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Chapter 22

Bones got bored with sitting on the bed. Her eyes drifted over to the night table where the magazine she'd left there the night before was sitting. She climbed onto the bed and lay down with a sigh. She snatched up the magazine and thumbed through it. Every now and then her eyes glanced sideways at the door that Booth was going to walk through at any moment. She flipped the pages without really seeing them.

Booth opened the door and Bones jumped.

"Booth, you scared me." she said.

"Uh huh." he said. "Would that be because you're not where you're supposed to be?"

Bones tilted her head and narrowed her eyes. "I shouldn't have to stand in the corner." she said defensively.

Booth said nothing at first but walked across to sit beside her. "Why is that Bones?" he asked. "Because you don't think you did anything wrong?"

"No." Her brow furrowed as she tried to think of an answer. "No I didn't say that."

"Ok then. Go back to the corner."

"No Booth."

"So you don't think you acted like one of the kids.?"

"Stop it Booth." she said.

"Stop what?"

"That...the asking questions thing." she said with irritation. "I'm not a suspect."

"Aren't you?"

"See your doing it again."

"I'm asking you simple questions Bones that I know you know the answers to. I just want to hear your answers to those questions. I know you're smart enough."

"I'm a genius Booth."

"You've mentioned that once or twice." he said with a crooked grin. "So you shouldn't have any trouble answering anything I ask."

"Of course not Booth."

Why are you not standing in the corner?"

"Because I didn't think it was necessary." She answered with a smile.

"Ok, so then you didn't need time to think about the things I asked you to think about?"

"No. I didn't." she said. She liked the way this was going, Booth seemed to be getting it, and yet something in his eyes gave her that funny persistent feeling in her tummy and brought back the tingly feeling from where he'd smacked her before. She raised her chin in challenge.

"Ok, what would have happened if the Rev had come and found the kids upstairs?"

"He would have yelled and complained and dragged Skye out of here and threatened to never let her anywhere near Lance ever again." she said honestly. "But Booth, I didn't say they could go upstairs, I said they could stay in the living room. If he had come to the door I would have answered it and the kids would have been right there. In the living room."

"Alone."

"Playing their games."

"But they weren't."

"I trusted them Booth."

"Oh? And yet they let you down Bones. They did something you asked them not to."

"Yes they did."

"Why do you suppose that is Bones?"

"I don't know. They're children. They frontal lobes aren't developed completely yet."

"Is your frontal lobe developed yet?"

"Of course." she said.

"And yet, what they did to you, which Lance was spanked for by the way, you did to me, even with your genius and your fully developed frontal lobe."

"I don't know what to say to that."

" I bet, but I do. You were wrong Bones. I want you to say it."

"Why."

"Because I asked you to." Bones rolled her eyes.

"Say it." he said.

"I was reading Booth. " she said picking up the magazine again.

"It's upside down." Booth said. At her flushed and confused look he grabbed it and turned it around. "Your magazine, it was upside down."

"Oh. I wanted it that way. I was examining a femur from a different angle." she said. She hated feeling so unnerved.

BONESBONESBONESBONES

Booth watched Bones as she slowly unravelled. He let her keep the magazine. A false sense of security wouldn't hurt, in fact it would only work in his favour.

"Uh huh." he said. I still want you to say it. You were wrong to leave the kids alone and you were wrong to break a promise. Tell me this Bones. If we were all in the lab waiting for you to finish something and you got called away for a minute."

"I don't see what that has to do with any of this..."

Booth held up his hand to stop her. "Let me finish." he said. "Now you tell me that it's very important that I don't let the kids go anywhere near the table where you have bones laid all over in their creepy like state. Promise me, you say."

"Booth its not the same."

"Yeah it is Bones." he said continuing with his scenario. So the kids are all, being kids and nagging. Daddy we just wanna look. Booth we won't touch anything we promise." He could see he was getting to her.

"They'd be all come on! Please?" Booth said. "Now what if I said. Look with your eyes. No touching. I look around for something to do. They promised I think, I can't see the point in watching them. I'll go and talk to Hodgins."

"Ok Booth."

"I'm not finished yet." he said with a smile. Not by a long shot missy, he thought. "So you come back and I'm not there and our beautiful boys are on the platform playing some kind of game with your bones. Who do you blame Bones?"

"I don't know." she said stubbornly. "That didn't happen Booth. The boys wouldn't play on the platform."

"We don't know that Bones, because I wouldn't allow them to get that far. I would have you back."

"I ALWAYS have your back Booth." she said with a wince.

"Not this time Bones. You dropped the ball."

"I didn't have a ball Booth."

He narrowed his eyes and she could tell he was losing patience.

"But I get what your saying." she added quickly.

"Good so say it."

BONESBONESBONESBONES

Bones was speechless. He'd won and he was going to make her say it.

"I'm waiting Bones." Booth said.

"I...I was wrong. I shouldn't have left the kids alone." she said finally and the words nearly choked her.

"Now we're getting somewhere." he said.

"But we're done Booth!" she said in a panicky voice. "I did what you said I admitted I was wrong. Isn't that enough?"

"Nope. Means to an end Bones. Means to an end."

"I don't know what that means."

"I've been proving to you that you acted the same as the kids. Worse! You were the adult in charge. You undermined me and it wasn't the first time. If we don't come together on stuff these kids are going to be the ones that lose. It's a kids job to shine and beg and try change your mind. It's the adult's job to say no. That's why I sent you to the corner so you could come up with that all by your self."

"Booth I don't mean to undermine you."

"But you do. You know what Parker said?"

"What?" she asked. She couldn't help but feel a little hurt that Parker had said something bad to Booth about her.

"I asked him how he knew he had to run in here and protect everyone."

"And what did he say?"

"He said that YOU were in charge and that whenever you're in charge you give in."

Bones felt bad. Not offended but worse because that was a simple statement of truth from a child who saw things more clearly than she saw them herself. "Oh."

"Oh's right. From the mouths of babes."

Bones chewed her lip nervously, again her posterior was tingling and her stomach didn't feel right.

"So you want me to go back to the corner?" she asked incredulously.

"Nope." Booth said. "No point. We've moved passed that now. Now we're up to the consequences part."

Bones' eyes widened in disbelief. "Consequences? Booth, we talked, I admitted I made a mistake."

"Yes you did."

"But Booth..."

"See that's the way it works Bones. We've tried talking and explaining and PROMISING."

Bones breathing quickened. "What are you going to do?" she asked.

"I'm going to spank you Bones. I'm going to turn you over my knee and spank your butt until your a hundred percent sure you don't ever want to undermine me again."

"I won't let you."

"Yes you will."

"I have a black belt in karate Booth." she said bravely.

"Which you won't use."

"You couldn't stop me." she said.

"I won't have to."he said taking her hand.

"What makes you so sure?" she asked trying to ignore the warning signs she'd had since she'd been up there.

"Because Bones. We work in the system. We both know how it works. You do the crime, you do the time. In this case your time over my knee."

BONESBONESBONESBONES

Bones pulled against Booth as he tugged on her arm. "Wait Booth." she said. Her mind was racing trying to come up with a counter argument but the facts were that she was wrong and that Lance had been spanked because she didn't do the adult thing and say no. Not to mention that Parker had nailed that fact before he even knew what had happened.

Bones suddenly stopped resisting and she tumbled across Booth's denim covered knees. She squeezed her eyes shut and held her breath while she waited for the first smack. "OW!" she yelled as Booth's hard hand connected with the back of her jeans. It was more of an automatic response than a reaction to pain. She had to admit to herself that she was somewhat pleased that she was wearing the pants with the thicker fabric than her usual work..." Her thoughts were interrupted. What was he doing? His hand seemed to be underneath her. He was undoing her jeans! "Hey!Booth!" she said. It was too late. Her jeans had been pulled down to her knees and judging by the whisper of fresh breeze the wafted across her buttocks so had her panties. "No..."she said like protesting would actually do some good. If she was honest, she knew it was going to happen. Booth was way too thorough, if he was going to punish her, he would make sure that she felt it.

BONESBONESBONESBONESBONES

Booth looked at his soft white target with a gleam in his eyes. So many times he'd wanted to be in this very position. She was the most beautiful, intelligent, frustrating and special person he'd ever met.

"Come on Booth." Bones said with a wriggle of her naked butt. "If you insist on doing this just do it."

Booth shook his head and raised in his hand and brought it down with a sharp whack across her left cheek, before Bones could complain he gave her a matching smack on her other cheek.

"Ouch Booth. That hurt!"

"I think that's the point Bones." he said and he started to spank her in earnest. His hand bounced off each white cheek ignoring her protests as it intermingled one pink hand print after another. He spanked high and he spanked low, the handprints all merging into a uniform pink.

BONESBONESBONESBONESBONES

Bones tried to remain stoic. She took deep breath and clenched and unclenched her cheeks, in an effort to shake off the pain. It did NOT help. After a particularly hard volley of spanks that landed in the exact same spot she cried out. Booth! Stop! It hurts." He didn't, but he did move to the other cheek to give it the same treatment.

"Are you going to undermine me with the kids anymore?" he asked his hand poised to deliver more if needed.

"NO!" Bones cried. She burst into tears. Her breath coming out raggedly as she sobbed into Booth's jeans.

"I'm so..ry." she wailed. Booth lay back on the bed and pulled her with him, making sure her bottom didn't make contact with the bed.

"Shhh." he said. "It's all over. You're all forgiven and we don't need to talk about it again."

"Ever?" she sniffed cuddling into his side.

"Well EVER is a long time Bones. Let's just say that we won't talk about it again if you don't do it again."

"I won't." she said with a sniff.

"Well good. Im proud of you Bones."

"Really?" she asked.

"Of course." he said. "I've always been proud of you Bones, but I'm even more proud of you now."

"Why?"

"Because you admitted you were wrong and you took your punishment."

"Ok." she said. "But Booth?"

"Yeah Bones?"

"I don't know that you should spank the kids." she said. "It really hurts."

"That's the point Bones!" he said. "We are NOT going there again."

"I was joking Booth." she said with a smile. It was odd, she thought. She felt positively euphoric.

"Really. Funny Bones."

"I know." Her phone rang in her bag and she got up to answer it and almost fell over her pants that were still bunched up at her knees. She leant over and grabbed it as Booth steadied her and straightened her pants.

"Hello?" she said into her phone.

"Hi honey it's Ang."

"Hi Angela. I nearly fell." she said.

"Oh? You ok?"

"Yes Booth 's pulled up my pants now."

"Oh really." Ang said happily. "Did I catch you two having a little afternoon delight?"

Booth was waving his arms around frantically to stop the train wreck he could see coming. Bones didn't catch on.

"No!" she said. "Booth just spanked me."

TBC