If I did own Bones I would not work from 9-5 no matter what Dolly says.

This is a very short chapter but I think it is best left that way. After all Brennan is usually succinct herself. The journal year is left to the readers imagination.

Chapter 6 You Saved Me

Continuing Journal Entry For Sweets – New Years Eve

I finally got up the nerve today. I had made myself a promise the next time I looked at Booth and I felt the urge to tell him I would and today was that day. It started out quietly like most after holiday days do. All the fun and fervor of the day it's self is over and the endorphin high seems to go away leaving the world a little flat.

Christmas day was fun. Booth asked me to come over have lunch and watch Parker open his presents. Booth and I enjoyed lunch and Parker arrived around 3:00pm. Of course he liked the things Booth got him, but he seemed to like what I got him too. This year I decided he was in need of something a little older so I got him his own lab badge and Jack helped me put together a bug and slime collection kit complete with a Jeffersonian Tybex Jumpsuit and Lab Coat both of which were personalized. I think Booth was surprised too.

But as I say today was a different day, a day for reflection. I had a lot to reflect over. I had almost lost Booth so many times, more so these last few years that before. Maybe it really wasn't more often maybe it just seemed harder now for me to forget these times. Because now, today, this day, I have to face my demons and give them voice.

My demons have a voice and it reminds me. Booth you could have bowed out gracefully, but you didn't. You knew enough to leave well enough alone, but you wouldn't. I thought the messes I made of my life and my secrets were so safe, but the only one who gets me is you and yes you get to me. It's amazing to me how everyday you save my life. Sometimes I come around all broken down and crowded out. Sometimes the place I go is so deep and dark and desperate that I don't know how you save my life. Sometimes I swear I don't know if I'm coming or going, but you always say something without even knowing I'm hanging on to your words with all of my might. And it's alright, because I'm alright for one more night you've saved me.

So at the diner today I gave Booth my New Years present, I told him I loved him. In those simple words I discovered the meaning of magic. At those three words his face lit with the largest charm smile I have ever seen and it traveled all the way to his eyes. He reached over, took my hand, kissed my palm and said "It's about times Bones, I love you too." We sat there for a long holding hands and talking about nothing and everything.

The demons are gone and once again Booth you have saved me.

So to the end of another year. This one will bring all the discoveries of a newborn love. I wonder how far our love will have progressed by the end of next year.

Temperance

The inspiration for this chapter is Rascal Flatts "Every Day" I think it speaks to Brennan's mind perfectly.

"Every Day" Performed by Rascal Flatts – Lyrics Rascal Flatts & Jeffery Steel

My muse Kitty has called me off to a far away shore. I am embarking on a fiction that will include a case to solve draging Booth and Brennan into the 1950's. I am not sure how it will impact my life and I will try to add this love story as often as Kitty presents inspiration. So if you like this you might look for The Red Dress

Nyre