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A/N: I want to thank all my reviewers again. And to anyone who didn't get a reply yet, I'll be sending those out ASAP.

A/N 2: This isn't as fluffy as I thought it would be, but there is more fluff to come!

After returning the rental shoes and placing her own back on her feet, Dr. Temperance Brennan moved swiftly out of the bowling alley and across the parking lot, leaving Booth to jog after her.

"Bones where are you going? Slow down!"

"I'm going to your car to pick up my copy of the file for the case we closed yesterday, you promised to bring it with you tonight. Did you forget?"

"What? No. Bones. Stop."

Slowing her pace, she turned and allowed him to catch up with her.

"Aren't you forgetting something Bones?"

Brennan quickly checked to make sure that she had everything, keys, purse, and coat. When she doesn't find anything missing, she looks up at Booth with a questioning glance.

"No Bones, I meant the bet."

"Oh, no. I didn't forget. You simply didn't specify when I had to fulfill my end of the bargain. You said that if you won, I would owe you a kiss. There was nothing that implied the time frame under which I was operating. By the way Booth where is your car parked?"

"I…I – it's in the shop. I have a rental, it's right here. But Bones, we had a deal! I won, and it is tradition that the winner gets payment, and right away I might add." I cannot believe this…how does she always manage to poke logical loopholes in everything!

"I am not aware of any such tradition, Booth. You never said when I had to hold up my end, only that I had to. Now if you'd unlock your car, I'd like to get the file and go home. The next deadline for my book is in two days and I'd like to finish another few chapters tonight."

Stepping around her, Booth unlocked the rental car and grabbed the file off the passenger's seat. Handing it to her, he got back in to start the heat and warm up the car.

Once, twice, three tries. No luck, the car wouldn't start.

"Hey, Bones before you go, do you think you could give me a jump. My battery's dead."

"Sure, Booth."

As she strode across the parking lot to get her car, Booth opened his trunk in search of the jumper cables. When he didn't find any in the trunk he checked the backseat and the glove compartment, but at no avail.

"Hey Bones, you want to get the cables in your trunk?"

"I don't have them."

"What do you mean you don't have them? Why wouldn't you?"

"Because I don't. Why don't you?"

"Because Bones, this is a rental car and the company didn't leave any in the trunk. You on the other hand have your own car. Why don't you have any in your trunk? That's very dangerous. What if you had a dead battery and you needed a jump? What would you do, huh Bones?"

"Well, I suppose I'd call you to come get me. Or maybe Angela."

"That's just great Bones. You'd call me. Well, now what am I going to do?" She'd call me?

"I'll give you a ride home. Tomorrow, I'll pick you up and we can bring some cables and jump the car."

xXx

The ride to Booth's was silent as both partners were lost deep in their own thoughts.

Booth couldn't believe the stunt she'd pulled with the bet, or that she didn't have jumper cables in her car. But the thought that most occupied his brain was that she, Temperance Brennan would call him to come get her if her car broke down.

On the other side of the car, Brennan was wondering why on earth Booth would ask for a kiss if he beat her in bowling. Sure she'd fantasized about kissing him, but he couldn't feel that way about her. She wasn't his type; she wasn't tall, leggy, or blond. Was this a joke? Did Angela put him up to it?

xXx

The car pulled up to Booth's house, both of them still in thinking about everything that had happened that night. And neither one quite wanting to say goodnight, not yet.

After a few moments, Booth turned to face Brennan.

"Would you like to come in for a drink?"

A/N: Once again, I'd like to say that this story isn't done yet. It just keeps getting longer and longer, and at this point I'm really not sure how many chapters it will end up being. As long as people like it I will try to let the story tell itself. As for the next chapter, I hope to have it up Thursday or so but then again I had no idea this chapter would be up so soon.

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