Brennan never thought she was very good with children. During the rare times that she was alone with a child for an extended period, she couldn't help but feel old and awkward. Today though, she was having the most fun she had had in the last year; the tickle fight on her rug and Parker falling asleep on her abdomen, snoring lightly. She had carried him to the guest room and laid him to rest, then pulling out her laptop to work on yet another requested chapter. Brennan, who was usually dangerously focused on whatever task was at hand let her thoughts drift away to Parker, the young boy who was one half of the man she loved.
After she realized she had been daydreaming about Booth for the last five minutes, she started to type vehemently about Kathy Reich's adventures once again. Today, Kathy was babysitting Agent Andy's son Patrick for the weekend. This time she could admit that Kathy's day was truly based on her experience so far. Mid sentence, her thoughts were interrupted by a sleepy-eyed nine year old.
"Hey Bones, can we go swimming?"
"Parker, it's your day we can do whatever you want. Did you bring your swimming trunks?" Said Brennan while saving her work and closing her laptop, not realizing that Parker was already wearing his trunks.
"Of course I remembered them! I'm wearing them! But I forgot my sunscreen; can I borrow some of yours? Are you sure the pool is open? It's in the middle of December, but I am sure the pool is open because it is really hot out, right?" asked Parker.
Patiently, Brennan answered all of the questions and smothered on the sticky white substance onto Parker's face. Brennan thought about how domestic this scene felt. Recently, she had been thinking about family life way more than usual, though the possibility of starting a family anytime soon seemed more distant at that moment.
It's just your natural, maternal instinct. There is nothing wrong with you.
"Can you teach me how to do a cannon ball? I don't know how to do one and Mom won't teach me because she thinks I will use it for evil. I asked Dad but he keeps on telling me that he will teach me when he has time, but he never has time now because he's always Hannah" said Parker went on as he and Brennan walked through the lobby to the pool.
"I highly doubt that your father is constantly in the presence of Hannah. Also, yes, I would love to teach you how to do a cannon ball, as long as you don't use it for 'evil' as your mother believes you will. Although I do not see how it simple, socially popular dive could cause much harm. "
"Cool! I told you that you were cool."
"My temperature is within a normal range - oh, you meant that I have an appealing personality. Thank you."
When they finally arrived at the pool, both Brennan and Parker were pleased to see that surprisingly, there was no one else there. After reapplying sunscreen and laying out their towels, Brennan and Parker jumped into the pool creating a massive splash. Parker was first to get back up onto the surface of the water, but Bones was nowhere to be found. Paddling around the pool, Parker felt someone grab is leg and pull him under water. He was scared at first, but then he realized that it was just Bones playing a prank on him. When they reemerged, the pair was laughing hysterically. After a splash fight, Brennan attempted to teach Parker the general concept of the physics of a cannonball.
"The size of the splash is directly related to the amount of force of the jump. What I mean is how hard your body hits the water. The harder the hit, the bigger the splash; so the answer to your next question is, to get a powerful hit, you need to run really fast and jump really high. Being heavy helps too," said Brennan as she demonstrated a perfect cannonball resulting in a huge splash.
Parker tried to do the same thing next, but even though he ran fast and jumped high, his body was not squeezed tight enough to make a big splash.
"Aww… my splash wasn't big. And I did what you said!"
"Your run and jump was absolutely perfect, but now all you need to do is to apply more force per cubic centimeter of water," explained Brennan to an absolutely confused Parker while sitting on the edge of the pool. "What I mean is that putting more force on a tiny amount of space instead of less force on a big amount of space will make your splash bigger and a lot less painful. All you have to do is pull your legs into your body tighter and squeeze as hard as you can."
Parker got out of the pool and tried again, using all of Bones' advice. His splash was bigger this time. Each attempt Parker made resulted in a bigger and bigger splash. His next splash completely soaked a previously dry Brennan sitting at the edge of the pool. Parker beamed and Bones clapped as she took him in for a hug. Little did either of them know that Booth was watching the two most important people in his life lovingly from afar.
Man she looks so hot in that bikini. What am I thinking? I just had sex with my beautiful, smart and funny girlfriend and I am already thinking about other women? But Bones isn't just any other woman.
"I brought subs!" said Booth as he approached the couple "Meatball for Hannah, me, and Parker and veggie for you Bones."
"Thanks Booth. Parker, I think that it means that it is time for you to go home now," said Brennan, getting out of the pool.
"Please, Dad, just a little while longer?" begged a sopping wet Parker.
"Fine, but I'm really hungry so I'm going to start eating my sub."
As Booth went to take a bite of his meatball sub, Bones cannon balled into the water, soaking Booth and his sub.
"Bones…." whined Booth.
"I am so sorry! I didn't realize that my splash would be that big," apologized Brennan, "here you can have half of mine."
She opened the Styrofoam box to hand some of hers to him. That's when Parker had a brainstorm. He ran as fast as he could and jumped really high and pulled his legs together and made the biggest splash yet, soaking Booth, Bones, and the entire box of subs. Booth and Bones stood there, dripping wet not knowing what had hit them.
"Oh, I am so sorry! Now what are we going to eat?" said a pleased Parker.
"Maybe you can invite Hannah over to my place since you two are already here. I can cook my famous mac and cheese!" offered Brennan.
"Yeah, please Dad?"
"Okay, fine, but only if you agree to be nice to Hannah."
"Duh, Dad of course I will!"
This is going perfectly. All I need now is for mass chaos to somehow strike.
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