how can you see it?"

"My little secret. You shouldn't put things on there that you don't want others to see."

Lily turned to Theo. "You sing?"

"I, yeah, so?"

"Nothing, I just think it's cute."

Theo just glared at her. "Well you Theo, maybe you could serenade them from the stage. I'm sure I could rearrange something with the band…"

Theo looked to Lily who simply smiled in return. "We'll discuss it," replied Theo. Angela smirked before cheerily leaving. Theo made sure that Angela was out of earshot before turning to Lily.

"Look don't feel forced into it," he started, but stop when he saw the smile on her face.

"Are you kidding? This could be lots of fun!"

He was about to reply when Booth came dashing out of Brennan's office. At first she thought that he was angry, but as he got closer he explained.

"Theo, I forgot about a meeting with Cullen. He wants to talk to you about how the summer is going."

"Okay." Theo stood up and started to fix his tie. "Lily, I'll come pick you up a little bit later. I'll call you first."

Lily smiled and watched his retreating form.

Theo arrived back at the Jeffersonian at a quarter past two. In the time since his departure, Zack was showing Lily how they work on the remains from limbo. They were mainly examining remains that were removed from a pond in Virginia. After that, Lily was going to ask Brennan if she could go with Theo to do something, but Brennan beat her to the punch.

"Um Booth and I have to go meet with a judge for the case, but Theo said that you two had something to do so we'll talk to you later with the details." Lily nodded in understanding just as Theo walked in. The tie was once again loose around his neck and his hair was in different directions, most likely from driving with the windows down.

He gave a quick wave to Brennan as she hustled past. Lily grabbed the backpack that she kept with her and followed Theo out. The sun was hot enough, but when mixed with the humidity it became unbearable. They rushed to Theo's car, trying to spend as little time in the death trap as possible. Theo started the car and turned up the air conditioning.

"Holy cow it's hot out there," exclaimed Theo. He loosened the tie from around his neck and undid the top button to allow some air flow. "Want a milkshake?"

"I don't have any cash on me, but if you want one go ahead and stop."

"Nonsense. The drinks are on me."

"Thanks…"

After stopping for milkshakes they headed to Theo's house. His parents were still at work and his sister was at daycare, so they had the whole house to themselves. Theo got some snacks from the kitchen and then gestured for Lily to follow him upstairs.

"This is my room." Theo opened the room to reveal a sparsely decorated room. It was a decent size, with a large desk next to the window. He had his own desktop computer there, as well as a TV in the other corner. There were pictures of him playing hockey and lacrosse hanging on the wall. He sat beside the computer and gestured for her to sit on the bed. She flopped on the black comforter and sat cross legged.

"So, what exactly are we attempting to here today?" she asked as she took a sip of her milkshake.

"Okay, well we need to get Booth and Brennan together tomorrow at the dance thing."

"And why do we need to get them together?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. It seems like people have been trying for ages and haven't succeeded. Maybe we could be the ones to do it. I'm sure we'd be on the Jeffersonian wall of fame or something."

Lily laughed. "Yeah, I'm sure." She laid down on the bed and stared at the ceiling. "Well, how do you want to accomplish this? You're going to sing?"

"Well Miss Scientific Method, yes."

"What song?"

"No friggin' clue," he replied deadpan.

"There are hundreds of songs that can be done. Well is this in a serious tone or a joking tone? What kind of song can you even sing?"

"Hey what's with all the questions?" he asked with a glare. "Wait a minute, you don't think that we can pull this off."

"Not really." He stood, angry now, with his hands on his hips.

"Why not? Don't you think this would be fun?"

She rolled onto her stomach so that she could face him as she spoke. "Hey, I'm a realist."

He shook his head and turned to the computer to google something. "Well I thought I had a partner in this but I guess I don't." Lily rolled her eyes.

"Fine, if there is no need for me here then I'll just go downstairs and watch some TV."

"Fine." Lily grabbed her backpack and walked down to where she knew the piano was. It was true, she didn't think that their plan who work (how the hell would they even pick a song, let alone get on stage), but she supposed that she could try something downstairs.

Sitting on the bench she pulled her ipod out of her bag and switched to a soft genre and started listening to songs, thinking of the lyrics that could best describe the relationship of Booth and Brennan.

After shuffling through fifty songs she started getting bored and took out her phone to dial her uncle. He picked up after three rings.

"Liliy!" he said excitedly. "I was going to call you tonight. I got promoted to detective!"

"Really Uncle Sean? That's great!" She was really happy for her uncle. He was a state police officer for five years and was always looking to become a detective. Though he passed the tests with flying colors, department cutbacks always prevented the allowance of his promotion. "How's Aunt Denise taking it?"

"The hours are a little more, but with more money she can work less to take care of Sammy."

"That's great. When's it start?"

"Next Monday actually. I've got the weekend off so Denise and I were going to spend it together."

"You guys deserve it. I'd watch Sammy for the weekend if I was there."

"Hey thanks for the offer. Anyway Sweetie, what can I help you with since you called me?"

"Oh yeah, I'm trying to do something and I need a really good love song that a friend of mine can sing to two people."

"Well I'm not really good with all that stuff. Did you look at Michael Bolton and all of the standard guys? Barry White?"

Lily laughed at the thought of Theo singing Barry White. "Yeah, but nothing seems to work. I think that I might just be picky."

"Yeah maybe. I'm sorry I'm no help. You could try calling your aunt when she gets home from work. I'm sure she could come up with something."

"Okay, I'll call later. Enjoy your last few days of freedom Mr. Detective Bigshot."

"Love you too Lily." She smiled as she returned her phone to her pocket. Upstairs Lily could hear something playing and it took a few notes before she realized that it was "This I Promise You," by NSYNC. She ran through the words in her head and then bound up the stairs.

"Theo! That's it! That's the song!"

Realizing that the lyrics fit the couple grandly, they worked on formulating how they wanted it to sound. Theo convinced Lily to play the piano for the song and she spent some significant time going through the internet to get the sheet music for the song. She was downstairs by the piano playing through the song. Theo was practicing his falsetto, which to Lily's surprise was actually halfway decent. They did the song a second and third time until they were absolutely sure of the plan.

Theo was dancing around the living room, happy that his plan worked. He called Angela to let her know what they were going to do tomorrow and she promised to help make sure that the band knew what was going on. Lily watched from the piano with a smile on her face as he paced the living room and laughed when he hung up, as he ran his hand through his hair so much that it was sticking up in all directions.

"What's so funny?" he asked her as he sat next to her on the piano bench. She gave him the once over, noting that she felt herself shiver from the inside. She turned her attention to the piano in front of her, playing a random little tune.

"Nothing." She could see that he was staring at her from her peripheral vision and concentrated even more on the piano keys in front of her. The tone went deeper and frenzied as her heart started to beat faster.

Theo leaned in, using his index finger to tilt her chin towards him. She stopped playing, her hands dropping to her lap as he leaned in and kissed her. For her first kiss it was calm, yet commanding. After a few moments he pulled back and she looked at him intently.

"What was that?" she asked him. He looked back at her stunned, afraid that he gauged her wrong.

"I… I just…" She shook her head and laughed at him.

"Stop, it's okay." Suddenly Theo's phone started vibrating on the kitchen table and he sprung up to get it. "Hey… yeah… okay… we'll be there." He put the phone in his pocket and turned to Lily.

"Do we have a case?"

"What? No, they want to meet for dinner at some Chinese food restaurant." They got their stuff together and packed it away. As they were walking out to Theo's car, they passed his mother with his sister.

"Hey ma, I'm going out for dinner tonight," he said as he gave her a quick hug.

"Again? Sweetie you haven't been home for dinner for half the summer."

"I'm sorry Mom."

"How about you guys come here for dinner one night? I'll cook for everyone."

"Sounds good ma. We'll pick a date in the future."

"Alright dear. Be careful." She gave her son a kiss and ran her hand through his hair.

"Ma, quit messing with the doo." His mother smiled and allowed him to pass, but not before giving Lily a wink.

During the ride to the restaurant, Lily had a dumb grin on her face. She couldn't believe what happened. She wasn't sure if she wanted it, but the kiss confirmed what she had thought, she liked him. She threw furtive glances in his direction and she was pretty sure that he was doing the same thing.

The restaurant was called Sid's and they walked in to find that Booth and Brennan were already there. Booth had his arm around Brennan's shoulders as they laughed together. They separated upon seeing the Lily and Theo, who took the seats opposite. They sat close together, much closer than they had at any other time. Booth smiled at them and then leaned in to whisper something to Brennan, who had a grin on her face.

"Hey you two, what have you been up to?" asked Booth, not hiding the intent in his voice.

"We could ask you the same thing," replied Theo.

"Touché," said Brennan.

Just then Sid appeared at the table with food for everyone. "Hello, my name is Sid." They made quick introductions before Sid returned to behind his place behind the bar.

"So, what did you guys learn today?" asked Lily as she dug into the food. "Hmm how did he know that I like sesame chicken?"

"Sid's that good. Anyway we're getting stonewalled on the case right now. Tomorrow morning we're going to work on going over the files and looking at the remains to see if we are missing something."

"Sounds like fun," said Theo with a mouth full of wonton soup.

"Yeah. And then we have to the ball tomorrow," added Brennan.

"Oh yeah that," said Booth with a bit of resentment in his voice.

"You don't want to go?" asked Lily.

"No, it's just that those events tend to be really boring with people speaking, bad food, and a few hours of sitting around doing nothing."

"What? They aren't that bad Booth."

"Really Bones, come on think about it."

"Hey you two," interrupted Sid. "No fighting in the restaurant." He set down a tray of fortune cookies in front of them. "Enjoy guys."

"Thanks a lot man. Have a good night," said Booth. Once Sid walked away, Booth reached forward and took a fortune cookie. He cracked it open and discarded the cookie, wanting only the fortune. "You will exceed expectations." Booth smiled and put the fortune down. Theo started to giggle and everyone turned their attention to him.

"What's so funny?" asked Lily.

"What? You've never heard of the thing where you add 'in bed' to the end of a fortune. His worked perfectly." Booth and Lily laughed as they realized what he meant.

"I don't get it," stated Brennan.

"You will exceed expectations, in bed Bones. Get it?"

"Oh. Well I still don't understand how you can put the two together. Fortune cookies can't predict the future."

"Bones, it's just a joke."

Lily shook her head as she regarded the scene around her. She grabbed a fortune cookie for herself and opened it. 'The best is yet to come.' As she looked the fortune over and Booth and Brennan argued at the other side of the table, Theo grabbed Lily's hand and held it. Oh yes, the best is yet to come.