This prompt comes from JMHaughey, and I saved it, then struggled to write it, for her birthday. Which was only four days ago, so better late than never. ;)

Thanks to Some1tookmyname for, well, being awesome. But also the read-through. :)

It had been a long two weeks apart. Booth left D.C. in mid-December to assist with an investigation in the middle of Nebraska. It was the first time since Christine had been born that they need to travel away from the East Coast to investigate a crime. Booth was surprised when he encountered no resistance from Brennan regarding their current situation.

"Having to investigate from the lab is far from ideal, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with both of us leaving Christine for an extended period of time at her age."

However, it was only supposed to be one week. Booth arrived to supervise evidence collection and sign off on sending them to Brennan. But weather delayed the arrival of the remains, which prolonged the period of time between the squints work and Booth's ability to narrow in on a suspect. That extra time turned a week into 10 days. And finally, when Booth was ready to go, Omaha sent away all of their planes to brace for an incoming blizzard before Booth could get on a single one of them.

By day 13, Booth had found an all-terrain vehicle to rent and drove to Chicago in time for O'Hare to start flying planes again. But, between the long lines of people who had been bumped from earlier flights to the new airports being shut down in the Northeast (where the blizzard that had stopped him in Nebraska had traveled to), he was stuck yet again. Far from home.

After hours of aimless walking, he spotted an empty corner in a hallway where he could sit down– a premium spot to nab given all the seats and much of the floor space of the airport belonged to other stranded travelers. He settled in, before fumbling for his phone and checking the time. It was 10:59 pm in Chicago.

Which meant in one minute, the clock would strike Midnight in D.C. and he would be missing the start to his daughter's first Christmas Eve.

Another 'baby's first' to be missed. And the worst of it was he didn't know how to make it home by Christmas Day.

He started to nod off when he heard his name being paged over the loud speaker.

He almost hesitated to leave the spot he finally found on the floor, until he realized that the call of his name might mean there was a spot on a plane for him.

He walked to three separate airline desks until he found a courtesy phone and got directions to the correct desk in the next terminal over.

"Hi... Special Agent Seeley Booth. You guys called for me?" he said, flashing his identification.

"Ahh, yes. Mister... uh, Agent Booth. Your plane is here."

"Oh... that's great. Which airline am I flying out with?"

"No airline, sir. Your private plane is outside these doors... down the stairs and across the tarmac."

"My private... what?"

"Right through here, sir," the attendant said, opening the door and waved him through.

Confused, Booth started out the door and down the stairs, only to realize there were several planes on the tarmac and he didn't realize which one the attendant was talking about.

As he started walking down a row, his phone rang and he answered it distractedly.

"Hello..."

"Booth. We're over here..."

"Bones! You're at the airport. You're here?"

"We all are. Christine and Parker are with me," she told him, as he turned down the aisle of another plane in search of her.

"I don't understand..."

"Well, the weather had cleared, and I knew how sad you were going to be, if you missed Christine's first Christmas Eve, so I talked to Hodgins..."

"Ah, you borrowed the Cantilever jet..."

Brennan spotted him from her spot on the stairs of the plane, and ran down them toward Booth, calling his name.

"I can hear you, Bones!" he shouted, turning a corner and running smack-dab into a refrigerator.

"Booth!" Brennan called out, one last time before she stumbled over a washing machine.

"Oww..." they both cried, from their respective positions on the ground.

A baggage handler saw them both crash into the set of appliances, and let out a chuckle as he walked over to them both.

"You know, you won't run into the top 10 appliance brands just anywhere."

And for those non-USAers, the commercial reference can be found at YouTube by searching "Connecting Flights, This Season's Must See."