Bones fanfiction - Legacy

[hpaich]

I know this is short, really just a drabble. It's what I feel that Booth is thinking during the last segment of The Critic in the Cabernet. There are DEFINITE spoilers in here, so reader beware...

Title: Legacy
Rating: T
Genre: Drama/Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Brennan/Booth
Status: Complete
Spoilers: Through end of Season Four

Comments

[rafaboreanaz]

I wish they’d just finish all this and leave me alone for a few minutes. I need to collect my thoughts, I need a minute. I need to talk to Bones...wait. There she is. There’s my girl. Okay. Okay. Oh, man, I feel so much better now. Okay.
Aww his look at the time totally expressed "There's my girl"! She is his girl and he knows it. He loves it.

She’s good enough for me. All by herself, even without her smarts and her logic. She is good enough. I wish I'd told her. Thank God she agrees. Thank God. I know she won’t let me go, no matter what.
So true. I hope he will tell her that in the near future. He has to.

But I can’t bear for her to not have a person who loves her more than anything else in the world. Another person. It’s my legacy, but it’s not for me. It’s for her. It’s all for her.You killed me here. *tears* What he did for her was so amazing. That he would consider having a child even when his life is in danger so that she would know that kind of love. The love he wants to share with her, show her how things are when you create

[hpaich]

So glad you enjoyed this.

When the thought came into my head that his worst, most horrible fear would be if she was left alone...well, I was at work, and I had to leave my desk for several minutes to calm down. It was so sad! And so beautiful. And so Booth. That was DEFINITELY more than a 'You can have it if I die because I won't care' moment.

Thanks for reading!

[trust_your_hart]

What a way to start my day. And a Monday, even!

I seriously heart your episode tag fics, Heather. You always get it completely right. :)

I need to talk to Bones...wait. There she is. There’s my girl.
Guh. This part choked me up. The emotion in this episode, and specifically this scene, was a whirlwind. You captured all of these emotions on Booth's part here - from fear to anxiety to relief.

It sounds crazy, but I'm more afraid to leave her than I am to die.
Annnnnd...there are the tears. Holy sad. Wow - what a profound statement and I wholeheartedly believe this in your writing. You have an amazing ability to catch and put into words what the audience saw, but wasn't actually said. Kudos to you!

Another great one, m'dear!

[hpaich]

Aw, thanks! I'm very happy you liked this. I think that DB did SUCH a wonderful job acting in that scene that he made it easy for me to put his thoughts on paper.

For someone so strong, so in control, being helpless would be horrible. To have to sit there and be subjected to all of that would just be so scary. But when he saw her, he knew he could be brave, knew he wasn't alone. It doesn't get any better than that.

I know that the majority of his thoughts would have been for his son - and for her. He would not want her to be alone. She has become everything to him and leaving her would be the worst possible outcome for him. And now I'm getting all sniffly, so that's enough of that!

Thanks so much for reading, hon, I really do appreciate it.

[stars_inthe_sky]

I like! Very in-character, and the only thing I've seen that deals with why none of his actual relatives or non-squint frieds are around. nicely done.

[hpaich]

Thank you very much! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

Glad you enjoyed it.

[rynogeny]

This is lovely. One of my favorite bits (from all four seasons) is at the end of CitC when he's watching for her, and this just fills in his thoughts so beautifully.

[hpaich]

Thank you so much, that's really wonderful to hear.

I don't think we'd find anybody who didn't love that last scene. I was sighing for DAYS after that. *sigh* Still am...

Thanks for dropping me a line!

[labsquint]

What a wonderful and emotional look inside of Booth's head at this worst of moments for him.

You've included everything: his concern for Parker and his brother, his confoundedness that after living a life so fraught with danger that a tumor might take him down, his need that his real family, his squints, know what is going on. But most of all, his fear for Brennan and his grief at possibly leaving her alone. His need for her is quiet and absolute and is perfectly in character. They are foundations for each other and only together can they beat this.

The addition of the priest was perfect and it was touching that Brennan would know her partner so well that she would not only know to bring one, but would bring Booth's own priest. That shows such wonderful dedication on Brennan's part.

And if Booth doesn't tell her the most important part of his feelings at the end, he only does it to spare Brennan, another sign of how deep his feelings are for her.

What a wonderful companion to the canon ep!

[hpaich]

Thank you very much.

DB was truly brilliant in this scene - it made it so easy to suss out his thoughts. It was really heartbreaking.

I really felt that for him, the worst thing in all of it would be for her to be left alone. Well, it's what I want to think, anyway.

It was such a lovely, lovely scene, there was no way I could not do a fic for it. Thanks so much for reading - you're a sweetheart!