Graduation Day, Neptune High

[argyle_princess]

All in all, it's a pretty uneventful graduation ceremony, by Neptune standards. Which is to say, no one is arrested in the middle of it. (Say what you like about Vinnie Van Lowe, but he knows better than to interrupt the big day of the little darlings of Neptune's Who's Who just to arrest a nobody biker

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[paladinsuitsyou]

She has the out-of-town guests to prove it, too. Only they're not actually related to her.

From the way they're grinning, though, no one would ever imagine they're just friends she made at an interstellar bar.

"Do you see her?" Booth says, craning his neck to try to see under the caps. It's warm enough that kids are starting to take them off, but it's not hot enough to make them come off very quickly. Pictures must be taken, after all.

[dr_temperance]

The robes may make for a surface uniform appearance, but it only takes Brennan a moment to sort through the crowd and find one new graduate with the appropriate and familiar coloring, build, and posture.

"Right there. Over to the right," Brennan says, nodding in Hannah's direction.

She takes the lead in maneuvering down the set of bleachers.

"It was a nice ceremony, wasn't it?"

[paladinsuitsyou]

He heads in the direction she points, finally making out Hannah himself.

"Very nice," Booth says. "The speaker didn't go on for too long. The guy at my graduation was so old, I couldn't understand a word he was saying. This woman was way better."

They near the lone graduate. "You did tell her we were coming, right?"

[dr_temperance]

"She was surprisingly concise," Brennan agrees. "Her speech fell within the optimal time frame for keeping the audience's attention."

Brennan frowns over her shoulder at Booth.

"It thought you said it would be fun to surprise her."

In other words, no. Brennan didn't tell Hannah they'd be coming.

But what's a right of passage without a surprise or two?