It was the best night. It was the worst night. It was the night that changed everything. One minute she was singing and he was laughing, next he lay bleeding on the floor and she was crying.
Dr. Temperance Brennan kept reliving that night over and over again as she lay in her bed. She was thinking of what she should've said, actions she should've taken, thinking of how things might have been different but all the 'what ifs' and 'should haves' never changed anything. She knew that was true, but in the dark of the night her circle of thoughts never stopped. In the darkness, she could admit to herself what she never could in the light of day, she loved him.
"I should've been the one shot."
"I should've been faster in protecting him."
"I should've said I love you when I was begging him to live."
How was she going to live without her partner, the one who took time to understand her, who made her laugh, who took her out of the lab and helped see the world differently, the one who was always there for her? Tomorrow was his funeral, how could she make it through the hardest day without him, the one who had become her anchor? She just wouldn't go, just couldn't go, it would make it all too real. She would never get the chance to say 'I love you' to the man who was her partner, her friend, her everything: FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth.
