I'm just a tad frustrated and had to let it out on paper ... if I offend I apologize.
It had been an idea nagging in the back of his mind for while, but it was now moving to the forefront and crystallizing into something more solid. Until now Sweets had simply thought that they had missed their moment, acknowledged that it wouldn't work out and they had both moved on. But they hadn't.
Well he had, and she had, but in very different ways.
Booth had left after holding her hand and telling her he would see her in a year at their special place. But he had moved on, straight into the arms of another woman. A woman closer to his usual type. The type he loved in that moment but never seemed to stay with permanently. Rebecca. Tessa. And now Hannah.
Outgoing. Blond. Normal. Not Dr. Brennan.
Sweets had felt so sorry for the man who had become his friend when he had learned that she had rejected the idea of a relationship with him. Knowing that she was simply afraid frustrated him even more but he knew that pushing her would simply mean that instead of leaving for a year she would leave for good. And so he let go of his personal wishes and lived with the knowledge of what could have been for them.
Dr. Brennan had left for a year on a mission to discover how she could live her life without the confusion that filled her to the point that there was no room for any other emotion. But she had left knowing that he would be there for her when she returned, waiting for her in their special place.
She had been wrong and that unnerved her. Sweets could see it in the way she held herself when he was in the room, in the way she was over rationalizing Booth's relationship with Hannah and pushing herself to believe that she should be friends with this new woman in his life. He thought she was going backwards reverting to the person she was before she had let Booth in.
Sweets knew now that he was also wrong. She didn't move backwards. She had leapt forwards. Figured out her emotions and laid them bare to the man who had said he wanted her for the next 30, 40 or 50 years.
Wanted her for life. Wanted to take a risk for them. For him.
It had taken her almost the entire year she had given herself but she had done it. And instead of accepting the love of the woman he had waited for for six years, he had rebuffed her in an almost clinical way. Told her that he had someone else and didn't want her. Didn't need her.
He was so rational about the situation that he was even able to share it with Sweets as if it were a minor inconvenience in his life and only needed to be addressed in the context of his life with Hannah. He wouldn't discuss Dr. Brennan or her feelings. He simply shut down the subject once he had received the advice he had wanted and Sweets had a sneaking suspicion that Booth thought that by telling Hannah about Dr. Brennan's declaration, she would push the other woman even further from their lives. Booth barely saw her now even when working on a case and it seemed that he wanted to put her in a very little metaphorical box, put a lid on it and keep her there.
Sweets had come to three realizations. Booth was punishing Dr. Brennan for hurting him when he had laid his heart on the line, she was oblivious to the fact that this was what he was doing and that Sweets really didn't think he liked Booth much anymore.