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Author's Notes: So here it is. The long-awaited HERO! Okay, well, awaited -- sure, but definitely not LONG. It's rather short. :p Just a cute little conversation thing. I've been writing more fluff than I could fill a stuffed bear with. So I decided to write something still cute, but less fluffy.
HERO
"You okay?" Booth glanced over at Brennan, who was staring pensively out the window of the car. Brennan sighed. How many times had she heard that question in the past few weeks?
"I'm fine, Booth. This case was…a little…"
"Grueling," said Booth.
"Different, I was going to say," Brennan finished. "But that works too." She turned to look out the window again. After a minute or so she started to say something, but seemed to change her mind as soon as she opened her mouth. She returned to staring out the window, but a few seconds later she turned around again to look at Booth. "It's just…how could someone do a thing like that? A brother kill his younger sister?" Booth shook his head.
"Some things you just can't explain, Bones. It's the way it this world is."
"The world shouldn't be like this, then," Brennan muttered.
"Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be, Bones," said Booth. "It's harsh…cruel. That's why there's us. Champions. We live as though the world were as it should be. To show it what it can be." Brennan turned to look at him.
"Heroes?" she asked quietly. Booth glanced at her and smiled.
"Yeah. Heroes," he said. Brennan drew a deep breath.
"When I was, um, ten…" she began. "I was in school, and we had to write a paragraph about who our hero was." She laughed quietly. "You want to know who I wrote about?" Booth looked at her.
"Who?" he asked softly.
"My brother. Russ," said Brennan. "Figures, right? He was my idol." She scoffed. "See how that worked out." She looked at Booth sadly. "I don't put much confidence in heroes anymore."
"Yeah?" asked Booth. "Even me?" Brennan looked at him, surprised. He flashed her a charm smile, and she rolled her eyes.
"Hodgins tells me I have faith in you," she admitted.
"See? I'm your hero." Brennan sighed.
"I guess." Booth glared at her good-naturedly.
"Way to deflate a guy's ego, Bones. C'mon, I'm gonna need a bit more than that."
"Maybe someday you'll get more than that," Brennan teased. "Everything happens eventually, right?" she asked, quoting him verbatim. Booth snorted.
"Yeah. Everything."
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