"Art is the triumph over chaos." John Cheever
Zany
Her life had never been anywhere close to the spectrum of normal. She had only the vaguest memories of her mother, who had done little more than give birth and saddle her daughter with a name only Moon Unit and Dweezel Zappa would envy before leaving in search of a life with less responsibility. Dad had explained that her mother was too much of a free spirit to ever be pinned down by marriage and family and he did the best he could to make up for the loss.
Life on the road was all that she knew when she was younger. The boys in the band were her family, guarding their "Pearl" like a precious treasure, but giving her a share in all of the work that went into putting on a show. By the time she was five she could run a sound check and had already been presented with her first pair of cheap sunglasses.
To her dad, she was his "little Angel" and the center of his world. As the band's fame grew and the road became a place no longer appropriate for his growing daughter, he'd sent her to the best schools that money could provide, and had made sure that holidays were reserved for just the two of them. Never once did he seem disappointed that she hadn't followed in his musical footsteps, but instead had funded all of her European excursions and encouraged her to pursue her own flavor of art no matter what the critics said. He'd approved of the name change too.
Stability, though, had eluded her until her path collided with Temperance Brennan's. The unlikely duo had formed a solid friendship and landed Angela a job that she could never have dreamed of, but one that allowed her to indulge her computer hobby as well as her art. Jack Hodgins had joined their little rag tag group, followed by Zack, and together they worked to further Brennan's quest to restore an identity to those who were otherwise unidentifiable.
That quest had been jerked out of the ancient past and into the present with Booth's arrival on the scene. He might not have liked working with squints any more than they wanted to work with him, but he listened to what they said and put it to good use. Over time, the animosity morphed into a grudging respect, and the closer the partners got, the closer the team became as well until their fierce loyalty extended to include Booth as well as Brennan. And the woman who once thought that she would follow in the footsteps of her free-spirited mother had finally found a home.