I am so sorry this took so long…to say I had writers block is an understatement. This is the final chapter, I'm sorry it's short. The parts in italics is what Brennan was saying, and the italic and underline was Brooke (you'll get it when you get up to it).

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Without further ado…

Fuming, Booth left the hospital and went back to the Jeffersonian.

"Fine then" he mumbled to himself as he stormed to the security office "I'll watch the tapes." When he reached his destination, he pounded impatiently on the door.

"Yes?" The security guard on duty, Carl, asked. In his left hand was a cup of coffee, in his other a serviette. Booth looked him over and noticed a fresh coffee stain on his large stomach.

"Special Agent Seeley Booth, I need to see the security footage from two days ago" he said, holding up his ID.

"You mean the fight?" Carl asked, leaning against the door frame and taking a sip of his coffee.

"Yes the fight" Booth sighed impatiently "I need to see it."

"Ok, hold on a minute." Carl closed the door and searched for the tape. Booth could hear him opening and closing several drawers, before the door finally opened again. "Here we go" Carl said, handing over a VHS tape.

"Thanks" Booth nodded and turned to go to Brennan's office…she was one of the only people who still owned a VCR after all.

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"I have known Booth for almost 7 years. I will kill for him, die for him. Would you do that?"

"You don't deserve someone like him."

"You think I don't know that? You think that I wanted to turn him down? No, I didn't, but I had to, because he deserves someone better than me. And I'll tell you what, the day that he finds that somebody and he gets married, I will be by his side all the way. No matter how much it pains me, no matter what I'm feeling inside, I will smile for him. Because he deserves someone who will make him happy for the rest of his life."

His girlfriend had thrown the first punch, and Brennan didn't even retaliate.

Booth sat awestruck on Brennan's couch.

Brooke had lied.

Brennan was telling the truth.

Worst of all, he had believed Brooke over Bones, his best friend.

He'd betrayed her.

Booth grabbed the VHS out of the VCR and all but ran out to his car.

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Booth walked through the halls of the hospital as fast as he could without getting glared at by nurses. When he arrived at Brennan's ward, he knocked on the door.

"Come in" she answered, her voice rough.

Slowly, nervously, Booth swung the door open and stepped inside.

Brennan looked up at him and pushed herself higher up onto the bed so she was in a seated position.

"I assume that you watched it." She said, fiddling with the edge of her blanket.

"Yes" he started "and I don't think I can ever make it up to you for not believing you."

"So you believe me now?" She asked for confirmation.

"Yes, and I should've believed you from the start" Booth pulled a chair over to sit down next to her bed "I should never have even thought that Brooke was being honest."

"I am sorry about what happened" Brennan admitted "but I don't like Brooke."

At the cute look on her face, he could not help but laugh.

"I don't think I really liked her that much either" he said, reaching over the railing to hold onto her hand.

"Then why did you date her?" She asked, gazing at him curiously.

"I was trying to get over you" Booth answered cautiously "but it didn't work."

"I never wanted you to move on" Brennan whispered, not meeting his eyes "as you know, I never wanted to say no to you, but I had to."

"I never intended to move on" he told her, tucking her hair behind her ear and grasping her hand in his "you've got to believe me."

"I find it difficult to believe someone who wouldn't believe me" she said "whether intentional or not, you betrayed me Booth."

"I'm so sorry Bones" Booth apologized, ducking his head "so, so unbelievably sorry. You are the most trustworthy person I have ever known, and I didn't believe you. If I were you, I wouldn't believe me either."

"That's impossible, you could never be me." Brennan pointed out before realisation hit her "oh, that was a saying wasn't it?"

"Yeah, it was" he chuckled nervously and rubbed his thumb along the back of her knuckles. "I never meant to betray you Bones."

Brennan lifted up her hand that wasn't connected to the IV and pressed it against Booth's cheek. He immediately leaned into it, scratching her palm with the stubble on his jaw.

"You need to shave Booth" Brennan said, running her hands along his jaw.

"I was so goddamn worried about you" Booth whispered, his eyes going dark "I was so scared you weren't going to wake up. I am so sorry, you've got to believe me." He pleaded, resting his forehead against hers.

"I know you are. I believe you."

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