A/N:"Not mine!"
"Another case closed, good job everyone!" Cam said to the rest of the team, after a particularly tricky case that took them all week to figure out.
"It's Friday night, lets celebrate. Founding Fathers in an hour?" Angela said, when the glass doors from the lab suddenly opened. A security guard and a woman in her mid-twenties walked in. The woman yelled before anyone even noticed them
"Seel!"
Booth turned around at hearing this name and he immediately knew who it was. Angela, Cam, Hodgins, Sweets and Wendell all looked at the woman. But Bones looked at Booth and saw that he suddenly got al happy. When Booth saw the woman he ran down the platform towards her. Bones suddenly got angry, why was he happy seeing this woman? She crossed her arm defensively.
Booth reached the woman and gave her a quick hug. "Hey Charlie, what are you doing here?"
"Danny, is undercover somewhere in South-America and since I'm not officially FBI, I couldn't join him, so I decided to annoy my big brother." She said with a small voice. She hated it when she wasn't able to help her partner.
"Hey, come on. He'll be okay." Booth said with a reassuring smile.
"I know, I know. But he did ask me a question before he left." She said with a big smile on her face and showed him her left hand with a beautiful silver ring. It consisted of two small circles holding a bleu stone.
"You are getting married?" When she nodded he hugged her again and twirled her around.
They were interrupted by a little cough from Angela. The team hadn't heard the conversation and were quite anxious to know what was going on.
" Oh, sorry." Both Booth and Charlie said. Booth grabbed her arm and dragged her back up the platform.
"Hey, I'm Charlie, Seel's little sister." Charlie said while she looked at the rest of the team.
"How come your last name is den Hoven?" Hodgins asked. Everybody looked dumbfounded at Hodgins.
"Mr. Hodgins, didn't expect to see you here. But you're right, Seel is not my brother by blood, but he's my brother." Charlie said.
Now everybody was looking at Booth for an explanation.
"I served with her dad, and we used to hang out together a lot and we got close." Bones was still standing with her arms crossed.
"So she just turned in a little sister in my eyes." When hearing this Bones let her arms drop.
"So Seel, this is your squint squat?" Charlie asked.
"No it's Bones' and mine squint squat" Booth responded.
"Of course, I would kill Danny if he said our team was his, so let me guess. Of course I know Mr. Hodgins, but I assume that outside of the Cantilever group you are Dr. Hodgins?"
"Well yes." Hodgins replied. "But since your Booth's little sis, it's Jack or Hodgins."
"Okay so you must be Dr. Saroyan?" Charlie asked while looking at Cam.
"Yeah, but just call me Cam." Cam answered.
"Good," turning to Wendell she said: "You must be an intern, so I'm guessing Mr. Wendell?"
"That's right." Wendell responded.
"Then you must be Dr. Sweets, good job by the way keeping Seel sitting long enough to actually get something relevant out of him." She smiled.
"Yes, well they don't always complete every session though." He said shyly.
"If you even managed to get him to sit through one whole session in these two years it's good." She said and turned to Angela.
"Then you must be Angela Montenegro, I really want to see some of your art work, Seel says that it's amazing."
"We can arrange that sweetie, and it's Ange or Angie." She said.
"Thank you." She turned to Bones and said: "You must be his Bones. I should probably call you Dr, Brennan. Good job in keeping him in line. I also enjoyed you paper on carbon from the latest issue from Anthropology Journal."
"Thank you and… His Bones?" Bones responded while looking at Booth, his grin dropped from his face. The others started to smile.
"Yeah ehm, it's you know…" Booth had no idea how to explain this, Charlie had no idea that she had said something wrong because he had called her his Bones on the phone so many times.
"Of course Dr. Brennan, I mean you are his partner and his friend right?" Charlie asked.
"Yes, but..."
Charlie didn't let her finish, because if she did she would never be able to explain it well enough so that the literal Doc. would understand it.
"Seel calls you his Bones over the phone so I don't get confused between the actual bones and you." This seemed to calm her down. Charlie smiled at Booth who gave her a grateful nod.
"So, now all the pleasantries are over I say we go celebrate. Founding Fathers in twenty minutes? Charlie are you coming along?" Angela said.
"Yeah I would love to. If you guys don't mind. I did kind of drop in." Charlie responded.
"Of course we don't mind, you're welcome to join us, another case closed." Hodgins said.
"So how do you know Hodgins?" Booth asked sitting at a table with all the Squints.
"Booth, I own three hotels with casinos, another three ordinary hotels and some other stuff that I can't keep track of, the Cantilever group is a big business group that has his roots in many sorts of business."
"You own three hotels with casinos? Wow!" Angela said.
"Yes" Charlie said wanting to change the subject. "But tell me how did you get from an artist to working at the Jeffersonian?"
Before Angela could respond, Bones got up and said: "I've to go to the bathroom."
"Okay sweetie." Angela said and then she started to explain how she wanted to be an artist and how she got to work at the Jeffersonian. Bones still wasn't back when she was finished.
"I'll go check on Bones for a second." Booth said and he got up.
"Okay." Charlie said waiting for him to turn the corner and turned back to the team.
"So okay guys listen up. I know that Seel is in love with his partner, and I saw her glare at me when he hugged me so I'm pretty sure she feels the same way about him. So I'm going to need some help from you guys in getting them to admit their feelings."
"Sure." Hodgins, Wendell and Cam agreed. "If you take the blame when it blows up." They all looked at Angela who had been quiet after Charlie's statement. She looked like she was thinking real hard.
"Ange, come on I thought you would be jumping up and down." Hodgins said.
"Yeah," Angela said looking at Charlie.
"But you seemed down when Booth explained that you guys were like brother and sister. Are you sure you want to, you know..."
"Angela, don't worry. That wasn't the reason I was down. It had to do with my past and the fact that my partner is away." Angela still looked doubtful, Booth and Bones were getting so good at hiding their feelings and Charlie did had a few extra years experience with Booth.
"Here look at this." Charlie grabbed her wallet and took out a picture of a tall man in his late-twenties with blonde hair and tanned skin. This is my partner and fiancé. Believe me, Seel is not my type." She said.
"Okay I'm in" Angela said.
"Before they come back. I need to go shopping tomorrow, I don't bring clothes to holidays I just buy them with a new friend I found along the way. I would have loved to go with either of you." She said and looked at Angela and Cam.
"But I need it to be Dr. Brennan. She'll never accept if I just asked her so you to have to pretend that you can't come along, and maybe even push her to go. The rest I still need to figure out."
"Okay." They all said.
Booth knocked on the bathroom door. "Bones are you in there?"
"Booth, I'm okay, I'll be right out." Bones replied.
Booth waited a minute but she still didn't come out. "Bones are you alone?"
"Yeah Booth, why?" Bones asked trough the door.
"Okay I'm coming in" Booth said walking in the bathroom and he immediately saw Bones leaning against the sink with her eyes closed.
"Hey what's going on?" He asked walking towards her and putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Nothing I'm fine. Just go back to the rest I'll be right out okay?"
"No, come on Bones, what's wrong?" Booth asked again.
"I'm just, I don't know real tired I guess." Bones said with a small voice, she didn't like to show weakness, but Booth always made her feel safe, she could let her guard down with him. She didn't understand why Booth made her feel this way.
"Bones, next time listen to me when I say you've got to get some sleep. Even if we are on a case." He stepped even closer and put his arms around her in a tight hug.
"Tell you what, were going to get Charlie and I'll bring you home, okay?"
"Okay." She said. When he let her go he grabbed here hand and they walked out of the bathroom, getting a weird stare from one of the ladies that just went into the bathroom.
"Why did she look so weird, like we did something wrong?"
Sometimes she could be so clueless. "Bones, we just got out of the ladies room together."
"I still don't understand." Bones said.
"Never mind." He said when they arrived at the table.
"Hey Dr. Brennan, I was wondering, I need to buy some clothes because I didn't bring them, I already asked Cam and Ange but they can't come with me. I really need someone to shop with me. It's a tradition of mine."
"I don't know. I've a lot of work to do." She responded.
"Oh come on Dr. Brennan, as an anthropologist you have to see the value of a tradition, the paperwork for this case have to wait anyway because Parker is with Seel this weekend."
"I don't know" Bones said.
Charlie looked with pleading eyes to Booth to see if he could help.
"Bones, go shopping and have a fun day at the mall, you can come back and have dinner with me, Parker and Charlie and when Parker is in bed we can do some paperwork.
"Dr. Brennan, those bones in Limbo can wait another day." Cam said.
"We're all free tomorrow, so we can't help with the cases sweetie, just go and have fun." Angela said.
"Okay, I'll come but we're going to do that paperwork tomorrow Booth." Bones said pointing at Booth.
"No sudden movies that I have to see."
"Okay fine Bones, Charlie lets go, I'm tired and I need my energy for my day with Parker." Booth said.
Charlie got up and said goodbye to everyone and followed Booth and Bones. They were still holding hands. Bones looked up at Booth smiling a silent 'Thank you' for not telling the rest that she wanted to go. Charlie grabbed her phone and took a quick picture of the two of them. She turned around quickly to give the team thumbs up and a plan was forming in her head.
A/N: Okay so this is the beginning! Please revIEw!