How To Save A Life

Hello! This is my first Bones story so very nervous for posting! I've noticed there is an amazing amount of stories already written so if my storyline sounds similar to one you've read please say and I'll try change. I'd never want to copy someone else's work and I haven't read every story! Review please!

Chapter One

A fifthteen year old Temperance Brennan removed the broken mirror from under her bed. Trying to observe the latest bruises located on her shoulder, trying to indentify the extent of the damage done this time.

Many times a day she'd look into the mirror. So many occasions pretending this mirror was the from Snow White and only showed perfect and untouched skin instead of the battlefield her body underwent daily. If she was exhausted enough she could see the clear skin a thought which allowed her a few hours of deep sleep.

She had lost count of what reason she had done to gain this latest addition to her body. She flicked through her brain like a book as she compared each bruise to an memory a single word being enough to remind her "Cup...Chair...Book...Speaking" she sighed quietly.

There was one point in her life when she remembered having a family, someone to talk too, a hug, a smile, just some sort of loving feeling. It hurt her with every bad memory gained she forgot a happy memory like her brain was overloading. She knew this was scientifically impossible but she did wonder why it happened.

She always wondered what would have happened if her life was different, if her brother had taken control and helped her, if her parents hadn't gone. These thoughts only brought great distress and pain for the teenager realising she was in a situation she could never escape.