I've decided that I'm tired of writing the upsetting angsty fics that the last few episodes have generated so I decided to write something happier. It's set in the future and is a happy ending so hopefully I bring a smile to your face and make you forget what the shows actual writers are doing to us right now, if only for a moment.

There still not mine I'm just playing with them.


I'm Still that Guy

"Come here" She tugged on my arm gently.

"Where are we going Bones?" I asked her quizzically. We were in the middle of an investigation, and I had been tossing around theories to her as we walked to the Diner from the Hoover. But it didn't seem like she was paying any attention, instead she was focused on getting me to go in the opposite direction of lunch.

"You'll see. Just come with me." She smiled a little mischievously and extended her hand waiting for me to take it. Which I did, she automatically laced her fingers between mine. And then picked up on my theory that I had just been floating as if she hadn't changed our direction at all.

We walked for a couple of minutes talking about possibilities for the case when she turned into a store. I lost all coherent thought for a moment, it was a jewelry store, and all I could think that there were thousands of glittering stones, I mean thousands. Being taken into a store by a woman that doesn't really enjoy wearing glittering stones as jewelry, who normally wears more quirky earthy things, was taking me out of my element. "Bones what are you doing?" I hissed into her ear as she bent over a case examining a collection of rings.

She stood up looking at me with a smile, "Shopping Booth what does it look like I'm doing?" She went back to looking the rings.

"It looks like you're ring shopping Bones."

She didn't look up again at me she just nodded examining a ring and asking the sales person if she could see it. "I am. Go look around, see if there's anything you like." I stared at her for a minute before wondering away to go look at one case in particular.

I'd been to this particular jewelry store at least three times in the last two months to look at this one particular. It was the ring that kept drawing me back to this particular store. The band was platinum with two sapphires with a diamond in-between, not completely flat yet it wouldn't catch on her gloves. There was just something about this ring was perfect, for her but I hadn't bought it. It was outside of my price point at this time, and well there was no point to buying a ring for someone that didn't want to get married anyway.

I looked down at this particular ring trying to puzzle out if I'd told anyone at the lab about this ring. I didn't think I had, I remembered telling Parker at some point, but Bones hadn't spent any time with him in a while because conflicting schedules.

I was broken out my revere when she slipped her arm through mine and rested her chin on my shoulder. "Can we see that one, a size seven please?" She politely told the sales person who quickly opened the drawer and pulled one out setting it on the velvet cloth. She released my arm and slipped the ring on to her left hand ring finger. "It's beautiful." She admired it for a moment at a distance. "What do you think, Booth?" She looked at me patiently.

I closed my mouth, she was wearing a ring on her ring finger, "It's gorgeous Bones," I slipped my arm around her waist, and then whispered in her ear, "What are you doing Bones?"

She didn't answer me though she looked at her hand one more time before looking back at the sales man, "Does this have a matching band that will go with it?" He nodded. "Then it's perfect."

She pulled the ring off her finger and handed it back to him. "I'll take it. Can you put it in a box please?" Then she opened her purse and pulled out her wallet patiently waiting for him to ring it up.

I squeezed her waist, "Bones what are you doing?" I asked nearly panicking. She handed him her credit card.

"I'm buying a ring Booth, what does it look like?" She signed the slip for him.

"I can see that, why are you buying a ring?" She straightened up and took the box walking out of the store.

I caught up with her on the sidewalk as she fumbled to pull her sunglasses out of her purse while holding the jewelry box.

"Bones what was that all about?" I demanded.

Sliding her glasses on and she looked at me. "You tell me," She handed the ring box to me. "Come on lets go get some lunch I'm starving."

I looked at the box and back at her walking down the street ahead of me. I'd figure it out later, whatever it was that just happened, and I just jogged to catch up with her.

The box sat in my pocket everyday for two weeks. At work I would pull it out and look at the box occasionally opening it looking at the ring, remembering how it looked at her hand smiling to myself.

One day Cam happened to walk in when I had the box open. "Ah so that's the elusive ring box."

"What! How do you know about that?" I exclaimed.

"Well Angela helped her orchestrate it, which is probably why you haven't given it back to her yet because you're trying to figure out what she was doing. And well, Angela can't keep her mouth shut so now the whole lab is waiting for her to come in wearing that ring." She had a wide smile on her face now. "She's getting annoyed with everyone making excuses to get close enough to look at her hands. You should probably get on it Booth."

"Did you come here for some particular reason Cam? Or was it just to bug me." I asked a little bit annoyed.

"That would be the reason: Angela would like you to get your ass in gear and just ask her already. Brennan is starting to think that you didn't want to ask her, and that when Parker told her that you'd been ring shopping multiple times that he'd miss understood."

"Wait Parker told her?"

"Yeah apparently Parker called her that Monday before she dragged you to the store. He said that he was tired of seeing you on the jewelry store website and he just wanted you to ask her." She told me settling into the chair across from me.

I leaned forward flicking the box shut. "That kid." I shook my head, "What would I do without him."

I stood pulling on my jacket and sliding the box into my pocket. "Do you think you can get everyone to the Lincoln memorial at around seven?" I rounded the desk, "Have them doing something nonchalant, possibly with daffodils… yeah daffodils." I was almost out the door when I remember, "Oh can someone call Max and Russ."

"Um sure… it's not like I have a lab to run or anything?"

"Thanks Cam you're the best." I left her sitting in my office as I left to call Becca and Parker's school.

"Bones!!!!!!!!!!" I let Parker run into Bones office ahead of me knowing that she wouldn't able resist him and then I would be able to get her out of the office ahead of everyone else.

"Parker what are you doing here? I didn't know that we had you tonight?" she spun round to hug him before standing up.

"Change of plans." I told her from the doorway.

"Well it's a nice surprise." She walked over to me kissing me gently. "Well what's the plan?"

Parker piped in just in time, "I don't have school tomorrow so Dad was thinking that we could go out to get burgers and then go see a movie or something."

"That sounds wonderful. Just let me pack" up she smiled.

"No problem, I just need to talk to Cam really quick, you got Parker."

"We'll be fine." She nodded powering down her computer. I left them to go check with Cam before meeting them back at the lab doors. Parker was appropriately rattling on about what he'd been doing in science and how science club was much cooler, that and what exactly he wanted on his burger she was smiling and laughing.

"Let's go." I clapped my hands together sending Parker on his way. She waited for me, "You look very pretty in that skirt Bones." I kissed her and took her hand as we followed after the annoyed 12 year old.

An hour and a half later, we pulled up in front of the Lincoln Memorial. "Booth this isn't exactly the movie theater."

"I know." I shrugged at Parker took off up the stairs to the memorial. "Booth what's going on?"

"You'll see." I expected her to fight with me on it but instead she just shrugged and slipped her arm through mine.

The sun was setting, causing the monument to glow the white marble reflecting the light. I could just make out the collection of squints, including most of the techs from the lab, trying to pretend that they were looking and weren't actually all holding flowers.

We got about half way up the memorial I stopped spin turning to look at her. This was everyone's cue to look come down toward us holding the flowers.

"You Bones are possibly the most surprising, frustrating, wonderful women of my life. And yet I love you so much. I told you years ago that I knew. I still know. I still know that I'm that guy. I'm that guy that knew when we first met that we were meant to be together, and we would be together for the next thirty, forty, and fifty years. We've had quite a few obstacles along the way but we're still here, we're still together though. And you went and did something I never thought you would ever do: you dragged me into a jewelry store."

She had a slightly confused smile on her face, "Booth, I love you too, but what's going on?"

I pulled out the box and knelt down on the ground. "Bones will you marry me?" Flipping open the box and I waited for her answer.

But of course, my Bones doesn't do anything in the traditional manner. "Why do you think I bought the ring Booth?"

"So that's a yes?"

She nodded pulling me up. "That's a yes." And then she kissed me as everyone burst into apologized.

I slipped the ring on her hand when she pulled back. "One question…" I nodded "Did it have to be so public?"

"You're the one that told Angela who told everyone else. They all work with us so it's no one you don't know." I told her, "Besides you gave me the ring it was up to me to do it how I wanted to ask."

"You're lucky I love you." She smiled turning to accept the thousands of daffodils everyone had for her. "What are we going to do with all these flowers?" She sighed exasperated.

See isn't that just a happy ending. I actually saw a guy propose on the Jefferson Memorial last week.

All right you know the drill let me know what you thought, particularly if you appreciated removing yourself from the current episodes only for a few minutes.

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