The Marriage
By Meekerprincess9778
Ch 36
They were packing to go to Teddy's funeral. Brennan had hoped this was the last time she would need the black maternity dress that she had bought. She had broken down, crying while putting the dress in the bag. Jared heard her from across the hall.
"Tempe, are you okay?" He asked quietly.
"Yes, I am just worried. Teddy didn't make it back alive. I am scared for your brother. I am scared for me and this baby. I don't know what I'd do if I were in Claire's position." Brennan sighed.
"Seeley knows how much he has to live for. Teddy didn't. Sure, you could say that he had Claire. He was scared to tell her that he loved her. He didn't have any family left. Maybe his will to live just wasn't as strong as it could have been. Seeley, though, he knows how much you love him. He loves you. You both love this baby. He's not scared like Teddy was. Seeley has me and Pops. He has our Aunts and our friends. Teddy thought he might maybe have Claire. Now, before you came along, I wouldn't be so sure. But I know that he will be just fine." He was hugging her.
Katie came upstairs. "Don't mean to break up the lovefest, but Pops said to get you two." She smiled at them. They got all of their things and headed downstairs.
Six of them were going; Pops, Brennan, Jared, Katie, Angela, and Hodgins. Naomi and Zach weren't allowed. Zach wasn't allowed by his over-protective aunt. Naomi was also not allowed to go for being a little too young and not enough "adult" supervision. Brennan practically scoffed at that. She considered herself an adult, even though she had just turned seventeen. She was someone's wife and about to be someone's mom. She had a lot of life experience in her foster homes. She had let it be. Yes, they were younger. They had just wanted to pay their respects, especially since they knew not many people were going to be there.
So, they had rented a van. It really wasn't that far of a drive. It would have been less if Brennan hadn't needed to urinate so much. After about five hours of listening and debating about music, they were in Washington D.C. They had gotten two hotel rooms that adjoined. Girls stayed in one room; boys in the other. Pops called Gretchen to let her know they had arrived safely. Claire was all ready staying in a room at the hotel.
Claire knocked on the door. The girls were hanging up their dresses and making the hotel room "theirs". Angela opened the door and immediately gave Claire a hug. She came in further to the room. She had hugged each of the girls by then. She had given Brennan's tummy a little rub and they giggled. The two had hugged for a really long time. Claire had felt closest to Brennan. She was the only one that knew what it had felt like to have her man overseas. She felt jealous of Brennan, though. Booth was alive. Even if he weren't alive, she has a piece of him growing in her womb every day. Teddy kept saying that they were too young to be serious. Brennan had a ring and a baby to prove her love to Booth. What was she going to have left?
The girls had talked for a bit until Jared, Pops, and Hodgins knocked on the door, wondering if they were hungry. Brennan is always hungry now. They went to dinner. They had talked about how the service would be.
"Some of the guys he went to basic training with will be the pall bearers. I know Seeley would have liked to have been here to do it as well. We actually managed to get two of the guys that they had been friends with that weren't on active duty. It was good that they all ended up doing different things." Claire had managed to get out.
They all had a hard time sleeping that night. Brennan thought about Booth and what he was doing. She hoped he would be okay. She was having a hard time getting comfortable in the hotel bed. She looked out the window for a while, staring.
Booth was thinking that it would soon be time for Teddy's funeral. He had assumed his family would go. It was hard not thinking about Teddy. A new guy, Roberts got Teddy's spot. He was having a hard time. He had found a really good friend in his superior officer, Hank Lutrell. Hank wasn't that much older than him. However, he knew what it felt like to be in the desert with a wife and a baby on the way. He knew what it felt like to be in the desert and miss your buddy's funeral. He knew he had to go on for his new family. He had to get home to them.