WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY TIME

CHAPTER 1:

Seeley sat at his desk trying to relax after interrogating a suspect who thankfully confessed and saved them a lot of trouble.

He clicked on his mail, and opened up a new email from Cadence Booth, his baby sister. It was a mass email sent out to ten people. It read:

Hey all,

So the time has come, the annual Booth Family camping trip. We are heading out in two weeks. Mom and Dad are heading out on Thursday morning to set everything up and everyone else is free to show up whenever but no later than Friday night! We're camping at the Beiderbecke Reservation. Set up carpools if you need to. No excuses! See you all then!

With Lots of Love,

Cadence

Seeley smiled his sister had always been the one to set up family gathering she was a lot better at the organization thing than anyone else in the family. He was disrupted by his phone ringing, "Booth"

"Hey big brother" A voice said one the other end

"Cadence. How are you baby sister?" He asked, it had been almost two weeks since he spoke to her they had both been so busy lately.

"Pretty good. I see that you read the email I sent."

"I have." He replied, wondering where this way going she knew he would be there; he never missed a camping trip.

"Well I just wanted to tell you that Logan is bringing his new girlfriend, Paige."

"Yeah? I didn't know he was seeing anyone." He was actually shocked by that, Logan had never brought a girl home to his parents and definitely not invited any of his bimbos on a camping trip with the family

"She's sweet, you'll like her. They've been dating for about four months now. But that's not why I'm calling; I wanted to extend an invitation to your co-workers. You spend so much time with them and the family wants to meet your best selling novelist lady friend." Her tone was slight teasing.

"I don't know, they will probably all be busy."

"Seel! Just ask them, it will be so much fun really. You won't regret it!" Her voice was becoming stern and he knew what was coming next, "Don't make me call Cam and get their emails." Ah there it was, he knew his sister so well.

"Fine. I'll take care of it now."

"Good, let me know who all is coming so I can pack some extra tents if necessary." Cadence's voice lifted, she was happy to have the opportunity to meet them all. But Seeley had to admit he was nervous about them meeting his father, after everything that had come to light about his childhood. "Seel" He had almost forgotten she was there, "Stop worrying about it, things will go just fine. I promise"

And he took comfort in that.

After his conversation with his sister he made his way to the lab to get this over with. He went to Bones' office first and was surprised to see everyone there. "Hey, we were about to call you man." Jack addressed him first "We're getting some sushi, wanna join?"

"Yeah that sounds good." Booth decided to jump into this quickly and get it over with, "I actually have an invitation to send your way, my family is having a camping trip in two weeks and they would all like to meet you guys so if you're up for a little roughing it outdoors you're more than welcome to join."

Angela and Jack immediately agreed, "We haven't been camping in so long," Angela stated.

Cam declined, "Tell you're family hi for me, but they know camping is not my thing."

Booth smiled and agreed, "No problem."

"Sweets?" He asked the boy psychologist.

"I've never been camping but I would like to give it a try." So Sweets had agreed now there was only one person left.

He looked at Bones. "So?"

"I don't know, we shouldn't intrude on your family time, Booth," She said

"Trust me, a whole weekend with my family is not considered intrusion by any means, plus my mom had been dying to meet you she loves your novels." He saw her hesitation, "Come on Bones please! As a favor."

"Come on sweetie, we're all going" Angela chimed in.

"Not all of us, Cam isn't going." She objected, Seeley would never admit it but part of him felt rejected when she so vehemently refused to do social things with him, even though he knew her rationality was the true culprit.

"Hey I don't like this sort of thing, you do Dr. Brennan. You should go the Booth's are a great bunch." Cam offered

Bones looked into his big pleading brown eyes and couldn't find a way to resist. "Fine." Angela smiled and cheered her friend. That was going to be a long weekend.

Booth reached for his phone and dialed a number on his speed dial, "Hello." Cadence's voice came from the other end; he could tell she was driving.

"You do know talking on the phone while driving is illegal, right?"

"What do you want Seeley?" She asked her big brother with a light voice.

"We're going to have four more people joining us," He informed her.

"Really? That's great! I'll have everything set up. Let me know when you guys are going to be heading in? No later than Friday night Seeley!" She warned him.

"We'll see you then."

"Ok , don't forget my nephew, and it better not be two weeks until I talk to you again."

"Sure. Love you." He waited for her response and then hung up. "Everything's set."

Angela looked between Booth and Bones before turning to Jack and Sweets, "Oh this is going to be very, very interesting." There was a slight hint of craftiness in her voice. Two weeks could not come soon enough.

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A/N: So tell me what you think, Bones is going to meet the Booth family!