Hodgins kept his mouth shut.

He could see Booth struggle to find words to relate the facts of events he probably remembered mostly emotionally.

Hodgins did not know the details of the relationship between Dr. B and Booth, and when the team had been together he left it alone as none of his business. It was obvious m the start that Dr Brennan had liked the challenge of sparring with Booth and had eventually come to trust him. Hodgins had come to trust Booth too after he realized that despite being a fed he would look for the truth.

He had, as a rule, not worried too much about other people's private lives. But it still did not escape his notice that Brennan and Booth were a lot alike, and that between them they had formed a stronger bond than would have been predicted.

Like a dimer of macromolecules, the presence of the other allowed a subtle shift in multiple pie bonds to form covalent bonds at sites that wouldn't have seemed reactive without the polarizing influence of the other.

Far stronger than simple van der waals forces, they were bound by a sharing of electrons that could only be seen indirectly, by the changes in reactivity to outside elements; they stabilized each other because each completed the other's partially filled shells.

Of course it wasn't actually electrons and partially filled orbitals that held them together, it was emotions and shared goals, put the principle held.

But now Booth was being called on to recount those emotional memories, to shift the bonds and activate those sites that had only ever been reactive with Dr B. But he was to do it without her to stabilize them.

Realizing this, Hodgins suddenly felt truly sorry for the man.


Um...

So this is what happens when I try to write after work. Please tell me that at least some of you find this amusing.

I will try to write the Hodgins perspective of the actual story next, but no promises.

please review.... especially if you like chemestry.

Or if you hate it .

Or if this has changed your perspective on it....