Disclaimer: If I owned Bones, it'd be on tonight. I do understand and agree with their reasons for not airing it, though. Weird that this same thing happened with David on BtVS, in 'Earshot'. :p

Author's Notes: This one is short, and cute, and fun. :D


SMILE TIME

"Please, Bones?" Booth's tone was desperate. "Come on. Please. You can't do that. Please?" He was begging now. Brennan stared at him.

"Booth, I'm busy. No. More than busy. I'm completely…" She gestured around herself. "…busy," she finished anticlimactically. "I have a ton of paperwork to fill out, I'm bogged down for the night, Zach needs field experience…I don't see what the problem is."

"The problem? You don't see the problem?" Booth was dumbfounded. "The problem. The problem with assigning Zach as my forensic anthropologist? You wanna rethink that, Bones?" Brennan blinked.

"Not really, no." Booth groaned.

"Bones, please. Please. Don't make me do this." Brennan frowned.

"Do what?" Booth cocked an eyebrow.

"You know what."

"What?" Brennan paused as she came to a realization. "Oh…That?" Booth tilted his head.

"Considering rethinking it now?" Brennan paused, pretending to think about it.

"Nope," said Brennan. Booth groaned.

"You hate me," he said. Brennan looked at him, confused.

"What?"

"You hate me," Booth repeated.

"Booth, that's a completely illogical and irrational conclusion to come to from the fact that I'm busy and I have to assign someone else to this case—someone who, I might add, is just as qualified as me to work this case."

"You hate me, and you would like nothing more than to see me suffer for all eternity at the hands of your grad-student-turned-forensic-anthropologist."

"I'm sorry, Booth," said Brennan, turning back to the work on her desk.

"Bones, that threat I made before still stands."

"Go ahead then," Brennan said. "You know your charm smile has no effect on me." Booth raised his eyebrows.

"No?"

"No."

"Not even one bit?"

"Nope." She met his gaze defiantly, daring him to try it.

"Come on, please?" he said, offering the best charm smile that he could. Brennan couldn't stop herself from laughing at how ridiculous he looked.

"Fine," said Brennan, sighing. "But—" she began, upon seeing Booth's triumphant look. "—only to save yourself from further embarrassment in front of me."

"Yeah, yeah," said Booth. "Let's go. Paperwork can wait till tomorrow."

"Agreed." She stood up from her chair, walking around to the other side of her desk.

"That's my Bones," said Booth.


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