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simple__man wrote these to my prompt Five Ways Brennan and Booth Don't Spend Valentines Together. And so I'm saving it in my lj for all time, because, yeah, awesomely wonderful and all that. I'm gonna try and put all my prompts in the next post, later today or possibly tomorrow, if I'm good.

Five Ways Brennan and Booth Don't Spend Valentine's Day Together

i. Booth doesn't ask her out for Valentine's Day. It would be their first date, and he likes the idea, which is enough to let him know that Brennan will hate it. He wish he didn't have to ask her out at all, could just continue on melding their lives together until the much-anticipated and hopefully-inevitable conclusion. If he could just figure out a way to move in without her noticing...

ii. Booth doesn't pop the question on Valentine's Day. Not that he doesn't want to, mind you, but he needs only to close his eyes and imagine Brennan at her most Brennan, going on a tangent about holidays, commercialism, symbolism, cultural conformity and his own lack of originality, and he decides it can wait a few days. He's still romantic enough (or sappy enough, as she'll probably not hesitate to point out) to want the June wedding, but he'll just be glad to get her to say yes.

iii. Brennan doesn't accept Booth's invitation to spend Valentine's Day with him and Parker. She isn't sure why, and she's never really liked thinking too hard about...emotions and things...emotional things. She can't pinpoint why it's emotional. Or why it's a thing. But it's Booth, and it's confusing, and Booth and confusing go together like...things that go together. Booth and Brennan go together pretty well, when there's a case, when it's work-related. And Booth and Brennan go together pretty well other times, too, but it's Booth and Brennan and Parker that's she's not sure of, not just yet. Whether she likes it or not, Brennan's got some thinking to do...

iv. Brennan knew that accepting Booth's invitation to a Valentine's dinner was a bad idea. He would point out, laughing that laugh and smiling that smile, that she was being superstitious, but she will admit (to no one but herself) that every now and then, she does listen to her instincts. To Booth, she'd say it had to do with tapping into her knowledge base without conscious thought, but Brennan's gut told her that saying yes to Booth would only lead to trouble. "I knew this was going to happen," she whispers fiercely, elbowing him in his side, and he grunts in (put-on) pain. "Like I knew we were going to get kidnapped," he begins, just as the masked men come to take him away.

v. Booth tries the phone again, but Brennan's phone is either on the fritz, or she's ignoring him. Probably the latter. Dammit, he knew that this road trip to his parents had been a bad idea. Parker tugs on the leg of his jeans, and Booth hands him his newly-repaired truck absentmindedly. He knows he should have explained himself, why he didn't invite her along, but he panicked, and now he doesn't know how to fix this. Brennan's voicemail finally picks up after the sixth call, and he wants to apologize but he doesn't know what to say. "Call me back, Bones, please," is all he can think of to say. Maybe she will, maybe she won't.

He's got some other cool ones to the other prompts here if you're bored and part of similar fandoms. :D *pimps like a mad pimp thing*

Fin.