April 7, 2014
It's Not Over—Daughtry (3:52)
Bones
Bones
He was infuriating. Completely and totally the most infuriating man in existence. He was rude. He was coarse. He was just…infuriating. There were times she thought she might actually hate him. Well, not hate him exactly. But yes, hate him.
Mostly she disliked that there were no answers to the puzzle that was Agent Booth. She liked answers and order and everything in its place. Booth was…confounding and chaos and seemed to slip from idiot to genius in a breath. He made no sense whatsoever and it drove her insane.
But even with all of that. Even with the insanity and the confusion he was her partner. Her best friend. He made her laugh. He made her want to cry sometimes too. The roller coaster of emotion wasn't nearly as scary when Booth was beside her. But most of all he made her think.
So when Pam's bullet sliced into his flesh Dr. Temperance Brennen found herself doing something she'd done a lot more often since Special Agent Seely Booth had come into her life. She reacted. Without thought or planning or even order, she reacted. Seely's gun was cool in her hands and the bang was louder in her ears than the one that Pam had fired not that she really noticed hearing it.
Booth was falling. And bleeding and for the first time since her parent's had disappeared and her brother had left her Temperance Brennen felt her entire world crumble around her. Booth was gasping and his eyes were struggling to focus. Booth's life was slowly slipping away before her eyes.
It wasn't supposed to end this way. It couldn't be over. It wouldn't make sense this way. Nothing made sense without Booth. It wasn't over. She wouldn't let it be.