Post by DR. Temperance Brennan on Nov 3, 2010 13:36:10 GMT -5
DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN
[/U][/CENTER]Although Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan had a relatively normal and happy childhood, her parents disappeared when she was 15 yrs. old. Her older brother, Russ, being unable to care for her, left her as well and she was put into the foster care system as a result. Her time spent in foster care was very traumatic, although she does not speak too often about it, but it does not seem to have affected her adult life overly much.
Temperance received her PH D from Northwestern University and later obtained a job at the Medico-legal lab at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington D.C. At the beginning most her of her work pertained to long-ago dead bones or victims of genocide, with occasional contract work with the FBI. After working and solving two cases with Special Agent Seeley Booth, who gave her the nickname of Bones, she was partnered with him and now works almost exclusively on modern day murder cases.
After being partnered with Booth for a little while and learning to trust him as she hasn't many others in her life, Temperance then passed her parents' file over to Booth in the hopes that he could help her find out what happened to them so long ago, not really having a clue as to what he may or may not find. She certainly never expected the truth. Booth was able to discover that her parents were notorious bank robbers who had testified against other bank robbers and had to change their identities, along with their children's in order to be safe.
Max Keenan ( her father's real name) became aware that they had been found out and in order to keep their children safe, he and his wife, Ruth, ran with all intentions of returning for their children some day. Two years after their disappearance, however, Ruth was murdered and buried by a an old acquaintance, who later resurfaced to threaten Temperance and her brother, Russ' lives. Max, having always kept tabs on his children, came out of hiding and killed the man who turned out to be the then director of the FBI, Kirby. After taking care of the threat to his daughter's life he then went back into hiding taking his son with him.
He later comes out of hiding again and allows Booth to capture him, in order to show Temperance that he does love her and does what to a part of her life. He is then put on trial for murder, which Temperance and her team of "squints" help prove him innocent for. Now, constantly in and out of her life, Temperance has a sort of love , hate relationship with her father.
Sort of taken by surprise, she realizes that through all of this she has fallen in love with Booth but refuses to act upon those feelings, even when she knows that he feels the same. She struggles with wanting to continue to do her job at the Jeffersonian and her partnership with Booth. Taking a year off, she goes to the jungle and returns only when one of her friends need her help. Booth also has returned from war with a new love interest and it will be very interesting indeed to see how Temperance handles her feelings for Booth.