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Love at First Sight

"I've got the cereal." Brennan announced as she entered the front door, home from her early morning grocery run.

The couple had been busy with a spate of murders and had little time to replenish their depleting groceries. Booth had found out that morning that 26-month-old Hank's favorite cereal had run out. Food was number one on Hank's list of what was important in life and both parents knew they had hell to pay if their little boy woke to find his favorite choice of breakfast missing from the breakfast spread that his Dad usually prepared.

"Great, at least we won't have an angry toddler to deal with. I have enough on my mind." Booth started to help Brennan put away the groceries.

"You shouldn't be nervous Booth, we have an airtight case." Brennan said as she put milk into the fridge.

"I know. But you know, Robert Aragon, he's really good defence attorney. I've seen bad people go free because of him, and I'm the prosecution's first witness this morning."

"If you fail miserably, Caroline still has me to call to the witness stand."

"Thanks Bones, just what I needed to hear."

"Besides the evidence we have is insurmountable. Caroline would surely get a conviction."

"Yeah I hope so."

"What's this?" Brennan held up a parcel that they had received in the mail.

"Whoa, you might wanna be careful with that, might be human remains."

"I highly doubt it."

"Hey it's happened."

"Well it's addressed to the both of us. If it's human remains, it's more likely to be addressed only to me." Brennan opened the parcel to reveal a box of chocolates. She held it up for Booth to see. "Chocolates."

"Hmm… who's it from?"

"Probably one of your admirers."

"I don't have admirers, and besides like you said, it's to the both of us."

"It's not irrational to think that you have admirers, you are an attractive man." Brennan held up a card. "Jocelyn."

"Lemme see that!" Booth snatched the card from Brennan before she could read it.

"It's Jocelyn. Gemma Arrington's mother. It's the anniversary of Gemma's death. She wanted to thank us again for finding her daughter's killer."

"That was a very long time ago. She already thanked us."

"This is what makes our work worth it right? They were gonna close the case, Gemma's killer would never have been found."

"But we did it." Brennan flashed Booth a proud smile.

"We did."

Booth sauntered up to Brennan, wrapping his arms round her waist. "I still remember that case like it was yesterday. The first time I laid eyes on you… you know, it was love at first sight."

Brennan laughed. "You asked if I believed in fate. Your attempt at a pick-up line?"

It was Booth's turn to laugh. "Yeah, it was pretty cheesy. I was hoping you'd say yes and I'd get you to go out with me."

"You wanted to have sex with me."

"As I recall, it was you who wanted to sleep with me."

"And you didn't?"

"Hey I'm not really that kind of guy but you were hot. And very cute. And I knew I had fallen for you. Admit it. It was love at first sight for you too."

"Nonsense Booth, it was merely me wanting my biological urges to be satisfied."

"C'mon Bones. Back then that was what you thought, sure. Cause you didn't believe in love and all that… but now… you know different. Don't tell me you weren't attracted to me then?"

"I did find your shoulders and your jawline appealing." Brennan reached to trace the outline of his jaw.

"See love at first sight."

"What we experienced was our bodies releasing endorphins in preparation for an anticipated coupling."

Booth shook his head. "You can't science your way out of this one. The minute I saw you, I knew. You were the one. Think back, you probably thought so too."

"Okay I admit, I did entertain the thought of spending an extended amount of time with you, preferably in the confines of my bedroom."

"Cause you fell in love with me." Booth leaned in to brush his lips against hers.

"Up to the point where you fired me and I got mad at you."

"You did punch a federal judge."

"Which you thought was hot."

"Blame Caroline okay? She made me fire you. Then re-hire you."

"You ever think, if I didn't stop you that night? If you got in the cab with me and we had sex, would we still have ended up together?"

Booth looked thoughtful for a moment. "Probably."

"Probably?"

"Yeah and we might have had Christine then. Back then, you being you… things might have not turned out so well. You wouldn't have been ready for us. I mean I'd still have wanted to be a part of you and Christine's lives but it might have been a harder journey. You didn't believe in love, didn't wanna have kids. We might have gotten to this point, but it would have been a different route. Or if I hadn't been able to convince you that love is more than chemicals in your brain… then maybe me and you might've ended up like me and Rebecca."

Booth shuddered at the thought. He couldn't imagine not having what he had now with Brennan and being a Dad to their two children.

"Your reasoning is logical but what happened to believing in fate and love at first sight? If your premise about fate were true we would be together no matter what we did that night."

"Ah see?" Booth tapped Brennan playfully on the nose. "Back then… you wouldn't even have given a thought to fate and love at first sight but it looks like you have changed."

Brennan smiled sheepishly. "I have to concede that you're right. I may not have realized it but my belief system has changed somewhat. Although I still stand by my beliefs that everything can be explained by science."

"Whatever you say Dr Brennan." Booth laughed. "So it was fate and it was love at first sight."

"It could also have been Cam who suggested you get me to help you solve the murder of Gemma Arrington."

"Why didn't you sleep with me that night?"

"I told you, tequila."

"There's gotta be more than that. I know you now better than I did then."

"Admittedly, I felt something… something I was unaccustomed to feeling when we kissed."

Booth grinned with a twinkle in his eye. "You felt love. And It scared you."

"Perhaps, on hindsight, you may be correct." She grew thoughtful. "I broke your heart that night, after our session with Sweets. When you asked for a chance and I rejected you."

"You did."

She shook her head slightly. "And I even asked if we could still work together even though it must have pained you greatly to do so."

"I can never say no to you Bones."

"I'm so sorry."

"That's all in the past okay? Doesn't bother me anymore." Booth offered her a reassuring smile, tightening his grip round her waist. "You said you couldn't change. But you did."

"I did. Didn't I?"

"And I'm proud of you for that. I still know we're gonna get our 50 years together and I'm real glad we got to this point. Married with three beautiful children."

Their early morning reminiscence of their past was interrupted by Christine. "Is breakfast ready Daddy?" she called out as she emerged from her room. "Hank's up too. He wants out of his cot."

"I'll get him before he attempts to climb out again." Brennan said.

"And I'll get breakfast started. C'mon Princess, you wanna help? Mommy and Daddy's got a big day ahead."

"Is it picture day?"

"Huh?"

"Picture day's a big deal at school. We have to dress up, look nice and be really good."

Booth laughed. "Mommy and Daddy need to be at court today. But yeah, I guess it's kinda like picture day. We gotta look real smart and be good too. Mommy'll probably ace it."

Brennan chuckled at her daughter's reasoning. She smiled back at Booth before going down the hall to Hank's room. "I'm glad we got to this point too Booth."

Was feeling nostalgic and decided to take a little trip down memory lane, allowing B&B to look back on how far they've come.