A/N: This is just a little thing that popped into my head. I hope you like it. For the first time I am publishing something before I have completed it, will try not to keep you waiting too long for the second chapter.

I have checked the spelling and Grammar hopefully I haven't overlooked anything.

Enjoy

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Sitting in the passenger seat of the SUV Brennan looked pointedly at her partner.
"I cannot believe you forgot about tonight Booth! A banquet in our honour thanking us and the Jeffersonian team for our extraordinary work on the Macmillan case, clearing senator Williams name and you forgot!"
"I didn't forget Bones I just thought today was Thursday not Friday," he paused for a moment "I cannot believe Hannah is banned from coming!"
"Well she did write an article during the case, stating that she believed the senator was guilty and also implying that he may have connections to war crimes!"
Booth nodded his head shuddering slightly at the memory,
"I still can't believe she did that! She's lucky he didn't try and press slander charges!"
They road in silence for a few moments before Booth shaking off his slight moodiness said
"Anyway it'll only take me 10 minutes to be ready to go, you can come up and wait and finish whatever that strange thing you were doing with your makeup was when I arrived at the lab"
Brennan smiled and shook her head,
"It's Angela's idea she says as she now looks like the rear end of a whale one of us has to look good tonight, it is surprisingly more difficult than she explained it being, I have tried three times and gotten through half a pack of cleansing facial wipes trying to get it right, I am not as adept with these things as Angela is, hopefully I have mastered the technique now though, I am a quick learner"

Pulling up in the parking lot of Booth's apartment, they entered the building and rode the elevator to his floor. In the den Hannah was balanced on a Pilates ball stretching, 'So what' by Pink sounded from the CD Player, Booth locked his gun in the safe and after a quick greeting to his girlfriend disappeared in the direction of the bathroom, Brennan seated herself on the end of the couch and fished her makeup bag and cleansing wipes from her purse, beginning the process of redoing her eye shadow for the fourth time.

"So Angela talked into the eye makeup huh? Sorry about the mix tape but I like to have positive music on when I work out!"

Brennan, concentrating on applying a line of black eyeliner to her upper lid spoke carefully to avoid jolting the brush.

"Yes she did and I am beginning to regret agreeing to it, it is rather complex"

"Give me a minute here and I'll help you out"

Five minutes later Hannah was perched on the edge of the sofa giggling as she smudged the edge of Brennan's eye shadow.

"Temperance will you stay still, I'm going to poke your eye out if you're not careful!"

"The likelihood of you actually poking my eye out is..." Brennan stopped dead as the track changed and she heard the opening chords of 'girls just want to have fun' her breath quickened and her vision blurred as tears clouded her eyes, she tried to focus on her hands calm herself down, but all she could see was her hands coated in his blood as they had been that night. Tears poured down her cheeks and she began sobbing hysterically.

"Oh my God! Temperance! what's wrong? Temperance calm down" Hannah grabbed her shoulders and shook her violently trying to get her attention, but nothing worked, she just kept screaming, shaking and yelling,

"Booth, don't die Booth, don't die, stay with me Booth"

Hearing the commotion from his den, Booth raced to the room, in suit pants and an unbuttoned shirt.

"Oh my God! Bones! What the hell did you do to her?" He knelt in front of his partner, seeing his concerned face she grabbed him wailing in terror, begging him to stay with her.

"I don't know what's going on," Hannah explained "I was helping her do her makeup, the song changed and she flipped."

It was only then that Booth heard the song it in back ground as he rocked Brennan's hysterical form in his arms, he barked at Hannah, fury in his voice.

"Turn that off this instant, how dare you play that song in this house" Hannah moved to her feet and turned the CD off.

"Seeley I don't understand!" Hannah pleaded for an explanation but Booth's attention was purely on Brennan as he pulled her to the floor with him grabbing her hand and pressing it to the scar on his bare chest.

"Look, look I'm here, see I'm alive! Feel that, my hearts beating just fine and the Doctor's said if it wasn't for you I probably wouldn't have been, you saved me Bones, so come on calm down for me please Bones, look breathe like me, nice and slow you're going to make yourself pass out!"

As her breathing began to settle Hannah feeling like an intruder upon the scene, left the room to get some tissues, handing them to Brennan, she again tried to find out what was going on.

"What happened? What did I do?"

Brennan hiccupped as she tried to explain.

"Booth was shot, for two weeks he was dead, I was singing that song when she shot him"

Part of Hannah wished she hadn't asked, the usually rational anthropologist explanation made no sense, how could someone be dead for two weeks and then be alive, she tried to get clarification.

"What do you mea..." Booth held up a hand to silence her.

"I'll explain later Hannah, not now!" looking at Brennan, Hannah nodded her understanding and tried to make amends with Brennan.

"I am sorry I upset you Temperance."

Brennan took a deep breath, trying to regain her composure and slightly reluctantly pushed herself away from the comfort of Booth's arms.

"It's not your fault Hannah, you were not aware of the situation" her eyes drifted to the clock on the wall. "Oh God Booth, look at the time, my foolish behaviour will make us late!"

Looking at her, Booth smiled "No we won't, 10 seconds and I'll be ready to go"

"But... my makeup" she indicated to hear mascara stained cheeks and rosy nose. Booth gave a cheeky wink,

"You have a best friend for a reason, text Angela tell her to meet you in the Ladies' Bathroom, it's was her idea, she should help you anyway"

"Ok" Brennan stared after Booth unwilling to take her eyes away from him in case he vanished. Hannah feeling need to do something, gathered Brennan's things and put them into her bag for her, it saddened her to see this powerful woman looking so scared, she had no idea what had happened that could leave her so broken.

Booth quickly reappeared and lifted Brennan to her feet.

"Ok Cinders, let us go to the ball" He blew an air kiss to Hannah "I'll see you later, we'll talk then"

Hannah stared at the door a look of pure confusion adorning her face as she tried to make sense of what had just happened.

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Up next - Hannah finds out about B&B's nearly deadly past.