AN: Okay, here's another chapter... this is so unlike me, i'm never this productive... oh well. But 3 chapters in one day that's unheard of for me anyway... still enjoy glad you're all enjoying it so far and this chapter will definitely be enjoyable for the BB shippers of the world...
Chapter 7
"Booth, I still don't understand. How is walking around a park full of people and going on possibly unsafe contraptions that scare you considered fun?"
"It's exhilarating, like a chase"
"But we, you are involved in chases all the time and I thought you didn't like doing what you do at work while you're on vacation" Bones said attempting to understand her partner's desire to be dropped fifteen stories by a mechanical contraption.
"No Bones, I said I don't want to talk about Sweets on vacation, that's different. I don't know how to explain that but it is, now are you ready because I'd like to get there before it gets too busy... or too hot. Don't forget the camera and your bathing suit, I'm pretty sure there are water slides at Dreamworld and we are going to go on one."
"Water slides?" Bones questioned "And I don't have a bathing suit" She admitted searching through her suitcase for the camera.
"Bones" Booth groaned "We're in Australia in the middle of summer, you knew there'd be beaches why didn't you bring a bathing suit?"
"I don't have one" she replied flatly.
"Oh well... Why don't you have one? You do know how to swim don't you?" Booth asked confused staring his curvy partner up and down, it certainly couldn't be because she was embarrassed about her body, she was gorgeous.
"I can swim, but I don't, therefore I don't need a bathing suit" Brennan rationalised.
"Well you do now. Looks like we better stop off at the mall on the way" Booth called excitedly already grabbing his own board shorts and heading for the door.
"They're not called malls in Australia Booth" Brennan called after him hastily locking the door and grabbing her own gear.
Twenty minutes later Brennan found herself being led through the swimwear section of the closest department store by her attractive male partner, wondering as he pointed out several tiny two piece suits to her whether the awkwardness she felt was justified. When he held up a tiny whit string bikini against her she decided it definitely was.
"What about this one?" Brennan asked picking up a navy one piece that was clearly meant more for working out rather than for a day at the beach and although Booth was sure his partner would look amazing in it he shook his head vehemently no. Instead he piled a bunch of bathing suits in various colours and styles into his partner's arms and led her towards the change room.
"Try them on and find something you like. I'll wait here" Booth instructed.
"Booth" Brennan called a few minutes later when she turned in her underwear to grab the first suit "Are you sure this is the right size?" She asked examining the thin strips of red lycra "I don't think there's enough material here to cover anything" she added worried.
"Yeah Bones, I'm sure they're the right size. It's kinda the point you know, not to cover much" Booth grinned "If you need a second opinion, just ask"
"I thought you were supposed to leave it to the imagination" Brennan called back sliding the bikini bottoms over her tone legs "And Booth, I'm not coming out there, I know you just want to stare at me, I already know you find me sexually attractive"
"I'm going to see it later anyway, what difference does it make?" Booth asked as she clipped the tiny top at the back and hooked it over her head, a conversation with Angela less than two weeks earlier suddenly coming back to her. She wondered if Booth kissing her counted the same as her kissing him but decided that semantically it definitely didn't and a repeat of that action was probably unwise. That aside, she realised she only had one option to fulfil her promise to Angela and that was to dazzle him in a bathing suit. She groaned inwardly pulling the second of Booth's choices off of the hanger without having examined the first.
Once again she slid the bottom section of the bikini up her legs until it rested snugly on her hips before picking up the top noticing that instead of clasps this suit had ties, two of them at the back. Against her better judgement she called out her partner's name, holding the material over her bare breasts as best she could.
"Could you just, um, I need a hand tying this" She admitted stuttering and gesturing to the green material hanging down at her sides. Booth couldn't help but ogle his partner's bare back, her shoulder blades sticking out just a little, her skin pale and almost perfectly toned before he gingerly took the emerald piping between his fingers and lifted it crossing one side over the other and pulling it tight against her back before taking a deep breath and holding it still while he pulled the material into a bow. All the while aware that his partner was watching him closely in the mirror. When he looked up the bathing suit secured over his partner's breasts, not that he would have minded if it weren't, their eyes met in the glass. She was smiling and Booth couldn't help but smile back as he took in the full effect, his partner clad only in the green bikini which displayed the curves that he seemed to spend all his time dreaming about; while he stood only a few inches behind her their bodies almost touching.
"Bones? That no kissing rule... just how important is it to you that we keep it?" Booth asked huskily his voice tickling her ear.
"Very. Why?" she asked curious.
"Because I would very much like to kiss you right now" Booth admitted.
Brennan breathed in sharply at his words "Oh" Angela had been right.
"You like the suit then?" she added once her brain began to function again.
"Watch out Australia, there's a new Queen of the Beach" Booth whistled.
"I don't know what that means"
"It means you look hot" Booth clarified grinning.
"I'm not hot; the air-conditioning in this facility is quite effective." Brennan informed her partner.
"No Bones, it means that you look so good every guy that sees you is going to want to have you, and every woman is going to want to be you"
"Oh, you really like the suit" Bones said grinning as she finally comprehended her partner's strange words "Why didn't you just say that?" Booth grinned and turned to leave the change room there was no use trying to explain.
"C'mon Bones, let's get your suit and go have us some fun"