Story Title: Ecumenical Acuities into Murder (if you don't yet understand this, check Let's say T, for now.
Author: Me! Krazegirl, at your service
Beta: KatieBeth, Grammer Girl Genius-And I should seriously change my name to that. It has a nice ring to it.
Date posted: April 26, 2007
Disclaimer: I do not now, nor have I ever owned Bones or Veronica Mars. Dammit.
Chapter Title: 1.2 Ultimate Partners
Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth were the ultimate partners in every sense of the word.
After nearly three years in a professional, friendly relationship grounded by a common desire to solve the unsolvable, they were drawn together by the hardest circumstances imaginable: the abuse of a child--Seeley's own son. Together they fought to restore Parker's innocence and in the process broke through their own defenses and found themselves clinging to each other in the storm.
It seemed to be a perpetual storm that they weathered together. Cases challenged their skills and family tested their sanity, but they fought on solidly parenting young Parker and proving to their superiors they belonged together by continually catching and convicting the worst of the worst.
The conclusion of one case brought them another son, Sam. His adoption completed the small family in a way Temperance had never thought possible. Shortly afterward the couple married in a simple ceremony. Nineteen months later, the family added another member, Hadley Elizabeth, a beautiful daughter who adored her big brothers and Elmo. Except the Tickle Me Elmo; he scared her.
Now married three and a half years, the Booth partnership was solidly in tact. Seeley had been promoted to Deputy Director under Regional Director Cullen. He supervised a team of a dozen special agents and maintained his close working relationship with the Jeffersonian and their lead liaison, Temperance Booth.
Tempe worked full-time under Dr. Goodman who had reassumed his position from the dearly departed Cam. Tempe supervised the growing team at the Medico-Legal Lab, specifically their work with the FBI. While her personal partnership with Seeley prevented direct involvement on many of the cases, Tempe oversaw Dr. Addy and her own graduate assistant, Sarah Roberts, who's growing expertise in the forensic sciences was a valuable asset to the lab's ever increasing case load.
And so Temperance Brennan Booth, a woman who once had trouble partnering with work associates to write a journal article, found herself an integral part of half a dozen partnerships as a boss, colleague, mentor, mother and lover.
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AN: If the Booth back story is unclear to you I'd recommend you read my other stories 'Breaking Down' and 'Coming Home.' It should make more sense to you then. And I'm with Katie on the Elmo, I've always been a Big Bird fan myself.
BN: MAN. Those Tickle-Me-Elmos scared the mess out of me. You have no idea. Lots of non-stop crying that could only be terminated by chocolate and cookies. Ehhh… it still kinda works that way D
