a lot of us have had a difficult time with the revelation that zack was gormogon's apprentice. people have dealt with that in many different ways. we have seen so little of zack in this last season that it's an area full of opportunity. and i have a thought about how it could have happened.

please note that this will be a sad story. but i think sometimes we need sad stories to understand how even fictional characters we love turn out the way they do. and when we understand that, we have an idea of how they can begin to recover. and don't we all want zack back?

bones is not mine. i have no claims to the stories or any of the characters. i'm just a big nerdy fan.

A little over two years ago, a woman from the state department was doing a security review on all of the employees in the Jeffersonian's medico-legal lab. None of us had wanted to put up with the interruption, but we endured. Some more patiently than others. And when the woman insisted that she needed my full attention to conduct her review, I corrected her but gave it anyway.

"Hypothetically, you have a piece of information."

"Secret and meaningful information?" I leaned on table.

"Yes. And the security of the country is at stake. Could I bribe you to give it to me?"

"No."

"Threaten you?"

"No."

"What if I made a reasonable, rational argument... very persuasive?"

"Merely persuasive?" I leaned further toward her playfully, turned my head slightly sideways.

"Irrefutable. I make an irrefutable argument as to why you should give me this piece of information. Would you do so?"

"Not without checking with Dr. Brennan or Angela first. See what they said. Maybe Agent Booth, if he talked to me... he probably wouldn't. I'd check with Dr. Hodgins but he'd say it was all part of some conspiracy, so I mostly only take his advice on women."

My highly-adept mind finally found the answer it was looking for and I ran from the room, focused on the case at hand. I didn't think about that conversation again until much later.

I knew who I could trust then. Everything that they had done should have proven their capability and willingness to help me before it arrived at the critical point when I met him. That was the point where things began to change drastically in the real world, outside of the chaos of my own mind.

I am a rational empiricist. I accept now that there was more happening in my mind than logic. I imagine that my friends might wonder what could have possibly brought me here. How could the rational Dr. Addy have wound up a criminal locked away in a mental institution. That question does not have a short answer. But it has a beginning. A point of origin.

My time in Iraq had more of an influence on me than anyone knew.

shall i continue this? please review and let me know if you are interested in hearing zack's story as i imagine it.