The End

In the end what made them each happy was the exact opposite of what they always thought they needed. A scientist who lived her life for hard evidence found happiness by having faith in a good man and a gambler who lived his life on faith found contentment in a woman who provided him hard evidence of her love.

Booth closed the book and looked at his wife and daughter cuddled on the sofa across from him. They had fallen asleep while he was reading the final chapter of Sweets book to them for the tenth time this month. Ever since Angela and Avalon brought that manuscript to their house Christine had claimed it as her favorite story in the whole wide world. In truth, it was his favorite story too.

They really had taken the long way to happy. Sitting down and reading it on paper he couldn't believe how they had both been so blind for so long.

When his 20 something year old self offered marriage to Rebecca he thought he was taking a step towards the life he wanted. When she said no, he never really considered that his requirement of a perfect marriage was part of the problem. After he received a second rejection to marriage from Hannah (although it was the third major rejection in his life from a woman) he started to wonder if it was him.

What he hadn't realized until later was that the problem was not him as a person, all of the women who said no still regarded him as a wonderful man. His problem was the extremely narrow parameters he set to experience that great happiness.

Sitting there looking at the woman who finally gave him the life he thought he always needed, he realized his parameters had changed.

All he really needed to make it to happy was her all along.