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This one includes B&B, jungle and some B&B lovin':)
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"Bones, you finished it." Booth said with laughter in his voice.
"What! I went to get a beer and when I came back there was no food left." Brennan poked his side. They were at Booth's apartment, celebrating with take out the closure of another case. "Admit it!" Brennan was smiling, still poking his side.
"No!" Booth said through laughter as he fell back on the couch, bringing her with him. They were tickling each other, just being silly when Booth's phone rang. He answered in a laughing fit, but his face turned serious within instants. Brennan sat up straight and waited, taking in his seriousness.
"Who was it?" Brennan asked once he hung up.
"Caroline." He answered.
"Isn't she on vacation?" Brennan asked, taking a swing from her beer.
"Yeah. She asked for our help." Brennan looked at him questioningly until he told her what was going on. "Caroline's friend went missing four days ago. A body was found a few hours ago and it's your type of bodies. She's asking for you to help ID the body." Booth took a swing from his own beer. "She's asking as a personal favor." Brennan nodded; she had respect and admiration for the puckish prosecutor.
"Where to?" She asked, rising from the couch.
"Costa Rica." Booth answered.
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Caroline was waiting for them at the airport when they landed. Brennan noticed Booth was walking slower than usual.
"You hurt your back?" It was more a statement than question. "I told you I'd pay the difference from coach to first class." Booth just grunted. Brennan dropped her bag and worked her 'magic knuckles', as Booth called them. Caroline caught site of them and smiled for the first time in days.
"And you're just partners?" She asked, causing the agent to blush. Brennan went straight into work mode and asked about the body. Caroline filled them in on what she knew as they left the airport.
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They reached the small police station and the man in charge went wide eyed when he saw Brennan. Caroline introduced the partners to Carlos. Carlos told them he'd be honored to have them help crack the case.
Brennan was taken to the coroner's office. The man was well built and smiled wide when he saw Brennan.
"La Doctora Temperance Brennan." Raul shook her hand, still smiling. Brennan and the coroner talked for a few minutes before Brennan took a look at the body. They were left alone to work, but Booth stayed close and alert in case she needed him.
By night fall Brennan and Booth were taken to their hotel. They had joined rooms and that made Booth feel more at ease. There hadn't been a positive ID on the body, but it couldn't be Caroline's friend since the victim had never broken her leg.
Brennan had just showered and was seated on her bed when Booth entered her room. He made sure she was fine before heading to bed.
A few days later, thanks to some forensic evidence, the body was ID-ed and so was the killer. When Andres was arrested he'd confessed to other murders linked to missing people in the area. Caroline's friend was found safely at the man's house; he hadn't had time to execute his plan. He told them where he'd buried the other bodies and Carlos along with Raul the coroner, Booth, Brennan, a female officer named Karla and Ana, a guide, decided to head out into the jungle and take a look.
It was early, but the sun was up and the heat was sticky inside the jungle they were currently walking through. By mid day they'd reached the so called burial site and after some exploring for bodies, they found nothing but trash. They decided to head back.
After about an hour of walking the guide admitted she was lost.
"We're lost!" Carlos accused. Trying to pose off as the alpha male to impress Brennan, he took the reins. After an hour of walking with him, even Brennan could tell they were walking in circles. Raul, trying to impress Brennan as well, took the reins. After another hour, he had them running in circles too.
"You don't know where we are either!" Karla spat at the coroner. The map was lost and the satellite phone was out of batteries. It all smelled too fishy for Booth. He wondered if the killer had someone helping him.
"Booth can get us out." Brennan's statement stunned Booth.
"The guide and these two idiots couldn't get us out. What makes you think your man will?" The female officer asked, not thinking the hot agent would do any better than the other two so called alphas.
"Booth's skills are excellent. He's been in the army." Booth smiled, loving the way she trusted his gut and skills.
Booth had been contemplating the most probable way out while the other men had tried to get them out. He picked a trail and they followed. Everyone was following, the other men kept quietly to themselves.
Brennan yelped and Booth worriedly turned to her. "What's wrong, Bones?" He asked.
"Snake!" She shrieked and Booth caught site of the snake several yards away. Booth told her to get on his back and Brennan didn't think twice. The other women were jealous of Brennan being carried by the hunky agent. They drooled over his strong biceps.
After a few minutes Brennan felt much better and remembered about his bad back. She had been irrational and she felt bad for the potential back ache she'd cause him. "Sorry, Booth. I forgot about your back." She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before jumping off his back.
They reached a military base just as the sun was going down. Booth went in ahead of them and talked with one of the soldiers. It turned out that the man in charge had served with him when he was in Kosovo.
"You were right about your man." The female agent told Brennan. Brennan didn't comment.
There were three available tents. They would be chopper-ed out of there first thing in the morning. The other women wanted to share a tent with Booth but he told him he was used to rooming with Brennan. The other two men wanted to room with the other women since they had no chance with Brennan, but they turned them down. The women stayed in one tent and the men in another. The partners had their own tent.
The cots were small and Brennan suggested putting them side by side.
"Bones?" He turned to face her. "Thanks for the vote of confidence back there in the jungle."
"Rangers lead the way." Booth had to smile at that.
"You remembered the line." He said with a chuckle. Brennan laughed along.
They had all been given some clothes from the base to change into for the night. Booth, being a gentleman, stepped out of the tent to allow her to change. He was changing into his own clothes and hadn't heard the guide's footsteps. He turned and found the woman standing a few inches away from him.
"Why so lonely?" Her eyes scanned over his body.
"I'm just waiting for my partner to change." He was being nice, but the woman was too close to him.
"You wouldn't have to wait outside if you were bunking with me." She gave him a seductive smile and tried to wrap her arms around his neck. Booth was keeping her arms off him when Brennan exited the tent. She was aware of his attempt to get the woman away from him and decided to help.
"Booth, let's go. It's time for bed." The way she said 'bed' even had Booth with his mouth open. He quickly followed her inside the tent. The guide stared after them, getting the obvious message and left to her own tent.
"That was great, Bones." He tossed his dirty clothes on the floor. "Good thing no one from DC heard that." He chuckled lightly and Brennan gave him a confused look.
"Why?" She asked and Booth just told her to forget it and go to sleep.
It was two hours later and Brennan was still tossing in her cot while Booth slept. She decided to wake him and clear things out.
"What did you mean with someone from DC hearing about us going to bed together?" Brennan shook him as she spoke. Booth opened his eyes to look at her and it took him a second to get it straight.
"You know why, Bones." He said sleepily as he turned on his side, his back to her. Brennan shook him again, insisting on the subject. Booth groaned and sat on the cot. "You know they would take it some other way and think we have an intimate relationship."
"So, you're worried people will get the wrong idea?" She was trying not to yell, but she felt angry for some reason.
"Yes…no." Booth scratched his head as he spoke.
"Which one is it?" She asked, rising from her cot and walking around to stand in front of him.
"Yes, no means no." He said annoyed by the whole discussion. He too rose from the cot. They were face to face, hot breaths mingling. Neither wanted to back down, the sexual tension was radiating off their bodies. In a moment they caught fire and Brennan locked her lips with his as his arms went around her. Their kiss was long, passionate, demanding and needy. They needed each other and neither was ready to end it in a kiss.
"You sure about this, Bones?" He rested his forehead on hers, trying to catch his breath and readying himself in case she wanted to pull back. "There's no going back once we do this." He captured her lips one more time. He broke the kiss, ready to step back. Her arms kept him close as she kissed him again, passionate and full force.
Their moans and screams of pleasure had the entire base awake, but neither of the partners cared. They had waited and come too far for this and they were not holding back just so that they wouldn't wake up the others.
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The partners and the others were chopper-ed off the base and the others looked at the partners with interest. Booth and Brennan sat together, never taking their eyes off each other. The others expected the partners to get naked and once again do what they had done all night long.
Caroline and her friend were waiting for them, ready to get the hell out of that place and return to DC. The prosecutor didn't miss the way the partners looked at each other or the way the others looked at the partners.
"Just partners. Yeah right." Caroline said with a cheeky smile.
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