dr_temperance: (Bring on the Wonder)
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Brennan cuts off the burner and lifts the tea kettle before the whistle can do more than cough and sputter. Not that she really thinks that the noise will wake up Hannah, who is asleep in the living room. Hannah had dropped off to sleep the moment she'd curled up on the sleeper sofa, arms wrapped tight across her chest, around a small pink and gray stuffed mouse. And by the look of it, nothing short of a demolition crew is going to wake her up.

Hannah's stint in Milliways had apparently involved very little sleep.

Brennan pours the water into a pair of mugs, and carries the steeping tea over to the kitchen table, handing one to Angela. Angela had been waiting on the doorstep when Brennan had returned from the Jeffersonian with Hannah.

"You know you didn't have to leave Hodgins and come all the way down here in the middle of the night," Brennan says. She smiles faintly. "But I have to say, I'm really glad you did."

Date: 2007-04-06 02:23 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (I'm Not Sure About This)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Oh, honey," says Angela.

"Bren, you can't possibly mean that. Even if you think you do.

"For one thing, think of the hassle you'd have getting your gun permit back."

Date: 2007-04-06 02:36 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Serious)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Yeah, that sounds like the sort of thing Booth would beat himself up over.

"How much beating himself up do you think Booth would be doing if he'd left you alone in a situation where you had to kill Epps?"

Date: 2007-04-06 11:32 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Bren, the entire first Marine division could have been there, and he probably would still have considered you alone, if Epps was there, and he wasn't.

"So, how is he?"

Date: 2007-04-09 12:29 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Pensive)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
Angela is too gracious to continue to argue a point that's been conceded.

"It is," agrees Angela. "Partly because it probably mattered more to Epps that you guys that feel that way than that he be alive to see it.

"Booth actually dropped him, huh? And you saw him fall?"

Date: 2007-04-09 12:42 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Looking Down)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"You can drop things without meaning to," says Angela. "Booth would have held him if he could have, and I don't think that's really up for debate.

"That's not an easy thing to have seen. Even for a monster like Epps. Promise me you'll do what you need to to process all this, sweetie?"

Date: 2007-04-09 12:59 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Sidelong Glance)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
Not really what Angela meant by processing, but what she expected.

Angela looks at Brennan over the teacup.

"He wouldn't have suffered at all? God, I'm a horrible person."

Date: 2007-04-09 01:13 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Sidelong Glance)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"So we'll be horrible people together. I want the little bastard to have suffered.

"I'm going to burn in hell, which I know you don't believe in."

Date: 2007-04-09 01:29 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Friends (Angela and Brennan))
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Doesn't make it right," Angela says, but her heart's not really in it. She'll try to feel bad about it later.

"Yeah. I think we put this one in the win column, Bren."

Date: 2007-04-09 02:11 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Sad but Determined)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Take it from the girl who got the heart-o-gram. It's a win. Not a great one, maybe, but a win. It could have been much, much worse. For Cam, and Zach, and Booth, and Parker, and Hannah. How close did he get to Hannah last night? It's a win. We stopped him."

Date: 2007-04-09 02:31 am (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Neutral)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Yeah, but just like wishing the bastard had suffered, it's pretty normal to speculate on what if's."

Date: 2007-04-09 09:48 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Focused and Quiet)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
Angela turns and looks into the living room again.

"Explains the dead to the world thing, and I really wish I had picked a different analogy. Sorry about that, Bren."

Date: 2007-04-09 10:05 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Looking Back)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"We were all worried," Angela points out. "She just won the worry-longer-and-with-less-information lottery.

"She seems pretty okay, all things considered."

Angela only talked to her for a minute or two, but Hannah seemed like a solid qualified okay to her.

Date: 2007-04-09 10:20 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Looking Down)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Probably behaved better than I did."

There was, at no point in the past 24 hours, a moment at which Angela wanted to be dealing with what she was dealing with. She did it, she helped with what she could help with, but there's still a selfish part of her that wishes she'd taken that sick leave and gone to . . . anywhere but here.

Date: 2007-04-09 10:27 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Oh Sweetie)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
Angela shrugs, then gives Brennan a wry sort of look.

"I scream like a girl," she points out.

Date: 2007-04-09 10:34 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Squint Squad)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
Angela nods. This is a world of not the time to tell her best friend that she's still not sure how much longer she can keep the surrounded-by-death thing going.

"We're a good team," she says instead.

Date: 2007-04-09 10:55 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Partners (Hodgins))
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Probably the best you'll ever have the opportunity to work with," Angela corrects.

"And on that topic, I should get back to one of my fellow squints. Unless you need me to stay, sweetie."

Date: 2007-04-09 11:04 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Friends (Angela and Brennan))
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Yeah, but then who keeps you and Zach in line?" Angela asks.

She stands and smiles.

"I'll call you tomorrow," she says, then looks at her watch. "Or later today."

Date: 2007-04-09 11:17 pm (UTC)
bringonthewonder: (Serious)
From: [personal profile] bringonthewonder
"Try to sleep," Angela advises.

"Talk to you tomorrow."

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