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A/N: I hate having to wait till November for new bones.Thanks for all the reviews.


Booth watched his partner run her fingers along the face of a skull. Her eyes filling with tears, ready to spill over and down her cheeks; her lips trembled. He felt as if he were invading something, but she was sitting in her office door open. He stood in the doorway.

"Booth did you know, the lacrimal bone is the smallest and most fragile in the face?"

"Does this have anything to do with Max?"

She nodded. "Every time I see him, he makes me feel... so breakable."

"You are breakable, everyone is, not everyone has me to protect them."