(a/n) This isn't really a 'new' story, it's the re-write of my old fan-fic, Hiding From the Truth, with a slightly different plot.

Summary: A new case hits Brennan hard; can she keep her emotions in control to help solve the case or will everything get out of control? With the help of her father and a childhood friend she must solve the case before it all gets too much and more people die... I suck at summaries, it's much better I promise :D.

A big thanks to my beta-reader, BonEsFantastic.

***Chapter One***

It was Sunday morning, the sun was out, and the skies were clear. The lab was empty, no squints in sight, not everyone was like his Bones; they liked to take time off. A few were wandering around, mostly grad students identifying old remains or finishing their assignments, but none of them looked liked they actually wanted to be there. As much as they loved to work with the world famous Dr. Brennan, none of them liked to work on a Sunday.

They had a case, which was why he was here; he was also among the many that disliked working on a Sunday. He hated working weekends in general; that was when he was supposed to have his son, Parker.

Nevertheless, it was a Sunday, and they had a case. He strolled through the entrance to the lab and made his way to Brennan's office. Surprisingly, it was empty. Brennan was always in the lab. Much to Booth's dismay, she was in every available day and every possible hour. Normally, as there were no cases coming in, he could find her in her office doing paperwork or finishing up on reports she'd not yet finished during the week. However, today she was not there.

Limbo he thought to himself. She was probably in limbo. Indentifying someone's remains from hundreds of years ago that probably wouldn't have been identified for another hundred years if it had been any other anthropologist. Everyone thought that Dr. Brennan was a cold fish but he knew otherwise. Bones had a heart of gold, just like him, even if she denied the fact that she followed her heart. Only Bones would spend their free time discovering the identity of bones, whose family probably joined them in that 'better place' people could only talk about. Still, she believed that they deserved to be known.

As he walked down the stairs and into 'Limbo' he started to hum so that if she was down there he wouldn't get attacked again for startling her, like the last time. As he neared the end of the stairs, his curiosity and anxiety increased. He had heard no 'Hey Booth' or 'Got a new case for us Booth?' as he had walked down the steps. He hadn't seen her either. Where was Bones? This was not like her, not to be in the lab.

He slowly walked back up the stairs giving himself time to gather his thoughts. Cam he thought to himself. Cam probably knew where Brennan was, she knew where everybody was. After all, she was the boss. Cam was someone who could be found inside the lab any time of the day, she enjoyed time off as much as the next person but she was dedicated to her job.

He walked into Cam's office and found her sitting at her desk behind a mountain of paperwork. As soon as she heard him enter, the room she stood up to greet him. "We got a case?" she asked casually, putting the pen she had been previously working with behind her ear.

"Yep," he replied, emphasising the 'p'. "That's why I'm here, you seen Bones anywhere? I've looked for her everywhere," he said, exaggerating.

"Everywhere?" she said sceptically.

"Well... The platform, her office and limbo, but to Bones that is everywhere," he joked.

"So you didn't check for her at her home where she actually is?"

"Bones is at home?" he asked, shocked. Bones never took time off from work, voluntarily anyway.

"Yep, last Friday afternoon she asked if she could take the rest of the weekend off. I agreed as she's been working none stop for the past few weeks. She said she'd be back Monday morning, but later than usual; 9am... And before you ask Booth, all she said is that it was for personal reasons."

"So... She's at home, voluntarily, for personal reasons?" he asked making sure that he had all the facts right.

"Yes Booth, she's at home but she'll be back tomorrow morning. Maybe, for you, she'd even consider coming back earlier, just to help you out with the case," she joked.

"Maybe. Send Hodgins to the crime scene for me while I go and pick up Bones," he said as he passed her a small slip of paper with directions to the crime scene on and started to walk out of her office.

"I was joking Booth," she shouted at his retreating form. She sighed to herself as she picked up the phone to tell Hodgins that he needed to work on his day off.

Booth drove along the familiar route to Brennan's apartment. Why hadn't he known that she was taking the weekend off? Why didn't she tell him? He asked himself as he drove. He would have thought that she would have told him that she was taking time off. But then everything had changed between them. He had told her that he loved her and she had rejected him. Maybe she was taking time off to think about what had happened. Maybe she was planning to run away again. Maybe he shouldn't be doing this; going to her apartment when she'd taken time off. Maybe he should have taken one of her many grad students with him to the crime scene. Maybe. But it was too late now, he was already there, sat in his parked car in front of her apartment. He might as well carry on with what he had first come to do.

He walked up to her apartment and hesitated before he knocked. The 'maybe's' still swirled around his head. Then, he heard the most beautiful sound in the world... Her laugh. With all his previous hesitations gone, he quickly knocked on the door and waited for her to answer.

From inside the apartment, he heard as she got up from her sofa and walked over to her front door. He heard her as she put down whatever she was holding; from the sound of it, it was most likely a glass. Then he heard as the lock clicked allowing the door to open.

Unbeknownst to him walking into her apartment would give him the biggest shock of his life. He would discover something that only a few people knew, something that he would have never seen coming, something that could possible change his life forever. Not only would she be letting him into her apartment, but she would also be letting him into her biggest life secret.

That's all for today! Got more written so I'll post it asap.

Please review and let me know what you think! Reviews make me happy; meaning that the more reviews, the faster i upload the next chapter. XD

~LittleMiss x