"What does this mean for us?"

"What do you mean?"

"What does this make us?"

"We're partners."

"You just told me that you want to be wherever I am," he reminds her.

"I know."

"I don't understand."

"We can't be together. You understand that right?"

"No, not at all."

"We're colleagues, partners. If we have a romantic relationship then we'll put our partnership at risk, henceforth putting the people around us at odds and..."

"You're assuming that it won't work."

"I don't see how it could. We're two totally different people."

"That's the beauty of it."

"We can't be together it would never work."

"Answer me something."

"What?"

"Do you love me?"

"I..."

"You can't lie to me. I know you too well."

"What do you want me to say?"

"I just want the truth."

"I thought that me coming back because of you made it perfectly clear that I had feelings for you."

"You made that clear when you didn't go with Sully."

"What more do you want?"

"I want you."

"It won't work."

"It will if don't try to stop it."

"Booth..."

"Temperance it's just the two of us here. Tell me the truth."

"No."

"Why not?"

"No one in this world knows me like you. No one knows more about me. I don't want to be hurt."

"I would never hurt you."

"You already have," a lump forms in her throat.

"What do you mean?"

"When you died. That hurt me. I didn't have anyone to talk to. I would have told someone, but that someone was gone."

"Me?"

"Yes you. You're the one I tell those kinds of things to, and suddenly you were just gone. You were dead and it was my fault."

"How was that your fault?"

"She wanted to kill me. You stood in front of the bullet."

"Temperance..."

"She wanted me dead because she thought that you had feelings for me. She shot you because she didn't want me standing in her way. I don't want that on my conscience. I don't want to put your life at risk again because people think that we have feelings for one another."

"She was right."

"What?"

"I do have feelings for you."

"You're my partner we can't be together."

"Our partnership means more to you and being together romantically?"

"If we're together romantically the bureau will separate us. If they separate us we won't be able to catch murderers. Two lives cannot be more valuable than hundreds, even thousands."

"What about personal happiness?"

"It isn't important."

"It is."

"We can't be together."

"If we can't be together you might as well go back to Charlotte."

"Why?"

"Because I can't be your partner. I can't be your partner knowing that we have feelings for each other and you refuse to do anything about it."

"Booth..."

"I love you," he tells her.

She stares at him. "Why did you have to say that?"

"Because it's a true fact."

"But you said it, and now... now you can't take it back."

"I wouldn't want to."

"I can't un-hear it."

He stares into her deep blue-green eyes, "Temperance do you love me?"

"Relationships are temporary."

"Only if you want them to be. What we have is something special. What we have is lasting, it's forever."

"But..."

"There are no buts. I love you."

"I..."

"You what?"

"I wait on you to call. To hear your voice. I tried to pretend that I didn't have feelings for you. I tried to have other relationships, but they were never right. None of them were you."

"What are you saying to me?"

"I love you."

"So what is the problem? Why can't we be together?"

"Statistics show that..."

"Screw the statistics. I need you in my life. I need you to be in my life forever."

"I can't promise that."

"Then don't. Just give me today."

"What?"

"Don't promise me forever. Just give today. Just take it one day at a time. No one promised us a tomorrow, so just give me today."

"Ok."

"Ok?"

"Yes. Ok. I can do that."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"So what does this mean?"

"For today I'll be yours."

"My what?"

"Just yours."

"You hungry?"

"Always."

"Let's go have dinner."

"Don't you have..."

"It's just paperwork. Besides it's not any fun without you."

She smiles at him. He smiles back at her.