Rochelle Templer: Yeah, Althy's pretty clueless herself. As for the operation…sorry you didn't win. I will reveal the second word at the end of this chapter. You got the episode right and don't worry technically its not cheating at all.

Suezanne: Okay operating G.B.B.W. has NOTHING to do with Brennan or Booth because if it did the Jeffersonian team would be in on it and not her sisters. That's a clue right there.

Disclaimer: I still do not own Bones

JollyElfDance554: You too, huh? Well let me make this very clear. IF it was Brennan and Booth than the Jeffersonian team would be in on it. In fact Althy's siblings are in on it.

Again please vote, White Collar or Leverage. Please…I need help.


Chapter 47

Acceptance is slow

I was frightened. The words Bachelor Party still haunted my thoughts. I was not one for such parties and rarely thought they were enjoyable. If memory serves I even opted out of Nancy's bachelor party. Afterwords she came back to the hotel with a hangover that lasted well into the day after the day after.

Nancy, James, Peter, and little Betty all arrived at the house. Betty jumped up into my arms. She had grown a bit since I had seen her. I hoped the dress I had gotten her would feet. Her hair was in pretty curly pig tails and she wore jeans and a blue turtleneck.

"Althy." she said hugging me. "My new Aba says I get to be your flower girls, that true?"

"Well maybe, if you can fit into your flower girl dress. It's up in the room you stayed in, on the bed." She smiled and ran off so I could hug Nancy and James, and Peter. "How's she doing?"

"Really well, actually." said Nancy. "She's bloody brilliant. Brightest kid in her class, says her teacher."

"I'm glad." I turned to Peter. "And how are you?"

"Fine." said Peter. "I miss Sam." I nodded, giving him an extra squeeze.

"Dad is here, but he and mom are in a separate part of the house from you. If you want to see mom, she's in the library."

"Thanks," said Peter and headed there.

"Saph and the twins are playing outside if you want to say hi." James nodded and walked outside. Nancy followed Betty to her room.

The air was warmer as March moved closer into April. My, oh my, I was giddy with excitement. Most people may get cold feet by this point. I felt, something special...and yet there was that bit of me that worried that Zack wouldn't be able to deal with the pressures and expectations of being married.

Andora came in from outside to talk to me. "The target is in place."

"Wunderbar!" I said, a German word, meaning wonderful. "Operation G.B.B.W. is going to be my greatest plan ever." I laughed evilly.

"Yeah, I'm sure." said Andora. That girl was all sarcasm. "Saph and Jackie want you ready to go by seven. So that gives you two hours. Go, get." I grunted and walked up the stairs to get ready. "Saph says she left your dress on your bed."

When I came into my bedroom I saw a white, strapless cocktail dress with a black sash and a puffy bottom. There was also a hair clip that said bride on it.

I was ready, with my hair all curled up, the clip in place and my contact lenses on. This was by far the shortest dress I had ever worn.

Downstairs the women were ready for a night on the town, or whatever they had planned for me. All six women sat around the living room wearing cocktail dresses. Saph and Jackie had dark blue ones to match their bridesmaid dresses. The only difference between them is that Jackie had a sash that said Matron of Honor. Cam had a simple red dress on with one strap. Dr. Brennan's was more flowing and had straps that came down to show a little cleavage. And Nancy had on an adorable green strapless dress with a bit of a round out theme at the bottom. Angela had on a silver dress that hugged her hips tightly.

"Let's party." called Saph as they grabbed me and dragged me away in a limo. "The limo was just the perfect touch, don't you think?" I said nothing. Although I had to wonder if this party was more for their benefit than mine.

We headed to a club and danced for hours, drinking exotic drinks and avoiding male company, or I avoided male company, until the Deputy Director of the FBI arrived to put a damp on our parade.

"Dr. Brennan, Dr. Saroyan. Dr. Calloway. We need your help."

"Shouldn't you be calling Booth, instead of them?" asked Jackie.

"We cannot reach Agent Booth; do you know where he is?"

"Hodgins took them to some club for Zack's bachelor party." said Angela and took out her cell phone. "He's not picking up, but I can take you there." The Deputy smiled as we all took the limo to club something or other.

There were a lot of women there and in the center of the dance floor was—my eyes grew wide. Zack was dancing with a lot of girls.

"Althy?" said Jack. "What are you…."

"Get the guys and meet us outside, now." said Angela. Jack nodded and went to look for the boys.

We all stood outside with the Deputy Director and waited as each man stepped out of the club. Zack was the last one to exit.

"Althy I swear this was all Jack's idea. I was actually explaining to them the big bang theory…honestly…" I laughed.

"It's okay, I'm glad you had fun." (A/n name the movie that had a similar scene take place)

"The reason we're here." began the Deputy, "Is that we have remains we really would like to keep on the down low." he looked at Jackie, Nancy and Saph, "Are they trustworthy?"

"Yes," said Dr. Brennan. "To whom do the remains belong too?"

"My estranged son, Max..."

We got to the Jeffersonian and got to work. Brennan and Zack were all over the remains, Jack took soil samples and all the gross bugs found and Angela was waiting for data to reconstruct the crime scene. Me, I got to work running the DNA, the blood and I began looking for patterns.

"Deputy Director!" I called him and he walked into my office. "Why were you and your son estranged?"

"I couldn't accept him for who he really was, not him nor his boyfriend." Oh boy, did that hit close to home. "It was so stupid—do you have anything?"

"I'll let you know." I said and patted him awkwardly on the shoulder.

The DNA would take forever….it beeped. That was super quick. How could there possibly be a match now. Chris Patterson got arrested for going a bit too far on a protest. I informed Booth of this and he set off on the hunt for the killer.

Zack peaked into my office as I was entering data into the computer to send to Angela for the reconstruction. There was little blood found and what I did find was the same type as the victim's.

"Althy…"

"Yes?"

"I really am sorry." he told me. "It appears that women find me adorable." I laughed and walked over to kiss him.

"It's fine." I said with my arms wrapped around him. "I have to admit. This is probably the best bachelor party ever."

My cell phone rang and I ran to pick it up. Andy informed me that she had contact with the target and was planning to meet with the target at the mall, tomorrow. Everything was going according to plan.

"What is operation G.B.B.W.?" asked Zack.

"You'll find out at the wedding." he frowned. "I'm sorry, but I can't have my operation compromised."

"Alright, let me know if you require assistance." I nodded and he went back to work. I did too.

Turned out that Max and Chris were living together, aw, I thought. How adorable was that?

It was ten when I went to check on the Deputy Director. I found him outside sitting on the steps of the Jeffersonian. His hands were on his head.

"Sir?"

"What do you want Dr. Calloway?"

"Let me see…you're depressed you think if you had accepted your son he would still be alive, right?"

"At sixteen he went to live with his Aunt in Boston. It all went down hill between us after his mom died."

I plopped down next to him. "He hated me."

"I'm not going to try to tell you he didn't. He probably did. You must have kicked him out, calling him a freak? Let me know if I get anything wrong. He probably went to live with his Aunt because he had nowhere else to go."

"How do you know all this?"

"My Dad did the same thing to my brother, Peter." I said

"It took me years to accept him and when I thought I had, it was too late." He said. "I'm sorry I ruined your bachelor party. If there's anything I can do…"

"It's fine, it's really not my thing anyway, but if you want to repay me, I do think there is something you may be able to help me with." I took out my cell and called home. "Mom, can you bring Dad over to the Jeffersonian. It's really important….thanks."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Talk to my dad, huh?" he nodded. "I better get back and see if I can help more."

The son's boyfriend checked out, nothing there. The son's business partner a slender female, with an angry smirk. According to Booth she was not all that surprised when they informed her that Max was dead.

DNA, sweat, semen…the only thing that did not match either the victim or the boyfriend was a single thread and a couple of died blond hairs. Originally the person's hair was a soft brown color.

My dad arrived shortly and wheeled himself in. "Jack, why the hell am I here?" he yelled.

"Don't look at me, ask Althy." he pointed to my office. Dad wheeled into my office and starred angrily at me, until I looked up.

"Daddy!" I cheered. "I want you to meet someone. " I had him follow me to the visitor's loft. "Dad this is the Deputy Director of the FBI, I think there is something you two need to talk about."

The Jeffersonian team all met on the platform to, as they say, spit ball ideas.

"My money's on the business partner." said Booth.

"I concur." I said. "She had motive, with Max wanting to cell the business to a franchise and the blond hair I found was dyed. Dr. Brennan informed me that her hair was dyed blond."

"I don't know I think the boyfriend had motive." said Jack.

"Covered, he was at a hotel for a writers' convention." said Booth. "I'll go bring the blond in."

Booth left and I compiled all my evidence and handed it to Cam.

Dad came down over an hour after and turned to the door. "I think I better go. I believe I need to have a word with your brother."

Yes, I thought the second phase of G.B.B.W. was on its way. There was only one more phase left and that was Peter…


SO I pretty much told you what the operation is. If not then the first word is Get and the last is wedding. So the operation stands as Get, B, B to wedding.