8x24 The Secret in the Siege

this is exactly why Brennan didn’t want to let her heart open, this right there. Being hurt when vulnerable. And now the man she thought would never do this, just did. And she doesn’t know why, she doesn’t know he had no other choice. She thinks he doesn’t want to marry her, now that she is ready, he turned her down, and her biggest fear, her childhood fear, is real, being abandoned again. No, Booth didn’t leave her, but it feels just the same for her.