Disclaimer: I do not own bones :(

A/N: So here it is the end to my first fanfic. I would like to thank everyone that reviewed, read, and added it to their alerts! I hope you all like the ending! Please R&R :)

I don't know how long we were staring at each other, but it felt like an eternity. This, of course, is not at all possible. However, I found it very enjoyable and longed for more. Then Booth broke the intense silence.

"Hey there partner." He said with a sad smile.

"Hello" I managed to say despite the pain in my chest.

"How ya feeling?"

"Like I got shot by a sniper." I tried to make it sound like a joke to lighten the mood, but like everyone knows I'm horrible with humor.

"Funny bones" He replied not amused, but trying to act like what I said was funny. He was not doing a good job at all. Booth was blaming himself for everything that happened. He had gotten into an argument with Hannah right before the sniper took her. Recently, he had started to distance himself from me because I was part of the problem. Sure, Hannah and I had become somewhat friends, but jealousy had gotten the better of her. So Booth wasn't driving me home from the lab the day the sniper attacked me in the parking garage. Seeing the pain in his eyes, I tried to comfort him.

"Booth stop blaming yourself."

"I should have been there Bones, for both of you."

"You couldn't have been. That guy had a plan, you couldn't have protected us both and you know that." He wasn't listening to me.

"I should have tried." He said defeated.

"We may want to change the past Booth, but we can't." I was not only referring to the past few days, but also back when I told him I didn't want to give "us" a try. I wish I could have taken it back. I want to scream at him now 'I want to try Booth! I lied! Why couldn't you see back then, I was lying!' I can't say this to him now though, he has Hannah. Oh Hannah, I wonder if she is ok?

"Bones I…" I interrupted him

"Hannah. How Is Hannah?" I asked truly worried.

"Oh she's fine, just a sprained wrist from hitting the ground." He said with a twinge of anger "you really pushed her down, there Bones." He added with a small chuckle.

"Good…that's great." I smiled relieved that I had saved her for Booth. Just then, Booth took my hand and gently squeezed it.

"Thank you Bon…Temperance. Thank you." His hands reached up to my face to wipe away tears. When had I started to cry? I needed to put my wall back up, but I couldn't.

"Booth I…I didn't want you to choose." My voice broke, tears spilling down my cheeks. This is so unlike me. My heart had been yelling at me to tell him the truth, but I tried to shut it up by surrounding it with walls. Now of all times they decided to crumble, exposing my wounded soul.

"I…I didn't want to watch you choose her so…so I decided to choose for you. At least I could be proud of my decision and you wouldn't blame yourself for my death…and you would have Hannah to heal your metaphorical wounds," I sobbed. Oh great Brennan let it go, let it all go. Sweets would defiantly call this a breakthrough.

"Oh Bones" He shook his head and cupped my face using his thumbs to wipe away my tears. "I never wanted to choose, especially in a situation like that. I would never forgive myself if I watched either of you die." His eyes grew large as he looked at me and the machines still attached to my body.

"But I did! I watched you die Bones…I watched as you took your last breath and I felt your heart stop!" He said with anguish then he started to get angry as he smashed his fist on the arm of the hospital chair.

"I took the kill shot right when the sniper fired, when I looked down I didn't know who had gotten hit until I watched Hannah get up, look at you, and run out of the building." I was listening intensely to his recount of the event. I didn't know what had happened after everything went numb.

"I ran to you Bones and watched the blood…so much blood seep out of your body." He was crying now. I watched the horror dance across his face. He was reliving the painful moment. "I watched you die Temperance." The use of my first name startled me a bit, he didn't notice as he continued the story. "I watched my so-called girlfriend leave my best friend bleeding and dying on the floor, alone!" He was shaking now the tears replaced with anger.

"Booth…I" I tried to calm him down, but he held his hand up rubbing the bridge of his nose, he wasn't finished.

"Temperance, do you love me?" His question stunned me. I didn't know he had heard the conversation between me and the sniper. I guess he had. Since I had already told the truth once and my walls were demolished, I answered.

"Yes Booth I do." Tears sprung up in my eyes again. Booth took my hand again and looked into my eyes.

"When I saw that Hannah had ran and you were on the floor…Bones. In that moment I chose you. Bones I'll always choose you." Tears were in both of our eyes now. He took his other hand and stroked my cheek. All I could manage to say was "yes."

"What?" Booth asked completely confused.

"Yes Booth. I would like to give this, us a chance. I'm that girl Booth. I knew right from the beginning too. I'm yours for as long as you want me." I couldn't believe I had said that, what I had been dying to tell him since I returned from Maluku. Booth looked at me in shock. 'Oh great,' I thought, 'he's going to tell me it's too late, but wait what is he doing?'

Just then his lips came crashing down on mine. It was a tender and slow, yet passionate kiss. I didn't want it to end, but Booth pulled away and rested his forehead against mine. Brown and blue eyes stared deep into each other's souls, when Booth spoke.

"I will always want you Temperance Brennan because I will always love you."

We both smiled as his lips met mine once again, a perfect fit. In my hospital room, 447, I made a promise to myself, that no matter how scared I was of this relationship, I would not run. I would stay for 30, 40, and 50 years. I would stay forever if it was at all possible. I will love Seeley Booth until the day my bones turn to dust and now I know he feels the same.

The End :)