Chapter Three - The day after.

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It was the day after and Temperance hadn't been able to focus at her job the whole morning.

Hours later, she's begun to relax. With her eyes at some papers she was carrying, Temperance didn't see Booth coming towards her until it was too late. She walked right into him, dropping everything she was holding as she desperately tried to regain her balance.

He tried to catch her, but it resulted in both of them falling to the floor, Booth on top.

"Hi there Bones," Booth sounded surprisingly nervous.

Temperance swallowed hard. She needed to get Booth off her before she'd do something crazy. Gosh, why wasn't he moving? And why did he have that smile on his lips?

She felt both relieved and disappointed as Booth got away from her. With the papers hastily gathered, Temperance turned and walked back in the direction she came from. Booth calling her name stopped her.

"Booth I uh… I can't… I have to work…" Instead of continuing, Temperance just stared at him. Booth looked extremely nervous.

"Bones? Hello?"

"Sorry," Temperance blushed, looking down. When she looked back up, she found him stare at her instead.

"Do we... have a case?"

Booth shook his head. "I wanted to… I came to… uh… see you…"

There was a long silence.

"Did you mean it?" Temperance.

"What?"

"What you wrote?"

Booth nodded a yes. "Did you?"

"Yes…"

"Uhm, maybe we should…" Booth started but was cut off.

"I don't know… is that really a good idea… I mean we…"

"What are you talking about?" Booth interrupted. Temperance looked confused.

"What were you talking about?"

Booth shifted, trying to find anything to focus at. "I was going to say that maybe we should uhm… forget about all that…"

"Oh…okay…"

Booth looked at her, shocked to realize she looked extremely disappointed.

"What were you talking about?"

Temperance shrugged it off, hoping Booth would forget everything. She glanced at Booth. He was staring at something on the wall, once in a while running his fingers through his hair.

She was studying the floor, fixing her lab coat for about the tenth time. None of them said a word.

Finally Booth looked up. "For god's sake Bones, who are we trying to fool?" he walked closer to her.

Temperance shivered, eying him. Just as he was about to grab her, she jumped backwards, mumbling something about having to work. Booth nodded, turned to leave.

"Booth wait!"

He came back. Temperance took his hand, but let go of it just as quick.

Booth hesitated, then grabbed her and pulled her close. He pressed his lips against hers, kissing her. "I know you want this as much as I do," he murmured between kisses. And he was right.

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TBC.

Authors Note: Hope you liked reading this chapter as much as I liked writing it.

My friend has managed to talk me into going to a new year's party, so I'll be away for a couple of days…
but I'll post the next chapter when I get back, the next chapter will probably be the last…

Happy new year, everyone!