It was exactly 6:30 PM on Christmas Eve. Dr. Temperance Brennan stood hunched over some bones of an ancient mummy. She was probably the only one left in the building. Except for the security guards, but they too would be leaving soon. That meant she only had a little while longer to finish what she could before the building closed for the holiday. All of her colleagues had already left at least an hour ago. They all had somewhere to be over this holiday.
She let out a sigh. She had never really celebrated Christmas. Not since her 15th Christmas anyway. Picking up her tape recorder she began to record her findings. "Male, age 45, caucasian." She hadn't determined the time of death. It was then that she heard the faint sound of footsteps entering the lab coming closer and closer.
Temperance recognized them to be the footsteps of her partner Seeley Booth. She turned around and was greeted with the beeping of the machine as he scanned his card and bounded up the stairs onto the platform. "Hey Bones!" he greeted her as he walked over to her. "Hey" she replied. She turned back around to her work and felt him leaning over her shoulder. She tried to ignore it but after only a few seconds she got annoyed. She wasn't in the best of mood anyway.
"You know Booth" she started not moving from her current position "it's really hard for me to work with you hanging over my shoulder like that." Especially since you're so darn hot. The thought came from somewhere besides the logical part of her mind. Booth smirked and stepped back away from her. "Well you shouldn't be here working anyway. You should be out enjoying the holiday." Booth stated.
Reluctantly she turned around to look at him. "You know I don't celebrate Christmas." "Yes I know, but you could try to" he said. He could tell that she was clearly annoyed from having been interrupted, and decided now was not the time to make her any worse. "Listen Bones, I was wondering, would you like to spend Christmas with me and Parker for part of the day of course. Please I know he would really love having you there." And so would I.
"Booth…." she said heaving out a great sigh. She didn't want to ruin his Christmas, especially with his son. But what could it hurt. She defiantly didn't want to be alone this Christmas. "I guess I'll spend Christmas with you and Parker. But are you sure he wouldn't mind me being there?" she asked the worry clearly evident in her voice. Booth noticed this and smiled.
"Of course Bones, after he saw you at Wong Foos last Christmas it's been a round of questions every time her comes over. Daddy, when am I going to see Dr. Brennan again? Or Daddy, when can we have Dr. Brennan come over? He really seems to like you." He saw that made her smile and he was glad. "Ok Booth, I'll spend Christmas with you and Parker."
"Great now lets get going" he said. He lightly grabbed her wrist and started pulling her towards the stairs. "Wait Booth! I have to put the bones away" she said stopping. "Fine, I'll go to your office and get your coat and purse. Anything else you need?" he asked just to make sure. "Nope" she replied. He nodded and walked down the stairs and down the hall to her office. He walked in and grabbed her coat and purse. It was relatively heavy. Gosh what do women put in these things? he thought to himself.
Sighing he shut the lights out and closed the door behind him. He found her waiting for him at the entrance. "Wow you're ready before I am. That's a surprise!" he said jokingly. She punched him playfully on his arm and took her coat from his arms. Putting it on she smiled at him, mockingly holding his arm as if she had actually hurt him. "Come on" she said. Turning, she walked out of the glass doors and into the cold and snowy December air.
Reaching her car she turned around and looked at him. "So what time should I come over tomorrow?" she asked him. "Well we should surprise Parker so how about eleven?" "Sounds good. See you then Booth." she said before getting into her car and pulling out of the parking lot and heading towards her apartment. Booth smiled after her and got into his SUV. This is going to be great! he thought all the way to his house.
