Fic: Moments II

[limone1]

Title: Moments II, Chapter 3

Disclaimer: Bones belongs to FOX, Hanson and Reichs

Rating: T

Spoilers: Any aired episodes, but I'm spoiler free!

Moments II Chapter 1, Chapter 2

Moments

Comments

[fourth_rose]

This is so beautifully bittersweet, with so many wonderful insights into both their characters woven into it - I loved it! Booth's talk about how difficult it was to come home was probably my favorite moment.

[limone1]

Happy you think this works with their characters and that you like the part about Booth coming home ♥

[tuberose08]

Oh how sad. Margaret was such a voice of sanity in Booth's life. Thank goodness Booth has Brennan to love and support him through this very sad time.

[limone1]

Margaret being gone was the idea that made me start a sequel, was curious how it would turn out. As she's my own invention I felt I could go ahead and "kill her."

[1mumrulz]

I agree 110% with fourth_rose ... "beautifully bitterwseet" describes this perfectly - not only this chapter, but the fic so far

[limone1]

Glad to hear you think I've managed to convey their emotions. And glad you keep reading despite all the gloom and doom ;) I think I would find it difficult to write anything that was solely happiness and sunshine, but I would find it just as difficult to write something that was 100% sadness. Maybe I could do it in oneshots... I'll put it on my challenge list :)

Delighted you like the last part. I could have made up a new memory, but decided to go with this one from Moments I.

Hope you haven't given up on the show. I'm not into spoilers, but even I have picked up that the upcoming epi is not to be missed!

[labsquint]

Such a wonderful chapter - slow and quiet but packed with such insight, not just of Booth, but of Brennan as well. As painful as it would be for Booth to hear, it was wonderful to see Brennan try to empathize with him by using the example of his own 'death'.

I loved the side of Booth you show us here: His attachments has nothing to do with monetary value and all to to with memories. We see it in canon in his apartment, but you show it even better in this chapter.

And Margaret - Booth is really lost without his connection to her. She's been his rock in the storm for so long that the loss of her is a physical pain for him. And I loved the story of her at the end about the peanut brittle - a wonderful example of showing and not telling to reveal the strength of a very dear character.

So glad that you're finding time to write in the insanity that is your life currently. I'm looking forward to the continuing story...

[limone1]

Yes, this is slow and quiet, I'm more about the 'internal action' when writing. I leave the real action to experts like you!

As I've already written about Booth's "death" in Peas & Pain I gave it some thought before including it here, but it made sense to do so.

I wrote the first part during the earlier seasons of the show when we didn't know anything about his grandparents. This means I'm deliberately not tying it to a specific time in canon, Pops not being alive makes it AU, but I do pick up things from it. The Laurel and Hardy faces on the wall in Booth's apartment firmly puts him in the 'appreciates junk category' and it's too good an opportunity to pass up in fic ;)

Thrilled you approve of my showing not telling efforts and that it came though how loss, although it is often perceived to be a painful thing in the mind, can really be a very physical pain.