Disclaimer: I do not own Bones but I am borrowing the characters because I'm going through withdrawal and am going crazy without the show so boredom at work resulted in this story. Hope you enjoy.

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Writers Block

Dr. Temperance Brennan sat in her office at the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal lab staring at a blank page watching as the cursor blinked tauntingly at her. She didn't want to admit it but she had writers block for the first time in three years. It all started when Special Agent Seeley Booth was asked to go to Iraq to help rescue twelve members of his army buddies. They were being held captive by the Taliban somewhere near Baghdad and Booth was asked to go there and help out. He didn't really want to go but the need to serve his country again and to rescue his friends won out in the end. He left 1 month, 2 weeks, and 4 days ago not that Temperance was counting and she had only heard from him six times. Five of those times wear in just the first week when he was in Germany being briefed. The sixth time was when he landed in Iraq. He had called to say that he got there safely and he would try and stay in touch. That was over five weeks ago and she still hadn't heard anything from him and to say that she was a little on edge was an understatement. So she through herself into her work, working long hours and many nights falling asleep in her office only to be awoken by dreams or nightmares of Booth.

"Bren? Sweetie? Hello?" Angela said turning off the computer screen pulling her friend out of the trance she was in.

"Huh? What? Oh Hi Angie." Temperance said blinking a few times to re-adjust her eyes.

"You okay sweetie? I've been calling you for the past five minutes. What's wrong?" Angela asked.

"Nothing just zoned out for a little there." The anthropologist responded.

"Writers block?" the artist asked simply.

"No. Yeah. Maybe a little I don't know. I just can't seem to put anything down. Every time I try my thoughts drift to him." She said softly.

"Have you heard anything?" Her friend asked.

"No" Temperance said quietly.

"Oh sweetie. You need to stop thinking about him. I'm not saying stop think about him entirely but just try to think of other things. He'll be home soon. Before you know it he'll be home and back here at the lab with us were he belongs." Angela said hugging her friend.

"You can't know that for sure." Came a soft reply.

"No I cant but you have to hope for the best. Now I didn't come in here to help you mope over him. I know you miss him. I miss him too. Hell we all miss him but we need to stop thinking about it. So anyways what are you doing tonight?" Angela rambled.

"Nothing really. I was going to try and work on my book but that doesn't seem to be going to well but other then that I've got nothing to do. Why what's up?" Temperance said.

"Well it seems Jack donated a large sum of money to some charity and they want to honor him. So they are throwing a gala and he wanted to know to know if you wanted to come." Angela said with a giggle.

"Oh that sounds nice. When is it?" Temperance questioned.

"Tonight." Angela said quietly.

"Tonight? Are you kidding me?" Temperance asked shocked.

"That was my reaction about an hour ago when he told me. So will you come? Please? Don't leave me by myself!" Angela begged.

"But I have nothing to wear. Not to mention hair, make-up, shoes, jewelry and god knows what else. I don't have time to do that after work and be ready in time." Temperance said hoping her friend would just drop it.

"Speaking of that. Cam said that since there is nothing really going on here we can have the rest of the day off cause she didn't have anything to wear either. So she left already. She also said we can have off tomorrow too but that's only if we don't get a case but considering that we haven't been given a case since Booth left we basically have and entire day off to recover if we drink too much. So will you come? Please?" Angela said grinning.

"Who else is going and what time does this thing start?" Temperance asked.

"It starts at 7 and as for who's going it'll be Jack of course, me, Cam, Zach and one of Jacks friends but he wont tell me who. So will we be adding you to the guest list." The artist said bouncing up and down hoping her friend was joining them that night.

"Sure why not. It's not like we're doing anything here and it sounds like it'll be fun." Temperance said giving into her friend.

"Yippee" Angela squealed. "This is going to be so much fun. Come on lets go shopping." She continued while virtually dragging Temperance out of her office laughing the entire way.

So what do you think so far I still have like 4 or 5 more pages to type up so there is more to come very soon. Please leave some love