Chapter 2

As per usual I put all notes at the end.

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"Honestly Bones, I just wanted a nice quiet Christmas together." Booth picks up the empty plate in front of Bones and replaced it with a full plate of Christmas cookies that was beside him.

Taking a elf cookie off the plate with one hand, and rubbing her ever expanding tummy with the other she sighed before she answered "Booth, this is an important cause. You're the one who said the important thing was that we spent our first Christmas together, and you didn't specify where and doing what, even though I tried to get that out of you several times. This seemed like a great cause and..."

"Ok Ok I get it. It's just..." Booth's voice trailed off as he leaned back in the chair and looked like he was debating if the curtain behind him could be used to hide behind as he noticed another elderly couple coming up with book in hand.

Brenan chuckled in spite of herself as she watched him "Why don't you see if you can find me some butterscotch ice cream?"

Booth jumped up, seeing a way for him to do something useful for the woman he loved and they're soon to be child. Bones claimed that every time she ate ice cream the baby kicked, something that Booth loved to feel. He had spent over an hour keeping his cheek to her stomach while she ate a whole container. He laughed out loud at the memory of getting a tiny foot to the nose.

Going into the other arena, he growled a little as the clowns were at this point mixed up with the children making balloon animals and all over the room. There were a few people in suits looking and laughing at the children's artwork in the back table. He heard that they were giving children ice cream and looked all around the room, 'Oh crap I wish I brought my gun. Why did it have to be clowns?"

"You look lost Mr. Brennan." A female in a lab coat marked 'Dr. Eleanor Bartowski' walked up to him with a smile that could melt the polar icecaps."

"Actually it's Booth. Dr. Brennan and marriage, well lets not go there. You can call me Seeley Dr. Bartowski, Bones, err Dr. Brennan was wondering if she could get some ice cream. Pregenacy – you're a doctor and a woman so you probably understand this unending craving thing that's been going on lately "

She laughed, "Ellie, and that's no problem. We are just glad that you and she came out this way and doing this for us. Most people have family obligations, and the kids get so depressed during Christmas Eve that this sort of evolved over the years. A few years ago we went one step further and turned it into a fundraiser as well."

While they were talking, the made their way to the side door. "Right through there Seeley, and just ask anyone. Any problems, I'm just beside the auction table all night."

He thanked her and went through right into the face of someone that he never wanted to see again.

"Well hello handsome, I hear you finally went pagan on me."

"Carina, what are doing here?" Booth whispered and he grabbed her by the elbow and brought her over away from what must be the area for the performers to wait in. One thing for sure, whenever Carina Miller of the DEA showed up, two things always happened, one she would try to get into his pants, and two whatever operation she was involved in always ended up totally messed up due to her improve.

"Now Seeley" Carina purred in his ear "I'm a radio personality now, 'Moaning in the Morning.' Check out my podcast honey."

"You expect me to buy th..." Booth was suddenly silenced as Carina grabbed both hands and kissed him, moaning all the way. When they broke Booth stumbled back, he subconsciously reached for the gun he didn't bring. Carina waved and then giggled as she pointed to the mistletoe above his head "Later Silly Seeley, remember we will always have Maine?''

"Maine, nothing happened in Maine, Carina." Booth stopped as Carina then seemed to be undressing him with her eyes, licking her lips at what he thought was all the wrong places for her to be looking at,.

"Well you were drinking back then. Too bad you are off the market, or we could have some fun tonight Seeley, of course two or three, it makes no difference to me." Then seeing the horrified look on his face she got serious "Seeley, seriously I left the DEA not long after Maine, not a good break but I got an offer to come to LA and I started a new life. Tonight is to get good PR for Ellie, nothing more. Now introduce me to your new hot lady. What is she - screamer or moaner?"

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Chuck went over and slammed the laptop closed with enough force that both of his parents quickly turned.

"Charles –oh" Stephen started then noticed that his sun was redder than Santa's cap.

Mary hit some keys and watched something then went spoke softly and quickly into her comm "Sarah, Can you show me that again?, Stephen would absolutely lo..."

"Oh CRAP MOM! TMI! TMI! T M I!"
"MARY!"

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Sarah chuckled and simply did a thumbs up towards the camera, and seemed to whisper "Later" then walked over to the bar and got two glasses of wine since she noticed that the line up in front of Castle's table was clear for the first time tonight.. She noticed Morgan was already headed over to the table, attending to the duties that Chuck asked him to do. Of course Chuck then secretly asked her to make sure he did not mess up.

"Mr. Castle, Detective Beckett, I am Charles Carmichael. Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet earlier. We are having a small get together after the show and I am hoping both of you are going to be there."

Sarah came up behind Morgan and Castle took the wine from her and became all smiles. "Rick, and I can't speak for my partner here, but by publisher Gina would kill me if I did not say I would be happy to Mr. Carmichael, and I don't think we've been introduced." He reached over then kissed Sarah's ringless hand.

"Sarah Bartowski, Mr. Castle, a pleasure to meet you." Sarah turned her megawatt smile.

"Bartowski- any relation to Dr. Bartowski" Beckett asked, a little too quickly for her liking and reached out to shake Sarah's hand, making sure to knock Castle's hand away from the blonde Skank.

"Yes, Ellie is my sister in law."

"Ummmm Morgan did Sarah just say what I thought she said?" Morgan heard the desperate plea over his earpiece.

Morgan smiled and felt his phone vibrate so he excused himself.

"Hey buddy, I thought you were going to pop the questions tonight? Don't tell me I missed it, I had the cameras set up all over the house to preserve this moment for years to come." Morgan whispered into the phone.

"I am, I was, I … wait…Morgan - camera's what cameras, I wanted a private night alone with her and it looks like she…"

"Gotta go buddy, no worries" Morgan hung up and made his way over to the other table.

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Beckett grabbed Castle's ear and forced him to look away at he retreating blonde skank and look back at her.

"APPLES! APPLES! APPLES!" Castle whispered loudly.

"YOU insisted that I come here to LA when I would have been perfectly content to stay home, but no you had to keep at me to come, and then you got Martha and Alexis to twist my arm, then Gina suddenly offered to pay all my expenses, which I still suspect you put her up to, since I refused your offer, but I do not have to sit here wiping the drool up off the floor as you watch that blonde airhead saunter away, you had better call your Mother and ask for a reminder in how to treat a woman during the 'most wonderful time of the year' got it!."

She let go after turning him to the approaching elderly couple that was shuffling over from the other table.

"I'm going for a walk Castle, make sure you mop up the place before I get back."

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Morgan said goodbye to Agent Booth as Sarah and 'Bones' as Booth called her, made their way to 'freshen their makeup'.

Entering Sarah saw Beckett at the mirror. It did not take a spy to know when someone is completely in love. The icy feeling she got when Beckett noticed her made her pause. Normally, her training would have had her leave; after all, a little bit of jealousy can be useful tool in an agent's belt sometimes. But having Chuck rub against her several wonderful, mind blowing ways in the last few days, she decided that maybe, especially at Christmas she could handle this more like her man would – show the detective that she was no threat to her. She went over and pretended to check her ear ring, and turned off her earpiece just because she knew Chuck would not approve of what she had in mind.

"Detective Beckett can we talk for a moment?" Sarah stared straight into the mirror as lipstick suddenly appeared in her hand.

"Mrs. Bartowski, I should be getting back to Castle." She quickly turned to leave.

"He's only a red blooded male, and I was, lets say 'trained' to grab men's attention, and at fundraisers like this is the only time I use those tricks to help raise money, nothing else."

Beckett stopped in her tracks, however she refused to turned to her. "I have no idea what you mean Mrs. Bartowski. If Rick wants to oogle a tall blonde than who am I to tell him not to. I am not his wife, I'm his partner at the NYPD."

"It's Sarah, Detective, and you know exactly what you want. I saw those looks. Chuck and I was partners too, and it took way too long to bring down those walls he had up. Only difference between us I suppose was that Chuck was acting more like you and I was more like, Mr. Castle. I never let Chuck forget that I was in love with him from the first moment we met. Oh I could spend hours telling you stories of what I did to convince him to go out with me, and I would say I was more subtle than your writer, however I read 'Naked Heat', page 105, WOW!"

Sarah noticed Beckett's strappless dress was now contrasted with deep red shoulders. She went over and stood in front of Becket before she continued.

"Chuck still tells me that I am adorably psychotic at times because of how I feel about him I tend to want to be aggressive in showing him. But your Rick wrote not one but three bestselling love letters to you.

Sarah took a tissue from the stand beside the sink and passed it to Kate.

"It was a hard battle for me and Chuck, we both loved each other, and if I told you why it was so hard, I will probably have to kill you."

That got a giggle out of Kate "I think I can take you" and they both smiled.

Beckett just stood there staring at this person that she thought of as a dyed blonde skank with a dress that was stolen off one of Alexis dolls that Castle can't bear to throw out no more then 10 minutes ago. Kate could not help but wonder if Sarah knew she would end up here crying; hoping that Rick would look at her that way he looked at her? After all Lanie and her spent hours looking for a dress that would make Castle's eyes bug out of his head. Kate took a look at Sarah, as she would anyone that she had in for questioning. No where did she see deception. Her gut was telling her that Sarah really did believe everything that she said. She thought that Castle was her one and done.

"I can also contest to such a experience" The stall door behind her opened and the other author waddled over to the sink to wash up.

"Booth and I felt something for each other for years, but it was not until we had a, well lets say a very emotional event occur, that we got together and let our feelings out. It was sudden, unexpected and honestly I felt more loved than I ever felt in my life. And well you can see the result." She smiled and just looked down rubbing her tummy.

"Looking back everyone told us we would be perfect together, and even though perfect would not be the most exact term I would use, the fact that I now can't even imagine going back to the way things were, I just feel empty. Truly the test of one's love seems to be how scared you are in the relationship. In my personally experience I found that love can mess with logic and make it seem all that scarier because you can't see what everyone else seems to. Looking back it my best friend Angela told me flat out that Booth was my love, but the brains self defense mechanism seemed not to let me process it until I was ready to accept the reality of the situation."

Kate looked at these two women, and for some strange reason she could not understand, felt at ease with them. Something that never happened unless Lanie or Alexis was around, and even then it was not an instant thing, it took a while to get there.

Sarah looked at Temperance and they both started to smile, they too both had that same kindered feeling when they met so they walked up and took each of Kate's arms and marched out the door.

"I realize that my increased appetite is due to the life growing inside be, but right now it seems to be wanting Ice cream with sprinkles, would you two like to join me and we can further our discussion?" Bones asked.

"I'm more of an Orange-Orange girl, and there's one in the main lobby." Sarah snickered suddenly.

"Excellent idea, they have those little marshmallows, and yogurt is very good for several key digestive systems." Bones added

"Hope they have coffee flavored?" Kate rolled her eyes and let the others drag her away.

Kate suspected none of them would ever admit that they giggled all the way to the yogurt shop.

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A/N

Seemed like a good place to end this.

Forgot to mention this, but I own nothing in the CHUCK, BONES or CASTLE universes.

I'm going to put in HUGE thanks to BDaddyDL and PJ Murphy for their input. If you are on twitter and not following these two, really you are missing out on some really good tweets.

To be fair, I fiddled when it got back, so any mistakes would be totlly mine, and not a result of BDaddyDL who checked it.

I am not nearly up on the Castle and Bones interactions as I probably should be, so I've been reading some of their fics and going to some wife of mine who is more up on Bones than I am and she made several suggestions, all of which all I said was 'YES DEAR'

This is becoming harder than I thought, but I think I can wrap it up in about five chapters, but no way will it be done for New Years, probably closer to the 9th.

Chapter three has been beta'ed but I have to re-adjust some of the interactions, I guess I really did not get Seeley anywhere close.

Finally, this holiday season, I was suppose to have much more time off than I actually had, but those that left a review, I will reply to them by the end of the day today.

Oh and as per usual, if you could spend a second and review everything you read on the site, the authors really do appricate even the ones that say "oh crap" (at least I do)

JC