Temperance was waiting impatiently in her office when her phone rang. Booth had persuaded her to let him pick Anna and Lily up from school, and he was late. She saw the caller ID and answered immediately.

"Booth, where are you?" She answered.

"Hi momma!" She heard her daughter pipe up on the other end.

"Oh, hi Annabelle." Temperance said, relieved that her children were okay. "Honey, where are you guys?"

"Booth took us to get ice cream." Lily said as she took the phone from her twin sister. "He wanted us to call you and tell you so you wouldn't be mad at him." Temperance sighed as she heard the phone being passed once again.

"Hey Bones…" Booth said quietly.

"You used my daughters to soften me up?" Temperance said loudly.

"Bones, they said that they were hungry…"

"Booth, you could've called." Temperance said. "I was getting worried."

"Why, was the great Temperance Brennan jumping to conclusions?" Booth asked. Temperance could practically hear him smiling through the phone.

"Booth, I'm a different woman then the one you left here five and a half years ago." Temperance said coldly.

"I'm sorry Temperance." Booth said sincerely.

"It's fine, Booth. I'm sorry for overreacting." Temperance apologized. "I'll see you when you get back."

"Alright, Bones." Booth said. He was about to hang up when Temperance spoke.

"And Booth?"

"Yes?" Booth asked.

"I expect my daughters to be clean of ice cream when they arrive." She joked.

"You got it, Bones." Booth chuckled. "Bye." He said, closing his phone and glancing into the backseat of his SUV at the twins. Anna saw him glancing at her and smiled. He saw Anna and Lily's mouths covered in ice cream and sighed. "Girls, we're going to have to clean you up before you see your mom."

"How come, Booth?" Lily asked.

"Because your mom will be mad if I bring you back to the Jeffersonian with ice cream all over your faces." Booth explained, focusing his gaze back on the road. The girls were quiet for a brief moment, and then he heard them giggling. "Annabelle and Lilian, what are you doing back there?" He asked, not able to look in the rear view mirror because he was turning.

"Nothing!" Anna and Lily squealed from the back seat. Once he had finished turning, Booth quickly spun his head around and saw Anna and Lily wiping their mouths on one of his new shirts that had been in a shopping bag.

"Girls!" He whined. Anna and Lily started laughing as they threw the shirt on the ground.

"Sorry Booth." Anna said.

"It's ok…just...don't do it again." He gently scolded them as he pulled into the parking lot of the Jeffersonian. He got out of the car, then opened the door to the backseat to find Anna and Lily completely covered in ice cream. "Oh boy…"

"We could go in the bathrooms and clean up." Lily volunteered. Booth thought about that for a moment, then decided that it wouldn't be wise to allow these certain five-year-olds in a bathroom by themselves.

"No, I think we'll get Angela to help us." Booth said, guiding the sticky children into the building. "Now don't touch anything and don't let mom see you." Booth explained. Anna and Lily did a fake salute, then entered the Medico-Legal Lab.

They followed Booth, completely acting like little agents. They pretended that their fingers were guns, and backed themselves up against a wall if anyone walked near them.

"Alright girls, we made it to the elevator." He said. When he didn't hear a reply, he quickly turned around and saw Anna tumbling on the ground towards him while Lily was walking backwards with her 'gun'. Booth laughed, then waited for the girls to enter the elevator. What he didn't see was that Anna had left a trail of ice cream where she had tumbled.

"Aunt Angela!" Anna and Lily squealed as they entered her office. They ran to her, but didn't hug her. Angela questioned it at first, then saw the remnants of ice cream all over the girls' clothes.

"Ooh, Booth." She said. "Brennan's gonna kill you."

"Yeah, I already knew that." Booth said, running his fingers through his hair and making it spike up. "Can you help me?"

"Well lucky for you I went shopping yesterday and bought the girls new outfits." Angela said.

"Really?" Anna and Lily said excitedly.

"Oh no, don't tell me you transformed Bones' kids into shopaholics like you?" Booth groaned as Angela pulled out a large bag.

"Sweetie, this is me you're talking to." Angela said as she fished out the twins' new clothing. "I guess it's a good thing there was a sale at the shoe store." Angela said, gesturing towards the girls' pink clogs that were also covered in the sugary treat.

"Can we just hurry this up? I don't want Bones to find out." Booth said as Anna and Lily ran to him with a handful each of clothes.

"Booth, should we wear these jeans skirts…?" Anna asked.

"…or should we wear this?" Lily asked, holding up two little workout outfits, one blue with purple trim and one pink with orange trim. Booth didn't even have to think about it.

"Those." He said gesturing towards Lily's pick. "Your mom would kill me if I let you wear that skirt in winter." He chuckled, looking at Angela and noticing that she was staring at him smiling. "What is it?"

"Nothing." Angela said quietly as Anna and Lily shoved him out of the office so they could change. Once they were done, Booth reentered and saw Angela putting their auburn curls into two braids.

"Do these two always match?" Booth asked as he sat down on Angela's couch and a much cleaner Annabelle jumped into his arms.

"No." Anna answered.

"See? I have pink and Anna has blue." Lily said, climbing into Booth's arms.

"Now girls, what are we going to tell mommy?" Angela asked with her hands on her hips.

"That Aunt Angela bought us new clothes and wanted us to try them on…" Anna began.

"And we didn't want to take them off." Lily finished, smiling.

"Oh, we have to clean off their faces." Booth said. Angela nodded, then brought some baby wipes from her desk over to Booth. He had finished Lily's face and was almost done with Anna's when the door opened. He threw the wipe behind the sofa and saw Temperance enter the room.

"There you are." Temperance said. "Why didn't you come to my office first?" She asked as her daughters hugged her.

"Because Aunt Angela bought us new clothes and wanted us to try them on…" Lily began the charade this time.

"And we didn't want to take them off." Anna said, smiling up at her mother. It didn't take long for Temperance to notice the quarter-size glob of blue ice cream that was on her daughter's cheek. She didn't say anything, however.

"Booth, where are their other clothes?" She asked her partner as he tried to escape.

"Uh, Angela has them." Booth said, hiding the ice cream infested outfits behind his back. He was hoping he would be able to wash the clothes and return them without Temperance noticing.

"Oh really?" Temperance said, taking large steps closer to him. Booth nodded as she got extremely close to his face. He swallowed hard, which didn't go unnoticed by Temperance. "What's wrong, Seeley?" She asked, standing inches from his face.

"Nothing." He managed to squeak out.

"You're the one who wanted everything to be back the way it was." Temperance said, keeping his gaze as she snapped her arms around his waist, grabbed the clothes and pulled them out. "Aha!" She yelled, examining her daughter's clothes.

"Bones, I can explain…" Booth said.

"I thought I told you to keep my daughters clean, Agent Booth." She said, throwing the clothes on the floor and stepping closer to him once again.

"Bones, I was going to clean them and give them back to you." He explained. Temperance smiled, then quickly kissed his cheek, surprising Booth immensely. "What…what was that for?"

"For wanting to please me so much." She said, shrugging as she walked towards the door. Once she had left with Anna and Lily, Booth chased after her. When he reached her, he spun her around and planted one directly on her lips. He then spun around and was about to run away when Temperance grabbed his arm. "What was that for?" She asked.

"For being Temperance Brennan, the love of my life." Booth said, shrugging as he decided to enter the elevator with her.