So this would be me attempting to prove that there can be plenty of problems on the show to keep viewers interested if they get Booth and Bones together which I suppose is a reaction to Hannah still being around. Which just makes me annoyed, she's officially the longest significant other that either one of them has had and I'm starting to reach my limit on how much more I can handle. I also just want Brennan from season 5 back or really any of the previous season because as of now she bugs me.

Sorry for the rant, I swear this has a happy ending even if it hurts a little bit at first. Bones isn't mine.

An Experiment

It was bad sex. There's really no other way to phrase it, it was terrible. It was awkward and clumsy and left them both feeling like everything that they'd ever possibly imagined that moment to be was a lie. There was no way that it was supposed to have been like that. They were supposed to come together and it would be like puzzle pieces falling together, a perfect fit. Instead, when they fell apart they were both speechless, afraid to be the first one to say something that might possibly make it more awkward.

So they both lay there in silence for god knows how long before she sat up holding the sheet to her body. "I should go." She said slowly, "I have an early meeting with a professor and it will be simpler if I … if I just go home." He felt like it was the first time that he'd heard her choose her words with such care.

She began pulling on her clothes carefully trying to avoid his eyes, knowing that he would be trying to get her to stay or at least understand where her mind was at. For once she didn't know what to think and so she focused on pulling the buttons through their holes one by one on her shirt before sliding her shoes on.

He couldn't refrain any longer at some point though and reached out catching her hand and she settled it on the bed to take a bed breath. "I'll pick you up for lunch tomorrow." Then she did something very uncharacteristic she turned around and smiled at him almost relieved. "Yes." She nodded and leaned down and gently pressed a kiss to his lips before disappearing into the night.

They both got no sleep that night instead staring at the ceiling of their respective bedrooms trying to figure out what went wrong and when it happened. As the sun climbed over the horizon neither had come to any conclusions so instead they faced the day unsure of anything. He didn't get to pick her up for lunch that day or for any other meal in two days. The most he got was a glimpse of her when he made a point of going to the lab when she was supposed to be there, but even then he was side tracked by Cam and when he was finally free, she was nowhere to be found.

By day three, he was going insane and knew that the lab wasn't the place to confront her and so he sat outside her apartment building until he saw the lights come on and then he collected the peace offering of Thai from his front seat and made his way to her front door knocking gently.

She had expecting him to come earlier, but when the knock finally came she was still startled and for a brief moment she contemplated ignoring it, before realizing he would break down the door if that's what it came to. So instead she opened the door and tired to smile when she noticed that he was carrying a bag of take out for a second she was really smiling. So she took the bag of food from him and walked towards her kitchen knowing that he would follow.

She was pulling plates down from the cabinet when she felt his arm snake around her waist and gave her a gentle tug. He was there and he was offering warmth, comfort and reassurance that she'd needed from her best friend and not her boy friend, or her lover or any other word that is supposed to and inadequately describes their relationship. She turned into him looping her arms around him and tucking her head into the crook of his neck breathing in the comforting scent of his body wash. He just held her grateful to have is arms around her again, and together they stood in the middle of her kitchen.

Eventually he knew they need to actually talk about it so he pressed a kiss to the top of her head, "Talk to me Bones."

She didn't move her head instead she began picking at his t-shirt, "I don't want to hurt you." She said quietly.

Holding her in place he responded, "By not telling me what's going on inside your brilliant brain is hurting me more than you telling me whatever it was you're trying to do by disappearing."

She was quiet for a moment, taking a deep breath reminding herself that he was still there despite everything that had happened. "It was awful Booth."

And too her great surprise he chuckled just a little bit and squeezed her a little bit closer, "Yeah it was terrible." She looked up at him eyes wide at his response. "Definitely not what our first time should have been."

"Then why are you laughing?" She asked puzzled.

"I'm just glad that it was as horrible for you as it was for me."

"That doesn't change anything Booth." She pushed away from him.

"What do you mean" he got suddenly serious.

She folded her arms across her body, in an effort to protect herself. "We can't do this. We can't be more than partners."

"Whoa. Hold up just because we had bad sex once means that you don't want to do this anymore?" He couldn't believe it

"We had bad sex the first time we had sex Booth. You can't tell me that you were expecting us to have bad sex?"

He was slightly taken aback by that. "Well no I didn't think that we'd have bad sex the first time, but I thought about it and I'm not really surprised that we did."

"So you've decided that it's fine." She looked like she couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"No it's not fine right now but in the long run it will be completely fine." He could tell that he was losing her quickly and he had to make his case. "Think about it Bones that first time, I've certainly imagined it hundreds of different ways and it's always been a lingering thought at the back of my mind that when we finally had sex if would be explosive. Doesn't that sound like a lot of pressure on that first time Bones?"

She looked puzzled, "It does but it doesn't mean that we can keep doing it." She looked heartbroken. "I can't lose you as my partner… or my best friend."

He stood staring at her for a moment. Before he was propelled into action his hands darting out and coming to rest on her arms. "Bones I'm not going anywhere." He leaned in and gently kissed her giving her time of adjust to the kiss and to respond ever so hesitantly, before she was stepping closer to him. He pulled back just a little bit locking his gaze with hers, "Does that feel like a kiss between two people who have bad sex?" He asked hoping to use her own well-loved and trusted logic against her.

She shook her head and bit her lip looking worried, "But Booth doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity."

He smiled now because he had found the away around her panic, "Well if you want to look at it that way then look at it like an experiment." She pulled her eyebrows together in confusion so he pushed on. "You never do an experiment just once do you?"

"No the experiment is done several times to makes sure that the same results are produced every time." She still looked confused even when she provided him the answer.

"Well what if that one time we've had sex was an anomaly, that there were circumstances that changed the outcome and if we repeat the experiment it will have a different outcome."

She seemed to be catching on but had found a flaw, "But what were the circumstances that we won't encounter normally?"

He chuckled and kissed her forehead just briefly internally sighing with relief that she was following along. "How about the seven years of belief that it would be amazing that we both panicked?"

She nodded her head. "Ok…ok your reasoning is sound."

"Yeah?" He asked.

She smiled softly, stretched up, and kissed him. "Yeah." And there the stood as the tension visibly fled from the room before she asked, "Do you want to try again now?"

Fortunately, he was immune to her bluntness and just laughed. "How about we eat dinner and see where the night takes us." She nodded and he released her to wander into the kitchen and begin reheating the now cold Thai food.

The fell back into the comfortable happy routine that they feared had fled only hours earlier as they ate and then he made her watch his favorite comedy show and much to her surprise she found it funny too. She was in the middle at laughing at a joke when she realized he was staring at her. "What?" She asked.

He leaned closer, "God you're beautiful when you laugh." He mumbled as his lips crashed down onto hers, as his arms came around her hauling her to him as his callused fingers slipped under the hem of her shirt. The only reaction she had was to respond with equal enthusiasm as her fingers tunneled through his hair.

And this time the sex was exactly what it was supposed to be. Fireworks going off, sheer ecstasy, and explosion of built up tension and physical, and any other cliché that one could think of to describe the coming together of two perfect halves.

This time when they fell apart she immediately curled into this side, not wanting to be physically separated from him and his arms went around her to hold her in place. As their breathing evened out, he pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "That was the opposite of bad sex."

She let out a throaty chuckle, "Yes that would be my observation as well." She placed a gentle kiss to his chest.

"So what were the conclusions of the experiment?" he asked her as he ran his hand up and down her arm.

"Well I only have two sets of data so I suppose that either one of the experiments could be an anomaly." She smiled to herself.

"Is that a challenge?" He lifted his head a little bit to find her amused grin.

"No," she smirked, "it was simply a statement of my need to collect more data. But I suppose if you wanted to take it as a challenge I wouldn't be opposed."

He rolled her over on the bed, briefly hovering over her. "More data that I think we can do." He told her before proceeding to ignite the flames all over again.

See plenty of problems for our favorite non couple when they become a couple. What did you think?

Babyrose