Want
"I wish you weren't leaving, Sweetie."
"Angela, I told you. I have to go. I just can't…"
"I know. Doesn't mean I have to like it."
"It's just too hard. He's always there, Ang."
"I get it. I do. I always thought, you know, that if anyone could make things work, it would be you and Booth."
"We tried."
"I know. I know you did. Maybe some time and space will make things better. Then you can-"
"No, Angela. Right now, it pains me to say it, but we hate each other. And I don't see that changing."
"Damn him, sometimes I really just want to smack the shit out of him."
"It's not his fault entirely, really. I agreed to try a relationship when I knew I wasn't ready. I should have said no that night, but I just wanted him so badly and…"
"Oh, Bren. Don't cry. Please."
"I'm sorry. It seems all I've done lately is cry."
"I know."
"This is what I need to do to keep my sanity, Angela. Nothing else has worked. Even severing the partnership…I still see him everywhere. And when I do, we ignore each other. It's horrible."
"Well, he is partly to blame, Bren. He kept badgering you about marriage and he knew going in how you felt about it. His expectations…"
"Were exactly as they had always been. He never hid that from me. But we were both naïve to think we were at all ready to be together. Even after five years of friendship, it just…needed something else. I don't know. I'm tired of feeling so miserable and being so disconnected from everything. I'm just plain exhausted, Angela. I want to go someplace where I don't have to see or hear or even think of the name Seeley Booth."
"Okay, okay…I get it. Hey, there's your boarding call. Give me a hug, sweetie."
"Thank you, Angela. For everything."
"Always, Bren. Love you."
"I love you as well. And…if you do see Booth, tell him…tell him that I'm sorry and that I…"
"I'll tell him. Have a good flight. Take care of yourself, Bren."
"I will. I always do."
A/N: Just a musing as to what may have happened if they had gotten together at the end of Parts in the Sum of the Whole. Sorry. ;) Also, this word is out of order, but I don't think anyone cares all that much.