Outsiders (Chapter 2)

Well, here it is, the second chapter. Not sure if I'm going to continue, but if you have any requests please let me know.

I hope I got into the characters heads properly, I tried to stay true to their natures, but couldn't resist a smidgen of Cam-bashing. (What can I say? I don't like her. And I haven't even seen any eps with her in.)

Discl... It's not mine. Sorry.


Zack –

Being Dr. Brennan's assistant, I spend a lot of time around her. I observe the way she interacts with different people.

With Dr. Saroyan, she is guarded, possessive and aggressive. She is an Alpha female fighting for her territory.

With Angela, she is sensible; balancing Angela's spontaneous, exuberant nature; yet also sometimes lowering her inner walls and acting like a "non-squint."

Around suspects or people who are annoying her, she is Dr. Temperance Brennan, kickarse anthropologist and author, and she lets them know exactly where they stand with her.

With me, she is a mentor; authoritative and severe, yet helpful and proud.

But with Agent Booth, she acts completely different to all of these. She is aggressive, while being submissive. She is independent, but shows her dependency upon Booth if you look close enough. She is flirtatious, while being standoffish. I've never seen her smile so much as when she's with Booth.

She is afraid of opening up to him, scared that he will leave her, like everyone else she has come to depend on.

But as time progresses, a keen observer can see that she lets him learn more and more about her, that she lets him bypass the walls she has erected around herself.

But, me only being an outsider, I have no way of knowing if she knows that she is opening her heart to him as well.

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Camille –

Dr. Temperance Brennan. How on earth can a girl compete with her? I mean, she's drop dead gorgeous, legs for miles, eyes as blue as the Caribbean, and auburn hair that waves nicely. And that's just her physical attributes.

She's a doctor – we're even there. But she's one of a handful in her field. Coroners are a bit more common than forensic anthropologists.

A world famous author, with two bestselling novels and another on the way. I've only written a few articles for medical journals no one ever reads.

She spends her vacations in far flung corners of the globe volunteering her services to help identify victims of genocide or natural disasters. I usually spend my vacations on the beach.

She's fluent in four languages, which I know of. I know a mere smidgen of Spanish.

She's a black bel in three types of martial arts, a member of the NRA, and holds hunting licences in several states. I owned a gun in New York, but only for protection.

Technically, I'm her boss, but I'm not allowed to fire her. If she left the Jeffersonian, she'd receive a billion job offers from all over the world.

She reads bones like most people read books. She does fieldwork. Actively catches the killers. I just autopsy bodies and approve expenditures for the department.

To Booth, she is Bones. To Booth, I am just Camille. Nobody is allowed to call her anything but Dr. Brennan, except for Angela and Booth.

She pretends to be annoyed when he calls her Bones, but really she likes it. And Booth warns off anyone foolish enough to copy his endearment.

Everybody can see it but them. The attraction is obvious. They resist it, not wanting to ruin their friendship, but soon it will be too much. Booth distracted himself with me for a while, but he drops everything for her.

And me, I'm destined to be an outsider.


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