"Bones?" Booth asked again when he received no answer. He walked up to her desk and found her eyes closed and tears streaming down her face. A light whisper escaped her mouth, so low Booth barely heard it.
"Polo." She mumbled and a fresh wave of tears fell from her eyes.
"BONES!" he yelled and shook her awake. Quickly he was flying in the air and landing on his back as Tempe kicked him off balance, her foot came to his throat and she froze looking down at him.
"Booth?" she asked looking at his shocked face, she removed her foot and offered him her hand.
"Jeez, I come here to check up on you and almost get killed." He said getting up and holding his throat.
"I'm sorry, you startled me, I was taking a little rest." She said closing her laptop and putting it into her bag. "I suppose you're here to take me to Wong Foo's?" she asked throwing her bag around her shoulder.
"Yeah, Angela was wondering where you were." He said and got ready to leave, no longer really caring about his throat, she hadn't put too much pressure on her anyways. "Hey Bones, why were you crying?" he asked as they walked to his car.
"What? When?" she asked getting in and not understanding what he was talking about.
"I went in your office and you were crying in your sleep." He replied starting the car up.
"I don't know what your talking about." She said and turned to look out the window as they pulled out of the parking lot.
"Bones, your face is still moist from where the tears fell."
"No, they're not." She quickly wiped her face clean and faked a smile, but Booth could see past it all.
"Fine, but if you ever want to talk I'm always here. I won't judge you."
Soon a long awkward silence filled the car and neither made eye contact. As the car pulled up to the parking lot of Wong Foo's, Temperance started to speak.
"It's not fair, Booth." She whispered as new tears formed behind her eyes and fell.
"What's not fair?" he asked wondering what she'd been talking about.
"I was so young and they left. I had no one where to go, I was alone." She said never once letting their eyes meet.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked looking to her, tears could be seen behind her eyes, but she refused to let them fall.
"Maybe some other day, but now, Angela is probably wondering what happened to us." She said coming up with an excuse to not reveal her dark past and got out of the car.
"You can trust me with anything Temperance." He said using her name for the second time that day. She nodded and headed to the building. "God knows I have." He mumbled and followed her inside.
Once Booth entered the little restaurant he saw Tempe had made herself comfortable at the bar and Angela sat on her left side talking. He quietly walked to her right side and listened in on what the two females were saying.
"So then I sat there staring at him, and sweetie let me tell you something. I realized he had the most gorgeous eyes any man had possessed. I knew that he was…" Angela mumbled to her, and then trailed off as she realized Booth was heading toward them.
"Knew he was what?" Tempe asked not understanding why she had stopped the odd, but nevertheless, interesting story. She then turned around and made eye contact with Booth as he sat next to her and turned to tell Angela to continue on, but found that she had returned back to a table with Zach and Hodgins.
"So how have you been Bones?" he asked trying to make polite conversation.
"Alright, what about you?" she asked taking a drink of her beer.
"Ok I guess." He answered back and found for the fist time in a long time he was out of things to say to her.
"Booth, are you sure you're alright? You seem a bit confused or something."
"I'm fine I just…never mind."
"You want to know why I was crying right?" she asked looking to him, her eyes so full of dark secrets.
"Well yes, but I understand if you don't want to tell Me." he said.
"If you can get me away from Angela and her need to have me be with people outside of work I will tell you basically anything worth telling." She said taking another swig of her beer and looked over to Angela who was talking to Hodgins about who knows what.
"Deal." Booth said getting up from the stool and walked over to the table. He leaned over the table and whispered a few things to her and returned to Tempe. "Let's go."
"What did you say to her?" she asked looking over to her friend as a smile spread across her face.
"Nothing of importance, just that I was taking you to my house and not to interrupt us." Booth said chuckling, and then waited for a few minutes when he noticed Tempe hadn't hit him yet for his rude comment.
"I don't understand why she would smile at me…" she said trailing off then slapped him in the head as his statement's meaning fully registered. "That's not funny." She said.
"I thought it was." He said getting into his SUV.
"Well it wasn't." she said getting in.
"Look we're only going to get something to eat and talk alright. I'm sorry if I offended you, but it seemed funny at the time." He said honestly.
"It's ok, I just thought it was rather odd you would say something like that to me." she said then smiled at him. "I guess it was sort of funny. I guess friends make those sort of jokes right?"
"Right." He said and drove off.
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