A/N: I do not own Bones

Temperance Brennan stood on the lab's platform bending over the silver table to get a better look at a skeleton lying atop it when her partner, Special Agent Seeley Booth, came into the lab. He immediately spotted her and went to approach, when his arm was caught by someone who pulled him into the first office.

He looked up in surprise and came face to face with the entire team of squints, Angela Montenegro, the forensic artist, being the one who had a hold of his arm. As he started to say something she put her hand over his mouth and shushed him quietly.

"Listen Booth, now, not a good time. Bren is kind of freaking out at the moment and really needs to be left alone with her bones."

"Why? What happened? Is she okay?"

"No Booth, she isn't okay. She and I ran into Sweets last night at a bar, he was pretty drunk. He may have said some things that upset her."

Booth looked at her and she could see in his eyes he was ready to shoot Sweets. "Like what? What did he say to totally freak her out?"

"I don't know, all I know is we were talking, he came up and asked to have a word with her so I excused myself to the restroom. By the time I got back she was completely pale, Sweets was nowhere to be found, and....and she had tears in her eyes."

"I'm going to kill him" Booth mutter and tried to turn and leave, but Angela grabbed his arm again and forced the door to the office shut.

"No you aren't. We are going to figure this out so we can help her. She wouldn't even tell me anything about what he said, just asked me to drive her home. She sat in silence the whole way. When we got there, she didn't even go upstairs just went straight to her car. I followed her here, came in and watched her. She acted like she didn't even notice I was here. She went and got the skeletal remains of Gormagon's last victim and has been doing that," She gestured out the office windows toward Brennan examining yet another part of the remains, "ever since."

"Ange, I need to go talk to her," He gestured to the file he was carrying, "We have a case, and if I go without her, or at least without letting her know, she'll be pissed."

Angela nodded and let him go out of the office and towards the platform. Angela, Hodgins, Cam, and the intern Vincent all watched the scene unfold from the safety of Cam's office.

"Hey Bones," He said as he approached the platform, "We have a case!"

She didn't even look up at him, "Take Mr. Nigel-Murray, I'm busy."

Booth was taken aback by the cold clinical way she spoke and then took a few steps toward her. "Bones?"

No response. She just kept right on picking up bone after bone and placing them under the microscope to get a better look at them. He decided to take drastic action and invaded her space, grabbing her shoulder and turning her towards him, "Bones?"

The glare she gave him bore straight through him, "What Booth?," She spat the words out with as much venom as the sleep deprived Brennan could muster, and he removed his hand from her shoulder and took a step back.

"Why don't you let the intern do this, we have a murder to solve," He said, trying desperately to sound cheerful.

"No, I have to do this, ME." She spat again, turning to her bones.

"Why?"

Finally she couldn't take it anymore, she turned back toward him and stalked up to him, her tone still low, but he could feel that as far as she was concerned she was screaming at him, "Did you know? Did you?" Tears welling up in her eyes, though he didn't dare touch her with the hatred she was aiming at him, "Did you know?"

"Bones," A totally confused Booth questioned, "Did I know what?"

"Never mind, it doesn't matter, I just have to fix it." Tears were now streaming down her cheeks as she turned to go back to the table.

Booth couldn't take it anymore, he had never seen her this upset before, even when her mothers remains were found she handled it better than this. He grabbed her arm in an effort to pull her to her office, "Come on Bones, we need to talk"

She grabbed his arm and twisted it around so that he was now facing away from her with his hand behind him. "Don't touch me" She spat into his ear.

He finally gave up and walked off the platform in a huff back towards Cam's office. "Vincent, you're with me." Then he turned and faced Cam, "Cam, keep everyone away from her if you can, she's lost it over something. I'm going to go talk to Sweets as soon as we get back from the scene."

Vincent came forward holding a bag that he knew was for evidence collection, "Come on Vincent, let's go" Vincent followed him out and got into the SUV, then Booth drove silently to the crime scene after handing Vincent the folder to look through.

Please Review, let me know your thoughts, as I am really not completely sure how to follow through on this, but I have some idea as to where I want this to end up. I'm sure most of you can guess at the info Sweets gave her while he was drunk, for those of you who can't, the next chapter will reveal it. Again please review, I love hearing your thought and suggestions. Thanks!!