[Of course their son would be named Hank, and Lance is not at all surprised to hear Christine loves school; he's so glad she'd been old enough for him to start taking to parks and having whole conversations with and the like, because she's so smart and has so much personality. He highly doubts the desire to sell cars will last, and so that just makes it even cuter.]
I'm sure if she does end up selling cars, she'll be really good at it.
[Because she'll be good at anything. But the story about Zack is... Not exactly hard to believe, considering their lives, but a little surreal. One of his doctors was trying to kill him? Was it someone Lance knows, or someone that came into the picture after Lance was no longer able to visit? Whatever the answer, and whatever the reason, Lance is quietly incensed in the way he usually is when someone who is supposed to be helping a person in their care turns out to be doing anything but. It's far too common.
But it seems to have turned out alright, at least, so that's what he tries to focus on.]
We talked about that, when he told me he wasn't actually guilty of murder. He said he would've done it if Gormogon told him to, but I tried to tell him he couldn't know that until it came down to it.
[And it's good to know--and not just because Lance likes being right--that Zack really, honestly wasn't capable of such a thing after all.
And he lets silence hang for a moment, after addressing all of that, because he has to decide if he wants to ask the other things lingering on his mind. Now that they've talked about the good things, it feels like maybe the time for stalling is over.
So, after a moment, he speaks up again softly.]
You said that... You said that you were with me?
[At least, that's the impression he'd gotten from 'we watched', but he doesn't know for sure who 'we' might be. Brennan and Booth had been together, so maybe both of them, but he can't leave it to interference; he has to know what happened, even if he's being vague himself as to what he's talking about.]
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I'm sure if she does end up selling cars, she'll be really good at it.
[Because she'll be good at anything. But the story about Zack is... Not exactly hard to believe, considering their lives, but a little surreal. One of his doctors was trying to kill him? Was it someone Lance knows, or someone that came into the picture after Lance was no longer able to visit? Whatever the answer, and whatever the reason, Lance is quietly incensed in the way he usually is when someone who is supposed to be helping a person in their care turns out to be doing anything but. It's far too common.
But it seems to have turned out alright, at least, so that's what he tries to focus on.]
We talked about that, when he told me he wasn't actually guilty of murder. He said he would've done it if Gormogon told him to, but I tried to tell him he couldn't know that until it came down to it.
[And it's good to know--and not just because Lance likes being right--that Zack really, honestly wasn't capable of such a thing after all.
And he lets silence hang for a moment, after addressing all of that, because he has to decide if he wants to ask the other things lingering on his mind. Now that they've talked about the good things, it feels like maybe the time for stalling is over.
So, after a moment, he speaks up again softly.]
You said that... You said that you were with me?
[At least, that's the impression he'd gotten from 'we watched', but he doesn't know for sure who 'we' might be. Brennan and Booth had been together, so maybe both of them, but he can't leave it to interference; he has to know what happened, even if he's being vague himself as to what he's talking about.]