I used to make blanket forts with my brother and cousins when I was a kid, so that was where the inspiration came from.

GalaxieGurl (thanks! You're always one of the first to review. It doesn't go unnoticed), LoveShipper, kareneb (thank you also for always being one of the first few to review, sorry I don't have any follow-up plans for the previous one-shot), FaithinBones (yeah it's always tough on kids when parents are away), 554Laura, gatewatcher, Lauwy (I love Booth in dad-mode too), grc73, yoshimi0701, jsboneslover (hmm true, my son talked later than his sister too), mendenbar(man I know how that feels, I have a disc problem too), Nelapl, conservativegirl. A BIG thank you all for such a bumper crop of reviews for the last chapter. It's GREATLY appreciated. I think of all my stories, these one-shots are the ones I love writing the most. Gooey, fluffy fun, well most of them anyway.

Sorry for the longer A/N. Time to see Booth be a Dad to his oldest child. Enjoy!

First Time

With dinner over and his hungry children fed, Booth was busy in the kitchen loading the dishwasher. Knowing he would not have such an opportunity as often as he liked, he stopped to admire his children in the family room. Brennan joined him, coming to stand beside him, slipping her arm round his waist.

"It's nice to have all three of our children under one roof."

"Yeah." Booth agreed. "It's nice that Hank and Christine get to spend time with their big brother. I think Christine likes being the little sister when Parker's around."

Parker, now sixteen, was spending the summer with them. This was a rare chance for Booth to spend precious time with his oldest son whom he saw less of than he would have liked. Booth pulled Brennan closer to him and pressed a kiss to the top of her head. The parents stood admiring their offspring as Hank who was seated on Parker's lap, tried to destroy the small city of blocks that his older siblings had built.

"They have more time together tomorrow. Hank's getting a little fussy. It's bedtime." Brennan untangled herself from Booth's arms and went to collect her two younger children.

Booth watched as Parker picked up his little brother and handed him to Brennan, before giving Christine a hug goodnight. He then stood up, joining his father in the kitchen.

"Can I help?" Parker asked as he perched himself on the stool at the counter.

"Nah, I'm just about done anyway. Want some dessert?"

"Ice cream?"

"Sure." Booth moved to the fridge, pulling out a few tubs of ice cream from the freezer. He started to scoop chocolate ice cream into a bowl, then reached for a banana from the counter top.

As he started to slice the banana, Parker spoke, "Dad?"

"Yeah?"

"How did you know Bones was the one? Like how did you know you would marry her and love her for the rest of your life?"

Booth sighed as he stopped slicing and looked up at his oldest child. He knew the day would come and it had come too soon in his opinion. "You got some girl you like back in England?"

"Maybe."

Maybe. He now knew how Pops felt when he was deliberately vague in answering the questions his grandfather had for him, especially when it came to questions about girls.

"Right. Bones and I. Well, would you believe it if I told you it was fate?"

"Yeah I can believe that. I know the story of how Dr Saroyan told you to go get Bones' help on a case you couldn't solve, but like how'd you know she was the one?"

Booth quirked a smile, thinking back of the first time he had laid eyes on Brennan. "It was love at first sight. When I saw her for the first time, I thought she was the most beautiful woman I ever met. We didn't exactly get along at first. In fact, we got on each other's nerves a whole lot but when I got to know her more as a person, I just kept falling deeper and deeper in love with her."

He decided he would not bring up the sexual tension he had always felt between them, and the fact that back then, she sometimes made him so mad that he wanted to push her up against a wall and kiss her senseless.

"Really? You guys didn't get along?" Parker asked incredulously. His childhood memories of times with his father always had his step-mother included in them. As far as he could remember, where Dad was, so was Bones. He remembered swimming in her pool, Christmases together and trips to the park or museum. Even before his father and Brennan got together.

"Yeah. I think she even hated me for a time."

Parker laughed. "Well I'm glad she doesn't hate you anymore. I'm glad she's my step-mom now."

"Me too."

"When you guys first met… did you… like want to sleep with her?"

Booth coughed. It dawned on him what Parker was actually trying to ask. "Parker, you haven't… you haven't slept with a girl before right?"

"No. Not yet. Honest."

Booth breathed a sigh of relief. In the back of his mind, he thought he might have a heart attack if he were to have the same conversation with Christine.

Parker continued to speak cautiously, "I'm curious. Your first time was definitely not with Bones, obviously cos you already had me. And I'm pretty sure your first time wasn't with Mom too so…"

"You want me to tell you what it's like?" The conversation was getting a little uncomfortable.

"I see stuff on tv and my friends talk about it. It's not like I can have this conversation with Mom or any of her boyfriends. I mean is there something you're supposed to do? Like so you don't mess up or make a fool of yourself?"

"Right. I hear what you're asking. So this girl you're interested in… you're seriously thinking of your first time, with her?"

"Maybe."

"Listen Parker, I know I'm gonna sound like a hypocrite but you know being Catholic, and as your father, I'm gonna say you shouldn't be having sex, not until you're married. But you're sixteen, and I obviously didn't follow any of that so… all I gotta say is you need to be a gentleman okay? I mean your first time, and if it's hers too, it's gonna be a little awkward. You guys might make some mistakes, but it could be amazing and exciting too. Just make sure, absolutely sure, it's what she wants, and don't rush things okay? Take time to make sure she's ready for you before you do it and…" Booth pointed the knife in his hand at Parker, "always use a condom okay? I'm not ready to be a grandfather and you're too young to be a father. And I don't want you getting any STDs either."

Booth stopped talking, allowing what he had just said to sink in with Parker. He placed the banana slices into the bowl with the ice cream then topped it off with whipped cream and a cherry before handing the bowl to Parker.

"You're only sixteen. You've still got lotsa time. There's a girl out there who's that special someone you're meant to spend the rest of your life with. Just be patient. Don't rush into things you're not ready for. Cos when you sleep with someone, the two of you are always gonna be connected in a special way. I know it's hard to understand when you're a teenager and all you wanna do is impress your friends."

The teen nodded as he scooped ice cream into his mouth. "So how old were you when you lost your virginity?"

Booth didn't really want to go into specifics with Parker. He hadn't exactly followed the advice he was giving his son.

"Your father was sixteen." Brennan who obviously had overheard Parker's question, answered before Booth could. She entered the kitchen, helping herself to a bowl of coconut ice cream Booth had prepared for her.

"Bones!" Booth hissed.

"He's old enough to know Booth."

Parker grinned. He had always appreciated Brennan's candidness. She had always treated him like an adult.

"Yeah so I was about your age." Booth cleared his throat, a tad embarrassed that his teenage indiscretions had come back to bite him.

"Who was it with?"

"Amanda Lindberg, behind the bleachers after a football game your father played in." Brennan again replied on her husband's behalf.

"Bones!"

"Whoa… Dad. That's like totally opposite of what you just told me."

"Look Parker, I'm not exactly proud of what I did back then alright? We were seeing each other for some time, she was a cheerleader and I was the quarterback. It's kinda clichéd and thinking back now, I wasn't exactly a gentleman. A girl's first time should not be on the ground with a horny teenage boy."

"Being sixteen, it was very likely that your actions were ruled by testosterone rather than rational thought at the time."

"That's not an excuse Bones. I tell Parker these things so he learns. He needs to know that he has to treat women right. Pops made sure I understood that too."

"I get it Dad."

"You can choose to wait Parker. You shouldn't feel like you need to give in to social pressures." Brennan added. "And your father is certainly a gentleman. He wishes you would be one too."

"I know."

"My first time was when I was twenty-two."

"Really?" Parker was not too surprised Brennan was sharing such information with him.

"I decided that pursuing my academic career and putting relationships on hold was a better choice for me then. I wanted also to wait to lose my virginity to someone older and more experienced. That way I would be able to learn from my first sexual encounter with a man and I surmised it would be more enjoyable for me as well."

"Bones just stop. You know I hate thinking of you with some other guy."

"I know that because of your alpha-male tendencies, you wish now that I had lost my virginity to you but that would have been impossible since we had not met each other then." She turned to address Parker.

"Sexual intercourse is like many other things in life. It takes practice to perfect any skill one wishes to learn. As such, your first few times, especially given your youth might not live up to the expectation that your friends might have helped set up in your mind."

"Bones!" Booth glared at his wife. "Are you trying to encourage him to have more sex?!"

"I'm simply stating a fact Booth. Didn't we agree that our children should always have all the information they need to make decisions on their own?"

She continued her advice to Parker. "Always practice safe sex. It would break our hearts if you were to contract any sexually-transmitted disease. Of course, you should not be thinking about procreating a child with a girl at your age. Your education is paramount for now. The decision to bring a child into this world would be a conversation for another time with your Dad and I when you're older."

Booth couldn't help but smile at his wife. She never ceased to amaze him. "I already told him that, well not in that exact way."

Parker grinned. He finished the last remnants of his ice cream. "Thanks for the advice guys. I'm gonna think about what you said. And don't worry Dad. I don't think I'm gonna do it any time soon, so you don't have to freak out."

"I'm not freaking out."

"I'm gonna go to my room now."

"Goodnight Parker."

"Night Bones."

Booth blew out a breath as Parker left the kitchen. "He's growing up."

"Yes, he's turning out to be a fine young man."

"So your first time with the older guy, that Professor of yours, it was enjoyable huh?"

"Well certainly not as enjoyable as with you." Brennan fisted his shirt and pulled him towards her for a kiss. He tasted the coconut ice cream on her lips. Their kiss deepened and she moaned softly. "Like I told Parker, enjoyable sex comes from more practice."

Booth smiled into her lips, but caught her wrist as she tried to pull his shirt off him. "Not with Parker home. What if he needs a drink of water?"

"The bedroom then." Brennan headed to their room, turning to flash him a sultry smile she knew he could not resist.

…

Lying on his bed, throwing a basketball up in the air and catching it, Parker could hear his step-mother laughing softly as she walked past his closed door. Shortly after he heard his father call after her as he took jogged past. Parker had an inkling as to what they were about to do and the thought grossed him out. He forced the thought aside. He knew what his father and step-mom had was special and rare. He didn't see it in his mother and her boyfriends and he didn't see it in his friends who had professed love to each other either. He had witnessed the ups and downs of their relationship and the fact that they were still together was testament to the strength of his parents' love for each other. It provided a good example for him to attempt to follow.

He resolved to wait. His father was right, he was young and still had time. His step-mother hadn't been wrong either, he didn't have to bow to peer pressure. His first time may or may not be with that special someone but he hoped that he would grow up to be lucky enough to find that special someone, just like Brennan was to his Dad.

I wish we got to see more of Parker in the show. Especially teenage Parker. Hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it.