Everything Happens Eventually

In Which There’s Just Too Damn Much For A Title

Season 6, Episode 22 - The Hole in the Heart

(again, no post at blogspot because they are down right now)

Ok. Ok.

First, just a little something before the HOLY SHIT DID THAT JUST HAPPEN LET ME DIE moment(s): How he’s immediate to tell her she’s staying at his apartment, how she’s so ok with it and ok to obey him because she knows him well enough to know when to fight him and when to not, etc. etc., I know this happens all the time with them, and I know I mention it every time, but really, I just have to note it.

Let’s talk about the fact that she’s wearing his sweatshirt to bed. She’s lying out on his couch, alone, unable to sleep because she’s tortured by all these thoughts about Vincent, she doesn’t know what to think… and she’s wearing his sweatshirt. A sweatshirt that probably smells like him, or at the very least, whatever laundry soap he uses, which I’m sure she associates with him.

This is actually really irrelevant to everything, and is nothing more than pure conjecture, but whatever, I like the thought.

Anyway. This scene is just TOO DAMN MUCH. So, we go through it bit by bit.

“Come here, no no no, Bones, you’ve got this all wrong.”

She’s standing there, crying, saying she’s a horrible person because she thinks Vincent thoughts she was making him go away. And he can’t stand to see her like that. So much that he doesn’t just tell her she’s wrong, he physically pulls her down, closer to him.

(to those who were complaining about how he didn’t comfort her more in Doctor in the Photo, there’s your make-up  for that, take it or leave it. It upset him then to see her upset, and it upsets him now. It’s just that now, he can actually do something about it, and before, he could not.)

Really though, most of the actual conversation isn’t too important in regards to them, until afterward. They’ve said all that can be said at the point, but this… this is just too much for her. Words are not enough.

Just a “Can I just…?”, and he automatically responds “Yeah. That’s why I’m here”, annnnnd they fall into bed.

Now, what I originally wrote, while first watching this, was:

“Sflasdhfuishdfuisdhuifhsduifhsuidfhsuifhs fdeath forever”

(I know it doesn’t seem like it, but “death forever” is actually a good thing.)

Time to translate to Normal Person English.

This is a Very Big Thing for them. It’s more or less the closest they’ve been physically, and emotionally, well, it’s a pretty big thing to sob against someone’s chest while lying in their bed.

Remember what I was saying last episode about how they’ve reached a point where they are more or less comfortable with their intimacy? Yep, this is the consequence of it.

And a lovely (or ridiculously awesome, whatever, same thing) consequence it is.

They’ve been building this up so much til now, all this being-comfortable-with-their-intimacy stuff, that it’s not even a big deal that she does this, at all. She needs comfort, he has it to give.

And the very end. She’s sobbing in his arms, and he’s holding her, and you’re sitting at home flipping your shit. Which means you might have missed a subtle yet significant change in action. She’s sobbing, sobbing, sobbing… and then, she calms down a little. She rests her hand more flat on his chest. She turns her head so her head is on its side. She’s not sobbing anymore; she’s just lying in his arms. And he knows it. And they’re both just laying there, with each other. No excuses of “Oh well I was so emotional, that’s why I did that” can be used anymore.

That’s pretty fucking huge.

(and really though, not to belittle Vincent’s death or Brennan’s feelings about it any way, but I wouldn’t be surprised if part of why Brennan was so emotional (and part of what pushed her to get into bed with Booth) was her thinking about what if it HAD been Booth, as Brodski had intended. Again, it’s conjecture (yikes, I’ve been doing that a bit too much lately, haven’t I?), but it does make sense. Those thoughts of if it had been Booth would logically morph into feelings of being so grateful that it wasn’t him, and therefore would make her boundaries with him, both physical and emotional, less sturdy and inflexible.)

And now, we must tackle the really expensive (“million dollar” is so overused) question:

DID THEY HAVE SEX?

AND I HAVE THE ANSWER!

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In Which Their ~Moment~ Is Different Than Usual

Season 6, Episode 21 - The Signs in the Silence

(no post at blogspot yet because blogger has been down all day, thereby frustrating me all. day.)

To start off, let me just say that THIS little exchange:

“…and then BANG! Mama Bones!”

“That’s not how it happens, Booth.”

“I think that’s how it works.”

Made me laugh more than it probably should have.

(and also it’s not that important, but the fact that they’re buying a JOINT present for the baby makes me happier than it probably should. Actually, that goes for whenever they do any sort of couple-like thing.)

Anyway.

There actually isn’t all that much else, really, until the final scene. He’s quick to attack for her, yes, and it’s lovely, yes, but that’s something that has been true for a loooooooooong time, so.

(In a rare non-B&B related note, Hodgins reacting to Angela going into labor by going “OH GOD! OK! BABY! OK! BABY! BABY!” was one of my favorite things to happen on this show in a long time. That is all.)

And then, the final scene. Booth and Brennan sharing ~feelings~ is always good times.

“Ok. I didn’t mean to upset you.”

You know had this happened at the beginning of the series, it would have taken her a lot longer to say that in this situation. Season 1 Brennan wouldn’t have thought to be considerate about his feelings, wouldn’t have taken it into account, would have been solely focused on her goal of making her point. Now, she’s realized that, in the long run, it might be better to backtrack a little if she upsets him, even if it slows down her process of making her point.

And then, that silence in the end. That silent moment.

Honestly, I don’t really know what it was about. And I don’t think the point of it was whatever it was about.

They had a moment. A silent, looking-at-each-other, emotionally charged moment. A moment like many they’ve had before. Except, before, they were always interrupted by someone else, or they interrupted it themselves. This time, they had it, it happened, Brennan sort of blinked in a ~finishing~ way, and it ended. They didn’t interrupt it. They silently acknowledged it, and let it happen. Which is more than they’ve ever done before.

There’s also the title of the episode we need to consider here: “The Signs in the Silence”. Yes, it has to do with the case in the episode, of course, but their silent moment at the end conveyed as significant enough at least to theorize what it might mean if the episode title also has to do with B&B as well.

And, basically, should it have anything to do with B&B, it means most likely that that ~silent moment~ meant something, something pretty important, considering it is part of the episode title. I feel like, at this point, the biggest thing we can derive from it is a new level of comfort between the two. They’ve grown more and more comfortable over the years, yes, but this is a new level. Before, they were always walking on eggshells around the matters of their physical attraction and their romantic connection. That was the one area in which they were not comfortable with each other. This marks a change in that. Their “moments” have always been a mark of their intimacy, an intimacy they were always uncomfortable with, hence them always rushing themselves through their own moments. Now… they’re comfortable with it. They let it happen.

And that comfort with their intimacy could be one of the final (or even THE final) push to open the door all the way for them.

In Which This Really Shouldn’t Even Be Its Own Post

Season 6, Episode 19 - The Finder

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Really, this shouldn’t even be its own post. Considering the main purpose of this episode, there were very few scenes with the Bones team in general, let alone B&B moments.

However, there are a couple things to note:

-The finder asking Booth and Brennan if they’re sleeping together. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that hasn’t happened as much as it used to since Hannah happened, and now that she’s gone, it’s happening again.

-The science fair medal. Or, specifically, the fact that he knows about the medal. Or, even more specifically, the fact that all he has to say is “the thing you won and lost” and she knows what he’s talking about. I mean, honestly, they could have it where they have an example of just how well they know each other by bring up one of these little things from their past every damn episode, and it would still make me happy. And it would still mean something, as well. Every time they bring one of these things up, every time they show just how much they know about each other, they increase the normalcy of it more and more, which can definitely help in them getting together.

In Which They Don’t Make Any Sense At All

Season 6, Episode 18 - The Truth in the Myth

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Oh, car scenes. You’re always such a good way to get a conversation started with these two.

“…the backside of YOUR moon!”

And how she’s laughing SO HARD at her own jokes.

But then he’s looking at her as she’s laughing at her own jokes… and he gets that Booth-y look on his face again. It’s happened dozens of times. She’s doing something silly, and she’s looking somewhere else, and so he can get away with stealing an admiring glance at her, so he does. When she’s trying to be funny or is acting silly, he has these moments of mini-realizations of how 1) she CAN be “human” and silly and “normal” sometimes, and 2) how she’s changed and grown to gotten to that place. Every time, he realizes it a little more. It’s a mix of admiration, fondness, a touch of amusement, and, of course, love. It’s his Booth-y look at her. And it’s glorious, watching it appear.

Then, the diner scene. Nothing really notable, until:

“You’re no different than the people who were certain the sun revolved around the earth.”

And the look on her face after he says that, her defense – she is NOT happy that he says this.

It brings up an interesting point – in “The Killer in the Crosshairs”, there was a lot of Brennan bringing up the similarities between Booth and the sniper, and Booth feeling majorly upset over it, because he uses her as a sort of mirror for him to evaluate his own personality, because to him, she’s the most accurate “mirror” for him because he thinks so highly of her.

Three episodes later, we’ve got the same thing going on, but reversed – she’s using HIM now. Even certain, impervious Brennan if affected GREATLY by Booth’s opinion of her. It’s just with this instance, the result of this reaction is different. With Booth, he just lets it effect him and pesters Brennan about it until she re-phrases her thoughts to get down to the essence of what she really meant. With Brennan, it drives her to research and find evidence to prove that she was technically right, but also that she believes him (and of COURSE she reacts this way – it IS Brennan, after all). But still, the fact that she let it bother her enough to do all that work is blatantly telling.

Like he said, it was a LOT of research that she did.

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In Which She Thinks His Socks Are Silly

Season 6, Episode 17 - The Feet on the Beach

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Oh Bones. Some things about you will never chance.

Like how, the episode after a ~big event~, B&B act like nothing happened.

Which is understandable. It’s how it’s always been. It’s how they function.

Although with this one, it’s not as bad because they also include another one of their “usual” things – Booth making fun of her for her over-objective thinking skills over someone’s feelings (“how about you try being a person?”) and she protests that her prioritization is correct. It shows they still have that tension, that disagreement – without it, they’re as good as dead.

“He’s a grown man.”

“Sometimes it makes that worse.”

And alas, another thing “Bones” does, and does well: Alluding to said previous ~big event~ later in the episode after in the most indirect yet certain of ways. With a grown man, it’s worse. Booth feels that it’s worse for him to get rejected like that, to be angry at Brennan. And it also acts as a way for Booth to get through to Brennan over the whole Philmore issue, to get her to parallel Booth with Philmore so that she can be more open to the whole thing. Because with Booth, she sees things differently.

“I know the kind of person that you are and I think you should let other people in on the secret too.”

The look on her face, the look on his once she looks away… see, that’s the thing with them: you can literally SEE them affecting each other.

The ending wasn’t all that juicy, no. But back in season four I was talking about how they have to balance REALLY BIG MONUMENTAL THINGS with smaller, cuter and less monumental things. Especially right after possibly the BIGGEST MOST MONUMENTAL HAPPENING FOR THEM EVER.

So juicy, no, but flat-fucking-ADORABLE? Oh, yes.

And it had one of my absolutely favorite little details about their relationship: how she notices all these little things about him and always says them without thinking of or realizing what her knowledge of them AT ALL implies. The thing about the coffee.

She notices him.

(This is nothing new, of course, but the reminders pf it are always lovely.)

In Which “Eventually” Starts Now

Season 6, Episode 16 - The Blackout in the Blizzard

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I could not speak for about a minute after this episode. Literally. I was sitting there with my friend, trying so incredibly hard to say something intelligible to her, and the closest I could get to words were sounds that sounded vaguely like “I can’t”.

Because, I mean, this is positively HUGE.

And I know I say that a lot, but I mean it this time in the purest, most true form of the word.

These are times I hate that I do these posts chronologically, but alas, here we go:

From the start, in the diner scene, we’re hit with Booth’s refusal to talk about their partnership, when Sweets tries to bring it up. Brennan is seemingly neither yay nor nay about it, but keeps her mouth shut when Booth insists he doesn’t want to talk about it, because she knows that trying to force him to talk about it in a structured setting, with Sweets, isn’t going to work. She knows that if any talking is going to happen, it’s going to be with just them, without Sweets, when the time is right. That’s the thing with her social development: with a lot of things, while she may not be able to do it with people in general, she can do it with Booth. She may not be able to read all people in that way, to be able to tell when it’s not a good idea to push something and when it is, but she can with Booth.

Then, we have Brennan and the whole “They’re just chairs!” moment, where they’re basically acting like a married couple. There are a few of those moments throughout the episode, and the last episode as well (the whole running scene, helloooo). They’ve always had their married-type moments before, their little bickerings… but these ones have a different vibe to them. Before, it was like, “oh lol, they’re acting like a married couple how funny and cute lololll”. But now, with these ones, it’s starting to be more like, “oh my GOD, they are completely acting like a married couple.” These moments, while still containing the funny and cute aspects, are getting deeper into that sort of “married” vibe, which makes sense, considering all that’s happened and how long this has been going on, but at the same time… it’s still a significant shift.

And then there’s more of Booth’s complete refusal to talk with Sweets about him and Brennan. Sweets keeps trying, and Booth tells him to stop. He doesn’t want him to say anything. And not just like, normal “oh don’t say it!” but he actually kind of actually wants him to say it. He really does NOT want Sweets to say anything. He throws the peas at him to keep him to shut up, for pete’s sake. But he doesn’t get like that when Brennan starts talking about them. He resists, but he doesn’t get that angry at ALL. Because Brennan knows how to go about talking about it. Sweets, brilliant psychologist that he is, can only approach these kinds of things in the way a shrink does, by trying to get the person to figure it out straight-forward for himself or just saying it outright. Sweets tries to say it completely outright, and Booth can’t deal with that. He can’t deal with it all being said outright right now. And Sweets knows this, he can see his defensive mechanisms are way up high, but he is still determined to get it said out in the open. He just doesn’t expect Booth to go as far as he does with them.

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In Which She’s Standing Right Beside Him

Season 6, Episode 15 - The Killer in the Crosshairs

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Let me just say first off that I absolutely adore the fact that I no longer have begin watching a new episode in fear that the first scene will be a Booth/Hannah cutesy and/or sex scene. I VERY much like that.

And let me continue on with talking about that first scene. And the fact that he appears out of nowhere and is running with her. Now, we can assume that, being the close “partners” they are, he’s known for awhile that she runs in this area around this time. And so he just decides to sneak up on his “partner” one day and go running with her. No big deal, right?

They get to the coffee cart, and he’s won, so he says. But no, she tries to claims she won using science, and he calls her on it, of course, but he’s a humble winner, so he buys the coffee. But only because he’s a humble winner, because they’re just “partners”.

And then, there’s the war lecture. Oh, he’ll go with her to that, if she wants some “company”. But… it’s a LECTURE, Booth. A fancy-smarty-pants lecture. “But it’s war!” he says, as he brushes it off. And so it gets dropped.

But, um. It’s a LECTURE.

Do “partners” go to lectures with their partner even though it’s the last thing they would normally do in their spare time, only in order to give their partner “company”?

Juuuuuuust saying.

(This’ll come up again later.)

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In Which It’s A Valentine’s Day Massacre

Season 6, Episode 14 - The Bikini in the Soup

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Who’s got two thumbs, speaks limited Spanish, and got out of rehearsal early so she got to watch the show this week actually when it aired?

THIS GAL!

So, I’ve noticed something: every time something goes down (the hundredth episode, doctor in the photo, and now Booth’s drunken ultimatum) with them, afterward, the next day, episode, whatever it is, they are perfectly fine, they act like everything is ok, except in their first case. During their first case, after he tried to fire her after getting her drunk and they made out but she wouldn’t go home with him and that whole thing, they blew completely UP at each other the next day. And that is the only time (that we know of) when that has happened. With all the other shit they’ve been through, shit way worse than that first case, they hardly say a peep to each other about it the next day, if anything at all.

It makes sense, though. In that first case, they weren’t in love. They could sense their attraction, obviously, and Booth definitely sensed that they could have more than that attraction, but they didn’t know each other like they did at the end of season two, three, five. And so when both their personalities and values got insulted by the other, they didn’t have much to lose by laying it all out on them. They didn’t have this partnership, this underlying bond, to lose yet.

Now, they do. They have everything to lose.

So they stay quiet.

But enough about that. Let’s talk about Cam’s little slip. The “I’m not that much older than you and I have someone” line.

COME ON, CAM. REALLY NOW.

But, oh no. Look at Bones. Very little reaction, physically, at least. “No, you’re correct”. Oh, Bones. :(

Her lack of a larger physical reaction, though, is not a good sign. It means she’s going back into herself, going back to compartmentalizing, hyper-rationality, etc. Which, again, makes sense, considering what just happened to her with Booth, and her not even having Booth to talk about it with.

(also, not saying that Booth can’t hold his liquor, but with how utterly drunk he was, I wonder how much he actually remembers about that conversation. Obviously, he’ll probably remember at least talking to Brennan, but whether he remembers the specifics, or the ultimatum itself, at all… I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t remember it all, or if it was at the very least fuzzy.)

Now, I’m not sure there’s much really to be derived from it, but the phrase of “moved on” with Booth is an interesting thing. That’s what it was with Brennan - “I’ve got to move on” - and now he’s saying it again with Hannah - “I’ve moved on.” Yes, it’s a common phrase for getting past an unsuccessful relationship… but there could be something there, I believe. Perhaps in the fact that with Brennan, if my memory is serving me right, he never actually said he had “moved on” from her until he met Hannah, and now with the Hannah break-up, just an episode later, he’s said he’s “moved on”.

Curious.

Just saying.

“Are you happy?” “I’m happy!”

I remember this part, I don’t remember the context, all I wrote while it was happening was “CUTE!”, so. There you go. CUTE.

Unrelated to B&B, but Brennan after Booth is all “Has your acting gotten better?” is one of the most adorable things I’ve seen all week.

It just needed to be said.

And then, finally, the end. The scene those of us who read spoilers have been waiting for for weeks to find out exactly what activity they would be doing that was “very Booth and Brennan” when they “spent Valentine’s Day together, alone.”

Honestly, I feel dumb for not figuring it out earlier.

Of COURSE they are going to shoot together on Valentine’s Day. Of COURSE.

Her giving him a Valentine’s Day gift is something on which to be ruminated, though, considering the last episode.

Two possibilities pop out to me (there are more than two, obviously, but these two are the most obviously possible): 1) She’s going back into herself, like I said earlier, denying everything, denying her feelings, denying what happened has any effect on her, and so, just treats it like any normal time, treating Booth as she would any other time were he to break up with someone he loved, or 2) She knows he was drunk. She believes, or wants to believe, he didn’t actually entirely mean what he said, and she thinks that even if he did mean it, that she’ll take it, because losing him in general is infinitely worse than losing him as a romantic prospect. And she understands that he’s in a horrible, awful place right now. She’s sensitive (Brennan, sensitive?! Gasp!) to his needs. And so she brings him 1920’s guns as a valentine’s gift.

Were this to have happened pre-6.09, I’d probably go with option one as most likely.

But not now. Not after she had that breakthrough. I still believe she is logical, rational, etc., and I still believe after emotional events, like the last episode, she will temporarily go back into robot-mode (at least on the outside), but I think now it is temporary and fleeting, as opposed to the beginning of this season, where it just got progressively worse and worse.

So she brings him his guns. And they shoot. And talk in 1920’s slang.

And he looks at her. He has a prolonged look at her.

I repeat:

PROLONGED LOOK AT HER.

There’s the money shot, kiddos. That’s always the sign, moreso than anything, than his words, than his cocky belt buckle. His prolonged looks at her are always the giveaway, because he cannot control them. He has never been able to keep his eyes off her. And he still can’t.

Ultimatum?

What ultimatum?

See you in three weeks.  

In Which Leila Attempts To Restore Sense To The Bones Fandom

Season 6, Episode 13 - The Daredevil in the Mold

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Oh, my.

Oh my, oh my, oh my.

Yeah, this is one of those that we just need to jump into, I think.

So, Sweets wants Booth’s advice about Daisy. He decides he’ll propose to her.

Then Booth, randomly and all of a sudden says he’s going to ask Hannah, too.

What the whaaaaaaaaat?!

But, look - The off-handedness of how he says it, the shot right after, the “don’t go telling people”…

And also, the fact that Booth was really drunk. Even more drunk I think than how he was coming across. Booth’s the type that can hold his liquor physically, but mentally… he was affected. Very much so. As they conveyed with all the talk of his hangover the next day.

So you know what? Booth is probably sitting there, listening to baby duck talk about proposing, and he realizes that BABY DUCK might be engaged before he is. Sweets was engaged before, but that’s beside the point. Sweets could be married before him. And that’s a thought that literally marks the fact that his life plan has derailed; he is not living the life he thought he would. And that’s an earth-shattering thought for most people. And now, he’s in this serious relationship with this woman, after he thought he’d never find someone he loved even as close to as much as he liked Brennan and maybe… maybe he can have what he’s always wanted, finally.

And also… he’s recently had his feelings for Brennan, which have been suppressed for so long, start to bubble back up, and whether he is consciously aware of this or not, he is definitely feeling the effects of it. He might not be able (or willing) to classify what he’s feeling, but he feels it nonetheless. But he can’t allow this idea that he’s stayed in love with Brennan this whole time, that he might even still love her MORE than Hannah, to infiltrate.

So he decides, in one last large, desperate attempt, to deny his feelings. Because admitting they’re real just changes too much, sets him off-track that much more.

So he decides to propose.

Don’t hate him too much.

A couple of quick notes before the good stuff, for the sake of thoroughness:

-Brennan bringing up Hannah when she has yet to be mentioned previously in the conversation to show how she’s OMG SO TOTALLY OK WITH IT… for the millionth time. Yep.

-Note the return to her hyper-rational jargon in the “highly romanticized” speech. And we all know what her hyper-rationality means.

Now. Here’s the real stuff.

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In Which We Have A Reason To Flail Again

Season 6, Episode 12 - The Sin in the Sisterhood

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Just to clarify, the definition of “flail” I am using in this instance best lines up with this one from urban dictionary: “the act of hyper speed talking about one’s fandom and/or obsession. Sqeeling, clapping, gasping, obsessive behavior dizziness, speechlessness and random dancing are all symptoms.”

Except in my case, it’s not so much “hyper speed talking” as “hyper speed nonsense words”.

However, as with all good flail, we must wait a bit to get to it, and cover a few other things first.

First, in Booth’s advice to Cam:

“If this guy is the one, don’t let him get away.”

Hmmmm, Booth. Curious.

There’s more to this than the obvious parallel (huh, Booth, you haven’t been in any situation recently where the one got away, have you?).

Keep this in mind, it’ll come up later.

Can I just say how I love that they’re having a religious argument again.

And, how he always does, Booth insisting he’s right over all logic, his completely out-of-line statements (“History is wrong”) said with such conviction. JUST LIKE OLD TIMES.

And then when he gets the call about the divorce and the look on her face is just like “Fuuuuuuuuu-”.

Pretty awesome.

I have a theory about just why Booth is so against polyamory. Yes, he’s Booth, of course he’s going to hate polyamory, but I feel like maybe a little bit of it is because there’s the idea in his subconscious that if he COULD do it, if it were morally and logistically possible for him, everything would be fine. He wouldn’t have to be in this situation he’s in now.

But enough about silly theories (which actually don’t mean anything in the long run, it was just a thought), because we have to talk about the giggling. In the car. About bonehead. And all the other names. And them saying “Oh, we’re terrible”, and proceeding to come up with other names.

OH, THE CUTE. IT’S TOO MUCH.

That scene, though, is not what the flail is about.

Which, of course, you already know.

Ok. Ready?

Ready?

IT IS TIME TO FLAIL.

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