Sweets sat in his office. For once his hands weren't busy with paperwork or flying across his computer screen. He just sat there. Thinking.
He thought about Temperance Brennan. He thought about Seeley Booth. He thought about each one of them separately and yet couldn't help thinking of them together. He just couldn't understand why they weren't together. As a physiatrist, he knew why, but that did not mean he understood it. So many things about those two confused him.
He can see how much she loves him. He knows it as a fact, and facts are things he knows well. He also sees how she convinces herself that, by loving Booth, she would destroy him. He saw her withdraw and refuse to accept what she wanted so badly, simply because she believed that it was in Booth's best interest. She has decided that she is not good enough for him.
He sees how much he loves her. He sees it in the way he is around her; how he talks, acts, the way he looks at her. He knows Seeley Booth. Booth is not the kind to rush into something. It took him years to even admit that he loved her. That he will always love her. He watches him struggle to convince his Bones that he loves her. That no matter what he will always love her; only want her.
He knows them, probably better than they know themselves. But he will never know them better than they know each other. That is what astounds him. Booth sees her facts and Brennan sees his hope, but neither can completely accept the other's point of view. So, because of hope in Booth's case and logic in Brennan's, they avoid it. He will not push her, ever. She has decided that, logically, they have a good relationship now, why mess it up? She is certain that she would mess something up. She always did. He just wanted to convince her that nothing she could ever do would make him love her less.
Sweets sighed. He was in a sticky situation. Tomorrow would be interesting, although he already knew how it would play out. He would be here, she would be there. There would be a new case. They would be professional. She knew nothing else and he knew that's what she would expect. Sweets knew that everything would be the same. But together the one step forward they had made in their session earlier that day would turn into three backward ones. Of this, Sweets was positive. The next day, he received the surprise of his life.