Author's Note: I adore BONES. I think that the relationship between Brenin and Booth is brilliant to say the least and I was squealing when they had their kiss in season 5 but I was really dissapointed that they backed off and I was even more frustrated when all they did is give each other a handshake at the end of the season. Now, while I doubt that there is going to be any progress in their relationship during the course of season 6, this is my take of what COULD happen.
DISCLAIMER: These characters don't belong to me. I'm borrowing them.
They said that they would meet a year to the day. For her, it was a year doing the work that had captured her heart in the first place and for him it was a year doing the work that made his country proud. They were about as far apart as they could get, and yet they knew that the other was close by, counting down the days.
She had gotten to their meeting spot first, always the punctual one, always the one who planned a head. The logic, the mind, the science; that was her part in the relationship…she was too afraid to begin anything a year ago but sitting there Temperance Brenin knew that if the opportunity presented itself once again she would most defiantly choose a different path. She didn't know if her partner Seely Booth would feel the same, but she really hoped that he would.
Somewhere in the distance the clock struck three and Temperance took one look around. There, some feet away was her Seely, still in his army fatigues, leaning on a cane. She had heard that he had had to go out into the field and that he had been injured. By all accounts he was fine, but the sight of him standing there brought all those feelings of worry back to her.
Quicker than lightning she was standing and then running to him. He just stood there in shock as she launched herself at him, instantly wrapping her arms around his neck—breathing out a sigh of relief when he embraced her back with just as much enthusiasm. He mumbled something into her hair and she had to pull back. "What?" she asked.
"Marry me," he repeated, searching her eyes for some sign of acceptance.
"Booth—"
"—I know," Seely interrupted. "But I lived a year without you Bones. It was a VERY long year and I…" he paused and brushed a stray hair out of her eye. "…I don't want to go through that again."
"But marriage," Temperance stated with a gulp. "That requires a courtship and—"
"I love you," Seely admitted. "I always have and I always will and I know that you love me too."
Temperance paused and searched his face; she wanted to bring up the flaw in his logic. She wanted to question how he could possibly know that; how he could possibly think that after a year anything had changed. But in her heart she knew that he was right. She did love him and she was more than prepared to marry him because in that long year in the tropics she had learned something. She didn't want to live without him either.
And so a year to the day from that year to the day, Temperance Brenin and Seely Booth were married and while they didn't necessarily live happily ever after—they did live and that, after all is the most important thing.