A/N: Sorry I was MIA for two days, I had a lot of interesting stuff going down, but I'm back. And while I can't promise up dates every day I can say I'll try my best to do one at least every other day if I can. I might even put up another chapter tonight, if I don't get home to late. Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed, it's made me so happy to get so much feed back, keep it coming! Now, here's the newest chapter. Oh and I know something crazy is going to happen soon, but I'm not sure what, if anyone wants to see something happen give me your ideas, I really wanna know where readers see this going.
After working out the visitation schedule, (two weeks in the summer, the day after Christmas to New Years Eve, and a day whenever they're in DC), Angela decided they had to celebrate as a family with a picnic, and everyone agreed. They went their separate ways to get food and other things for the park, and to change into more casual clothing, agreeing to meet up in an hour.
Parker didn't have much by way of clothing at Booth's house, because his things weren't going to be brought to the house until the next day, but they were able to find something relatively normal looking for him to wear. Booth, Brennan, and Parker arrived at the park before Angela and Hodgins did so they took it upon themselves to find a place to sit and eat. "How about at the picnic tables?" Brennan asked the two Booth boys.
"No, I wanna eat under that tree, please? That's why we have the blanket." Parker smiled up at Brennan, who quickly gave in. As they were setting down their things and spreading the blanket, Parker spotted Angela and Hodgins walking down the path. "Aunty Angela!" Parker yelled waving to the two.
They walked over, Angela looking shocked at the new title bestowed upon her by the little boy. "Hi Parker, since when am I Aunty?"
"Since now, Mommy Bones says that you're her family, so that makes you my family too, so you're Aunty Angela, and he's Uncle Jack." Parker said in a mater of fact way with a large smile on his face. All the adults were shocked, suddenly Brennan was mommy Bones and Angela and Hodgins were Aunt and Uncle. "That's okay, right?"
"That's fine bud, you're right, we're all family now," Booth said, the first to recover from the shock of hearing his son call Bones Mommy. "Now, who wants sandwiches?"
Everyone took a sandwich from Booth, and settled in to eat and make small conversation, mostly listening to Parker talk about how happy he was, and about anything he could think about. After eating Booth, Parker and Hodgins went to play football, Booth and Parker vs. Hodgins, while Angela and Brennan sat and watched.
"He called me mommy, how am I supposed to respond to that. I'm not his mother, and I don't want Rebecca to feel like I've replaced her." Brennan said, worried that maybe she made a mistake by doing this. She never expected to be called Mommy in her life.
"Sweetie, in a way you have replaced her, you're the one who's going to be here with him most of the year, you're the one who's going to tuck him in, and check for monsters, you're going to help with homework, and take him to school, and take care of him when he's sick. In every way it counts, you're his Mom, and that he already sees you as such, that's big, and it's good, don't ever doubt that."
"But, what about Rebecca, how is she going to feel if Parker talks to her about me as his mom, how is that going to make her feel?" Brennan was still worried.
"It's not something you need to worry about, she's the one who wanted to take Parker away from Booth and never let him see his father, that's not fair. Rebecca will always be Parker's birth mother, but she clearly didn't care about him as much as she should have. You heard what Parker said in court, he said he wants to live with you and Booth because you care more, and you want him around, Rebecca seems to care more about her new husband then her son, and that's not right."
"You're right, but what if Booth and I become like she was, we're just starting our relationship, and it's going to be hard now with Parker with us all the time, I don't want this relationship to fail, but, I don't want Parker to feel like he did living with his mom." Brennan didn't know how everything would work out okay, she wanted to believe they could handle everything, but she couldn't see how they were going to be able to.
"There's always me, and Hodgins, and your father, and Russ, I know everyone will be willing to watch Parker for a night so that you and Booth can have some alone time. That's what Aunts, Uncles, and Grandfathers do; spoil your child so mommy and daddy can have some time off."
Brennan smiled at her friend, Angela always knew the right things to say to make everything better, she felt lucky to have someone who would listen to her petty problems and help solve them. Her attention was dragged back to the boys when she hears Parker yell. "Mommy, help!" Her heart stopped for a second when she heard that yell, but she simply smiled when she saw why he was yelling for help, Booth had his son over his shoulder and was running with him while Hodgins chased them for the ball.
Booth looked over at her for a moment and smiled before heading in their direction, Parker still over his shoulder and Hodgins in hot pursuit. When they reached the blanket Booth crouched down behind Brennan trying to keep her in between them and Hodgins. "Booth men are stinking cheaters! We're playing two hand touch, and Booth got Parker to jump on me and steal the ball."
"Hey, I didn't get him to do anything, he did it all on his own, so don't blame me. Anyway, he's just a kid he doesn't know any better." Booth smiled in triumph.
"Mommy Bones, will you come play with me, Daddy and Uncle Jack just keep arguing, they're no fun," Parker said pouting from his place in front of his father, who was still bickering with Hodgins over something.
"Sure, but I don't really know anything about football though." Brennan said with a smile.
"That's okay; we can just throw it to each other. Aunty Angela, do you wanna play too?"
"No thanks Parker, I'm gunna stay here and keep an eye on these two."
"Okay, come on Mommy Bones, I'll teach you the best way to throw a ball." Parker said gabbing Brennan's hand after she stood and pulling her over to where they were playing earlier.
Booth and Hodgins eventually stopped arguing; when Angela pointed out they were acting like children for no reason. After they stopped arguing, Hodgins turned his attention to Angela, and Booth sat back and watched Brennan and Parker play. He smiled at the scene, Bones wasn't able to throw all that well, but Parker didn't seem to mind. Both had large smiles on their faces and they would laugh every time one of them made a really bad throw.
"She looks happy doesn't she?" Angela asked him, breaking him out of his thoughts.
"Yea she really does, you know last night she told me she always thought she was happy before, but now she realized that she wasn't. When she first told me she would help me, I thought she meant pay for a lawyer and be there to hold my hand when I lost, but, she's really been there for me, she's really invested her self for my best interest, and I can't thank her enough. I love her Angela, I really truly do."
Angela couldn't believe her luck, she was hearing all the dirt about this, without having to beat it out of someone, this was the best day ever. "Tell her that then, tell her you love her, and that you never want her to leave. Make sure she knows how much you appreciate and need her, that way she'll never want to leave."
Booth smiled at her before turning his eye back to Brennan and his son, "I'll tell her, and I'll make sure she never wants to leave, because without her, I would be lost." Angela smiled, happy that her friend was finally with a guy who actually deserved and loved her, Brennan deserved the best, and that's what she has now.