The Marriage

By Meekerprincess9778

Disclaimer: Just writing in Bones' world….I have no rights, also any products, movies..music…..etc.

Ch 1

She had been in this home for two months. They had money, a beautiful home. They dressed her well. Everything was going well in this home. Sixteen year old Temperance Brennan had thought she finally found a decent foster home. Mr. Thompson, her foster dad, just got a promotion. His company was sending him to Philadelphia. His wife, Amy was on the phone with foster care to see if Temperance could go. Never before had Temperance wished for anything, until today. She wanted to go with Mike and Amy Thompson and start a new life. Foster care said as long as they upheld their visits, they would transfer Temperance's case to Philadelphia. Amy and Temperance hugged.

A week later, they pulled up to their beautiful house in Philadelphia. Temperance was eager to get her room situated. The Thompsons bought her nice things; she felt it was important to take care of these things. She did not want to seem ungrateful or disrespectful.

A handsome boy, about her age, walked up to her. She had just picked up a bigger box. "Hey, I'm Jared. Can I help you with that?"

She smiled at him. She didn't want to seem rude. "No thank you, Jared. This goes in my room and my parents are very strict about boys. I appreciate your offer, though." At that moment, her foster parents came out.

"Temperance, what's going on? Who is this?" Mike wanted to know.

"This is Jared. He appears to be from next door. He was being nice and offering me help. However, I declined, knowing these boxes were going to my room."

Jared noticed when she spoke to them she didn't look them in the eye. That seemed odd to him.

"Thank you for your offer, young man. We have things well in hand." Mr. Thompson looked at him in a menacing way.

"Maybe sometime we can have you over for dinner? Right now it's just me and my grandfather, my brother visits from the army from time to time." Jared was trying to get in good with this new girl. School started in two weeks and he wanted her to be his girlfriend before the whole school saw how pretty she is.

"That sounds nice." Mrs. Thompson smiled at him.

Jared walked into his house after this odd, first meeting. His grandfather, Pops was starting to cook dinner. "Spying on the new neighbors, Jared?"

"No, Pops. I was just being neighborly and offered some help."

Hank smiled. "How old is she and what does she look like? What's her name?"

"Pops, just because they have a teenage girl doesn't mean…"

"Her name?"

"Temperance. I don't know how old she is. She has auburn hair and big blue eyes."

"I'm sure she does. An overprotective father too, I reckon'"

"How'd you know, Pops?"

"Because if I had a granddaughter that pretty,I would be overprotective too. I was lucky, just having you boys."

Temperance was putting her room together. She had shelves, full of books. She thought this was going to be a better place. Mike knocked on the door. Temperance let him in and sat on her bed.

"You handled yourself well today, Temperance. I want you to remember that the male species has one thing on their mind. Do you know what I mean?" She nodded at her foster father. "You are a good girl. I want to keep you a good girl, do you understand?"She nodded again. He put his hand on her shoulder. "You have amazing gifts. They should not be given to those who are not worthy. Goodnight."

Mike left her room. Temperance had felt odd. She had a bad feeling. It was almost like when one of her other foster parents was about to slap her. She vowed from then on to try to keep Amy in the room with them at all times. She couldn't afford to lose Amy or this nice lifestyle.