so a lot of this story has to do with different episodes throughout season 3 and then random chapters don't, this one happens to grace over two episodes back to back. One because I wanted to write the roleplay scene and two because Sweets deserved an appearance. hope you enjoy!

Chapter Eight Laws of Physics

Booth groaned as they stood in the hotel lobby not liking where this meeting was going. Their case involved a dead guy who seemingly lived his life like a horse and now he was learning more about the fantasy than he ever wanted. "So this is some kind of sex thing?" He asked not sure he wanted to know the answer. "How did you get there so quickly?" His partner asked and he shrugged. "He said fantasy, I just made the leap."

They watched the pony play from afar as Bone's arm fell on his as he turned to walk away. "If I were to dress in something like this would that cause you to have sex with me?" She asked and he coughed dropping his pen and notes.

"Bones!" He hissed thankful they were alone for the moment without any prying ears. She shrugged and motioned to the group once again. "It's obvious that they have no problems with having intercourse no matter how they go about it and I currently have a lot of problems with getting any." Temperance said with a small pout and he rolled his eyes.

"You even think of wearing chaps or a saddle and you'll never see me naked." He answered knowing that she was being as patient as she could be in their situation and he was grateful for that, even if she made it known every chance they had that sex was not in the equation just yet.

"Prude." She mumbled as they walked down to the group and made way with the interrogation. If there was anything that he wanted right now it was for this case to be over and done with. If not there was no way he was going to survive both his partner's insistence on moving their relationship into something sexual and the case itself.

They sat at their usual table at the end of the case discussing roleplay and fetishes and Temperance smiled at how passionately he talked about making love and breaking physics. "Yeah, Bones.. A miracle"

If there was one thing she had learned while they were discovering themselves as a couple nonsexually it was that he was the romantic one of the relationship. He was the one who thought of each and every scenario and put stock in their happiness. He wanted them to be strong and for them to work as a couple and she respected that. Even if she wanted more than anything to just have sex. "You're right." She finally said watching the shock wash over his face as he realized he had one the argument for once. "I will wait for our moment to break the laws of physics. I will be patient and not be persistent anymore. I trust you." Temperance continued. "I trust you."

Lance Sweets was not what the partners had expected when they were told they had to meet with a psychologist. He was incredibly young and annoying with his words and tried to act like he knew them already which did not create a good first impression for either of them. "I am the one who says whether or not you two stay partners. Your partnership is in jeopardy here, a little respect would be nice." The child doctor said as the two left the room in a huff as they went towards Booths office.

Once inside she closed the door in panic. "Do you think Caroline told?" She whispered as she sat on his desk. "She wouldn't tell the FBI would she and not tell us so that we have to see a psychologist?" Temperance panicked.

"What? No, Bones. It's a partnership evaluation; it's normal in the Bureau. Caroline wouldn't tell, if she was going to she would have done so by now." Instead the prosecutor just liked to bring it up single time he was alone with her to see if they were still married and just how that was going. It was quite annoying actually.

"Look, all we have to do is just be ourselves with this guy so he'll sign his piece of paper and let us go. Just like we've been doing with everyone else and it's working. Don't you think it's working? No one knows nor does anyone seem to even realize something is different between us." He wasn't sure if he should be worried or not that literally nothing was different compared to them not being together and now that they were sort of married and also sort of a couple.

Her lip was still sucked between her teeth in worry and he easily stood up and leaned over the desk to remove it, his thumb lingering at her bottom lip for a few seconds longer than necessary. "It will be fine, I promise." He whispered to her before sitting back down and she sighed before nodding and removing from her spot on his desk to the standing position.

"I'm going to head back to the lab, work on this homework." She said as she motioned the folder Sweets had given both of them. "I'll see you soon." Temperance smiled before heading out the door. Making it to the elevator she sighed, as hard as she and Booth had been working to be in a relationship, the fact that they were married still hung between them like a thick wall preventing them from really going anywhere. Yet neither of them wanted to actually confront the fact that they weren't moving towards divorcing or acting married - whatever that meant.

"You wouldn't even have coffee with me?" Booth asked, looking a little hurt as he leaned towards her during their next session with the boy doctor. "I said no more murders, not if we didn't meet at all." He said and she sighed and nodded.

"Then fine, we could have a coffee. So that's clear then, we'd have coffee and that's our relationship, coffee?" She asked not liking the way that sounded either and was happy when Booth requested for them to move on, she wasn't sure how to think or feel. She hated Lance Sweets, that was one thing she knew for sure in that moment.

They retreated back to his place for a drink and she sat on his couch cupping the glass of scotch watching as it swished in the movement of her hands shaking just slightly. "If there were no more murders would we really just have coffee?" She asked after a long silence. "No us, no partnership, no" she paused. "No marriage?" She finally asked to watch from her side view as he put his glass down and moved next to her and moved her own to the table in front of them.

"Never. That will never be what we are, at least I hope not. Sweets.. Sweets he was just trying to get a rise out of us, don't put that conversation to too much value okay?" He whispered as he kissed her head and she closed her eyes at the feeling before moving away just slightly.

"Booth, I'm serious though. We're not dealing with it, we're just sort of stuck and by not dealing with it we're just going to make it worse when we finally do." She pleaded with him, frowning when he sighed.

"What do you want to do, Bones? Announce to the world that we decided to randomly get married? Get divorced and pretend it never happened?" I'm not just dragging my feet here either, I don't know what to do. Look, I thought we agreed to just see what happens with us as a couple and then go from there?" He asked and she shrugged.

"We're not getting anywhere, we've learned that we enjoy each other's company and have been on many dates and still want to be around each other, so I feel like we've accomplished something here. Yet, we're still married, that hasn't changed and it's not going to. Pretending it didn't happen is just making us both uncomfortable and you can't say you're not no matter how much you think you're not dragging your feet. Whatever that means." She huffed as she crossed her arms.

"Tell me what you want to do then Bones. Do you want to move in with each other and live happily ever after? Do you want to file for divorce? Do you want to go back to just being partners and nothing romantic between us? What do you want? Because I don't know here, okay? I have no idea what I want except to be with you, that's all I know even if I don't know what that means. I'll take whatever form I can get" Once again his passion came through his voice and she quickly pulled him closer to her and kissed him as passionately as she could.

"I'm sorry, I guess I'm just frustrated because it's always on my mind and I've never been in this position before." She whispered against his lips. "I want to be with you too, in whatever form we want to be together in. Even if that means as a couple who happens to be married but doesn't act like it or live together. Divorce for some reason just isn't something I want and I don't understand that either." Kissing him again she sighed. "I just want to be with you too." She reiterated and his hands fell to her hips and up her shirt.

"Okay." He murmured to her as his lips fell to her shoulder as he worked her shirt off of her. "We can do that. Just be together and maybe one day we'll figure it all out. Right now I think we've realized at least one thing." Booth continued with a smirk as he pulled her onto his lap. "We've played it safe long, or well I've tortured you long enough." He chuckled and that was enough for her.