Hey Peeps!!! Sorry it's taken me so long to update this story. My account on the Bones webpage, where I originally type the chapters, hasn't been working so I had to go for plan B. Anyway at last here is the next chapter of the story. I'm not sure when I'll be able to put the next one up but please be patient with me, again my sincerest apologies and Happy be-lated New year!!!!!!!!!!

CHRISTMAS DAY:

Everybody was still sound asleep by the time 8:30 rolled around. Everyone found it a little hard to sleep at first last night. Each one of them was thinking of their family and friends and christmas without them, especially Hodgins. He hadn't realized until yesterday how much he missed grandma. Angela was the first to wake up sat up from her sleeping bag and then Brennan's eyes started to open.

"I'm sorry sweetie did I wake you?"

"Yeah but I'm glad you did. I was having a dream about Russ and Dad...again."

"Again?"

"Yeah that's the 3rd dream this month."

Angela and Brennan go to get breakfast from the emergency food pack, but were stunned when they found the breakfast stuff gone. Cam came down as well only a few moments later and asked what was wrong. Angela and Brennan began explaining the situation when Booth came up and interupted them.

"Good Morning ladies, Merry Christmas!!!, I don't mean to break up the little chit chat here but the guys and I have something for you ladies in the employee lounge..."

The girls follow Booth into the employee lounge to find Zack and Hodgins dressed as elves and then Booth walked into a room and came back out dressed as Santa.

"Awwww aren't you guys sweet" all three of the girls said.

While Ange and Cam go and look around, Booth come Closer to Brennan and whispers to her "Merry Christmas Bones" and she kisses him on the cheek (Cam does not see this happening.) Zack, Hodgins, and Booth then brought the girls out their food served on trays they found in the lounge. After a wonderful breakfast, which the guys cooked and without burning anything, they all head to Angela office to check out the tree and open the gifts. Angela turns the lights on and then the tree lights up and glows. Everyone comments on how beautiful the tree looks and then goes towards the tree to find the gifts.

"Let the secret Santa begin!!!!!" Angela says to everyone.

Cam was the first to start the secret Santa.

"Okay my secret was Angela. So here's your present Ange, Merry Christmas"

"Thank You Cam"

Angela takes her gift and unwraps it to find a beautiful landscape picture.

"Oh Thank you Cam.."

"Ange was is that?" Brennan asks her best friend.

"Ever since Cam got here I notice this beautiful ocean picture in her office. I asked her where she got it and said it was a gift to her. I searched everyone for a replica but couldn't find one."

"You know why?...(Angela shakes her and says nothing)...Because that pictures was one of my works of art in college."

"You did art?"

"I've always loved art and took it as a side class in college, I just never told anyone how interested in art I am until now."

Angela hugs Cam and says thank you once more. Ange goes over to the present from her and hands it to Booth.

"I'm your secret Santa Booth Merry Christmas!!!"

Booth opens his large present and is amazed by what Angela made him. She drew a picture of the whole team including Booth and it says "The Squintz Team" on the bottom and the rest of the picture has borders that looks like Bones.

"Sweet this awesome Ange, I'll put this my office if we ever get out of here."

Booth sets his gift aside and then starts talking to Hodgins.

"Hodgins buddy, do me a favor and get that blue gift over there on the right cause it's your from me. Merry Christmas bud!!!!"

Hodgins grabs a blue gift that is irregularly shaped.

"God man what is in this?"

"Well why don't you open it instead of trying to figure out what it is."

"Oh man this cool this absolutelty awesome!!!"

"What did you get Jack?" Angela asks him.

"A slime crystal ball!!!!! With bugs and slime in it that's cool man. How did you do that?"

"I bought two things of that mars mud slime for Parker and thought I'd instead use one tub to make your gift since your the bug man. Then I found some old lab jars and dead bugs in the window to fill the jars up with in the slime."

"That's sweet dude thanks a lot"

They share a guy hand shake and hug moment. Then Hodgins goes over to the tree to get Zack's present.

"Merry Christmas Zack, I was your secret Santa..here ya go bud.."

Zack takes his gift and then opens it. It a collection of 5 CDs with music on it from an unknown but favorite Band of Zack's.. The Tarlaminos."

"Wow this amazing, I've searched everywhere for their music but couldn't find it, how did you? where did you? I mean this is there enitre musical collected works.."

"A good friend of mine in Europe has every single song of there's on CD. He e-mailed me downloads and copies to my computer here at the lab because mine at home crashed. That's why I stayed late last week, to burn the CDs without Zack being here. Dr. Brennan I know that's against policy."

"Hodgins it's Christmas I'll make an exception this time but don't make it a habit."

"Ah, speaking of Dr. Brennan you're my Secret Santa, Merry Christmas!!!"

"Oh my gosh Zack thanks!!!"

Brennan opens her gift to find an amazing gift. It is a glass picture frame made from old broken lab glasses and containers. The frame is divided into several section each section with a picture of the team and Booth and then Brennan is in the middle of the frame.

"It's beautiful Zack thank you."

"I took glass constructing classes in High School and got good at. it appears from your reaction I've still got the touch."

"Yes you do and so much more. Thank You Zack."

She hugs her grad student and then goes by the tree to retrieve the last gift and it's for Cam from Brennan.

"I'm your Secret Santa Cam, Merry Christmas, I hope you like your gift."

"I'm sure I will Dr. Brennan thank you"

Cam opens her present and finds an NYC figure. It has the tallest bulidings on it from New York and also as Cam's name personalized on the edge.

"It's beautiful Dr. Brennan but how did you get this?"

"I have tons of these at home and a few here at the lab, so I grabbed one and then engraved your name on it, so now you can have a part of NYC here with you."

"It's wonderful Dr. Brennan thank you"

They both hug and then suddenly a knock knock knock interupts the moment. Everyone gets silent and then Booth hears a very fant "hello anyone in here?" Immediately everyone rushes to the front entrance to find a resuce worker of some sort.

"Hey I'm from the DC resuce team our systems in the helicopter detected presence in the building and we decide to check it out, you people been snowed in here this whole time?"

They all nod.

"Is everyone okay?"

"Couldn't be better, now that you're here can we go home have you plowed us out?"

"We can get you all home I need to send for more choppers but I'd say you will all definetly be home for Christmas."

They all hug each other and start jumping up and down for Christmas like a bunch of kids. As soon as the other choppers arrive they all says their final goodbyes and thank you's then head off, except for Booth and Brennan. Brennan had something she wanted to ask Booth before he left.

"Booth?"

"Yeah Bones"

"Do you remember what you said eariler about me spending Christmas with you and Parker?"

"Yeah, you still wanna?"

"If it's not any trouble..I mean I could always..."

"Bones get your coat our chopper's here"

She goes to her office to shut everything up and grab her stuff. Five minutes later they are up in the air and on their way to Booth apartment where Parker is with a neighbor of Booth's.