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Chapter 19 The Right To Remain Silent
He sat in the corner nursing his second beer wondering, not for the first time this evening, why he had let the guy's talk him into going to the bar again this Friday night. He had been in DC for only a few months, having moved here to follow Rebecca. It had taken him a long time to get his requested transfer from New York to DC but once Rebecca had moved and taken Parker with her he had no choice. He would not let her take Parker out of his life. Damn it he was Parker's Father whether she wanted him to be or not. So now he sat at a bar in DC on a Friday night feeling sorry for himself.
Damn why had she allowed Angela to drag her to this bar. It was just another one of Angela's glug glug woo woo nights and all they ever did was remind her how lonely her live was. She would come with Angela, probably find a esthetically pleasing male, take him home to relive her biological urges and have him out of her apartment before dawn. She had been doing it for years, but the sordidness of it all was beginning to wear on her. She knew everyone thought she was very blasé about her sexual relationships, but the truth was she had never found anyone she cared enough to have stick around. There had been a few she had lived with Michael and Peter for example, but even them she forced to leave her in the end. She knew it was her fault. She had forced everyone to leave her in the end.
As his eyes roamed the room looking for his friends to tell them he was leaving he saw her. A beautiful woman sitting alone. The band started a song he knew and it hit him as funny. It might be an opening. At least it was worth a try. The most she could do was tell him to get lost. He walked over to the table, held out his hand and leaned down to whisper the words into her ear.
"Can I have this dance my you're looking pretty
Is there something wrong did he leave you hurting
I don't mean to pry but that tear in your eye gave you away
If you don't want to talk we'll keep it quiet
But sometimes a heartache hurts worse if you hide it
I think there's a chance one slow dance might ease the pain"
"Is that supposed to be some kind of line?" At his dazzling smile she continued "does it usually work?"
As she allowed her to pull her into his arms out onto the dance floor he continued to whisper in her ear.
"You have the right to remain silent
Anything that you say as I hold you against me
Will forever be a secret between us two
I've been wanting you but you didn't know it
And now that he's gone at last I can show it
If your heart is tired for the rest of your life
Lay your love on me"
They continued to "dance" or more precisely lean and sway into each other until the music ended. He led her to a table in neutral country, one where neither her friend or his were likely to interrupt them.
"Hi" he held out his hand, "I'm Seeley Booth and you are?"
"Temperance Brennan she replied taking care to use the advice Angela had given her for tonight. 'Don't tell anyone what you do.' "So tell me does that hokey song work for you often?"
He smiled his dazzling smile again "no not often, but then it isn't played often either. Hey it's really loud in here do you want to go somewhere and talk?"
She looked at him and raised her eyebrow. "Talk?"
He had the good sense to blush, "yeah I really want to talk. I know a great diner we can go to. Bright lighting, great pie."
"I don't like pie, I don't like my fruit cooked" she replied instantly.
"Ok but I have to say you don't know what you're missing this place has great pie. Come on come with me please. I just want to talk. No funny business I promise," he smiled his dazzling smile again.
Wow she said to herself, this man's smile was impossible to resist. Every time he smiled her stomach flipped over. "Sure, let me tell Angela. You'll have to drive, I came with her." She went to find Angela to tell her she was leaving.
"Hey Sweetie how are you getting home, it's still early yet, I really don't want to leave."
"I'm not going home actually Ange. See that guy over there talking to those guys? He wants to go to a diner and talk."
"Is that a new variation on come up and see my etchings?"
"No Ange, he really wants to just talk and eat pie."
She woke with a big smile on her face and turned over to see him still in her bed. Leaning over and running her tongue around the edge of his ear she whispered "mmmm Booth did you mean what you said that first night?"
He opened his eyes as soon as her tongue touched his ear. "Did I mean what?"
"You said I could lay my love on you?"
He opened his eyes and looked at her and answered in total seriousness "do you want to Bones? Do you want to love me, for me to love you?"
She sat up and crossed her legs "don't you know?"
"No Baby, I really don't." He took a deep breath; he had wanted to tell her for so long now. Recently they had decided to move their relationship on to the next level but had never talked about love. Once their relationship had become a sexual one they had even played games like they had last night still, they had never talked about love. They had never said I love you. He sat up and faced her, his knees touching hers. "Bones you are the most beautiful, intelligent, sexy woman I have ever known." He was going to tell her, the time had come, his time had come. He reached over and placed a delicate kiss on her lips "Baby I love you, not in an atta-a-girl way or in any way other than as a man loves the woman of his dreams. I want to go to sleep in your arms every night and wake up in them every morning."
"It has taken me a long time to get here, you have waited and you have always been there for me no matter how foolish I have been. I think I've been foolish enough Seeley Joseph Booth. I love you too and I am declining my right to remain silent." she said with all the conviction in her voice she could manage.
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This chapter was inspired by "You have the Right To Remain Silent" Performed and Lyrics by Perfect Stranger
When I first heard song I though how perfect for Seeley to sing to Temperance. He was Mirandizing her about her rights in love.
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