Okay, folks...this one came to me this weekend while watching another Bones marathon on my weekend off. I hope you enjoy it. Please review as Momma needs her brain candy! LOL

Disclaimer: I don't own Bones but enjoy being in the middle of a DB and TJT Sandwich. Maybe throw in some MGT...

It was after nine o'clock and Brennan was in Modular Bone Storage working on cold cases. Usually she celebrated the end of a case with a drink with Booth, but the last few months those times have gotten fewer and far in between as Booth moved forward in his relationship with Hannah.

Ever since she confessed her feelings to him during the Lauren Eames case, there was an increasing distance between then. Their friendship had been strained almost to the breaking point by the time the two caught the Jacob Broadsky case, a man he had served with while he was in the Rangers. After her partner was injured by an explosion rigged on the suspect's property, Brennan made sure he got home okay.

After the explosion, their relationship was still strained, but the distance was closing slowly. At times, Brennan thought she sensed Booth watching her when no one was looking, like he used to before she rejected him at the Hoover, but shook it off as wishful thinking. She needed to move on with her life as he did.

Two days earlier, she accepted when Andrew Hacker asked her out. During their dinner at Rasika, there was a moment of awkwardness when Booth showed up with Hannah. After exchanging quick pleasantries, the other couple went to their table. After their dinner, Brennan and Hacker attended a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Kennedy Center.

Once again, she thought back to her partnership with Booth over the last several years. She missed their closeness and the times they shared….Thai dinners at midnight….stale donuts at the Jeffersonian, but she rationalized it as now she had time to go through all the cold cases the Jeffersonian had in what others called 'Limbo', a name she hated.

Booth laid awake in bed while Hannah slept next to him. As he stared at the ceiling, he knew he should have been tired as he and Hannah had sex for the first time since before she left and he was injured in the explosion. However, he was wide awake as his thoughts were occupied with one person and it wasn't the one sleeping next to him.

He remembered how she looked as she held the shell next to her ear. The look of complete child like wonder brought all those feelings back…..the ones he thought he had buried when he met Hannah. They continued to simmer until last night.

He saw her on a date with Andrew Hacker….his boss. It took all he had to not lose his cool while the group talked for a few minutes. He was taking her to the Bolshevik Ballet…her favorite ballet group. She looked so beautiful in a dress of what he knew was called 'royal blue' He couldn't help but notice how the dress accentuated her cleavage and how it brought out the blue in her eyes, the eyes that always drew him in, the eyes that let him see inside the real Temperance Brennan.

He paid attention to Hannah as she talked about her latest trip on Air Force One but his insides were spewing as he wondered if Bones and Hacker were going to get intimate later. He knew they never did when they dated before, but things were different before. He knew he had no right to judge or be jealous, but the green-eyed monster was rearing his head and hitting him smack in the ass. That's when he realized it…he was still in love with Temperance Brennan.

It pissed him off to still be in love with his partner, especially when he thought of Hannah giving up her career in Afghanistan to transfer to Washington for him. She moved into his apartment and made the effort to get to know his friends. When he told her a few weeks ago about Bones telling her how she felt about him, Hannah didn't make any demands. She trusted him.

He wanted to live up to that trust. The sex they had tonight was his way of trying to make him move forward with Hannah. Instead, it shamed him to know that while being with Hannah, he only saw Bones. The sex was adventurous, but felt empty more and more each time. They never made love and he knew deep down they never would. But he made his case for Hannah and Bones was looking to move on without him. He figured that the Fates were telling him he and Bones weren't meant to be and to get over himself.

Hannah pretended to be asleep. Ever since Seeley told her a few weeks earlier about what her friend, Temperance told him, she was seething with rage. Temperance was the woman he was pining for in Afghanistan. He didn't say it, but she knew. He may have denied it, but she saw it in his eyes…he still had feelings for his partner.

She convinced Seeley to not tell his partner know that he told her to spare Temperance's feelings, but she needed his silence for another reason. She was biding her time these last few weeks while she contemplated what to do. It took all she had and the acting of her life to not confront Temperance.

Last night, while Seeley was trying not to stare at his partner and his boss having dinner, it came to her what to do. It was perfect…and it would put the partnership back on the shaky ground it was on before she left for her trip with the President. She had to be patient, but was confident that what she had planned would break up the partnership forever. Dr. Brennan would move out of her boyfriend's life…..and she would have him all to herself, at least until she got bored and moved on.