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Relationship status: Set in the future – probably about 20 years from now.

"Bones!" Booth rushed across the hall and enveloped his former partner in a giant hug. "I'm so glad you could come! How was Russia?"

Brennan returned the hug, obviously glad to be home. She had been on the dig for six months, and as much as she loved ancient remains, she had to admit that it was good to be back in D.C.

Booth finally released his grip and they pulled apart, grinning at each other.

"Of course I'm here, Booth. I may not believe that marriage is necessary, but I recognize that it is an important moment in Parker's life. Traditionally, marriage is one of the …"

Booth cut her off, slinging his arm around her shoulder. "No anthropology today, Bones. Come over and say hi to Amanda before the wedding starts."

After exchanging pleasantries with Booth's wife, Brennan slid into the pew beside Cam. She watched the ceremony, admitting to herself that there was beauty in the solemn ritual. Parker stood beside his new bride, bursting with pride.

While the bridal party was having pictures taken, Brennan had the chance to reconnect with her former colleagues. Angela had been the first to leave the Jeffersonian, moving to New Mexico with her boyfriend. A couple of years later, Brennan had quit to devote herself to an academic career. Once Booth had moved on to a new job, she had lost her love for field work. She liked interacting with students, and she loved being able to devote herself to authenticating remains and participating in digs.

While they waited for the reception to start, the old Jeffersonian team swapped stories of jobs, adventures, and their lives. Brennan met Cam's boyfriend and Hodgins's wife. They talked about the cases they had worked, Hodgins and Zach's experiments, and Angela's antics at the Jeffersonian's annual Christmas party. Cam filled Brennan in on Wendell's work as the senior forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian.

The reception started, and the group moved to a table. Once the formalities were over, Booth and Amanda came over to join them. Soon the table was crowded with the former Jeffersonian team and their dates as well as Booth, Amanda, Jared, his date, Rebecca and her husband. The conversation centered around their history as a crime-fighting team. Those who hadn't been there were anxious to hear the stories, although Rebecca was heard to say "I'm glad I didn't know how dangerous your job was at the time, Seeley."

At one point, talk turned to a trip Booth and Brennan had taken to talk to the family of one of their victims. It had only been a couple of hours away, but on the way back, it had started snowing. Road conditions had gotten worse and worse until they hit a patch of ice and ended up in a ditch. They had called for help, but due to the weather, no one was able to reach them until morning. Luckily, the vehicle had been properly stocked with sleeping bags, food, and candles, so they had spent the rest of the day huddled in their sleeping bags playing a game of Uno that Parker had left behind on his last visit.

Booth commented, "And that's the day I found out that Bones cheats at cards."

Brennan was indignant. "I do not cheat, Booth. I won, fair and square."

Booth shook his head. "Now, now, Bones, the rules clearly state that when you have one card left, you have to yell 'uno'. You didn't do that."

Brennan rolled her eyes. "Booth, the rules also state that if another player – i.e. you – notices that someone put down their second last card without saying 'uno', the caught player has to pick up two more cards. I wasn't cheating, you were merely inattentive."

Booth grinned at her. "Bones, if you had said 'uno', I would have known that you were almost out of cards, and I would have changed the color so that you wouldn't have been able to win."

Brennan grinned back, enjoying their argument. "Booth, that's ridiculous. You didn't know what color the card I still had was, so there's no way you could have effectively changed to a color I didn't have. The facts show that I won – and you lost."

Cam, feeling like she had traveled back in time twenty years, broke into the conversation. "OK you two, that's enough. We all heard plenty about that card game when you got back from that trip."

Booth smiled at her. "Sorry, Cam, we got carried away."

With that, he turned to his wife and pulled her off onto the dance floor.

Jared looked at Brennan, who was watching Booth dance with his wife. "You know, Tempe, I always thought you and Seeley would get together."

She turned her attention back to him, smiling as she said, "You know, Jared, we considered it, but we decided the chances of such different people making it work were too low, and we didn't want to lose what we had."

Angela leaned across the table. "You considered it? I didn't know that."

Brennan nodded. "Yes. It was a long time ago, Ange. We talked about whether we wanted to give a romantic relationship a try. I'm glad we didn't. Booth and I are so different – he's religious, I'm not, he wanted more kids, I didn't, we disagree on everything. We wouldn't have made it as a couple, and I would have lost my best friend – other than you, of course."

Angela commented, "But he didn't have more kids."

Brennan shook her head. "No, he didn't – but it wasn't because I was holding him back." She glanced over at the dancing couple. "He's happier with Amanda than he would have been with a wife who kept running off to go dig up bones – and I'm happier running off to dig up bones than I would have been trying to fit into the mold of a perfect wife."

Cam looked over at her. "It's not really the happy ending we wanted, way back when."

Brennan picked up her glass of wine, taking a sip as she said, "No, but it's our happy ending."

Viola? Version?