It was Christmas Eve and Brennan was making cookies for Santa with Christine and Hank.
"Mommy, is daddy gonna be home tomorrow?"
"He's going to try to be sweetheart, but he might need to work some more. Even if daddy isn't home when you get up you two can still open your presents."
"I wanna wait for daddy come home!"
"Me too!"
"Okay we'll wait. Brennan smiled and wiped a chocolate smear off Hank's cheek.
"We should leave cookies for daddy too, in case he come home before we get up."
"Go get another plate."
"I'll do it!" Hank climbed off his chair and returned a minute later with one of his plastic Thomas the Tank Engine plates.
"Christine can put the cookies on the plate. You both can choose which ones to leave out for him."
"Okay."
A few hours later Brennan was on her way to get the kids Santa presents when Booth came in the front door."
"You made it home, Booth!"
"Yeah, just for tomorrow though. I gotta go back for another two weeks the 26th."
"The kids will be happy you're home. Christine asked me tonight when we were making cookies if you'd be home tomorrow. I told her that you were going to try to get here, but you might need to work. I told them that they could still open their present's weather you were here or not and they both decided to wat for you to come home before they opened anything. "
"Aw it's a good thing I made it home then."
"Yeah. Help me get their stuff under the tree."
"Sure."
After everything was put out, Booth noticed the extra pate of cookies glass of milk.
"Who gets the other plate of cookies and glass of milk?
"You. Christine wanted to leave some out for you in case you got home before they got up. Hank got the plate out of his drawer."
Booth chuckled sat down on the couch with his cookies and milk.