DISCALIMER: I don't own Bones and i don't make any money from it.
'Chapter 4.
When he however woke up the next morning Bones was right next to him in bed sleeping peacefully as always.
He smiled a little as his girlfriend before bending down to kiss her lips gently to wake her.
Temperance fluttered a little with her eyes before meeting his saying, "Hey handsome."
"Hi beautiful, so what happened last night?" he asked a little concerned.
"Spider nightmare, I shouldn't have done what I did yesterday, even if I only did it as I know it is a legitimate way to get ride of your fear," she said with a sigh.
"I know you did it with good intentions, but it will take more than that to get ride of her fear, it's the same as you and the digger," he said.
Just the mention of that name made her shiver and look at her with scared eyes saying, "That is very different as I could have been killed and lost you."
"I know and I'm sorry, but she's looked up for good now, she can not harm you in any way. All I am saying is that even if that is a way to handle fear it might not be the right way for our little girl, maybe we should just continue to kill the spiders as it is the right thing to do," he said looking at her with loving eyes.
"I know, but it still scares me and you may be right about that," she said as she slowly lay her head down on his chest to rest.
His hand was gently caressing her slender body when there was a gentle knock on the door.
"Come in," Booth said and their daughter answered and slowly walked over to the bed before getting up into it and settling at the end of it looking at her parents.
They were in her eyes a very loving and devoted couple even when they disagreed. They both cared equally for her in every way. And they were each others equals. They were in her eyes perfectly made for each other and she was in a way the evidence of that. That was why she did not get that they were not married so they young girl decided to ask them about just that at just that moment.
She looked both set of parents in the eyes and asked, "How come you never got married? I mean it's obvious you share mutual affection for each other and also me. So how come we live at two addresses and you two never got married when you do love each other?"
Her parents sat up exchanging confused look. Of course both knew that this question would come sooner or later, they just didn't expect it to come quite yet. And even if they knew it would come, neither had prepared and answer for it.
The young girl looked at them with impatient eyes, her mother resting on her fathers arm.
"Bones," Seely said, meaning she would be the one to answer this time. They usually took terms answering the difficult question their daughter somehow asked. And considering her smartness there were quite a few off them from time to time.
"Little Booth you know that in today's society you have all kinds of families. You got the classical with a man and a woman that are married, then you have the single parents and the family with stepparents and stepchildren to mention some. We belong to the first category with a man and a woman that have a child, you.
Why we are not married is because I am a little bit against marriage as they don't always last and also because I don't need a gold ring to show the world I belong to your father, that he already knows in the same way as I know he belongs to me. As for the two places it was mostly because we liked both the places so much that we didn't have the heart to sell any of them," she answered.
The young girl nodded wisely as she asked, "But even though you are not married you will not break up right?"
"No, never, we love each other too much," said Seely, tickling her chin a little making her giggle.
"Good, I need to do some stuff before school, thank you for answering me," she said with a smile, slowly getting out of their bed.
"You are welcome little Booth," said Temperance as she opened the door and left them.
Booth turned to his girlfriend and asked, "Good answer, but honestly do you think we should sell one or both of our places and get a bigger instead?"
"I don't know, I really like both as they are a part of us, but on the other hand if we later decide we want more we would need a bigger place as well," she said thoughtfully.
He nodded before saying, "Also it would be better for little Booth to live in one place and not two."
"I agree and did she just say she had to do something before school?" she asked.
"Yes, why?" he asked.
"What can she possibly do before school, she's six," said Bones wondering if she should be worried or not.
"You know how she is, probably reading or something else, are you picking her up after or am I?" he asked her.
"I will, then we are coming back to the lab," she said.
"You really want more?" he asked.
"I think I do yes," she answered as she had been thinking a lot about that lately.
"So two Booth's messing up your lab isn't enough?" he said with a smile.
"As long as they are all as lovable as you and her I could have a million, but now we have to get up or we will be really late," she said, slowly getting up from her comfy position and out of the bed.
"In all fairness a million will be a bit too much," he said with a chuckle getting out and after her.
"We'll take it one of the time," she said as she heard her daughter talking to someone in her bedroom. She did sign to Seely to be quiet as she slowly opened the door to check. To her surprise her daughter was standing on a chair talking to something high above her which Temperance could only assume was a spider's nest.
"Little Booth you are aware of that it's spiders right?" Temperance asked.
"Yes, but they are only very small, even smaller than the one at work, so even if I do not like them too much it would be wrong to kill them as they are only babies," she said looking at their mother.
"And their mother?" asked Booth.
"Dunno thankfully I haven't seen her around," said little Booth.
"Maybe she knows you are afraid and only comes in when you are away," Booth suggested.
"Don't be silly Booth, it's a spider and spiders are not capable of knowing or caring about that," said Bones rolling her eyes a little.
"I think daddy is right," said little Booth smiling at him.
"See I am right," he said smiling teasingly at Temperance.
"I give up and either way I have to shower and get dressed and so should you," she said nodding at her daughter.
"Uh huh," she said as the door to her room again closed leaving her to herself again as she heard her parents argue on their way to the bathroom further down the hallway.
She just smiled to herself as she didn't mind, after all she was used to it for one thing and for another it wasn't unfriendly arguing in any way. It was their way of in a weird way loving each other. Maybe that was also why she sometimes argued with her mother, she had after all learned from the best, her father.
She sighed as she slowly took her eyes away from the tiny spiders to get dress not wanting too be late. Just as she did so the big spider came out to tend for the young ones. But that the young girl never saw, so maybe, just maybe her father was right.
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