A/N: I Still don't own Bones and this will be the last time I say it in a chapter. It is, after all, stated very clearly in the story description. I am Not Hart Hanson in disguise, I swear. Also, this chapter marks the beginning of our characters using Angela's app. So, there will be some songs. Mostly one song per chapter. I'll give credit for the songs at the end of each chapter. I have found though, that to get the full effect, it's nice to listen to the song when the song is playing in the chapter. Just sayin'. I'll shut up now. I know nobody really likes a long author's note. Happy reading. J
Dedicated to the One I Love
Chapter 2
Later that night…
Booth sat in his living room. The Phillies were playing at home and he was engrossed in the game. The 6th inning ended with a fly out to right field, and the station broke for commercial. Booth sat back on his couch with a satisfied sigh. His guys were up by 4 and he had a good beer buzz, so his night was going well.
A commercial for Sprint advertising a new text messaging plan caught his attention and made him think of the upgrade to his phone. His gaze slid from the television to the coffee table where his new Blackberry Torch was laying, silent. He considered trying the dedication feature of Angela's program. He scooped up his phone from the table and slid it open. He would send a song to Angela, just to let her know he had tried the feature. But when he accessed Angela's song bank and scrolled through, he instantly changed his mind. He sent the song to Brennan with a wistful smile. And as he was sliding the phone shut, his apartment door opened, admitting the smiling form of his new girlfriend, Hannah.
Meanwhile across town…
Angela, Jack, Brennan, and Cam sat in a booth at The Founding Fathers, toasting a job well done. Angela invited Brennan to join them and when she went to refuse Cam and Hodgins took her by the arms and hustled her out with them, insisting she needed to get out. So there they sat, drinking their chosen drinks and eating from a wide array of foods.
Brennan was surprised to find herself having a good time with her friends. Something she had not even thought possible since coming back from Maluku. She enjoyed hearing about Cam's adventures with trying to temporarily replace her most valued staff, as well as Hodgins and Angela's time in Paris. And during her friends' recounts of their seven months apart, Brennan's cell phone beeped an arrival of a text message.
She thought of leaving it, but the possibility that it could be something important was too great for her to ignore. She picked up her phone and seeing the text was from Booth, slid it to open to the keyboard and pressed the button to view her text.
"There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen.
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
Ooh, The more I get of you,
The stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the gray."
A loud gasp escaped Brennan as the song began to play. All eyes surrounding the table turned to her. "What's wrong, Bren?," Angela asked.
A/N: The song in this chapter is "Kiss From A Rose" by Seal