Bones Redux - Chapter 1 : The Pain in the Heart

[va32h]

A/N: This is a premise I have considered since the first time I ever saw this episode. While most of my fic writing was about working with canon (or working to make sense of canon), I always came back to this episode, to the idea that this episode was really the first time I thought the series could have truly gone the other way and worked and made

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[dorisbay]

Oh yes, this scenario makes more sense!( just sad for Booth feeling guilty)
I loved their first time ( a good way to skip the smut part?!), I loved that it remained theirs in somehow.
I missed your stories, and I'm thrilled about reading the next chapter!

[va32h]

Don't feel too sad for Booth, I think feeling guilty is his favorite state of being.

[tempertemper]

Bones confession: I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED ZACK TO BE TRYING TO HELP THEM BY GETTING CLOSE TO GORMOGON.

Now that's out the way.. wheeee! Fic!

Booth didn't think it made much sense; only Bones would be pleased to know that her partner had not nearly died on her behalf on purpose. .

I LOVE THIS.

I also adore this:

"You don't have to know everything, Bones."

"But that's what I'm used to!"

A quick laugh escaped his throat; he swallowed it, then kissed her gently on the forehead. "You'll get used to this too."

And everything in between!

Is there to be more??! ♥

[va32h]

Honestly, I will never be able to reconcile Zack as the willing apprentice. This is a man who mourned the loss of flesh eating beetles. He named them! After his seeming failure in Iraq, I could see Zack wanting to prove himself, and he's always had a crush on Brennan.

There will be more! As the mood strikes.

[fourth_rose]

Aw, Zack! This would definitely have been a better exit for his character - as a hero instead of a mad killer's assistant!

"I didn't purposely take a bullet for you. I just sort of....stood up at the wrong time."

I'm really glad that I'm not the only one who saw it that way! The whole "Booth deliberately took a bullet for Brennan" always baffled me because he totally didn't - it hit him before he'd even fully turned around, so there was no way for him to consciously do anything. I'm sure it's true that he would have taken it for her, but that's not what happened, and I really like how you made that clear :)

Great idea to cut off the "OMG we had sex" moment after with the whole Zack drama - I'm very much looking forward to seeing how things develop from there!

[tempertemper]

Oh yes I meant to say this too - that I'd always thought Booth had just been standing up LOL!

[va32h]

not only did he not consciously take the bullet *cough* the whole shooting happened because he foolishly ignored the very real and obvious threat that Fat Pam posed *cough*

I considered killing Zack, per HH's original plan. Then B&B could have had their Grief Sex after his death instead of Vincent's. But I've already written their relationship as built on grief sex. Plus, I have to bring Zack back in Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond.

[makd]

nicely done and very, very, nicely rewritten Zach's part in the Gormagon plot.

[colourless_aura]

Awww! I loved how they got together and how Brennan tried to push him away and how Booth reacted to the whole thing. It was all very in character.

I really missed your writing and, as usual, I didn't want it to end. We really have to wait another week for an update? :(