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Author's Notes: Sorry for the non-updatey-ness of before. But now I give you some more cliched fluff:D


BELONGING

Brennan sighed. "Booth, I do not need you to walk me into my apartment. I highly doubt that in the three feet of space between here and the door someone will attack me." Booth cocked an eyebrow.

"You never know, Bones." She rolled her eyes, inserting the key into the lock. Opening the door, she glanced at him.

"You can go now," she said. She turned to walk inside her apartment, but she stopped short, her jaw dropping. "Oh my God," she said.

"What is it?" Booth was startled, and he rushed to the doorway. He too, stopped short, but for a different reason. "Uh, Bones? What's wrong?" The apartment room was completely intact, nothing looked out of place at all. She dropped her purse in the doorway, running inside. She stood at the windowsill, placing her hand in the empty spot next to the glass dolphin that her father had left her.

"He's gone," she said quietly. Booth walked over to stand next to her.

"Who?" he asked, confused. She didn't answer. "Bones, who's gone?" She turned towards him.

"Jasper," she said. Booth frowned.

"Uh…Jasper? Who's—" But then he paused, remembering. "Wait. You mean the pig?" he said disbelievingly. She nodded. "Bones, you actually kept that pig I gave you?" She looked down, concentrating on digging her toe into the rug as far as it could go. He didn't know how much it meant to me, she thought. He looked at the windowsill. "And…and you put it next to the glass dolphin?" She nodded again, and Booth chuckled. "I can't believe you, Bones. Here you are, freaking out because you can't find a 99 cent plastic pig that I gave you. Wasn't it you who said that things were just things, and they didn't have any meaning?" Brennan looked up.

"And wasn't it you who taught me otherwise?" Booth's teasing grin faded into an understanding smile as he realized that she was right. She turned away to check on the floor for the pig, and Booth bent down and looked under the armchair. He smiled as he reached under and pulled it out.

"I think I found Jasper." Brennan sighed with relief, reaching to take it from him. He placed it in her hand and closed her fingers around it gently, keeping his hand on top of hers.

"I'm glad you kept it, Bones," he said quietly. "It means a lot to me." She smiled.

"Me too."


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