Author's note: How amazing was the season finale? Yeah, can't wait till the fall. SorryI haven't updated in awhile. Enjoy.
"Well who is Cherri?" Tempe asked moving away from him.
"Just leave it alone Bones." He said gruffly and got up from the couch.
"No this person has some importance. She was the focus of my memory. Who is she? Did you have an affair with her?"
"No!" He exclaimed turning around quickly.
"Then just tell me why she's so important?"
Booth ran a hand through his hair shaking his head. "Tempe why don't we just leave it, you'll find out about it soon enough." He asked her with pleading eyes. Tempe took in the look of his face and let out a sigh of her own. She nodded slightly willing to let nature take its course.
"Just promise me Booth that you're not hiding anything from me?"
He paused and took her delicate hands. "No Temperance I'm not."
"Okay." Tempe tucked some hair behind her ear as a nervous habit. "Its just that in your past I've known you to have a 'thing' for tall beautiful leggy blonde women. And I know I'm the complete opposite."
"Oh Bones don't sell yourself short. I've been crazy for you the moment we met."
"Really?" she replied in a questioning tone.
"Really." He told her giving her a quick kiss. "I miss being able to do that."
"Booth," she said quietly not able to look him in the eye. "Were we having some trouble in our marriage?"
"Bones, I-" The telephone rang cutting Booth off. He picked it up glancing over at Tempe as he answered the call. Temperance sighed and took her cell phone out of her pocket and dialed Angela's number.
"Hi Ange, its me Temperance. Yeah, I'd love to have lunch with you."
The two friends met up for lunch at a small restaurant near her neighborhood.
"Sorry I was a little late sweetie but Jack was rambling about some conspiracy against the dairy industry. Now he's just making things up." She rolled her eyes unfolding her napkin.
"So you and Jack?" Tempe smiled.
"Yeah, its really great sweetie." Angela said happily with a giddy look on her face. "Of course we hooked up before you and Booth and were on again off again but we click. So I've heard you've been having some flashbacks. That's awesome!"
Tempe smiled and took a sip from her water. "Yeah and Booth told me a little about how we met and came to be together." She looked down at her menu and bit her lip.
"But?" Angela prompted.
"I know that Booth and I have been having problems in our marriage. Is there anything you can tell me in regards to how our relationship has been for the last months? Please Ange I need to know before I can get anywhere with Booth." Angela sighed and looked to her friend.
"You and Booth decided that you were going to try for another baby. At first he was all gung ho about it and you, even though it was your idea, became sort of hesitant. Booth would try and initiate the 'baby making' and you would back out at the last minute and demand that he use protection. I guess you finally warmed up to the idea when we were working on the remains of a nine-month-old murder victim. It was strange because I thought that if anything it would further convince you that you didn't want any more children. But you told me that that victim made you miss how at that age Adam and Lila depended on you for everything. How even the simplest task required your help. It made you want to create another life and protect it, show the world that there is such a thing as bringing a child into a safe environment. So now you were all ready to go with 'project baby' but Booth had gotten cold feet. He became distant and spent more time at work. You accused him of gambling and he said that he it wasn't that. Then you came sobbing to my door and I asked you what was wrong. And you said, "When I asked if he had began to gamble again he told me that 'it wasn't that'. That the reason he was so distant wasn't because of his gambling but was something else." And I didn't understand what you meant. Then it dawned on me that you thought that he was having an affair. I told you Booth would never do that to you but you were convinced that he was sleeping with Cherri Peters."
"She was in my last memory." Tempe added.
"Really? Well I told you that Booth would never do that and you ended up confronting him and he was so angry sweetie. Like, just completely livid that you would accuse him of adultery. Of course you quickly regretted it afterwards cause you realized that it wasn't true. But, the thing is honey she would spend so much time with him. Cherri was such a manipulative skank. She would touch him all the time; practically rub herself against him but all you could see was this woman throwing herself at your husband. But Booth only had eyes for you."
"So I've been working late all this time just so I could avoid seeing my husband?"
"Sweetie you had reasonable doubt. He didn't want to have a baby anymore and he was drifting away. I completely understood where you were coming from."
Tempe nodded and began to gather her things.
"Where are you going?"
"I have to talk to Booth. We'll do this again, okay?" she kissed Angela and left quickly.
"Booth? Booth? Seeley?" Tempe called as she burst through the front door. She walked down the hall to where his office was and opened the door.
"Seeley." She sighed as she saw him working at his desk.
"Whoa Temperance, what's the matter?" He said getting up from his desk. He put his arms around her slender waist and drew her closer to him.
"Cherri Peters. Let's forget about her, work on our marriage." She said in one breath.
"What do you mean?"
"I know that we've been going through a hard time but it think we can work this out."
"How do you know that? Did you have a memory?"
"No Angela told me. Listen Booth I know that we're in a weird place right now but we can work things out." She said grasping onto his forearms tightly. Tempe's hands slowly worked their way up to his biceps taking in his strong form. Soon they found their way around his neck.
"Tempe." He said softly their faces inching closer together. She closed the gap, kissing his lips passionately. Temperance threaded her fingers through his short hair deepening the kiss. She found herself pressing her hips into him wiggling against his growing erection. This was how it was suppose to be, no one else touching her husband like this. It felt as if she had been doing this forever even though she really had been.
"God I want you so bad." She said as he pressed kisses on her neck, sucking lightly on her smooth skin. His capable hands slipped into her sweatshirt pulling at the zipper and slipping it off her shoulders. Tempe sighed as his hands caressed the undersides of her breasts. His nimble finger rolled her nipple and she groaned at the contact.
"Seeley." Tempe sighed and arched into him as he continued to touch her. Booth lifted her as she wrapped her long legs around his waist and made their way to his couch.