Genre: This is a Gen doubble drabble (200 words including the title) written by a slasher.
Disclaimer: If I know correctly, the Tv show "Bones" belongs to Fox television and/or Kathy Reichs.
Author's Notes: I like this fic, and I like to think about it as my first femslash, but it's still too Gen for that. Anyway, I'm trying.
Sweets
How did it begin? Did it begin at all? Angela arrived, and suddenly she was in the middle of a ton of "sweeties" and (occasionally) "dears", small talks and pieces of advice, smiles and touches, and finally her world slowly (really-really slowly, almost without any sign)… Changed? Changed.
Just then came the "Bones". But this was only the second (third?) nickname and she still protested against the first one (two?), so she continued protesting and arguing and correcting, maybe because she was afraid of what these words could mean: she can't stay in her work-bubble forever.
Sometimes they listened to her when she tried to make them stick to "Brennan" or "Doctor Brennan" or "Temperance", but only sometimes. So she continued correcting.
She still protests, but somehow without the previous eagerness, so it surprises her when she succeeds. Sometimes, at heartbreaking-bad days (because there are days like that), the rejecting words just slip out from her mouth before she could stop them, and later, when Angela appears in the lab-door with a smile and a "Bye, Temp!", she stares at her for a moment before she smiles back.
"It's "Sweetie" to you" she thinks, but never says out loud.