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Length: Double drabble, 200 words
Pairing: T. Brennan & S. Booth
Summary: She tries not to remember. Post Aliens in a Spaceship.
She remembers only when she is safely resting in her home and sure that she will not open her eyes and be back in that car. She lets herself think about it only when she no longer wakes up thinking that she is slowly suffocating. Her own feelings, she can easily rationalize. Gratitude for being rescued projected too strongly on her rescuer. His too, she can explain away. Relief at her survival, gratefulness at not having to find a new partner. Her heart, though, remembers his expression and screams otherwise, and she cannot fully block it out. Her mind, too, whispers, reminding her of the same expression on another's face. She is taken back to freshman Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and a photo from her professor's fieldwork. She had been different then, not yet so coldly empirical, and her heart had been touched at the image of a young woman, a woman finding a child she thought she had lost. She remembers the love that had shown in her eyes, even through the grainy resolution and tries not to think of the same look in Booth's eyes as he pulled her from the earth. They are, after all, just partners.