This was definitely a good twist. Love it. Good fic.

They are so over reacting. These are cheek kisses. Hodgins should know better.

I see he didn't tell Hodgins that is was a kiss on the cheek.

Tim was Zack brother! this was such a great idea! I miss Zack so much, wish they didn't do this to him. I always felt that they got rid of Zack to have Sweets. That's why at first i didn't like him, but in the end he grew on me. I tried not to like Zack too much, before I watched the series I spoiled myself with Zack plotline (it was unintentionally...) but he just grew on me and it hurt to watch to Gormogon case... And although Zack's leaving brought us all the amusing and lovable (yes, i now include here even Daisy and Clark) squinterns, I'd like to have Zack back :( he was always so amusing with Hodgins and his devotion to Bren was something heart-melting.

loved this a lot :D

yay for Max/Booth scene! You know I'm into their relationship :D

And Booth scaring Sweets and paranoid Sweets - nice :D - and yoohoo! I'll get to know what is with the Tim :D

a question:
I'm not a native English speaker, but I used it a lot, and well, sometimes I catch a phrase or idiom that i'm not sure the proper meaning of or the context it should be used in. And well I'm fairly sure there is an informal idiom going like this: to dig (into?) somthing (up/in?) that would mean being invested into something very much. f.e. I'm digging Bones now. but since now my English comes mostly from websites and fanficions and not everyone are native English speakers and thus some mother languages' phrases might be translated literally into it; i might have picked something that not exist :) so i tried to look up the phrase online with some dictionaries but came up empty handed. Do you know anything about it? Can you help me? (the thing is it'll be puzzling me now...)

you know what I just realized, that ever since BB got together Sweets toned down his meddling. I'm not 100% positive of this, but I think it is toned down. He does give them inputs, or call their crap if he doesn't agree, but he was doing it with other characters over the series too; and sometimes it's just that BB goes to him for help (f.e. when Booth took him over Tornado case instead of Bren, or when Bren went to him in Partners in Divorce) i wonder if something like this happened during the few months between 6-7 seasons :)

nice chapter, I do feel BB disappointment and anger with Sweets...

hm, i think it's kinda sweet of Sweets (no pun intended) to be caring of Brennan, I think all this paranoia comes from his caring for both BB. i also agree he'd be afraid of Booth, but at the same time I see him more standing up to Booth; he did got permission to carry a gun (although it was later than this story, right?), Somehow I don't see him paling and sweating at Booth's rage; but on the other hand i can see him doing so if he thinks Booth really killed Bren... (the thing is I don't see any of BB friends, including Sweets, believing BB would kill each other, but I DO see Sweets freaking out about it, especially in the earlier seasons :) )

and his talk about the anger and booth's father - low of Sweets, low. But Booth proved (to himself mostly) his better than his own dad.

oh, so everyone is on the joke, and Sweets freaks out :D I'm loving it so much:D
and i'm intrigued by the Tim case - what's going on?

it was a very emotional and beautiful chapter, neither Booth and Bren were too easy on Ange and Jack, they were really ashamed of their jumping to conclusions. and bb are good friends with them so they do forgive them

oh they have Cam and Max on the joke now? poor, poor Ange, Jack and Sweets...XD

hehe Angela and Hodgins are love, they can be smart but then they can get caught up in something, and this means more fun for us :D

oh gosh, this is so much fun! :D

oh, the a pretend murder would be amazing revenge :D

oooohhh, Sweets, Angela and Hodgins are going to get it now XD I'm so excited :D

their talk was so sweet and heartwarming - BB are love :D

and our trio of troublemakers cracks me every time they assume - and you know that when you assume you make an a$$ of you and me :P loff them a lot :)