This one is shorter, but the next one will either be really fluffy or really long, or maybe both. I promise :D Please don't forget to review on your way out.

After Booth dropped her off after lunch, Brennan spent the rest of the day confirming their victim committed suicide. When she was done with that, she moved on to the bodies in Limbo.

Now she stood over a body, carefully looking at it's bones, and taking detailed notes. Daisy was across from her, doing the same thing. For once, she was being quiet. Brennan noticed, if she was really focusing, her intern wouldn't speak. So she when Daisy spoke, the scientist came up with another way to capture her attention fully, whether it be reconstructing shattered skulls or trying to discern cause of death from the most minute nick on a bone.

So there she was, working in blissful silence, doing what she loved most. She ran her fingers over the clavicle in her hand, feeling every impurity. She relished in the simple things. The simplicity of being able to explain everything. It was comforting. This was when her life was easy, here in the lab. Outside of it, not so much.

Outside of the lab, she was confronted with emotions and the inability to explain things. She felt a loss of control when there was no science to back her up. She wondered how people got through life with such…ignorance. She strived for answers to be happy. How could some people not even care? She admired the people who found a balance though. People who wanted answers, but were able to be happy if they weren't able to find them.

That is part of what she loved about Booth. He dedicated his life to finding the truth, and that was his job. But without his job he was still happy. He had found a way to go through his life, not needing answers about love and happiness. He just let it come to him.

"Bren." Angela's voice traveling across the lab pulled Brennan from her thoughts.

"Yes Angela?"

"You wanna go to the diner? Hodgins is working late on some bug thing and this guy is hungry." She moved her hands over her slightly protruding stomach, a thoughtful grin forming on her face.

"Sorry, I can't."

"Why not?"

"I'm going out with Booth tonight."

Angela's grin turned into wide, knowing smile. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Brennan, full of questions.

"What? He asked if I wanted to get dinner tonight, so I said yes."

"Like a date?"

"Wha-no. We always go out to eat."

"Not lately."

"Well…" she wasn't sure what to tell her best friend. No one knew of his confession, or hers, and no one knew Hannah was gone.

"What's going on sweetie?"

"I don't know if Booth wants me to tell you."

"What can you tell me?"

"Uhm…I'm going out with Booth tonight." Brennan smiled and turned back to her work, but Angela wasn't going to have it.

"Brennan, what is going on? 'Cause if you're sleeping with Booth, that's something you have to tell me."

Daisy's head shot up from her work, eyes wide as she too waited for Brennan's response. Angels continued to smile at her friend.

"Ms. Wick, get back to work please. Angela, I am not sleeping with Booth."

"Oh." Her voice dropped considerably. "Ok, well what is it then?"

"I told you, I don't know if Booth would be comfortable with me telling you."

"Do you want to call him then?" Angela threatened.

Brennan shrugged, more focused on her bones. She could hear Angela walking back to her office. Booth's voice on speaker drifted out of the artist's office, but the words were jumbled. Moments later, Angela walked back onto the platform. "Spill."

"I don't know what that means." Brennan said, still not looking up from the table.

"It means…you're going to tell me everything."

"What did Booth say?"

"He said it's up to you. And that he'd be at your place in an hour and half."

Brennan sighed. "Fine." She pulled her gloves off and threw them in a trashcan nearby. "Ms. Wick, finish what you are working on now. When you're done…there is a body in bone storage. The victim was thrown in a wood chipper. I need you to put all the bones back together." She said.

"Yes, Dr. Brennan."

"C'mon Ange." The two women walked towards Brennan's office. Brennan took a seat behind her desk, and Angela sat in the chair across from her. The smile on her lips still hadn't faded. Brennan sighed again.

"Friday night, I became slightly intoxicated and I called Booth. I told him that I missed him, but he said he was with Hannah. I was trying to go to sleep when he showed up at my door. He said he made a mistake and that he…that he still loves me."

"Still?"

Brennan had never told Angela about the night outside the Hoover. "Before we left, he asked me to give us a chance, to be more. I told him no."

Angela gasped. "Why? Wait never mind, just…just keep going."

"Well, I told him that he really hurt me and I can't just forgive him that easily. He accepted that but he said he's mine, always."

Angela had a single tear roll down her cheek. "Aw."

"He stayed the night. We didn't have sex." She quickly clarified as she saw the look on Angela's face. "Then he broke his hand and we went for a walk. He told me that he broke up with Hannah. We saw a movie, then we went to dinner. The next day we went to the hospital for his hand. We spent most of the rest of the day watching movies at his apartment. We went to the diner last night and Founding Fathers for lunch today, and he asked if I wanted to get some dinner."

"Did you tell him that you love him?"

"What makes you think I love."

"Oh, c'mon on sweetie. Everyone knows you love him."

"Yes, he knows."

Angela squealed. "So what? Are you guys like dating or something?"

"No. I told him I have to earn his trust again. I don't want to, but every time I think about us together, I remember him leaving."

"I get it. That's okay though. 'Cause that man is gonna stay with you forever. He just lost himself for a little bit. I highly doubt that will happen again."

"Thanks Ange." She glanced at her watch. "I should go. I have to get ready."

"You're dressing up? Where are you going?"

"This place just outside of D.C. that Booth found."

"Ooh. Is it romantic?"

"I would assume so. I saw a lot of couples there last time."

Angela smiled. "Okay, okay go. And look sexy."

Brennan laughed as she grabbed her things. "Thanks Ange."

The next chapter they will be at the diner again. I realize it wasn't such a good idea for Booth to introduce Brennan as just his partner to a girl who was flirting with him. I've been think of ways to remedy it, and that is what will be in the next chapter.