Chapter 8

Sully looked slightly surprised. While he hadn't expected her to throw her arms around him he had expected a slightly warmer greeting.

"I'm back. That cruise was a bad idea. I never should have left without you. Are you saying you never missed me?" Sully was searching her eyes for the welcome he so desperately wanted, but it just wasn't there. He looked harder.

"Yes, Sully, I missed you; for a few days. I missed the relaxed feel my life had taken; the slight feeling of normalcy. I missed being comfortable with Booth, but I didn't miss anything very personal. You were gone. Just like everyone else. Now it has been over a year. I have a new, wonderful life. So, I repeat what…are…you…doing…here?" Brennan was quickly getting annoyed with this intrusion on her happy life.

"I love you, Tempe. I missed you…and what did my leaving have to do with Booth?" Suspicion written all across his face. Not that he had a right to be jealous.

"Don't call me Tempe. You don't have the right to call me that. Your leaving just cause some issues between us, but we got passed it. Now you need to leave."

"No. I am not leaving until we talk about this."

"There is nothing to talk about." Brennan could feel herself getting worked up, but she did not care. "You left! You weren't here when my father was sent to prison or my brother or when Booth was captured and tortured! You weren't here! Booth was!" She stopped trying to calm herself down.

"What do you mean 'Booth was'?" Sully looked very suspicious.

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Unbeknownst to them Booth had just walked up outside. Upon hearing Bones yelling he had drawn his gun unsure of who was upsetting Brennan so much.

He unlocked the door and threw it open, gun trained on the intruder.

"Sully!" Booth nearly dropped the gun. He quickly lowered it trying to work out in his mind exactly what was taking place.

"Booth! What are you doing letting yourself in without knocking?"

"You have no right to ask that Sully." Brennan soundly informed him.

"Well, why aren't you asking what he is doing here?"

"Well obviously he was coming home from work and heard someone inside with me so fearing for my safety he pulled his gun and came in."

What do you mean coming home?" Sully asked every word a little louder than the last.

Booth had walked over to stand next to Brennan. Their body language said it all.

"How long?" Sully asked between his teeth.

"That is none of your business Sully." Brennan stated.

"Hey, Sully, now that you know that she is taken I think you should just leave." Booth stated moving to open the door for him.

"I thought you didn't want her Booth."

"Well, I do now. So leave."

"Brennan, he doesn't really love you." Sully made a last desperate attempt to get the woman he 'loved'. "Not like I do. Just tell him to leave and you and I can talk." He gave her a nervous smile.

"Get out Sully!" Booth was still holding the door.

"I wasn't talking to you Booth!"

"Leave Sully." Brennan repeated.

"You don't mean that." Sully looked devastated.

"Yes, I do."

"You are going to be sorry." Sully informed them as he stormed out of the house a plan already forming in his mind.

Booth closed the door behind Sully and hugged his Bones. He loved her so much right now, but a part of him was worried about what Sully had meant.

Bones must have been thinking the same thing because she said, "He wouldn't really do anything. Would he?"

"I don't know, Tempe, but we know all to well the things people are capable of." Booth could not help being slightly worried.

"Sully isn't like that. He was just mad. Everything is going to be fine." Bones sounded like she was trying to convince herself of that fact.

"Lets not worry about it now. Lets just watch some TV and go to bed. You can watch the discovery channel." Booth lightly coaxed kissing her on the neck.

Temperance smiled at him feeling her worry melt away as they walked into the living room.

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Half an hour later the couple had blocked out the unpleasant occurrence. Across town in a little apartment Sully was just finishing up his plans for his latest project: 'Ruin the Booth/Brennan relationship.'