A/N: Okay, so I wrote this story over at the Boneyard and decided to post here. It's an epilogue of sorts to a series of six stories I wrote about B&B getting together and getting married. However, it's not really necessary to read those before reading this however I did want to point out a few things because I got some reviews asking about it. In the fics, Rebecca gives Booth joint custody and Booth asks Brennan to be Parker's legal guardian and Parker starts calling her Mom. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Chapter One: Waiting

He sat with his elbows on his knees, his hands cupping his cheeks. The mass of blonde curls on his head always threatened to spill over in front of his face, but they never did. He was sad and he wanted the waiting to be over. He turned to the man sitting next to him.

"Daddy?" he asked.

"Yes, Parker?" Booth replied.

"When's Mommy coming back?" he said.

Booth sighed. It was at least the hundredth time Parker had asked this question, although he couldn't help but ask it himself. Bones had been gone for two and a half weeks and was expected to be gone for at least two weeks more. She was on a dig in Cairo, excavating remains for the Egyptian government. When she had told him she was going, he barely protested. He knew that she had compromised on a lot of things in their relationship, marriage being a primary one and he was anxious to show her that her former life would not end just because they were married.

It was a short eight months ago that they were married and he could scarcely believe it.

"Not for another couple of weeks, bub." He replied.

"Oh." Parker said, sadly. "Will she be back for my birthday?"

Booth smiled to himself. Parker's birthday was several months away.

"Definitely earlier than that." He said.

"Oh, okay." Parker replied, satisfied with his answer.

After a few moments silence, Parker spoke again.

"Daddy, why did she have to go?"

Booth had answered this question before too.

"She is helping out the people in Egypt." He replied. "It's important for them to find out what happened to their friends and family too."

"I miss her." Parker said softly.

He thought of her smile and her hair in the sunlight, how she laughed at him in the morning when he tried to fake sleep, and how she kissed him assertively and passionately, leaving no room for doubt that he was the one she wanted.

"I miss her too bub." He replied.

"Well.." a voice came from above the stairs. "What are you two doing here?"

"Hey Angela." He said, turning and smiling as Angela made her way down the platform stairs. He struggled to find an answer for why they were here. Somehow it just felt right.

"Don't worry." Angela said, seeing the look on his face. "I understand why you are here. I miss her too,"

"Yeah, well…" he said, shrugging his shoulders. "We ran out of things to do at home, didn't we bub?"

"Yes." Parker replied. "I already wrote my letter for Mom and drew her lots of pictures."

"I am sure you did a good job and that she will enjoy the letter." Angela replied. "Now listen you two mopes, why don't I get Jack and Zach and we head over to Wong Foo's?"

"Sounds good, Angela." He said, smiling gratefully. "What do you think bub?"

But Parker wasn't paying attention, he was too busy staring at the figure who had just entered the Jeffersonian.

"MOM!" he shouted, leaping off the steps and running towards her.

She dropped her bags and knelt down just in time to catch Parker who launched himself into her arms. The momentum of his hug was too much and they fell over, giggling.

"Mom, I missed you so, so much!" Parker cried, his arms wrapped so tightly around her neck that she could hardly breathe.

"I missed you too Parker." Brennan replied, choking back the tears. She glanced up at Booth who was grinning from ear to ear and rocking back and forth on his feet, like an impatient little boy waiting for his own turn.

"Lots and lots of stuff happened while you were gone!" Parker said.

"Well, let's go to Wong Foo's and you can tell me all about it, okay?" she replied, moving towards Booth.

"Okay." Parker said happily.

She stood in front of him, breathing in his scent and fighting the urge to wrap her arms around him. She thought to herself 'Why fight it?' and propelled into his arms.

His lips were immediately on hers and she felt a ripple of desire flow throughout her entire body. God, she missed him. Finally they pulled apart, panting.

"I thought you had two more weeks." He said.

"I was homesick all of the sudden and I just wanted to come home." She replied honestly. "I missed you."

"I missed you too Bones." He said, his voice low and husky. "And I love you."

She barely managed to squeak out an 'I love you too' before his lips were on hers again, flooding her body with love and desire.

"Mom?" Parker asked, looking at them and tapping his foot impatiently. "Dad?"

They pulled apart and turned to him.

"Can we go to Wong Foo's now?" Parker said.

"Yes we can." Booth replied, linking his arm around her waist. Parker grabbed her other hand and the two men in her life lead her out the door before she even had time to say hi to anyone else.

But she wouldn't have it any other way.