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Chapter Two || The Next Morning

The alarm rang throughout the room bringing an instant annoyance to Bones as she tried to figure out why it didn't sound like her normal wake up. It took only a few seconds to realize that she wasn't in her bed and there were a set up arms firmly pressed around her. Opening her eyes she saw Booth's sleeping form and the terrible wakeup call suddenly didn't seem so bad. Reaching over him, she shut off his alarm and placed kisses over his face smiling when his nose wrinkled from the sensation. "Wake up."

"No." He grumbled his eyes still firmly closed but his arms tightening around her proved that he wasn't all that asleep. "We just went to sleep." He mumbled almost incoherently and she hummed because he wasn't wrong but there was so much that needed to be done and they couldn't stay in bed all day.

Placing her hands on his cheeks she kissed him softly as another wakeup, humming when she was greeted with a return kiss. Before she could say another word he had rolled them over and she laughed as he sleepily pinned her beneath him with his head in her neck. "Never leaving."

This was a side of Booth that she had never seen before, he was clingy and needy and while if it were anyone else she would have already been revolted, she felt incredibly happy to have him. The day before hit her like a wave and her breath hitched thinking about Vincent. Booth must have felt the change in her breath as he slowly moved off of her concern on his face.

"Bones?" He asked concerned that she was already regretting their night together. Before he could say anything her lips was on his dissolving any fear he may have had. "Bones." He stated again as he pulled back from her. "Talk to me."

"You have to kill Broadsky." She whispered. "We have to get up, get to work, we have to face him and while I would love to stay here with you. We have to do this. For Vincent."

It was devastating to him to see the hurt in her eyes and the sound in her voice over everything that had happened. The bullet was meant for him, there was no doubt about that and while he didn't blame himself it still didn't make things any better. Nodding he kissed her once more before getting up out of the bed.

Once they were both showered they parted ways, Bones to her own apartment to change and head to the lab and Booth to the Hoover building to start his next move. Justice needed to be served and they all had to work together to figure out just how to do it.

"HONEY, no! Not right now! I'm sorry. I love you but go tell Cam. GO... Away... AWAY!" Angela yelled making Temperance almost laugh as she leaned against the table with her lip in her teeth. "Sweetie, this is.. This is big. You slept with Booth right? Like to make sure we're on the same page here. You got into bed with Booth and you…"

"Had sex with him." She finished her sentence this time Angela didn't stop herself from screeching and her eyes went wide to make sure no one was coming to run as she was suddenly being dragged to the couch in the room. "Angela I don't actually want to talk about it right now, I just wanted to tell you to - to."

"To talk, yes you did, I know you honey. You don't come to me about these things unless you want real insight and the only insight I have for you is that this is good. This is really good." Angela held onto her hand and Temperance smiled and nodded, she knew it was good it was just that she hated that she was happy so soon after Vincent died. "Did you two decide what this meant?"

She shook her head. "No, not yet. We'll talk though, once this is over, we'll talk." She was adamant about that, he just had to survive Broadsky first.

The team sang The Coconut Song as they placed the casket in the hearse bringing tears to Breenan's eyes as he was packed away and everyone started inside. Linking her arms with Booth she smiled at him, they still hadn't had a chance to talk but one look at him and a smile meant that they didn't really have to. They were together, no long talk was going to change that.

"Stay with me tonight?" She asked as they started inside and he nodded waiting for the door to close and they were alone to cup her cheek and lean in for a short kiss.

"Absolutely." He whispered bringing joy within her before they joined their friends to celebrate their beloved colleague once more.

They arrived at her apartment hours later and Temperance kicked off her heels and grabbed them both a beer before settling on the couch, and an awkward silence suddenly surrounded them and she had to laugh as she looked a thim.

"Sorry, I just find that I don't know what to say and that is not like me. You make me speechless." She admitted and he chuckled as he took her hand.

"Now that's a first, I'm going to have to write this down the day I made Bones speechless." He teased and she swatted at his hand before he shook his hand. "Bones, we don't have to make a big thing of this. You know that. This has been blooming for so long and now that we're here? Despite what happened with Vincent and Broadsky, I'm happy that we got here."

She felt oddly relieved by his words and moved closer to him to kiss him. "That's enough for me." Bones whispered because he was right, this wasn't a spur of the moment type of thing and while it was shocking that they got here she still had one question for him.

"When we wrote down the dates we would get together, what was the date that you wrote down?" She asked a slight smirk coming to her face because she was curious as to what he had written.

"You said you didn't believe in it, you don't believe in magic. Why do you want to know?" He smirked back at her their faces close to the other.

"I just like to win." She whispered. "If my date was closer to last night then that means that I win.

"It was never a competition, it was just dates on a napkin." He whispered back grinning. "I don't even remember what I wrote." He lied as he pecked the tip of her nose.

"I don't believe you, tell me what you wrote. I want to know." She urged laughing when the only answer she got was his lips on hers and she supposed that was enough for now.