A/N: I couldn't help it… I need something to tie me over until I see the first episode… YES, I am STILL yet to see the premiere and that means I still haven't met the unspeakable HANNAH. So, I know next to nothing about this girl, aside from the rumors on FF. In this FF, I am portraying Hannah in a way that may not be correct. I am making her home-base elsewhere, and she moved to Washington to be with Booth (this may be already correct)… I think that's all you need to know.

Have fun reading… :D

Three months.

It had been exactly 92 days since Booth had returned to Washington, time in which he had been involved with his girlfriend Hannah, who up until now had been more than patient. But her patience was wearing thin, and was done playing the nice-girl.

Over dinner at Booth's apartment one night, Booth noticed the air of hostility when he raised the subject of Brennan, to Hannah, possibly for the umpteenth time that day. Who was keeping count?

Hannah rolled her eyes, and he watched as she gripped the fork in her hand, her knuckles turning white.

"Are you alright?" Booth observed.

There was a long pause.

"Hannah?"

"No," she stated. "Actually, Seeley, I'm not alright." She dropped the fork by her unfinished dinner plate, and met his eyes. "I have been so damn patient with you… with this stupid relationship you have with HER," her tone was bitter. "But I can't compete with her, can I?"

Booth frowned. "What do you mean… I don't-"

"STOP IT!" she snapped. "Stop pretending that she doesn't mean so much to you."

"She's my partner," he answered through clenched teeth. "And my friend, of course she means something to me."

"You know what I mean," she shot back venomously. Hannah had clearly had enough, she was done sitting back and waiting for the moment when she would be replaced.

Booth ran a hand through his hair.

"What can I do to prove that you are important to me… that I LOVE YOU?" he stressed.

"I want you to stop seeing her!" she declared.

Booth got a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.

"I don't think I can…" his head spun with the anxiety of this conversation. She was asking too much. She was asking more than he knew how to give. He sighed heavily, trying to reason with her. "Hannah, we work together, I work with the Jeffersonian… I can't just abandon my job!"

"I'm not asking you to," she said. Hannah stood from the table and cleared her plate, taking it over to the sink and running the hot water. "I didn't say you had to give up your job, but you don't have to work with her… you can change partners, and you can still work at the Jeffersonian. But you don't have to be with HER all the time. How do you think I feel?" she dropped the plate into the scolding water and turned around to face him. "Every time I walk into that building, I get these looks from everyone-"

"You're over thinking this," he said dismissively.

Booth pushed back his chair and crossed the kitchen to where she stood. He dropped his own plate in the sink and looked at her. Her eyes were dark and angry. "I am NOT over-thinking this!" she shot back.

"There is nothing going on between Bones and me…" he stressed.

Hannah rolled her eyes. "And yet you insist on calling her by a cute-pet name!" she pointed out.

"This is ridiculous, Hannah… this is not a competition."

"I'd hate to know who the winner was," she mumbled.

"What does that mean?" he challenged.

"It means you have to make a choice," she explained. Why did he assume he could have the best of both worlds without a complication arising? "I don't want to play second to her anymore… I can't do it… I moved here from my perfect New York apartment, to be with you."

"I am with you!" he reminded her.

"No, you're not…" she headed for the door, and stopped after opening it. "I'm going for a walk to give us some time to think. When I get back, I need to know that you'll put me first, like I put you first. I need to know that I'm more important that she is…"

The sound of silence when she closed the door was deafening.

Sorry it's short… I'll make the next chapter longer. Well, reviews are nice friends, and a great way to bargain for a new chapter… anyone interested in what Booth's choice is, and better yet, want to take a guess at who he chooses. ?