Disclaimer: well its been said a thousand times before, now a thousand times again, I obviously do not own bones or any of the characters in this story. Heh we all wish we did though right?
It was the 24th of December, better yet known as Christmas Eve, and the Jeffersonian was finally closing for the next two days. The team had finished identifying the last of the remains that were shipped over a few days ago, and now it was time for the team to go and enjoy Christmas.
Caroline, as well as other higher authorities, had arranged for their whole lab to go to party on Christmas day. Nearly everyone was going, although many had no other choice. It was hard working at the Jeffersonian, so many over hours and when sudden mass murderer cases came up everyone had to cancel their plans and work on the case until it was finished no matter what the weather or event was.
Booth originally hadn't taken interest in this costume party since he was to have Parker for Christmas until yet again Rebecca called and explained that they were off on vacation again to another holiday resort her boyfriend had booked, and if it wasn't bad enough, they weren't coming back till late January, meaning a lonely Christmas and start to the new year for Booth.
Angela was in Brennan's office, trying to pry her off her laptop and out of those steel doors.
She had been too caught up in her research that the Christmas party had slipped her mind and now she had less than 24 hours to find an outfit. That was where Angela came in, and she wouldn't have found out Brennan was costume-less unless she didn't keep nagging at her all week to consider attending.
Brennan sighed and closed the lid of the laptop. She didn't really have much to look forward to, she didn't really have a family to spend Christmas with and the party seemed more nerve wracking than exciting since she came to terms with the fact that she was not particually one who was good at socialising.
Angela grabbed her best friends arm and started pulling her along as fast as she could with three inch heels on.
Booth was heading downstairs when he saw a distressed Brennan pacing rather quickly right behind Angela who still had a firm grip on her.
"Bones!" he called out to her and raised his arm as Brennan and Angela had over taken his pace fairly quickly.
"Uh cant talk now, see you tomorrow!" Brennan shouted and waved back at Booth, nearly tripping over her own two foot since she wasn't looking where she was going.
He shook his head and smiled at the dispersing scene of the two girls quarreling, then set off to go to the car park.
"Head over heels in love eh?" Angela remarked once they had lost sight of Booth. Brennan looked at her with a confused expression, then to only roll her eyes when Angela wiggled her eyebrows in a suggestive manner.
"I'll forget you said that" Brennan replied, yet with a faint smile on her face. The pair hopped into Angela's car and off they went down the high streets to find any local costume store that would be open on Christmas Eve. Fat chance.
However one brightly lit shop caught Angela's eye and the car suddenly swerved and parked carelessly upon the pavement. Brennan didn't like the look of the shop. It was a corner shop, looking a bit rough and tacky on the outside and considerably crammed on the inside.
But it was either this or no costume, and she knew Angela would not get back in that car without having bought her something to wear to this party that she desperately wanted to go to with her friends.
The pair walked into the shop, with a little chime from the bell above the door ringing to let the shop keeper at the back know that he finally had customers that night.
A five foot seven, middle aged man with black greasy hair scrambled from the back of the shop and had a massive toothy grin plastered on his face when he saw that he had two beautiful women to himself in his shop.
"How can I help you two lovelies at this fine hour eh?" He beamed. His grin just kept on getting wider and wider which showed off his numerous yellow and black teeth which were a disgusting sight to behold.
"My friend here needs a last minute outfit for a party tomorrow" Angela put her hands on Brennan's shoulders and pushed her forward, earning a sly grin from the man.
Without a word he went to the clothes rack labeled "Christmas gear" and pulled out three outfits.
The one on the far left was a reindeer costume, the middle was a long Mrs. Claus robe and the one on the far right was a reasonably length elf suit which came with fake stick on ears.
Angela raised one eyebrow and bit hard on the now flavourless gum she had been chewing for a long time.
"I'm thinking more along the lines of the middle one, but one that would accentuate her figure, not add 10 pounds and make her look granny-fied" Angela stated.
"Oh we have plenty of them" the greasy haired man winked and pulled out another three outfits matching Angela's description.
This time there was a shorter elf dress with more skirt to it, a female reindeer outfit which showed amounts of skin, and a red dress with white fur trimmings outlining the bust and bottom of the dress.
"Okay no to elves, Brennan dear that would just be an insult to you" Angela rambled on, making Brennan laugh. Angela was one with fashion and it was humorous to hear her opinion on bad fashion statements mainly because she took it so seriously and some of the things she comes out with in that mood just automatically make it funny.
"And the second one" Angela tutted, closing her eyes and shaking her head "You'd be more covered up wearing your underwear than that. Besides you want to leave a little mystery for the eye, unless that is Booth has a fetish for reindeers then be my guest" Angela earned a gasp from her best friend who was standing not too far away. She bit her lip in an attempt not to laugh at the poor woman who was trying desperately to gather her thoughts.
"But without any further adduce, we will be trying on the third one please" Angela grasped the outfit out of the mans hand and led Brennan to the tiny curtained changing room near the back of the shop. After a few minutes, the curtains opened to reveal Brennan in that very dress Angela had chosen. The dress wasn't even half way above her knees, but on Brennan it still looked a lot more modest than if anyone else were to wear it. The bottom of the dress was puffed out at the end so it gave her more of the look like a prom dress were to puff out, but this dress was a hell of a lot more shorter. The white furry material outlined the bust of the dress in a curve, pretty much like the top of a heart.
Angela had also grabbed a few extras off the shelf to add to the outfit. She made Brennan put on a pair of candy cane stockings that went up around three quarters of her legs, with medium sized bows. The leather boots she wore were red with white lacing, which went well with the stockings. She didn't want the boots to be too far up the leg since it would take away she shape the stockings gave to her legs, and it looked much better. Angela also made her wear red gloves that went up three quarters of her arm, with white fur at the rims which matched her dress.
The man was standing there gawking at her, and then attempted to make suggestive remarks.
"Okay okay nothing to see here" Angela raised her voice and frowned, stepping in front of his view so that Brennan could rush back into the changing room with whatever dignity she had left.
A few moments later, Brennan was back in her usual clothes and had the dress and other pieces in a bag which Angela grabbed and took to the counter. In a matter of seconds everything was paid for as a treat from Angela, and with a quick "thanks and bye", they were out of that shop and back in the car.
"Well that was mildly disturbing" Brennan frowned while fidgeting with the handles of the plastic bags.
"Ah it's always disturbing when considerably older people do that. But you wait until Booth sees you dressed like that, you looked smoking hot hun!" Angela teased knowing it made Brennan confused, although she couldn't understand why, I mean if she had Booth as her special FBI then they would have been married the guy by now, but Brennan was too oblivious to notice any interest he had ever showed in her.
There rest of the drive home was blessed by silence until the car halted outside Brennan's house.
"Here's your stop then sweetie" Angela got out of the car with Brennan and hugged her goodbye.
"Thanks Ange" Brennan smiled returning the hug.
"I'll pick you up at 1pm tomorrow okay? And whatever you do, don't let Booth see you before the party tomorrow" Angela broke the hug and patted Brennan on the shoulder before returning to the car and waving as she drove off.
Brennan took a deep breath in and walked up to her apartment when Angela's car was no longer in sight. Why do I have a feeling this 'party' is going to change everything? She thought as she fell back on her bed and let her body sink into the soft yet thick mattress that she had took for granted for so long.
Authors notes:
Ah I know a lot of people seem to be doing Christmas stories now.
I've had this in my mind for the past few days and I've only been interested in Bones fanfics since like 2 days ago.
I hope mine isn't too similar to anyone else's, I haven't had the chance to look at every Bones fanfics, there are so many!
I'm not very good at writing lots, so there will probably only be one more chapter, although I'll still be rattling my brains to come up with something good.