Oh, look, it's my first story and it's a one shot songfic revolving around the two characters in the show that everyone wants together…high hope for me? Song is 'Gone' by thirteen senses, originally I made it as a Booth/ Brennan thing for Bones (the song was on the soundtrack), but it didn't really fit. Review xx

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Sometimes I rush to get right to the end
I know I'll get to this place when I feel the time is right

Tony DiNozzo was never a slow mover when it came to relationships. The one long- term relationship he'd had was the only one he'd ever turned off the fast- track for. And that's what scared him most. It wasn't rejection or confrontation- it was the idea that his reluctancy to start something with her meant that he couldn't stand for anything less than a real relationship between the two of them. So he waited. Waited for too long.

Sometimes I think that I know what I'm all about,
But when I look inside I can see the truth come out.

And just when he'd talked himself into the idea of a platonic relationship, everything had to change. And the day that bastard shot him, was the day he knew he'd been wrong all the time. Neither of them wanted a platonic relationship. But that was all they'd had, because they were both to damn scared that anything they could maybe have had wouldn't last. And the first and last time she'd admit that she loved him, he wouldn't hear it.

Sometimes I try to go on
I know it's wrong
Cos when I see your eyes
I can see the flame is gone, gone, gone

She tried to keep going. To not let everyone else see she was suffering. But from that first day, when he left her forever, that wall she'd built around her heart came crumbling down, piece by piece. And she tried to pick them up, but her world came crashing down faster than she could rebuild it. And they noticed. They all noticed. No one said anything, but they all thought the same thing- she was still living, but inside, her heart was slowly dying.

Sometimes I climb to the top to see what's above
But when I find it there, there's no time for happiness.

Sometimes she'd just get herself sorted out- she kept living, kept dating, kept working, but it all felt empty. It was like living in a world of euphoria when she was the only one coming down.

Sometimes I count up to ten just to see when,
When will I see the sun, in my eyes I've just begun

In the first year she felt like she'd lived a lifetime, but she knew it was only the beginning. And she kept going, even though it was wrong- they all saw that. She was an empty shell, with nothing left to give except the monotony of what life had been like before he'd come in to it. And even though the tombstone read only his name, they all thought it should have read hers too- because she, too, was gone.

Cos when I see your eyes
I can see the flame is gone, gone, gone