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Chapter 27
"Valentines Day!" Caroline said excitedly. "It's perfect!"
"I don't know..." Ang said eyeing her friend a little nervously.
"Why would Valentines Day be perfect?" Bones asked. She couldn't really see the point in this meeting but Ang had insisted. She tapped a couple of keys on her computer. "Valentines Day is a Thursday. Is Thursday a good day for a wedding?"
"It IS if it's Valentine's Day." Caroline said matter of factly. The remembering she was dealing with Miss Brennan and her penchant for having everything explained, she softened her voice. "It's the day of lurve Cherie...THAT'S what makes it perfect."
Bones giggled. "I never really understood why it was considered to be romantic." she said, continuing to chuckle. "Valentine's Day was originally celebrated to commemorate the death of St Valentine. He was beheaded by Claudius for marrying the soldiers. Claudius believed that single men made better soldiers."
"That's not really funny Bones." Booth said.
"The fact that people think that that was romantic is." she said explaining the joke to her gape mouthed audience like she was talking to a class of small children. "He left a note to the jailor's daughter that said 'be my Valentine...' like the greeting cards..."
Caroline finally broke the silence, waving her hand to brush away what she refused to acknowledge. "That being said Temperance...Thursday or not, Valentine's Day is traditional..."
Bones giggled again.
"Something else funny here?"
"No. Well yes." Bones said with a smile. "Booth and I did celebrate the Valentine's Day Massacre once...at the shooting range."
"Of course you did." she said looking at Booth like he'd lost his mind.
"Any objections Bones?" Booth asked pointedly.
"No not really." Bones said with a shrug. "We could go back there."
"Hell no!" Caroline said with disbelief. "That's just plain weird."
"Well good." Ang said. "So we've settled a date and we've decided AGAINST a venue."
"I'd like to have the wedding at the Jeffersonian." Bones said seriously this time.
"Ok." Ang said with a giant smile. "I think we could make that happen and we could have the reception upstairs. Is that ok with you Booth?" she had a feeling he would want a church wedding.
"I'd like to have my priest officiate." Booth said looking at Bones.
"I know how important your religion is to you Booth." she said.
"Well thank you Bones." he said leaning in to kiss her softly. "I'll talk to him."
"Looks like we're all set." Caroline said. "Miss Montenegro, Miss Saroyan?"
"Um...yes?" Cam said.
Ang's eyes widened.
"See about some catering." she said.
"Okayyy." Cam said.
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"Daddy when's the wedding gonna be?" Parker asked.
"Valentines Day." Booth said. "The really good part is, you get to have the day off school."
"Yay." Parker said happily.
"Me too?" Lance asked.
"Yes Buddy, you too." Booth said. "We have to all get ready and get our suits on."
"We have to wear suits."
"Uh huh."
"And a tie?" Parker asked.
"Yep, the same colour as me."
"What do we have to do at the wedding?" Lance asked.
Booth blew out a breath. He'd been dreading this. "You both have a place, a job to do at the wedding."
"You are going to be a junior groomsmen." Booth said to Lance. "You're going to stand next to Jack. He's my best man."
"What about me?" Parker asked. "What's my job?"
"Your job is the ring barer." Booth said.
Parker's eyes widened. "What's that?"
"You're going to walk down the isle first in front of Angela and carry a pillow with the rings on it."
Parker narrowed his eyes. "Why does Lance get to stand with you and I have to walk down the isle with a pillow?"
"It's a VERY important job Parks." Lance said, trying to help. "Those rings are the most important part of the ceremony and you have to look after them."
Parker was looking a little brighter but less than completely convinced. "It's really important?" he asked Booth.
"Sure is." Booth said.
"But I have to walk with the girls?"
"Well sort of. You'd be walking in front of them...sort of leading them."
"Leading then huh?" Parker said. Now they were talking.
"Ok. I guess." he said.
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"Well aren't you two a pair of sweet little things." Caroline said as Russ's step children stood half hidden behind their step Dad and Mom.
"It's very nice of you to invite the girls to be in the wedding." Amy said with a smile.
"I wanted to have them." Bones said.
"Oh and they'll look just beautiful in the dresses we picked out."
"We?" Ang said out of the corner of her mouth. "Well at least we talked her out of the hats."
"You told her you wouldn't wear one." Bones said. "Although I have to say I was pleased. I don't see why anyone would need to wear a big floppy pink hat inside."
"That's right." Ang said. "We had to give with some things in order to get her to give up on even worse things."
"This is my wedding." Bones said.
"Yes, it is honey...but the role of Bridezilla has already been taken. Apparently Caroline likes weddings."
"Yes she does." Bones said. "And pink."
Wait 'til you girls see your pretty dresses." Caroline said. "We'll have you fitted this afternoon and we'll have the full dress rehearsal the day before the rehearsal."
"Two rehearsals?" Bones and Ang both said together.
"Why yes Cherie. We want to get it right."
"I'm just going to get Amy and Russ and the girls something to drink." Bones said. She'd had enough wedding talk for the time being.
"Russ?" She called heading for the kitchen with her brother and his family behind her.
"After we have our fittings, I think we should talk about the Bachelorette party."Ang said waiting until Bones was put of earshot.
"That can be all you." Caroline said.
"Why thank you Caroline." Ang said. "But you will come won't you?"
"Of course I will." she said. "Miss Montenegro...I know I might come across as a little bossy."
"Really? No." Ang said with a smile.
"I'm not young." she said. "I have to live precariously through others. I just love romance of it all."
"I don't think Temp minds." Ang said.
"Of course she doesn't mind." Caroline said. "That girl doesn't have a romantic bone in her body."
"Well..."
"But she should have romance at her wedding, so it's up to us to see that she gets some."
"That's really sweet." Ang said.
"Nothing says romance like lots of flowers, lace and a lot of pink frills."
"Um...yeah, I guess." Ang said. "And a butt load of champagne." she whispered to Cam.
"You know, I need to get back home...Michelle...needs me." she said. Her mind was so muddled that she just couldn't come up with a reasonable excuse.
"That's ok. We're nearly done here." Caroline said. "The dressmaker should be here to take measurements soon."
"Oh but I know my size." Cam tried.
"Sit." Caroline said. "It only takes but a minute to make sure."
"Ok." Cam said, and with a strained smile she sat.
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"Because I don't have Parker every weekend." Booth said. "It'll fit. That's his size. I know it'll fit."Booth hung up the phone and sighed. He would walk over broken glass to marry Bones and it felt like he was doing just about that. Who knew when he agreed to let Caroline help with the wedding that he was poking a hornet's nest. The woman was like Attila the hun in heels.
"Problems Booth?" Bones asked.
"No. Just Caroline in wedding mode again. Nothing I can't handle."
"You know, sometimes I think she wishes it was her that was marrying you Booth."
"Ew, really?" Booth asked.
"Well she does find you attractive."
"She is only human." Booth joked.
"Yes she is. It'll soon be over."
"Yes it will and you will be Mrs Temperance Booth."
"Oh. You think I'm going to change my name." Bones said with a wince. "To your name, because you're the man."
TBC