Bones (tv Fox) x Hannibal (tv NBC) ⚠️ warning: containing adult content

pay your respects

The funeral bells were chiming. All of them stood around The casket wearing all black, Sombra feeling amongst the crowd. Some generic thing was being said by some generic person about how she was taken too soon, and although they all agreed it was hard to listen to. Even Will was there but one person didn't show up. Hannibal claimed that he had to continue working the case, to get a psychological profile on The killer to avenge their dead friend. And no one questioned it, everyone grieved in their own way.
It was Booth's turn to speak but he was getting cold feet. "She was a friend, a colleague, a lover and what else can you say in these trying times. Those were the good things about her and those are the things we remember when people are gone. Those simple descriptors really are the reason this hurts so much. Those descriptors are all now preceded by a past tense and will always be." He started staring at everyone as they stared back as if to tell him to continue.
Angela was shaking knowing what was in the coffin. A mutilated corpse was staring back up…The heart was misplaced. The corpse wasn't going to be complete, the body wasn't fully going to be buried. She was never fully going to be laid to rest, not unless they found that piece of her. She had drawn something before the funeral and placed it on top of the coffin. It was a picture of Cam before the mutilation. She was beautiful
"How did he know her?" Zack asked Bones and she looked at him a bit confused until she realized what he was asking.
"He met her when she worked in New York. They had been friends and partners for a while" Bones said not looking at him through the whole conversation.
"Partners as in lovers or work companions?" Zack asked knowing it didn't matter but This was how he coped.
"As in lovers" She said then looked back up at Booth.
He was currently telling a story about their past. Something light-hearted to try to cope. After he was done they lowered the body and began to cover it and that's when bones left. She went back to the lab.
Booth went to the diner. That's also where Hodgins went. They both got a drink. They didn't talk to each other but being there with someone else that they knew was good. Angela stayed at the graveyard for a little bit longer until eventually meeting up with Hodgins. She didn't drink that day. She just held on to him.
Zack also went back to work and Will went to go talk to Hannibal.