Disclaimer: If I owned Bones, Booth and Bones would be married, Cam would be dead, and Angela would be pregnant with Hodgin's baby.
Chapter One: Sarah Byrnes
Twas the night before Valentine's Day and all through the Jeffersonian not a creature was stirring, except for Temperance Brennan. Temperance Brennan was finishing up a chapter in her latest book in her office. She hated Valentine's Day and everything to do with it, hearts, love, kissing, holding hands, you name it, it made her sick. She had become known as the Scrooge of Valentine's Day. But little did she know how much like Scrooge she was about to become.
Soon she finished the chapter, she saved the chapter and turned off her computer, got up and left to go home for a long night's rest. She had decided that tomorrow she wouldn't come to work, because Angela would be nagging her about a Valentine's date. Though she loved her work she couldn't bear that, then there was Booth he would be in a particularly perky mood tomorrow. No, no she couldn't handle that either.
It was eleven when she walked into her apartment; she went to the fridge and opened it up for a late night snack. When she looked at a carton of milk she could swear she could see her old mentor from the Jeffersonian, Sarah Byrnes (SB, We.Call.Him.Dr.Idiot), that had died a decade ago tomorrow where the cow's head should be. She shook her head, closed her eyes and opened them again; there was the cow's head again. She just road it off as her being too tired, and cranky from the up coming holiday. She went to the stereo and turned it on a song came on and filled the apartment…it was 'Hot Blooded.' She sighed and turned off the stereo. She picked up a book, though she didn't start reading it. She was thinking of Booth and what he was doing tomorrow and how lucky his girlfriend is. But she knew she couldn't even try to get involved, one he wasn't even interested in her, and two she was to afraid of commitment. What would happen when the relationship went sour, they were best friends as well as colleagues.
All of the sudden there was a knock on the door; she got up to answer the door. There was no one there. She went to sit down and she started to hear chains clanking. She picked up the lamp beside her, and got up ready to attack. 'Now if Booth had given me a gun like I had asked I wouldn't be carrying around a lamp' Brennan thought. She turned the corner into the kitchen and there sitting at her kitchen table was Sarah Byrnes covered in chains.
"Hello Temperance, nice apartment." Sarah said like nothing had changed, like she wasn't dead.
"SARAH?! You're…you're dead." Temperance finally managed to get out. "I know, I did you're autopsy, I figured out your cause of death, a bullet wound to the head at extremely close range."
"Yeah I know, I killed myself. Ever wonder how the killer had such perfect aim?" Sarah asked.
"What why would you kill yourself?! You had such a great life. I envied you so much."
"ENVY! Ha I wish I had you're life, you have a hot FBI 'partner' that would risk his life for you, including breaking himself out of a hospital, that's a right I've been watching you. You have a best friend that worries so much for your well being. Now when it comes to our menties I definitely am superior, because Zach, he scares me although he makes a great doctor and friend. Then there is Hodgins who YOU saved HIS life in that car when you two where buried alive. It is I who should be envying you. But that is not the point to why am here."
"What? No, no I can't believe I was buying this, haha Booth very funny you can come out now!" Brennan called out thinking it was now a practical joke.
"Booth isn't here, he's at home thinking about you." Sarah told her.
"No, no this can't be true. I know! It's a dream. I'm dreaming!" Brennan declared.
"This is no dream Temperance!" Sarah said almost yelling. "I have come because you have fallen out of the true spirit of Valentine's Day. It is supposed to me a joyous time, with love. You however have no love. If you open up to the ones who love you instead of pushing them away then you will know the true spirit, and you will avoid your current fait."
"My current fait?" Temperance questioned half believing and half doubting. "What is my current fait?"
"Look at me Temperance! If you do not change your ways you will end up like me watching the person who looked up to you for so many years with chains pulling you down!" Sarah was now yelling. "Tonight you will be visited by 3 ghosts. The first one you should expect at midnight, the next at 1 and the last at 2."
And just like that Sarah was gone and Temperance was back in her chair.
A/N: Hola everyone, this is my first Bones story so bear with me and I hope it turns out ok. Please no flames, I can not stress that enough, if you do give me a flame I will block you. I once got a horrible flame for my first story and she was getting mad at me for not enough research. Ok one, I'm 13, deal with the fact that most 13 year olds are lazy and don't want to do research on top of school work and our after school activities plus since it's ½ way through the school it will only be 7 months till I'm in high school and the real pain begins. And two it was my first story give me a break; nothing is perfect the first time. Though I don't like flames I will accept constructive criticism I in fact love constructive criticism, it will probably make me a better writer. Also I might get some of the Bones info wrong because my friend cough We.Call.Him.Dr.Idiot cough won't let me borrow a few disks of season one, plus I have only been watching it on tv for about a month and in that month there have only been 2 or 3 new episodes. Sorry this A/N is so long. Now please see the pretty purple button in the bottom left hand corner press it and something magical will happen.