Booth and Tempe entered a large building that was located ten minutes from the FBI headquarters. The place was huge, a party room on its own. The dinning hall was covered in streamers and balloons, decorations filled the place and a large banner that read 'FBI Annual Dinner' sat in the middle of it all over the stage.

A least 50 different tables surrounded a dance floor where a few people were dancing to music that a DJ played off to the side.

"Wow, this is really something." Tempe muttered to Booth as he walked her to a table.

"This place looks really nice, never expected it to be this good." Booth agreed.

They soon found their seats at a table where a few other agents sat and Booth pulled out Tempe's chair.

"Well, agent Booth it has been a while." A blonde woman with green eyes said as she walked up to Booth.

"Yes, agent Williams it has." Booth agreed shaking hands with her.

"Where have you been?" she asked ignoring Tempe, who sat there eyeing her.

"Around, working with my partner here." He said motioning to Tempe. Then introduced them, "agent Williams this is Dr. Temperance Brennan, Bones, this is agent Williams."

"Pleasure to meet you." Williams said shaking her hand and faking a smile.

"The pleasure is all mine." Tempe lied as well, faking a smile also.

"Well I must be going, Cullen wished to speak to me." the woman turned to leave and called behind her back, "Good bye Seeley."

"Good bye Lilia." Booth called after her.

"What was that all about?" Tempe asked as he took his seat next to her.

"She has problems with me, I got a case she wanted and solved it before she could solve hers."

"That's rude of her."

"Yeah, well that's just how people are though."

A few minutes passed before Booth got the courage to ask Tempe to dance. And as they stood on the dance floor dancing to a decent rhythm they began to loose themselves. That is until a new beat filled the air.

"Bones, you ever salsa before?" Booth whispered in her ear.

"Once, when I was in Spain, why?" she questioned as he began to dance.

"I want to make sure you can handle the heat and spice of it." He said.

"I don't know what that means." She said beginning to dance with the beat.

"Just dance, Bones. Just dance."

As they moved their feet to the beat of the music, they lost their selves as the enjoyed the way their bodies moved together. Tempe pulled away from Booth and started moving her hips as he came to her side and pulled her close. As the music stopped and the dance ended they found them selves inches from the other, their lips barley touching as they breathed hard. Booth had one hand on her hip and the other held her leg up that was lifted and resting on his waist and her hands were on his face.

As the pulled apart the whole room went wild at the show they were treated to and applauded the scene. Booth and Tempe pulled away and walked towards a door that led to a balcony outside.

"Wow, you're a really good dancer." Booth said breaking the silence once they were outside and out of sight of the others.

"Thanks you're really good too. I never thought you could dance like that." She said smiling.

"Well I can. I just never knew you could."

"I learned a lot of dancing skills when I went to Spain a few years ago." She explained leaning over the railing and looking out to a garden that was planted out in the back.

"Do you know how to dance the forbidden dance?" Booth asked smiling at her.

"I don't know what that means." She answered honestly.

"Do you know how to lambada?"

"Yes I do, I learned from a few people I met in Brazil about three years ago. They owned a dance school."

"Really?" Booth asked pulling her close from behind and placed a kiss on her cheek.

"Really. So do you know how to…what did you call it the forgetting dance?"

"No, the forbidden dance and yes I can."

"Why do they call it that? I mean in Brazil it was just called the lambada."

"They call it the forbidden dance because it's like having sex on the dance floor. It was called forbidden back in the 30's because people back then thought it was absurd to dance in such a way in public." Booth explained, surprising Tempe at his knowledge of the dance.

"I never knew you knew so much." She said turning to face him.

"I am smart you know?"

"I know, but you really knew a lot about that."

"I learned the dance and wanted to know more."

"That was clever." She said embracing him and putting her head on his chest, listening as his heart beat matched hers.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, anyways you wanted to go back and dance?" Tempe questioned puling away from his embrace.

"Yes, let's go." He said grabbing her hand as they walked back to the dance floor together. "What would you like to dance?"

"Anything, just not the lambada, we're here for work and I don't think your co-works would like us having sex in front of them." She said half-serious, half-joking.

"What does it matter?" Booth asked as he embraced her and they began to slow dance to the classical music that came out of the speakers.

"Booth I have some self dignity." She mumbled.

"I know, I'm just teasing you." He said.

After a few more dances they got off the dance floor, grabbed some dinner and spoke with the people at their table. It was around 11:00 when Cullen got on the stage and began to speak.

"May I have your attention?" he asked into the mic, everyone quieted down and listened as he spoke. "As you all know this is our tenth annual dinner, and I welcome you all."

The audience applauded him and a few cheered all of them proud for their work and hard determination; which the dinner was all about a sort of 'thank you' for all of their hard work.

"Anyways as a different sort of plans we are also here to hand out our first ever awards. Certain awards will be handed out to certain agents for things they have done that helped the agency in more ways than one."

Again the room sounded in applause as the agents went crazy over the new idea. Twenty minutes of people collecting awards passed and soon Booth and Tempe were pulled out of their little conversation as Cullen began to give a speech.

"Ok, this next award is a very special one and deserves special reorganization to the people who have earned it." The room began to grow a little loud with chatter at the sound of 'people' in the speech.

"Yes I said people; this award goes to one agent who has always been there for the FBI and bringing justice to people who needed it and never giving up on a case. This award also goes to the agent's partner, though this partner is not part of the bureau, they have done a wonderful job at helping a member of our family capture horrible criminals off the street. So please put your hands together for the best partnership we have ever seen. Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan."

The room went loud with applause as Booth and Tempe got up from their seats and walked to the stage where Cullen held two awards and handed them each once. Written in gold writing over a little black granite award rock read 'Best partnership of the year.'

"Well, I'd like to thank you all for this award, but I couldn't do it, without Dr. Brennan." Booth said into the mic pulling back for her to speak.

"Thank you all for this so much. I never knew that just by doing my job this could happen. Thank you all and thank you Booth." She spoke into the mic and stepped down.

Tempe smiled and walked with Booth back to their seats as they sat down they gave each other a quick kiss, neither knowing they had an audience until everyone started clapping. Booth pulled away smiling while Tempe blushed.