A/N: Nothing long but it's something and I'm trying to get momentum up... (Ha.) Hope you like it anyways - more soon hopefully.

Coming home earlier than expected was disappointing, of course, but Brennan knew it was the right thing to do. And it meant, of course, that she got to see Booth. They had lunch, not by the Reflecting Pool, but in the garden of the Jeffersonian to save time for the case. Brennan breathed easier with Booth sitting next to her, she had to admit.

As he ate, she watched his profile and thought about how much she'd missed it. She would never have forgotten his face but the sheer familiarity of it rendered in front of her, in 3D HD, caused a wash of emotion to run through her. She was home. While they ate, they talked about their adventures; Booth seemed surprised when she told him about beating up the guerrillas.

"I had to. You weren't there to save me."

That was something else she'd noticed in Indonesia - how differently she acted with Booth. How she was only scared of snakes when he was there to cling to. How she was perfectly happy to beat up bad guys without his gun for protection. She found that she valued this independence (and she had to pretend Booth took some of that from her because it showed she didn't need him like that. That's why, when they got to talking about relationships - about his new girlfriend Hannah - she was fine with it. Really she was. She hadn't had the time or inclination to look for love (or even sex) (because she'd been thinking about Booth) so she didn't mind that she didn't have it (him).

She told him that Hannah was pretty, partly because she knew he wanted to hear it and partly just because it was true. She was at least as pretty as Brennan; it wasn't surprising that Booth was attracted to her. Brennan focused on facial symmetry, on traditional perceptions of beauty and that helped. Hannah and Booth, scientifically, seemed a good match and who was Brennan to refute science. That didn't mean that Brennan would blindly accept her though; she loved Booth, she couldn't deny it, and she would protect his feelings as much as she possibly could.