"What…Bones…what's wrong…what's going on." Booth sat straight up in bed looked as though he was about to kill someone. If Bones was screaming it wasn't something good.
"Booth….look…" Temperance puts her hand in his face. "Look… do you see this? What is this on my finger Booth? What happened last night?"
Booth takes Temperance's hand to look at it. When he took her hand chills ran up her spine and she notices his hands. "Oh my gosh…your hand to…. This can't be happening! You don't think we…we couldn't have could we? Do you remember anything that happened? Where are we Booth? How did we get here?"
About that time another knock came from the door. "Mr. and Mrs. Booth…. Is everything okay in there?" followed by another knock.
The both looked at each other with so many questions running through their minds.
"Mr and Mrs Booth? I'll get the door. We will sort this out in a minute." Booth rises to get the door and quickly figures out that he is also naked. Booth hurriedly puts on his pants and stumbles to the door.
"What do you want?" he asks with his hand on his throbbing head.
"Mr. Booth, last night you requested that we have the wedding pictures developed and promptly bring them to the honeymoon suite this morning. Is everything okay in here?"
"Wedding pictures?"
"Yes…see…they are right here."
"Thanks." Booth grabs the photos out of this hand and slams the door in his face.
"Booth…not so loud!" Brennan also has a hang over and is in shock from the gold band around their hands.
"Sorry Bones."
"So what did they want. And did you find out where we were?"
"Well….from the looks of it we are in the honeymoon suite. The bellboy brought up wedding photos that I supposedly requested last night…"
Brennan quickly cut him off "Wedding photos…..who's wedding photos and why are we in the honeymoon suite Booth. What happened last night?"
"Well Bones…you are all about being logical. Let's go through this logically."
"LOGICAL….Booth…at a time like this when who knows what happened."
"Well… I have a pretty good guess. Let's look at what we know. We don't remember last night. We woke up with gold bands on our ring fingers…naked and together no less. A guy comes to the door of the HONEYMOON Suite with WEDDING photos. Sure looks like we got married Bones." Booth couldn't hide the grin on his face.
"No…I want proof. You know I don't believe in marriage and why are you smiling?"
"What more proof do you need?" Booth tried hard to hide is ever growing grin. We are married…married… I knew one day it would happen, I just didn't think it would happen like this.
"How about lets look at the photos."
"Fine."
"Fine."
Booth sat next to Brennan on the bed. She quickly pulled the sheet around her so that he couldn't see her bare body and scooted up next to him. Booth just smirked.
They opened the envelope and stared at the pictures. The pictures were of them. In front of an alter. With Elvis in front of them. Brennan couldn't believe that was her or how happy she looked. The goofy grin on Booth's face showed he was excited to.
I can't believe how happy I look, I have never been that happy. I must have had way to much to drink. Or maybe it is that Booth really does make me happy….No. I can't think that way… I can't give into this. He is my partner. If I give into this then I will lose him. He will leave just like everyone else. I can't let him see that this is what I want.
"Well that doesn't prove anything."
"What? How can that not prove anything? That is you and that is me and that is Elvis."
"Well I am sure it wasn't legal. This can't be happening…marriage is just another way for males to assert their dominance over women and I can't be part of this Booth. We need to find out if it was legal or not and then get it annulled."
"Temperance… I don't want to…" He put his hand on her shoulder and she pulled away with tears in her eyes.
"No Booth. This is not what I want. Please. We are partners. Nothing more." With that she got up with the sheet wrapped around her and went into the bathroom.
Oh Booth. Don't you see this is killing me? I don't want to hurt you because I think this is what you want but I will hurt you more if I try to have a relationship with…much less a marriage. I can't do that to you Booth.
Okay, if this is what Bones wants then this is what I want. I can't make her believe that this is fait. She doesn't believe in fate. I guess I will do this her way. Maybe someday we will be together and get married for real.
"Temperance….knockknock….Temperance…."
"What is it Booth. I don't want to talk to you right now!"
"Look, I understand you are upset. Let's take a few days off from work. We don't have to go back today. Let's just find out what happened and see what we can do okay?"
"We will treat this like any other case and…."
"and what?"
"And if it is legal then we can get it annulled." Booth's heart sank with his words but he knew this is what she wanted. He would do anything to make her happy.
"Thank you Booth." Brennan but a grim smile on her face as she looked into his eyes. She knew he wanted this but it was for his own good.
"Well we better get dressed and called to let everyone know that we are tying up a few loose ends on the case and that we won't be there for a few more days."
"Booth?"
"Yea Bones?"
"Let's not tell anyone what happened okay?"
"Sure Bones."
