Disclainre: Like a bolt out of the blue fate steps in and sees you through. When you wish upon a star your dreams come true. Well maybe they don't always because I still don't own anything Bones.
Chapter 11 The Gift – Performed by Susan Ashton & Collin Raye – Written by - Jim Brickman
As she was looking out the window watching the snow fall she was remembering her favorite day of the year, she always thought of it as The Gift. She always played this song and thought of it as there's. It was a day they still celebrated even after four years. There was a time when she would have told anyone calling her such a romantic was a lunatic. Now she was as romantic as… well as romantic as Angela, and that was saying something. As the song began she remembered:
Winter snow is falling down
Children laughing all around
Lights are turning on
Like a fairy tale come true
Sitting by the fire we made
You're the answer when I prayed
I would find someone
And baby
I found you
They had gone to take Parker to a place where he could skate in an outdoor pond. Booth had told her it was one of the few good times he remembered as a child and he wanted Parker to experience it too. She had tried to beg off, telling Booth she had work to do in Limbo, then work to do on her book, then tried to tell him it was too cold for her. For every reason she had not to go he had three more reasons for her to go. Finally she had given in. Booth rented some skates for her and just like the time they had skated when she had to keep him awake to make sure he didn't have a concussion, he had skated with her making sure she didn't fall. She had loved being held in his strong arms leaning back against his chest. Parker had teased them and said eweeww more than once, and they had all laughed.
Booth had brought lunch for them and soon they were enjoying sandwiches and hot coco. She was touched to find he had made sure her sandwich was humus something he knew she liked and she knew he didn't. She knew he had gone out of his way to get it for her. Later in the afternoon on the way back she was looking at the profile of his face. "Booth why did you let me be one of your ducks?"
"Be one of my duck's? I'm not sure I know what you mean, can you be a little more specific?"
"When we were working the Cleo Eller case you said if you could get all your ducks in a row it could be a big promotion for you. I said I could be one of your ducks. I had to bribe you to get you to stay on that case. After that one it seemed you never got rid of me. So I want to know how did I become one of your duck's?"
"It was easy really you put everything you had and knew into finding her killer and you solved the case."
"But Booth those first few years we never seemed to get along. At least not like we do now."
"That's true Bones, but we really didn't know each other then like we do now. We have been through a lot and have learned to trust each other with more than just facts and solving crimes. We have become more than partners, we have become good friends."
Later that evening after dropping Parker off at Rebecca's they continued their conversation. "Bones why did you want to know about how I let you, as you put it, become one of my duck's?"
"It is just something that has been weighing on my mind lately."
He turned her face toward his. "Come on Bones if something is weighing on your mind you can tell me. I'm your friend remember."
Suddenly she jerked away from him stood up and began pacing. "Yeah Booth I remember. You love me in an atta-a-girl way. Believe me I remember." Just as suddenly she couldn't stand it anymore her heart was breaking. She thought he had saved her from a broken heart, only he had just saved her from it breaking a little later that's all. It was still broken and he was the one who broke it. She couldn't take any more and ran down the hall to her bedroom. Leaving him to stare after her wondering what he had done.
As he sat there on her couch he tried to think back to see what he might have done wrong. He was only trying to protect her. He knew he loved her, he loved her in every way there was to humanly love a woman. But Sweets had convinced him he really didn't. He could hear her crying and the longer he sat there the worse he felt. What had Pops told him everything he needed to know was in his heart? Did that mean he loved her and Sweets and his scans be damned? Could he fix this? Was it as easy as telling her he loved her. What if she didn't want that from him? But she had seemed so upset when she talked about him loving her in an atta-a-girl way. He hadn't really meant it; he had just been scared of losing her. However, it looked like he was loosing her anyway by not telling her. He walked down the hall and opened her bedroom door. The sight devastated him. He saw her lying on her bed crying so hard she was having trouble breathing.
He had walked into her room and took her into his arms. "Bones please tell me what is the matter, please tell me?"
She looked up at his and realized he either didn't care or was the stupidest man on earth when it came to reading women in love. Either way she decided to end it here. "Booth it's really quite simple I love you. If you don't love me then fine I'll learn to adjust, if you do… she smiled as she remembered him crushing her in his kiss. The words of their song reminded her:
All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
From being broken apart
You gave your love away
And I'm thankful every day
For the gift
She told him how being one of his duck's had saved her from a life of loneliness. How as one of his duck's she had learned to live in this world and not run from it. She remembered telling him she wanted this to be the beginning of the rest of their lived together. She remembered the very best part of that night. It was the first time he had made love to her. It was the very first time anyone had made love to her. It was the last time anyone but him would make love to her, and she told him she wanted it that way.
She looked down as the pale sun light caught and fractured the light as it shown on her wedding ring. She had thought she didn't want to get married. He had patiently waited and talked her into marriage. Convincing her it was a partnership like the one they always had since they met. He had been true to his word. She looked over at the couch were he lay sleeping with their newborn daughter on his chest. That was another thing she had thought she hadn't wanted. He had patiently showed her she did with every time they had Parker. Now the last verse was playing:
Watching as you softly sleep
What I'd give if I could keep
Just this moment
If only time stood still
But the colors fade away
And the years will make us grey
But baby in my eyes
You'll still be beautiful
He would hate it if he heard her call him beautiful but to her he was. To her he had given her The Gift. It was a gift beyond price. Tonight they would celebrate as they did every year. The night The Gift was given and taken.
I hope you liked this one. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just heard this song (The Gift) and thought of Booth and Bones. After that it more or less wrote it's self.
Nyre
