[In some ways, she's an average teenager, but she did go through a phase where she staged her death all sorts of different ways.

And honestly, it wouldn't be the rudest thing she has been asked. Things might have been worse if not for Russ. Things do get worse-- but that is in the future, beyond this dream, memories she doesn't have yet but somehow knows are there.]

School is everything. I'm going to be a scientist. An anthropologist. I'm going to be the best at it.

[She will be Dr. Temperance Brennan, known and respected worldwide in her field.]

No one can take that from me. [She whirls to face him, a little bit less defensive in her stance.] ...who ditcched you?

[Someone must have, if he thinks he knows what to say to her.]