Introduction
Seeley Booth was one of the more experienced and more knowledgeable FBI agents in the Bureau. Booth knew that some people outside the FBI thought of him and all the other agents as arrogant and conceited but in Booth's case that could not be farther from the truth. Even Booth could agree that some FBI agents joined just for the badge and privileges, but Booth himself joined for what the badge stood for; protection; care. Innocent people trusted Booth to protect them and to care for them and Booth took pride in that small fact. Booth had one son but he was single. Seeley Booth had spent enough years in the FBI to think he had saw anything and everything but when he met Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, she was definitely not what he expected. She was basically the opposite. Before seeing her, he had heard that things about her and everyone else that worked in a lab. The FBI and somewhat derogatory term for scientists was squints. With this mindset, Booth went into the Jeffersonian Lab expecting nothing less than your average squint. Little did he know that what was actually waiting for him would change his life forever.
Temperance Brennan was a forensic anthropologist that worked in Washington, DC for many years. Growing up in such a way had been hard on her. She had been through more than most people experience in a lifetime. She had been hurt in more ways than one. Physically by some of her foster parents. She was hurt emotionally by the sudden disappearance of her parents and brother. She had lost her ability to trust after having been hurt so much. Even as an adult, people came in and out of her life. Some fought to stay but she always found a way to push them away because they did not try hard enough. Of course Brennan had friends, much like anyone else but no one who ever really understood everything about her. Her best girl friend, Angela was a good listener and good advice giver which made her a good friend. Angela was always there for Brennan when it mattered and was not going to leave. Angela worked at the same Lab Brennan did as an artist and in the department of facial reconstruction. Dr. Jack Hodgins was a guy who believed that everything government associated was a conspiracy and was deeply interested. Hodgins worked in the department of entomology. Dr. Lance Sweets worked as an FBI psychiatrist and performed psychiatry sessions when the FBI needed him to. Cam, the head of the forensic department and boss of everyone on the team, worked in DNA and blood all the while supervising.
Booth expected what the FBI taught him to expect but upon meeting Dr. Brennan and the rest of the team (minus Cam and Sweets as they did not work there at the time) his mindset on squints changed completely. Dr. Brennan was absolutely stunning to him and he was very interested in getting to know her. She came off a little odd and way too rational for him but he grew to love that about her. They had worked a couple cases together before, she identified bodies for him and he solved the murders. After a couple, she forced him to take her out into the field and after that day, they were officially partners. They solved the crimes together. The team helped tremendously and Brennan still did the anthropological standpoints, but she also went out with Booth when he went to question and pick up suspects. They were full on partners. Throughout their years of working together, which has been 5 long years, he grew to know the person that no one else knew. He not only knew her now, but he loved her. He loved her for her and he had loved her after about a year of working together. He was incredibly attracted to her upon meeting her but he decided not to act upon those feelings so as to not ruin their partnership. After about a year, he felt he could not tell her because she learned to trust him. She did, she trusted him with anything and everything she had and he feared that if he told her that and something went wrong that she would never trust again and he would be left broken hearted.
After 5 years, their partnership as well as their friendship is still going strong. They are the best of friends as well as the best crime fighting duo. They were two of a kind.
