Dr. Temperance Brennan has been putting in some long days at the Jeffersonian recently. Which is why she more or less collapses into the chair across from Hannah with a heavy sigh.
"Hi," she says, dropping her files on the table and taking a drink from a brimming cup of coffee.
Brennan tilts her head from side to side, trying to work out a crick in her neck. She's going to have to put in for a new sofa for her office. The old one's not much good for sleeping on anymore.
"I'm good. Just tired. We've had some very challenging cases coming through the lab." She actually sounds pretty happy about that fact. In the way that only a squint can.
Philippa Gordon is supposed to be in class, but who is she to argue when the door to the lecture hall opens into Milliways instead. She's heading over to a small table where she can actually get some studying done, but on her way she happens to pass behind Hannah's table. She also happens to catch a glimpse of one of the pictures in the book.
"I say, honey," she says, stopping dead in her tracks, "what on earth are you reading about?"
"Forensic anthopology," says Hannah, cheerfully. "Identifying corpses from their bones and the like."
The twenty-two bones comprising the skull are neatly labeled on the diagram on the page in front of her. She's been debating memorizing them. You know, just to know them.
Hannah has issues with medical doctors (which has nothing at all to do with Phil's mun, of course), but she finds anatomy fascinating, and this is a good way to find a compromise.
"Well, yeah. I mean the stuff they can tell, by looking at skeletons? It's really interesting. Whether or not bones got broken, and when, and if people were florists . . . It's just plain cool."
Hannah may look like a pretty little blonde social butterfly, but she has an inner science geek. It's getting out more and more these days.
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"Hi," she says, dropping her files on the table and taking a drink from a brimming cup of coffee.
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"Everything OK?"
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"I'm good. Just tired. We've had some very challenging cases coming through the lab." She actually sounds pretty happy about that fact. In the way that only a squint can.
"How are you?"
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She tilts her own head.
"Does 'challenging' mean even more disgusting and smelly than usual?"
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"I say, honey," she says, stopping dead in her tracks, "what on earth are you reading about?"
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The twenty-two bones comprising the skull are neatly labeled on the diagram on the page in front of her. She's been debating memorizing them. You know, just to know them.
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Phil raises an eyebrow.
"For fun? That seems dreadfully grim, though you seem to be terribly happy about it. Are they really that exciting?"
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"Well, yeah. I mean the stuff they can tell, by looking at skeletons? It's really interesting. Whether or not bones got broken, and when, and if people were florists . . . It's just plain cool."
Hannah may look like a pretty little blonde social butterfly, but she has an inner science geek. It's getting out more and more these days.
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