CHRISTMAS EVE DAY:

For most of the day all of the team mebers spent there free time working on their secret santa gifts. Everyone tried to figure out whose secret santa they were, but as always they got nowhere. To avoid disclosing early who their secret santa was, each person set themselves up in differents or areas of the lab and vowed not to see or talk to one another until they have finished their gifts and had safely hidden them until tommorow. No one had offically finished their secret santa activity until around 7:00. By then most of team was getting hungry and some of them were so happy about Christmas coming it was making them hyper. Angela, like last year, was able to creat a virtual Christmas tree on the Angelanator and put all kinds of pretty decerations on it for Christmas Day. Brennan walked in just as Angela was finishing up the tree.

"What do ya think Tempe? I tried to do just a jazzy as I did it last year..."

"It looks great Ange. Booth heated us all up some food and hot chocolate. We're going to play a Christmas game and they wanted me to come and get you."

"Okay, I'll be there in a just moment"

"fine"

Booth hands Brennan her hot chocolate and then sits down between her and Cam. Angela walks in and grabs a seat between Zack and Hodgins. Cam then begins to talk about the game they are going to being playing.

"Okay everyone, here's the game and I found this in the employees lounge so I'm not making it up. On the table I have a deck of colored cards there are 4 different colors of cards. Each color stands for what type of question you will be asked. You'll read the question out loud and then answer you may have only 1 helper so we can choose teams if you guys want or randomly pick someone whenever okay?"

Everyone nods at Cam

"Excellent. By the way all of these questions are holiday related, so Reds are Holiday Triva, Green is Personal, Blue is traditions, Yellow is a wild card where you pick someone and they ask you a question of their choice but it must be holiday related."

To determine who goes first they all draw numbers. Zack is the first to go he draws a blue card.

"The Christmas season is full of traditions that orignated from several countries such as Germany, England, France, etc. From which country or culture did the Christmas tree come from? That one is easy Germany, the german word for tree or in this case christmas tree is tannebaum which is where we get the carol O Tannebaum from."

"That's right Zack" Cam says. The next person is Brennan she draws a yellow card. "Lucky me" she thinks to herself.

"I pick Hodgins to ask me a question."

"Oh boy this oughta be fun..."

"Remember Hodgins it must be holiday related and it can be about any holiday" Cam notes.

"Well since it can be any holiday of the year...ummmm Dr. Brennan when you were little did you ever go trick-or-treating and if so what was your favorite costume?"

"Wait isn't that 2 questions?"

"Nope I said 'and if so..' to make one big thing HA HA HA so give us an answer.."

"Yes, I did used to go trick or treating. My favorite costume I would have to say would be the year I dressed up as Wendy from Peter Pan. I was about 6 and I remember some how talking Russ into being Peter Pan. I had my hair pulled up into a short curly pony tail. I was wearing a blue nightgown and Russ had a green outfit on and tights. I remember laughing at him, but it was fun. That was back in the days though before my family ran out on me."

"Bones it's Christmas, for once put your pain and bad stuff behind and have some fun..."

"Sure Booth anyway it's your turn..."

Booth draws a red card.

"Let's see what have we got here. Holdiay triva...In the classic movie Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer he and his pals land on a mysterious island. What is the name of that island? Oh god me and Parker watched that last week. That would be the Island of Misfit Toys. 'WE'RE ON THE ISLAND OF MISIFIT TOYS HERE WE DON'T WANT TO STAY...'"

"Okay Booth you're done" Brennan says slapping him, getting him to shut up.

"Alright, alright already...ah Hodgins go on buddy it's your turn" Booth tells him as he slaps him on the back. Hodgins draws a green card.

"If you could spend Christmas with anyone of your deceased family members or friends who would it be? Jesus, what kind of a question is that? (he pauses a moment) Well honestly I do miss Christmas with my Grandma on my mom's side. When I was little we would visit her in West Virigna for Christmas and sometimes New Year. She would make Grandpa go out and get the biggest and prettiest tree there was out in the woods behind their house. Then she'd decorate it with ornaments, tinsel and pretty bows. Then she would read me stories about Santa before I went to bed so I could sleep through the night without waking up every 2 minutes. When she died when I was 14, I thought was going to die myself. I miss Christmas with her and I just flat out miss her period."

Hodgins starts to get a little treary. Angela, who sitting next to him wipes off his tears.

"Thanks Ange, I'll be fine, go ahead it's your turn anyway."

Angela picks up a blue card.

"In France they have a tradition of burning a Yule log on Christmas Eve and making wishes on it. While we often call this just a yule log, in France what is the proper name for a yule log at Christmas? Okay yeah that's a problem i don't speak French, and I don't know anything about France except that's where I ordered some fabulous wine for New Years Eve last year. Brennan can you help me? Don't you speak French?"

"Yes Ange, I do. Do you know what the French word for Christmas is?"

"Noel, that's the one thing I do know."

"That's part of the name. The real name is Buche de Noel. They also make Buche de Noel as cake both here and in France as anyone had any?"

Cam pipes up "I have there's this great French Cafe in New York and they make Buche de Noel for the holiday it's good if made right."

Angela replies "Yeah, I didn't know that next I get a date they're taking me to a french resteraunt."

"Then they'd better be a rich date. Cam go on it's your turn." Brennan says.

Came picks up a red card.

"Who is Good King Wenceslas? How the hell would I know!!!! Okay a little help anyone? Zack how about you?"

"I know who he is... he was the Duke of Bohemia who was murdered in 929 AD. The song talks about him and his life his strong manner and so on."

"yes well, I guess you learn something new everyday."

The game continued on and on until everyone got so sleepy they started acting silly and a little hyper. Almost has if they were each drunk. It was just a little before midnight when they each got into bed. But althrough night at different time they each snuk into Angeka office to leave the gifts under the tree. By the time 5:00 rolled around what used to be an empty space around the virtual tree was now filled with gifts galore just waiting to be opened by the receviers.