Cam is halfway up the stairs to the lounge when she hears Jack and Angela talking. She stops for a moment, not wanting to interrupt if they're having a private conversation. When she hears Jack talking about the necklace, her heart sinks. She knows this necklace all too well. Though it has never adorned her own neck, Cam knows how special this piece of jewelry is to Booth.
With a hurt expression on her face, Cam turns around and walks back to her office, closing the door behind her and drawing the blinds closed. She falls limply onto her leather couch, placing her face in her hands. It hurt when Booth had broken up with her a second time, but this new event felt like someone had just punched her in the stomach.
Things had been awkward when Booth broke up with her the second time, and became even more uncomfortable when Dr. Goodman had returned. It wasn't the fact that he'd returned, but the fact that she now felt grossly out of place, like she no longer fit into the dynamic of the lab. She still thinks about quitting on days like this, but then she remembers the inadequate tools she'll be going back to at any other lab, and puts on her game face.
Lost in thought, Dr. Saroyan barely hears the knock at her door. Shaking the thoughts from her mind she finds Dr. Brennan on the other side. Offering a smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes, Dr. Saroyan invites Dr. Brennan inside. As soon as the forensic anthropologist has crossed the threshold, Cam sees the necklace, and is grateful that breaking hearts are not audible.
"Dr. Saroyan, I need you to sign off on these files so I can take them to Booth."
Cam takes the folder from Brennan, her eyes never leaving the silver chain that Brennan is barely trying to hide beneath her lab coat. A genuine smile graces her face as she remembers a conversation she and Booth had shared only a few days before. They'd been broken up for months now, but Seeley had still come to her, asking her blessing as Brennan's boss, for him to pursue his feelings with Temperance further. Of course she'd said it was ok, what else could she have said?
Booth had told her that he would keep the relationship as professional as possible while in the lab, assuming of course, that Brennan shared his feelings. Cam remembers the look of uncertainty on his face, and telling him that if Dr. Brennan didn't share his feelings that it was her loss. His smile at that was incredible. All of the uncertainty had washed from his face and he had given her a quick peck on the cheek as he turned on his heel and exited her office.
She thought she was completely over Seeley at that point, however, this meeting with Temperance made her realize she wasn't quite there yet. The moment she and Seeley had started sleeping together again, because she knew that was all it was, she knew that she would never get him back fully and completely. She thought she was fine with this too, but every time she saw Seeley and Temperance interact when they thought no one was looking, she knew that he would always leave her again, that it was Temperance that he wanted to be with. She realized that their 'relationship' was just one of convenience and nothing more.
Grabbing her coat she goes to Dr. Goodman's office to tell him she's feeling ill and will be leaving for the day. He wishes her a speedy recovery as she is walking out of the door, but she does not hear him. Her mind has already left the building and she quickens her step to catch up.