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Broken Hearts

Chapter 4

Booth was automatically on alert at the sound of Angela squealing. It sounded like it was a good squeal but he wasn't sure and thought he should investigate the cause. Booth's hand flew to his gun as he made his way towards the resonating sound.

He came around the corner to see Brennan covering her ears and Angela jumping up and down in a frenzy. Angela hugged Brennan and she looked very uncomfortable. Booth decided he would save her from whatever it was driving Angela crazy this time.

"Bones, we have got to go."

"Why Booth, what's going on?"

"We have a case, come on." Booth pushed her back towards her office to grab her things and Angela followed.

"Booth, no, she can't leave. We were in the middle of the post important conversation we have ever had!"

"She doesn't have a choice, we have to go." Booth ushered her out the door and towards his SUV before Bones even realized what was going on.

"Booth, you can't just pull me out of the Jeffersonian when you have a case. Of course I would have went but at least give me time to get what I need."

Booth opened the door for her and she climbed into the vehicle. "What is the case about anyway?"

"You'll see." Booth said with a grin.

About ten minutes later they were pulled up at a deserted area of a large park. Trees surrounded the perimeter and Booth barely managed to park the SUV in the clearing. Brennan jumped out of the car and walked around to Booth's side of the vehicle. "Where is the body? And the file? I need to know what I am looking at Booth."

Booth simply smiled and walked over to the swings in a clearing a few yards away. He took a seat and began to swing his legs back and forth.

"What are you doing Booth? We don't have time to swing, we need to look at the body before the scene is contaminated."

"There isn't a case." Booth smiled at her.

"What do you mean there isn't a case?"

"Just what I said, there isn't a case, isn't a body, isn't anything."

"Okay, so why are we out here Booth?"

"I saw Angela having a cow about something and…"

"How could she have a cow Booth?"

"It's an expression Bones…."

"Oh, well why did you pull me out here when there isn't a case?"

"I just thought you could use a break from whatever she was going on about. What was she going on about anyway?"

"You know Angela, she gets excited about a sale at the mall. And you had no right to just pull me out of my office under the pretense that there was a case. I have so many things I need to do right now. I can't be sitting at a park on the swings!"

"Geez Bones, calm down. It's really okay."

"No Booth, I won't calm down. Take me back to the Jeffersonian now." Brennan turned back towards the SUV but Booth anticipated her move and jumped up to stop her.

He stepped in between her and the car and put his hands on her shoulders "Come on Bones, relax a little." Booth turned her and escorted her back to the swings. He gently guided her down onto the swing and began to push her back and forth.

Brennan sat as Booth pushed her swing. It reminded her of her father pushing her back and forth when she was a little girl. That was just it though, she was an adult now and she shouldn't be skipping work to go play on the swings, especially with her partner.

Her thoughts then drifted to Booth. Booth was a strong man that was always there for her. Thoughts of the many times he had saved her filled her head and her heart ached to reach out and hold him.

This was so unlike Temperance Brennan, at least the one she had turned into over the past twelve years. It was strange though, she had always felt a connection to her partner, now she knew why. It was him that she had given herself to in those three short days so long ago. It was him that she had often thought about even long after the fact, and it was him who finally made her feel complete again. Completeness was something that had left her on that day twelve years ago when she had walked out of his life. She didn't really realize she was full again until that day outside of the diner when he had told her that there was more than one kind of family. But she was full and Booth was the one who completed her both then and now.

These thoughts scared her and she shook her head as the realization of where she was and what she was doing set in. This was her partner, nothing more, and she knew now more than ever that it could be nothing more. Connecting with him like that again would destroy the relationship they had and she couldn't bare that. Back then they might have been lovers but now they were friends and a friendship was so important to her since she had so few.

She stood to her feet and hastily walked back to the SUV. "Can we go please?"

"Awww, Bones, come on! We were having such a great time." Booth protested.

"No Booth, you were having a great time. I have to get to work." She turned from him as the tears filled her eyes and her heart broke again for the same man it had all those years ago.

Booth saw the tears and wanted to wipe them away, he didn't know what had happened or what he had done but he knew he had to give her time to come around.

"Okay Bones, whatever you want."

The drive back to the Jeffersonian was in silence. Booth pulled up outside and Brennan jumped out. "You don't need to come in, we don't have a case." She said with her tone more harsh than she had intended.

Booth simply nodded and watched her walk away from him. His heart broke that day, both for her and for himself. He wasn't sure why but he knew something had changed that day and his worse fear was that it couldn't be fixed.

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