OK! Last chapter! Let's see if you can guess who the neighbours are! It should be fairly obvious from the changed story category. Please don't kill me because of it but I spent the last almost two weeks watching NCIS over and over again (not that I'm complaining) and I had that written in my head almost instantly and it sounded ok! If you are confused about anything, PM me or review and I'll try and clear it up.
Ending of TTITD.
"Honey the neighbours are on their way over to say hello."
"Make sure to let them in Booth, I mean Michael."
"Love, you can't forget. We are Michael and Natalia Weatherly now."
"And we have a two year old daughter named Abigail Weatherly and our eldest child, a boy, Mark died in a hit and run shooting, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, the killer was never caught. I know, Michael!"
"The neighbours are here now sweetheart, let's put on a show!"
She rolled her eyes but plastered on a pleasant smile.
They opened the door and got a good look at their new neighbours for the first time. The man was of medium height, slender and looked Middle Eastern with his dark hair and eyes and olivish skin. The woman was slightly shorter than the man, had dark brown hair cut to shoulder length, brown eyes and pale skin. She was wearing a cross on a chain around her neck. She was also, by Brennan's estimate, about twelve weeks pregnant. Brennan looked for any religious indications on the man but could not find anything. The woman stuck out her hand first.
"Hi. I'm Katherine, please call me Kat, and this is my husband Elijah."
The man extended his hand, first to Booth, then to Brennan.
"Eli," he said.
Brennan placed his accent as Israeli. She also received the impression that he was a man of few words.
Brennan extended her hand, to Kat, then Eli. "Natalia," she said "but please, call me Tali, everyone does."
The man jerked at the name but before Brennan could question him, there came a sleepy "Mommy?" from behind her.
She turned to their daughter as 'Michael' introduced himself to Kat and Eli.
"And this," said Brennan, turning back to the conversation with a slightly more awake Emily in her arms, "is our daughter Abigail, Abby for short."
This time it was Kat who reacted to the name. She went pale and put a hand over her mouth and bent over slightly as if she had been punched in the stomach. An almost inaudible "Oh my God" slipped from her mouth.
The man's reaction was instantaneous. He turned to his wife and whispered "Neshomeleh, what is wrong?"
She straightened up and turned to 'Natalia' and 'Michael' "I'm sorry," she said, "but I have to go."
Eli took her arm, made his own apologies to the couple and supported her back across to their home.
Brennan turned to Booth.
"Well," she said, "that went splendidly, didn't it?"
Booth laughed at her.
"We'll get more chances in the future to make it up to them. We are going to be here for a while."
Brennan smiled sadly at that but turned and went back inside the house with her family.
THE END
I may write a sequel, if enough people want one. And I may write it anyway. But please, tell me either way!
So... how'd I do?
