#47 Brennan/Booth
Title: Belong
Fandom: Bones
Characters: Brennan/Booth
Prompt: #47 - Belong
Word Count: 503
Rating: PG-13
Summary: They both hide the truth, but it’s as obvious for them, as it is for the rest of the world: they belong together.
047. Belong
To be suitable, appropriate, or advantageous.
There’s a marked difference in the way they process things. As a rule she over-thinks, carefully considering implications and consequences before reaching the best decision possible, in accordance with the facts she’s been given. He, on the other hand, is prone to impulsive decisions, based on things that cannot be measured, like instinct, and intuition.
Maybe that’s why when it comes to their feelings it takes her a lot longer to put a name to what’s happening to her. He feels something changing, and realizes what’s going on without long contemplations or conclusive proof:
He is falling in love with her.
She feels the difference, notices the signs, and yet she doesn’t understand what’s different, can’t put a name to the changes she sees in both of them. He’s tenderer, she’s more open. She thinks perhaps it’s just the natural progression of their working relationship, and wonders if this is what trust does: change everything.
He is way in front of her, and yet he doesn’t say anything. He understands the emotions going through them, sees the desperate need in her eyes to classify what she’s feeling into something she can understand. So he takes a step back, leaves her alone to her revelation, and begins to take into consideration the implications of his own discovery.
He isn’t sure he likes them.
For her, the implications are not something that comes separately from the thing itself. She’s seen the proof, analyzed all the possible variables, and after a thorough study reached the only possible conclusion:
She’s falling in love with him.
And the timing couldn’t be worse.
Separately they reach the same conclusion. Being together now, admitting all the thoughts of ‘love, comfort, passion …forever’ that have suddenly come into their minds is not only impractical, it’s dangerous. She could be in danger, he’s realized. We could be forced to give up working together, she considers.
And so they go on, not acknowledging the feelings that are, somehow, clear to all that know them. He tries to deny it more fervently, because he feels, in a wholly irrational way that has nothing to do with reason, and everything to do with fear, that if he lets himself love her, and then looses her, he won’t be able to deal.
She looks at him differently, and doesn’t say anything, even if she thinks that the entire contents of her heart must be out in the open for him to see. It’s been a while since she’s been able to rejoice in the feeling of being loved, and so she closes her eyes and accepts the gift he’s giving her, without asking for anything. Not now, not yet.
They both hide the truth, but it’s as obvious for them, as it is for the rest of the world: they belong together.
Fandom: Bones
Characters: Brennan/Booth
Prompt: #47 - Belong
Word Count: 503
Rating: PG-13
Summary: They both hide the truth, but it’s as obvious for them, as it is for the rest of the world: they belong together.
047. Belong
To be suitable, appropriate, or advantageous.
There’s a marked difference in the way they process things. As a rule she over-thinks, carefully considering implications and consequences before reaching the best decision possible, in accordance with the facts she’s been given. He, on the other hand, is prone to impulsive decisions, based on things that cannot be measured, like instinct, and intuition.
Maybe that’s why when it comes to their feelings it takes her a lot longer to put a name to what’s happening to her. He feels something changing, and realizes what’s going on without long contemplations or conclusive proof:
He is falling in love with her.
She feels the difference, notices the signs, and yet she doesn’t understand what’s different, can’t put a name to the changes she sees in both of them. He’s tenderer, she’s more open. She thinks perhaps it’s just the natural progression of their working relationship, and wonders if this is what trust does: change everything.
He is way in front of her, and yet he doesn’t say anything. He understands the emotions going through them, sees the desperate need in her eyes to classify what she’s feeling into something she can understand. So he takes a step back, leaves her alone to her revelation, and begins to take into consideration the implications of his own discovery.
He isn’t sure he likes them.
For her, the implications are not something that comes separately from the thing itself. She’s seen the proof, analyzed all the possible variables, and after a thorough study reached the only possible conclusion:
She’s falling in love with him.
And the timing couldn’t be worse.
Separately they reach the same conclusion. Being together now, admitting all the thoughts of ‘love, comfort, passion …forever’ that have suddenly come into their minds is not only impractical, it’s dangerous. She could be in danger, he’s realized. We could be forced to give up working together, she considers.
And so they go on, not acknowledging the feelings that are, somehow, clear to all that know them. He tries to deny it more fervently, because he feels, in a wholly irrational way that has nothing to do with reason, and everything to do with fear, that if he lets himself love her, and then looses her, he won’t be able to deal.
She looks at him differently, and doesn’t say anything, even if she thinks that the entire contents of her heart must be out in the open for him to see. It’s been a while since she’s been able to rejoice in the feeling of being loved, and so she closes her eyes and accepts the gift he’s giving her, without asking for anything. Not now, not yet.
They both hide the truth, but it’s as obvious for them, as it is for the rest of the world: they belong together.