She knocked on his door once, hoping no one else would see her in her trench coat. When he didn't answer, she used her key to enter his apartment. She could see a faint light coming from his bedroom.
"Booth? Are you awake?"
As she walked closer, she could hear him lightly snoring. She walked closer to his bedroom and took off her coat leaving her in his white dress shirt. On his nightstand, she saw the sculpture he'd given her, that was nice. She looked at it a moment longer and all of a sudden found herself in a tight hold with a gun to her head.
"Booth….it's
me."
"Son of a…Bones…are you trying to kill me?"
"Um…I could ask you the same thing. Could you put your gun down?"
"Yeah, sorry" He was laying on top of her, and his legs were twined in hers pinning her to the floor. "What are you doing here?"
"I was trying to surprise you, in a good way, I wanted to…be with you."
"Wait…you wanted to 'Be' with me, or be "with" me?"
"What's the difference Booth?"
"Well, the difference is…do you want to see me, or did you want to…have sex with me?"
"Oh…um…I thought
I wanted to have sex with you, but now I'm not sure we're ready
to do that."
"Okay, so you just wanted to see me?"
"Well…more than
that, I guess. I just want to be near you. I want you beside me. I
want to hold your hand for awhile. But first…"
"Yeah,
Bones?"
"Um…could we get off the floor?"
"Booth, what are you wearing?"
"Um…nothing. In case you've forgotten, I was in bed."
Brennan started laughing and couldn't stop. Booth marched over to his dresser and pulled out some boxers. He sure as hell wasn't going to stand around and get laughed at naked.
'No, Booth, I wasn't laughing at you, I promise. But…"
"But what?"
"Well, what if I had been an intruder? You would have tackled him to the floor, naked?"
"Oh…um, yeah I
guess so…don't you ever sleep naked?"
"Well, I guess if
it's really hot or something, but usually I just put on a shirt.
Like now."
In all the fuss, Booth had missed that she was wearing his shirt again. It still looked good on her.
"Like my shirt?"
"Yes…I wear it a lot."
"Were you ever going to give it back to me?"
"Um…well, that's kind of why I came over here. I was going to give it back to you with this list."
"You came over here, dressed only in that shirt…to give it back to me."
"Yes…"
"Then
what were you going to do for clothes?"
"I hadn't really thought that far ahead. I kind of thought that maybe I wouldn't really need…um…why are we talking about this?"
"Hey, Bones, I'm just trying to figure everything out…wait, what list?"
"Angela helped me identify the phases of a relationship. She mentioned something the other day about us having inside jokes, you know, things that we get because only we get them,"
"Yeah, I know what an inside joke is Bones." He pulled her to sit down beside him on his bed.
"Well…I don't really have too many of them with anyone but you." She handed him the list, then moved to lay down on his pillow. She looked at him to see if he would follow. He did.
Soon they were lying face to face on his bed.
"Is this what you wanted when you came over here tonight, Bones?"
"Yes. Just being
close to you. I think, know I know I want to get closer to you, but I
think maybe we should take it kind of slow. I feel like it's gotten
kind of fast."
"Yeah, sorry about that Bones…'
"What? It's not
your fault. I'm the one who practically jumped you three days in a
row."
"Well…I liked it, so I definitely wasn't complaining
or trying to push you away." He pulled the list up to read it out
loud.
"So, you think that we have completed these phases of relationships…Hand to Hand, Eye to Eye, Arm to Arm, Non Verbal Communication, and Mouth to Mouth."
"Yes, I think we
have."
"So you don't mind when I touch your back. It doesn't
affect you or anything?"
"Well, it affects me,
but, you know, in a good way."
"Ah, yes…good…okay, what's
next? Hand to Body, more sexual than affectionate. Hmmm…that makes
sense. What do you think, Bones, want to try it?"
"Sure…" she scooted closer to him and placed her hand on his hip. He did the same to her.
"That's nice, Bones, don't you think?"
"Yes…what's next on the list?"
"Mouth…um…mouth to body part."
"I don't think I'm ready for that yet."
"Okay, that's fine. How about we just stay like this for tonight, then? Sound good?"
"Yeah…Booth?"
"Yeah, Bones?"
"I was wondering if we could go back to the eye to eye one?"
"With no touching?"
"No, I mean, I think we can keep our hands on each other's hips, like this, but I want to stare at your eyes. I like them, and I like they way they look at me."
"Ditto, Bones. You have the most amazing eyes I've ever seen, so yes, let's fall asleep looking in each other's eyes. I've never done that before with any woman, and I think that would be nice."
"Good night, Booth" She raised her eyes to meet his and gasped.
"Good night, Bones" He raised his eyes to hers and squeezed his hand affectionately on her hip. He was falling in love with the intimacy they were cultivating, and he liked that she was the one initiating it.