Hello, people. I apologize for the delay in posting. This is the last chapter, but there is a sequel that will continue the adventures of our happy couple. The first chapter should be ready to post by tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who stuck in there.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

Epilogue

Booth quietly closed the door of their hotel suite behind him and turned toward Brennan. For several long moments, he simply stood staring at her, taking in her grace and beauty, almost unable to believe his dreams had been fulfilled to the point that she was now his wife. His wife. God, he would never get tired of that word when it was associated with her. The love he felt for this woman knew no bounds, it was endless, timeless. Just thinking about her made him smile and he knew he would spend the rest of his life trying to make her happy.

Brennan stood still, simply basking in the love and warmth of Booth's gaze. Her heart actually ached with happiness. She had never felt that before and knew she had the one person she loved and trusted above all others to thank for that. Oh, she knew Booth would insist that it was God's plan that had brought them together, but she knew God had nothing to do with Booth battering down her defenses and giving her a chance to find real, true happiness. She was married, she thought in amazement to the most wonderful, most handsome man in the whole world. And, yes, she knew there was no way she could prove scientifically that Booth was the most handsome, most wonderful man in the world, but her heart told her it was so and she knew she could trust her heart with her new husband. She had decided years ago that she would never have a family of her own, but now she had not just one, but two families who would never betray her. She was pulled from counting her blessings as Booth pushed away from the door and walked over to her. Gently cupping his face in his hands, he rested his forehead against hers.

"Are you hungry?" She shivered at the husky timber of his voice and shook her head lightly.

"Are you?"

"Not for food," he assured her, leaning down to nibble on her parted lips. Her arms crept up around his neck and she pressed closer.

"What did you have in mind," she teased, slipping her tongue past his lips and quickly drawing it back. His hands tightened on her waist, pulling her even closer.

"I had the oddest idea," he stopped with a groan as she gently nibbled his lower lip, "that I might take you to bed and make love to my wife." He didn't need a verbal answer from her, he clearly read the affirmative response in the way she jerked his head down to meet her lips more fully, moaning at the contact and pressing herself against him as if she was trying to climb inside his skin.

Booth lost himself in the pleasure of kissing his wife, just knowing she now wore a symbol identifying her as his enough to arouse him to new heights. Not that he would ever tell her that because she would kill him and he had way too many things to look forward to now to shoot himself in the foot as it were. To his surprise and displeasure, Brennan suddenly pulled her head back, his lips following her retreat to reclaim her lips.

"Do you think it will be different now?" His head halted at the question, lifting to look into her eyes unsure what she was asking.

"Do I think what will be different now?" she grinned at his bemused expression, fiercely proud of the way she affected him.

"The sex, Booth." With a sigh, he smoothed a stray curl away from the cheek.

"We've never had sex, Baby. With us, it has always been making love and I don't know if it will be different or not but I'm willing to make the sacrifice and find out." she laughed at his voice of martyrdom, teasingly trying to pull out of his arms.

"Well, Booth, I wouldn't want you to do something you don't want to do." With a growl, he jerked her back against him, showing her just how much he didn't want to. With a wicked laugh, she relaxed against him, never losing contact with his eyes. "I love you, Seeley Booth." Booth knew he would never tire of hearing those words from this woman or of saying them back.

"I love you, Temperence Brennan Booth." Laughing at her look of shock, he realized she hadn't even thought about her name being different. There was bound to be some protest and probably some conflict over that, but not right now. Right now, they had much, much better things to do. Swinging her up in his arms, Booth took her lips in a passionate kiss, heading toward the bedroom to start their lives as husband and wife.

They both knew that them being together would never be easy, but when had things ever come easily for the two of them? They would have problems and they would work them out because they couldn't not be together, not after everything they had been through together, not after all they meant to each other.

Sinking onto the bed, hearts guiding lips, hands and bodies, they found out it was different. Their sex life had always been fantastic, but this was beyond the physical, something almost spiritual. It was as if their souls meshed, joined together for eternity, and neither would ever be a whole person without the other again, but that was ok with both of them. They never planned to be apart. Tangled together, softly touching and stoking each other, they talked about things with an ease they had never felt before, even with each other, all walls and barriers between the two obliterated forever, both still awestruck with the way a simple ceremony had deepened their relationship. Both knowing that no matter what life threw at them now, it would never come between them, never separate them. They would handle whatever came their way the same way they did now. Together.

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I know some of you are probably disappointed that there is no gratuitous sex, but it just didn't feel right to get graphic here. Thanks again for sticking with me and hope to hear from you on the sequel.