She didn’t see it coming She didn’t see it coming First published July 15, 2018. New edition published May 2019. Please note: story was updated in May 2019 because I wanted to improve I so if you read it before it has changed. Plot remains the same but has been extensively elaborated and full chapters added. 2 She didn’t see it coming About the story Are we really sure Bones died a far too early death for such a charismatic character? Nah, don’t think so. This is my alternative take on Season 3. The story begins during the Bangladesh tour at the end of episode 5, when Bones has just been blown to pieces in front of 2 section at a garden party. I was very unhappy about the turn of events, so out of pure frustration I decided to have try at writing fanfiction. I anyway always have side stories about movie characters I like running in my head, so why not write them down. The past is basically canon. Credits to Tony Grounds and BBC for the characters, I just let them live another life for a while here. The reason I updated eight months after first publishing it, was that at a re-read I realised I could do better and felt that my only full- length Bones & Georgie fic deserved as good as I got. This is a hot story. if you don’t like a bit of smut you may need to skip parts, but above all it is a love story. Happy reading! /Miss P 3 She didn’t see it coming CHAPTER 1: GOODBYE BONES ................................................................... 5 CHAPTER 2: AN UNWELCOME REACQUAINTANCE .......................... 13 CHAPTER 3: NOT AS YOU THINK ............................................................ 21 CHAPTER 4: REVELATIONS ...................................................................... 29 CHAPTER 5: WHILE IT WAS RAINING ................................................... 39 CHAPTER 6: A BEAUTIFUL MORNING ................................................... 51 CHAPTER 7: CAN SHE REALLY BE THAT SPECIAL? ........................... 59 CHAPTER 8: LOOKING IN THE REAR MIRROR ................................... 64 CHAPTER 9: TO LIVE BY THE RULES ..................................................... 74 CHAPTER 10: THE HIT ................................................................................ 86 CHAPTER 11: ALREADY GONE .................................................................. 95 CHAPTER 12: HOME SWEET HOME ...................................................... 103 CHAPTER 13: A GREAT DATE AND ALARMING NEWS .................... 110 CHAPTER 14: UNEXPECTED SOLACE ................................................... 117 CHAPTER 15: WHAT DO I WANT? .......................................................... 129 CHAPTER 16: THE ART OF LETTING GO .............................................. 140 CHAPTER 17: THE FINAL TOUR ............................................................. 149 CHAPTER 18: OPERATION SAVE 2 SECTION ...................................... 156 CHAPTER 19: MORE THAN WORDS ...................................................... 165 CHAPTER 20: LEFT BEHIND ................................................................... 175 CHAPTER 21: DOES HE REALLY CARE? ............................................... 184 CHAPTER 22: A MAN FULL OF SURPRISES ........................................ 195 CHAPTER 23: MEETING THE FAMILY .................................................. 205 CHAPTER 24: DOUBTS .............................................................................. 217 CHAPTER 25: DIFFICULT CHOICES ...................................................... 224 CHAPTER 26: THE SECRET IS OUT ....................................................... 234 CHAPTER 27: FANTASY ON THE ROAD ............................................... 241 CHAPTER 28: TRAPPED ........................................................................... 252 EPILOGUE: WILL SHE COME? ................................................................ 263 EPILOGUE 2: DON’T MESS WITH MY WIFE ........................................ 268 4 She didn’t see it coming Chapter 1: Goodbye Bones That evening it was dead quiet at barracks. None of the usual noisy chatter or banter was heard among the privates in 2 section, instead they all stayed together supporting each other in silence. Only Rab and Maisie were talking in low voices, and Georgie, who knew they secretly were a couple, guessed they would have liked to cuddle up close, though they were unable to here without being put up for charges or sent home for breaking Army regulations. Even Sergeant King, Kingy, moved his belongings to come and stay with the rest of the section, could not stand being alone in a situation like this. They were still shell-shocked over the events that had passed earlier that day, could not quite believe or accept what had happened right in front of them. Their commanding officer, Captain McClyde, a.k.a. Bones, had been redmisted by an explosive device at a fancy garden party, a VIP reception in honour of their Brigadier hosted by a local general. It was like the setting where it had occurred made it all the more unbelievable. Bones had not been killed in the battlefield where it would have been less unexpected, instead the attack had taken place during a serene afternoon tea party, at an emerald green to perfection mowed Bangladesh lawn, where a string quartet only moments earlier had played classical music and 2 section, in immaculate uniforms and polished shoes had attended to the esteemed guests. Bones himself had done Her Majesty’s Army proud, looking arrogantly dashing in dress uniform right before he was blown to pieces. It seemed too absurd to be true. 5 She didn’t see it coming Georgie Lane, the section medic, was now laying on her bed still dressed in uniform as she had not bothered to change after the section’s return to barracks one man short. She found it impossible to sleep despite the unusual calm in the dorm and was staring at the ceiling where a large fan was spinning round and round doing little to ease the humid heat, her thoughts drifting. As soon as she closed her eyes, Bones appeared out of her memory again and again, the way she had seen him at some distance during his last moments on this Earth. Distance which he, running like a madman, had put between himself and the other party guests when he had discovered an IED hidden in a back-pack and as by spinal reflex chosen to sacrifice his life to save them. He had stared at her, standing there in a beautiful gazebo in the middle of the lawn, explosive in his hands. Then came the inevitable violent, deafening explosion followed by thick smoke, which when it vanished revealed that there was absolutely nothing left of Bones but dust. If Georgie had not found his bloody medals now lying without owner in the grass, ripped off by the blast, nothing would had been left to indicate Bones had been among them. Nothing but his heroic deed. What had he been thinking those last seconds? Why had he not tried to get rid of the bomb and ran the other direction? He was the last person Georgie would have expected not to have the presence of mind to act and throw the bomb as far away as he could. She thought of his quick reaction in a similar situation in Nigeria, when the timer on a Boko haram suicide vest worn by a poor girl had started ticking down. That time he had saved them all and barely seemed affected by the presence of the lethal device. Today in the garden, when his eyes had met hers those last moments, his look had not really been one of fear either, more like he wanted to tell her something. Whatever it was she would never know now. 6 She didn’t see it coming Bones death today was not the only reason she was shaken, she admitted that to herself. Even if the setting was very different, it reminded her of another time, another man; Bones was the second man she had seen die of a bomb in little over a year. Even if she did not love this one or even liked him much, it was impossible not to grieve both over him and over Elvis. Such a bloody waste! Bones had never allowed any of them to come close to him. He had chosen to keep to himself except when he tormented or insulted them, never socialized or partaken in the banter among the section members but stayed a distant officer. Over the months when he had been their replacement commander, since Captain James had been seriously injured during a training exercise in Belize, Georgie had been frustrated most of the time, furious at him on several occasions and even thought that she hated him every once in a while. Yet she felt strangely hollow now that he was gone. She had never wished for anything like this to happen, not to him not to anyone. Suddenly and surprisingly it pained her when she reminisced an unexpected shared moment alone back in Nigeria. It was during that tour 2 section first came across Bones and the dislike was instant and mutual, long before he became their CO. She had been so sure he despised her, that she was completely taken aback when he one off-duty evening after driving her back to barracks from a bar, shamelessly and with a cheeky smile offered her to casually share a whiskey and his bed. She turned him down, trying to make a joke out of it and he did not seem to take the rejection hard. Bigger fish in the sea and all that, not that he said it, but she was sure he thought it, she had for sure only been a female body to him. What if she had accepted? Then another lover of hers would be dead by now instead of a fellow soldier she only knew superficially. But this was stupid, unnecessary 7 She didn’t see it coming thoughts as she had not even considered accepting at that point. She had found him attractive in a rough, impolite and annoying way, but her heart was still too filled with Elvis even for a one-night stand. Thank God for that as Bones by a twist of fate had become her commanding officer only months afterwards. It would have been totally awkward to serve under him if they had shared bed. Although he never mentioned it, she suspected he felt the same way and that he sometimes had been extra hard on her as a way to ensure her that the offer would not be repeated.