Disclaimer: Don't own Bones.
A/N: If you have yet to watch the 100th episode, for god's sake go watch now and don't read any further unless you want to be somewhat spoiled. P.S. this is a tiny drabble on the100th, but believe me, there is more coming.
Gambling Problem
One of you has to have the courage to break the stalemate. You, it's gotta be you because you're the gambler. For once … make that work for you.
Thank-you, Dr. Sweets.
Gambling with money had been a serious problem that had never turned ugly because he'd mostly won. But now, now, he'd gambled with his goddamn heart and lost.
Ironic, really; he thought she had been the cure to his gambling addiction, but turns out he'd just traded in one kind of addiction for another.
And it was dangerous, oh so dangerous, because he knew better than anyone that addictions could destroy you. The smart thing, the sane thing to do would be to move on, begin the recovery process.
And he told her that he was, he told himself he was.
So why then, couldn't he stop thinking of reasons to gamble on her one more time? Why did it feel like this was one gambling problem he would never be able to overcome?
Why did he have the sinking feeling that, for her, he would be willing to gamble with his heart over and over again, regardless of the outcome?