Okay, here's the next chap. thanks for all the wonderful reviews, good to know people are still into this after such a long time.

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God I missed him. I missed his hair and his cologne and his hands and his lips and and his clothes and his eyes…

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Booth and Brennan stood just outside his apartment door while April, now crying and laughing, peppered Tommy's face with kisses.

"She sure is happy to see him." Booth muttered, glaring in Tommy's direction. But he couldn't help but be a little happy, April seemed overjoyed to see the boy.

Brennan nodded, her eyes glazed with tears she was too strong to shed.

"He's the light in her heart."

Booth looked at her and she blushed slightly when he caught her gaze.

"I know I know, poetic. What can I say? You're a bad influence on me."

Booth only smiled, wrapping his arm tighter around her shoulders. They watched while Tommy and April bid farewell to the other boys who gathered their equipment and shoved it into a beat up Chevy parked down the street.

The neighbors were beginning to close their windows and move back inside their apartments, but April and Tommy still stood in the middle of the street, kissing and hugging as if they hadn't seen each other in years.

Brennan sensed Booth becoming stiff beside her and she glanced over at him.

Rolling her eyes, she took his hand.

"Let's give them some privacy." You overprotective alpha.

Booth remained motionless. "Why? It's not like they know we're here."

"Because that's what they need." She replied, tugging on his hand, pulling him inside. "C'mon Booth. Leave them alone for a minute. They missed each other."

"I can see that." He grumbled, reluctantly following her inside.

Brennan smiled and challenged him to a race upstairs, which she gave herself a head start on.

"Hey! Cheater!"
They were so involved in their race, they didn't hear a junker Toyota pull away from the curb outside.

April pulled away from the kiss, breathless and grinning like she won the lottery. And frankly, she thought she had when it came to Tommy.

"God, baby I missed you." He breathed in her ear, holding her close on the now empty street.

She laughed lightly and it set his stomach to fluttering. "Gee, I couldn't tell." She gasped as he began placing light kisses along her jaw and throat and suddenly realized they were still in the street.

"Um…" She pulled out of his reach and smiled shyly. "We're kind of…"

Tommy glanced around and then nodded, running a hand through his short hair, his shaggy brown locks had been the first thing to go at military school..

"What do you say we get out of here then?"

"How? I haven't got a car."

A devilish gleam erupted in Tommy's eyes as he pulled a key from his pocket.

"Chris is letting me borrow his Toyota."

April's face lit up and she snatched the keys from his hand.

"Thank you Chris!...I'm driving!"

Brennan was stretched out on the couch, gasping and biting her lip as he tortured her slowly, pleasure she was sure she'd never get used to coursed through her veins.

She couldn't help the small whimper that left her when he suddenly stopped.

"What is it?" She asked when she opened her eyes and saw the concentrated look on his face.

"Doesn't it seem like they've been out there a long time?"

She stopped and thought back. How long had they been making out on the couch? Now that she thought about it, it did seem like a while since their impromptu race had turned to foreplay…though they'd been sure not to get too heated since a pair of teenagers could come through the door at any moment.

"It does seem like it's been a while."

At that he bolted off the couch and went to the window. When he turned back around she was fixing her hair and straightening her shirt. She stopped though, at the look of fear on his face.

"They're gone."

Duh Duh Duuuuuhhhh...you didn't think the Angst train had left for good...did you?