I own none of the characters of Bones
Bones' POV
"Excuse me? Did you just forbid me?"
"You heard me." He repeated.
"I am a grown woman who makes her own choices. We are equals in this relationship and you have no right to forbid me to do anything." I seethed quietly. I wanted to yell and scream at him but I didn't because of the kids.
"Ma. Da." Christine yelled. I stepped out of our room and saw Christine standing at the gate.
"Go watch your movie sweetheart." She gave me her father's smile and toddled away.
"Call Cullen and tell him that you're not going to work with Sully." Booth told me holding out his cell phone.
"I will do no such thing."
"Dammit Bones. Why do you always have to fight me? Why can't you just simply do what I ask?"
"I would, if the request wasn't so asinine."
"It's not asinine Bones."
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't work with Sully." I demanded. "Besides you, he is the only agent that I like working with, the only agent that I can tolerate and who can tolerate working with me."
"Because you had a relationship with him."
"Are you kidding me?"
"Do I look like I'm kidding?"
"You had a relationship with Cam and I never objected to you two working together."
"It's different."
"Bullshit Booth. There is no difference."
"You are going to be working very close with him and he has seen you naked Bones. You have had sex with him."
"And Cam has seen you naked. You have had sex with her. Hell, she probably has sucked your dick and you still worked with her."
"And let me guess, you didn't suck Sully's dick and he didn't go down on you." Booth's voice was getting louder and more sarcastic.
"What does it matter? What happened between Sully and I is in the past."
"Yeah well, working closely with him may drudge up your feelings for Sully again."
"There are no feelings to be drudged up." I practically shouted but held back because the twins were in the room next door. "I am perfectly capable of working professionally with Sully regardless of our past relationship, just like you are able to work with Cam."
"You don't know what will happen in the future. You're the one who used to tell me that there is no way that someone can know how they will feel about someone in ten, fifteen years."
"I used to think that Booth but I was wrong." Sighing, I knelt down in front of him. "This isn't about my past relationship with Sully or the possibility of Sully and I resuming a sexual relationship. What is really bothering you Booth?" Instead of answering me, he just looked at his lap. "Please Booth, talk to me."
"He...he can walk."
"I don't understand." I whispered softly, wiping away his tears.
"What confuses you Bones? Sully can walk…be who I used to be."
"I understand that Booth. What I don't understand is why you still don't trust me."
"I trust you more than anything."
"No you don't. If you did, then we wouldn't be having this conversation. Sully and I are in the past. I never loved him. It's you Booth, it's always been you and it will always be you. I have loved you when you could walk and I have loved you, I'm sorry I misspoke; I love you now that you can't walk and I will continue to love you. Why can't you see that? I love you Booth but you don't trust that and without trust my love will never be enough and for that I'm sorry."
"Bones…"Squeezing his hand she stood.
"I need to get dinner ready for my friend and his family."
"Bones." He whispered as he watched her walk out of their room shutting the door behind her, leaving him alone with his dangerous thoughts.
"Welcome. Please come in." I greeted with a smile as I held open the door so my guests could enter.
"Tempe thanks for having us." Sully said.
"It's my pleasure."
"Tempe I would like for you to meet my wife Maya." I held out my hand.
"It's very nice to meet you Maya."
"You as well Dr. Brennan. I am a huge fan of all of your books. I couldn't believe it when Tim told me that he knew you."
"Please call me Temperance or Tempe. Dr. Brennan is way too formal. I only use Dr. Brennan for work."
"I brought dessert Tempe. I hope your family likes pie. I brought an apple crisp and chocolate cream."
"My husband loves pie. Thank you very much. It wasn't necessary but it is appreciated." I reached out and took the boxes from Maya.
"Tempe, I also want you to meet my girls, Lexi and Casey. Girls this is daddy's old friend Tempe." I knelt down to the level of the girls.
"Hi girls. It's very nice to meet you. Would like to come back in the playroom and play with my children Michael and Christine? We have lots of toys."
""Do you have dolls?" The oldest, Lexi asked.
"We sure do. Come on." The girls clung to their parents. "Your mom and dad can come too." They seemed to relax and Bones set the pie boxes on the hall table. "Follow me." Clutching their parent's hands, Lexi and Casey followed me towards the back of the house where the playroom was located, passing by our bedroom where the door was still closed. I figured that Booth was still in there sulking.
"Mama." Michael shouted when he saw me. He dropped his blocks and raced over to me and I easily scooped him up into my arms.
"Hey there my little prince. Can you say hi to mommy's friends?" I made a waving motion with my hand and Michael mimicked me. "Say hi."
"Hi." Michael quipped.
"Sully, Maya this is my son Michael. Christine is the one immersed in the educational video. Christine come over here please." The miniature Bones removed herself from in front of the television and come over to her mother.
"Mommy?" She clung to her mother's leg. Christine was the shy, timid twin who eventually would warm up. Michael on the other hand was the outgoing one of the two. At seventeen months he was already a flirt with his father's smile that could melt the heart of any female in the vicinity of that smile.
"Sweetheart Lexi and Casey came over to play with you and Michael." I felt her hands digging into my thigh. I set Michael on the floor and grabbed Christine's hands. "It's okay honey. You will have fun." Her grip tightened. I stood up, bringing Christine with me. "She'll relax. She just needs some time. Come on girls. Would you like to watch a movie?" They slowly nodded and they followed me into the play room. I let the girls pick a movie about a genie and then I left them and Michael in the playroom while Christine became attached to my hip.
I set Sully and Maya up in the living room with a glass of wine and I joined them with Christine on my lap. For a few minutes we indulged in small talk until Sully asked the question that had been hanging in the air since they arrived. "So Tempe, where is Booth?"
"I'm right here." I turned my head and saw Booth wheeling himself into the living room.
Booth's POV
I had just hung up the phone with my therapist when I heard Bones in the hall talking to Sully, his wife and the kids. Knowing I couldn't be rude I slowly started to remove my suit so I could join the party. As soon as Bones walked out of here, with tears rolling down her face, thinking that I didn't trust her, I called my therapist, Dr. Howard.
As soon as he I was put through to him I greeted him with "I've screwed up." He explained to the doctor about his new job, Bones' new partner and his sudden burst of jealously. It took over an hour but Dr. Howard finally talked me down and talked some sense back into me. Even though I had been dealing well with my paralysis, better than the last time around, when I found out that Sully would be her partner, a man who she had a relationship with in the past brought up all of my insecurities about not being able to walk and I immediately became stupid and an ass, like I always do.
After I changed, I sat in my wheelchair, holding our wedding picture that sat on Bones' nightstand, while I tried to talk myself into going out into the living room to face the music. I know that she wouldn't ream my ass in front of Sully and his wife but I also know that there will be hell to pay after they left but I deserved it. Returning the picture to the nightstand I wheeled myself out of the room and down the hall. As I neared the living room I heard Sully ask "So Tempe, where is Booth?"
"I'm right here." I answered and I pushed my chair into the living room. "Sorry about the delay. I was changing."
"Da." Christine yelled when she saw me. I watched with a smile as she climbed off of Bones' lap and ran over to me. I reached down and scooped her up into my arms before she ran head first into my legs. "Da." She said with a grin as she settled on my lap.
"Hiya chipmunk." I kissed the top of her head. "Feeling shy?" I asked Bones.
"You know how she is." Bones answered. "Dinner will be ready shortly. Would you like a glass of wine?"
"Yeah, that would be nice Bones." I said softly.
"I'll be right back." I watched as she left the living room, avoiding eye contact with me.
While Bones was getting my wine I began to make small talk with Sully and Maya, even though I preoccupied with my stupidity. Bones was doing her best to act as if everything was normal so I could do the same. Over the next few hours Bones and I acted as if everything was normal or maybe it was, I wasn't sure. I knew that I screwed up when I actually thought I had the balls to forbid her to work with Sully. I know better than anyone that you can't forbid Bones to do anything.
By the time that Sully and his family left I knew that there was no chance in hell that Sully had feelings for Bones. I could tell by the way he looked at Maya that he was head over heels in love with her. I know that look well; it's the same way that I look at Bones, a look that spoke volumes of the love and devotion that we felt towards our wives. As Bones was helping Maya get Casey and Lexi together, I took the opportunity to speak with my friend. "Sully, that woman means everything to me."
"I get that Booth." Sully reached out and I took his hand and we shook, confirming the unspoken promise that we had just made. With my simple statement and his simple answer I knew that he would protect Bones the same way I had protected her when I was her partner.
"I'm sorry Bones." We had just put the twins down for the night and entered our room. I couldn't wait any longer to talk about what had happened earlier between us. "I had no right to forbid you to work with Sully."
"No you did not. I am a grown woman that can do whatever I wish, as long as it won't hurt you or the children."
"I know that. All of my insecurities about being in this damn chair came rushing back to me when Sully was assigned to be your partner. All I could think about was the fact that you two had a sexual relationship in the past and he could walk and I can't. I got scared that you would see is what you could have with him and not me. You could have a man that can walk, dance with you and make love to you without you having to do all of the work and I got so scared that you would run back to him so I did the only thing that I could think of to keep you, I forbade you to work with him." I admitted with a heavy heart.
"That action wasn't very well thought out." I couldn't help but chuckle.
"No Bones it wasn't." I held out my hand. "Please, come and sit with me." I watched as she debated whether or not to honor my request. After a minute she made her way over to me, grabbed my hand and settled herself on my lap. I placed my hand on her smooth cheek. "Temperance, I trust you more than I have every trusted anyone before in my life." She nodded slowly. "I trust that you love me and will always love me even though I am in this chair. I'm sorry that I made you doubt that I didn't trust in your feelings for me. I know you love me and trust me babe, your love is enough."
"Don't call me babe." She mumbled as she brought her face close to mine.
"I love you…so much." I whispered.
"I know you do." I closed the distance between our faces and pressed my lips to hers. The kiss started out slow and sweet and quickly turned passionate, with our hands running under each other's shirts. Just as things were starting to get hot and heavy she pulled away from me.
"Bones…" I groaned. She was leaving me in quite an uncomfortable predicament.
"Let's take this to the bed." I didn't have to be asked twice. I wheeled myself over to my side of the bed while Bones went around to her side of the bed. By the time I got myself out of my chair, she was naked on the bed. "Would you like some help getting out of those clothes?" She asked me in a seductive tone and all I could do was nod dumbly. With a sexy smile, she straddled my thighs, grabbed the hem of my tee shirt and very slowly she pushed it up my chest, kissing the skin that she exposed. "Lay back so I can take your pants off." Unable to resist her request, I laid down as she sat up on her knees. She tapped my hips and I lifted my ass off the bed and Bones pulled my jeans and boxers off. I watched as her eyes traveled up and down my body. "What a beautiful male specimen." She commented and then she licked her lips. Next thing I knew she was lying on top of me, her naked body pressed against mine, kissing me, while she pushed my arms above my head.
"What the hell?" I asked when I felt handcuffs snap around my wrist.
"You have been a very bad boy Seeley Booth and bad boys must be punished." She said slyly as my other wrist was cuffed behind me to the headboard.
"How have I been bad?" I knew that I was going to enjoy whatever punishment that she was going to bestow upon me.
"You actually had the nerve to forbid me to do something and nobody, and I mean nobody forbids me and lives to tell about it." The grin she gave me was evil but sexy as hell at the same time.
"This doesn't feel like a punishment to me. Actually, I'm really turned on."
"I know how much you like to touch Booth and with those handcuffs attached to your wrist, you won't be able to touch me. The only thing you will be able to do is watch helplessly as I touch myself."
"How bad could this really be?" I asked myself and as soon as the thought finished running through my mind I knew how bad it could be. I groaned, loudly as her hand began to caress her breast, grabbing and pinching her nipples. "Bones…" I moaned.
"Now, now Booth, you need to learn your lesson."
"I've learned it."
"I don't think so." She slowly crawled up my body, rubbing her womanhood over me as she did. I watched as she reached under her pillow and pull out one of my ties from under her pillow.
"What are you doing?" I asked her and she placed a finger over my lips.
"No questions. Now lift your head up." She demanded and I just quirked an eyebrow at her. "This is the last time that I am asking you Booth. Now lift your head up." I did as she asked and lifted my head. She leaned over me, brushing her breasts against my face and I couldn't resist. I stuck out my tongue and licked the side of her breast eliciting a small moan from her but the pleasure that I gave her didn't stop her from completing the task at hand. She quickly tied my tie around my eyes and then disappeared from my body.
I lay on the bed, totally naked, handcuffed to the bed, not being able to see anything and I loved it. I loved knowing that she was probably staring at my naked, exposed body. I loved not knowing where she is or what she was going to do. "Oh…God." I gasped when I felt her lick my nipple and just as quickly as was she was there she was gone. "Bones…please." I begged.
"Please what?"
"Please…touch me."
"Touching is not what I had in mind." I suddenly felt her soft lips kissing the tip of my cock and I moaned happily. If this was punishment, I needed to be bad more often. "Son…of a bitch…Bones." I bucked my hips towards her when she closed her mouth around me. Over the years that we have been involved, sexually my beautiful wife has sucked my dick numerous times and she was great at it but it has never been like this and maybe it was because I couldn't touch or see her like I normally do and my sensations were on overload but this had to be one of the best blow jobs that I have ever had. "God…Bones…I'm going…going…to…cum…" I panted and then she was gone. "Bones where are you?" I felt her place her thighs on both sides of my body and then I felt the bed move as she shimmied her way up to the head of the bed and I got my answer when her breast was placed in my mouth. I loved her breasts and I showed her how much by lavishing those firm, soft buds with gentle kisses. I sighed in discontentment when she pulled her breasts out of my mouth. I was really enjoying them but she then surprised the hell out of me (again) when I felt her thighs settle on both sides of my face. My heart began to thump in anticipation as her womanly scent filled my nostrils. "Temperance." I breathed as I sensed her lowering her crotch down to my mouth and I froze. I couldn't believe that this was happening.
"Did you forget what to do?" I heard her mumble and I jumped into action. This was unbelievable. I quickly found her clit and I began to suck on it, relishing in the sounds of the moans that were coming from her. I knew what she wanted when she moved her body forward and I gave it to her. I ate her like I was starving and I continued to lick her until she was grinding herself against my face, screaming out my name.
The next thing I knew she pulled of my blindfold and when my eyes focused I saw her leaning over me, eyes glazed with that post orgasmic bliss that I loved. She smiled softly, leaned down and kissed me. "How about uncuffing me? I have learned my lesson."
"No you haven't. Not yet." I watched helplessly as she crawled back down the bed and onto my thighs. I jumped when she reached out and cupped my penis. "Now the punishment really begins." Grinning she rose to her knees scooted up a bit and slowly, almost painfully, she inserted my penis into her vagina, dragging a deep moan from both of us. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of being inside of her. "Booth open your eyes." She stopped moving and I whipped my eyes open. "Watch. You have to watch. This is your punishment. "
She began to move slowly on top of me. I watched as she took one hand and ran it over her beautiful breasts and her other hand traveled down her body to her clit which she also began to rub, moaning softly. She was right, this was a punishment. I was desperate to touch her. It should be my hand caressing her breasts and rubbing her clit, not hers. "Bones…please." I begged. "I…need to…touch…you."
"No no Booth. No touching."
"Dammit Bones." I grumbled. She continued to torture me, moving slowly over my erection and fondling herself until she came with a shudder and a loud moan but I still hadn't cum. "You're not going to leave me hanging are you?" I asked knowing she wouldn't.
"What kind of person do you think I am?" Giving me an evil grin, she sat up slightly on her knees and then leaned back, placing her hands on my thighs for leverage. "Hold on Booth. I'm going to rock your world."
"Wow! You know that phrase?" I quipped and she glared at me.
"Shut up." She spat and I just grinned at her, pushing my luck. Looking deeply into my eyes she began to pump herself, fast and hard over my cock and it was one of the most beautiful things that I had ever seen. The harder and faster she pumped the more she got into it. Eventually, she broke eye contact with me as she closed her eyes and threw her head back in passion. Sweat was covering her body and her breasts were bouncing like crazy while she rode me. I really wanted or needed to touch her breasts. I wanted to participate my thrusting my hips into her, as best as I could but I couldn't because of the damn cuffs.
"Bones…" I felt my balls tightening. "I'm…gonna…oh hell….gonna…cum…"
"Show me what you've got stud." Those simple words put me over the edge.
"BONES!" I shouted and I released inside of her.
"Yessssss….Booth." She groaned as her walls clenched around me and then she collapsed on top of me, my limp cock sliding out of her.
"Unlock me." I demanded sweetly. Without moving much she reached out under her pillow and pulled the key out. She lifted her head, unlocked the cuffs and freed my wrists and then her head returned to my chest.
Not wasting another second I ran my newly freed hands over as much as her body as I could reach. I couldn't get enough of her soft skin. She moaned softly into my chest as I touched all of the right places. I pulled her up my body until her head was even with me. "I learned my lesson. That was the worst punishment ever."
"What did you learn from your punishment?" She asked with a smug smile.
"I learned never to forbid you to do anything. You are your own woman who can make her own choices."
"So no more forbidding?"
"No more." I smiled at her. "By the way, even though it was punishment, it was fucking amazing."
"It was wasn't it?" I reached out, placed my hand behind her neck and pulled her to my face.
"I love you Temperance, more then you will ever know." I saw tears fill her eyes at my tender words.
"I…love you too Seeley." I lifted my head and kissed her passionately.
Bones' POV
I snuck into one of the lecture halls at Quantico and took at seat in the back. The instructor, who happened to be my husband, was focused on his power point presentation so he never saw me take a seat in the back of the room and I quickly became immersed in his lecture.
Booth had been teaching at Quantico and Sully and I had been partners for six months and Booth enjoyed his new job, more than I enjoyed mine. Don't get me wrong, I love my job, I love catching murderous bastards and working with Sully is rather enjoyable but it wasn't the same as it was when I worked with Booth. Sully spent most of his time at the bureau whereas I spent most of my time at the lab and it seemed to work well for Sully and I because we were solving crimes and catching murderers but it just wasn't the same. It wasn't the same partnership or relationship that I had with Booth and it shouldn't have been. Booth and I are in love and Sully and I were not. We just worked together; we were just partners. I had to smile as that thought ran through my mind. I remembered how many times Booth and I had made that exact claim and look at us now.
I had been to Quantico quite a few times over the past few months, visiting Booth at his new office and even giving some lectures to his students that Booth had arranged for me to give on identifying bodies and scene contamination but this was the first time that I had the privilege of sitting in on one of his classes. I knew that Booth missed, the day to day work as an active F.B.I. agent, which is why Sully and I had him consult as often as we could but he absolutely loved his new job, teaching new agents and from what I could tell, as I sat in his class, observing him, it confirmed what I knew without ever seeing him in action, he was a wonderful teacher. He was very charismatic, entertaining, serious, and engaging. His students were definitely enthralled by am, as was I.
At the end of his lecture he asked if anyone had any questions and since he had just finished discussing how his gut played a role in his investigations, I couldn't resist the urge to mess with him so I raised my hand.
"Yes, question in the back." Booth said and I knew he couldn't see me.
"I find it very disconcerting that you rely on your gut while investigating murders. I think that it would be very unreliable."
"Oh, do you now?" By the smile that crossed his face, I knew that he knew that it was me asking the question and he was playing along. "My partner, who was a giant pain in the ass didn't believe in my gut either but I proved to her over and over again that it was in fact a reliable method."
"No logical, rational scientist would ever believe in something so irrational and from everything that I have heard your partner is a rational logical woman."
"She believed in my gut. She told me so."
"I'm sure she told you that so you would shut the hell up because I have heard that you can be quite obnoxious." The class gasped in surprise and I heard some snickers as well.
"To this day my partner and I still hold the record for the most solved cases in F.B.I. history and that record is in thanks to my gut."
"The reason that all of those cases were solved was because of hard, scientific evidence collected by the staff at The Jeffersonian Institute with some help from the F.B.I."
"It was more than some help." I saw a smile cross his face and I knew that he could no longer play this game. He started laughing. "Class, I would like to introduce you to my partner, my wife, Dr. Temperance Brennan. Bones, come on up here." The room erupted in applause as I walked up to the stage.
"Just to clarify, Agent Booth's gut did lead us in the right direction many times but it was the hard evidence that solved the crimes."
"All right class, you are dismissed. Have a good one." The class stood and most of them walked out but quite a few came up to ask me and Booth questions. The questions given to Booth were about his lecture and my questions focused on our partnership and the specific of my job.
When all of his students finally left he turned his chair around and smiled at me. I went over to him, bent forward and kissed him on the mouth. "Hmmm." He hummed into my mouth just before I pulled away. "That was nice." He mumbled.
"I'm glad you thought so." I answered him as I resumed my standing position.
"What brings you here?" He began to gather up the papers and place them in his briefcase.
"I had a free afternoon and I thought that I would come and visit you at work, like we used to do."
"Checking up on me huh? Making sure that I am being faithful and working hard?"
"I would never check up on you. I trust you completely." I snapped then I saw that stupid smile on his face when he is joking with me and of course I had to get back at him. "Anyways, if you ever did cheat on me you would end up missing a very valuable body part mister."
"Ouch Bones. That hurts." He said with a grin and I gently ran my hand through his hair.
"Well you just remember that if you are ever tempted."
"Oh babe. No other woman can ever tempt me. I would say that you are a perfect woman but I know that you will argue with me so I'm just going to say that you are perfect in my eyes and no other woman will ever compare to you."
"Thanks Booth." I couldn't resist. I leaned forward and kissed him again.
"I think that we need to get the hell out of here." He told me breathlessly when we broke apart.
"I think that's a good idea." I helped him gather the rest of his stuff and then with his briefcase on his lap I pushed him through Quantico to his office where there was a nice surprise waiting for him.
"DADDY!" Christine and Michael squealed as soon as they saw him wheel into his office. I picked them up from day care and then I talked Booth's secretary, a sweet older, grandmotherly type woman, into watching them until his class was over. The twins dropped their toys and ran over to their father, climbing on his lap.
"Hiya bear." Booth greeted Michael with a kiss. "Hello my sweet chipmunk." Booth said as he kissed Christine's head. After Christine was born and started to gain weight she developed the chubbiest little cheeks and Booth began to call her his chipmunk and the name stuck. When Michael was about six months old he made a sound when he was happy and it sounded like he was growling so Booth started calling him bear. He rarely used their names. He just referred to them as bear and chipmunk. "Thanks for bringing them Bones. I've really missed them." He had been pulling some late nights over the past week, preparing for a new class and he had gotten home after I put the twins to bed and he was gone before they were up and I knew that he was miserable without seeing them.
"I know you have and they have missed you too." I told him, talking over the incessant 2 year old babble. "I was hoping that you could take the afternoon off and since it's our weekend with Parker we could pick him up from school and get an early dinner."
"I love that plan." He turned to the twins. "You guys wanna go get Parker?"
"Parker." Michael said happily.
"Brother." Christine said at the same time. They both adored their older brother and the feeling was mutual. Whenever we had Parker for the night or weekend the twins and he were inseparable and I thought that it was precious. "Mama…get…brother."
"Go. Go. Go." Michael chanted and Booth just laughed.
"All right bear. We'll go get brother."
"What do you need to take home?" I asked because I knew the twins had no intention of getting off of their father's lap.
"Nothing but you and the kids. This weekend is about us and our family so I'm leaving my work here. Let's blow this popsicle stand."
"Popsicles." The twins yelled. I laughed, grabbed my purse and pushed my family out of the building to start our weekend with the twins and Booth laughing the entire time.
I walked into our bedroom after I checked on the twins and kissed Parker goodnight and I saw Booth on our bed with my laptop on his lap and I knew that I had nothing to worry about. I trusted him completely, because he was still attending his gamblers anonymous meetings and he has told me that he has had no desire to gamble so I knew he wasn't on a gambling website. "Parker out yet?" He asked, raising his eyes to meet mine.
"Nope. He is on the phone with his girlfriend. I told him that he had a half hour more and then he needed to go to sleep."
"Good. Can I run something by you?" The normal confidence in his voice was gone and I felt myself grow nervous.
"Can I change first?"
"Oh yeah, sure. It's not an emergency."
"Is everything okay?" I asked.
"Yeah Bones. Everything is good." I quickly washed my face, brushed my teeth and changed into a pair of shorts and one of Booth's F.B.I. tee shirts and then I climbed into bed next to him.
"I've been doing some research." He began.
"About what?"
"There is this experimental thing out there that is helping paralyzed people walk again."
"What is it?" I asked, very intrigued right now.
"They inject a blue shark's embryonic cells into the spinal cord to help regenerate spinal cells."
"How does that work?"
"I knew that you would ask that so I have the web sites up for you to read. It can explain it so much better than I can." He handed me my laptop and I began to eagerly read the information that Booth compiled for me.
Booth had a lot of information for me to read, and I made sure that I read everything carefully. In fact I read it twice and it took me an hour. Booth was right; he never would have been able to explain this to me. He had the basic information but I wanted more details and facts. It was very in-depth and full of scientific information that I know Booth probably didn't understand but I did. "Booth, what made you look into this? Are you unhappy?" I was afraid that he was miserable.
He took the laptop away from me, closed it and placed it on his nightstand and then he took my hand. "No sweetheart, I am not unhappy. In fact, I have never been happier. I have a job that I love. I have three amazing children that love me and most importantly I have the best wife in the world. Things are great right now."
"Then why have you been looking into this?"
"I haven't been. One of my students heard about it and gave me a web site to check out. I only started looking into it this week."
"What if it doesn't work?"
"Then nothing changes and I promise you that I won't freak out like I did last time." He knew that was something that I was afraid of happening again.
"Do you want to try these injections Booth?"
"I do Bones, I really do."
"Then I will support you." His beautiful smile crossed his face and he leaned over and kissed me.
"Thank you Bones. You have no idea what your support means to me."
"Why are you thanking me Booth? I'm your wife and I thought that it was my duty to support my husband."
"It's not your duty. It's your right and after what I have put you through…"
"It's in the past Booth. We or probably more accurately, I have moved passed it but it seems like you haven't."
"I really hurt you Bones and that's not something that I can let go of."
"Why do you always carry around so much guilt?" I hated that he held onto his guilt over everything that he did in the past that he feels was wrong.
"It's who I am baby."
"Don't call me baby." I said with a grin.
"You know you love it."
"I know no such thing."
"Look Bones, there is one more thing." I nodded my head, urging him to continue. "These injections are really expensive plus there are travel costs because the shots aren't done here. I've called my insurance company and I have spoken with my VA rep and neither will pay for the injections because even though there has been a lot success with these injections it is still considered experimental so I have applied for a loan so I can pay for it. I just thought you should know."
"Why would you apply for a loan Booth? We can afford it."
"You can afford it Bones. I can't."
"God damn you Booth. Why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"The way you talk about money. It's always my money or your money. We are married. Everything that I have is yours and vice versa. It really pisses me off."
"Sorry." He mumbled. "I just…"
"Does it bother you that I make more money than you?"
"No…well maybe yes…I don't know."
"Well it shouldn't bother you. It doesn't bother me. I don't consider the money that I earn mine and I don't consider the money you make yours. It's ours. It all goes into the same bank account and once it's there we can't tell whose was whose."
"You're right Bones."
"You will not apply for a loan. We will pay for these injections together, with our money."
"I am the luckiest man in the world to have found you."
"Yes you are and don't forget it." He gave me his beautiful charm smile, the smile that I fell in love with, and he kissed me softly, pushing me back onto the bed so we could make love.
I apologize for the delay in updating. If anyone is still reading out there a review would be appreciated. Thanks.
