A/N I seen an interview with TJ Thyne where he mentioned that bones and booth are just waiting for the right time. well personally I say it has been the right time about a million times, but alas since we cant rely on them for the good stuff I decided I would write a series of one shots that could be different versions of "the right time" Either way something makes one of them snap and decide to cross that line. This is my first one, and depending on the reviews, I will get started on more I have a million ideas so if you want to hear them make sure you let me know. also any ideas of your own that you have im open to that as well. All mistakes are mine, I dont have a beta so if you see some be sure to tell me and i will fix em! well on with the show...

I've been away now for 3 months. Working undercover. I hate it. I hate not seeing my family and friends, not sleeping in my own bed. I hate not seeing my son, and I hate not being able to see Bones. I'm supposed to be infiltrating, they are supposed to trust me, bring me in and then bring them down. Well I'm in, and the problem is they have not done anything illegal. Well not anything that the FBI thinks is worth it. They want big, and huge. So I get to stay here until they get that.

I sleep in a seedy motel, and sling beer at a seedy bar. My "name" is Derek Diogarda. I'm from Jersey. I have no family, and no money and will do anything to get ahead. It's hard to remember sometimes. I try and read my profile every night before I go to sleep. I don't need a slip up. I plan on coming home to my son.

I break the rules though. I know I shouldn't, but a long with practicing my profile, I have a story for this if I ever get caught. Every night as soon as I get off of "work" I make my way back to my motel. I walk, a man with no money can't afford a car. As I round the corner to the hotel. I see it. A lonely phone booth. The glass is shattered the light on the inside is long past burnt out. The phone itself has been burnt, carved and written on, but it still works. And that's where I break the rules. I make a phone call. I reach into my pocket to gather my money. I spend my tip money every night at this pay phone. Some nights I can talk forever sometimes I feel like I can barely get a whole sentence in before the operator is telling me I have one minute left. But I still call I would take thirty seconds over nothing.

She always answers after the first ring. She knows it's me, and she knows not to say my name. She knows what my cover name is but I won't let her say it. It seems false to me, somehow dirty coming from her lips. The first thing she asks is if I'm ok. She never even says hello or how are you. Always cutting to the chase. If I am late calling her she sounds out of breath when she asks, and when I confirm my safety she tells me I scared the shit out of her. I don't use her name either. Even though there is no way of any of these guys figuring out who Bones is, I'm not taking any more chances than I already am with her.

We talk about nothing and everything. I tell her what I can, and she tells me everything. Tells me how everyone is. She even visits my son for me. Sending him messages from me, and telling me every time he tells her to tell me he loves me. I always get a little choked up when I tell her to tell him back. Sometimes we bicker about menial things, or just enjoy some inane chatter. Sometimes we say nothing at all, I just listen to her breath, and try and picture her face. It's always sad when the operator comes on. I don't want to hang up, but I know I have to until the next night. She always sighs right after the operator, which makes me smile and my heart swell. I love knowing that she doesn't want to hang up either. Every night I want to tell her that I miss her. I want to tell her how much I am craving to see her. I want to tell her how much…I love her. But I don't. I tell her to tell everyone I said hello. And I ask her if I can call her tomorrow. She never says yes or of course she only answers me you better. God I love this women. And then we say goodnight, and then I listen to the last few precious seconds of her breathing before my time runs out.

Sometimes I go back to my motel, sometimes I go to the guy down the hall, which is actually the guy that runs the whole operation that I am undercover for. And as much as I hate him, it's better than being alone. He always has women there, most of them flirt with me. They always want to take me home, but I always get to drunk to do anything about it, or so they think. I have taken a couple to bed, I need to blend in. But it's horrible, my body responds accordingly but my brain and my heart are rejecting it with everything I have. I just squeeze my eyes tight, letting them do all the work and pray to god I don't throw up. I've told bones each and every time it happened. Hoping that she will absolve my guilt. Which she does, every time. Tells me that I have to do it, if these guys are weary of me then I will never get out of this undercover shit. She is right of course, but I can't help but feeling as though I have betrayed her. I never tell her this though. That part she doesn't need to know.

I have been here for three months and I am tired, so tired. I make my way to the payphone to make my nightly phone call. I have some extra tips tonight, so I am excited. The previous night's conversation had been short and I was looking forward to having some real time to talk to her. No matter how tired I was or had been, I could not help being excited when the phone started to ring. One ring…two rings…three rings…Hello?

It wasn't her, it was a man. I am here putting my life on the line every night to call her and she brings a fucking guy home. Wait not just bring a guy home she lets him answer her phone. She could have just said she was busy, does she not care. She has to know it's me, this is the time that I call.

I'm seething, I've yet to say anything not sure if I'm going to ask him to speak to her yet, when I hear her voice in the background. "Sully just give me the phone"

Sully? He was back. How long had he been back. Bones had said nothing to me about it.

"Booth that you"

I groaned, what an idiot. I said nothing, if I responded I didn't know what I would say.

"Listen Booth, I know that's you. Listen I'm back in Tempe's life now, and I don't think it's appropriate that you call her every night. It's not fair to her or me. We deserve to be able to have some piece, and it's not helping when she is pacing the floor till you call. And then spending sometimes as much as 2 hours on the phone with you so that you can feel better about the fact that you abandoned her, and your family."

How dare him. I abandoned her? What the fuck did he do to her. Sure as fuck didn't stick around that was me, I was the one that picked up the pieces after he left. Even though it killed me that she was that upset over a man that wasn't me. I was there for her when her dad was on trial, I was there when the whole Zach thing happened. I ground out the only words I could think of.

"Let me talk to her"

"Booth, she is in the other room she doesn't want to talk to you."

"Then she can tell me herself"

The phone cut off for a second, and then I hear a muted sully asking her if she wants to talk to me. Then I hear nothing until a timid.

"Hello"

Again I am struck with nothing to say, I can't even bring to words how I am feeling, and how my heart is breaking.

I'm assuming she could hear me breathing because she just starts talking even though I haven't answered her.

"I'm so confused. I don't know what to do, he came back a month ago. We have gone for dinner, I have cut everyone short to come home to make sure I was here when you called. I never told you because it didn't seem relevant. Then I was talking to Angela about one of our chats, and he walked into my office obviously having overheard us. That was two days ago, and since then he has told me that you left me. That you are only calling so you don't feel guilty from me and your family. That maybe something had happened that I didn't notice that made you leave. That if I didn't notice then maybe we weren't the greatest of partners. That I was putting your life at risk by talking to you. But I still cut dinner short tonight to talk to you, and he insisted he would come up with me and well then he answered the phone and you know the rest."

I was seething with anger. I wanted to kill him, I wanted to do every violent thing I could think of to his smug pretty little face, the same face that has had dinner with Bones while I have been here with dirty women, in dirty rooms. He gets to see her smile, watch the light catch her hair, and watch her eyes change colors as her moods change. He gets to have all that, and now he wants to take away the one thing I do get. Wants to manipulate Bones into not talking to me any way he can. I had to fix this, he couldn't have her, and not all of her anyway I got to have a part. I deserved that.

I spoke her name for the first time in three months.

"Bones.."

And then she starts crying. Fuck I hate her crying. And now I don't know if it's me, or him that made her cry. Maybe it was both of us. Maybe we were just both selfish fucking bastards that couldn't share. And now she is getting torn apart because of it. I wasn't angry anymore, I was sad and hurting. Not for me, but for her because my bones was hurting.

"Bones, I can't tell you what to do. I can only tell you that if you want me to stop calling I will. If I am stopping you from renewing your relationship with Sully because of my calls then I will stop. But you have to know that he is incorrect for my reason for leaving. I know I didn't explain it to you, and maybe I should have, or you should have pressed more not taken my "its top secret bullshit". But these men here they have killed a lot of people, a lot of young innocent people. And when I was given the opportunity to go in and take these fuckers down I couldn't resist. Blame it on my alpha male tendencies, but whatever you do don't blame it on yourself , and don't think that I have abandoned you. "

I said my piece, there was nothing else to say. She could make her decision now. I wouldn't stop her. I would wait and see what she said. She was silent for a long time, just breathing. I cherished it because I didn't know if this was the last phone call we would share for awhile. But her breathing was interrupted two fold. One by the operator telling me I had one minute, and one by Sully walking in asking if she was done yet. I heard her cover the receiver, and then her muffled voice asking him to just give her a few more minutes. I tried to call her name and tell her that we had no time, just tell me yes or no. Then I could finally hear her uncover the receiver, I waited and then beep beep beep.

NO NO NO!!! What the fuck. I dug in my pockets for more money, there was nothing. I would have nothing more until tomorrow. I couldn't go that long. I started to race back to my room when a ringing stopped me. I turned, the payphone was ringing. No way…it couldn't be. I ran back over and answered.

Hello?

There was nothing, I cursed god for getting my hopes up, and wasting my time if it was nothing but a faulty phone. And then I heard it the sweetest thing I could ever hear.

"Are you ok?'

Holy fuck I was now. I don't know what had happened in the past hour, but I sure as fuck wasn't going to let it happen again.

"Bones I'm coming home."

"What? You can't, you're not done."

"Yah I am, an agent has every right to come home if there is an emergency, and I think there is an emergency."

"There is no emergency, Sully is gone. I kicked him out, he is not the same guy that I waved goodbye to on the boat. He tried to manipulate me. But he is gone now, you can keep calling me every night. In face you had better."

I smiled, even though he was gone my mind hadn't changed. I needed to see her now, I was done with being away.

"Bones can you meet me at grand central in Baltimore"

"What now?"

"Yup I will be there in an hour."

"Ok if you're sure"

"Bones…one hour ok?"

With that I hung up. I knew she would be there, no use letting her try and talk me out of it.

I ran to my hotel room, and looked around. That's when I noticed that nothing there was actually mine. I headed to the door, and didn't look back.

I stood in the parking lot of the bus station. Watching everything. Hoping every set of headlights I seen was her. I had gotten here early, which is not surprise since I practically ran here. When a familiar set of lights rounded the corner my heart skipped a beat. She had brought my Toyota. I shoved my hands in my pocket and tried to look nonchalant. She pulled up beside me, and steps out of the truck. I wait no more than a second before she is in my arms. My hands on her back pulling her as close as possible, my nose nuzzled in the crux of her neck. She was startled at first, but after a moment's hesitation wrapped her arms around me. I must have smelled like smoke and dirt and beer, but she didn't care she just hugged me back with as much as I gave. I lifted my head so that I could talk into her ear without breaking the hug.

"What did you bring my truck?"

"I figured you would want to drive"

I chuckled and pulled her closer, using my left hand to run through her hair. God she smelled so god. I cupped her head in my hands and pulled her back so that I could look into her eyes. Those beautiful blue eyes that I had missed so much.

Running my thumb along her jaw, I realized that without a doubt I was not wasting any more time.

I had been gone for three months on some stupid undercover assignment. It never went anywhere. No one got arrested, it was all one big bust. But something good did eventually come of it. I got a swift kick in the ass. It made me realize that, I was a crazy man for not telling bones earlier that I loved her. And guess what she loves me too, she hasn't said it yet, but when I told her she started to cry and just kept nodding her head. That told me everything I needed to know. I spent that night in her arms in her bed. And I know for a fact that now that I have been here I'm not leaving, not for nothing no way no how!

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