Have you ever had one of those moments when everything just fell into place and you just knew?
We've been so busy lately. I've been snowed under with a bunch of cold cases, and Bones has been working really long hours at the lab. Christine's been missing her Mom and while I try to spend as much time with her in the evenings as I can, I know it's not the same. She's fifteen months old. She wants her Mommy to tuck her in at night.
Bones and I were sitting having a drink the other night. We had been having a discussion about going away for a bit. Just packing up Christine and heading off to somewhere warm and sunny. No work, no worries, no phones. Definitely NO phones.
Bones, well she came up with this place. God, I can't even say it. What was it? um, Toeshoe. Tochoo, Towshow. Oh I don't know what its called. Anyway, its an island somewhere near Thailand. Not my original choice, but hey, if she's happy, well I'm happy. We can go sailing and fishing and scuba diving, and she can go explore graves and stuff while Christine and I swim in the pool.
I want to hear my daughter giggling when I'm holding her and dangle her feet in the ocean. I want to see her playing on the sand, putting shells in her mouth. I want to rub suntan lotion into Bones' skin and watch her lying under an umbrella in a bathing suit. I want to lie on a sun-lounge with a long tall cold fruity cocktail with a stupid umbrella in it. I wanna make love to the woman I adore at midnight while a soft warm breeze blows across the bed through open patio doors that open out over the night ocean.
So I booked the tickets and we leave next week. Caroline of course is furious. As far as she's concerned, never is the right time for me to take time off. But you know what? I don't care. We need this, Bones and I. We need to spend some time together and with our daughter and be a family. We haven't done anything together in a year except stare at bones and bodies and arrest people who don't understand the meaning of good and decent behaviour.
You should have seen her face when I waved those tickets in front of her. Of course she tried to argue with me. Come up with a hundred reasons why she couldn't have time off. But I told her, we're going. If I have to pick you up and throw you over my shoulder, we're getting on that plane next Tuesday morning. She can't stay mad at me for long. She crumbled and sat on my lap.
When she stares at me with those eyes. I can see the whole world in 'em, you know? And that's when it happened. That's when I knew. I'm gonna spend the rest of my life loving this woman. We're gonna have more babies and be happy.
Everything happens eventually. And my eventually has started.