Bones Fic: Losing My Religion (Part 7/?)

[bite_or_avoid]

The days trickle by at an excruciatingly slow pace. Parker is stuck at Rebecca’s with the flu, and Olivia has taken to working nights so as to stack some vacation time at the end of the month. The loneliness he feels without her is tempered by relief that at least she’s not around to see how much the situation with Brennan is messing with his head.

Comments

[fourth_rose]

Wow, prophetic much? ;-)

That was just awesome - I started c&ping favourite lines, but stopped halfway through because I'd basically quote half the chapter back at you. You have such a brilliant way of weaving all those incredible insights into their characters and their relationship into the narrative that it just blows me away.

What stood out to me most was that opposed to what we saw on the show, you're allowing Booth to get angry here, and I liked that a lot because he really has every right to. Your Brennan doesn't have the "excuse" of being on the verge of a mental breakdown like she was during her confession on the show, so she could have known what it would do to him to hear her tell him that in his current situation, even more so since Booth and Olivia seem to have a much stronger bond than Booth has with Hannah on the show.

I'm really curious now where you're planning to take this story, so I'm very much looking forward to the next part :))

[bite_or_avoid]

Wow, prophetic much? ;-)

Heh ;) The funny thing is that when I started writing this all those months ago, I always felt like this was how it had to go down. Brennan, revealing her feelings at the worst possible time and sending Booth into an emotional tailspin just made so much sense. It's just the trigger HH came up with that I didn't anticipate.

I've been writing Booth with his emotions a lot closer to the surface than they are on the show, so of course the impact of Brennan's words would be more devastating. Although I can understand why he reacted the way he did in the eppy, it still doesn't ring entirely true to the character for me. Booth, of all people, would know how momentous it is for her to reveal these things. And the fact that my!Brennan did it as more of a rational decision because he said he wanted to know kind of negates the whole world upside down for three days thing they did. As much as I loved the episode, it just feels like a bit of a cop-out

[dabhug]

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

I seriously cannot wait for the next chapter. You're doing such a masterful job with this!

[labsquint]

And I'm late as usual. What else is new, right? You'd have heart failure if I actually reviewed in a timely fashion, so think of it this way - I'm doing it for your health! (and if you believe that, I've got some nice coastal land in Louisiana to sell you... ;) )

I love that Booth is trying to be so supportive of Brennan and her potential 'new partner' as he sees it, but I just can't help feeling that under it all is his own selfish need to know.

The problem with his plan is that they’ve never been very good at talking. In code, yes-running circles around what they really meant, what they really wanted, always so careful, never committing any game-changing truths to irrevocable words until the fateful night he did.

I loved this section. What a perfect way to sum up so much of their relationship up to the 100th ep.

And this was the perfect followup: But where silent communication was always their forte, excluding all intruders from their world of two, there is now only silence. Silence laden with misunderstanding and

[ital_gal]

well this was too wonderful for words. You write so beautifully. sighn
reading this story and picturing David B in my head is way more fun than watching the show. (to be fair, season 6 isn't here yet so I can still have hope)

As you know I don't exactly ship them....but I sure would if the characters I see on screen were more like the way you write them (which is more like the way they were early on...)

Olivia is just wonderful though, you make it hard not to root for her too! ;)
thanks

[pearlseed]

There aren't probably words that I have which could urge you to finish this, but I hope with all my heart you do. I hope you are still as in love with Booth and adoring of Olivia, and as we all are, smitten with Bones and her funny sad wonderful self. It's a helluva good story you've pieced here and worked into the way. Thank you for all your hard work.