Bones 101 (Open)

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Tilting her head a bit to the side, Temperance leans a little closer to the skeleton that was on the examining table. Obviously she is in one of  the sensoriums which has kindly recreated her lab from the Jeffersonian. Sadly it hadn't bothered to give her a replica of Angela or Zack or Hodgins. Even though she likes to work alone, she has to admit she misses the constant barrage of chatter that seemed to follow where ever those three were.

Reaching out with a gloved hand, she runs her fingers gingerly over the skull before carefully picking it up and examining it closer. "Hmmm....." she mutters aloud. "The skeleton is in remarkably good shape.  Female, and based on the dentition and condition of the vertebrae, she was fairly young. Possibly in the mid to late twenties, though no older than mid thirties."

It's not even a real dead body, but it's enough to keep Temeperance from going stir crazy and it actually in a way relaxes her.

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"Doctor Temperance Brennan," she introduces herself - of course using her full name and title. "You can call me Doctor Brennan or Brennan though."

Only certain people get to call her by her first name and Rondeau isn't one of them.

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Well, Rondeau had no last name, so it's not like Tempe- sorry, Brennan, got much of a choice there. "Temperance, huh?" he remarked absently. Of course he'd realized that she didn't want him calling her that, but she never said he couldn't speculate. "Interesting name."

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She's heard that plenty of times, so she's not exactly surprised by his comment. "Yes, I suppose it is. Just as Rondeau is. What nationality is your name derived from?"

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"French, I guess." Again, he shrugged. "I read it somewhere when I was a kid and liked the sound of it." Never mind that he was newly inhabiting his current body at the time, and didn't remember much of anything, let alone his name. He could pass for nameless street kid just as easily. "What about you? Any special story behind yours?"

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She frowns, and shakes her head. "No, not that I know of. I suppose my parents liked it, so they gave it to me."

It's not a lie, even though she hadn't been given the name Temperance when she was born, later her parents had given it to her for some reason and she figured it was due to the fact that they liked it.