Ash and her Christmas lockdown.

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I was with Jack, Angie, Zack and Daniel as we were sifting through various science supplies in an effort to make something to be Christmas decorations.
"We have to be extremely creative." Angie told
"Maybe string a bunch of test tubes together, fill 'em with luminescent liquids." Jack suggested.
"Nice. Very festive." Angie told making me smile.
"They'll probably give us cancer." Zack stated making me smile more.
"Cause you know what screams Christmas right? CANCER!" I exclaimed making them smile as Angie chuckled minus Daniel.
"That would be fitting this Christmas." He told
"He needs more joy. Is it cause you can't spend Christmas with your offsprings?" I asked
"How did you know I have children?"
"You look like the father type." I told.
"Tidings of joy, gentlemen and lady. Tidings of joy." Angie told making us focus on figuring decorations again.
"Decorations do not a Christmas make. Family and friends make Christmas." He told
"I'm already spending Christmas with who I intended." I told.
"We're friends." Jack told making Daniel look towards him with a no we aren't face."We're... not friends."
"We are colleagues, friends, coworkers, yes, but for a father like myself, like Agent Booth-" he told making us all look towards him. "-a few glowing test tubes don't make up with missing Christmas morning with the children."
"Excuse me?" Angie asked
"Be kind, rewind." Zack told
'That sounds so fucken cute coming from him.'
"Booth has a kid?" Jack asked
"I was fucken correct on my assumption?! Holy shit I'm that good." I stated making the other two boys give me confused look before turning back to Daniel.
"Ah. Well... Not common knowledge, I gather." He said.
"Oh Angie I'm so fucken glad you invited me. This shit is fun." I told making her smile.
"I'm just glad your happy through this." She told as she gave me a hug making me giggle.

We were eating take out food in the bone storage room after decorating it with two television screens playing animated hearths, compete with stockings hanging over a roasting fire in the background. We were sitting with Seeley and Daniel at the very end of the table with Jack next to Seeley and then Angie, me, Zack and Temperance next to Daniel as we all enjoyed our food as we laughed.
"So if Lionel was a coin collector, that might explain the levels of lead and nickel in his bone."
"I actually have a few rare coins myself. My mum gave them to me when I was seven." I told
"When do they insert the needle into your brain?" Zack asked
"And can I watch?" I asked making Angie nudge me. "What I've always been curious to see what it looked like?"
"I sneezed because the air is dry. It's not valley fever." Temperance told.
"Any other symptoms? Headache?" Daniel asked
"Any foul smelling pustules on your shins?" Zack added.
"Look, she sneezed twice, that's it. Did you find anything else about the letters?" Seeley asked quickly changing the subject.
'Would hate to be related to him.'
"Quite a lot, yes. They are very, very passionate love letters." He told.
"Careful Lionel had a girlfriend." Seeley stated.
"I can't even get one of those." I joked making Jack and Angie laugh.
"A girlfriend who was in trouble." Daniel added.
"'Pregnant,' in trouble?" Angie questioned.
"Especially then it would have been big trouble." I stated
"Whoa, apparently Careful Lionel wasn't so careful." Jack joked making me giggle.
"Unmarried pregnant girl in Oklahoma in the late fifties..." Seeley spoke before silencing himself.
"You suppose Lionel came up here to procure an abortion?" Daniel asked
"Back then not wanting children was like a type of sin." I stated
"You know what? This isn't a very Christmas Eve type story." Angie told
"Of course it is. The whole Christ myth is built upon the travails of an unwed mother." Temperance told making Seeley annoyed.
"Okay, can we just stop bringing up the whole Christ myth thing? Alright, some people believe it's more than just a myth."
"Well, who besides you?" She asked
"That would be me, Dr. Brennan. I'm a deacon at my church." Daniel told
"Did you know, no one really knows when Jesus was born. What actually happened was, when Christianity took hold of Europe in the fifth century, some common folk refused to part with some pagan parties. So Christian leaders gradually transformed the popular traditions into a celebration of Jesus's birth."
"Why do you know that?" Zack asked me.
"I did a Christmas report to piss off my very religious history teacher when I was eight. Needless to say I got detention cause of it." I told
"Well I believe. Christmas and Easter, anyway." Angie told
"Although I believe organized religion is just another political movement designed to control the masses, doesn't mean God doesn't love me." Jack told before everyone looked towards us.
"Hey, I'm a rational empiricist all the way. Unless you talk to my mother. Then I'm Lutheran." He told making them look towards just me.
"You don't wanna know."
"Can't be that bad." Jack stated.
"Last time I told someone was Mark and Baby face and baby face could not get over it."
"It's true. He kept asking me about it."
"Maybe shes just atheist." Temperance told making me close my eyes and let out a sigh.
"I don't believe in a god. I believe in multiple gods. The Greek gods to be precise." I told
"Why the Greek gods?" Zack asked
"The stories are interesting and I've grown up being surrounded by the stories so sue me for believing in those gods." I told
"Baby face still isn't over it, is he?"
"He isn't."
"I can understand why you'd be sensitive,
Booth. You have a child out of wedlock." Temperance told making us all go silence.
"Awkward." I quietly told.
"Sweetie..." Angie began to signal Temperance she shouldn't have said anything.
"What?"
"The letters display a combination of both block and cursive." Daniel told to hopefully fix the tension.
"A combination of both printing and writing?" Angie questioned.
"Means she didn't do a lot of school. Right?" I asked
"It would indicate that she may have left school some time in the second grade. Most white children in those days would obtain at least an eighth grade education." Daniel told
"Which helps us identify the female culture." I stated
"She was African American?" Temperance asked making Daniel nod.
"Why I believe so, yes."
"Is there any way Lionel was an African American?" Jack asked
"Definitely not."
"No, no he was definitely Caucasian." Temperance told
"A white man and a pregnant black girl in 1958 Oklahoma." Angie told putting all the information we had together.
"That was bad?" Zack asked
"Very bad."
"It was illegal." Daniel added
"In Okalahoma?" Jack asked
"Not just Oklahoma, here in D.C." He told.
"16 states actually prohibited it." I added
"Can you name them all?" Jack joked
"Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming." I told seeing how all of them but Angela and Temperance were shocked. "Well you asked."
"You actually know that?" Daniel asked
"Yes. I have a lot of skills to say the least."
"Like what?" Seeley asked
"Likes pickpocketing."
"No way you could pickpocket me." He told making me grab all the wallets I grabbed on the table.
"Sweetie I thought you promised to stop that."
"Well it was so I could figure something out for the person I got for secret Santa, but I realised if I just took their wallet then it would be clear so I just took everyone's but Temperance and yours since I already know what I need from you." I explained and I gave everyone their wallets back. "You can actually learn a lot from the type of person is based on what they have in their wallet."
"Well aside from that. Then why come here?" She asked as she moved back to the topic again.
"They were running away. Lionel had two tickets to Paris, and where else in 1958 could a white man and a black woman get married and live together?" He told before a voice spoke from the door way.
"Visiting hours, folks." Hal told in a protective suit "Who's first?"
"As director of this institution, I claim that right." Daniel told as he quickly stood up a left.
"Okay, brief announcement. You guys might recognize my dad, but I don't really want to talk about it, so, thanks. Okay? That's all." Angie told before we all got up from our spot.
'Would rather do this is person. But it is what it is.'
"Is Baby face coming to see us?" Angie asked making me shake my head.
"He is off seeing his mum I think. Or working as a profiler.... not sure. But he would've found a way to tell me he was coming to see us."
"Why don't you go visit him?"
"Legally don't think I should. Two of my friends are well known criminals." I quietly told so no one else heard.
"Your connect to a lot of criminals. Your a PI."
"I know. It's just better this way for him." I told making her shake her head.
'Time to see everyone's family I guess.'