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Booth slapped Brennen's hand. "Bones, don't touch my radio."
"But I'm tired of this music it's annoying and unstructured."
"It's called Van Halen, Bones. Classic."
"It's called noise." Brennen was slightly irritated, she did not like Booth to give her orders like that. She reached out to change the station again. Booth reached out to stop her and in the struggle the station changed, and the speakers began to play 'Hot Blooded' by Foreigner.
Booth scrambled to change the station, turn off the radio, anything to end that song. He finally hit the right button and set back in his seat, relieved.
Brennen felt a little guilty, she noticed how a look of something like panic had washed over Booth's face when the song started playing, but she couldn't stop the swell made in her stomach by hearing her favorite song. The song she and Russ used to sing in the car on the way to school. The song she and Booth had sung, playing air guitar and goofing off in her apartment. The song that had been playing in her head as the paramedics loaded Booth into the back of an ambulance, with the possibility that he would never make it to the hospital alive lingering in the air.
A song she no longer liked very much.
Booth relished in the silence Foreigner had left in his SUV. He didn't want to think of what that song meant to him. How easy it would have been for Bones to have been the one who got blown across the room from an exploding refrigerator. And he couldn't push the memory of her staring, terrified, down the barrel of a gun that he might as well have been aiming at her in that warehouse. God, if something had happened to Bones, he would never be able to forgive himself.
Bones looked over at Booth, staring dutifully down the road.
"You okay?" She asked, not sure if she was referring to the pained expression on his face or the fact that she now knew his muscular body had taken so many physical beatings over the years.
Booth looked at her for a moment, "Yeah Bones, I'm fine."
Someone mentioned they wished the chapters were longer, I hadn't realized they were so short, so from now on i'll post two at a time.