Fic: Burdens Which Allow Us To Fly

[ladychi]

Title: Burdens Which Allow Us To Fly
Author: ladychi
Characters/Pairings: Booth/Brennan, Russ Brennan
Rating: Teen, for language
Summary: In an alternate universe, where Brennan's parents are both killed, and Russ is in the Army with Booth. A study in how some things are meant to be.

Author's Note: I'm sure it has not escaped your notice that it is

Comments

[ladychi]

I'm so pleased that you enjoyed this! Thanks.

[aplacecalled]

WOW. Another week, another break from Scarecrow, and boy am I glad that you did! This is AMAZING, Chi! I don't really know what else to say, except that they are all so darned perfect in this. Booth and Brennan, especially, felt so true, and I love your interweaving of canon. Thank you for sharing this story.

I hope you have a great week and I really look forward to the next Scarecrow, whenever it might appear :)

[ladychi]

I'm so glad you're okay with a break from Scarecrow -- it really is a fun project but I needed a little bit of a vacation from that world -- especially since we don't have much time before things really heat up and it'll take even more of my brain power.

I'm kind of Boothy in my world-view: I think some things are just meant to be, so I tried to weave those things within the fabric of canon.

So glad you appreciated this, bb! Scarecrow resumes weekly posting Monday!

[eitoph]

Aaaaaa. Aaaaa. This is about eight kinds of brilliant. I have a deep and abiding love for fics that do twisty shit with cannon, and this is up there with the best. God. I love it all, and haha, I want a thousand minifics about their AU lives together on this timeline.

Guh, you bring so much wisdom to your writing - half the time I want to take it and run away with it and make it my life's philosophy. I just loved the bit:
Pops huffed a little. “You gotta find someone with complementary baggage. Remember that.”

Temperance smiled.
... hee, something to live your life by.

Yeah, gushy comment, can't help it - this was freaking brilliant :)

[ladychi]

I'm so glad you liked this 'verse! I can see myself returning here for little mini-vacations from time time.

Yeah, gushy comment, can't help it - this was freaking brilliant :)

I don't mind gushy comments at all, at all. They make me grin from ear to ear. *HUGS* Thanks so much, bb!

[hurryupslowly]

I completely adored this story, for so many reasons.

I am a total sucker for AUs that weave canon in plausibly, and the way you do it is great. Also, you have somehow managed to redeem one of my least favourite lines on the show, the one about burdens that allow us to fly, which I always found more than a little clumsy (and at times irritating) - on this topic, can I also say how much I love the concluding paragraphs? I got a sense of the story coming back full circle, from Temperance making a choice in the beginning to Booth making one at the very end.

The writing's amazing, as is the characterisation - they're all still very recognisably themselves, if younger and perhaps more open, particularly Brennan. And I think that the greatest tour de force that you do is to work out beautifully who Brennan would be now had she been loved and taken care of a little more when she was so young: there are fewer burdens that she carries in your story than in canon, and I love to see her happy.

Thank you for a beautiful story.

[ladychi]

I am a total sucker for AUs that weave canon in plausibly, and the way you do it is great.

Thanks! I wanted the characters to still be recognizably themselves, still the people that we love so much, you know? And I think that some of the stuff that happened in canon makes them those people.

Also, you have somehow managed to redeem one of my least favourite lines on the show, the one about burdens that allow us to fly, which I always found more than a little clumsy (and at times irritating) - on this topic, can I also say how much I love the concluding paragraphs? I got a sense of the story coming back full circle, from Temperance making a choice in the beginning to Booth making one at the very end.

It's not my favorite piece of writing Hart Hanson has ever done, I'll give you that much, but I think it's an interesting concept. What weighs us down, really? What allows us to fly? Can they be the same thing? Interesting. I'm so glad you liked the final paragraphs. I had that line in my head from the very beginning of the piece.

[a_thing_sublime]

i want to write an articulate review, but seriously, all that i have in my mind right now is ohmygodsoepiciwannacryforhours. it was brilliant.

[throwingpens]

Love this!

I love the mix of AU and Canon. The way you write is fantastic! Can't wait for the next Scarecrow chapter, but in the meantime, well, this was a definite way to fill the time.

[ladychi]

Thanks for being so tolerant of my poor broken brain! It was the first week of school and I found Scarecrow a little too daunting to write on top of everything else to handle, so I took a trip to happy!AU land. No worries, though, Scarecrow returns Monday. In the meantime, I'm glad you enjoyed this so much!