Here's the next chapter.

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Thinking back to earlier in the day, the smile on Tempe's face grew wider. The whole bus trip home she had been anxious; anxious to be home already. Sitting in the seats behind Jack and Anthony, she was reduced to have to listen to Anthony's regular monotone the entire drive, as Angela and Hodgins were too in love to do anything but hold hands on the windowsill between the two seats. The blessed feeling of seeing her school as they rounded the corner, was one that not many teenagers would experience. Everyone had already begun to leave and Tempe could not see Booth anywhere. That was until she left the car park and saw his beaming face from across the road.

The walk home was extended when Booth tugged her by her hand and detoured through a small park. The moment they were off the main road and in the privacy of the park, Booth leant down and captured Tempe's lips with his. She soon found herself with her back up against a tree, the scene feeling very much like de ja vu; if such a thing even existed.

"You're not going to tease me again, are you?" Tempe asked as he gazed down at her.

"Temperance," he began, brushing his thumb lightly over her cheek, "I haven't seen you in over two weeks. There is no chance of that happening." And then his lips were on hers again.

The sweet touch of his lips moving against hers was something she truly had missed.

There wasn't much talking on the way home, the pair sneaking kisses in behind fences and trees. She had not had many 'reunions', as such, but this had to be the sweetest of them all.

"I really did miss you," Booth whispered lightly in her ear, before pressing his lips to her temple and leaving her on her doorstep; aching for more.

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"Hey, Dad," Tempe called, "I'm back."

Max got up from his seat on the couch to hug Tempe, before sitting down at the table next to her.

"How was camp? I thought the bus was getting back at eleven?" Max asked, making Tempe look to the clock above the stove to see the time was 12:47.

"Oh, the bus was late. We had to detour," she quickly covered up. It wasn't entirely a lie; the bus was supposed to get back at 11:00 but arrived at 11:09, making it late. Also she had made a detour of sorts. "Camp was good. Really fun. How about here?"

"Same old," Max said shrugging, then got up as if he suddenly remembered something. "You got a call from a... Jared Booth, asking if when you get back, you could help him with his maths again." Max finished reading the note off of a notepad and put it down on the bench. "Guessing you got over Seeley, then? Good for you, hun."

Appalled that her Dad would say such a thing, she replied, "no, I haven't. Jared happens to be Seeley's brother, who I helped with some difficult homework the last time I was over at their house. What is it that you have against him, Dad? He is nothing but polite to you."

Going a little red in the face, Max huffed, "oh, sorry. Nothing, I have nothing against him. He's just... a little old."

"He is not too old for me, Dad," Tempe said, raising her voice just a tad. "I'm going to have a lie down."

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Furious at Max, Tempe didn't want to be around him any more than she needed to be. She'd quickly fixed up a sandwich and gone up to her room. She hadn't come out for dinner, answering that 'I'm not hungry' when Max had knocked on her door at 6:30.

It was getting on midnight, when the growls in her stomach became prominent enough to go down to the kitchen and make up for her missed dinner. Quietly opening her door and avoiding the two creaky stairs, she got to the kitchen without disturbing anyone. She looked through the pantry and the fridge until she'd found leftover macaroni and cheese that she then heated up in the microwave. Sitting on the lounge in the family room, her legs tucked beneath her, Tempe turned on the lamp beside her and began to feed her rumbling stomach.

It had been about fifteen minutes and her bowl was pretty much empty, when she heard it.

The snapping of a stick or a branch around the side of her house. She sat silently, not moving, wondering if she had imagined the noise. She waited for another few minutes, and heard nothing, and so began to eat again. Then she heard it again; much, much closer than the first. Reaching over quickly to the lamp, she clicked it off, leaving her in darkness, though that just amplified the fear that crept upon her. In this new found darkness, the sound of crunching on fallen autumn leaves was more pronounced.

It was silent then for quite a while, though Tempe refused to turn the light back on, too afraid to move. It seemed like she'd sat there for hours, waiting until the coast was clear, when she heard the scraping of something metal against window. She froze completely then, shutting her eyes violently, a single tear rolling down her cheek. She wanted to get up, to get Max, or Russ, but her fear had paralysed her. She was glued to the spot, in complete darkness, the sounds of a human moving around outside the window echoing in her ears at an ear-piercing volume.

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I realised when writing this chapter, that I hadn't left you guys on a cliff hanger yet. So, I wrote this.

New Bones episode, so good, totally hilarious.

Back to school tomorrow; back to early mornings :(

Please review and let me know what you think.

Em xXxXxxx