Author Notes: Ok this has been floating around in my head for a while. It's ever sweet moment that i remember happening in the show, the ones that make you squeal with delight, and the final reaction. The story is told from alternating points of veiw the first one is Brennan, and the next chapter is Booth, and so one. The very last chapter is the rest of the squints but that's a ways off still. Spoilers for the sweet moments through the end of the third season and some from the fourth. I hope you like it.

I don't own bones in anyway shape or form unfortunately.

This chapter is from Brennan's POV

Chapter 1 – Observations - Brennan:

April 2010

When did this happen? Temperance thought to herself as she ran the brush through hair before turning to go back to her bedroom. One minute we're partners, and now…

Eighteen Months Earlier

She and Booth were sitting in her office, on the couch going over the paper work from their last case. We were laughing about something that Hodgins had done in the process of solving the case. I loved it when he laughs; his eyes light up and sparkle with the carefree joy. Hodgins and the young agent, Foley, who had been assigned to him for the next case walked into my office.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Booth greeted them.

"Nothing much we just had a question for Dr. Brennan, you guys are cute together, how long have you been dating. Does the Bureau know?" Agent Foley responded

I opened my mouth to dispel this women's assumptions when Booth answered sternly first, "Listen, there is nothing for the Bureau to know, as we're not dating and never have been, we're just good friends. Now, what did you want answered."

Turning to Booth I asked under my breath, "Why does everyone always assume we're in a relationship?" As I turned back to hear, what the pair wanted. Hodgins answered my question.

"Well, Dr. Brennan its simple, the two of you are extremely comfortable in each other's presence, allowing the other liberties that you wouldn't allow anyone else. You spend considerable amounts of free time together not related to work. Neither of you have a significant other. When he walks into the lab if you don't notice he watches with a smile, actually he watches you when you do anything. When you hear his footsteps you smile, and you're willing to explain science to him and have him explain the real world to you without so much as a blink. Added to all of that you fight like a couple, both when bickering and full out fights. I realize you're not a couple having spent time with you, and you adamantly refuse it. However from outside observation that's what it looks like."

I answered, "Hodgins what are you talking about. Booth does not watch me when I'm not looking, and I don't smile when I hear him walking up. We're comfortable in each other's presence because we've been working together for four years now and as a result we are friends and spend time together."

Booth clarified, "Friends and partners not boyfriend and girlfriend, got it Hodgins, Foley?" he raised his eyebrows as a point of emphasis.

This time Foley answered, "Yeah, I guess I was picking up on a vibe that isn't there, no big. Dr. Brennan, Hodgins, and I were wondering if he could come into the field and show me some of the basics."

Hodgins however continued with his observations, "Then there is the fact that whenever one is kidnapped the other will do anything legal or illegal to save the other. Booth broke out of the hospital after being blown up to save Brennan from Kenton even thought there were lots of agents going to do the same thing. Then when you and I were taken by the Grave Digger, he didn't give up even when we we're supposedly out of air. Dr. Brennan used her murdering father to rescue Booth when he was kidnapped and hit the Grave Digger with a brief case when they found Booth. Not to mention all the other extraordinary lengths they went save each other. I know Booth partners and friends I just telling you what the rest of us see." He then he looked at me, "Can I go Dr. Brennan?"

"Sure Hodgins go, and I wouldn't make any more statements about your observations about mine and Booth's behavior before he gets angry." I respond ushering them out of the office and closing the door, if Booth was going to lose it the whole lab didn't need to hear.

I turned round expecting an irate Booth because of Hodgins' observations. Instead, I found him with that smile he gets when he's mildly confused and an amused. "Do you really smile when you hear me walking up?" he asked.

"Probably, I enjoy our cases so if you're here it means we have a case, or I've found something I want to tell you about a current case, or that you're going to drag me out to eat or expand my horizons, because you've taken it upon yourself to further my pop culture knowledge. All of which I enjoy which means that I smile when I hear you coming, is there something wrong with that?"

'No, there is nothing wrong with it at all. Did you really knock the Grave Digger out with a brief case once you knew where I was?"

"It seemed like the right thing to do not only had she taken you but she had taken me and there was no way I wasn't going to do something. Is there anything else in Hodgins' observations," I said the word with amusement, "that you want clarified?"

"No that should do it Bones. I've got to head over to the Bureau with this file I'll see you tomorrow," He was almost out the door when he turned back with a smile and said, "There is one last thing I want to clarify, I do watch you and smile Temperance" and with a wink he left.

Present Day

I remember just sitting on my couch contemplating what he had meant, why he'd used Temperance and winked. As well as pouring over my own recollections of our time as partners. Only being able to conclude that he was not only my partner but also my best friend and without him, I would be lost.

Something really changed that day though. All we needed I guess was for Hodgins to lay out exactly what we were and leave us to our own conclusions.

I was just zipping up the last of my suitcases when I heard a knock on my door, and Ange calling, "Bren it's time to go are you ready?" I grab the suitcases and headed for the door. I can't believe this is happening… I thought one last time.