Author's Note: So sorry for making u guys wait sooo long...My twin and I turned 17 a few weeks ago and lets just say we woke up with killer hangovers and matching tattoos somewhere unmentionable. Either way mum was mega pissed and because of it we're mega grounded..I'm only sneaking on now because she's at work and Lola's watch out...anyway I'm really sorry and to make it up to you I'll try to post 2 chapters 2day...and finish out this story. So R&R ppl ur reviews are the only bright spots in my otherwise dark and gloomy days...
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters...sigh
Consume You
May Booth stared over at her son and Temperance, a tiny smile on her wise face. The two had showed up late and slightly flustered, on the part of the normally calm doctor anyway just as she was about to send John off to find them. May had had her her suspicions about the relationship her son shared with Tempe, and they were confirmed today in the way that Tempe's cheeks had flushed happily when Seeley had twined his fingers through hers, they seemed magnetically drawn to each other, even now while everyone was eating, those two had still found a way to be touching. May's eyes widened as she peeked under the table Seeley's hand had found it's way onto Tempe's knee and was tracing slow patterns on her bare knee. May cleared her throat loudly prompting a blush in Tempe's cheeks and a glare from John. John shook his head slightly as May opened her mouth to speak. He'd recognized her expression as a precursor to his wife at her most prying. May ignored his expression instead focusing her gaze on her son.
"So Seeley," May began, earning herself an exasperated look from her husband, "You and Tempe will be going back to DC together tonight right?"
Booth frowned slightly at the emphasis his mother had put on the word together, he knew this side of his mother, she suspected something, and he knew from experience that she would hound him until she got the answers she wanted.
Brennan stared silently waiting for Booth's answer, it was a simple enough question and here he was thinking it over as if someone had asked him to explain the Law of Conservation of Mass. Brennan squeezed Booth's suddenly cold hand then smiled widely at his mother, "Yes we are, Booth will be driving us back, so in that aspect we'll be together, but then of course he'll be dropping me off at my apartment then after that I expect that he and Parker will go to Booth's home." Brennan glanced over at Booth who'd just gotten an oddly pale look on his face. If Brennan didn't know her partner as well as she did she'd say that he looked a bit afraid, as his mother began speaking again.
"You two don't live together?" May asked quickly, directing her question again to her son, and again Brennan answered it.
"Why would we?" Brennan asked reaching over Booth's still full plate to dab her moistened napkin around Parker's mouth, cleaning up the spaghetti sauce he'd gotten on his chin, while May looked on her expression confused, "Well, I just assumed, what with you showing up here with my grandson in tow and seeing the relationship that you two share, not to mention the blatantly obvious one that you seem to share with Seeley."
Brennan frowned at May's reply, then turned to Booth, "I don't know what she means, she made an assumption but I don't understand what she based it on."
Booth sighed tiredly, his partner's arm was still stretched over his plate, both stopping from eating, something he didn't really mind, and making it so that they were essentially face to face with her breast brushing against his arm, this action was driving him crazy each time she moved. Booth stared into her wide and genuinely confused eyes feeling slightly angry at her confusion.
"I don't know Bones, it could be the fact that right now you -really-have-no-place-in-my-life, are reaching over me to wipe my kid's face, the same kid who you allow, if I'm not mistaken, to call you Mommy. Then of course Mom could also be basing her "assumption" on the fact that neither of us made it to Mass today, something that's right up there with using burning the Bible in this house, now that's gotta be enough of a basis for any assumption that she could come up with!"
Brennan frowned prompting another sigh from Booth, sarcasm was not the way to get through to Brennan, she was way too literal for that, a fact they both knew. Booth also knew that he had to change tactics if he was going to get through to Brennan. "Didn't last night mean anything to you?" Booth asked finally meeting Brennan's sky blue eyes directly. Brennan gasped then pulled away from Parker.
"Booth!" she cried, her cheeks flushing a bright red, a mixture of anger and embarrassment bubbling inside her, why would Booth bring that up?especially now! In front of his mother! Brennan's temper flashed then, and she glared at Booth instantly deciding that if Booth wanted to go there she would too.
"It did Booth, you know it did, but that doesn't mean that because we had sex...made love, that I'm just going to automatically move in with you! That's just, unreasonable!"
It was Booth's turn to feel embarrassed, "Bones, my mother is in the room!"
Brennan shrugged, "As is Parker, and you're the one that brought up last night first, not me!" she shot back angry now.
"You know Bones, sometimes you just-"
"I just what Booth?" Brennan asked her tone dripping with acid.
"You just, you always make everything so difficult." Booth replied not registering the numerous pairs of blatantly staring eyes on him.
"Difficult!" Brennan was yelling now, "It's all fairly simple Seeley, we go back to DC, to our separate apartments, and separate lives and everything will be back to normal."
"Normal?!" Booth's tone matched Brennan's, "When have we ever been normal? When was this," Booth motioned from himself to his partner, "Ever been normal?"
"We've always been normal partners in my eyes!" Brennan yelled back forcing back a sob.
"What? Do you even hear the words coming out of your mouth Brennan? We've never been close to normal! Normal partners don't make their partners the guardian of their only child! Normal partners don't spend just about every moment of every day together! Normal partners don't think about each other every spare moment. Normal partners don't sleep together!"
"Booth!" Brennan yelled angrily. "Ugh! I've had enough! I'm going upstairs and packing and leaving, and Booth you won't even have to think about me because I can get home on my own!" Brennan flew to her feet and stomped up the stairs before Booth could react. The loud bang of her door slamming sounded through the house and the suddenly quiet dining room. "Bones," Booth called after her, he moved to stand but Parker's tiny hand grabbed his. Booth glanced at Parker's suddenly worried face, the child's chin trembled and his eyes pooled with unshed tears as he stared over at his father. "How comes you and Mommy don't like each other anymore?" Parker asked his voice plaintive.
"Oh Bub," Booth began forcing cheer into his voice, "Bones and I still like each other, we just have some things to work out." Parker frowned his eyes flashing angrily as he dropped his father's hand, "No you made Mommy Bones angry, now she's gonna go away like my Mommy did!" Parker angrily brushed away the tears running down his cheeks then slipped out of his chair pushing past his father and out of the dining room. Booth watched Parker run up the stairs, his eyes following the tiny child until he turned the corner and rushed down the hall to Brennan's room.
Booth leaned back in his chair his hands over his face, he'd somehow managed to piss off the two people that mattered the most to him in less than 10 minutes.
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Brennan slid to the floor next to the bed pulling her knees up to her chest then burying her face in her knees. She sobbed soundlessly, this was all her fault, she'd opened herself up to Booth in all senses of the phrase. It was if last night when she'd jumped out of the window and into Booth's arms she'd given him more than her trust she'd given him herself and she'd thought that for maybe once in her entire life that she could be perfectly happy, and she was for a moment, and now here they were fighting. Brennan had opened herself to love and look where it had gotten her, again she was curled up, alone sobbing her heart out. What had she been thinking? She couldn't be happy, she couldn't have the perfect life who was she kidding she'd never had a perfect life, who was she to think that she ever would have that life with anyone?
Brennan looked up when she felt a tiny hand running through her curls. She brushed her tears out of her eyes then met Parker's tear filled cornflower blue eyes. "Mommy-" Parker began his voice soft. Brennan shook her head then pulled Parker onto her lap and into her arms. "Oh Park, shh Park, don't cry, everything's going to be okay." she said stroking his soft blond curls.
Parker shook his head meeting Brennan's eyes, "No it's not, you're not going to be my Mommy anymore, because of Daddy!" Brennan frowned brushing Parker's tears away with her thumbs, "Parker I'll always be your Mommy, I promise no matter what happens between your father and I."
Parker frowned, "But I want you to be my Mommy like normal kids, I want to be like everyone else, with a Mommy and Daddy that love each other and live in the the same house with each other not always arguing and yelling, I don't like when you yell, I don't like when Daddy makes you cry."
Brennan felt tears well in her eyes, she buried her face in Parker's curls inhaling deeply before speaking, "Parker baby, I love you, and I love your Daddy-"
"Enough to live with him and me?" Parker cut in quickly, an air of hope evident in his voice.
Brennan frowned, she looked up when the bedroom door swung open slowly revealing a sad eyed Booth, he smiled softly meeting Brennan's eyes squarely. Brennan could read a new look in Booth's eyes, one that sent a surge of warmth through her body. She smiled up at him, feeling suddenly happier than she could ever remember.
Booth grinned then came to sit next to her putting his arms around her and Parker. "Well Bones, answer the kid, do you love us enough to move in with us?" Brennan frowned then met Booth's laughing eyes, he hugged her tighter then kissed her cheek, "I'm sorry Bones, I overreacted." Brennan nodded, "Me too." Booth kissed her nose, making her giggle softly.
"Well are you gonna come live with us or not?" Parker asked pushing himself between the two partners. Brennan smiled then kissed Parker's cheek, "That depends,"
"On what? Daddy'll do anything for you."
Brennan's smile widened as she raised an eyebrow, "Really? You'd do anything for me Booth?"
Booth grinned then kissed her nose again, "Anything."
"Anything? Even move out and into someplace of our own? Because neither of our apartments are big enough for all three of us, besides it'll be hard to keep us a secret if Parker's stuff is all over my place and you've got my stuff in your apartment."
Booth frowned confused for a moment, "A secret?"
"Well yes, isn't it generally frowned upon for partners to have any kind of relationship other than a professional one?" Brennan asked running her hand through Parker's mussed curls, and prompting a squeak from the child. Booth sighed, "Well it's more than frowned upon, I'm pretty sure it's against the rules and grounds for our partnership to be terminated."
Brennan nodded, "Hence why it has to be a secret."
"And somehow our moving in together will keep it a secret?" Booth asked even more confused now.
Brennan nodded, "It will, if we keep our current addresses on file the same, and of course we'll have to keep our separate apartments in case anyone, mainly Angela decides to visit."
"Jeez Bones, any other requirements?" Booth asked taking this all in.
Brennan smiled sweetly, then met his eyes, "I'd like to adopt Parker, to make him mine, ours."
Booth smiled, "I'd love that, if Parker was okay with it, I mean .So whaddaya say Bub?"
Both adults looked down at Parker who beamed happily up at them, Parker threw his arms around Brennan's neck hugging her tightly, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" Parker yelled happily. Brennan hugged him tightly then met Booth's eyes over Parker's shoulder. Booth leaned in and kissed her lips softly his voice barely audible when he spoke, "I love you Temperance."
Brennan rolled her eyes, "It's Bones, Booth, and I love you too Booth."
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"Bye Grandma! Bye Grandpa! I'll call the moment we get home!"
May beamed widely as Parker waved out of the SUV window. She returned the wave until the SUV had turned the corner and disappeared from view. "Do you think they know?" John asked slipping his arm around his wife. May smiled up at John laughing softly, "They will soon enough."
This chapter was more of a filler, to get the story going again, so what do you think? Any q's comments or concerns are welcome! So review ppl!! U Know U WANNA!!!
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