A/N: I don't own anything. Well maybe the writing but the characters or songs. Nope not a one.

"You ducked your head," Brennan said with a crooked smile. "Why would you duck?"

"I didn't duck," Booth said sheepishly. "Did I?"

"You most certainly did," she said. "Do you not have faith in the structural integrity of this vehicle?"

"Well I don't know, it must've been an involuntary reaction," he said. "I saw that giant chunk of ice fly off the roof of that truck and I thought it might hit us."

"And that's a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why you swerved," she said. "But why did you duck your head?"

"Like I said on the plane to China, part of my duty is to protect America's intellectual property," he said with a smirk. "That means you."

"But that was accomplished by you swerving and not by you ducking your head."

"I don't know Bones," he said while raising his voice in frustration. "It helps, ok? I don't know how it does or why it does. I can't explain the physics behind it. All I know is that it helps. Are we clear on that?"

"Is this like that time in Gormogon's vault when you thought we were going to get blown up and you jumped on top of me while you had your eyes closed?"