A/N and disclaimer: Got bored at school as Re was cancelled and decided to write a fic. Thought I would base the chapters on the Greek words for love. Don't know if its going to be any good and as this is only like my second chaptered fic I have no idea how I am going to be for updates. Hope you enjoy it and I do own this, wait hold on, you mean I don't. Ok I don't own any of this, just the plot, (not that there is one hehe) Damn! Just like to point out that I know nothing of the American schooling system so if I got that wrong, sorry.

Philia

Friendship. That word meant a lot to Booth. He always believed that friends were some of the most important people in his life. He had always had them of course, but some meant more to him than others.

In Grade School Booth had had many friends even with the older years, unfortunately the downside to friends in Grade School was that many friends changed paths once they got to High School. While Booth had had about 25 close friends in Grade School followed by close to 50 not-so-close friends he could never call any of them his Best Friend. And the last he saw of some of them was with a wave on the last day of school and a shout of 'Goodbye Seeley.'

Entering High School was probably one of the scariest days of Booths life. He only came to his new school with 4 of his old friends, he knew that it was more than some people get and he wasn't too worried but he had wondered whether he would be able to make new ones as easy as he did in Grade School. Turns out it was actually easier than he thought. One day he stood up to a bully in his second year there and the next thing he knew he was one of the most popular guys in school. He even got what he could call his first real best friend. A boy named Jo. Jo was a laugh and Booth liked him but it turns out that friends at High School were even more fickle than friends at Grade School and at the first grade Booth got higher than him, Jo said 'Bye'.

So it was best friend-less but still highly popular that Booth left school with his grades and entered his first year of college. These years passed in a foray of exams, partying, booze and girls. Booth had his first 'real' girlfriend in college but that didn't amount to much, they did however stay friends and she was one of the only ones that he kept in contact with.

Friendships developed further still when Booth entered FBI training, he became friends with his mentor and other cadets of the academy and even worked with a few on cases before he got promoted to a Special Agent.

It was Special Agent Seeley Booth that got put on a case with Temperance Brennan. All he knew about her really was that she was a forensic anthropologist and incredibly smart. That however could mean anything. When he met her they didn't get along that well and he did not get on with her team of 'squints' either. Then when she identified a murderer and the weapon from the victims x-rays he dismissed it but it turns out she was right. She left and Booth not ever really counting her as a friend didn't care.

However he actually found himself missing her and when she came back 2 years later he found himself going to pick her up and promising that she could have full participation on all cases so she would work with him on cases again.

Over the next 3 years as they solved murder after murder he found himself liking 'Bones' more and more. He came to think of her as his best friend. And as he held her in his arms comforting her after she was nearly killed yet again he thought to himself that this was a real best friend. Someone he would do anything for; and someone who would do anything for him.