Warning: not beta-ed and prolly riddled with mistakes, if there are too many, let me know and I'll try and go back over it.
Two and Two
There was a lot of movement around the house as the ocupants went about getting ready to head to the airport to bring Lachlan home. Cal Lightman would be picking his son up today with Gillian and his daughter daughters. Emily, his daughter with his ex-wife Zoe. His partner Gillian's four year old adopted daughter Sophie, their two biological daughters together, almost two year old Ruby and nine month old Lacey who had been born with Down Syndrome. They had adopted a child together as well now, three year old Julie Irena who had been born in the Ukraine. They had adopted the little girl through a special needs programme, chosing to add another child with Down Syndrome to their growing family, Julie had been their's since the previous August.
While in the Ukraine adopting their little girl, the couple who had married when Ruby was two months old, had been told that the little girl had an older biological brother who was also waiting for a home, he was a healthy child who had just turned nine the September just been. The family were looking to welcome their newest member, Kolya, in early to mid June. But for now it was time to head to the airport and pickup Cal's only biological son, Lachlan. The boy had been conceived while Zoe and Cal had been on one of their many off periods and had been born in the United Kingdom. His father had always been in his life but from a distance. Now due to his mother's indifference and his current best mate's move home, Lachlan Lightman was about to join their chaotic household on a perminant basis.
The Lightman kids were loaded up into their family mini-van and they were off to the airport. Kids were aruging in their carseats as they drove along. Gillian Foster couldn't help but smile at her new husband. The couple had married when their first child together, Ruby, was just a few months old. Gill loved her growing family, it had been something she had thought she might never get.
"Mommy, Julie hit me" Sophie complained from her place in the back seat.
"No" the three year old disagreed, shaking her head, her blonde pigtails flying around her face.
"Both of you need to put your hands on your knees and leave each other be" Gillian scolded gently, she was use to the in car bickering by now.
"But I didn't do nothing" the older child argued.
"Mama, no me" Julie added her own two cents, the younger child was limited in her vocabulary, which was atributed to both her special needs and her having only recently been adopted from another country where English was not the main language.
"Daddy and I don't want to listen to arguing" she reminded the children "remeber our rule?" the mother prompted.
When neither girl replied, Gill went on "If we start aruging or fighting in the car then everyone needs to sit quitely with their hands on their knees until Mommy or Daddy say so".
It had been a rule put into place shortly after Julie had come home from the Ukraine, she and Sophie would often bicker, although Ruby was known to join in with them too. Lacey was still a bit young for the rule to work, but the mother was determaind to maintain structure and peace within her family as best she could. The car had two seats up the front, driver and shot gun, then a row of three behind them, the middle, Lacey's carseat was on the right side, leaving the other two empty, the three seast across the very back row housed the other three carseats. Julie behind Lacey, Sophie in the middle and Ruby on the other side of her.
When Sophie started to whine again, Cal spoke up "hey, listen to your Mum".
The girls reluctantly did as they were told, placing their hands on their respective knees and closing their mouths. Smiling at her husband, Gillian pushed the play button on the car stereo and 'the wheels on the bus' started to play. Little Lacey giggled out loud and clapped her baby hands together, the youngest member of the family loved music.
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Booth was pacing in the waiting area, anxiously awaiting his son's arrival. His baby daughter was held against his hip as he paced. She was starting to fall asleep with the repetitive movement of her Daddy's pacing. His partner and the mother of his daughter was sitting over by a big window that looked out over the runway with their five year old foster son Andy. The child was talking fast and pointing at the different planes out the window, like most little kids, he loved planes.
"When's Parker gonna be here?" Andy asked as he bounced up and down happily.
"Very soon, his plane should have landed by now" Brennan told the boy as she looked at her watch and then at the arrivals board.
"We just have to wait for him to come through customs" she explained to her foster son, who really had no idea what that meant.
She noticed another family sitting near by who seemed to be waiting just as anxiously as they were. Booth had given up his pacing and come to sit with the rest of his family as he waited. Booth too had noticed this other family. There was a teenage girl, who must be about the same age as Cam's daughter Michelle, probably eighteen or nineteen. She was sitting next to a man who looked to be in his fifties with his head of greying hair. The woman next to him was clearly younger but probably not by more then ten or so years. The woman had a baby in her lap, a girl Booth was guessing by the pink top she was wearing. On the man's lap was a toddler, who was likely a year or so older than the baby, who looked to be around Christine's age, coming up on a year. Two more little girls, with blonde hair, one in pigtails and the other in two braids stood over at the big window like Andy.
The older of the two blondes turned and asked "Where's Locky?" and Booth put two and two together and figured out that this was Parker's new friend's family.
The FBI Agent walked over to the couple and introduced himself "Hello, I'm Seeley Booth, I believe my son Parker is friends with your son" he said, offering his hand to the other man, who shook it in greeting.
"Cal Lightman, I'm thinking you're right, Locky's mentioned Parker" the other man said, confirming his thoughts.
"This is Temperance Brennan" Booth said, indicating the woman who was holding a now fussing Christine.
"Nice to meet you" she said to the couple.
"I'm Gillian Foster, Cal's wife" the older mother introduced herself, " that's Emily, Cal's daughter" she said pointing to the teenager "and these are our daughters, Sophie, over by the window, the one with the braids" she then pointed to the next child "next to her is Julie, I'm holding little Lacey and Cal has Ruby" she said, finishing up the introductions on their part.
"This is our daughter Christine, and our son Andy" Booth stated, he rarely introuduced Andy as his foster son, he considered the child as much his as the two who were his by blood.
The two families sat and talked to one another as they waited for their sons to arrive. Brennan found it nice to talk to another step-mother. She also was very interested in the adoptions of Sophie, Julie and soon Kolya. She told the other woman of their own adoptions, of Andy being their foster son and of Joya Kim waiting in South Korea for her parents to bring her home and of their newly confirmed match, a little girl in a orphange in the Philippines who had just turned six in December. The match had been confirmed in the car ride over. They had only seen a small photo of the girl on Bones's smart phone after their adoption social worker had rung to tell them the news.
Their conversations were interupted by the sound of Sophie yelling "Locky's here" before she took off at a run and hugged the boy around the middle. The two kids stood side by side with their blonde hair and matching tired looks.
"Hey Bub" Booth said with a wide smile as he pulled his son into a tight hug.
The kid hugged him back and breathed in the smell that was his Dad, he had missed him so much, he hadn't been home since his visit shortly after Christine was born. Although Andy had not been in Booth and Bones care at the time, the two boys had met before, Booth and Bones having stayed in the boys life for nearly two and a half years after his mother's case, while the bridge was being fixed. And of course he had talked to the kid via video chat over the web when he checked in with his Dad once a week.
"Parker, Parker, Parker" Andy said, bouncing once more and trying to get the older boy's attention.
"Hey Andy, good to see you" Parker said, allowing the five year old to join their hug.
When Booth released Parker, he pulled Andy on to his hip and watched with a wide smile as his son went over and hugged Bones and kissed his baby sister on the head in greeting.
"Welcome home Parker" Bones said to her stepson as he pulled out of the hug.
"Thanks Bones, it's good to be back" he said with his Booth grin in place.
A/N: Yeah, not the longest or the best chapter but you can kid of see the themes right? I'll be introducing some of the other families as I go. Next Chapter will have some NCIS and Criminal Minds characters for sure! Please review and let me know what you think. I'm back studying at the moment so I don't know how often I will be writing between now and when I finish my degree next year, so bare with me.
