jim nervously asking bones for romantic advice, because new year’s eve is approaching fast and he wants to to ring in the new year kissing the person he loves. bones, being the good friend he is, tells him to just tell her how he feels and kiss her - life is too short to be pining over someone. it adds up to too much wasted time. some day i might take my own advice, bones thinks ironically, instead of pining over jim like a lovelorn school girl.
bones declines jim’s new years eve invitation. just because he wants the kid to be happy doesn’t mean he has to induce his own misery. besides he thinks i am better off ringing in the new year the way i will be spending most of it - drunk and alone.
at 11:58, their dorm room door flies open and jim walks in, face flushed and breathing heavily like he had just run a marathon.
"back so soon, kid? what did she do, throw a drink in your face when you made your move?"
"she?" jim looked confused at his words. "what do you mean sh - oh! oh, bones, you really have no idea do you?"
the look bones face told jim that no, he did not have any idea and jim didn’t have the words to explain it to him so he sat next to bones on the couch, leaned over and gently pressed his lips to bones’. it was a brief kiss and jim pulled back to enjoy the change of emotions across bones’ face from shock to confusion to disbelief to the sudden realization that somehow, against all reason, this man that he had grown to love so much may possibly love him too.
"so. it was me all along."
"yeah, bones. it was you - always."
