Welcome readers! I know it's been a looooong time since I have updated anything, but I have been extremely busy with school, work, and sports. So please forgive me.

Anyway, I am extremely upset to how this season is going. Booth is being very distant with Brennan and Brennan is reverting back to her season 1 self. I mean, I like Hannah, in a way, but I just wish she wasn't Booth's girlfriend. So yeah, I hope you like the new story. Let me know what you think!

Summary: After 5 months of keeping what she was feeling bottled up, Brennan finally expresses her feelings about Booth and Hannah to Angela. Someone overhears her confession and decides to do something about it. But what happens when someone's good deed, turns into another's worst nightmare?

Temperance Brennan was sitting in her office on a Thursday night, after finishing up a case. Booth had gone home to Hannah, Cam had gone home to Michelle and Paul, and Angela and Hodgins had gone home together. She was all alone, left by herself to think.

It had been 5 months since everyone returned home. 5 months since Booth had dropped the bombshell that was Hannah, and 5 months since she had been with Booth by herself, without the accompaniment of his girlfriend. She missed him. The only time they talked was when they had a case. He wouldn't come by to make sure she ate, he wouldn't take her out for drinks after finishing up a case, he wouldn't stop over late at night with Thai and beer. That was all in the past. That was all before she rejected him, all those months ago.

Today was May 19th, 2011. Tomorrow would've been the day they would've met up at the coffee cart if they wouldn't have been called home early. Tomorrow would've been, should've been, the day that changed her life forever. But now, here she was, all alone. Everything had changed. Angela was due in 4 months. Brennan was going to become an aunt, a surrogate one to be more exact, of a beautiful baby girl. Booth was going to be the godfather, of course, and if Hannah wasn't in the picture, that would probably bring them closer. But now, instead of hugging Brennan and being with Brennan when the Hodgins' baby was born, it would be Booth and Hannah, and Brennan would be all alone.

Brennan was brought out of her deep thought by a knock on the door. She looked up and there stood Angela, with an angry look on her face.

"Hello Angela, what are you doing here?" Brennan asked.

"I can ask you the same." Angela said wobbling in, cracking the door behind her.

"I'm just working on some paperwork. That's all."

Angela looked at her desk, not seeing a single folder open.

"Where's the paperwork?" Angela asked, nodding to her desk.

Brennan panicked and put her head down.

"Are you going to tell me why you're really here? Or are we going to sit here in silence and make my husband wait out in the car forever?"

"Why are you here Ange?"

"I forgot my purse. Now why are you here?"

"I…I…." Brennan thought it was now time to be truthful. The past 5 months she had been lying to her best friend, telling her she wasn't jealous of Booth and that she was fine. But Brennan was to the point where she couldn't fight it any longer. It was time to let the dam break.

"I have no one to go home to, Angela." Brennan confessed.

Angela was taken aback. She wasn't expecting that answer. "Sweetie, if you're lonely, you know you can come and stay with Hodgins and I."

"No, absolutely not. You two are busy preparing for the baby and being newlyweds. You don't need me interfering."

"One, we're not newlyweds anymore. And two, you wouldn't be interfering. We love you Bren, this baby is going to love you, we would be delighted if you would come over and stay if you were lonely."

Brennan listened to what Angela was saying, and noticed there was no Booth loves you in that sentence. Because he didn't. He didn't want her now. He didn't care about her now. He didn't….need her now.

"No Angela. I'm fine. Okay? I don't need to stay with you and Hodgins, I'm fine, by myself."

Angela could see the hurt in Brennans eyes, and her voice. This wasn't about her being by herself, this was about her being without Booth.

"Have you talked to Booth lately?" Angela asked.

"What does that have to do with anything?" Brennan bit back.

"Just asking a question. Have you?"

Brennan sighed. "Not since this morning when we finished up the case."

"When's the last time you guys have gone out after a case?"

Brennan held her breath, breathed through her nose, and let the air out of her mouth. "Without Hannah? Over a year."

"It seriously hasn't been that long. Has it?" Angela asked, appalled.

"Yes. The last time we went out for drinks after solving a case was the Gravedigger one, but…I don't want to talk about that."

"It's killing you, isn't it?"

"Angela, if whatever it is your talking about is killing me, I would already be dead, hence the killing part of your statement."

"Bren, you know damn well what I'm talking about. It's hurting you that Booth doesn't spend time with you anymore, isn't it?"

Brennan didn't want to answer. She didn't want anyone to know how she was feeling. But it was her best friend, her very wise best friend. So she came clean.

"It is hurting me immensely." she sighed. Brennan stood up and began pacing the room. "We don't talk anymore unless it's case related. We don't go out for lunch or dinner anymore. We don't have celebratory drinks after a case. We don't eat Thai and drink beer together. We don't….we don't do anything, anymore. We're just strictly partners now. and….I hate it."

She whispered the last part, as tears welled up in her eyes.

"Aw sweetie, I'm so sorry. I didn't know you felt this way. These past few months you have been saying you were okay and lying but….you've been hurting a lot, haven't you?"

"Yes Angela. I can't explain why I'm feeling this way. I never have. Booth has had girlfriends before, and I admit I've always felt a little uneasy about it but now….I feel, heart-broken, metaphorically speaking. I once told Booth that the heart was just a muscle, it couldn't be crushed, it couldn't break, but now…I have been proved wrong. And, I don't like it. I hate being wrong. I absolutely hate it."

She was crying harder now, and Angela's arms were wrapped around her.

"I…I love him Angela. I realize that now. I made a mistake. I made a huge mistake. I…I don't know what to do."

Angela pulled out of the hug and held Brennan by the shoulders.

"Tell him." Angela stated.

"Angela, I can't. He has Hannah now. He'll hate me for ruining the one thing that has made him happy in a long time."

"The one thing that's made him happy in a long time? Bren, you have made him happy for 6 years. Every single day, you being you, being there for him, caring about him, loving him, you made him happy. And you still do."

"No I don't Angela. He doesn't want me now. He doesn't need me now. I…I lost."

"Sweetie, love is not a game. It can't be lost. Even if you were with someone for years and break up, you still love them. You never lose love for someone. He may be with Hannah now, but he still loves you. He has loved you for 6 years. He believes that love lasts an eternity. That doesn't go away just because he found someone new. Just tell him sweetie."

"I can't Angela. I guess I'm just going to have to continue to see the man that I'm in love with, love someone else."

Angela sighed, realizing that there was no getting through to Brennan. Booth and Brennan were going to have to fix this thing together, by themselves.

"Fine sweetie. I'm done trying. But you're coming home with us tonight."

"But Angela, I was…."

"No. Shut up. You are coming home, right now, with me and Hodgins. Lets go."

Brennan sighed in defeat. She hurriedly grabbed her purse, as Angela wobbled and dragged Brennan at the same time.

"Slow down Angela. I can walk by myself."

Brennan turned the lights out in her office and followed Angela out the door, locking and closing it behind her.

Once they were gone, someone stepped out from the shadows of the corner, with shock evident all over their face.