Fanfic Title: Welcome to Brennanville

Chapter Number: 1

Chapter Title: You Are Scrooge

Summary: When Sully goes missing, Brennan is the top suspect. Who is T.B.? Why is Brennan a suspect? And why is Booth giving Brennan an engagement ring?! Read and find out!

A/N: This came randomly to me while think about Sully leaving. Please excuse any mistakes or randomness this fic may (and probably will) contain. Grazie! Ally

"No Angela, I will not go to the Christmas party! I didn't go last year, or the year before, or the year before that! What makes you think that suddenly I'd change my mind?"

"It's Christmas sweetie, Christmas. And on a lovely Christmas Eve like tonight, you are Scrooge." Angela told her.

"I don't know what that means." Brennan frowned, making her way out of her office. Angela stepped in front of the door, blocking her exit.

"It doesn't matter sweetie. Just trust me when I say you do not want to be Scrooge. So, if you go to the Christmas party, sing some carols, drink some eggnog and just have a good time for once, you wouldn't be Scrooge! Please sweetie?" Angela asked, pulling a puppy eyes look.

"No Angela." She said, looking her in the face sternly. Angela sighed.

"Okay. I didn't want to do this, but you leave me no choice sweetie. Oh Booth, Brennan's being Scrooge for the nine hundredth party in a row!"

Booth came over. "Nuh uh Bones, I am not being partners with Scrooge. You are coming if I have to drag you to it myself." He stated.

"Booth, I can't…"

"Yes you can. Come on Bones, ever since Sully left-"

"Leave Sully out of this, it has nothing to do with him."

"Yes it does. Look, I know that he was your boyfriend and he left you and you're sad. But you need to get over it."

She sighed. "Let me finish up this identification. 1 hour and then if I'm still not down, you can drag me there yourself."

Booth and Angela seemed to be pleased and headed off to the party, leaving Brennan free to go up to the platform. Just as she was in the doorway of her office, her phone went off. She immediately recognized the ring tone as Sully's.

"Hello?" she asked cautiously.

"Hey Tempie." It was Sully.

1 HOUR LATER

Booth walked into the anthropology department of the Jeffersonian. Not seeing Brennan, he headed into Brennan's office to see her on the phone. He stopped and listened to the conversation.

"That's great Sully. Listen, it was great to hear from you again, but I've got to go…. Yea… Merry Christmas Sully… I love you too."

I love you too. She'd told Sully she loved him, even after he left her. When Booth had finally gotten up the courage to tell her how he felt before another Sully comes along, this happened.

Booth turned on his heels and went back to the party.

Brennan was examining a body as usual when a man and a woman walked in. They walked to the edge of the platform and stopped just before the alarm.

"We're looking for Dr. Temperance Brennan." The woman said. Brennan looked up.

"Yes, I'm Dr. Brennan." She said, pulling off her latex gloves and disposing of them.

"Allow us to introduce ourselves. I'm Agent Montgomery, this is Agent Carlson. We're from homicide investigation. If it's no problem, we'd like to ask you a few questions about a Mr. Tim Sullivan."