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Booth struggled to answer honestly without being too revealing.

"We're undefined." "It's what makes us so special," Booth answered smiling.

Just then the waitress showed up with their meals.

Brennan ate slowly; she was speculating about Booth. Something seemed to flash in his eyes when she asked about their relationship, but she couldn't figure out exactly what it was. She was wondering if things would fall back into place once she returned to work. She certainly hoped so.

"So, Bones…"

"When can I return to work, Booth?" Brennan cut him off.

Booth was slightly disappointed; he had hoped this day could have just been about them. Nevertheless, he told her:

"Don't worry after this week is over you'll be right back in the field."

"And what, may I ask, is the rationale behind me waiting an entire week to return to my work; I'm perfectly fine Booth," argued Brennan.

Booth opened his mouth to spout a retort about the rationale having a little something to do with her brain tumor, but then something stopped him dead in his tracks.

Brennan had finished her meal and was slowly transporting a warm piece of apple pie from her fork to her mouth. Booth watched intently.

"Mmmm," she said.

"This is really very good," she said forgetting about her previous annoyance concerning the work issue.

"You know, it's funny, I never used to like my fruit cooked when I was younger." "I guess it must have been your influence," she continued.

Booth snickered, "Right, um yeah it was."

"So listen, Bones, Parker has a day off school today, so I was going to go pick him up; the circus is in town."

"Oh, that should be nice," said Brennan, slightly disappointed to hear Booth had to go.

"Well, you'll come with us won't you?" "Parker specifically asked for you to be there," Booth told her.

"I wouldn't want to intrude on your time with your son…"

"Bones, you never intrude, Parker loves you, I lo…"

Wow that was a close one; Booth was a millimeter away from telling Brennan that he loved her; what was wrong with him? Telling her something like that, even by mistake would most likely send her running for the hills. Still he needed a plan. He would have to tell her how he felt at some point, without risking the possibility of scaring her off.

"We want you there," he threw in quickly.

Booth was so lost in thought he almost didn't hear Brennan's answer.

"Okay, sounds great," said Brennan.

"Cool" said Booth "Let's get a move on."

"Bye, have a nice day!" their waitress told them.

"Thank you!" "Loved the pie," she answered.

The waitress stared after Dr. Temperance Brennan dumbfounded.

As long as the couple had been coming there they had the same argument every time. Agent Booth would order a piece of pie and incessantly try to persuade his partner to do the same. She refused every time, except this time. Did this mean they were finally a couple? She had thought they were when they first met, but when she casually mentioned it, they vehemently denied it.

"Still…there was definitely something there," she mused.

They got in Booth's SUV and were on their way to pick up Parker. Most of the ride they spent in pensive silence. So much had happened in the last couple of days; it was a lot to take in.

Brennan drifted off to sleep in the somewhat lengthy car ride. She began dreaming about the part of her coma dream where she and Booth were married happily with a baby on the way.

She looked up into the eyes of her loving husband.

"I'm so happy," he told her.

She leaned in carefully and pressed the softest kiss to his lips.

Then she suddenly realized something was wrong. His face was confused; he pulled away.

"Bones?"

Brennan was disoriented for several minutes. Different flashes of Booth flashed in her mind. He was in a coma; she was devastated. They were married; she was the happiest she had ever been. She saw his face as the taxi drove away; she was lost and confused; she ran. Then there was Hannah; Brennan felt a knife twist in her stomach.

"I'm sorry," she whimpered.

"Bones!"

"Bones!"

"Are you okay?" he asked desperately.

His voice pulled Brennan out of her daze.

She looked around carefully to see she was in Rebecca's driveway. They were picking up Parker, she remembered.

"Bones?"

"I'm okay," she said sitting up

Booth looked at her doubtfully.

"Maybe we should take you to the hospital," Booth said.

"Booth, I'm fine." "Let's go get Parker," she said.

They got out of the car.

Brennan still had no idea what just occurred.

Booth could not believe what had just happened. Brennan kissed him? If he wasn't so worried about her, this might have very well been the best day of his life.

Parker saw the partners making their way up the driveway. He bounded out the front door.

"Daddy!" he screamed.

"Bones!" he leaped into the startled woman's arms.

"Dad said you were sick, are you okay?" he asked inspecting her.

Brennan laughed. "Like father like son," she thought.

"Yes, I'm doing quite well, thank you for asking," she said ruffling Parker's hair.

"Well I'm gonna run in and tell Rebecca the plans for today," said Booth.

Booth walked inside to find Rebecca sitting on the couch looking out of the window. Brennan and Parker were laughing hysterically in the midst of a full on tickle war.

"She's good with him Seel," said Rebecca.

"Huh?" said Booth distractedly; he was still looking at Brennan.

"Dr. Brennan, she's good with him."

"She really is, isn't she?"

Rebecca rolled her eyes and then scrutinized him carefully.

"You're really in love with her aren't you." She didn't say it as a question.

Booth ignored her, "We're going to the circus; I'll have him back by dinner."

He turned to leave.

"Make it happen, Seeley," she said.

Booth spun around.

"You're the one always talking about that "perfect moment.""

Rebecca looked confused.

"You remember, you told Bones, that you and I missed our moment," he explained.

"Well if that's true, Bones and I missed our moment several times over," he continued

"Yeah, about that I'm beginning to think we make our own moments in this world," she said.

Right on cue Brent appeared behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

Apparently they had gotten back together. That was nice, Rebecca deserved a good guy.

Booth smiled at them. "Have a good one," he said.

Booth walked out to Brennan and Parker.

"Finally," Parker whined.

Brennan laughed and they all got in the car.

They played I spy most of the way there.

When they finally arrived Brennan smiled.

"Remember the last time we were at the circus?" she grinned.

"Yes, and I could have killed you with those knives," Booth replied.

"I trusted you," Brennan smiled.

They stared at each other for a few long minutes.

"Guys, can we get cotton candy?" "Please?" begged Parker.

"Alright," said Booth tearing his eyes away from Brennan.

"Are you guys dating like mom and Brent," Parker asked Brennan once Booth had left to go purchase the sweet treat.

"No, of course not, why do you ask?"

"I saw you guys kissing on the driveway," shrugged Parker.

"You saw us what?" Brennan asked entirely startled and confused.

"Kiss." Said Parker

Brennan's mind raced. She thought about falling asleep in the car. She was dreaming, dreaming about Booth. He was her husband; she had kissed him; it had felt so real.

That's because it was real, Brennan concluded utterly flabbergasted.