fic : light on the dark side of me

[vinniebolzano]

Fic : Bones
Title : Light on the Dark Side of Me
Characters : Seeley Booth
Pairing : Booth/Brennan
Rating : PG for swearing
Words : 971
Spoilers : Season 5 finale
Note : One Shot

Going to hell to get a good night's sleep.
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Comments

Re: sprachlos

[vinniebolzano]

Thank You so much. This just happened out of no where really after reading countless drabbles about Booth and Brennan changing after a year and not feeling what they feel now, so I just wanted to do something where the romantic in me decided that NO! No matter what happens they will feel what they feel more intensely than ever after the year is done even if it doesn't end in a happy reunion. I actually ended it on the second last paragraph but I found my shipper heart breaking and I just couldn't so I thought I would leave it ambiguous and leave room for some glimmer of romanticism, that yes he does will himself to live for her.

Re: sprachlos

[vinniebolzano]

O please post the stuff please? Because I find that even though angst hurts it makes for very good reads and a year back when I was in my last year of high school I was editor of the creative writing section of the year book and the teacher who went through the submissions with me she freaked out as to how much angst we got as part of the submissions, she actually wanted to refer some people to the school psychologist :p So I'm sure your stuff isn't crappy at all.

[liz_seriously]

You know what I love about this? I’ve struggled with Brennan’s assertion that Booth wanted to go to Afghanistan-I didn’t really get that vibe from him during the ep. I kept feeling like he felt trapped and forced and manipulated. But I’d totally buy that his dreams are coming back full force and the only way to silence them is to return. So thanks for giving me a reason to believe-he wanted, well, needed to go. And I loved the 2nd point of view.

[historynut]

I had the hardest time with that as well, with Booth choosing to go back to war.

This fan fic helps (SO well done, Vinnie!)

It also made "more sense" to me when I re-watched the scene/conversation between Booth and Hodges in the finale when they are on the phone and Booth is in his office, looking at the pictures of him and Teddy Parker.

It was so fast, so subtle, I missed it the first time around. But, as things turned out, it was a pretty important scene.

[vinniebolzano]

Thanks (what should I call you? History? :p) I was also taken by what Sweets had said about Booth that it was a wonder that he hadn't gone back since he is essentially a warrior but I think that he was grounded in his life and thus didn't feel the need to go back and so only a very strong stimulus would make him leave again, also it reminded me of what Brennan said in the reunion episode that men start/fight wars because they don't want to take responsibility for people who depend upon them, which is so not Booth. He didn't want to go to war because he had Parker and their partnership in mind

[vinniebolzano]

Thank You I am certainly glad to help. What I felt during the episode was that he kind of had no choice because she was going to leave and Booth felt he had no control over that and also the fact that if she left I don't think he would do the whole FBI thing any more because they are a team and they are equal parts of a whole and so if one leaves it just wont work any more? Like Booth said in that episode where Brennan and Hodgins were taken by the Grave Digger, you take away any one of them from the equation and it would have fallen apart and they wouldn't have been able to save Brennan and Hodgins.

[makd]

nicely done. And yes: hard for him NOT to be a hero.

[vinniebolzano]

Merci! I feel that Booth would try not to be because she asked her to but its an inherent need as well.

[buffyangellvr23]

great job :)

[vinniebolzano]

Thank You darling!

[fireunderbliss]

So sad and lovely. A really good character insight, too. Lead me to wonder whether for Booth, the emotion of wanting is so closely tied with the feeling of duty and honour that he really does/did want to go. I don't know how to explain that more clearly. But, it's a really interesting facet to ponder, esp once we hit hiatus (I'm in NZ and we've just had ep 101) and I'm ficcing all my worries away, lols.

thanks so much for sharing. I really enjoyed it, even while it freaked me out.

[vinniebolzano]

Thank You dear.
I think I get what you are saying? I read this thing where it was suggested that it was in Booth's genetics his inclination towards war and his character as a warrior. John Willks Booth, his father and the Vietnam war and then him so Booth is only following what his genes tell him is his nature. Although somehow I don't think he would have gone if she wasn't going or maybe that's just me being a romantic?
O in my part off the world you have to download the episodes because we don't get the latest Bones on TV. Thank God for the internet I say!