In the previous chapter I said that that one was letter D, but of course it was not, this is ;) There are no spoilers at all in this piece and it's set in the future. As always Bones isn't mine!

Word suggested by the lovely Cecile/Tchitchou, hope you like it :) and thanks again to my beta Shin/Bonesbird!

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Dessert

"Come on, Bones…" he pleaded turning to look at her with his famous charm smile on his face, usually that worked. Usually. Not this time. This time in return he received an icy glare from the other side of the car. Sighing he turned back to look at the road.

"You've gotta have to forgive me sooner or later." he tried again to make her speak to him.

"Says who?" she answered dryly "And I'm still not speaking to you."

"I think you are now." he replied amused "Speaking to me, I mean"

"Only because you…" she started but stopped seeing the cocky look on his face and realizing that she was actually speaking to him. "…whatever" she mumbled at the car window.

"Just admit it, babe, you can't go too long without talking to me" he continued smugly. "Look, you managed to stay silent for…" he looked briefly at his watch "… wow, 8 minutes and 16 seconds, that's very good for you." he chuckled.

For the umpteenth time during those 8 minutes and 16 seconds, she shot him a glare that could have frozen up hell.

"Bo-ones…" he whined after another minute of total silence and icy looks from Brennan. He always teased her for not being able to stay silent and always needing to have the last word and all but he was starting to realize that he had some problems staying quiet himself.

"Come on, it was nothing!" he sighed.

"Nothing?" she jumped up "You … you called me baby!" she said furious, uttering the offending word like it was the worst insult "You called me baby in front of…"

"In front of a very boring person who almost made me fall asleep every time he opened his mouth." he added.

"He was one of the largest benefactors of the Jeffersonian Institute! No matter how uninteresting he was to you, he gives us lots of money! He is very interesting to the rest of us!" she went on with her vent "Plus there was my boss right there with us!"

Booth looked at her dumbstruck as he tried to remember if at dinner with them there was a person that he didn't notice.

"Your boss?" he asked "But it was just me, you, Mr. Tedious, Cam…" her eyebrows raised meaningfully.

"Cam?" he laughed "And since when you consider Cam your boss?"

"Since she is! She is my boss, Booth!" Brennan sighed annoyed. "And I don't want you to call me baby!"

"And I didn't mean to call you baby!"

"Yes, you did!" she fought back.

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not! And how do you know that you have to say that?" he asked surprised. Only one week before she had looked at him with confusion when he replied with those words.

"Parker told me. And you did." she replied calmly.

"So now you two unite against me, huh? " he said "And. I. Did. Not!"

Brennan opened her mouth but he interrupted her. Knowing her, this could go on for hours.

"I did not mean to call you baby, ok? It just… slipped out!" he explained smiling" We were in that super fancy restaurant… where you ordered a normal salad that you could order at the diner too, by the way… And I'm was still hungry! Those servings were made for babies!" he complained "Very, very rich babies. I was asking you if you wanted dessert too….Which I didn't even get because you got angry!"

"'Do you want dessert, baby?'" she quoted him sarcastically "So long to our intention of keeping things quiet."

"Is it really that bad that Cam found out about us?" he asked softly "and the other guy barely even knows you and he sure doesn't care who you're dating." he added smiling, thoroughly enjoying the meaning of his last words.

At this Brennan turned to look at him for the first time since they got in the car. "No, not that bad." she agreed "Although at this time tomorrow we'll be all over the news" she sighed.

"The Jeffersonian news, right." he laughed "Cam does gossip a lot."

"Sometimes even more than Angela, if that's even possible." she said nodding. "But still, don't you dare calling me baby in public again." she warned him. "No, never, not even in private, I don't like it." she added after a second.

"Ok… but what about that dessert? I'm still hungry here!" he reminded her.

"Booth, you could to eat a whole cow and not be sate yet!" she observed, her voice with a hint of annoyance.

"Bones included?" he asked with a sly grin.

"What?" she shot him a look of confusion.

"In the cow, are the bones included? Because I think that after some cow's bones I would be pretty full" he joked, receiving an eye roll from her.

"You are so not getting dessert tonight." she mumbled, directed once again to the window.

"Don't we have some dessert at home?" he asked. This time he was the one confused.

"Yes, we do. But you won't get any. Not any kind of dessert." she clarified.

He quickly looked at her but her face was without expression, even if her lips were slightly curling up, obviously without her permission. He stayed quiet for a few seconds and then looked at her again.

"Bones?" he asked stunned "Did you just make an allusion?"

The corners of her lips turned up a little more. "Maybe."

He chuckled and finally stopped the SUV in their parking lot. She started to gather her things but he was quicker. By the time she was out of the car, he was standing right in front of her with a daring grin on his face.

"So… no dessert tonight?" he asked as he stepped closer, trapping her between the car and his body.

"Nope, not at all." she said breathless, her body starting the usual reaction to his close proximity.

His hands moved from the car to her waist and pulled her to him, eyes locked. He leaned and his mouth lingered under her ear, but without actually touching her skin, and she gasped involuntarily, her arms wrapping around him too.

"Not even one small bite?" he murmured in a husky voice in her ear, one hand steady on her waist while the other travelled up her back and threaded in her hair.

"No…" she breathed, every passing second feeling less and less convinced of her own words.

"And.. how can I make you forgive me?" he whispered again, his lips now grazing the soft skin of her neck, which instantly erupted in goosebumps. As a reaction, he felt her shivering slightly in his arms and he tightened them around her.

Brennan was now, like many other times when she was with or around him, understanding perfectly the sentence 'legs turning to jelly'.

She let out an exasperated sigh. "Kiss me already Seeley Booth!" she blurted out.

He straightened up smiling and looking in her eyes for a second as he tucked a lock of hair behind her ear before finally capturing her lips in his in a passionate and heated kiss.

Oh yeah, he was definitely getting all kinds of dessert he wanted tonight. He had just made sure of that.

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Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks to the people who read, alerted and reviewed this story so far, I'm glad you're with me! Keep suggesting the E-words, I'm a little stuck there! ;)