Russ was back in her life for a couple months. It felt pretty great. She couldn't help but say "my brother" as often as possible; she even turned down a dig in order to spend time with him. But he left, again, along with her father, again.
So she is back to being bitter about Christmas. What is the point? There is none. She searches vehemently for a good dig to go on in order to avoid the holiday. She doesn't want to have Angela pester her about getting into the holiday spirit and she knows that Booth will be extremely stubborn in his attempts to get her to do something festive.
"Bones! What are you doing for Christmas?" He asked her enthusiastically just the week before. She told him she was leaving for a dig in three days. He looks slightly dejected, she can determine this because for some reason he is the only person she is able to read at all. He corrals her into coming to see the special Christmas lights near the Washington Monument with him and his son. She tells him that she only agreed in order to stop him from bothering her before she leaves. In actuality she felt a little thrill in being asked to do something with him for Christmas.
The little boy whom she has only met on a few occasions since the previous Christmas is so excited to be with his father to see the lights that she can't help but get excited too. She tries not to let it show, she wants to keep up her façade of logical determinism against the holiday, but she knows from Booth's smile that he can see through it. On any other occasion she would be worried that he able to see through her wall, but she decides, in the spirit of the holiday that she won't worry about it.
She leaves for the dig a couple day s later, but while she works tirelessly during the day in the hot sun, she falls asleep thinking of the special Christmas lights near the Washington Monument and Booth with Parker wearing identical grins.
