Collateral Damage
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Episode 100 - “The Parts in the Sum of the Whole”
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Seeley Booth, Temperance Brennan
"Can we still work together?" she wants to know.
No, he wants to say, what you're asking for, it's too much.
But when she looks at him like that he wants to throw himself all the way back in, living with a shattered heart because she needs his hands to hold hers together.
Yes, he wants to say, thirty, forty, fifty years, I'll be right beside you. Look-but-don't-touch, if that's what you need from me.
"Yeah," he manages - her relief breaks him all over again.
He took a bullet for her. Now he shields her heart from itself.
The bullet hurt less.