Bones au (Post s6 e22 -spoilers-)
After Vincent’s injury he can’t go home where he lives alone and can’t make in back to London. Jack and Angela, mostly Angela, offer their home. There was no way this would backfire.
Vincent survives the gunshot would that plowed through his chest, but missed his heart. Brief coma and hospital stay as season six ends.
Michael Vincent was born while it was touch and go, nobody thought Vince would survive.
Despite the new baby Angela insists Vince stay with them while he recovers, since he’s still very weak and on a lot of medication.
Hodgins is hesitant but Vincent is his friend, so he agrees.
At one point he falls in the shower and Hodgins has to bust in and take him to the hospital. Vincent is mortified.
Vince has mild aphasia and it frustrates him. He knows the words he’s trying to say, but they get stuck in his head, or he’ll forget a fact he knew for a while. He worries he can’t be an anthropologist anymore, and though he’s still insanely smart, People don’t realize it as much with his speech issue.
Angela is determined to help him work through it, always ready to supply a word or patient while he tries to work it out.
He refuses to fall behind of his studies.
Vince is terrified to touch Michael, but will calmly sit and talk to him. Michael is enamored with him and just sits there. Angela says he’s finally found someone who loves facts like he does.
He doesn’t have great use of his left arm and does everything with his right. Shattered his scapula and has a metal plate there now. Has to wear a sling.
He has nightmares often and will say things about not wanting to go, Angela always wakes him when she hears it.