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"Jules, we need to talk." Booth said later that night. They were sitting on his couch watching TV.

"About what?" She said nonchalantly.

"I can't do this anymore."

"You don't like the movie? We can change it."

"No Jules, this, us, you and me."

"Things are going so well Seeley."

"Maybe for you but not for me."

"Don't I make you happy?"

"Honestly you don't, but it's not your fault."

"It's because I'm not her isn't it?" He slowly nodded.

"She came to my office today. We talked and she wants to be friends again. We are at a really good place right now in our relationship and I know if I push slowly, she will realize her feelings for me."

"But what if she doesn't?" Julie asked desperately.

"I can't think about that. I am so much in love with her it hurts me. Julie, I won't ever love you like that." Tears filled her eyes and a look of hurt filled her face. "I didn't say that to hurt you. I am trying to be honest. You deserve a man that will love only you and I'm not that man."

"Seeley, I could be her. I am a scientist; I know all of the bones of the body. I could talk about them. Whatever it is about her that turns you on I can do."

"What..I..what…Julie no. That's ridiculous."

"I can't lose you." She cried wrapping her arms around his neck.

"You never had me. Not really. " He gently unwrapped her arms from his neck.

"Seeley…please." She begged.

"I think it's time you go now Julie." He opened the door. "I'm really sorry, but you'll be happier."

"I'll never be happy without you."

"You'll never be happy with me."

"I am happy." Booth sighed. He really didn't want to hurt her, but this wasn't working so he decided to be blunt.

"How can you be happy when every time we kiss or have sex, I'm thinking and wishing it was her?"

"That's not true."

"It is true. She is all I think about Julie."

"I hate you." She spat and she stormed out of his apartment.

Sighing Booth shut the door behind him and flopped on the couch. He hated himself for what he said to Julie, but he didn't know what else to do. He knew he was the one at fault, not her. He never should have slept with her. He just needed an outlet for all of his sexual frustration and she was a willing participant and to be fair, he did warn her that she wasn't his one true love but she insisted that she was fine with being second best but he knew that it would hurt her in the end but he did it anyway. He wondered why he never saw the clingy side of her. He was freaked out when she started saying that she could be Bones. No one could be his Bones. He didn't like women who were clingy. He liked strong, independent women who didn't need a man to be happy, like Bones, his wonderful beautiful Bones. He was so happy when she came to him offering her friendship again. God knows, he wants more, so much more. He wants to kiss her lips, hell, screw the lips; he wants to kiss every part of her. He wants to touch her beautiful skin, her beautiful breasts; he wants to run his fingers up her incredibly long legs.

"Dammit." He said out loud. All of those thoughts of Bones was giving him a hard on. He felt like he was back in high school because every time he thought about that woman he got a hard on. He has been functioning through life over the past month with what felt like a constant hard on because he was always thinking of his beautiful woman. While debating whether or not to take care of his problem now, or indulge in more sexy thoughts when his cell phone rang. He groaned in delight when he saw the caller ID. He took a deep breath to calm his racing heart and answered the call.

"Hey Bones." He said casually.

"Is this a bad time?" As soon as he heard her smooth voice his hard on grew bigger.

"No. What's up?"

"Something came up."

Damn right it has. He thought to himself with a grin.

"It's rather important and I need to discuss it with you." Hope soared through his body. Maybe she was finally going to admit her feelings for him.

"No problem. Do you want to meet somewhere?" My bed maybe?

"It's personal and I'd rather discuss it in private. Can I come over to your place?" My bed it is then.

"That's fine."

"I'll be there in about thirty minutes."

"See you then Bones." He hung up his phone with a smile. He then focused on his other, rather large problem. He decided that he should probably take care of it before she arrived. He unzipped his pants, closed his eyes and began thinking of his beautiful partner.

--

Brennan hung up the phone and let out the breath she had been holding. She was a nervous wreck. What she needed to tell him was going to change both of their lives forever. She knew that he would be thrilled. She on the other hand was terrified. She never thought that she would be in this situation. She looked at her self in the mirror, trying to decide if she was wearing the right kind of outfit for her conversation with Booth, her partner, her best friend and the man she loved. Finally she determined that there was no such thing as the right kind of outfit for such an announcement and she grabbed her purse and keys and headed to her car.

If her mind wasn't focused on a certain tall, handsome FBI agent she would of noticed the person who came out of the shadows and followed her. Suddenly she felt an electrical shock radiating up her spine. She cried out in pain as the darkness came over to her and she fell to the ground.

"I told you to stay away from him bitch." Julie whispered.

After Julie had seen them together this afternoon, she started to formulate her plan. She knew that she couldn't use her FBI issued gun so she borrowed one from evidence. After leaving Seeley's apartment she drove straight over to his partner's apartment and decided to wait, all night if necessary for her to make an appearance and she lucked out when she saw her less then an hour later headed to her car, probably going to see HER man. She had considered just shooting her in the back but she wanted her to know who was killing her and why she was going to die. Booth had told her that she knew martial arts so that's why she used the tazer. She had to bring her down when she wasn't expecting it. She loaded the unconscious doctor into her car, tazered her once again just for the hell of it and took her to the out of the way, run down house that she had found. It was just a random house so when her rotting corpse was found there would be no connection to her.

Brennan woke up confused, unfocused, nauseated, and sore. She tried to move but when she was unable to she quickly realized that her ankles and wrists were bound tightly with rope. When her eyes were finally able to focus, she saw Julie standing in front of her pointing a gun at her.

"Julie." She said

"Shut up bitch."

"Why are you doing this?" Brennan refused to beg for her life.

"Why? Are you fucking kidding me?"

" Why would I joke while there is a gun pointed at my head?"

"He dumped me. You decide that he is good enough to be your friend again and he kicks me out of his life."

"I'm sorry Julie, but I am not responsible for the decisions that Booth makes. He is his own man."

"He loves you, you stupid bitch. You offered him a glimmer of hope with your stupid friendship and he decides that is his cue to pursue his feelings for you and he can't do that with me in his life."

"So why are you punishing me for his choices?"

"I'm not punishing you Dr. Brennan. I'm going to kill you."

"Okay then why are you going to kill me?"

"Because I love him and with you alive, he won't truly love me."

"With me gone, he might not truly love you then. Maybe you aren't meant to be with him."

"YES I AM!." She screamed. "We are meant to spend the rest of our lives together. Do you understand me?"

"I think I finally do."

"Do you have any idea what's it's like to have sex with a man and know he is thinking of another woman? It's not the most pleasant experience. Now, don't get me wrong, Seeley is definitely good in bed, He really does know how to work it, but I know that it could be so much better if he was thinking of me and not you."

"Look Julie, I can talk to Booth. I can tell him that there is no chance of a romantic relationship ever and then you and he can be happy."

"You've already told him that and it didn't work. He still loves you. There is nothing else besides your death that will break your hold on him." Julie placed the gun on Temperance's temple. "Bye bye Dr. Brennan."

"Wait." Julie sighed with irritation.

"What?" Time for the begging to begin, but not for her life.

"Julie, I'm pregnant. Please, don't hurt my baby." Julie lowered the weapon.

"Bullshit. The great Temperance Brennan does not want children."

"Doesn't mean I'm not pregnant."

"What a pathetic excuse to try and save yourself."

"It's true. My blood work results are in my purse. I was on my way to tell the father about the baby when you stopped me."

"Who is the father?"

"Seeley." Brennan whispered.

"You Bitch." Julie hit her in the head, hard with the butt of the gun.

As Brennan fell against the floor Julie rummaged through her purse for the results. Angry tears fell from her eyes when she saw that this woman in front of her was carrying the baby of the man that she loved. It was all wrong. She was the one who was supposed to give him a child not the cold, unfeeling bitch who was crumpled on the floor in front of her.

Julie began to pace. Her well thought out plan was quickly falling apart. She had every intention of killing her, that part hadn't changed. She just didn't have it in her to kill Seeley's baby and to keep Seeley's baby alive she would have to keep the tramp alive. As she paced and debated her predicament, Plan B came into her head. She turned to face Brennan with a smile on her face.

"How far along are you?"

"Four weeks."

"What a coincidence, so am I." Bones looked at her with the eyes of an anthropologist.

"No your not."

"How the hell do you know?"

"Your pelvic bones haven't started to shift. Mine have and that's how I knew that I was."

"Seeley won't know that. He'll know just what I tell him and I'm telling him that I'm four weeks pregnant with his baby and I have the blood work to prove it." She held up Brennan's blood work results.

"Those are mine."

"Not anymore."

"How the hell do you plan to pull this off?"

"I'll keep you here until you give birth and once you do, I'll take your baby and present it to Seeley as ours."

"How are you going to explain my disappearance? Booth knows that I would never leave without a word to him."

"See that's why you were going to see him. You were going to tell him that you are going on one of your archaic digs but at the last minute you chickened out and wrote him a letter."

"I didn't write any such letter."

"You will. Excuse me and I'll be right back."

While Julie was gone Brennan struggled to untie the ropes from her wrists but it was useless, it was too tight. She looked around the room she was in and found it was empty. There was nothing that would help her. For the first time since this whole ordeal began, she felt tears threatening to fall. She wouldn't give Julie the satisfaction of seeing her cry. She couldn't believe that this was happening to her. Booth always told her to be aware of her surroundings when she was alone and usually she was, except tonight when she was too busy thinking about him and their baby.

"All righty Dr. Brennan. Let's right that letter." Julie said as walked back in the room with a paper and pen.

"How can I write a letter with my wrists tied together?"

"Hmmm. I guess your right. I'll untie one hand but no funny business." She cocked the gun and pointed it at her while she untied one of Brennan's hands. "Now write."

"What do I write?" She asked, her voice shaking.

"Allow me to dictate." Julie said and she began to dictate the words that would surely break Booth's heart. As soon as the letter was written Julie quickly tied Brennan back up.

"Now this room will definitely not work. I only got it so I could kill you and it would have been fine for that but now things have changed. I'm going to have to find an alternate place for you and my baby. Nothing but the best for my baby."

"My baby." Brennan whispered

"No it's mine. Seeley's and mine. Now I have to go arrange for a place for you to stay. I'm taking your keys and leaving your goodbye letter in your apartment cause you know that he will go there to check on you. What is your email password?"

"Why do you want that?"

"I have to email your resignation to the FBI and your boss." Brennan just started at her. Julie cocked the gun. "Password. Now."

"Jasper."

"What the hell kind of password is that?"

"It's the name of the pig that Booth gave me." Julie snorted.

"That's pathetic. It really is. Now, just sit back, relax and I'll be back as soon as I can. Don't try anything stupid and take care of my baby."

As soon as the door shut and Brennan was alone, she slid down into a laying position on the floor and let the floodgates open. She curled herself into a ball and sobbed. She couldn't believe that this was happening to her. She was really scared. Scared for herself and for her baby,

"Booth…help us." She whispered between sobs.

--

"This is Temperance Brennan's voicemail picking up because I cannot answer my phone right now. Leave me a brief message and I will return your call at my earliest convenience. Thank you."

"Bones where the hell are you? You said that you would be here in thirty minutes and that was two hours ago. I'm starting to get worried actually scratch that, I am worried. CALL ME." Booth slammed his phone shut and resumed his pacing.

This was not like Bones. She just doesn't not show or call. His gut was telling him that something was wrong. Maybe she decided to go talk to Angela before coming over and she lost track of time. He picked up his cell and called Angela.

"Ange its Booth."

"Hello Agent Booth. What do I owe the pleasure of this phone call?" Angela asked.

"Is Bones with you?" He prayed that she would say yes.

"No, I haven't seen her since I left work. Booth what's going on?"

"I don't know. She called me a couple hours ago, wanting to come over and talk and she still hasn't showed."

"Did you call her?" Angela was becoming nervous

"Of course I called her. I just keep getting her voicemail."

"Well maybe she changed her mind about talking to you. Things haven't exactly been great between you two lately." Angela had a valid point.

"We were getting past it. She came to my office today and we talked and decided to be friends again."

"What happened in Virginia Booth? You guys were fine when you left and when you got back, you two barley have barely spoken two words to each other."

"Angela, I really don't want to talk about this right now."

"Well then I'm going to tell you what I think happened. You two slept together and the next morning or possibly even that night she pushed you away, saying that it meant nothing to her and it was all a mistake."

"Did she tell you?"

"No, you just did."

"How…"

"She is my best friend and I know her and I know that it meant something to her."

"Really?"

"She will just never admit it, but she is in love with you but she likes being alone because every time she has loved someone they have hurt her. Being alone is the only way to guarantee that she won't get hurt."

"I would never hurt her."

"I know that, you know that. Now you just have to convince her of that."

"I gotta find her."

"Call me when you do."

"I will and Ange?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for the advice." He quickly disconnected the call and headed over to Bones' place.

He broke a few traffic laws driving over to his partner's apartment. He screeched to halt, taking up to parking places and jumped out of his SUV and ran up to her place, taking the steps two at a time.

"Bones, are you there?" He said banging on her door. "Bones open up." He waited a few seconds, not hearing anything. "All right, I using my key and I'm coming in." Again, not hearing a reply he inserted his key into her door and let himself in.

"Bones…where are you?" He walked around calling her name and receiving no answer. He was starting to panic when he saw an envelope taped to the door. Walking over he saw his name written with her beautiful penmanship on the outside of the envelope. He ripped it off the door and opened it with shaking hands.

Booth,

I wanted to tell you this in person but unfortunately I was unable to muster the courage to tell you face to face. I was given a once in a lifetime opportunity that I couldn't pass up. This is a historical dig that it is an honor to be a part of and it's something that I have waited my whole career for. I will be gone at least a year maybe longer and unreachable. I am glad that I am leaving on good terms with you, as friends again. You have been an amazing friend, something I will take with me. I wish you all of the happiness in your personal and professional life. Knowing that you are happy will make me happy. Keep on catching the bad guys. It's what you do best.

Your friend,

Bones.

Holding the letter in his hand he sank to the floor in despair. She was gone. His partner, best friend, and woman that he loved more than anything was gone from his life, maybe forever.