Title: More Than Words
Author: Anna (bite_or_avoid)
Pairing: Booth/Brennan
Rating: PG

Word Count: 265
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Spoilers: Season Finale


Coffee

There's something to this, she thinks.

The way they sit together, bodies lightly touching. The way they share a beer, or fries, or a long buried secret. They've been coming more frequently now, the secrets, as if the inevitability of death is spurring their mouths into action. Ironic, considering death is their forte. But there's meaning behind the words tumbling softly between them. There has always been trust, honesty, but he is letting her see deeper into himself now, and the Booth she knew is but an aspect of the man before her. She wonders if it is the result of a realization he has come to, or if it is simply a side effect of the brain surgery that has loosened his tongue. Although, the tumor was localized to the cerebellum, and thus there was no instrumentation in the vicinity of his frontal cortex so….

The brain surgery theory does not hold up under scrutiny.

Whatever the reason for abandoning his reticence, she is grateful. And she understands this thing between them a lot better than everyone perceives. She knows what she feels is… something. Something more than the insistence of just partners. Something more than close friends. Something more than the line in the sand he drew when it was already too late.

"Booth."

He sits closer to her now. Looks at her longer. Does he really think she doesn't notice?

"Yeah, Bones."

And she wants to give something of herself back, the way he's always telling her. She wants to give him something he never has to doubt.

"We're more than coffee."