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After Booth walked away, leaving Brennan standing alone with Angela, Brennan wrapped her arms self cautiously around herself as if to protect herself from the cold breeze she suddenly felt. Brennan looked over to the woman, who was anxiously waiting to the side of her, awaiting the news on the fate of their friendship.

Brennan in just being herself, stood motionless and quiet, refusing to be the first one to speak on this matter.

Angela knew Brennan well enough to know exactly what she was doing. She knew there was no way in hell Brennan would be the first person to talk. It would have to be up to her to initiate this conversation, and if she did not do it soon there was a good chance the things they were thinking would never be said. As tempting as that sounded to Angela at that moment- just forgetting this conversation and pretending it never happened- Angela knew that there was a good chance if she did not say anything she would be losing her best friend forever.

Finally mustering the nerve to say something, Angela began, "Bren, sweetie, are you ok?" she questioned.

Brennan scoffed at Angela's words. "Why do you care how I am or am not feeling?" Brennan stated realizing her words were coming off cooler than she originally intended.

Angela closed her eyes in a desperate attempt to try to block the tears that were threatening to fall at her friends' harsh words. Trying not to let her friend hear the hurt and sadness in her voice, Angela said, "you know that is not true. You know I love you; you are my best friend. I care about you, and how you are doing, how you are feeling. I care. I don't know how you can even say that I don't." Angela let the last words fall out of her mouth, fearful it would show exactly just how weak she was feeling.

Clearly you care," Brennan said in a sarcastic tone, "that is obvious."

Angela sighed, realizing that this was going to be harder than she originally thought. "Sweetie-"

Brennan stopped her before she could continue, "just stop Angela, don't say anything. If you really cared about me you would not have lied to me. If you were really my best friend you would not have hid the fact that we had a fight- you would have told me so that we could have worked it out."

Angela closed her eyes, hoping that in the end this would all work out; as of now it was looking doubtful. "Bren," she attempted to explain, "you need to understand why I did not tell you."

Brennan looked over at Angela expectantly, waiting for her to give her a good reason why she would hide this from her- a reason that she could accept.

Angela saw that Brennan was waiting for her to continue, so she desperately attempted to try to get Brennan to understand why she did what she did, "you just woke up from a three month coma and you did not remember anything. You were having a hard enough time trying to deal with everything that everyone else was throwing on you, and I just did not want to add more stress to your already overbearing load.

Brennan snorted and responded, "that is an inaccurate statement. The fact is that you were trying to hide the fact that we had a fight from me in hopes that I would never remember. The fight itself I would have forgiven you for, but the fact that you kept it from me is unforgiveable."

Angela could not hold back her tears when she heard Brennan say unforgiveable- did that mean that their friendship was over? "You mean to tell me that if I would have just came out and told you about the fight, you would have forgiven me, just like that?" Angela asked.

Brennan nodded, "studies show that even the people closest to each other will have disagreements; usually everything turns out fine. In fact, if I remember correctly, the fight itself does not seem like such a big deal anymore, in fact, it almost seems sort of childish.

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A little over three months earlier-

Brennan stood on the platform carefully studying the bones that were laid out in front of her. This case was one of the most difficult ones she had ever had to deal with. The bones were just no, as Booth would put it, "speaking" to her like they normally did. It was obvious that this case was taking its toll on her, and everybody else for that matter.

Sometime later she heard the unmistakable footsteps of her best friend approaching the platform. Brennan did not even look up to acknowledge her presence for she had a lot of work to do.

"Hey Sweetie, "Angela called out in greeting as she swiped her card and made her way onto the platform. To her dismay her friend didn't even look up or acknowledge her presence.

"So I heard a rumor that aliens are attacking the world and taking everybody hostage. Their spaceship is hovering over the city as we speak," Angela said, knowing that she would get some reaction to this statement by the ever so rational scientist.

Brennan did not even look up, however, she did reply, "that is highly improbable Ange," she explained, "even if their were other forms of life outside of this earth's atmosphere- which is highly unlikely seeing as there is no scientific data saying there is- it would be impossible to take the entire world hostage.

Angela rolled her eyes at her friend's cluelessness and said with a chuckle, "Bren, I was just trying to get you to look up and step away from your work for a little while."

This made Brennan look up from her bones in confusion, "why?" she questioned, "my work is highly dependent on me staying focused. This institution is lucky to have someone such as myself who is determined to get their work done."

Angela rolled her eyes and said the words that she would immediately regret saying, "wow, I sure feel sorry for Booth- loving a person that loves her job more than anything else."

The words were meant as a joke, but as soon as she said them, she knew they would be back to bite her in the ass.

Brennan tensed at those words and asked with an unreadable look in her eyes, "what is that supposed to mean?"

Angela looked at her wide eyed and tried to explain, "I didn't mean it like that, I meant it as a joke."

Tears began forming in Brennan's eyes and she pinched the bridge of her nose, refusing to let the tears fall, "no," Brennan answered, the anger in her voice obvious, "you meant it. Everybody else thinks it, why wouldn't you be any different."

Angela desperately tried to fix the mistake she had just made, "Bren you know sometimes my mouth says things before my mind can get a chance to stop it. I swear I did not mean it."

"If you didn't mean it you wouldn't have said it," Brennan yelled in anger.

"Brennan I-"

Brennan cut her off, "just stop it Angela. I swear sometimes you can be such a bitch."

Brennan didn't know what possessed her to say that, but at the moment she hosnestly didn't care.

"You can just be so insensitive sometimes," Angela shouted at Brennan, hardly believing the words she had just heard.

Brennan laughed menacingly, "you know what, I have heard that from everybody! 'Dr. Brennan is cold'," she mimicked the words so many people have uttered about her, "'Dr. Brennan is heartless . Dr. Brennan could care less about what happens to anybody!'" The anger in her voice was evident as her pitch continued to get louder and louder, to the point where her voice was echoing off the walls of the large lab.

The two did not notice the crowd gathered below the platform listening to their conversation, they just continued.

Well maybe if you didn't act so cold and heartless all the time people wouldn't say that about you," Angela shot back.

The lab was silent after those words. You could hear a pin drop from anywhere in the room "Well," Brennan said quieter, but still with malignance, "I'm glad I finally know your true feelings about me."

"Well I'm glad to finally get it out in the open," Angela said with the same amount of malignance as Brennan. When Brennan turned to storm off the platform Angela called after her, "God, sometimes I just wish I wouldn't have to deal with you anymore. You are way too much!"

At those words, Brennan turned back and looked at the woman talking to her. She nodded her head and let out a deep breath. Then, she quickly turned and headed out of the lab. After a few moments, Angela shook her head in exaggerated exasperation and rushed off to her office, leaving the bystanders staring at the now empty platform in shock.

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Brennan and Angela stared at each other after the memory of that fateful fight. Neither knew what to do. It was Brennan who spoke first.

"I can't forgive the fact that you lied to me," she stated, "I forgive you for what you said, and I hope you can forgive me for what I said; but the lying is unforgiveable.

"What are you trying to say?" Angela asked in a weak voice.

Brennan responded, "I don't think we can remain friends anymore."

The only thing I can say is that IT IS NOT OVER YET; STICK WITH ME! I don't know if the fight is believable or not, it fits together well, so I ran with it. Only 2 more chapters! Might not be able to post much this week because my graduation party is Sunday. Perhaps reviews will change my mind…