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"What?" Booth asked, obviously confused by this random question she was shooting out at him.

"Why didn't you write me?" she asked him again. The bewildered look continued to spread across his features.

"Over these past two years," she began, "I've written you four letters, and they all went unanswered. I want to know why," she added, with a harsh, but sad tone.

Immediately, Booth looked away, and stood up. He started pacing around the room, trying to come up with a good answer to tell her. He knew the reason why he had never answered any of her letters. He just didn't know if he wanted her to know the reason.

"I don't know Bones," he started saying. "It's just, when you left, everything fell apart between us. I mean, I THOUGHT we had something going on here," he said gesturing with his hands between the two, "but then like the second you moved out there, all I hear from Angela is about how you've found this great guy, and how you two are the cutest things she's ever seen. I just didn't think you'd want to hear what I had to say."

"Booth, I wrote you those letters for a reason," she stated. "I know that things aren't the best between us, but you're my friend, and I just wanted to make sure that things were going OK for you," she added.

"Yeah, well," Booth said sighing, and turning around to go into the bathroom.

Temperance really didn't know what to do at this point. She cared about Booth so much, he was one of the only friends she had that meant a great deal to her. And now… things were just so screwed up. She stood up and paced the room, waiting for Booth to come out of the bathroom. She just wanted to leave. She wanted to go back to the hotel and sleep. She'd been at Booth's house all night long, and she didn't think she could stay here any longer. She knew that if she did stay, her and Booth would just end up fighting, and she definitely wasn't up for any fighting at all. When Booth exited the restroom, she asked him if he was ready to go get his car, and somewhat reluctantly, he agreed. He changed his clothes, while Temperance used the bathroom, and they were soon out the door, headed back to the bar to retrieve Booth's vehicle.

The ride to the bar was completely silent, other than Booth tapping the armrest with his hand consistently, and Brennan asking him to please stop. He did with a roll of his eyes. When they arrived, Booth said his thanks for the night, and Temperance quickly drove away after offering a welcome to him.

Booth shook his head, watching her drive down the street. Man, he had missed her so much these past two years. Even though he had a girlfriend, he knew that things weren't working out. All she cared about was her job, and he was pretty sure that she had cheated on him before with one of her co-workers. Seeing Dr. Brennan again was really starting to open up his eyes. He realized that maybe he should stop being such a wimp, and just go for it. Maybe if he tried to approach her about dating… or maybe even just one casual night out, no drinking, he thought now, with a laugh. He knew he wouldn't though. He knew he would chicken out. He just had the thought that if he did go for it, she would turn him down, and he would be so embarrassed. He got into his SUV, and drove back towards his home, pondering the idea of what it would be like to date Temperance Brennan.

Temperance, on the other hand, was so glad to be getting away from Booth after last night. She drove back to her hotel with the radio on loudly, trying to keep herself awake. She was completely exhausted, but she knew that she had to leave later on that night to go have dinner with one of the directors she was supposed to be meeting.

When she arrived at the hotel, she dropped down onto her bed, and was out within five minutes of her head hitting the pillow.

When she awoke, she realized that she only had about an hour to get ready for her dinner date. She quickly took a shower, and put on a dress that she thought was nice enough for the occasion. She didn't want to overdo it, but she didn't want to look like a slob either.

Finding where she had placed her keys on the way in, turned out to be a struggle for her, and she ended up being about ten minutes late to the dinner.

"I'm so sorry," Temperance told the man, Ted, sitting in front of her. "I'm usually on time, I promise," she said with a laugh. "It's just been a crazy day, I totally lost track of time."

"That's quite fine," the cheery old man said. He was just glad that she had agreed to meet with him at all.

"So, I'd like to hear your ideas about the movie," Temperance began, taking a sip of her wine.

The man began to go into a long rant of his prospects of how the movie, based on her book, might turn out. He talked about costs, production, casting, directing, editing, producing - the whole package. Temperance was with him for about the first ten minutes, but then she started to let her mind wander. Why was it, she wondered, that her mind immediately drifted to thoughts about Booth. She thought about last night, and about how when she had confronted him about the letters, she got the sense that he wasn't really telling her the whole truth about why he didn't answer her. While Ted was talking, and Brennan was tuning him out, she all the sudden, got the feeling that someone was staring at her. She looked around, and didn't see anybody that she knew. She passed the feeling off as just a weird coincidence.

About five minutes later, she got the feeling again, and when she glanced up, she was beyond shocked to see Booth looking at her, about 20 yards to the right, at a table, with a blond woman, although she could only see the back of her head. She made a small sound, and Ted asked her if she was all right. After giving him an apology, she excused herself to go to the bathroom, passing Booth's table on the way, and glancing briefly at him, as if saying 'can I talk to you for a minute?'.

When she was about two feet beyond his table, she heard him also excuse himself, and she could feel his presence behind her, following her lead to the restroom area.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, turning around to face him.

"This is a public restaurant Bones," he started to say, but she cut him off.

"Is that your girlfriend?" she questioned him, with an almost pissed off look on her face.

"Yeah," Booth replied back. "I'm breaking up with her tonight."

"Why," she started to ask him before he cut her off. He grabbed the back of her neck, and immediately pulled her to him, kissing her with all the passion that he had.

When he released her from his grip, he smiled at the shock registering on her face.

"That's why," he said. "Have a good night Temperance," he commented, and walked back to his table to complete his evening.

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