Thanks to Julie-Loves-Seth-Clearwater for showing me the song World by Five For Fighting-love it!
Cheyenne glanced at Brennan and stood a little straighter then looked at Hannah again. Hannah really was pretty, although in a weird way she reminded Cheyenne a bit of a rat. Her nose, that was it she had a very pointy nose. Anyway, this is where she supposed she was supposed to act cordial and remember her manners and all of that good stuff.
"Hello Hannah." Brennan said not too enthusiastically. To find the cause of her pain at the one place she was trying to drown or down her sorrows. She just wanted some damn ice-cream. It was only ice-cream at a gas station. Why out of all the gas stations did Hannah have to come here? No matter, it was what it was.
Cheyenne smiled at Hannah in response. She wasn't ready to talk to her yet, especially if she had to be "fake". Which, would end up happening if she opened her mouth right now because she didn't feel like being polite, staying true to herself was on her list of things she would like to improve on.
Cheyenne hated people that were fake, which is why she and Brennan got on so well so far. Temperance was anything but fake. She always was honest and said what was on her mind. Blunt was okay with Cheyenne as long as you could take what you dished out.
"What are you here for Temperance?" Hannah asked and Cheyenne wondered what kind of question that was, really? They were all at a gas station; it was either food, drinks, boos, lotto tickets, or gas. Though, she gave Hannah benefit of the doubt – she was blonde.
"Cheyenne and I were watching a movie and decided that a midnight snack would be beneficial to us." Brennan
No, we just were craving some damn ice-cream, thought Cheyenne.
"Oh, how fun. What movie?" Hannah
"I believe it's called When Harry Met Sally." Brennan said as she glanced at Cheyenne to confirm. Crap, if she didn't know before, she knows now thought Cheyenne as she nodded yes to Brennan confirming.
"That is a classic Temperance. Cheyenne, I'm glad you were able to watch it with Temperance." Hannah
"Me too." Cheyenne said and for a moment silence lingered to long for Cheyenne's taste. "See you later Hannah, we have some ice-cream to get." Cheyenne said politely as she could, she didn't know why she didn't like Hannah. Maybe it was because she was too nice? She didn't like sugary sweet people. Sugar gets all sticky and can become a horrid mess if too hot and Hannah was going to end up one hot mess if she said one word wrong as far as she was concerned.
Hannah paid for her gas and diet coke which she bought on the isle the ice-cream was on and then left. Cheyenne looked at Brennan. Damn, her haunting dark blue eyes were now a turbulent grey. The storm was rolling in and yep Adele was correct poor Brennan was "Rolling In The Deep" and no one could help her, but herself and possibly F.B.I. guy. Though, both were blind of one another's feelings at the moment. No worries, Cheyenne knew how everything could change in a "New York Minute" besides the Eagles said it was true so it had to be. Brennan and F.B.I would have a Cheyenne type intervention. She just wasn't sure how to go about this intervention yet. Slowly, yes slowly would work.
Soon Cheyenne sat in the passenger's seat of Brennan's car holding mint chocolate chip ice-cream in a grocery bag. She glanced at Temperance every now and then, her grey eyes held gloss. Cheyenne shook her head at her. As they slowed to a red light she noticed Brennan swiped at her face so quickly that if one didn't have good vision they would have missed the doctor swiping at the tear that rolled down her cheek.
Cheyenne pulled out her ipod from her sweatshirt's front pocket and hooked it up in the car. She said nothing to Brennan, Brennan said nothing to her. Cheyenne scrolled through the ipod to the song 100 years by Five For Fighting and played it remembering Brennan liked it.
"Who sings this?" Brennan
Brennan remembered Booth liked it and he said Five For Fighting sang it. Knowing that Hannah was going home to Booth, her Booth is what upset her the most. The knowing, for once she wished she didn't know. She smiled ironically to herself as the song spoke of wishes. For, she had been foolish and irrational the other night when she allowed herself to make one. Like it would ever come true, ha.
"Five For Fighting." Cheyenne said simply as they both listened to the lyrics a bit then Cheyenne spoke up. "I have another song for you. It's by the same band. It's called World if you want to give it a go?" Brennan nod yes and soon silence filled the car except for a single artists voice.
"Got a package full of wishes, a time machine, a magic wand, a globe made out of gold…no instructions or commandments, laws of gravity or indecisions to uphold. Printed on the box I see A.C.M.E's build-a-world-to be. Take a chance, grab a piece-help me to believe it. What kind of world do you want? Think anything. Let's start at the start build a masterpiece. Be careful what you wish for- history starts now."
Brennan liked this song too, but for all of the wrong reasons. It reminded her of Booth and wishes, her wishes. "I have a confession Cheyenne."
"Hhmm?" Cheyenne just wanted to eat the ice-cream by now, she was sick and tired of this love crap.
"I made an irrational wish the other night."
"Okay." Cheyenne
"This song asks what kind of world do you want? Think anything. And I did, it wasn't a very nice wish. Well I made two, so to be more accurate one of my wishes wasn't very nice but one was." Brennan
Cheyenne smiled "Congrats Tempe, you are human. You gonna tell me your wishes or no?"
Brennan thought about it, it was just Cheyenne why not? "I wished Booth never moved on and had never met Hannah which realistically is an idiotic wish for I can't turn back time. It wasn't a very nice wish though."
"What was your 'not nice wish?'"
"That was it, I just told you." Brennan
Cheyenne whispered 'wow' then repeated "Wow. That was your not nice wish? Holy crap, then what was your good one?"
Brennan glanced at Cheyenne then looked out the windshield turning on the wipers as it started to sprinkle. "That Booth's wish for me would come true and I would find love and happiness. I don't think the dance part is all that important, I'm not good at dancing anyway."
"Wait, so you wished that someone else's wish would come true?" Cheyenne was starring at Brennan.
"Yes that is correct and I wished that I could irrationally turn back time or erase history which has already been written. Though, I know I cannot."
Cheyenne smiled as they slowed in front of Brennan's apartment.
"No, Temperance you can't re-write history although as you know you can change it-shape it. Life…our lives and our legacy is up to us to create, because chances, wishes, and starting over aren't all that different. Risks aren't all that bad Bren, believe me." Cheyenne knew every now and then wisdom came in handy. Brennan held Cheyenne's gaze her dark blue orbs locking onto Cheyenne's in understanding and searching for hope, yes hope.
They both got out of the car stepping into the pouring rain they laughed as they ran to the elevator in Brennan's apartment. They didn't speak of Hannah or Brennan's confession of wishing but only sat and ate mint-chocolate-chip ice-cream, out of the tub as they finished their movie.
Brennan finally spoke when it was over. "Harry and Sally became more than just friends."
Cheyenne starred at her foster mom a moment a smile on her lips. "Some people are meant to be more than just friends from the first day that they met." Cheyenne was happy someone got a happily ever after, only in movies.
"You really think that?" Brennan
"Of course." Cheyenne half lied she believed in lust and chemicals attracting two people together. Love and happily ever after, that was a stretch. But the doctor had a broken heart and no medication could cure that so she lied.
Brennan was about to stand up from the couch when Cheyenne sighed. "I can't lie to you. Booth was right you're different and Daisy said you were a foster kid too. I don't really believe that, I mean about the love at first sight crap, but I do believe in second chances." Cheyenne
Brennan looked down at Cheyenne, and then glanced out of the window she wished upon a star on the other night and smiled. "It's okay Cheyenne, I find I'm starting to believe in them too." With that Brennan went to bed leaving Cheyenne wondering what exactly the doc was thinking as she crawled under the covers that night.
In typical Cheyenne fashion she rolled onto her side in the fetal position, the words "What kind of world do you want? Think anything. Let's start at the start and build a masterpiece, be careful what you wish for -history starts now." Were stuck in her head, little did Cheyenne know, Brennan had the same song stuck in her head and she smiled because of it. She smiled because of ice-cream and because of people like Cheyenne.
Brennan had run into Hannah, but on the ride home she had discovered a whole new world. It was an irrational world, a world for children, but maybe just maybe this whole new world could be everything she needed at the moment-a world where all of her wishes come true.
Brennan smiled, no not Disney World. She had just learned to let go and with letting go came taking chances-believing what you wish for can become a reality even though it's unrealistic to think such things. Though, reality sucked, well that's what Cheyenne said anyway. She closed her eyes and curled up on her side lyrics still stuck in her head. "…be careful what you wish for -history starts now."
Hannah was asleep on his chest, but Booth couldn't sleep. He was thinking about the wish he made the other night on the star. He couldn't believe that was keeping him awake…but after what Bones said about making an irrational wish. He wondered what her wish was. Wondered even more now that Cheyenne told him Brennan told her that she wished Booth never would have moved on.
Though, he wasn't sure if he believed everything that came out of Cheyenne's mouth-but tonight he wanted too. He looked down at Hannah who stirred a bit in her sleep. She told him that she had run into Cheyenne and Bones. She didn't tell him that Bones cried on the drive home to her apartment or that her eyes were grey and turbulent instead of dark blue.
Because Hannah couldn't, she didn't know these things. Only Booth and it seemed Cheyenne picked up that her irises changed with her emotions. And only Cheyenne witnessed the tears shed in the interior of the car. Though, Cheyenne was also the same one to witness those tears stop and hear a certain confession that eventually would come in handy. Time all in time. Booth sighed and tried again to close his eyes, his mind elsewhere.
Cheyenne wondered about tomorrow? She needed to remember to ask Tempe about what Daisy said. Was it true? Cheyenne could see doc being in foster care as a kid it would explain a lot. She also needed to remember to get her ipod out of Brennan's car because Angela said she had a ton of songs she had to have. Good deal, thought Cheyenne, but really she just wanted more information from Daisy. Thistles and Weeds Cheyenne Thistles and Weeds.
Thistles and Weeds is a song by Mumford and Sons and a reference to Daisys...Review? Keep going?
