Wow! Sorry it's been almost two weeks since I've posted anything. I hope you all can forgive me? This story contains MAJOR SPOILERS! I'm sure it wont go this way in the show, but the concept and the character names are right as far as my sources say. So I hope you enjoy this Chapter!? Its a little longer this time because I felt bad for making you all wait so long, not only that, I get carried away with BB. ;D

Chapter: 9

Accidents and Promises;

It had been well over a week now since Booth was released from the hospital. Two days in that place was good enough for him, he hated not being able to go to work. Most of all he thought he would hate not being able to see Bones, but he did. She was great, she stayed with him and kept him company and told him about the new case they were working on. Apparently a group of eight-graders on a fieldtrip found a dead body. It was a woman dressed in some type of dress, medieval wear of some kind? They were still trying to figure things out but were getting ahead fairly well on the case.

Booth not only hated the pain, well discomfort he was still in, but what he hated more was the fact that he was still on just desk duty. They brought Agent Perotta back for this particular case to help Bones and the rest of the squints out. They didn't think he was ready to do heavy work yet. As much as it pissed him off to not be able to do his job, in the long run he knew that it was probably for the better. He wasn't quite sure he could do a whole lot of ass kicking with the pain he was still in. The only thing he truly worried about was her.

Bones. His Bones.

Of course she came to his office when he wasn't in the lab bugging the hell out of her and the rest of the gang, but there were times she had to go out and help investigate with Agent Perotta and Seeley didn't like that. He had been on enough investigations with her to know that the majority of the time someone got hurt if things got rough. He knew she could handle herself but that still didn't ease his mind like he wished it had. She was the brains, he was the big gun. He worried about her constantly when she wasn't with him. Although he was sure she was aware of his concern, he didn't press the issue much because he knew how independent she liked to be. Not only that, he was on a thin line lately around her. He had almost slipped up a few times and told her how he felt.

He didn't want to do that. Not now anyhow.

Booth sat there on his couch watching highlights of a basketball game, waiting for Bones. The past week and a half had been so hectic he never had a chance to open his gift she got him. When he called her she insisted that she would bring it over, that it would be easier for him if he just opened it at his house. His curiosity got the best of him sometimes and he probed her for clues until he was blown in the face. But that was ok, he knew in a matter of time she would be there with it. She would be there with him. Booth stretched out with his feet propped up on his coffee table and just as he reached out for his phone it went off.

"Booth."

"Hey it's me, I'm on my way up," Bones said with a quite grunt.

"O –ok, everything alright?" he asked concerned slowly getting up from his couch and walked over to the window.

"Yes, everything is fine. I'm just trying to drag your gift to the elevator." She grunted again and balanced the phone between her ear and shoulder, "oh, I stopped and got us some take out t –to."

"Yeah, ok, uh, you sure you don't need my help Bones?" Booth asked confused. What kind of gift did she get him?

"No, its ok, I got it, I'll be up in a minute." She hung up and pressed the button for the parking lot elevators to go up.

Booth hung up the phone and peaked out his window again. What the hell could be so big or so heavy for her to be grunting like that? Oh god, I hope she didn't get me one of those ancient statues or something from one of her many trips to Africa… or Indonesia or wherever it is she goes. Booth chuckled at his thoughts. Actually he didn't care what it was, he knew if it was from her that he would love it anyways… even if he didn't know what to do with it or where to put it. He would appreciate and like it anyhow. He leaned down with a grunt to flip his TV off. He stretched out a little when he stood, holding his back, he was having problems again but just overlooked it for now.

When he heard talking outside his door he walked over and opened it. He saw one of the guys from down the hall talking to Bones as she thanked him for helping her carry the large box she had standing in front of her. "Bones," Booth said quickly as he walked towards her seeing a huge box in shiny wrapping paper. "What is this?" he asked pulling the box inside his apartment as she pushed on the other side.

"You'll have to open it to find out," she said kicking the door shut behind her while watching Booth lay the box down flat on the ground. She could see he was favoring his back now, his slow movements worried her. She knew that his legs were still hurting him from when he was hit with the car, but his back? She forgot about it for now and pulled her jacket off and hung it up behind the door while taking the bag of Fung Chows into his small kitchen. "I wanted to get it for you for your birthday, but you said I wasn't aloud to get you anything," she called out from the kitchen taking out two plates and some silverware. She waited a minute to hear his reply but when she heard nothing she peaked her head to the side looking out into his living room seeing Booth with an excited look on his face.

Bones walked out from the kitchen and put her hand on her hip looking down at him, "Bones, you –you shouldn't have gotten me this!" Booth said happily as he slowly stood from the ground. "I mean – these things cost a fortune!" he said shaking his head while looking up at her with a grin.

"What? No, it wasn't that expensive. I mean its not the 103 inch plasma TV you wanted but -,"

"Its 50! You know how great this is!" Booth said looking down at his new 50" plasma screen TV. He couldn't believe Bones spent so much on him; it had to be at least six hundred dollars if not more. Booth didn't even spend that much on her necklace. He scratched the back of his head looking down at the TV, a small frown formed on his lips before he looked back up at her.

Bones frowned too as she stepped around the box and over to his side, "what you don't like it?" she asked concerned. "Is it the wrong kind?" she asked confused now.

Booth chuckled and looked up at her, "are you kidding me? I love it Bones, but you shouldn't have spent so much on me," he said looking into her eyes.

She gave him her famous shy side smile and looked back down at the box, "it was worth it," she said softly before letting her eyes avert back to his own. "Your worth it," she said shyly, "Its something I knew you'd like. Besides I know it will be put to good use." With that she walked back into the kitchen as her cheeks flushed a little. Why are you blushing Temperance? It's just a gift… it's just a TV… for Booth. She sighed a little gathering up the food she brought along with the plates and utensils before walking back into his living room and setting them on the coffee table.

She sat down on the couch opening the containers while looking around the living room for him. She saw him a minute later walking in with a tool box, "lets get this baby up, and see how she works," he said leaning down slowly again to the box. She laughed lightly watching him open it up to reveal the plasma screen wrapped in plastic; the look on his face was priceless. She was so happy he liked it, she remembered months back he joked about getting 103" plasma screen to watch all his games on after they had came back from fishing at the new house he wanted her to build in that little town Andy was from. Although the fantasy was quite refreshing in some ways, she wasn't planning on building a home anytime soon.

Bones set the cartons down on the table and walked over to help Booth put his new TV up. Watching him fight in frustration with himself, silently, because of the obvious pain he was feeling in his back, she did the best she could with the knowledge she had on setting up a TV.

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What seemed like minutes later which ended up being an hour they finally had it up. Booth was on his knees in front of the TV programming it as Bones stood up stretching. "This is great, Bones," he said seeing the same highlighted game he was watching before she came over, flash on his screen. Only this time it was bigger and in high definition. He was grinning from ear to ear hearing the sound echo through his apartment, he looked up at her with the same grin, "ah, doesn't that sound great?" He chuckled pressing his hands to the ground trying to lift himself. He grunted loudly, "oh that doesn't feel too good," he said feeling Bones wrap her arm around his waist while the other rested against his chest helping him up.

"Booth? What did you do to your back?" she asked helping him over to the couch.

As he sat down slowly with another grunt he took in a sharp breath leaning his head back against the head of the couch, "I had Parker for a couple of hours yesterday." That was all he had to say for Bones to understand that Booth must have done something while playing with him.

"You need to be careful. Technically your still supposed to be healing from… well you know," she said quietly with a hard and loud swallow. She cleared her throat and looked away from him seeing his head lift and his eyes come to her face. The thought of what happened to him still brought tears to her eyes, the tight feeling she got in her chest made it hard to breathe. She stood up quickly just as Booth was reaching out to touch her, "I'm gonna get something to drink, you want something?" she asked looking over her shoulder.

"Beer would be nice, thanks," he said watching her disappear into the kitchen again. He listened to her deep shaky sigh as she opened and closed the fridge before walking back in to sit next to him with two beers in her hand.

She handed him one as he took the cap off he handed it to her and took the cap off the other. She took a big gulp of hers and leaned back cradling the beer in her hands. Booth looked at her from the corner of his eye, she was tense. Booth took a drink of his beer before looking at her. She didn't look at him at first then when she did he could see pain in her eyes, "you know Booth," she started to say before leaning over to put her beer on the table. Booth noticed something dangling from her neck, the bone locket he had made for her dangled gently between her perfect cleavage. Booth shift uncomfortably a little feeling a tightening in his pants with the sight before him, he looked away quickly as she sat up.

"Hmm?"

"I'm glad your ok," she said softly turning her body towards him, her right leg resting up against the couch brushing along his outer thigh.

"Me too, Bones," he said quietly back smiling at her.

"No, I mean it Booth," she said seriously with a hard swallow. She looked down fumbling with her hands while taking in a deep breath. Booth looked at her intently now, wondering where the seriousness was coming from. "You don't know how … how hard it was for me all that time you were gone." She shook her head and sighed slowly letting her eyes peak up to look into his, "I seriously thought that I lost you," she said softly. "You've become a very comfortable part of my life, I mean we work together and see each other everyday and to think -," she paused looking away from him again. "To think that I'd never see you again… it hurts more then I ever imagined," she finally confessed.

Booth watched her look at everything but him. Was she confessing something to him? But in her own Bones way? Booth cleared his throat and leaned forward with a small wince while putting his beer next to hers and the now forgotten food. He looked at her and put his hand to her chin tilting it so she would look at him, "hey," he whispered slowly removing his hand as she looked at him. "Nothing's going to happen to me, Bones. I promise," he said softly to her, his voice was serious. A side smile formed on his lips hoping she would believe him.

When he saw her smile back with tear threatening eyes he knew that she wasn't going to say anymore for the night. He knew Bones and when things were starting to get emotionally heavy between them she put up a barrier and he knew not to cross it any further then she would allow. Although the past year she had really let him in a lot, that emotional wall she had up around her, barricading her in, she had let down a little more each day and Booth was grateful for that.

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They spent the remainder of the night flipping through the channels and watching movies and sports at the same time. Booth was pleased to know that on his new TV he could get up to four different mini screens, so if Parker wanted to watch SpongeBob, while he was watching a football game he could. Seeley also discovered more about the case Bones and the others were working on, apparently the dead girl, Valerie Daniels, that was found was a promotional model for one of those SCI-FI ImagiCon's that traveled around the area. He chuckled some when she descried more of what was going on in the case and how some of the people they investigated were like circus folk.

"Well I guess its good your squint of the week, Colin Fisher, is such a SCI-FI geek or you would have never known why the girl was dressed like she was or what she did for a living," Booth said with a grin.

Bones half rolled her eyes and took the empty beer bottles from the table and stood, "Colin Fisher maybe a self-professed geek as you like to say, but he has helped us out a lot this week, we found something new that is relevant to the case and may help us find Valerie's murder." She walked into the kitchen to put four empty beer bottles in the trash. She could hear Booth moving about a little on the couch as she grabbed herself a bottle of water.

Booth watched as she walked back into the living room and over to sit next to him again, "well… you gonna tell me what this Fisher geek found?" he said waiting patently for her say something.

"Well since she was one of those promotional models, her face was all over the internet and comic magazines promoting things… it appears that she owned an expensive movie prop of some kind?" Bones said opening her water and taking a sip from it.

"So what does that have to do with anything?" he asked generally confused.

"Mr. Fisher insists that the prop is something people have tried to get their hands on for years, and that anyone who would have such a thing was very lucky and in some cases not so lucky… according him some people would go to extensive psychotic lengths to get their hands on it," she said with a small shrug.

Booth had a confused look on his face. "Ok," he said with a chuckle shaking his head. "What is it?"

"That I don't know? I'm not a big SCI-FI fan so I'm taking Dr. Sweets with me tomorrow when I go to get it," she said casually.

"Wait! What do you mean your taking him with you when you go to get it? I thought Agent Perotta was helping out on this case?" he asked concerned now.

"She is, but that doesn't mean I have to take her everywhere with me, besides Booth, its not a dangerous job to go to someone's place and get something that may help solve their murder." She wasn't sure why Booth was so concerned now; it really wasn't that big of a deal. Besides there was something about Agent Perotta, Temperance didn't like too much.

Booth was concerned; did she not realize what she had told him not moments ago? The nerds of the world would go to great lengths to get their hands on the prop; anything could happen to her while she was out there.

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After much arguing with Booth all night about her safety on today's trip with Dr. Sweets she finally made it home in time to get a few hours of sleep. Although she was tired, she still looked her best to do her job. Dr. Sweets met her in her office around noon with a tired and concerned look on his face, "read to go?" Bones asked taking her lab jacket off and grabbing her regular jacket along with her bag as she walked out of her office not waiting for his answer.

"Uh, Dr. Brennan!" he called out rushing after her. "Are you sure this is a good idea, that I go with you? I mean wouldn't you rather have Agent Perotta go? She is FBI and carries a gun," he said swallowing hard.

Bones stopped in front of the doors that let out of the Jeffersonian and faced him, "Booth called you didn't he?" she said firmly.

"He did," he said quickly. She huffed and opened her mouth to start to argue before he cut her off, "Dr. Brennan he only called me because he was concerned." He looked at her face; it softened a bit before she took in a deep breath.

"Its really not a big deal. Now lets go."

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The car ride to Valerie's apartment was quite. For the first time Dr. Sweets didn't try to analyze her alone. He usually tried to do that when something major was going on, to see how they each felt on what was going on. It had been clear to him since day one that there was something between her and Booth, but they had never admitted it to each other. It was evident in the sessions they had that, that they both were blind to their feelings for one another. Their emotional ties to each other were very obvious to everyone around them but they didn't seem to see it. Not yet anyhow.

"So what is it that we are looking for?" Bones asked searching around the apartment.

"The Lightsaber that Mark Hamill made for Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back." Lance looked around the apartment, impressed by all the rare memorabilia the woman had.

"Could this be it?" Bones asked pointing to a glass box with a long silver stick inside.

"Yes that's it!" he said looking at it closely, "isn't it a beauty?" he said without realizing it. When he saw the look on her face he straightened up and cleared his throat, "I just mean because its from the actual movie," he looked around quietly putting his hands in his pockets.

Bones furrowed her brows together, "hmm, right," she said shaking her head picking up the glass case. She and Dr. Sweets made their way out of the building and into her car. She made sure that the glass case with the lightsaber in it was safe in her back seat from sliding around before she started to drive back to the Jeffersonian.

Bones drove the speed limit but the person behind her was riding her bumper. "Are you kidding me? Go around!" she said loudly. Now she knew how Booth felt with his semi road rage when people pissed him off. She glanced at Dr. Sweets who was holding onto his seat for dear life. "We're the only two cars on the road you'd think they'd know to just pass me up if I wasn't going fast enough," she said softly with a sigh.

Once she glanced back again she saw the car slow down a few feet behind her. It stayed like that for awhile until she felt her car jerk forward. The car behind her hit her back bumper hard. "Dr. Brennan I think you should just pull over and let them pass us," Sweets said.

Bones mentally agreed but before she could do anything the car behind her slammed into her vehicle again, hard, sending the car off the road and right for a telephone pole.

X/X/X/

Booth sat as his desk doing some paper work while glancing at the clock. He told Bones to call him once she got back in, but according to the time she told him she was leaving, that was over three hours ago. Booth tapped his desk lightly with his fingers before he heard his phone going off. Without looking at the caller ID he flipped it open, "Geez, Bones, what took you so long?" he said quickly.

"Booth, Its Angela."

"Angela, have you heard from Bones yet? She make it back with Sweets?" he asked quickly and a little angrily.

"Booth, there's been an accident," her voice was soft on the other end.

Booth felt his heart pound in his chest; his cheeks flush as he felt the anger and confusion build inside of him. Something happened to her. Something happened to his Bones.

So... Love me? Hate Me? What do you think? No, Seriously tell me.. what do you think? Hehee. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! Your comments so far have been AWSOME! I love reading them, your comments are what keeps me going on here. It gives me reason and hope that I'm doing well for your reading entertainment! So thank you! Chapter: 10 will be up soon. I want to post a chapter at least once a week, before every episode. XD Also I forgot to mention, I'm not sure if that is the real prop or not? I just used it because ... well it was interesting and it was something I knew about. lol