A/N: My dear readers, subscribers, and all around lovely people: I am very sorry for the incredibly long wait for this next chapter. I will strive to keep from the long wait next time. I was in a bit of a rut and have been very busy. But now my ideas are ROLLING! Please please please review for me so I know how I'm doing after being out of the minds of these characters for so long! HAHA. I included the last portion of the last chapter so you can remember what was going on. If that's not enough, just go back a chapter and read up =) Hope the chapter is good enough to make up for the wait =) Enjoy.

-Alex

"What? They are! It's physically impossible to----" Booth grabbed her hand and pulled her in. He made her forget anything she was about to say. Moments drifted by as Booth softly kissed her. Booth was actually hoping that their friends would walk in right then so their passion could do all the talking. In fact, thirty minutes passed by very quickly as they talked. They had lost track of the time. A quiet knock at the door didn't phase either of them. The door slowly opened and Cam stepped into the room. She stopped stiff in her tracks immediately when she saw Booth and Brennan clearly in the middle of a very intense kiss. Hodgins and Angela reacted similarly as they froze directly behind Cam. Sweets merely walked in and beamed a giant smile. He had finally seen it. All those years of work and anticipation. He worked his way to the front of the blockage but Angela shoved him out of the way.

"OH MY GOSH. BREN, YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!?!?"

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Brennan and Booth quickly separated at the sound of Angela's loud declaration. Brennan blushed as she tried to give Angela eye contact. Angela took a few large steps towards Brennan and then stood with her hands firmly on her hips.

"You tell me EVERYTHING, Brennan!!"

"I guess I just forgot to tell you."

"No no no. You don't forget to tell me this kind of thing. You were hiding. And THE GIANT ROCK! I really really hate you right now."

"I see no giant rocks in this room, Ange. This is a hospital, I'd expect that they would keep any sort of rock out of the rooms. And if it eases your chemical imbalance, I didn't tell any---well, I told Sweets. But he's our therapist! He has to know---legally."

"Legal my butt. You are so in trouble with me for a VERY long time." Angela looked again at Brennan's ring and her look of anger immediately transformed into a wave of excitement.

"So I can't really be mad at you for too long. When is the wedding??!?!?"

"As soon as Booth and I are discharged tomorrow, we were thinking this coming weekend. But----well, we are going to need everybody's help to put it all together."

" THIS WEEKEND??? Dang right, you'll need our help! We'll make it happen, right guys??" Angela looked back at the still awestruck group of friends in the doorway. Hodgins and Sweets just shrugged and nodded agreeably while Cam stared with huge eyes at the far wall. Angela walked over to Cam and started waving her hand in front of Cam's eyes. Cam shook her head and looked at Angela.

"Yes, I will help. But you all are insane. I want you to know that. I thought you all were crazy already----now I think you're insane. Congratulations." She backed herself up to the wall and leaned against it as she folded her arms.

"So Brennan, you need to tell me everything about all of the----"

"Hey, guys, as much as I love that you're all willing to help and want to know everything right this very second, but I need to sleep so I can actually get out of here tomorrow." Booth sunk back into the hospital bed and tried to read everyone's expressions. Angela moved her head up and started to speak, "Yeah. Okay. Let's go people. Let the man sleep. We have a wedding to plan tomorrow." She walked over to Booth and kissed him on the forehead and then embraced the seated Brennan. The group had mostly left but Angela still waved Sweets out as if she were herding stubborn cattle. When the door closed, Booth released a heavy sigh. Brennan placed her hand on top of Booth's and intertwined their fingers tightly. He looked over at her and smiled tenderly.

"I love you so much, Bones." Her chest rose as she took in a quick breath and blushed.

"It's completely irrational, but it sometimes you take my breath away. It's one of the most unintelligent phrases I have ever heard, but----it's true. I love that you can make something------you make things true that I have never dreamed of. I have always been so afraid of the things that people talk about when they speak of love. The feelings that they talk about are frightening. To lose yourself like that in someone is-----unbelievable."

"Is it?? It is that unbelievable?" Booth sat up once more and looked into her deep blue eyes. She breathed in quickly again. Their eyes were completely focused on each other and nothing else existed in that moment. He swung his legs over the side of the bed so that he was facing her.

"Not at all." She said as their stare grew stronger. Booth reached out and placed his hand on her cheek. As she reached up to grab his hand, Booth smiled and ran his hand through her hair. He leaned forward at the same time as her and they rested on each others' forehead.

"I will love you forever." He said, stroking her cheek with his thumb. A small tear fell from Brennan's eye. Before she could bring up her hand to wipe it away, Booth did it for her.

"Bren, I'm going to sleep now. I'm going to need as much rest as I can if we are having a wedding in five days." She cooed a quiet "yeah" as she leaned back in her chair. Booth put his legs back on the bed and pulled the blankets over his tired and cold body. He was certainly thankful that the worst injury he had received was some broken ribs. He had experienced broken ribs on numerous occasions and it was not a big deal to him. The only thing he would really have to worry about was walking with the fractured shin. It didn't really hurt but he could only what it would feel like when he started walking on it. He had requested to not have it casted. The doctor disliked the request but conceded when Booth told him that he had a wedding soon. After ten minutes of reminiscing of the last few days, he drifted off to sleep at the sound of his fiancé typing on her laptop.

"Love is like a bird."

"What is it with me and wings lately??" She chuckled as she spoke out loud to herself before resuming her writing.

"It takes off and begins to fly a few feet about the ground. Sometimes it rises quickly and it climbs higher into the welcoming sky. And then, with no warning, the sky decides…"

What?? What has happened to me? The sky decides??? YEAH…okay. I'll go with it for now. People like that kind of personification anyway. UGH. Leave it, Temperance. Leave. It. Okay. It's still there.

"The sky decides that the bird is not welcome. The winds begin to blow the bird off its intended course and its wings begin to tire. It begins to feel as if it will loose all the altitude it had worked so hard to gain. But what the bird fails to realize is that another bird has joined it on this difficult journey. The other creature is floating below and is keeping the tiring bird from falling. This is love. I would like to dedicate this book to my husband…"

That feels really strange to write. Husband. But something in her liked it. Loved it. She had always scolded Booth for saying things like "My forensic anthropologist. My Squint. My. My. My. Anything possessive. But things had changed. She wanted to belong to him. He kept her flying. All this time, she had expect that this was some kind of trick that love was playing on her. She kept expecting her emotions to be crushed. But there he was, her bird. Constantly lifting her up. Catching her.

"I dedicate this book to my husband Seeley Joseph Booth. He is my bird. He has shown me what love is. He has held me up when I could not support myself. This book is not about the two characters you have come to love. It is about my partner and I and the amazing journeys and great adventures we have experienced in our five years together. I owe it to you, my audience to share a piece of myself with you.

To Seeley. My Best Friend and Partner. I love you forever.