WOW! It's been forever it seems like? I'm so sorry to everyone that I haven't updated any of my stories in a long time. I do hope everyone can forgive me for that? Life has been crazy for me this past year and I don't use that word loosely either. TONS of good and bad things have been going on and my head hasn't been screwed on right. So again I ask for forgiveness for not being around. Besides my little incedent last year with a jealous/mean fanfic fan ruined everything for me when it came to writing and I know most of you know what I'm talking about with my other stories.

I do promise to update my other two stories soon, I started the next chapters on both of them awhile back but have yet to finish them. Ha! But I couldn't help myself with this one. It takes place this season (6) the time frame is anywhere from two weeks ago until now? I'm kind of just going with the flow and following the show a little? There WILL BE future SPOILERS just to let everyone know. This chapter doesn't have any but there will be and when there is I will everyone know :) Also;; this is RATED M because in future chapters will be needed! -wink wink- Hehe. Just so we're clear, I don't like Hanna. She's sweet and all don't get me wrong, but everyone who knows me knows I'm all about BONES && BOOTH baby! All the way! So I thought this would be the perfect start for a new story? Yay or Nay? Also maybe the characters are a little OOC, but this is how I see them and this is how I write them, every writer is different. Besides that this season.. I think all of them are OOC to me? I'm not too thrilled about where things have been going but I've read for the future things look good but in the mean time I hope everyone like my version? It's been awhile so PLEASE bear with me on the crappiness that is my writing for this chapter.

Enjoy loves :)

Chapter: 1

What really matters?

"It's really no problem for me to take Temperance home, Agent Booth." Hacker said looking at Bones the whole time he was speaking.

Bones seemed pleased enough with the offer, but Booth wasn't having it. No way was he taking his… whoa! Simmer down, Seeley. Mine? Bones isn't yours and she never was… or will be for that matter. Still I don't want this dunce to take her home after what happened today.

Earlier on in the day Booth and Bones had been shot at a few times while they were at the park scooping out a potential suspect in their current case. Luckily it was in a small area of the park and there were only a few people around so no one got hurt. But even then so it didn't ease Booth's mind any about what happened. Their jobs were always dangerous like that and sometimes nothing came of it when someone tried to make any type of threats, although firing a gun at an FBI agent and his partner was serious, it wasn't like it was something that hadn't happened before.

"No way!" Booth said firmly interrupting his own thoughts. "No way not after what happened today." He said taking Bones' bag from her arm and putting one hand on her lower back to usher her out of the lab.

Bones stopped in her tracks and pushed him away. "Booth I'm fine." Which she was there wasn't a scratch on her. Although Bones loved that Booth was so caring about her safety even after everything that happened between them this past year, she really was ok. Besides it made her slightly uncomfortable now that he had Hanna –the beautiful and sweet blonde he met while they spent those seven months apart.

It was hard for Bones to admit to herself throughout all that time apart that she needed Booth in her life and not just as partner or as a friend but as her rock. He was the man she loved but it was irrational for her to love him like she did, it would never work between them –she couldn't change the way she thought or understood things or the way she lived her life, she just couldn't and being in a relationship with him she would have to do all that. It wasn't that she didn't want too, on the contrary –Bones wanted to change but deep down inside she was scared she couldn't.

She was afraid she wouldn't be good enough for him.

"Look you mentioned earlier that you and Hanna had dinner plans, I don't want to interrupt that by you having to take me home," she said firmly while taking her bag back from him and slinging it over her arm as she walked backwards towards Andrew.

That was another thing that bothered Brennan, she and Booth weren't near as close as they once were. They didn't have their late night talks and dinners at the diner or at each others' places. Really the only time Bones saw him anymore was while they were on a case. Outside of work seemed like it was out of the question? Bones didn't dare ask Booth to come over anymore anyways; she didn't want to step over any boundaries that would hinder his relationship with Hanna. It wasn't like she hadn't thought about asking him out for a drink or anything but after talking to Angela about it she made a good point –friends or not, if she were dating Booth and a beautiful female friend of his asked him out for a drink and he said yes, that would make her pretty upset. And it wasn't because she wouldn't trust him it was just a code between woman? At least that was how Angela described it? –Bones didn't remember ever reading that anywhere but she figured it was just a figure of speech for woman not to mess with other women's boyfriends.

Just as Bones opened her mouth to speak up again Booth's phone rang. He looked at Andrew and Temperance slightly irritated as he flipped his phone open not even checking to see who it was.

"Yeah this is Booth?" he said rubbing his eyes. "Hanna! No… No, I'm on my way there now. Be there in five," he said with a goofy smile as if she could see it pressed on his lips from the other end of the phone.

Bones sighed and turned towards Andrew, "thank you for offering to take me home," she said slightly ignoring the fact Booth was still there.

Andrew smiled at her offering his hands out in front of him more or less for her to walk to lead the way. "It's my pleasure Temperance."

She nodded to him and started to walk as Booth followed beside her, "see you're already late for your date. You would have been there by now if you would have spent less time arguing with me, Booth."

Seeley sighed and looked at Bones one last time before looking over at Hacker, "you take her straight home and make sure no one's following you, if anything happens to her, I'll kill you myself… you got it?" Booth said firmly.

"I don't need a babysitter! I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself, besides Booth –there's no one after me or you for that matter!" Which there wasn't or at least she didn't think there was.

"I don't care Bones; at this point in the case we can't take any chances." With that Booth walked away from them a little on edge. He didn't know why he was being like he was, it was a little unlike him? Maybe it was the fact that Hacker was taking her home and not him, then again why did it matter? He and Bones weren't a couple, she didn't love him like he loved her… like he still loved her. She was a single woman able and free to do whatever she wanted. Yet it still bothered Booth that they didn't share as much as they used too. He missed her in the sense that he felt like he lost his best friend.

Sure Hanna was great to talk to but she hadn't been through the things he and Bones had been through. Hanna didn't know him like Bones did –no one knew Booth like Bones did. Booth looked back over his shoulder to see Hacker with his hand on Bones' back as they walked away to leave the building –Booth knew that he had to quit comparing Hanna to Bones. There was just no comparison; he loved them both in different ways.

/x/x/

"I know I told Agent Booth I would take you straight home but I thought you'd like this place, they serve the best sushi in town."

Bones smiled at him and got out of the vehicle. She had never been to this restaurant before and she was always up for trying something new besides it was nice to go out for once with someone she could have an intelligent conversation with. As they walked into the restaurant the sounds of chimes and soft music filled the air, it was a relaxing atmosphere which was a nice especially after everything that happened today.

"How did you find this place?" Bones asked as they sat down at their table in front of the window. Although the restaurant was classy looking on the inside and out it wasn't in the safest part of town.

"A few of the Agents come here from time to time for lunch. I've been meaning to ask you out again it's just with our hectic schedules and all there was never any time. I hope you don't mind me kidnapping you for the evening?" he chuckled and winked at her.

Bones furrowed her brows together momentarily at his remark, then she realized it was a figure of speech as in this was his first chance in a long while that he had to take her out. "I don't mind it at all," she finally said as they looked at their menus.

/x/x/

Booth leaned down to give Hanna a soft kiss on the lips before he sat at the table across from her. "I'm sorry I'm running late," he said apologetically.

Hanna smiled at him, "it's fine Seeley, I understand all about work keeping you overly occupied!"

Booth just smiled at her and picked up his menu, if only she knew what really was keeping him from being there with her earlier. As time went on and they ordered their food he forgot about his little argument with Bones not even an hour ago and kept his focus on his beautiful girlfriend in front of him. She would be leaving in two days for almost a month on an assignment out in Los Angeles. Booth was going to be lonely without her that was for sure so it was nice to spend this time with her and forget about everything… and everyone else.

/x/x/

"Thank you for dinner, Andrew this place was incredible." She would have to mention this place to Booth sometime; she knew he would like it?

Although she had a great time with Andrew tonight her mind was still on Booth mostly. Every since their time apart she had been having trouble coping with her decision she made all those months ago before they decided to separate. Bones knew now that she made the wrong choice, she realized that while in the islands she needed Booth the way he wanted her. Spite the fact she felt like she couldn't change –not by choice but by her heart and mind not playing together equally –she knew what she wanted and that was him. She had heard a saying once, absents makes the heart grow fonder and she knew what that meant now.

But it was too late. Booth had moved on and was serious as a heart attack about the woman he was with now, at least that was how he put it? If ever she were to regret something –letting him go was at the top of her list.

With a sigh Bones started to stand to put her jacket on just as Andrew did. Then in an instant Bones was back down again but this time on the floor bleeding from a gunshot wound.

"Temperance!" Andrew shouted out kneeling to her side as more gun shots were fired out into the open air. The ten people that were in the restaurant with them hit the ground for cover as Hacker pulled out his phone, "someone call 911!" he shouted out as he dialed Agent Booth's number.

/x/x/

Hanna pushed Seeley up against the door as they entered his apartment, her lips assaulting his passionately as he offered up his hands along her hips to pull her closer against his body. She moaned faintly at his advances and wrapped her arms around his neck to kiss him deeper while Booth's phone went off in his pocket. She grunted and pulled back a little as rolled his eyes and pulled his phone out to see who it was, he saw the name and number and chuckled.

Hacker, probably wanting to tell me what a wonderful evening he had with Bones.

Booth frowned for a moment about the thought before Hanna spoke up seeing the look on his face.

"Seeley? What's wrong?"

Booth took the frown and replaced it with a smile as he tossed his phone on the couch and looked at her pulling her close against him again. "Nothing at all. I just don't like being interrupted while I'm trying -," and before he could say another word she assaulted his lips again for a hot kiss.

Booth moaned that time as he started to peel away his jacket with Hanna's help. In the mean time his phone rang a dozen times as her shirt made it's way to the floor and his shirt was starting to get unbuttoned as he started to walk her back towards the bedroom.

"Can't you put that thing on silent!" she said seductively yet annoyed as she nibbled on his bottom lip.

Booth chuckled and pulled away from her as he slightly jogged to the couch to get his phone. When he flipped it open he saw that he had seven missed calls from Hacker and several from Angela and before he could see any more his phone rang again but this time it wasn't Hacker it was Angela. Booth looked at his phone as if he were confused before looking at frowning yet now an irritated Hanna as he flipped it open to answer it.

"Angela?" he said as he answered his phone.

"Booth! Why haven't you answered your phone?" she asked in a rushed tone.

"Well why have you and Hacker been blowing it up all night? What's going on?" he asked irritated putting one hand on his hip as a defensive stance.

"It's Brennan. Booth she's been shot." The tone of her voice was everything but calm, this was serious.

At that moment Booth's heart sank to the pit of his stomach, he felt sick… he felt helpless… he felt responsible? She was hurt –she was shot and it was his fault all because he didn't take her home. All because he let someone else try to do his most important job of all and that was to protect her.

To protect his Bones.

So good or no? Please give me some feedback, I'd really like to know how I'm doing? Especially with it being so long since I've been on here. -feels terrible- Heh. Also I kind of took Hanna's being shot as an idea, so if you wanna look at it as thought I rewrote the episode (sort of anyhow, lol) in my own way feel free. :) Thank you everyone for reading, I will update ASAP with the exceptions of comments letting me know how everyone liked it! xo.