Author's Note: Lyrics used from End of Time by Lacuna Coil.

Warnings: Spoilers for Bones S11E1 "The Loyalty in the Lie" and S11E2 "The Brother in the Basement"


epicedium - a funeral song; dirge

As I belong to you

It started like every other day. Breakfast. Children. A kiss and a closing door.

My flesh and blood in you

It started with the burnt out husk of a van. Latex gloves. A hauntingly familiar set of bones. Fear, pushed down deep. Panic, cloaked in careful scientific logic. She felt it all and couldn't possibly let it out because she had a job to do.

I am burning in this fire

She didn't have much time between the relief she felt at knowing the body on her slab was not Booth and the blood bath she surveyed in a mansion.

It's time to go I can't make it through

She found him stumbling out of a basement bleeding, weak from blood loss, and so beautifully alive it hurt.