I'm SO sorry its been so long since I have posted! I've just been REALLY busy with school and work! I hope the wait was worth it and this chapter was satisfying enough for you BB Lovers! Kind of a teaser maybe? I'm not sure, but the next chapter will bring this all together. But no worries, there will be more chapters after that, other stories I mean. xD -wink, wink- lol But just so you know, again, SPOILERS in this chapter. With names of characters and such. Like I said before, whether it really goes this way on the show, I don't know? It probably more then likely wont, but from what I read this it my interpretation of it all. So I hope you ALL enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Chapter: 4;

Until proven guilty;

"What do you mean I can't go in there with you?" Bones said loudly looking at Agent Perotta. Booth was in the interrogation room sitting alone. Bones observed him from the other side, he appeared calm, but his fingers tapped against the metal table in front of him. She knew Booth better then anyone, she knew he was innocent.

"Exactly what I just said, Dr. Brennan, you can't go into the interrogation room with me."

"Why the hell not? We're working together on this case, so technically we are partners and when I'm partners with Booth he lets me go into the integration room with him!" she said with confidence in her voice.

"Well I'm not Agent Booth, Dr. Brennan, what I do in that room is my business, your business is in the lab," Perotta retaliated.

Bones was pissed now, how dare she say that what went on in that room wasn't her business. Everything that went on in that room was her business, she and Booth solved cases together therefore their information had to be shared. Not only that, she felt protect of Booth, territorial, when it came to him, especially this, he as her business. "Your wrong," Temperance said turning her back to Agent Perotta while crossing her arms over her chest. She looked at Booth through the glass, "Everything that goes on in that room is my business just as much as everything that goes on in my lab, in this case, is yours. I'm telling you, Booth is innocent," Bones said softly.

Perotta just sighed, she had picked up on the last few days of working with Dr. Brennan that when it came to mentioning Seeley Booth she grew tense. She grew defensive with anything she had to say about the man. Was something going on between the two of them? She wondered. "That's what I'm here to find out. I can't risk having you in the room with your former partner,"

Bones turned around to look at her, "He's still my partner!"

"Well whatever the case may be, you still can't go in there with me," she said turning on her heal to walk out of the room and into the interrogation room. Bones was heated. This woman didn't know what she was doing; she had no clue what kind of man Booth was. He risked his life for her and she was his friend, so why in the world would he kill one of his other friends? It just wasn't Booth. She was tired of hearing the saying, 'Innocent until proven guilty' she had heard it all week and the next person who said that to her was in trouble.

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Payton entered the room and shut the door behind her; she walked around the table to see Booth look up at her. He looked at her confused for a moment then looked behind him. When he turned back to her he shook his head, "Where's Bones?" he asked softly. If only he could see the smile on Temperance's face now.

Perotta rolled her eyes and threw the files down on the table before sitting across form him. "She's not allowed in here," she said with a cocky tone. "That's not what's important right now, Agent Booth, what is -,"

"What do you mean she's not important? She has every right to be in here," Booth said ignoring the fact that Agent Perotta was trying to further along with the interrogation.

"No on my watch, Agent Booth. I do things differently," she said leaning forward opening up one of the files. "Now, Luc Robitaille, how did you know him?" she asked sternly.

Booth grunted in frustration looking over at the mirror knowing that Bones was on the other side looking in at him. He wished he could see her face right now, know what she was thinking. He knew that not only was she pissed she couldn't come into the room with Agent Perotta, but he knew she was probably hurt too. The past week had been rough not working with her. Sure they saw each other, but not as much as he wanted to. He focused his attention back to Perotta, "He was a friend of mine, we played hockey together," Booth said crossing his arms over his chest.

"How many days a week did you see him?"

Booths brow furrowed, "Maybe twice a month?"

"But you say he's your friend?"

"Yeah so? Do you talk or see your friend's everyday?" Booth said with a chuckle.

"Sometimes. But Dr. Brennan is your friend -,"

He cut her off, "but we're also partners, she has nothing to do with this… remember?"

She grunted and leaned forward more, "So he was just acquaintance then?" she said flipping through the files once more.

"The guys and I meet up the last Saturday every month to play hockey. He was a busy person, had a job, just like everyone else."

"Did you ever go out and have drinks? Party?"

Booth sighed and rubbed his hands over his face, "A few times we went out and had drinks, but the other guys were always with us. What are you getting at? And am I the only one being questioned or what? What about Chuck and Danny?" Booth asked miffed about the whole situation.

"Their in question too. But what I want to know is what you were doing last Saturday after the game? Because I spoke with Chuck and Danny and they both say that Luc and yourself were both at the game, and they offered to get drinks afterwards but you said you had to go home and take care of a few things," she said folding her hands in front of her.

Booth shrugged, "So, I had things to do, I already told you this,"

"Yes, but, your buddy Luc never showed up at the bar like he said he would."

Booth sighed once more. He was trying to get away from the bars and drinking. And it wasn't even that he drank a lot or even went to bars a lot, he just wasn't in the mood that night. Although he only saw those guys maybe a few times a month he just wanted to relax that day. Of all days not to go to Bones' for dinner or something he chose to stay home and that was no legit alibi because no one could vouch for him. He had run into this problem many times before in cases, usually when someone said they were at home or sleeping or whatever… if they were alone, they were usually guilty. But Booth knew he was innocent. "So, what does that have to do with me?" Booth asked sharply, "Let me ask you this, do you have any real physical evidence that I was even anywhere near him the night he was murdered?"

Perotta rolled her eyes, "No, we don't -," she said softly leaning more onto the table to come face to face with him, "Not yet anyhow," she said firmly.

Booth groaned and pushed his chair out and stood up abruptly. "Well then it looks like I'm free to leave then, unless you have some more dumb ass questions to ask me?" he said angrily. When he didn't get a response from her he opened the door and stormed out.

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Bones watched the entire interrogation from the other side of the mirror. She felt so bad for Booth; she couldn't imagine what he was going through right now with all this. She felt so guilty, this was her fault, her fault that he had to go through so much hell right now because they couldn't identify Luc's killer. There was very little evidence at the scene so finding the person who was responsible was going to be hard. Bones watched as Booth stood up from his chair, she instantly went for the door and walked out just in time to run chest to chest to him. Her hands out softly shielding his chest from hitting her own.

Booth took in a deep breath and looked down at his beautiful partner seeing her eyes slightly filled with tears. "I'm sorry, Booth," she whispered to him with sympathy. Booth looked at her confused for a moment; he wasn't sure why she was apologizing to him. She didn't do anything wrong?

Booth shook his head and placed his hand gently on her lower back, "Come on, lets get out of here," he said softly to her before they headed into the elevators. He didn't have to ask if she was hungry or if she wanted to get dinner and head back to her place, it was just a normal habit for them now. They both were silent the whole car ride. He had ordered the food and picked it up as they drove back to her place. After they were inside of her apartment, she locked her door and removed her jacket watching Booth go into the kitchen with the food.

She walked in to see him pulling out the cartons of food from the bag. He still said nothing to her, it wasn't uncomfortable or anything, still she wished he would say something to her. "Booth?" she whispered walking to stand next to him.

"Bones, why did you apologize to me earlier?" he suddenly asked turning to face her fully, one hand resting against the top part of one of her table chairs.

"B –because Booth, this is all my fault," she blurted out.

Booth looked at her dumbfounded, her fault? How could she think this was her fault? "What do you mean?" he said softly looking down at her.

She hesitated for a moment and sighed looking down at the small gap between them, her arms resting at her sides, "If –if I was a better scientist, I would have found out by now who your friends killer was, then you -," she shook her head disgusted with herself. She moved to lean back against the wall. "… You wouldn't be going through all this right now," she said shaky from the tears threatening in her eyes.

Booth ran his fingers through his hair and stepped closer to her shaking his head. "Bones how can you say that?" he asked her softly.

"Because I -,"

He shook his head again cutting her off, it was a rhetorical question, "No, I mean you honestly think your bad scientist because you can't find one killer?" he asked her miffed.

"Yes and no,"

"I don't get it?"

"Yes because it's someone who killed your friend, your friend, Booth. Now you're a suspect in the case and we both know you didn't do it." She sighed and leaned up off the wall a little, their bodies in close proximity again, "It's my fault that the person hasn't been caught yet. I can't seem to find anything to tie anyone to it," she said softly.

Booth couldn't help but smile a little, "Well then we have nothing to worry about then, if you cant find anything then that means I'm off the hook," he said almost jokingly but not in a mean way.

"How can you say that, Booth? Your character and actions are being put into question and all you can think about is getting off the hard way… the wrong way?" she said almost in a furious tone. She walked past him and stormed into the living room.

Booth was taken aback by this, he was just slightly joking with her. To kind of ease the moment, he thought Bones would have known better by now. He went after her seeing her back to him, "Bones I -,"

"I don't care what you say Booth, this case isn't going to go down that way. I wont sit there and let some snooty FBI Agent talk to you like your lower then she is, talk to you like your guilty, we both know different. I know different." He watched as she walked towards her window, it was starting to rain. Booth followed close behind her, "Your better then that, Booth. You're a good man and I know your innocent, I just –I have to find a way -," she whispered then sniffed. "Someway," she whispered once more.

Booth was shocked at how much she had just said to him, he moved close behind her and put his hands on her shoulders making her turn around to face him only she wouldn't. Her head was hung low, "Hey," he said softly moving his fingers to her chin to make her look up at him and when he did, he saw tears in her eyes. Booth's heart was breaking at that moment; she really did care about him. More then he thought and probably more then he deserved. "Temperance, I have no doubt in mind that you'll find the guy who killed Luc," he said softly letting his chocolate eyes waver between her own. He watched as a few tears rolled down her cheeks, he instantly moved his hand to her cheek whipping them away with the pad of his thumb.

Bones closed her eyes for a moment enjoying the touch of his hand on her cheek, it was intoxicating, she shouldn't have gotten so much pleasure just from a touch. But she did. Bones opened her eyes to see him still looking at her with a soft smile on his lips, "I promise you I will Booth, I don't care what I have do to, I'll find who did this -," she whispered seriously to him.

Booth nodded and lowered himself a little to her height to meet her eye level. Bones breath hitched watching his face come closer to her own. She watched as his face came in closer to hers, this was it he was going to kiss her. Was she ready? Bones wasn't sure; yes… no… yes she was ready. She closed her eyes waiting for it to happen, but instead she felt the soft stubble of his cheek brush against her own and brush a little again her lips. His lips pressed firmly against the side of her cheek, "I have no doubt that you will, Temperance," he whispered against her cheek before slowly pulling back to look at her face.

Her face and neck were flush probably just as much as his was he was sure. He wanted to kiss her, to tell her that he loved her and that what she was saying to him right now meant everything to him. But of course being Seeley Booth he couldn't do it. Not with his partner… his best friend, Temperance Brennan. When it came to her he felt like virginal school boy all over again.

But like he had told her once before, In time. It would happen soon, when the moment was right he was positive it would happen. And it wasn't just a kiss he was referring too, it was so much more then that.

So? What did you think? PLEASE let me know, I want to be sure that I'm making this interesting for you all to read and enjoy! Chapter: 5 is COMING SOON!!! xo.