Mini shortie chapter...its happy though...:))))
Booth felt himself holding his breath as the silence on the other end seemed all too long. He could hear her taking a deep breath, as moving the phone from one shoulder to the other. He knew that's what she did when she didn't know what to say.
Brennan ran a hand roughly through her hair, licking her lips since they seemed to have become incredibly dry in the seconds that the phone had been silent.
"I thought that I was doing the right thing Booth by giving us some space. But I was wrong. It wasn't your fault that I was afraid of our relationship and how fast it was going."
She stopped, and Booth waited for her to continue. He wasn't sure where this was going or if he wanted to hear it if she was going to tell him that they were done.
Just as Brennan began to speak again, Booth interrupted her. "Bones, listen I have to say something first. Before you say anything else."
She nodded, but Booth just heard the silence. "Is that ok?"
Smiling to spite the seriousness of the moment, "I was nodding."
"Of course you were." She heard the smile in his voice, and wished that he was standing here with her. It felt wrong that he wasn't.
"Bones, I can't loose you. Not again. So no matter how hard it is, or how much space we need, I'm still going to be there. I need to be there."
She smiled, running her hand over the almost rusted railing of the fire escape. "I need you to be there too Booth."
She bit her lip, and sighed. "I shouldn't have pushed you away. I just…everything was going so fast, and I felt like it was going to be yanked out from under me again."
Booth hated himself all over again for the mistakes he had made involving the scientist. He seemed to make the most around her. And the most deadly.
"You have to understand something. When I went to New York, it wasn't like I was choosing Parker over you. It wasn't like I chose a different life over the one I had with you. That you weren't good enough, because you were Bones. You are."
Despite her resolution not to let herself cry, she wiped away the tears that were springing out of her eyes furiously.
"I want to be with you Booth. I never changed my mind. It just seemed logical….it seemed logical to make sure that you wanted to be with me too." He could hear the tears in her voice.
"Hey, don't cry Bones. You know I want you, more than anything. You just have to let me show it sometime, ok?"
She nodded again, wiping away the tears. "Ok."
"Now can I come over, or is that not enough space for you?"
She laughed, although she could think of nothing more she would like then to see his face. "Its 1 in the morning Booth."
"Less traffic, it's a plus."
"If you're not here in 20 minutes I'm going back to sleep."
She could hear the grin in his voice. "I'll be there in 10." The phone clicked off, and Brennan put it down on the fire escape, relieved that she hadn't totally screwed things up. This time.
She sat out there, just watching the empty streets. It was peaceful in DC at night. There were no murders. No taxis honking. The sound of breaking glass and gang fights died down at around midnight, and the soft lull of the cars in the distance was the only sound.
The knock on her door broke the silence, and she hurried to the door, opening it without hesitations. She threw herself into his arms, burying her head into his shoulder, as she felt his strong arms snake themselves around her body, pulling her close to him, letting the curves of their bodies compliment one another.
They stood there for what seemed like forever. He breathed her in, the distance that had been between them seemed like a nightmare ago. All that mattered was that they were there.
And what they say….absence makes the heart grow fonder.
:)))))...its fixed...