Hey everybody! So, I don't usually write fan fiction until I find a couple in a show or movie that I want to see together but I'm impatient to wait for. Bones has been my favorite show for some time and I now finally came up with an idea to write about. I hope you guys enjoy it, let me know either way by reviewing if you would like! This takes place after "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole" and Hannah will not come into the storyline. I'm not bringing Daisy in at any point as a love interest for Sweets, instead I'm going to bring in an original character in a few chapters. I'm also going to speed up Angela's pregnancy (when she found out and came clean) because it fits the storyline much better.

Read and hopefully enjoy everybody!

Prologue

Booth felt love, Brennan felt mutualism - a symbiotic relationship between two organisms that was beneficial to each one. She felt secure, he got help on his cases. But she was stupid to convince herself that their relationship was based on more work than emotional feelings. But she made him believe it was, at least she tried to. She knew Booth was good at reading people, but if he couldn't see that she was lying about her feelings for him, then he wasn't that good. He could look at a criminal and see everything they were hiding - when it came to her, he couldn't figure out how to help her half of the time.

She knew she hurt him when she told him they couldn't be together. She knew that because it killed her too that night. She couldn't be the same as the girls she watched him have relationships with over the course of their partnership. She couldn't pull off the short skirts and the long, perfect hair. She couldn't bat her eyelashes in hope to get whatever she wanted from Booth. He was always seen with the perfect and flawless female - if that was at all possible in the real world. But for some reason he had wanted her that night and it scared her so much that she pushed him away. She pushed him away to the point they were at right now.

They were sitting on two separate chairs in Sweets' office like usual, except the space between them was unusual and the young psychologist caught on from the moment they sat down.

Brennan turned her head slightly to look at her partner and the man she knew she had feelings for. He turned his head as well and when his sad, brown eyes caught her crystal blue ones she felt like she couldn't go on with what she came into the office to do. Tightening her lips to form a small line, she swallowed hard and her eyes moved down to Booth's lips as they formed perfect words she could read clearly.

'Don't do this.'

Rapidly blinking to put a tear back in its place, Brennan forced herself to focus on the man in the chair before her and Booth. He was studying them with his fingertips on the one side of his head, resting. Waiting. Well she didn't want him to wait anymore, she wanted him to get to the damn point of their meeting so she could miserably throw herself back into her work.

"Dr. Brennan," Sweets began, but she couldn't make out the rest of the words he was saying. It sounded like white noise to her ears and all she could think about was what she needed to say. If she waited, she would prolong her reason for coming here, or she wouldn't do it at all. She had to say it now.

In the middle of Sweets' sentence, she lifted her head up a little and took in a deep breath.

"I want to pull our partnership."

Everything in Lance Sweets' office became completely silent. His eyes moved from the forensic anthropologist to the FBI agent who's head was now hanging slightly in defeat. He looked back to Brennan, who was looking anywhere but at the two men in the room with her.

"Dr. Brennan, are you sure about this?"

"Yes." "No."

The partners answered together, her saying yes, Booth saying no. Sweets expected their usual banter to pick up, for Booth to joke around and make little stabs while Brennan went on to scientifically explain why she was sure. But there was nothing.

There was nothing except the sound of Temperance Brennan standing up quickly and exiting the office - not once stopping to take a last look at her partner who was miserably sitting in the chair watching her every single move in complete silence.

Sweets turned his attention back to the agent before him. "I can talk to her later once she has had time to cool down and think."

"No," Booth said, shaking his head and waving his hand at the man. "No. What Bones wants, she'll get."

"Are you saying you want to end the partnership as well?"

"No, I don't want to, Sweets," he said leaning forward, rubbing his face with his rough hands. "But I can't force her to be in a situation she doesn't want to be in any longer. It's done." With one swift movement, Booth was up and out of his chair, making his way over to the door of the office as he watched Brennan ascend the stairs to the lounge area of the lab. "It's done," he repeated before leaving the office as well.

Sweets watched as Booth ignored the woman who was watching him from on top of the balcony on his way out of the entire institute. He then looked down at his notes and sighed heavily before clicking his pen. Touching the paper with the ball point, he scribbled what he figured would be his last note about the couple.

'Dr. Brennan has pulled her partnership with Agent Seeley Booth on account of..."

He stopped writing and lifted his head to view outside the office. Their relationship was something that couldn't be described in a word or two, the same went for its falling apart. Once the two figured out what the real reason was for their actions and reactions toward one another, then maybe, just maybe, Sweets could figure it out too.

Until then, it would be a long and rough fight for them to get back to where they used to be.