Booth leaned against the doorway of his partner's office, watching her rapidly typing on her keyboard. He had something he felt he needed to tell her, and figured that the Brennan approach – straight to the point – would be the most effective, rather than wasting time trying to beat around the bush.
"You know, Bones, this moving on thing isn't really working out so well for me." The sound of his voice, surprisingly light in tone for something that had so much capacity to cause her to run, caused her head to automatically snap up to meet eyes with her partner.
"What?"
Taking this as an invitation to continue, he fully entered the room and sat down on a chair in front of her. "I don't know what I was thinking, anyway. I mean, how could I?" He laughed humorlessly. "You're all it's ever been for me." He finished, leaning back in his seat.
Flashing her eyes down to her hands, now folded in her lap, she took a deep breath and let it out. She took another. It did nothing to clear the thoughts now jumbled in her head, nothing to clear the lump from her throat or the sudden flare of excitement. Deciding to just push past it, she finally met his eyes. "I'm sorry." No matter how insignificant the words seemed, it was all she could give him; all she had to offer.
He knew she was telling the truth, she wasn't any good at lying. He adverted his eyes, wet his lips, and bit on the bottom one as he slowly nodded his head. "Alright. Just, uh, thought I'd let you know." Glancing up in time to see her nod, he straightened up to leave – he knew his lunch break was almost over. "I'll just be going then." He pushed himself off of the chair and left.
Thank you so much for the reviews! They made my day (: So I've had more time to write lately, with school starting (which, I understand, makes absolutely no sense. Just deal.) so I'll probably be posting again soon. So please review (:
-Oh, and this was written like, less than a week after watching the 100th episode, in case anyone needed any timeline there.