Afterword:

I had a few people ask "how did you come up with this," so here's the answer. If you're not interested in the nuts and bolts behind this story, feel free to skip it.

The initial idea came from "The Mummy In The Maze," which I re-watched just to see Bones totally rock the Wonder Woman outfit. That led to the idea of Booth exploiting Bones' cultural ignorance to dress her up as a Vulcan Starfleet officer (hence the Sciences blue) from the original Star Trek, and how purely analytical Bones would critique the outfit

But that left an unanswered question: "OK, if Bones got to pick Booth's costume, what would she pick for him?"

My first thought was a real "squint," not his exaggerated nerd.

Then I thought about her giving him her "Wonder Woman" costume, and his absolute refusal on that one.

Then it clicked. At a sci fi convention I attended, there was a T-shirt for sale that said "And then Buffy Staked Edward. The End." I Googled up images of "Edward Twilight," and damn if the style didn't bear a passing resemblance to Angel's of the Buffyverse, even to the poofy, poncy hair. (Check it yourself!) At that point, it was a foregone conclusion: Bones would dress up Booth as kind of Angelic, then give him the sparkle. So, so, very meta, it was a moral imperative that I write it.

But I didn't want to lose the first two costume ideas, so I decided she'd give him a choice.

Unfortunately (or, rather, fortunately), I was stuck at work, and they frown on my writing while on the clock. So the idea kept bouncing around in my head, and the notion of Booth dressed up as Firefly's Captain Malcolm Reynolds also made perfect sense – especially when you consider that Nathan Fillion had audtioned for the part of Angel when they were casting for Buffy. So there was costume #4.

I had to review "The Mummy In The Maze" for the proper Halloween references, and at the end, Booth asks Brennan "now can you see why I hate clowns?" That clinched it. I had to toss in a clown costume, too. However, while I would give that to Booth purely to dick with him, Bones never would. So I had to rationalize it for her, so here comes Sweets meddling where he shouldn't.

From there, it was just a matter of putting the suits in order, with the Twilight one as the last.

The only tough part was the ending – do I end it with the sparkling, or do I have Booth violently react and hurl the outfit into the corner? I decided to cut it off with the introduction of the glitter, leaving the possibility that Booth would not recognize the significance and go with the costume – or he would utterly reject it. I'd leave that up for the readers to decide on their own.

Now my four stories pair up quite nicely, a symmetry I find quite appealing. Again, thanks for all the favoriting, the following, and especially the reviews and private messages. It's the feedback that is the best reward.