Something was totally off with Booth and Brennan.

Sweets had noticed the moment the pair had sat down. Booth didn't look very happy but Brennan was acting like everything was fine. It took Sweets a moment to realize that there was something wrong with her appearance. It was abnormally sunny out, which was weird for late January* but her sunglasses were not on her head.

"Hey Brennan, where are your sunglasses?" he asked in a friendly tone.

"I gave them to Hannah," she said calmly.

With that, Sweets choked on his water, nearly sending it at Booth, who didn't even seen to notice. Brennan didn't give people things. Angela, he could see doing that, but Brennan? Not to say she was selfish, but those sunglasses…she'd had them for as long as he could remember.

"You did?"

"I did. I visited her in the hospital and I didn't have a gift. She reminded me that it was social custom to give the infirm a gift. So I gave her the sunglasses."

That so did not sound right. Sweets had been in shrink game long enough to recognize that something was up with Hannah. It sounded like Brennan had just given her the sunglasses because there was nothing else to give. But that wasn't Brennan.

"And why the sunglasses?" Sweets asked.

"She asked me for them,"

"What?

"I didn't have a gift on my person, so she asked for the sunglasses."

Sweets had no words for that. That was something a spoiled child would do, not an accomplished woman. He wondered what Hannah's childhood and adolescence had been like. Maybe she was used to getting what she wanted just by asking or fluttering her eyelashes.

But still that was beyond weird. Anyway, Brennan had given her the greatest gift of all. Life. Some women would not have said anything and let her bleed out. But Brennan had saved her rival's life and she had been repaid by basically being robbed.

This was not right, not at all.

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*The timeline is weird. It's supposed to be winter, but in several episodes, it looks like summer. *cough Maggots in the Meathead cough* Never thought I'd say this but show some snow. It's driving me crazy! Can Hart Hanson and company see into the future? It better be that warm in January/February !

Oh and coming up next: Parker. I wasn't going to put him in but nertooold54 gave me the idea! Hats off to them!

I kept typing he instead of she when referring to Hannah and I wondered 'what if she used to be a man?'

Oh the insanity is endless.