Title: Moments That Define Us: Season Two
Characters/Pairings: all/canon couples
Genre: Drama/Romance/Hurt/Comfort/Humor
Warnings: spoilers for ALL AIRED episodes
Episode: 2x09 – Aliens in Spaceship
Rating: T
Chapters: 52/?
Status: WIP

Disclaimer: I don't own Bones nor the characters. Just playing with them.

Summary: It's in those little moments that we reveal our true selves. A series of Bones drabbles Season Two. Again: at least one per episode; in chronological order (spoilers for all episodes aired); all characters; friendship, romance etc; canon couples; main focus on BB.

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2x09 – Cam

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She knew something was wrong the moment Seeley listened to that massage on his voicemail. His face blenched and his jaw first slacked in despair and then clenched in determination. And his eyes – two pools of dark anguish and fear mixed with pure faith – in God, in the team, in her.

No her-her. No.

In Temperance Brennan.

His faith was unmovable. And through his ability to focus on work and his fast decision making under the pressure, and despite the slow despair sipping into his whole being as the time ran out, his faith still stayed unmovable.

She watched him and she watched her team. The half of her team as the time progressed.

Zack, who knew the hows, but could not get the whys, and his fretting that he was not enough; brilliant but not seeing that if anyone could fit into Dr. Brennan's shoes in this crisis it would be him.

Angela, who understood Hodgins gibberish and complicated notes; drained and spent, and barely stopping from crying yet still as determined to get the two most important people in her life.

They all slowly fell apart.

And for the first time since she stared working here, she felt the weight of the position she was in. The Head, the Ringmaster, the one that kept them leveled.

How can she, being the new one?

So she spread the calm-she-did-not-exactly-felt, and comforted whenever she could, and finally stepped in to help them draw the conclusion.

Because like always, Brennan and Hodgins gave them the evidence while Seeley gave them the motive (this time to act), and Angela draw the face of their relationships so Zack could discover the missing link. And even set apart the team worked together until the successful end.

"I know where they are." Zack said and the half of her team rejoiced.

But she stayed in the background, a shadow not a boss. The one walking around them, unnoticed really, not one of them exactly but not an outsider either.

Her brilliant team of geniuses. It was a privilege to be considered one of them.

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Tbc Thank you for all the advice about the "crossing out" formatting. I tried it all and then I wrote to ff . net support. Unfortunately, there is no way to use that format at all. The site simply doesn't allow it and there is nothing to do to make it work...

Three more drabbles for this episode, thank you for all the reviews! :)