A/N: Just a little random idea that popped into my head today and wouldn't leave me alone. It also just took off and became much longer than I was originally intending. I apologise if anyone seems OOC, this is only my second Bones fic. And I am very, very sorry about the bad pun with the title. I just couldn't help it...

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The Eye Of The Beholder

"What happened to you eye?" he demanded without preamble as she opened her apartment door, revealing both him and his girlfriend.

Gingerly she touched her black eye with just a hint of self-consciousness, she had half hoped and half feared that he would react this way to seeing her injured. "Nothing, I walked into a door," she explained evenly.

"I don't believe you," he said, unthinkingly taking her chin in his hand as he examined bruise more closely. "I know you, Bones, you don't walk into doors," he said looking into her eyes.

He was about to say something about getting even with the man who had done this to her, but the flash of anger in her eyes surprised him.

"Perhaps you don't know me as well as you think you do," she muttered, removing her chin from his grasp and moving passed him.

She glanced back briefly over her shoulder, "Well, are we going to dinner or not?" she demanded before continuing on without waiting for a response.

Booth held out his arm to Hannah, deep in thought, as he watched Brennan's retreating figure. Silently he swore to himself that this was not over; he would get to the bottom of who had hurt his partner.

Hannah regarded him just as thoughtfully as he regarded Brennan. She had been surprised by the change in him at the sight of Brennan with a black eye; she hadn't seen him that intense, that…concerned and protective before.

She chewed her lip a little in thought as she mused that this was probably the first time she had witnessed the 'true' Booth and Brennan.

And for the first time she felt like an intruder.

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