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Title: 10 years later
Summary: It’ had been 10 years since Temperance Brennan and Seely Booth had worked on a case.
Characters: Booth
Pairing: Slighty B/B and implications of Booth/OC
Rating: PG
Word Count: 582
A/N: Will write two pieces one from Booth POV and one from Brennan’s. This is BOOTH’S P.O.V. Might seem slightly OOC at times, but remember this is set 15 years in the future.
Disclaimer:I do not own Bones or Hot Blooded.
Booth turned on the radio of his car; his head was filled with thoughts and worries. He didn’t even realize what song was playing before he heard.
Well, I’m hot blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I’m hot blooded, I’m hot blooded
It had been 10 years since even had seen Temperance Brennan, but every time he heard that song that memory of her somehow came into his mind. The picture of her beautiful hair and lovely smile appeared in his mind. He couldn’t help it. The song trigged it, every time.
He looked over at the empty seat next to him, the seat that used to be hers. The seat he knew always would be hers in someway. The seat was a reminder of what they had shared.
It had been 10 years since they said their goodbyes when she left with her husband to work in Montreal. 10 years since they had worked together on a case, 10 years. But he still remembered every little detail about her. 10 years since she had asked him if she should go with her husband to Montreal, 10 years since he had said yes, even if he knew that his life would feel somewhat empty without her in it. He knew that she had to do that, he knew she loved her husband just as much as he loved Camilla, his wife.
He turned over to the left and looked over at street. It was the same street that she had agreed to work with him, the same street that had begun their partnership. The street that he had compared them to Scully and Mulder.
He could go days, even weeks without thinking about Temperance or something she did.
But that song always triggered the memory of them dancing in her apartment that day, he didn’t remember to much else from that day. Just the two of them dancing to the song, and just being completely free from everything. He remembered a lot from the first couple of years at the Jeffersonian, he remembered how they felt, how they were before, and he remembered how jealous he was of Sully. He remembered asking her out on their first date, their first kiss and their first break-up. He remembered how they had been on and off for years before she met Jonathan the guy that later turned out to be the love of her life,
He remembered how his heart broke when she told him she was engaged, how much it hurt him knowing that she was more happy with him than she ever was with her. He got over it though; he realized that the only thing he really wanted was for her to be happy.
He remembered her wedding, how beautiful she had looked in her dress, how happy she was. That was the day he finally let go of Temperance Brennan, and fell in love with Camilla Sommerseth, a girl Brennan had known in college and that was invited to her wedding. It was the end of what they used to be and the beginning of something he never thought would happen. A life without Temperance Brennan.
A pulled over and parked his car. He looked up at the Washington Elementary School and girl was running towards the car screaming “Daddy, Daddy!” He smiled towards her and smiled. “How was your day, baby Joy”.