Disclaimer: I do not own Bones.
"We opened a door the other night that neither of us wanted to walk through, Bones."
Time found Temperance Brennan sitting on the floor of the change room in her old high school gym. She had just danced with Booth. It was the single most memorable moment in her life, as far as she could remember.
And as Angela would put it, what Booth said was full of crap.
Temperance couldn't walk through Booth's proverbial door. Not because she didn't want to, she knew, because she wanted too. She really did. Because she didn't know how. She was a scientist. She lived on the facts; the cold, hard, truth.
Booth didn't. Not like she did. She could never be able to relate to him. She was far better with dead things, and people like Mr. Buxley, who shared her infamous love of the dead.
Her eyes slipped closed for a moment, and the washed out red and grey tiles and lockers were replaced with the image of her partner.
He was supposed to be her husband tonight. Bobby Kent. She snorted. What a stupid name. Seeley Booth did suit him much better.
She analyzed his look. His eyes, his strong jaw bone, and the shoulders. She had seen him without a shirt, and she knew he had impressive muscle mass. Very sculptured.
She couldn't be with him. She was just a...a...Morticia. Yes, that's what the other kids called her. Morticia.
She didn't know who it was at the time, but she had researched in last night, after she hung up with Angela.
She was just a Morticia and he was a sexy FBI agent who had all her former female classmates drooling over him.
She could never cross into that doorway.
She didn't know how.
She started as someone knocked on the door.
"Bones? You ok in there?" She put a hand to her face. It came away wet. She marveled at it for a moment, trying to remember when she had started crying.
"I-I'm ok Booth. Thank you. Be out in a moment." She hoped he hadn't caught that stammer, she thought, as she wiped her face and blotted cold water onto her swollen eyes. It wasn't too noticeable. She had plenty of experience with hiding tears.
Science and History wasn't the only things taught by her high school.