They were holding hands. They were kissing. They were hugging. They were just smiling at each other. Each couple looked so different to everyone else, but to booth they were all the same. They were what he wanted and didn't have. He saw people who looked happy together. He wanted to be happy, but at the moment he had no one. No, that was wrong, He had someone he had to daily try to avoid loving. Someone that he had just recently became aware that he was aware of her, and someone that was not at all aware of him. Someone beautiful and smart and…. And perfect in his mind. No one could be more perfect than her.

"Booth, would you like to come back down to Earth?" said his brother, with Padme cuddled close to him. His brother had no idea how jealous he was of him. Not of Padme, but of her loving him back. He wanted Bones… Temperence… To love him back like Padme loved Jared. He sat there, looking at all the happy couples, thinking about all the times he and bones had been mistaken for a couple. How now days he wished when they did he didn't have to correct them. They didn't have to correct them…

"Oh sorry," he said, "must have spaced out."

"You ganna order?"

"I'm not too hungry." Booth really didn't feel like eating, though it was 10pm now and he hadn't eaten since lunch…. With Bones….

"Buzz buzz." Booth heard his phone in his pocket. Glad for a distraction he said 'excuse me' to Padme and Jared and walked outside the noisyrestaurant. He looked at the called I.D. It was Bones. He wondered why she was calling, though he didn't mind at all that she was

"Booth." He said, his usually greeting over the phone, even if he knew who it was.

"Help." He heard come from the phone, it sounded like Bones had had to use all her strength to say the one word

"Bones! Are you okay?! Where are you? What happened?"

"Sidewalk…." She took a few breaths, I could tell even that was hurting her. "By… home…" Her incomplete sentences were something new.

"Okay bones, hang in there Bones, I'll be right there Bones." But after that he heard nothing more from her besides heavy, unsteady breathing. He ran to his car and got in. He had never been more thankful for the sirens in the F.B.I. issued car. Three minutes into his drive Jared called.

"Where the hell are you!? Did you just decide to leave without telling us?!"

"Jared, shut the hell up." As soon as the harsh words came from his mouth he felt he needed to apolagise, but instead he justified what he said. "Bones is hurt, bad."

"What happened to Tempe?" Booth could tell that Jared was no longer mad at him, and was now worried about Bones.

"That's what I'm going to find out!" Booth hung up after that and focused on his driving. With the sirens getting to Bones' street would only take a few more minutes.

* * *

Bones lay on the ground with blood pooling up around her. Her soft brown hair was sticky with blood and her face seemed to pail even in the dark. Her phone was still in her hand, open. She had never closed it. She just barely breathed, but she was alive. Hang in there Bones, He thought. He touched her face, about to pick her up and carry her to the car. Her eyes fluttered a bit.

"Booth?"

"Yeah Bones, I'm right here. I'm ganna take you to the hospital. You're ganna be just fine." His eyes started to water. He hated seeing her like this. Whoever did this to her deserved to be tortured and killed. Whoever did this wasn't human. He reached his arms around her about to pick her up until he heard a whimper from her.

"Booth…my…. neck….broken" she said, then she must have fainted, because her eyes closed and her chest slowly moved up and down. She would probably die if he moved her. At least that's what Booth thought, he wasn't quite sure, but there was no way he was going to be risky. So he called an ambulance and told him what he knew.

"I got a call on my cell phone from her and she said help and told me where she was." Then I come down here and she is bleeding and has a broken neck. She just passed out too. She needs help now!" A few minutes later a white, square truck pulled up next to his black car. Their sirens stayed on unlike Booths, and so lights started coming on, dogs started barking, a crowd started to gather. Booth noticed none of this. He crouched down next to his partner. Two paramedics came over and strapped her onto a board. Then they started asking him questions and he kept asking if Bones would be okay. They didn't answer his question, so he didn't answer theirs.