I'm sorry if you think this is a new story. It is not. Just taking things off my chest. My obsessed, compulsively disordered little heart will be happy with this finale. It will. Eventually. For the time being, I'm telling it that there are reasons, good reasons why I'm OK with the finale. (OK, not happy, mind you, heart!)

1- Because you need to break some eggs to make omelets;

2- Because stagnation in a relationship is not healthy;

3- Because Brennan and Booth need to see what it is like not to have the other at their beck and call;

4- Because Hart promised: The new season will not start without Brennan and Booth working together;

5- Because the hands held and the promise to meet in a year to the day by the coffee cart was so reminiscent of "An Affair to Remember" when Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant promise each other to meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months- and they are still my favorite pair of actors and one of my top five pairs (the magic is there 55 years later, baby);

6- Because it's been a truly long time since I last felt/ cried with and for a character;

7- Because it was prepared by the last two episodes. It did not came tumbling down form the sky without warning (think back to Zack at the end of season 3)

8- Because Booth says "I've served my country" with all the gravitas of a man who's been to hell and barely made it back and is not going back to play with guns in stupid power games;

9- Because when their hands locked, it was just about the best goodbye, the best promise, the best speech. And they will keep themselves alive for the one waiting for them;

10- Because they will wait for a year (Booth will serve a year of hell) and if that is not true love, my silly little romantic heart does not know what is;

11- Because abusive relationship though it is, today at 3am UK time, I fell in live with the show all over again, in a more mature way, with a more mature show (think back to Brennan identifying and replying in kind "I love you too, Dr Hogins" when he gave her the survival give to insects and creepy crawlers)

My heart reminds me that it is all very fine and dandy but nothing will be OK with the finale if:

1- One or both of them comes back damaged;

2- If one, a single one of this wonky family does not make it back to the next season;

3- If Brennan and Booth's relationship does not move forward when they return and this turns out to be just a sophisticated little gimmick;

4- If things are left unsaid when they meet "a day from today" by the coffee cart;

5- If they come back with other people (boy/ girlfriend) in tow. That will be a capital sin. Unforgivable, damning to hell. And please God, (read Hart Hanson here, please) do not let that happen.

Now if only four months were four days. Though my heart reminds me that Brennan was right and distance is good and that I need perspective. (And time to watch Glee...)