A/N: Sorry for the late chapter, I was bored while watching Carols In The Domain with my Grandmother and I just started writing down the basic ideas for this, now I'm deciding between staying up and watching some weird movie about AC/DC and weird guys or going to bed, the latter seems to win XDAnyway, enough from me, enjoy your chapter!

Booth woke up first, still keeping his eyes shut, his arms still around Brennan, holding her close, they were both warm despite the lack of blankets that were somehow kicked off from the night before.

He cracked an eye open, finding most of the room dark except the glow of the morning sun that was above his curtains, eyeing his sleeping partner still sleeping peacefully.

Booth couldn't just lay there doing nothing, he cautiously moved his hand forward and pushed back a lock of hair from Brennan's face that was in front of her right eye.

"Mmmmurghhh… Booth" His actions caused her to wake up, but he didn't mind, all the better to talk to her without getting his ass kicked first thing in the morning.

"Good morning sleeping beauty" Replied Booth in a cheery manner.

Brennan completely ignored him and turned over in his arms, snuggling closer into his chest."Hey Bones as much as I like this I have to go into work today to finish off some boring paper work"Suddenly her eyes shot open."Oh god Booth I'm sorry" hurriedly said a very flustered looking Bones. Booth immediately regretted his actions, but he knew he couldn't not go to work but if he had a choice he would spend all day in bed with Temperance than go to work or even speak to anyone else, hell he would rather spend a whole day in bed than ever eat bacon again.

"Anyway, Bones I think it's time we had some breakfast" Booth stood up and offered his had to Brennan, when she accepted he gently pulled her around the bed and slinging an arm over her shoulders, when she really surprised him by wrapping her right arm around his middle-section.

In the kitchen Brennan was standing in front of the bench where Booth was pouring milk on two bowls of Cheerios, disrupting Booth from his milk-pouring duties as Brennan started softly chuckling."What's funny Bones?""I was just thinking, when I was younger Russ and I used to….. Oh god, Russ"Realisation hit Brennan all thanks to a memory bought up from a bowl of Cheerios, the news hadn't quite sunk in for her."B--B--Booth… he's really gone, isn't he?" More of her wanted him to tell her that it was all a dream and that Russ was still alive somewhere running around the country side, but the rational side of her needed to be told by someone she loved and trusted that he was really gone."I am so sorry Temperance" and with that she slid down the wall and broke down into tears on the kitchen floor.

It was safe to say that Booth was becoming an expert in the comforting-Temperance area, he being the one seeing her in her darkest hour and the one who saved her from it too.

He put the sugar basin on the bench and walked over to her and joined her on the floor wrapping his arm around her shoulders pulling her close.

"Why does it always have to be me?" Bones managed to choke out between sobs."Bones, it isn't your fault, things like this you have no say in the matter, shhhh""Am I really such a bad person? I feel like I am responsible for everything that has happened to my family""Bones, Bones, look at me. Look. At. Me."

She slowly tilted her head up to look Booth in the eye, searching for some sort of reassurance, which she found and his kind sincere words proved even more so."You are not a bad person, you are most definitely not responsible for this"She looked away, refusing to look at him, Booth slowly moved his thumb across her cheeks drying away all the tears that dampened her cheeks. This had an effect on her more than she could ever imagined, it made her forget about everything and just feel like she was always loved and gave her the strength to carry on, she stood up and made her way out of the kitchen toward the hall."Bones where are you going?" asked Booth with a quizzical look on his face.

"To get dressed, I'm going to work"Booth was a little confused, he jumped up from his current position on the floor and jogged over to her."Isn't it a little early to be going to work, after everything that happened last night?""Booth, I'm fine really, I'm not going to keep this a secret from them, they have a right to know""Okay I understand, but please let me come with you""If you insist"Booth grabbed his work clothes and headed out of the bedroom letting her get dressed while he headed to the bathroom to do the same and they met in the car ten minutes later, the drive over was quiet but a comfortable silence, one that they didn't usually share but seemed to have shared it for years.

They walked into the Jeffersonian side by side, their usual demeanour still in place, in spite of everything that had happened in the last 24 hours, they entered Brennan's office heads held she was removing paperwork from her bag, Booth excused himself from her office and went around the Jeffersonian telling all of the team that they were to meet in Brennan's office finishing there he went back to her office finding that he had all the squints in tow, after the end of the line, whom was Cam had entered her office he swiftly shut the door and made his way back over to where Brennan was standing close to her desk, arms crossed.

Booth leaned into Brennan and whispered softly:"Do you want me to tell them or do you?""You can do it… I don't think I can"Booth shot her a look of sympathy."Okay uh…um… well last night when I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth I heard something smash and I went out to see what had happened, I found Bones in the lounge room and the hospital called saying that Russ had been killed in a car crash earlier that evening"The whole group was silent for fifteen seconds, no idea what to say, Brennan not showing any sign of emotion but really was being torn up into little pieces inside.

Angela was the first to speak."Oh my God, Bren" Angela.

"Doctor Brennan if you need any time off…." Cam.

As if the whole morning-breakfast situation was being re-enacted, Brennan burst into tears and automatically turned into Booth's shoulder, trying to bury the squints knew it was their time to leave, they walked out of her office trying their best not to make too much noise and Angela softly shut the door.

Booth just stood there holding her, comforting her, wishing the pain to go away….

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