From the moment many Bones fans laid eyes on Hannah, Booth's journalist girlfriend, they started counting the days until she leaves town ... or even plotted her demise.

People are not fans.

We hate to break it to you that Katheryn Winnick’s stint as Booth’s lover (and Brennan’s new BFF) doesn’t actually have an end date, according to Entertainment Weekly.

How long will Hannah stick around on Bones?

“We don’t know how long she’s going to be with us this season,” says executive producer Stephen Nathan. “We want to keep it open. Hannah’s story is still evolving."

"At this point we don’t know how exactly we want to wrap it up. And even if she does go away, we want to leave open the possibility that she may come back.”

Guess that rules out her being taken out by the sniper?

It's very much unclear, but there's also this tidbit:

“I’m working on an episode now where Brennan and Hannah’s friendship is tested,” Nathan adds. “It relates to something that happened between Booth and Brennan at the end of the Brennan-centric episode. It creates some significant friction between Booth, Brennan, and Hannah that has to be worked out.”

Any thoughts or comments on what that might be?

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