Chapter I, Down the Rabbit Hole
Freaky Friday (Bones edition)
A/N This takes place at the end of Season 2. Freaky Friday is a Disney movie (from the 1990s?) in which a teen and her mother magically switch bodies (for a while) and have to deal with consequences. In this case, the body swap occurs between Bones and Pam Noonan. This takes place after Booth and Brennan meet Pam. (I'm suspending reality not just because this doesn't happen in real life, but because the body/brain divide is, in many ways, an artificial one.)
Also, for purposes of this fiction, Avalon Harmonia has already warned Booth in time to save Bones' life. I'm pretty sure that on the show this doesn't happen until Season 4.
Temperance Brennan woke up one morning with a splitting headache and very little energy. She noticed that her pajama pants were tight and thought "if I didn't know better, I'd think I was pregnant". Brennan also noticed that she wasn't in her apartment, but in a cramped walkup studio, with very little furniture, pillows shaped like hearts, stuffed animals on the floor, and pictures of her handsome partner plastered all over the walls, stalker fashion. "Have I been kidnapped?" she wondered, trying to stay calm. She wasn't bound in any way or locked in. "Or am I still asleep and having a bad dream?" She pinched herself, and came completely awake. She immediately started to become very worried for Booth.
Temperance tried to put on the clothes she had worn last night and couldn't fit into them. She started to feel as though she had walked into a scene from "Alice in Wonderland". She looked in the mirror and almost shrieked at what she saw; the face of Pam Noonan staring back at her. "Have I been drugged?" she asked herself.
Worst of all, Brennan did not have any credentials on her that would allow her into the lab, not that she resembled at all any of her real ID pictures. For that matter, she had no access to any money or even any idea where Pam worked.
At least there was a computer in the room so Brennan was able to send Cam and Booth an email explaining that she was unable to come in. It occurred to Bones that Pam might be in Bones' body and was trying to figure out how to clue in her lab family. It was very difficult to know how to send a message which Bones herself would not believe if she received it. Desperate times call for desperate solutions, and the only person she could think to call was Avalon Harmonia. Avalon, with her belief in the metaphysical, just might believe that Brennan had gotten stuck in someone else's body.