Booth pulled the rental car into the drive way of Buffy and Angel's home. He'd always loved this house. It was a two storey white washed family home. The first thing you noticed when you drove up was the great big porch out the front and the green mowed lawn with a garden up front. Two bikes lay on their sides near the front steps and there was the paper still on the front lawn from where a paper boy would have delivered it this morning. This was the type of home he would have loved to have owned and raised Parker in. A home with a yard where they could through the ball around, a yard with a BBQ where he could invite friends over, a house with a master bedroom where he would make love to his wife and make more babies. Ahh! Shaking his head at his inner thoughts, his two bedroom apartment just didn't quite cut it.
Bones was surprised when she saw the sheer size of the house. Booth had said she could stay be she had not assumed that his brother would have such an enormous house. It was large and very suburban. She was so used to living in the city in D.C. that you forget that families live like this. It was well kept but could do with a coat of paint. She felt a small pang of envy and was quite surprised at herself. She was a very rich woman and could live anywhere she wanted but this house screamed home and it was not a place that you lived in alone. Maybe one day, maybe!
Booth let Parker push the doorbell and when Buffy answered the door she squealed excitedly at seeing both Seeley and Parker. She had known they were arriving today of course but was just so thrilled to see them.
"OH my, you really are here." She said pulling Parker into a hug before he could say anything. "Oh goodness Parker you have gotten so tall. You're nearly as tall as me now." She let him go from her hug and put her hands on either side of his face just looking at him. Of course this was making him decidedly uncomfortable and he began to wiggle.
"Hey Aunt Buffy. Where are Harry and Al?"
"They're out in the yard baby if you want to go out and see them."
"Can I dad?" He turned to his father and asked.
"Sure thing bub, but remember to play nice with each other." Before he had even finished his warning to Parker, Parker had bolted out the back to find his two cousins that were the closest to his age.
"What just like you boys used to?" Buffy said looking up at him with a great big grin on her face.
"Come here you." Booth said pulling her into a bear hug and lifting her off the ground.
"Oh goodness Seeley put me down," she said with a light laugh at the end "You'll do your back in again, I weigh a tonne."
"Never, you were always light as a feather. How is my newest little niece or nephew doing in there?" He said having put her back on the ground and was now kneeling in front of her belly with his hand placed on her protruding stomach.
Bones was looking in on quite intrigued by both their verbal and physical exchange. This small blonde woman, she figured Buffy was maybe 5" 3' or 4', seemed to have no boundaries when it came to physical contact with either Parker or Booth. Looking down at the back of Booth's head where he was stroking Buffy's well rounded belly and, although she could not see the look of longing on Booths face as he looked at Buffy's belly, she knew it was there.
"Good but very active, even the twins weren't this bad. I'm sure I have bruises on my internal bruises from kicks." Again, ending her sentence in that light hearted laughter while rubbing her hands lovingly over her belly.
"Actually most mothers are mistaken into thinking that. Is it is very common to feel a lot of movement from the baby as your uterus and all of its supporting ligaments and muscles are stretched to the limit. Some women feel a lot of discomfort, especially when the baby kicks or moves. It is more feasible that the baby is kicking against a nerve, and that can cause the pain to radiate or move to more distant parts…"
Booth cut her off rolling his eyes at her clinical description of an off handed comment from Buffy. Looking back at Buffy who was looking interested in what Bones was saying. "Oh Buffy this is Dr Temperance Brennan, my partner, Bones this is my sister-in-law Buffy." He said introducing two of the most important women in his life to each other.
"It's nice to meet you." Said Bones, putting out her hand to shake Buffy's.
"It is so good to finally me you Dr Brennan. Seeley and Parker talk about you all the time we feel like we already know you. Come here, we're not that formal around here." Before Bones had a chance to ask what she meant, the small, blonde pregnant woman had her arms around her hugging her.
Bones awkwardly patted Buffy on the back while leaning back out of the hug. "Please, call me Tempe."
"Ok then Tempe." Buffy let her go without noticing her awkwardness and ushered them into the house. "Seeley you can put your bag in the den and Parkers up in Connor's room if you'd like. I'll go and put the coffee on." She turned and walked toward what Bones suspected was the kitchen while Booth dropped a bag at the bottom of the stairs and proceeded up the staircase with the other. Bones looked from one to the other and decided to follow Buffy.