No, no, NO. Season 6 is all wrong. This is how I'd fix it. Angst-filled but B&B will prevail!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the TV series Bones. It is owned by Fox and Hart. No infringement intended.

Personal Disclaimer: In my own Bones universe, that whole thing with Zach never happened, and he's right where he belongs, working at the lab.

CLACK, CLACK, CLACK.

Temperance Brennan suppressed her anger and channeled it through to the very narrow ports of her fingertips as she typed up a report, sitting at her desk in her office. Agent Booth, entering her office, could sense something was wrong immediately.

"Bones?" he said, cautiously. "You okay?"

Brennan looked up from her work and, seeing Booth darkening her doorway, she narrowed her eyes at him.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, suspiciously.

"Just checking in on my favorite forensic anthropologist slash best-selling author," was the reply.

"You're checking up on me," she concluded.

"Maybe a little." He sat down on the arm of her sofa, looking at her.

"I'm fine, Booth, you don't have to worry about me."

"Hannah sent me," he said quietly.

Brennan glanced at Booth and quickly looked away. He had that condescending concerned look on his face that she hated.

"Hannah said you were pretty upset the last time you two talked, and she's worried about you."

"I'm not upset, Booth," she lied.

"Bones," he said, "she doesn't hold it against you. She just-."

"It isn't her I'm concerned about," said Brennan, interrupting.

"Well then what is it?" said Booth.

Brennan glanced at the door to make sure no one was coming to interrupt them. Lowering her voice she said, "You told Hannah that I-. That I had feelings for you."

"Yes," replied Booth, "I did."

Brennan sighed, frustrated. "I thought we agreed that what happens between us is just for us."

Booth considered her a moment and said gently, "I'm sorry, Bones, but it can't be that way anymore. I have someone I share my life with now, and I tell her things. That's how a relationship works."

Brennan shook her head. "Booth, what about us? How am I supposed to trust you now? How is our partnership supposed to work?"

He looked sadly at her.

"Bones," he said, "I'm still me. You can still trust me. As your partner," he clarified.

Brennan sighed again. She stared off into the distance, her eyes focusing on a weathered map of the world on the opposite wall. There was a small red pin from when she had once shown Booth where the Maluku Islands were located.

"Are you going to tell her about this conversation?" asked Brennan.

The slight shift in Booth's facial expression told Brennan immediately the conversation was over. He was angry at her. He stood up and walked toward the door saying, "Look, Bones, this is the way things are now. You need to accept it." He glanced back as he left and saw Brennan's crestfallen face and immediately hated himself. The sudden flare of anger had nothing to do with Bones. He was angry at himself. He told Hannah Bones had feelings for him.

But he didn't mention that he had once had feelings for Bones.