I don't own Bones, I know I have 206 in my body, but the Bones from Fox isn't mine.

I will hopefully post two of these a week, usually on Mondays. One from Brennan's point of view and the other from Booth's point of view.

Brennan's point of view

The Dedication in the Story

She saw him look at her manuscript, watched the slight smile permeate his face, and knew she did the right thing. After he left, she went into her room, and thought about all that had transpired this past year, between her and Booth. All the times she hid her feelings from him, and all the times she fought the urge to hold him close.

She remembered the first time she saw him, standing in the back of the room. Her body immediately responded to the breadth of his shoulders and his strong jaw line. He walked into her lecture hall, and told her she would destroy evidence by removing the flesh. She couldn't imagine anyone questioning the purpose for her analysis of the bones. After all, the evidence is in the bones, any fool should know that, but he proceeded to the front of the room, and continued to question her techniques, then he asked her to help him on an FBI case.

She was curious, her Dad always said her curiosity would get her in trouble one day, and now, look at the mess she was in. She fought against her feelings daily. Fought against touching him, and fought to keep the wall she built around her heart strong and tall. She thought she was doing a phenomenal job, but she knew eventually it would fall, and then there would be nothing standing between her and this man called Booth.

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She felt it try to break during that first case, when he kissed her, on the steps of the bar in the pouring rain. He started out with a confession, about gambling, why would he tell her that? She just wanted sex; she didn't need to know about his personal problems, but he said, "I feel like this is going somewhere."

Then he leaned closer, and when his lips touched hers, she knew what he meant. She pulled him closer, it felt so good, and she felt her walls tremble and try to break, and when she heard the cab horn honk, she took that as her cue to leave, and ran from him. She told him she was not sleeping with him. What she didn't tell him was that, if that kiss continued any longer, she would not have been able to hold her walls up anymore, and her walls were her safety net from the outside world.

She began to build those walls the day her parents didn't return. Then every time she was abandoned, she added to their strength. She had become impervious to the outside world and everyone in it, and she liked it like that, because no one would hurt her again, not even Seeley Booth.

The next day she had Zack return the evidence with the proof that the judge killed Gemma Harrington hoping that she would be rid of him, and never see him again. However, he came to the lab looking for her, but this time she was ready for him. She had her walls up and she was more impervious that ever. She told him she moved on, she wondered if he got the double meaning, but doubted he did.

She kept her distance from him, and when it was done, she told him she would never work with him again. She left him standing in the bullpen, alone, and she went back to her life.

However, he changed her; she was different now. She realized that while working with him, she found a missing piece of herself, and no matter what she did, she couldn't get that piece back. She went to Guatemala to try to find it, but no matter how much effort she put into her work, she failed to find that feeling again.

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Angela came to meet her plane, but when homeland security forced her to go with them, Angela left. All this happened, because he called in a hold for questioning request, and then he showed up in the security office as if he was trying to save her. She didn't need him or anyone else to save her; she could take care of herself. However, she did want to work with him again and find that thrill of working in the field, so she blackmailed him and it worked, but this time she would keep her distance, and not let what happened before, happen again.

The cases he brought her piqued her curiosity, and she fell into a regular rhythm, he would show up at the lab, and she would follow him. She remained impervious to his charms, not responding to him when he blatantly flirted with her. She continued to argue with him, but he seemed to take pleasure in it. He persisted in calling her Bones, and she was beginning to enjoy it, but she would never tell him. What did it matter if he called her Bones, it was only a name? She decided to let that one go.

He did help her to understand people, and he never tired of explaining things to her, but his alpha male tendencies continued to come into play, in that he thinks it is his job in this world to protect her. She knew he refused her gun request, because he thought she needed him to protect her, but she was a strong and independent woman, she didn't need anyone.

She was infuriated that day, how dare he think that she needed him? She was trained in three types of martial arts, a registered sharpshooter with the N.R.A., and had hunting licenses in four states, she definitely didn't need him.

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Michael came back and she thought she could lose herself in him, but after he left, she decided that she wouldn't make the same mistake again, she was too open with him and he betrayed her. Then when Booth used her to get what he wanted in court, she was infuriated, but again, he used her own curiosity, to get her to forgive him. Besides the ends always justifies the means.

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Yes, her curiosity always got her into trouble, and he knew she couldn't refuse a case, so when he showed up on Christmas, she instantly said she would take the case, but that one got them all locked in the lab for three days. He definitely knew how to get around her better sense.

When Hodgins told her he had a son, she was hurt. Why didn't he tell her? He never talked about himself, and yet he told her she needed to open up. When she saw him with his son, she realized how attached he was. She saw the love of a father in his face, when he looked at him, and it reminded her of her own father, and she wished for that again.

He had this way of getting everyone to do what he asked. For example, the field trips to other states. She had more important things to do than run off with him to another state to solve their murders. Didn't they have enough murders in DC?

She was fascinated by his interrogation techniques. He had a way with people that always had them confessing. Nevertheless, she knew about the empty feeling you get from not having a family's love. That was why she was able to find out what happened to Charlie Sanders. She knew the system, and was able to get David to talk to her. Afterward, he realized that it was because she had experience to draw upon, before walking into that room.

She also knew he wouldn't let her down, and he came through when Margret was released and she took Shawn and David home. After all, he wants to go to Heaven someday.

She could never remember feeling as angry with another human being as she was with Booth when he insisted on going home with her and staying at her place, with the idea that he would protect her from harm. When the refrigerator exploded and she saw him thrown across the room, for a brief second, she thought he was dead.

Then, when she saw his x-rays, she realized that she saw a brief glimpse of who he was. He was a hero, a man who stood up for what was right, and lived his life to help and save others. He never talked about himself, and she realized that she knew very little about him.

When Kenton kidnapped her, and tried to kill her, she was terrified. Booth was in the hospital, so she didn't think he would save her. She thought she was going to die, but then he was there, coming to her rescue, and again she almost let her guard down as she held him tight in her arms. Shell never know what brought her back to his room that night, but she remembered staying late, and the nurses had to tell her it was time to go home.

She couldn't believe he came to New Orleans, again with the thought of rescuing her, but this time she needed him. He helped her solve the case, and that released her from being a suspect, but the best part about his coming there, was that he found her mother's earring. She knew he probably took it from a crime scene, and she wondered why he would do that for her.

Did that simple act prove that he cared more than he revealed to her? Moreover, what did that earring prove? That he now has some type of power over her? Is that why she has so much difficulty resisting him? That's stupid; no one will ever have power over her, ever.

However, when he held her in his arms inside that barn as she thought about her mother's death, and who she really was, she again felt safe and secure. No one has ever made her feel safe. As she remembered his arms wrapped around her and his words that everything would be ok, she fell into a restless sleep.