Saturday July 28th- 12:00pm-

The wedding ceremony was set for 2:00pm, with the reception following at a private golf club just outside of Washington DC. The wedding party naturally consisted of Antonia as maid of honor, Jack's roommate and friend from college as his best man, and two other friends as ushers. Grace had chosen two friends from the police academy as her bridesmaids, and Nate and Luke as ring bearers, as well as Melody as her flower girl. Everyone had been outfitted with their tuxedos and dresses, and scheduled hair appointments came and went that morning without any further issues. They were expecting the influx of their nearly 200 guests to the garden where the ceremony would be taking place very soon.

Temperance stepped into the clubhouse where the reception would be, when she was immediately confronted by a very nervous looking Angela. "Bren, you're going to kill me." She said nervously.

"I'm certain that's not true." She said, her brow furrowed as she looked around at the activity in the room.

"I lost your daughter." She said, looking around.

"Which one?" Temperance asked, unsure what Angela could possibly mean.

"Grace. I lost Grace. We got our hair done, and she said she'd meet us here, and she hasn't shown up. She's not answering her phone, and we have no idea where she is." She whispered loudly, looking around nervously. "She seemed a little off at the salon, like something was bothering her, but she didn't want to talk about it."

"Was it just you and her at the salon?"

"And her two friends, but they didn't seem to notice. They're here, but she never showed up." Angela said anxiously. "It's been over an hour."

Temperance sighed, looking around the room at the decorations and preparations, she could feel her own anxiety level rising. "Is Jack here? Does he know that she's missing?"

"No." She shook her head. "If he knew, he'd be off looking for her, and we need to keep at least one of them here." She said with a shake of her head.

"He may know where she had gone off to, or what was bothering her." Temperance said, cringing at the thought of making JV more nervous than he already was. "Is Antonia here yet?"

"She's here now." Antonia called from behind them, holding her dress in a dress bag over her shoulder. Melody was already in her purple dress, her hair up in ribbons, her blue eyes sparkling in excitement of being able to wear such a pretty dress.

"Oh my goodness, look at you!" Angela gushed, as she crouched down to Melody's level. "Let me see you twirl." She said, motioning with her finger to the little girl, listening to her giggle as she spun in a circle to make the dress puff out.

"Oh please, I just got her to stop doing that." Antonia laughed. "What's going on?" Seeing the look of concern on her mother's face, she turned to see Aiden walking in behind her, yanking on his tie. She turned toward him, handed him her dress, and put her hands to his tie, trying to fix it for him as she watched her mother.

"Your sister is missing. She's… she didn't show up yet, and we don't know where she is." Temperance sighed.

"Are you serious?" Antonia asked, dropping a kiss on Aiden's cheek.

"Where would she have gone?" Aiden asked, reaching out for Melody before she spun into Angela as she continued to twirl about the room.

"Aiden, can you keep an eye on her?" Antonia asked, watching Melody take his hand. "Just have Angela put my dress in the dressing room."

"Where are you going?" He asked, watching her take two or three steps back from everyone.

"To go find the runaway bride." She said with a sigh. "If we're not back by two… stall." She shrugged as she flipped her keys in her hand, and turned, jogging toward the exit of the building.

Aiden turned to see the look of concern on Temperance's face and panic on Angela's. "She'll find her." He said confidently.

"Hey." Booth's voice interrupted them as he walked around the corner. "Where did Toni go like a bat out of hell just now?"

Booth looked between the three of them, trying to figure out which would have the answer. "Don't worry about it." Temperance said, walking away, she grabbed Angela's arm and Antonia's dress from Aiden, and pulled Angela toward the dressing room area.

Booth turned toward Aiden, eyebrow arched as Aiden pretended to straighten his tie. "So, you're not talking either?" Booth asked, tipping his head at the younger agent.

He looked up at Booth and smiled tightly. "Sir, I have learned a great many things since I began working with you." He said, crouching down to Melody, he poked her nose lightly with his fingertip and listened to her giggle. "And one of those things, is that I must always, always defer to Doctor Brennan." He said as he stood up, straightening his jacket, he looked Booth in the eye. "Another thing, is… you're easily distracted by your grandchildren." He said, signing to Melody to twirl, the little girl grinned and started to spin through the room laughing.

Booth smiled at the spinning pixie before them, her dress poofing out as she giggled. "Man, you're good." Booth nodded, watching as the little girl continued her show around the room, her happiness lifting the pall of concern that surrounded them.

Antonia pushed redial on her phone one more time, listening to her sister's voice come over the message, she grunted in irritation. As the message beeped, she growled. "Grace Keenan Booth. You had better call me back, or I will hunt you down like a bloodhound!" She exclaimed into the line. "I did not wrap two hundred party favors and agree to dress up in that stupid dress just so you could abandon your family and friends at a dinner where the food is going to be too salty, and the cake is going to be too sweet, and…" She muttered to herself as she realized a call was coming through. She hung up the first call, and picked up the second. "Hey."

"Toni." Grace's voice cracked through the speaker on the car crystal clear.

"Where the hell are you?" Antonia asked.

"Tell everyone I'm sorry, okay?" Grace said into the line. "I can't… I can't do this."

Antonia slammed on her brake and pulled the car over onto the side of the road. "Excuse me?" She shouted at her dashboard.

"Tell them I'm sorry. Okay? I just… I can't do this today, or ever. I… um… I'm sorry." She sniffled.

"Where are you?" Antonia demanded.

"Toni, don't worry about it." She sighed. "It'll be okay. Just, tell everyone that I couldn't go through with it, that I'm stupid and selfish, and…"

"We already know that you're stupid and selfish." She snipped back. "Where the hell are you? Don't make me put a trace on your phone, because you know that I will." Antonia said with a serious tone.

"Diner." She whispered.

"I will be there in twenty minutes. You had better be there when I get there, or so help me…"

"I'll be here." She whispered, hanging up the phone.

"You better be, you twerp." She mumbled to herself, dialing a second number.

"Antonia?" Temperance said anxiously into the line.

"I am on my way to get her. She's safe, probably eating pie… avoiding her betrothed." She mumbled into the line.

"She's at the diner?" Temperance asked, sighing.

"Yes. I will try to have her there within the hour." Antonia sighed.

"Thank you, Ant. Don't be too hard on her. You know that she can be…"

"A flake?" Antonia snorted.

"Skittish." Temperance barked into the line. "Just bring her back here with minimal bruises, please."

"You got it, Mom." Antonia sighed as she hung up, glancing at the shiny buttons on her new car, she glanced out the window and slipped her lower lip into her mouth. Without looking, she slid her finger down to lightly tap on the button for the emergency lights, and gingerly pulled back into traffic. "I know, Aiden. Emergency use only." She muttered to herself. "I think this constitutes an emergency." She said, as she pressed the gas pedal just a little harder.