Author's note: This is a really fast moving chapter, not as slow and easing as the others, this chapter is also a two parter. Technically.
Booth looked towards the doorway and saw Christine and Michael walk in, arms linked. He smiled, Michael was always a good man for his daughter, he already knew Booth had access to a gun.
"It's about time, Hodgins." Gavin smirked.
"Yeah, I thought I'd have to kick my own butt." Zack laughed.
"What we going on? Alex nor Mason is here, and now we got Alf." Parker said.
"Can I play Dad?" Jacob asked.
"Sure bub. What are the teams?" Parker looked towards his family.
"How about me, Parks, and Jake, against Gav, Alf, and Hodgins." Zack snapped.
"Seems good." Alfie laughed.
The four men went outside while Jake came over from Jack, who was still showing Logan bugs. Michael turned to Christine. "I'm only gonna play a couple of plays."
"Michael, go have fun. Look Logan is fine. Just go have some fun." She insisted, he seemed so attached to her and Logan, she didn't want him to not go and have a football game with the guys.
Christine talked with her mom about Logan, she seemed genuinely happy about the whole situation, and then Booth came and sat down next to his girls.
"Sweetie, I have one question." Booth said sternly.
"Daddy, look I know what you are going to say." Christine said, warning her father.
"What was I going to say?" Booth asked his daughter, and she put her head down.
"I didn't actually know. It's just a thing girls say." Christine said honestly.
"I was going to ask, why did you wait so long to tell us?" Booth asked.
He could not wrap his head around the fact his daughter held something so big from him. Was it that she just didn't want to? Was she afraid of how he might react? Was she afraid of him?
"I just wanted Logan to be comfortable with us, as his parents, before we had everyone meet him, we wanted it to the perfect timing, so he could feel safe, especially after what happened." Christine said, hesitantly.
"What happened?" Booth got very concerned.
"Well, about a week ago, he turned the TV too loud, but instead of turning it down, he started screaming and crying and he ran to the bathroom. And he seemed fine, he fell right asleep when Michael brought him in." Christine looked down at her feet.
"Oh my, sweetheart, it's terrible to not know what's going on, isn't it." Tempe said, hugging her daughter.
Michael was outside, all roughed up from the game that they were still playing, he bent down, and stared at Zack through the eyes as Zack smiled. "You're going down Hodgins."
Alfie called hike, and Zack came barreling at Michael and pushed him back and onto the ground but Michael knocked his head on a decorative rock.
"Dude, you alright?" Alfie had called off the play, and came over.
"I'm cool, let's keep playing." Michael said, standing up, but Zack grabbed his arm.
"You are most definitely not cool. Look on the rock." Zack said.
Michael turned and noticed their was indeed blood on the rock. He reached his hand up and felt the spot that hurt, and he moved his hand so he could see it, and there was blood on that too.
"Dude, you're bleeding, like a lot. Chrissie, Mom." Parker said, calling for the girls.
Christine came out and saw Michael with blood all over his hand, and came running to him, while Katie ran to get an icepack and a bandage and stitches.
"Michael, why didn't you call for me when you hit your head?" Christine asked, holding his non-bloody hand.
"I didn't think anything of it." Michael said earnestly.
"Listen to me, okay. This may be just a little injury, but what happens if you really get hurt next time. You need to think with your head." She said, poking at his chest.
"Kind of hard to do with a cut in it." Michael laughed.
Christine kissed him, there in front of everyone. Man, did it feel good to kiss him again. And when she pulled away, she saw a smile on his face.
"I can't tell if this feeling in my stomach is from that kiss or the fact that I'm still loosing blood. But I like it." Michael laughed.
Ashley took Riley and Jake home, while everyone else with the exception of a few had went home. The people that stayed either were staying there, or were helping out.
Katie and Parker cleaned up, while Zack watched Logan, and Alfie fixed the backyard. Tempe and Booth had been told to relax, and Christine was trying to sew up Michael's head.
"Come on Chrissie, we can't just let them clean up by themselves." Michael said, bouncing his knee.
"If you would hold still and stop acting like a 4 year old, maybe I'd be done by now." Christine gave him another stitch.
"Ow." Michael snipped.
Katie laughed, picking up the plates, to Zack. "You think they're married yet?"
"They sure act like it." Zack laughed.
Then they heard a knock at the door. Katie looked at her watch and then turned to Zack. "Alfie, come keep an eye on Logan, I've got my hands tied. Zack will you get the door?"
"Sure cuz." Zack handed Alfie a sleeping Logan, and then went to the door.
The knock got harder, and louder. "I'm coming, geez a genius can only move so fast."
Zack opened the door and just stared at the man in front of him. He was slightly taller, and had curly blonde hair and blue eyes, he was a little tan, but not much.
"Hey cuz, you wanna let me in?" said the man.
"Um Michael, we have a visitor." Zack called to the other room.
"Come on, man. I'm tired let's not play this game." He pushed against the door.
"You're tired because you're intoxicated again." Zack said, standing his ground, holding the door.
Michael came out feeling his head, when he saw the man in the doorway he stopped. "Why are you here?"
He smiled, waving. "Hey Mikey, mind letting me in, boy genius over here is being uptight."
Zack looked back at Michael, and after a minute Michael nodded to Zack. He moved from the door, shutting it, and went back over to Alfie who was with Parker at this moment.
"Take him to Chrissie in the other room now." Zack said, motioning to the room Christine was in.
Katie came in from the kitchen and noticed who was in front of her. "Alex. You're drunk."
It was indeed Michael and Katie's little brother Alex. His eyes were red and his voice was a slur, and he had a definite drunken smile. Katie and Michael stared at him, waiting for him to speak.
Alex laughed. "You know what's funny? I hear from my baby sister Lily, while she and Erin are at the mall, that there was a family gathering here tonight, and I wasn't even asked."
"Mom, told me you were working." Michael stated firmly.
"Was it that, or was it that you hate me and don't want me around?" Alex stepped closer.
"Just because I asked for you to stop coming around my place drunk looking for a place to crash to avoid Mom and Dad does not mean I hate you." Michael was telling the truth.
"But if it was Katie, you would have done it in a heartbeat, right?" Alex started to raise his voice.
"Katie wouldn't get drunk purely to get drunk." Michael started to raise his voice.
Logan squirmed in Zack's arms. Zack cradled the boy. "They need to lower their voices."
Christine turned to see Michael getting angrier by the minute. "Parker come with me. You two stay here and watch Logan, make sure he does not come out of this room."
They nodded and Christine and Parker left the room, joining the group of angry siblings. Alex's face lit up at the sight of his two cousins and laughed.
"What Michael want you two for backup, you're all against me now, eh?" Alex shouted.
"Alexander. You need to lower your voice. You are going to wake up my parents." Christine said firmly.
"Alexander is it now? Gonna yell at me, Alexander Bray. So much for family." Alex shouted.
Logan sat up at the noise. He looked around him. "Mommy! Daddy!"
Zack tried to shush the boy, as the screaming from the other room increased Logan covered his ears and gripped at his cheeks and started to cry. "Mommy! Daddy! Stop fighting!"
Zack hugged the boy, and whispered in his ears. "No little guy. They're not fighting, they're just in the other room talking to somebody. Okay, you're okay."
Then they heard Christine scream again and then Michael, and Logan went running out of the room and into the big fight, hands still over his ears.
There's more. Trust me, man you guys are lucky what is this three chapters in one night? To be honest they've all been halfway thought out, just minor details were not in order.