This is my first long and second fan fic, so I don't know if it is any good but give it a try.

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Missing pieces chapter one

Dr. Brennan sat front of her computer. She was supposed to write the next chapter to her new book while awaiting lab results from that fine specimen that they had gotten from Europe. She just wasn't able to concentrate on her writing because her mind kept wandering to Special Agent Seeley Booth. They had come through so much together and she had started to notice some changes in herself as a result. That was something she thought that she really should think through.

One obvious change was that her knowledge of pop culture was definitely improving. She wasn't so clueless anymore with all those quotes that people made around her. Well, that was good, she decided. She didn't feel so stupid around people because of a lack of pop culture knowledge. Feeling stupid was something she wasn't used to and it was definitely a feeling that she hated. She couldn't admit to her friends that sometimes it bothered her that she didn't pick up the meaning of something was, so she pretended she wasn't interested in that so called pop culture at all. But she was learning little by little. Yes, that was good thing.

Another thing she was learning was how to be more sensitive with people. She wasn't so blunt with them anymore and even Booth let her to do some questioning with the victim's families these days. He didn't give her any more lectures to keep her mouth shut while they were talking with the families. That was a good thing too, she thought. She was finally learning some people skills and that couldn't be anything but good.

She was really bonding with Booth, but then in the process of bonding with him professionally she found that he knew so much more about her than anybody else. She wasn't so sure that was healthy for her. She found herself leaning on him more and more, especially after they found out the truth about her parents. She was willing to tell him things she wasn't able to share with anyone else. Not even with Ange who had been her best friend for so long.

There was something different in how she shared things with Booth. He always waited until she was ready to speak about what bothered her. Ange was sometimes a little pushy, maybe that was why she was more uncomfortable speaking with Ange. No offence to Ange, she and Booth were the two people in the world who meant more to her than she could never describe.

There was the problem. She had let herself to get attached to people around her and in that way she had broken her first and most important rule; don't let people inside your life. Now it was too late and that scared her. She was trying to get some space between her and Booth and when Sully came into the picture it was perfect. She knew that she could keep Sully outside her walls so maybe she could get Booth out little more too. But did she really want Booth out? She wondered. He cared about her a lot. After all he had done for her, just being there every time she needed someone, it was obvious he cared. Could she go back to that lonely place where she had been?

No she decided. No, she didn't want to feel that lonely anymore. She needed those guy hugs, as Booth called them, from him more than she liked to admit. Nobody else could comfort her like he did, not even Sully and he supposed to be her boyfriend. But they were partners and very good friends so maybe that was the reason she felt so comfortable with Booth.

Zach's head popped into her doorframe and took her away from her musings.

"The results are back, Dr. Brennan," he said in a very excited voice. "Those remains are really 10 000 years old, carbonate-14 test confirmed," he continued.

Dr. Brennan grabbed her lab coat and followed Zach to the platform to look at the remains.

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TBC

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