Water molecule bent shape and electron configuration
According to VSEPR theory (there are other models, but they give the same qualitative results), since there are four electron pairs around oxygen they will be in a tetrahedral configuration. Assume the hydrogen atoms are at A and B as you've described them in your question; C and D (the lone pairs) are in a plane perpendicular to the one containing A and B. Below is a ball-and-stick model of water, showing the lone-pair electrons as yellow "atoms".
 (Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons)

It sounds as if you're thinking in two dimensions with the hydrogen atoms and lone pairs in the same plane. If water existed in only two dimensions it could conceivably be linear, but it really is in three dimensions. (The molecule itself is flat because the lone pairs affect the shape but are not counted as part of it.)

All of the above applies to water under normal conditions. I'm not aware of any excited or exotic states of water in which the VSEPR prediction doesn't apply, but I can't guarantee that there aren't any.