(The Maiden in the Mushrooms)

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He hadn't believed she would really do it, but it turns out she had. While Booth was waiting in the Ookey room for Hodgins to show him the results of an experiment, the entomologist had smirked as he handed over a folder to the Agent. "I saw the hickey, Man. Angela would go ballistic if I marked her like that."

"Hickey?" Booth didn't like the sound of that. "What are you talking about, Bug Boy?"

Amused that Booth was feigning ignorance, Hodgins sniggered. "Come on. We all saw the hickey on Dr. B's neck. When Angela made a joke about it, Dr. B said you did it in the throws of love making. I didn't think you were that kind of guy, Man. A hickey? Wow!"

Embarrassed, Booth grabbed the folder and shook it at Hodgins. "I didn't give Bones a hickey. I'm not in the eighth grade."

"Dr. B doesn't lie, Booth. You know that." Hodgins thought it was funny that Booth was denying what everyone had seen with their own eyes.

"Well, I don't lie either." He was furious that Brennan had told everyone that he had given her a hickey instead of admitting that Christine had bit her. He knew that Brennan was a great Mom, but there was such a thing as over protecting her child. Christine was just a toddler for God's sake. "I stopped making hickey's in high school."

Since he didn't want to call Booth a liar, Hodgins shrugged his shoulders. "If you say so, Man."

"I say so." Booth glared at the scientist and realized that Hodgins didn't believe him. Damn it! "Fine believe what you want." Abruptly turning on his heels, he stormed out of the Ookey room and strode down the hallway to Brennan's office. Finding it empty, he sought out Cam to see where his partner was.

Cam was working on her notes from their last case, but stopped what she was doing to stare at her friend. "She's teaching a class over at the University this morning. One of the other anthropology professors has food poisoning and she offered to fill in."

Frustrated, Booth nodded his head. "I didn't give Bones a hickey no matter what she said."

Surprised that Booth would even bring it up, Cam turned back to her notes. Getting into an argument with Booth usually didn't end well for either of them. "Alright." She hoped he would go away, but darn her luck, he just stood there. Sighing she turned back and stared at her friend. "If it's not a hickey then what is it?"

Grimly, Booth glared at his friend, trying to will her to believe him. "Christine bit Bones. Just like she did Emma at Day Care."

Surprised, Cam turned her chair to fully face Booth. "But I thought Brennan proved that that Christine didn't bite Emma."

"She did, but Christine really did bite Emma . . . it's complicated." Booth hated to rat out his partner, but he wasn't going to take the blame for something he didn't do. "She bit Emma and then she bit Bones."

Well that was an interesting development. "Well, okay then." Cam turned back to her paperwork. "I'm a little busy. If you want to talk to Dr. Brennan you'll have to wait until this evening."

Not sure if his honor had been restored, Booth sighed. "Fine . . . I'll see you around."

Cam knew that Booth was angry, but that was Dr. Brennan's problem, not hers. "Okay, see you later."

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As the afternoon progressed, Booth decided not to confront Brennan about lying about the hickey. He knew that she would just trot out some anthropological bullshit that she had been right in doing what she did. He had been down that road before and he didn't want to travel down it again at least not this time.

Thinking it over, he came up with a better plan. Sometimes it was just better to change the game and that was what he planned to do.

That night after Christine was in bed, Booth seduced his partner with wine and a home cooked vegetarian meal that ended with a few rounds of love making. Satisfied that his plan had been put into place, Booth slept a good night's sleep, certain that he would need his rest the next day.

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After she stripped off her nightgown to get ready for her morning shower, Brennan noticed a bruise on her upper left breast and thought that was odd. She didn't remember hitting anything that would cause it. Concerned she turned and looked in the mirror over the bathroom sink and spied another bruise on the right side of her neck and one on her left shoulder.

Leaning over the sink, she placed a finger on each bruise and knew that Booth had done something that he had never done before. He had marked her while they made love. "Booth!" Turning she marched out of the bathroom and over to the bed. Staring down at her partner, she noticed he was wide awake and smiling. "You think this is funny? It was a juvenile thing to do. You aren't a teenager."

While he appreciated his naked girlfriend standing over him, Booth placed his hands behind his head and gave her a rather sly smile. "That's what I told Hodgins and Cam yesterday at the Lab. They told me that you told them that the bite on your neck was a hickey. I told them I would never do that, but they said you never lie, the implication being that I do."

Her cheeks a bright pink, Brennan knew that she had been caught. "I do hate to lie, but I wanted to protect Christine's reputation."

"Over mine?" Booth loved the way Brennan's neck and shoulders turned pink when she was embarrassed. It was a sight no one ever got to see except him. "Our daughter is a toddler. Everyone knows that toddlers go through biting stages. It's normal. A grown man giving his girlfriend a hickey is just stupid."

"Ah hah, so you admit what you did was stupid." Brennan pointed a quivering finger at Booth.

He slowly shook his head, enjoying Brennan's outrage. "Not at all. What I did was revenge. See the difference?"

She did see the difference. She had forgot that Booth was capable of retaliating when he felt it needed to be done. "Alright, you've made your point. I should have just admitted that Christine had bit me, still now I have several hickeys on my body. That wasn't very nice."

Sitting up, Booth pulled Brennan down so she was laying on top him. "Tell them I did it in the throws of making love." His lips sought out her lips and Brennan knew that Booth had won this particular battle. She would be careful the next time to be honest about the situation, if there was a next time.

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