Title: Love?

Series: What is love? 11/11

Author: Chymom

Spoilers: Any episode of Bones maybe talked about in this story.

Rating: PG

Characters and parings: Booth/Bones, Hannah/Booth

Disclaimer: I don't own any thing you know. Anything else thought is mine.

Summary: What is going on one year later in Booth and Bone's lives? Why is Booth thinking about the last few years? Read and find out in the last chapter of this story. Please read A/N at the end of this story.

Beta: MMWillow13 (Thanks for the read over.)

What is love?

End of chapter ten: Moving on.

"Mom, dad said that I have to go to bed. Can't I stay up with you?" Parker asked as he ran into Bones bedroom running away from his dad's tickling hands.

When the partners heard what he called her they both stopped in their tracks. Booth wasn't sure what was going on. Bones had come close to his son but, he didn't want to scare her off. Bones didn't know what to think. She wouldn't mind him calling her that but it wasn't her place to let him. She started to say something when her partner beat her to it.

"Buddy what did you call Bones?" It was then the child noticed the slip.

"Mom is that alright? I know you're not really my mom cause you're not married to dad, but you could marry him then it would be alright right? Please, I want Bones to be mom, dad. Can I call you that Bones please?" The pleading broker her heart.

"I don't mind as long as it's alright with your mom and dad." Booth didn't know how he had gotten so lucky. A few months ago he had given up hope on a family with this woman, but now here they were with his son asking to call her mom. It made his heart pound out of his chest.

"Mom, what do you say to helping the tickle monster get this young man to bed?" Booth and Bones chased Parker for a few minutes until he was tucked in his bed for the night.

Chapter eleven: love?

Booth thought back over the last few years, so much had changed. Yet still, so much was the same. He and Bones had fled from their feelings to opposite ends of the world out of fear. Then it was fear seven months later that brought them back.

Hannah had been with him then. He had tried to move on for a time he had thought he had. That all came crashing down around him when he heard his son and Bones talking. He can still hear them talking as if it had been yesterday instead of months ago.

Then when he asked Hannah to marry him again the world was right. He was happy. His fiancée loved him and didn't hide behind some logical and his friends he thought were happy for him. It turns out they were happy for him. However, at the time they were all confused as he was. They got to see what this time in their lives did to Bones where he only saw the front she put on for him. Then came the dream that dream was something else. He had asked Hannah if he had done something to upset her that morning. She had told him no at first, but then when she was leaving him she told him. His mind flashed back to that conversation.

"Hannah, what happened that morning? Why did you leave our bed?" He had asked. She had taken a few minutes then spoke up.

"It was never our bed Booth. During the day you were with me. I knew it then and I know it now. But at nights, at nights you were with her. On more then on occasions you have called out to her in your sleep. Before you say it was only a work thing or something to do with your partnership. When you called out her name was in the moment you would find your release with me sometimes or in your sleep. I love you. I always will but that bed has never been ours. That morning when I was enjoying your wakeup call I just couldn't take it anymore. I knew that it was her you were seeing not me." Booth felt like he had been hit in the face. He hadn't known he was calling out to Bones and that made it all the more hurtful for Hannah.

She had told him when she left that things weren't working out. It wasn't his or her fault it wasn't meant to be a long term commitment for them. That's one of the reasons he took that week off. He needed to understand where he went wrong and what he could do to make things right.

For the first few days Hodgins words kept coming to him.

"If you still care about her end what you call a partnership. Leave Charlie here and move on with Hannah. That way Dr. B can find peace and we can all move on with our work."

After the first few days he knew that things would change. Hannah had been right his family was here and here is where he needed to be. He didn't know why he had talked to Bones mom that week. She wouldn't judge him or tell Bones his thoughts before he was ready to. In fact it wasn't until he and Bones' six month anniversary that he had told her about going to visit her mom that week. He had told her most of what he had told her mom.

Then his thoughts took him to the months that followed that return. He had slowly taken back his place on the Jefferson/FBI team. Bones had slowly taken a liking to him again. Their friendship was stronger this time then before. They still had a fight here and there, but it was smoother sailing when they did.

After the she let him once again call her Bones things had started to fall into place for them. It took the better part of a year but he had asked her on a date. A few dates later things hadn't changed at work. In fact as far as the FBI wanted to know the partnership was alright. Bones had insisted that they be honest with the higher ups in both their jobs. It had taken them long enough to become a couple she wasn't going to let anything else stand in their way of happiness.

That brought him back to why he was taking the trip down memory lane. This was their one year anniversary. He was hoping an idea would hit him and it had. Now he just needed some help to get everything set up.

The end

A/N: I know I know you want to know what Booth has in mind? Along with who is going to help him and how? These questions and a few more surprises lie ahead in the story entitled "Yes, Bones this is Love"

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