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The next day was a Saturday and Tempe and Angela decided to go look for some small gifts to get for their secret santas. They were supposed to give 4-5 small things anonymously then something larger when they were revealed. Mrs. Montenegro agreed to take them to the mall. Tempe usually hated malls, but today she had a mission: find Booth the perfect gift. It had to show she cared without being to obvious. First she thought of something sports related but he had enough of that stuff. They had been walking up and down the isles of the toy store, when she saw a book called How to Be an FBI Agent.
"Well that's convenient" she thought. She looked into her bratz purse and saw the $20 left from her birthday money in August. The price tag was steep $18.99.
"Do I really want to spend all my birthday money on a gift for someone else?" she asked herself. Then she remembered the look in booths eyes. "Yes, yes I do"
She picked up the book to go show Angela. Angela showed her the kiddy Chemistry set she got for Zach and Mrs. Montenegro helped them check out and wrap their gifts at home. For the rest of the week, Tempe and Angela made and bought small gifts to give hints to the big one. By the time thanksgiving came around, they could hardly keep their mouth's shut around the guys and had to keep stepping on each others feet to keep from yelling out what they had gotten them.
After stuffing themselves full of the Hodgins cooks turkey and stuffing, they all sat in the playroom while the adults talked. Zach was absolutely glowing. He was excited to spend his first holiday as part of a real family. Soon after dessert they curled up in blankets and drifted off to sleep. Their parents decided not to wake them and Mrs. Hodgins said they could stay the night if they wanted to. Tempe woke up for a few minutes and remembered where she was. She looked over and saw Angela wrapped up in one blanket on top of a giant cushion. Zach and Jack were curled up next to each other wrapped in a king size quilt. Booth was on the other side of Angela on another cushion. He had one blanket tangled around his legs, and another one wrapped around his torso and arms. Tempe smiled and snuggled back into the cocoon of blankets and pillows she gathered earlier. She fell asleep dreaming of turkey and stuffing and blueberry crumb cake and birds with Booth and Angela's faces. Jack was a fox and Zach was a baby skunk. The cutest thing in the world but with a stink to kill. The next morning everyone woke up and Tempe told them all about her dream. Booth was a little put out that she had made him a bird, but they all had a good laugh about it.
One the second day back from break Tempe found a set of markers and a pad of drawing paper in her cubby and wondered who her secret santa could be. She looked over at Booth who was unwrapping a pair of fake handcuffs sort of like the ones he already had except these were made of metal instead of plastic. His eyes grew big and he ran over Jack to show him. Then he ran over to Tempe.
"Look Tempe, someone knew exactly what to get me!"
She pretended to be surprised but she was really thinking,
"You better like them; I spent $8.00 on them."
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A few weeks later everyone had a stash of snacks and candy and presents in their cubbies. Today was the day everyone would find out who their secret santa was. When the teachers gave the word, everybody rushed to their cubbies to get their presents. Tempe walked up to booth and held out her present. His eyes grew wide and he began to laugh but stopped quickly when he saw the hurt look in her eyes. He then held out his present to her. She understood and began laughing along with him. Then they both unwrapped their gifts. Booth jumped up and gave Tempe a quick hug when he saw what she had gotten him. Tempe slowly unwrapped the layers of tissue paper wondering what it could be. When she finally got through all the layers, she pulled out a hat. A hat that said FBI on the brim. Booth's FBI hat. She stood speechless for a few seconds until Booth snapped her out of it by saying,
"Well what are you waiting for? The second coming of Christ?"
"What?" she asked giving him a strange look.
"I don't know my mom says it. Just put the hat on!!" he said laughing.
Slowly she did. And she never wanted to take it off again.
Did anyone catch my jab at Booth being catholic and Tempe (being atheist) not getting the Christ joke
