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Prompt #2: Logic - It protected her for so long, allowing her to decipher the mysteries of a skeleton's death. But even her greatest shield couldn't explain what her own heart wanted.
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Temperance Brennan is a woman of logic. That statement alone was an interesting testament to how unique she is.
But very few people understand why she is a woman of logic. Few realize that she relies on facts and reason and tangible evidence because she needs to know that it's real. That it's there, something she can see and touch and feel.
That's why she's a forensic anthropologist. Bones don't lie, don't connive, don't pretend to be something they're not. They exist. They tell you everything you need to know about who they were. Looking at a bone, Temperance can determine age, sex, race, and occupation.
Empiricism is her guiding light. A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. It's never let her down before.
Even when it came to Booth. Logic helped her understand many things about Booth. But sometimes, her logic didn't explain everything.
For example, Booth is strong, handsome, and brave - that's a fact. Handsome men, especially handsome alpha males, are logically the better mate for any woman. But in her heart, Temperance knew he was always a gentleman with every woman he was with or spoke to and hated being gossiped about.
Logic also said that his choice in career stemmed from his protective instincts cultivated from his childhood. But Temperance knew he became FBI to atone for the lives he took as a sniper, to alleviate the guilt he felt at taking those shots.
Logically, Booth kept her around because she was the best in her field. But Temperance felt that he didn't really stick around just because she was the best, but because he cared about her.
Temperance Brennan used to be a woman of logic.
Now, she's not only listening to her head. Her heart has begun to speak up, and it hasn't shut up. Not for several years. Not since Booth took her out of the Jeffersonian Medico-Legal Lab and introduced her to the world.
Pesky thing, her heart. Despite stating over and over that the heart is just an organ without voice or sentience, she had begun to notice that it had a lot to say. Particulary about her handsome partner.
Feelings confused Temperance. That's why she stuck with logic. Everything made sense when she dealt with logic.
Dealing with her own heart was a different matter.
Logically, she shouldn't cross that line.
But her heart kept whispering to her, Why not take that chance?
It was getting damn hard to ignore it.
But did she want to keep ignoring it?
That was a question logic could not help her answer.
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