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So, Brennan and Booth know, what do they have to think about this? find out.


Dr Temperance Brennan prided herself on being a logical woman, she could compartmentalise and rationalise almost everything in her life. She could handle dealing with murdered corpses without even flinching because she knew she was doing what was right. She could handle people judging her, calling her a cold fish because she knew her intellect and attractive looks made up for her social ineptitude.

Yes, Dr Temperance Brennan prided herself on being a logical woman, but she did not know how to handle the new information she had just been given.

When she had been given this case, she was already perturbed, it would be one of the first since Zack, and then she had found out that the man that they were supposedly trying to get justice for was a child abuser, a child abuser who a had been in jail for abusing his six-year-old foster son. Her time in the system had been bad but…. Well in short, this case frustrated her. So when she and Booth had entered Sweets office and he told them that he couldn't work on this case, her already fraying nerves had snapped. She knows that her words had been callous and unnecessary, and looking back her actions towards Sweets lately had been much the same.

When she had first met him, she had thought Dr Sweets to be like every other psychiatrist she had ever met (Dr Wyatt excluded of course), so condescending, so sure of a science that could not be proven in her standards. So of course she had reacted remotely to him at first but then slowly he had wormed his way into the group of people she called friends. Then everything just sort of imploded, he didn't tell her about Booth's "death", then Zack became a murderer. Confused, upset and tediously guilty about falsely imprisoning him, she acted out at Sweets.

It did not help that he had become the target for everyone on the team's frustrations. Booth was gruffer, more impatient .Cam was terse. Hodgins was plainly rude and disdainful. Even Angela was cold to him.

But that folder…. That folder with his name on it, what it contained, it made her feel sick. When Sweets had revealed that he had been adopted, she had assumed (peculiar on her part) that he had been an infant. To think- No- to know that he had been the little boy that Thomas had hurt so terribly and that she had just yelled at him for not being able to take this case…well guilt didn't even cover it.

"Could he have done it?" Booths question shunted her out of her thoughts.

"What?" She knew what Booth meant but she didn't really believe what he was suggesting. In all fairness the motives where there but Sweets could never kill anyone, despite her previous distrust.

"Could Sweets have killed Thomas?" Booth said it slowly, painfully.

"No, time of death was approximately between five and seven pm last Monday. He was with us, it was the time of our last session." She said it slowly too, trying to steady her voice, trying to cover up her distress with the facts.

Hearing Booth's sigh of relief did not help.

"We have to go after him." It wasn't a question.

They left the office, letting the folder fall to the floor.

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Seeley Booth ignored the lights of D.C flashing past him as they headed to Sweets apartment. All he could think of was the stupid kid and the stupid case, and the stupid folder.

This could not be real. No way. No how

Sweets could not be the victim of the horrific abuse described in the folder. He was a punk kid psychologist, who had grown up on some suburban street with a mom who made him cookies and who was a little too smart for his own good and not in a "squinty" way either, I mean c'mon who has two decorates by the time their twenty-two anyway!

He was not going to get into the whole quilt trip thing about how he had treated Sweets over the last couple of weeks; there would be time for that soon.

What he couldn't get out of his head was the look on Sweets face when he slammed that damned folder. It was just….just wrong. He had seen expressions like that on trauma patients and seeing it on Sweets just didn't fit. Not at all.

Booth couldn't help but feel as though he should have noticed the state Sweets was in when the had come bursting into his office, thinking back he could easily recognise the signs of a person fighting of a panic attack. He should have known not to push Sweets, should have listened to him when he said he couldn't do this case, not just told him to "suck it up".

Seeley Booth prided himself on looking after 'his' people and he didn't know when or how but Lance Sweets had become one of 'his' people and now Sweets has hurting and it was partly his fault. He had to set this right and he was going to do whatever it took to do it, no matter what.


Yay! Booth is doing something! and the angsty innermonologing continues....

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