Disclaimer: Still don't own anything... what a shame.
Authors Note: Thanks so much for the reviews guys! I really appreciate it! I'm glad that it was postive feedback as well! I have a few differnt ideas as to where this story might go... and I'm not quite sure at the moment, but I think I have a pretty good idea of how it will end. Anywho... just to address a few things from the reviews:
WOATCAPIITON: You talked about how their feelings and the whole sex thing wasn't described and resolvedvery well. Well, there is a reason I didn't actually put that in the story. While (I guess) it does play a big part in their relationship, it's not something that's going to be a huge deal when she goes back and finally sees him.
goldpiece: You had some good ideas, I might have to think about that... :)
Ok so, once again, I know that at the time, it probably doesn't seem much like a B/B fic, but trust me, it is! And off we go...
"Hey baby, will you come here for a minute?"
"Yeah, hold on!" Temperance called back to him, running around, throwing clothes carelessly across the room, trying to find the dress she was looking for.
"Hurry up, I want to show you this!" he commented.
"What?" Temperance said looking flustered as she left the bedroom to join him in the living room.
"They're selling those oriental rugs you wanted on TV right now," he said looking at her.
"So?" she responded back, looking at him like he was crazy.
"So… I just thought you'd want to know," he said looking a little hurt by the anger that was starting to appear on her face.
"Ok well sorry, but our reservations are in 20 minutes, and I know we're not going to make it there on time. Look at me, I look like shit!" she commented, more to herself than to the man standing 20 feet across from her.
"You look fine sweetie! Look, there is a reason I didn't tell you where we are going. It's because I don't want you wasting time getting all dressed up. Besides, it'll just be coming off later anyway…" he said with a smirk on his face.
"Keep dreaming," Temperance said while smiling back at him coyly.
"Look, just throw on some jeans, and a t-shirt," he told her. "I promise, it's not anything fancy. There probably won't even be anyone there."
"Wait, what?" she asked, suddenly very confused.
"Just GO!" he pointed to the bedroom.
"Ok, I'm going," she said blithely, leaving the room with a smile plastered across her face.
As she was picking her favorite pair of jeans up from off of the floor, she happened to glance at the picture of her and Angela that she had sitting on her nightstand. "I miss you Ange," she said sadly.
Ever since moving out to California, Angela had come to visit Temperance for one week, every three months. But since the very beginning of the year, the Jeffersonian had been bombarded with work, and Temperance hadn't been able to see her best friend in six months. They talked on the phone, but not as much as she would have liked. But that was soon going to change, because after tonight, she was leaving to go visit Washington DC in 3 days. She couldn't wait to see everybody, and catch up with how things were going there. It had been ages, it felt like, and it had – just a little over two years now, since she'd last been there.
"Let's go," Temperance said grabbing her purse off the shelf, and locking the door behind her.
"Ok where are you taking me?" Temperance pleaded with the man sitting next to her.
"You'll see, we're almost there," he said nonchalantly staring straight ahead.
About 10 minutes later, they pulled up to the state park, and Chad paid the man at the gate.
"Ok, baby…" Temperance started to say.
"Yes…" he commented after her.
"We're at the beach."
"I'm aware of that," he said back to her.
"But I thought we had reservations," she asked, looking around.
"Well, I lied," he said starting to laugh.
"You lied to me!" Temperance said jokingly. "How dare you lie to me!"
"It was all part of the game plan, baby," he said laughing right along with her. When he found a parking spot, he pulled over, and turned the ignition off. He grabbed her hand and kissed it, then got out, and went to open her door on the other side. When she was out of the car, she stood there looking at him, waiting for the next direction.
"So, now what?" she asked him.
"Now, we eat," he said going to the back of the jeep and pulling out a box, that Temperance guessed had food in it. They walked about 50 yards down the beach from where they had parked, and sat down in the sand. The sun was starting to sink below the clouds, and he had been right, there was not a person in sight.
"Aww, you didn't have to do this," Temperance said, squeezing his arm, when she looked at all the food in the box, that he had obviously spent all day slaving over for her.
"It was my pleasure," he said to her, starting to take things out one by one, and place them on the blanket they had brought. "I wanted tonight to be special."
"Well it is," she said to him, leaning over and planting a kiss on his lips. "Thank you so much."
"You're very welcome," he said back to her. So while they were eating and chatting, Chad kept trying to think of positive things to bring up about their relationship, that would help take his mind of the question that he was going to ask her at the end of the night. He kept saying how good they were together, how much fun they always had, and their interest in the exact same things in life. Temperance agreed him them every time. So at the end of the night, he felt confident with what the answer would be.
"Temperance, I have something really important to ask you," he started to say.
"Yes," she said back, with a gleam in her eye.
"I love you, so much, you know that, right?"
"Yes, I do know that, and I love you too, by the way…" she also added to her statement.
"Good," he said. "I've been thinking about this for a long time now, and I really believe that it's the right time, and that you're the right person."
"Ok…" Brennan said, her nerves on edge, by all the secrecy.
"Will you, Temperance Brennan, make me the happiest man alive, and do me the honor, of being my wife?" he said to her, pulling out a ring from his pocket.
"Oh my god!" Temperance nearly shouted, as the tears started streaming down her eyes. "Are you serious?"
"Yes, I'm serious, baby. I want to be with you, forever and always," he said, starting his own line of waterworks. "So what do you say?"
"What can I say?" she says laughing and crying all at the same time. "YES, yes, I'll marry you, Chad Degium!"
The laughing and crying continues for the rest of the night, as the two celebrate this new joy in life, with champagne – and lots of it. Temperance calls all of her local friends, and breaks the news to them, about how excited she is that she's found such a wonderful man to be with. She feels like it's the happiest day of her life, and it should be, right? But why, later on that night, does a sudden pang of anger and sadness overwhelm her, when she and Chad are making love, and right before she reaches ecstasy, a picture of Booth flashes through her mind…
Now would probably be a good time to review...