PROLOGUE
"Seeley. Are you coming?"
Seeley Booth turned slowly, facing his girlfriend, Camille Saroyan. He wanted to run. Hide. Go anywhere else than where he was heading.
"I know it's hard," Cam said, placing a hand on his arm. "But, she was your partner. Your friend. Maybe... maybe saying goodbye will give you closure."
"Closure?" he asks, his voice thick with emotion that he didn't dare show.
Camille stood up and approached her friend, her boyfriend that had been consumed with grief for the past two days. And consumed with determination and worry the day before that.
"Seeley, I'm not promising it will make anything better. Saying goodbye is not easy. But... it's something we do to help ourselves heal and move on when we're in pain. When we've lost someone we loved."
He flinched. "I did not love Bones. Dr. Brennan," he corrected himself. "She was my partner. A colleague. That was it."
That was not it, and both of them knew it.
"Let's go," Booth finally said, storming out of his office.
"Right behind you, friend," Cam said to herself, standing alone in the room.
She walked out and closed the door.
The memorial service of her two friends was going to be hard.
And she wasn't sure her boyfriend would survive it.