A/N: This series is going to be a set of drabbles (100 words), double drabbles (200) and ficlets (short but no limit) all based on the season 2 episode Boneless Bride in the River. This rich and interesting episode got played randomly the other day and the following are the result. I intend to go chronologically by setting these in an order they would happen in the episode...but I am not promising anything! I hope none of them are confusing as to where they are set - but to set you on the road, the chapter title is the big clue for this one!

Disclaimer: I think the prayer response on this one was "no Heatherberry, they shall not be yours." Hmpff.

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My grimace turns briefly into a smile before I can prevent it. Hodgins notices and I see him make the decision not to ask.

Wise choice.

She made a joke. Well, nearly and though I'm proud she tried, it wasn't that.

It was definitely a grin, not nausea, so it's not knowing exactly where she is heading and what she'll be...doing... when she gets there.

Strike two.

Nope, I smiled because we went from "don't call me that" to not ripping me a new one every time I use the word, to using it herself.

She called herself Bones.

"Woo hoo."

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