Breakfast foods apparently inspire smiles. Bones isn't mine to do anything other than borrow and play with and I am supremely grateful for that because if I were in charge there wouldn't be a tv show.
Muffin
I was carrying a cup of coffee and her favorite blue berry muffin when I walked into the lab. She'd slipped out of bed this morning, leaving me a note on the pillow saying that she was desperately behind on work.
The fact that she hadn't bothered to make coffee before she left and there was no sign that she had taken anything to eat I was under the impression that she had left before the sun even considered rising. So by the time I was ready to head to work it was an appropriate time for me to bring her a cup of coffee and a muffin.
The lab was already busy and as I crossed people turned around grinning at me, a few were giving me the thumbs up, several mumbled congratulations. Cam, called across the lab "Finally" with a big grin on her face. Hodgins on the other hand slugged me in the arm, "Way to go." Angela, in her usual dramatic fashion rushed up and hugged me. "Here I was thinking that I was going to have to do it for you." She gushed before releasing me to cross to Bones office.
I was just going to just knock and breeze on in, but I paused just before I knocked. Bones was sitting with a pile of papers already marked on her left and just one sitting in front of her open with the purple pen she was using sitting on top, forgotten.
Instead of grading, she was holding out her left hand admiring the way the ring on it was catching the light. She was just so beautiful in that moment; her features were relaxed into that contented smile that she so rarely wears. There's a glint in her eye as she's caught up in that moment, of just pure happiness and I couldn't help myself from feeling so proud of myself for being able to put that look on her face.
I cleared my throat softly, "I take it I did a good job."
She turned to me lowering her hand, still smiling. "You did an excellent job Booth it's absolutely gorgeous."
I grin at her crossing to her desk setting the muffin and coffee on her desk, "I brought you breakfast, since there was no evidence of you eating anything before you departed in the wee hours of the morning." I dropped a kiss on her lips before leaning back against the desk. She smiled in appreciation sipping on the coffee. "So if you've been in here all morning how do they all know already?" I indicated the lab with a jerk of my thumb.
She made a face between amusement and annoyance, "Oh I went out to help Cam look at the remains, and I didn't even get the glove on before Angela noticed and demanded to know what happened. Needless to say I retreated in here as soon as I could." She smiled looking at the ring once more.
Now I want you to go look in the mirror. Are you smiling? If you are then you should review. I guess if you're not then you should tell me that too and I'll see what I can do to fix that.
Babyrose