Title: Our Place
Series: Yes, Bones this is love! 8/?
Author: Chymom
Spoilers: Any episode of Bones maybe talked about in this story.
Rating: PG
Word count: words
Characters and parings: Booth/Bones
Disclaimer: I don't own any thing you know. Anything else thought is mine.
Summary: Bones and Booth talk late one night. Things change are they better or worse and how does the FBI play into this? Hint: Think of Bones pictures in "What is love?"
Beta: MMWillow13
Yes, Bones this is love!
End of chapter seven: When Hannah meet Sully
Their lunch was filled with light hearted talking and fun memories of the last few months. Hannah and Sully were now part of their past once again, but now they were part of a past that was not going to haunt either one of their dreams.
The rest of the afternoon Booth and Bones spent talking about things to do this weekend with Parker. Booth stayed at her place that night wondering about what the next step for them would be. Unlike the night before they both were awake late, but neither one was staring at the ceiling lost in thought. They didn't make love that night. They only held each other as they fell asleep. Each comforted by the other being with them.
Chapter eight: Our place
One week later Bones was standing outside Booth's office door. She smiled to her self as she watched him finishing up his paperwork.
"Are you ready to call it a night?" The sweetest voice Booth had heard all day asked from his door way.
"Dr. Brennan the workaholic is asking me if I'm ready to leave?" Booth smiled as he asked.
"Some things are worth the time away from work. Agent Booth." Her smile had a glint of mischief in it.
"Give me five minutes." He replied giving her check a quick kiss. Noticing the playfulness in her, he knew a kiss on that sinful mouth would have to wait until they were home.
True to his word five minutes later Booth was walking out his office door. In his hurry to join her, he had left his keys sitting on his desk. However, it wasn't until they were standing by the elevator that he noticed his lack of keys.
"I'll meet you by the car. I need to run back to my office for a minute." He told her once he realized what he had done with them. Against his better judgment he bent down to quickly kiss the pout off her lovely face.
"Okay." Was the only reply that he heard as the elevator doors closed. Turning he quickly ran to his office.
Finding them he took the stairs hoping to meet her half way to the car. After taking the stairs two at a time he took a few long deep breaths before exiting the Hoover Building. He looked out expecting Bones to be half way though the parking lot by now. However, she was sitting just outside on the main walkway that led into the building. That walk has seen many different things in its time. There have been shoot outs, people running from the law, and a few hearts broken. One of the hearts being his own.
"This isn't the car." He joked as he got closer to her. The shine and tearful look in her eyes stopped what ever he was going to say next.
"Bones?"
"I'm sorry Booth." She did her best to hide the tears in her eyes. As much as she wanted to hide her pain it flowed from her body in waves.
"Bones, what is it?" The concern for her evident in his voice.
"This is where we changed." She whispered.
"What are you talking about?"
"This is where the center failed."
"The center is still holding strong Bones it never failed." Judging by the tears now freely flowing down her face his words had hurt instead of helped her.
"No, here we cracked. We pulled and pushed until things didn't stay. We lost the center. It may be back and strong now. But it's not what it once was. That is something we can never have back." Booth didn't know what to say or do. He loved Bones and if anything this was the place that showed him that he couldn't live without her.
"The center may have cracked Bones, but it didn't break."
"How can you say that? I went one way and you went another. Seven months, I didn't see you or talk to you. Those were the longest seven months of my life! We were broken at that point. The team was split up in different parts of the world."
"Yes, we were separated for seven months. In those seven months the first few made me think about us. About how things had changed. You told me that night that you couldn't change. Bones, I never wanted you to change. I only wanted the same thing I want today. I want you to let your walls down. Let me in your life. That's all. I love you Temperance Brennan!" He had no idea how he stopped himself from pulling her into his arms. He knew that as smart and gifted as she was she needed to time to say some things. If she was going to be able to get this what ever it was off her chest he would have to give that to her. Cause he knew if he pulled her in his arms that she wouldn't say them.
"Booth, when you came back with Hannah. I thought that was it. That you had found the happiness that you had been looking for. The happiness that I couldn't give you. I told you that when we were apart that I dreamed of us. But, I didn't tell you that I dreamed that night over and over again. That night when I told you that I didn't have the same open heart you do." He couldn't hold off any longer his hand found its own way into hers as she looked at him. Once again with tears in their eyes they sat on the wall. Two and a half years later, but this time the tears were bringing closure to the wounds that were made two and a half years ago.
"I have hated this spot since that night." Booth's mind flashed to something that he had seen more than one time over the last two years.
"If you hate it so much why is it hanging in your home?" He wasn't trying to hurt her. She had seen him looking at the picture off and on now for a year. She kept waiting for the question to be asked and now that it had she wasn't sure how to answer him.
"I took it when we got back. When you told me that you and Hannah were serious as a heart attack. I don't know why I took it. One day I was out walking to clear my head and found myself here. This place was where I lost you. Where I told you to move on that I wasn't going to be able to love you. I still don't know why I took that picture. Each time I looked at it for those months it reminded me what I had lost. That the center wasn't going to be the same. That no matter what happened in my life I could never make right what I had put wrong." Booth didn't know what to think. Bones was convinced that she didn't have an open heart what she had been telling him the last few minutes showed not only an open heart, but a broken open heart. It him hurt to see the painful tears in her eyes.
"Why do you still have it in your home then? When we got together and the center started to mend, why not sale it or give it away?" She silently stood looking into his eyes for a moment.
"Now it shows me what I have to loss by letting my pride go first. It shows me how easy life can change. How one minute something can be taken away from you."
"Bones, no one is going to take me away."
"You don't know that. You might grow tired of me and want to move on! Things change no matter how hard I want to believe they don't, they do Booth."
"Bones, your right, but life doesn't have a do over key that you can hit and make things right. Things will change, people come in and out of our lives. But, you're wrong I can't be tired or move on from you. I tried to move on and you saw how that worked out." He tried to smile, but it changed the moment he was lost in her soul filled eyes.
"Booth, I can't promise that I won't fight with you. I can't promise that I wont change. However, I can promise you that I don't see me loving anyone other than you for the rest of my life."
"What are you saying Temperance?"
"I want to make this place a happy place again. I want to make my own do over key to press."
"I don't understand." They both had to laugh through their tears at how well they had changed roles.
"Marry me Booth! Right here in our spot. Help me make that picture on my wall one that reminds me of the man I love. That the center isn't broken, that our lives might have changed and things may still change. But, you will still be there for me."
"Bones, are you sure?"
"I wouldn't have said anything if I wasn't." She had a point, but he also knew sometimes she thinks things at different levels. For example that game they played with Sweets when she asked him to donate sperm for her to have a child. It was in a matter of seconds she wanted a child. Was this the same kind of thing? He hoped not, but he had to know.
"That's true, but marriage is not something I expected to hear from you. Let alone for you to be the one to ask me to marry you." This once again brought a smile to their tear stained faces.
"I love you Seeley Booth! I don't see me being with anyone again. Even if things fall apart and our center breaks. My heart is in your hand and that's where it has been for the last almost decade. I don't foresee that changing." Her words though out of place gave him the comfort and stand ability that he was looking for.
"Yes, Bones. However I'm not sure how well a wedding here would work." He slowly took her in his arms as she thought about how to do that.
"Leave that part to me. Just get the priest and your things ready. I will get our place. One week from tonight. I want to be standing here telling you that I will be yours as I have been for the last few years."
"One week. That's not a long time to get a priest to marry us."
"One week, Booth. I don't want to wait any longer. Things will come and go as you said and life waits for no one. Why wait any longer when I can have you and Parker with me." Her point was made and he was helpless to tell her no.
"One week from tonight. We will be standing here saying I do's." He quikly kissed her then slowly moved to stand. However, the small kisses that she was placing on his neck did nothing to help keep his body parts calm.
"Bones, we have a lot to do if you want to be married in a week."
"We can think about that tomorrow. Tonight it's just you and me. Let's go home." Her words, accompanied with the feel of her soft body pressed against his were all the incentive he needed to walk towards the SUV and head to his place. His was closer.
A/N: How does Parker take the news? Who gets the job of telling Angela about the wedding? What happens when Bones asks Hacker if they can use the front of the FBI to get married? Thanks for the honest feedback.