Chapter 2: Ghost of Valentine's Past Part 1

"Oh, it was just a dream. I got to get some sleep if I'm having dreams like that." Brennan said as she got up to go to bed.

All of the sudden the clock struck 12 o'clock. Brennan looked around, nothing happened. 5 seconds later as she was just getting into her bed, her bedroom window flew open. And there was standing…Angela? Yes there was an angelic looking Angela, complete with a white dress, wings and a halo, oh and there was a wand.

"OH MY GOSH ANGELA, you scared me!" Temperance yelled at her old friend.

"I am not Angela; I am the Ghost of Valentines Past. Come." Angela said walking back towards the window.

"Wait, Angela, where are you going? Out the window?" Temperance said worrying for her friend's physical and mental health.

"Yes now if you trust me, grab my hand and we will go see what life was like when you were a child and you loved the world, your life and everyone in it."

"What, I love my life, I am a very accomplished author and forensic anthropologist. I have Angela, and Booth." Brennan was interrupted.

"Yes but how many other friends do you have out of work? How often do you go on a date? When was the last time you went out clubbing? This is back when you loved and were loved, outside of school, when you had a boyfriend, and didn't hide your feelings in your work." Angela explained and held her hand out for Brennan to take it. Brennan thought for a moment and then took her hand. The second she did her and Angela went soaring into the past.


They landed in front of the Keenan house all those years ago back when there was no Temperance Brennan, only Joy Keenan.

"Let's observe your first Valentines Day Joy." Angela said to Brennan.

"My name is Temperance; I don't ever remember being called Joy."

"Oh but there are many people who remember it very well, and right now we are in the time when you were called Joy, not Temperance, Brennan, or Bones." Angela told her.

Brennan sighed has she turned to look inside. "Now what are we looking at again?"

"You're first Valentines Day." Angela said again.

They looked in and there was everyone packing to get out of the house. Then there was Joy giggling, holding her hands out for someone to play. Then when they passed her to go outside with all the boxes she started to cry because no one wanted to play.

"Russ go play with your sister." Temperance's mom told Russ. When Russ didn't say anything because he still wasn't used to being called Russ, but Kyle, his real name. "RUSS! Don't ignore me." Kyle turned to face his mother.

"Sorry mommy, I forgot my name." Kyle told his mother.

"It's ok honey, I just can't call you Kyle anymore, and you have to start calling Joy, Temperance." His mother explained to him.

"Alright mommy." Russ went to go play with Temperance.

Meanwhile outside Brennan was full on waterworks. "Why didn't they ever tell me?!"

"They didn't tell you to protect you. You were little you didn't understand. By the time you were old enough to understand, you would have gotten mad, and ironically not understand. So they kept to from you, to help you, you don't know how much. Come we have seen enough here, let us go to a different Valentines."


Brennan took her hand and they were at the Brennan house that she remembered the one that held so many horrible memories for her.

"Which Valentines is this?" Brennan asked.

"Your first one as a Brennan." Angela said. They turned to look inside the window. Inside was a normal family, with a librarian mother, a science teacher father, a 5 year old boy and a 1 year old girl. They were all dressed in pink and red sitting in front of the TV and fireplace, watching Charlie Brown's Valentine's Day. Brennan walked into her house to look at her family. A normal family, she hadn't remembered her family as normal, she lived so long with a totally odd family, with people who abandoned her, and there she was smuched in the middle of her mother and brother, probably thinking 'This is a family that will keep me safe, nothing can go wrong here.' Then she looked at her mother's ears, they were pink diamond earrings, and the shape was a…dolphin? Yes that's what it was, a dolphin, her mother's signature animal. Wait a minute she felt her ears, they were the same earrings she had on at that moment, when her mother had left she raided her jewelry box, and closet for memories.

Soon it ended. They got up to go to bed. "No mommy don't go!" Brennan shouted. Her mother heard her alright but it wasn't herself, it was the one year old her.

"Oh my gosh come her Matthew, Temperance just said mommy!" Her mother yelled to her father.

Her father came running "What?! Come on Temperance say it again for Daddy."

"Daddy." Brennan yelled, hoping this time for her father to hear her.

"Oh my gosh her second word! Daddy! Yeah, Temperance!" Her dad turned tossed her up into the air and then caught her, then started to spin her in circles.

"NO! NO! It wasn't her it was me your daughter!" Brennan began to yell, but no one heard her, they were too excited at Temperance's first words. Once again Brennan began to cry. "IT WAS ME!" She kept yelling at them.

"Come sweetie let's go." Angela came up and told her.

"NO they have to listen to me!" Brennan kept yelling.

"They can't hear you hunny, let's go." Brennan finally gave in and took her hand.


They hadn't moved, but everything else had, it was a during the day now. All of the sudden a little Temperance burst through the doors, extremely happy, and yet again she was dresses head to toe in hearts, red and pink. From the looks of it she had just gotten home from school. 10 years old Russ had heard come home called out "MARCO!"

The 6 years old Temperance called back "POLO!"

"So Tempe what has you so happy? Russ asked.

"Well for one I got a 100 on my spelling test, but that doesn't matter right now. The real reason I'm happy is Griffin kissed me today."

"Which one is Griffin, the really tall and fat one?"

"Yeah, but he's cute, and he makes me laugh so I like him."

"Well alrighty then, when is the wedding then?"

"Wedding? What are you talking about Russ?" Tempe asked has she walked towards her room and Brennan and Russ followed.

"Well they say the first person you kiss is the person you marry."

"What I don't believe that, I believe that you have to search to find your true love." Tempe said as a matter of factly.

"Whatever you say Tempe, whatever you say."

"You know I actually believed him?" Brennan asked Angela.

"Really?"

"Yeah, I always thought that my big brother was right, no matter what anyone said, he was right. That was before he left though; I won't believe anything he ever says anymore. Funny how much things have changed, huh?

"Let's go to another Valentines Temperance."

"Okay let's go." Brennan said confidently.


Brennan grabbed her hand and all of he sudden they were at her middle school.

"OH MY GOSH! It's me and Lauren, my best friend from before I can remember, I remember once she told me that if I ever wanted her parents would adopt me. They never did, oh but the fun we would have. I remember once we were talking on the phone and she told me she was bored, I told her to shake her maraca and she told me she didn't have a maraca, I told her to shake her imaginary maraca, she told me it was stupid. So the next day I brought her in a maraca. That was in I think 8th grade, we had so many inside jokes, but I bet she has forgotten all about them. I bet she has forgotten all about me."

"I don't think she has. When we get back to the present look her up and call her, I bet she will remember you." Angela told her.

"Oh, here is a good part." Brennan said referring to her and Lauren talking and a boy with blonde curly hair coming up behind them. All of the sudden the boy poked Temperance's back. She spazed, then turned around and gave the boy a kiss.

"I was such a spaz when I was little. But that boy was my first real boyfriend, Chris McClelland, his lips were so soft, I can sometimes when I go to sleep feel his lips on mine still. But I loved him. Our families were great friends; he had an older brother that was Russ's age his name was Peter, and an older sister that was 2 years older than Russ, her name was Catherine. And the best part was they were from New Zealand and they had the best accent, I once told Chris that, that turned me on, but it just made me laugh, so since it 'turned me on' he would talk with his accent when he wanted a kiss. And I would always give it to him" Brennan recalled.

Chris and Tempe kept talking, when Chris handed Tempe a velvet box. Tempe opened it, inside was a diamond heart necklace. Tempe layed a big one on Chris's lips. Brennan began to explain. "He got that for me with his own hard earned cash, and we were in 8th grade. He really loved me, I really loved him, but it turned out his parents were criminals along with my parents, his real name was Logan Jacobs. Peter was Ryan, and Catherine was Megan. Chris and I had no idea; he still goes by Chris as I go by Temperance. But, Peter, and Catherine, they both knew. Why didn't Catherine tell us? She was my mentor, she gave me flute lessons, from 5th to 8th grade, and then she went to college. Around that time their parents left too, but Peter, he stayed and took care of Chris, that's why he didn't have to go to one foster care after another like I did." Brennan told Angela on the verge of tears.

"Come on Brennan, time to go."

"Home?" Brennan asked hopefully.

"No, to yet another, Valentines Day."


A/N: Hola it's me again obviously, but there is going to be another chapter with Christmas past. Rockerbaby423 was the first person to review so I used her name in the chapter, if you're the first person to guess right your name will be featured in the next chapter. Also some of these experinces are from me. My first teenage crush was on a bout named Chris, who had an older brother and sister named Peter and Catherine. Ryan and Megan are 2 friends of mine. That thing with the maracas happened to me and my friends over im. Griffin was my first 'boyfriend.' And I used to believe everything my brother said, then I siad no one day to something he said our relationship went down the tube. Now pretty please with Booth, Hodgins and Zach on top review.