The Marriage

By Meekerprincess9778

Ch 10

They woke up the next morning to Jared pounding on the door. "Hey Seeley, some guy is returning your call. Get up and talk to the dude." Booth got up and opened the door. Jared handed him the cordless phone, but also tried to sneak a peek at Brennan. She instantly covered herself more with a blanket.

"Get out of here, you pervert." Brennan yelled at him. Jared shut the door.

Booth started talking on the phone. Brennan was nervous at first. She didn't want him to be called away by the army before they could get married. Booth was smiling throughout the whole conversation. This couldn't be the army. It had to be a friend. Her nervousness went away.

"Bones that was my friend, Teddy on the phone. He is driving with his girlfriend to come to our wedding. We went to basic training together. They were talking about putting us both in the Rangers. If they accept us, he will be my spotter. He's driving from Virginia. He should be here in a couple of hours."Booth was excited. Teddy was only eighteen, but he was his best friend in the army. Teddy looked up to him, kind of like Jared used to.

"Do you think he will like me, Booth?" Brennan wasn't used to letting her insecurities show. She said she would try to be better. She told herself Booth was safe.

Booth smiled at her. He didn't know how anyone could look at her and not be just totally awestruck. "He's gonna love you, Bones, just like I do."

Brennan was shocked. Those words were almost as foreign to her as the latest movie. "You love me?"

Booth hadn't realized he never really said it to her before. Sure, they had this arrangement where he was marrying her. Sure, they kissed whenever they could. They were starting to open up about all the bad things in their lives. He was so stupid; he never actually told her those words. "Of course I love you. I don't just marry people on a whim."

"It felt like a whim."

"Nope, there was definitely no whim. They were going to take you away. I suddenly felt like I could never breathe again. If that's not love, I don't know what is. So maybe I am saving money by never having properly dated you. But I definitely love you. Teddy will like you. We are getting married. All is right with the world."He started kissing her. Two days would never get here soon enough.

Jared walked in on the two of them kissing. "Wow, that is a beautiful nightgown, Tempe." Booth looked at his brother in anger. "Hey, Pops needed the phone back." Jared grabbed the phone and ran out of the room.

"I did warn you about the nightgowns, didn't I?"

"How was I to know your brother would have a liking to my sleepwear?"

"It's not so much the sleepwear, but what is underneath it. How much he can see. I swear, Bones, you are really trying to work me up." Brennan started laughing. "What's so funny?"

"If this works you up, I wonder what Angela and I bought is going to do to you?"She kissed him again.

They heard Hank calling from down the steps. Not all was understood. The point was made, it was time to get out of the bedroom. The two dressed in separate rooms, which Brennan thought was stupid. Booth said he was too much of a gentleman to look, so she couldn't look either. She just thought that just removed temptation from him. She wanted to tell him that she loved him, too. She just couldn't yet. He didn't push her. He didn't ask her. She thought that was strange.

Jared called up the steps this time. "Aunt Ruth and Frannie are here."

Brennan came out of the bathroom. "You have more family? Do I look okay?"

Booth thought she looked gorgeous. "Bones, I wouldn't change a thing about you, inside or out. Don't be nervous."They went downstairs to find his aunt and her partner. That is what they called each other in front of Pops.

"Seeley, look at you! I haven't seen you since you graduated high school!"A tall woman with big brown eyes and that Booth smile said.

"Bones, this is my Aunt Ruth and her partner, Aunt Frannie. Ladies, this is Bones, I mean Tempe."

"Hello," Bones said, shyly. She was greeted with big hugs and smiles.

All of a sudden Brennan didn't know how to feel. She was relieved that they already seemed to like her. However, she was getting a little claustrophobic. She wasn't that much of a touchy-feely person.

"Okay, you two….tell us everything."Frannie demanded while taking a sip of her coffee.

Brennan looked at Booth. "What did you want to know?"

"Silly, we want to know how you two fell in love."Ruth answered.

"Oh, that's easy," Jared answered for them."She started tutoring me, for some reason didn't want to kiss me, her foster dad went bezerk, and Seeley proposed."

"Jared, I don't think that is an accurate assessment."Hank was upset with Jared. He was always more mouthy than Seeley.

"Speaking of, Jared, did you do the question for science and geometry?"Brennan was trying to deflect from the cold way he described what happened.

"Yes, but I didn't understand it all. I know you guys have been busy. Maybe I will ask that kid, Zach."Jared responded. He really made an ass of himself.

"I don't think Zach will mind. I appreciate you being nicer to him."

"You're welcome, Tempe. I am sorry I have been a jerk."

"It happens, Jared. Keep it up and I might have to actually hurt you when I flip you next time."

Hank tried to deflect again. "Waffles?"

Booth told a more endearing version of how they met. How when she was going to get taken away, he literally couldn't breathe. The aunts were back on the loving Tempe kick. Of course, it didn't take much. They knew not to put much stock into what Jared says. They both could see he was jealous of his older brother.

The aunts had decided to take Brennan to the spa with them. They were getting facials, manicures and pedicures. They insisted as a wedding present to their new niece. She could see that the two women really loved each other. She was surprised how open everything was. She knew from a lot of anthropology journals that homosexuality was shunned, especially among the religious. However, she knew Hank's home to be nothing but a loving one, so in a way, it did not surprise her. Evidence said that these people were better than the stereotype. She was marrying into a loving family. She was going to be a part of a loving family again. She was happy that Booth's aunts had taken to her. They had all laughed throughout the whole afternoon.