Later that night as the sky was a dark blue Tempe sat in a chair on the balcony with a cup of coffee watching the light yellow flames of a fire burn in the distance. A small fire had been started earlier that day over the other side of the mountain near Lahaina and the flames were big and bright capturing the most perfect picture ever.

"Do you like fire?" Booth asked sarcastically walking onto the balcony and then closed the door to keep the cool air in.

"I think it looks beautiful. The bright colors against the dark sky." She said softly watching the flames move higher up the mountain.

"I think it looks dangerous, peoples houses might burn. It's been burning over three hours now and I haven't even seen anybody try to stop it."

"Up there is dry vegetation, homes are far from the fire, it poses no threat, they feel its best to let itself burn out."

"Hear that from the news did we?" Booth asked smiling over to her.

"I was watching it for a few minutes while you were in the shower and I was making the coffee."

A small silence filled them as they continued to watch the flames dance. Finally after a small amount of time passed, Tempe made her way back into the apartment room, Booth behind her the whole time. Making her way to the couch, Tempe took a small seat and picked up the remote to any channel she would find interesting. Booth made his way next to her and took the side of the couch to her side, once comfortably seated, Tempe automatically rested her head on chest as she lay next to him, his arm wrapped around her shoulder and held her close.

Early the next morning the sun poking in through the open glass window woke Tempe up and as she moved to find a more comfortable position she found it pointless. Opening her eyes she found herself on the couch, the news on the TV and Booth beneath her. Lifting her head she took in her surroundings more, then got up to take a shower, however was stopped by something pulling her back.

"Stay." Booth whispered looking up to her.

"I have to shower and change." She mumbled knowing if she sat back down she may not get back up.

"Why? We're in Maui; we have no place to go and nothing to do, just stay a little while longer."

"fine." She mumbled crawling back onto the couch and back to his side where she closed her eyes and relaxed as he massaged her arm. She was too tired to fight him off and just wanted to relax, as she lay in his arms watching the news she began to feel more comfort and soon found herself falling into a sleep as his fingers massaged her right arm.

A few hours later Tempe opened her eyes for the second time that day and found herself back on Booth's side. As she lay in his arms she could feel his steady breathing every few seconds and found the movement comforting, again she found herself drifting into a small sleep, but awoke quickly to the sound of her phone going off on the table next to her. Making a small jump off of Booth's side she reached over to the phone, but failed as Booth grabbed it before her and answered it.

"Booth." He said groggily. "Is this about the case?" Booth asked becoming more conscious, his question confused Tempe. There was a small silence followed by Booth speaking again. "Well she's asleep right now, long night, can I have her call you back when she wakes up? Ok great thanks, bye Angela."

"That was Angela?" Tempe asked trying to take the phone from him. She knew the question was stupid the second she said it.

"Of course, but don't worry it's not about the case. So you can call her back later." He said calmly then grabbed the remote to turn the TV volume up.

"What she must be thinking right now." Tempe said growing worried, for all she new her best friend thought she was having sex with her partner.

"Who cares what she's thinking? We're supposed to be married, and you're supposed to be pregnant, whatever she thinks has got to be good in some way." Booth said reminding her about the case and what they were trying to do.

"Right, well...I better get showered and dressed." She said getting up and walking towards the shower. "What are we going to do today anyways?"

"I'm not sure, it's almost one in the afternoon and there's not really much to do this late in the day. Maybe we should go to the beach."

"Again?" Tempe called from inside their room.

"Why not? Nothing better to do, tomorrow we'll go on Hana Highway, alright?"

"Fine, but I'm not so sure what could be exciting about a highway."

It was later that day after visiting the beach that they arrived back to their room; however, before Tempe could walk in, Booth picked her up in his arms and carried her in.

"What the hell are you doing?" she all but screamed as she kicked him to put her down. He had come up behind her and completely caught her off guard, kicking seemed the logical thing to do at the time, however, proved to be useless.

"What? Can't I just carry my wife over the threshold? I never got to do it before." He said smiling and gently placing her feet to the ground.

"Do you know why men carry their wives over the threshold?" she asked making her way into the kitchen to make them sandwiches.

"No, but something tells me I'm about to find out." He said sarcastically following her into the kitchen to help out.

"It started back in the old times back when marriages were arranged." She started out, and then was interrupted by Booth.

"Just give me the short version."

"Well basically men used to carry the woman over the threshold for fear she would runaway from him, by carrying her in and closing the door he blocked her only exit and prevented her from running away."

"Very interesting." He said half interested. "All I know is it's a tradition and I want you to know you're not running away."

"It's just the Alpha male part of you speaking, though I really don't see why, we're just friends. You have no reason to show such ridiculous behavior to me, I mean it's not like you're trying to win my heart or anything, plus if you were you'd know enough about me to know that just doesn't really work for me."

Booth looked over to Tempe as she placed sandwiches and chips on the table while he grabbed a few drinks. As they ate he watched her and wondered what had caused her to babble on about how he would know enough to impress her? He began to think that somewhere along the line of the case she had finally lost it. Him? Attracted to her? It was the funniest thing he had ever thought of, but the more he thought of it the more he began to rethink everything. Sure he liked her, but she was like a sister to him, a very cute sister, but still a sister. One he was willing to protect with his life no matter what. that was something he tried to tell himself daily, the truth was he wanted her, and not in a sisterly kind of way either.

Tempe looked over to Booth and gave him a small smile, she needed to think of something, anything to keep her mind off of him, and lately that was becoming more of a daily problem. She constantly found herself thinking of him when she had more important things to worry about. Giving him a small smile she looked over to the balcony and out to the burning mountain and wondered just how long it would take for the flames to burn out naturally.

Please R&R. thanks for all your support. Ok when I was in Maui there was this fire, a big one so I'm just fitting it into the story, also does anybody sense some form of bond between the two? Anybody? Sorry, but I'm a little high on SUGAR, gotta love it, PLEASE R&R!

By the way this is just something I felt I should share with you guys, OMG it's funny as hell. Ok I was home today watching some TV and this commercial came on for Carl's Jr. it was about this guy cleaning out his car with a vacuum and sucked up a buffalo chicken bone. Then the TV spokesman said, "unless your name is 'Rover' you shouldn't' be digging for Bones." HA OMG I laughed so hard, anyways that was just something I felt I should share, it was priceless to me. By the way that little commercial thing is so not mine it belongs to Carl's Jr. I just thought I'd share it.