A month later

Brennan was finishing up some last minute stuff before Booth came to drive them to the airport, they were flying in Friday after work to sleep and relax before they had to mingle it up all weekend.

"Bones, are you ready?"

"Yeah." She stood up and grabbed her bag, Booth groaned.

"Something wrong Booth?"

"Why are you taking you kit? We'd better not run into any dead bodies for the next 60 hours!"

Brennan looked at the bag and grinned, "This isn't my kit Booth, it's my carryon I have two of the same bag I got this one as a gift. Let's go get this weekend over with."

"That's spirit!" Brennan gave Booth a look, he sucked in a breath and picked up her suitcase and garment bag and headed out to the SUV. They boarded the plane. "Wow Bones, you got me a first class ticket, thanks!"

"You're welcome Booth, you're doing me a favor, and it's just my way of saying thank you."

Brennan left Booth looking out the window as she settled into sleep in the seat beside him. The flight was uneventful and just as they were getting ready to land Booth reached over and shook Brennan. "Bones. Hey, Bones, wake up, we're almost there."

"No."

"Yes, in les you want me to carry you off the plane."

That did it Brennan was up and awake in a second. They got a taxi to the hotel and checked into their adjoining rooms, with Booth carrying the bags; Brennan was too sleepy to argue. After 9 hours of the best sleep he ever had, Booth knocked on the connecting door. "Bones what's on the agenda for this morning?"

"Nothing I thought you'd like a walking tour of the campus until we need to change for the dinner."

"So I can were jeans and a shirt with my gym shoes? "

"Yes."

"Awesome."

Brennan laughed and got dressed, meeting Booth outside his door. The two enjoyed their walk around campus at 4 they headed back to the hotel and got ready Brennan in a black sparkly evening gown Booth in a tux.

"Wow Bones you look fantastic in that dress." Booth gave Brennan the onceover a few times!

"Thanks Booth, normally I'd hit any man for ogling me, but I'm not because I found myself ogling you just now. Booth you look hot in that tux, and I don't mean from the heat."

"Thanks Bones. Shall we go?"

"Yes." Booth took her elbow and they made their way to the reception hall.

Inside the door there was a table with name tags Brennan grabbed the ones for Booth and her, and they made their way inside. Brennan got nervous when she felt Booth leave her side, as soon as he was gone Brennan got swarmed "Tempe is that you?"

Brennan looked up to see the head of the student organization coming towed her, she held in a groan "Yes?"

"It's me Kelli, Kelli Sanders."

"Oh hi Kelli." Brennan noticed Kelli looking at her left hand, "So, Tempe what are you up to these days?"

"I'm the head of the Anthropology Department and co head of the Medical Legal Lab at the Jeffersonian institute in Washington D.C. "

"That's nice dear. Still no man I see, well something's never change." Just then Booth came up behind her and Kelli's eyes got huge.

"Tempe who's that?" Kelli was giving Booth the onceover, Brennan smiled."My p-"

"I'm Seeley, Temperance's boyfriend." Booth extended his hand; Kelli shook it like limp spaghetti.

Booth pulled Brennan closer as Kelli winked at Booth as she walked away. Brennan didn't pull away from Booth's embrace instead she leaned into him and whispered. "What are we going to do now? She thinks we're together!"

"We fake it for the weekend."

"What about the separate rooms?"

"We'll go to yours and I'll go to mine through the connecting door. No one will know."

"Okay."

That night they walked to "their" room, Booth had his hand on the connecting door. "See you tomorrow?"

"Yeah, tomorrow is another dinner and they'll give me the plaque."

"G'night Bones." Booth opened the door. "Booth?"

"Yeah Bones?"

"You could stay here this weekend."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, if we're going to be keeping this secret, we may as well be good at it."

"Let me get my stuff and check out of my room."

"Okay, hurry up."

"I will."

When Booth came back Brennan was stretched out on the bed staring off into space. "Bones are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just tired and these 3 inch heels aren't conducive to standing all night. I must admit I enjoyed myself more than I thought I would."

"That's great I'm glad."

"Thanks for coming Booth and making tonight enjoyable."

"You're welcome Bones, how did I make it more enjoyable?"

"You gave me someone to talk to and focus on so I wasn't so nervous. But the beast part was the look on Kelli Sanders' face when you came up behind me, I thought she was gonna choke on her martini, it was great!"
"Bones that's mean!"

"Maybe, but Kelli had all the guys that'd make every girl jealous, it was nice to be able to make her jealous for once."

Booth grinned "Glad to help Bones."

Brennan got up and headed to the bathroom to change, when she came back she found Booth building a wall down the middle of the bed with extra pillows and blankets, she smiled. "Booth what are you doing?"

"Building a wall that neither of will cross for the entire weekend."

Brennan grinned and crossed to the bed and started dismantling Booth's wall."Bones what are you doing?"

"I thought it was obvious Booth I'm taking the wall down, we don't need it, and I don't want it here."

"But-"

"Booth, if I didn't want you next to me maybe even touching me, I wouldn't have invited you to stay here. I realized something to night when you came back to me after Kelli swarmed in; I don't like it when we're not together. The only reason I had fun tonight was because you were there all night, you're the reason I'm here. I need you."

Booth put down the pillow he was holding and crossed the bed to Brennan's side."Really?"

"Yes."

"Good, because I need you too, I always have."

"Now that, that's settled go brush your teeth I don't want our first kiss to taste like wine."

"It was good wine though." Booth had that cocky grin.

"Yes it was, but this will be a lot better. Go on."

Booth didn't brush his teeth for the recommended two minutes it was more like 45 seconds, but he didn't care!

When he came back he steeped closer to Brennan and gave her a questioning glance, she nodded and allowed Booth to take her in his arms. "Bones, ar-. "

"Shut up so I can kiss you."

After a minute Brennan broke apart."That was way better than last time."

"When?"

"Two Christmas' ago, in my office under mistletoe."

"I don't know Bones; I think I need at least one more sample to test."

"I can do that."

They slowly moved to the bed, "So?"

"That was better than the last two times, but we still should do some more testing."

"I agree…."

The next morning Booth woke up with Brennan's arms around him by the looks of things last night wasn't a dream, Booth smiled and Brennan turned and woke up."Good morning Booth did you sleep well?"

"Morning Bones, I had the best sleep I've had in years last night."

"Me too."

"I don't want to get up."

"I don't think I can." was muffled by Booth's shoulder.

"I need food."

"Call room service, order whatever you want and put the 'do not disturb' sign on the door after the food gets here."

"I will what do you want Bones?"

"I got what I want."

"Besides me?"

"Whatever."

Booth laughed and ordered pancakes and a fruit plate, and then he got up long enough to get the food and set the alarm on his phone for 5 so they'd have enough time to make it to the dinner at 7.