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milliways_bar2009-02-12 10:42 am
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When your colleague and former intern confesses to working with a serial killer, it generates a lot of paperwork.
Especially when you work for the federal government.
Higher-ups want to know how it could have happened, if there had been any signs, how it had slipped through the cracks. They obtain this information via lengthy and detailed questionnaires. Brennan, who had hired Zach as her intern three years ago, has a stack only slightly shorter than Cam’s, who, as the boss, is dealing with the worst of it.
Brennan is slowly and steadily working her way through hers, her forehead propped on her hand. It’s all a waste of time—the questions and reports, and the psych evaluations for the team that the administration is discussing. The damage has already been done. Extreme CYA measures now aren’t going to undo it.
But Brennan can’t even work up the wherewithal to care. She just neatly completes another page, flips it over into the ‘finished’ pile, and starts on the next.
One foot in front of the other.
[Post-Pain In The Heart]
[Work may call for slowtime]
Especially when you work for the federal government.
Higher-ups want to know how it could have happened, if there had been any signs, how it had slipped through the cracks. They obtain this information via lengthy and detailed questionnaires. Brennan, who had hired Zach as her intern three years ago, has a stack only slightly shorter than Cam’s, who, as the boss, is dealing with the worst of it.
Brennan is slowly and steadily working her way through hers, her forehead propped on her hand. It’s all a waste of time—the questions and reports, and the psych evaluations for the team that the administration is discussing. The damage has already been done. Extreme CYA measures now aren’t going to undo it.
But Brennan can’t even work up the wherewithal to care. She just neatly completes another page, flips it over into the ‘finished’ pile, and starts on the next.
One foot in front of the other.
[Post-Pain In The Heart]
[Work may call for slowtime]
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Hannah is, at present, unconvinced of Dr. Sayoran's ability to effectively deal with a crisis. She would have squelched the speculation with Dr. Hodgins, if she were good at that sort of thing.
"I'll call you.
"Agent Booth might shoot somebody."
Well, no. But he might want to.
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Brennan actually smiles a little.
"An unlucky ice cream truck, maybe."
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Hannah shrugs.
Some ice cream trucks just need killing.
"Have you . . . um, have you talked to Dr. Addy at all?"
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Brennan's still not entirely sure if she'll be one of them.
"He's alright. He's taking everything very calmly."
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"I think I'd be even more shocked if you told me was all hysterical than I was when Agent Booth told me . . ." Hannah trails off.
Yeah.
This is awkward.
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"It is a difficult mental adjustment," Brennan finally says, lamely.
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Just a bit.
". . . how's Dr. Hodgins?"
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It's worrying. Hodgins is never as quiet as he's been the last couple of weeks.
"But Angela says that he's taking it very badly."
She hadn't elaborated. But Brennan had gotten the distinct impression that Hodgins's state the night after Zach confessed hadn't been pretty.
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Because, really, there's not a lot to say here.
It's a mess of a situation, anyway you slice it.
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"We'll adapt."
As a species, or just as individuals, you adapt or you don't survive.
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It's kind of a day for it.
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She wonders briefly what Darwin would say about the sort of adaptability that would allow an otherwise rational and intelligent individual to kill in the name of logic.