Heart or Blood

Sorry for the terrible updates, I have had absolutely NO time at all the past few months. But finally I have some time and I'm hoping to finish this story soon, so updates will be a little faster, hopefully.

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Dinosaurs and Stargazing

Booth woke again to find Temperance missing from his side; before he could begin to panic as to her whereabouts he could hear the clattering coming from down the hall. In a second his muscles tensed. Until he realised, that the clattering was not because of a struggle but because Temperance was in the kitchen. He got up and padded his way to the kitchen where he found her preparing a picnic for later that day. He leaned against the door frame and watched her as she moved around the kitchen. A feeling of contentment washed over him as he saw her happily preparing for their family day out.

He watched her lost in time marvelling in her morning beauty. Temperance could feel his eyes upon her and looked up to see him gazing at her from the door. She saw the love in his eyes as his focus was utterly and completely upon her; she felt a rush through her much deeper than she had ever felt before. Since that fateful day when she had been abandoned by her parents at the age of fifteen she wondered if she would ever feel love again. As she basked in his loving gaze she knew she had found love again. To her it seemed quite unexpected that something that she had feared and tried to protect herself from for so long was now something that she couldn't bare living without.

Finishing packing the picnic she made her way over to him, wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into a loving kiss. His arms instinctively wove around her waist, pulling her closer to him; they deepened the kiss until the need for oxygen overwhelmed them. They remained in their warm embrace staring into each others eyes smiling at one another.

"Sorry I left you this morning, I didn't want to wake you, I hope I didn't worry you"

"You have nothing to apologise for Temperance" pulling her into another sweet kiss.

Eventually they pulled apart "We'd better get ready Parker will be here in half an hour"


A knock sounded at the door, Booth went to answer the door as Temperance emerged from the bedroom.

"Hey, come in" he said stepping back from the door so they could enter.

"Hi Bud"

"Hi Dad" Parker said as he jumped into his fathers arms. He saw Dr Bones over his Dad's shoulder and wriggled back down to the floor and ran into Dr Bones' arms.

"Dr Bones, I missed you"

"I missed you too Sweetie. Are you excited about today?" she looked at the excitable boy who was nodding his head vehemently.

"Thanks for doing this; you have no idea how excited he has been about today" Rebecca smiled as she watch them interact. After the ordeal Parker had been through she had thought he'd come back a wreck but thanks to the woman before her he was pretty much his old self; and for that she owed everything to her. "I'd better go I have to get to work, I'll pick him up on Thursday, all his stuff is in the bag but just call if he needs anything" She walked over to Parker and gave him a kiss "Bye Park, see you on Thursday. I love you"

"Bye Mom. I love you too"

She looked again at Temperance an smiled "Again I can't thank you enough" her voice sincere.


They arrived at the Jeffersonian. Their first stop being the lab, they walked through the glass doors. Temperance looked around her and was glad to be back but the pull the lab had upon her seemed to have weakened. She glanced beside her and saw Booth and Parker between them and she knew this was home; they had taken the labs place. Don't get me wrong she saw the squints bustling around on the platform and she wanted nothing more than to get her blue lab coat and dive right in. But for the first time in her working career she wanted nothing more than to spend the day with her boys and forget the lab.

She was snapped out of her thoughts by a loud "Hey Dr B" which then alerted the rest of the squints to their presence, and they all rapidly came from the platform to greet her.

"Hi everyone"

Ange was the first to dive into her arms "Hey Sweetie, I missed you sooo much"

"Ange I saw you yesterday"

"I know, but you have no idea how weird it is coming into the lab without you being here"

"Thanks Ange, I missed you too" the artist beamed at her and moved aside to see Parker.

Hodgins soon stepped in and embraced the doctor. "Welcome back Dr B, you had us worried there"

"I was too" she whispered, so that only Hodgins could hear.

He pulled back and smiled knowingly, his piercing blue eyes shining a thousand unsaid words.

Zach was next into the doctors arms "I'm glad to see that you're recovering well and I hope to see you back at the lab soon Dr Brennan"

She patted him on the shoulder with an open hand and smiled at her graduate "Thanks Zach"

As Zach stepped aside Temperance saw Cam in front of her, both looking equally awkward. Temperance held out a hand, but instead of taking the handshake Cam gave Temperance a hug. Slightly taken aback by this response Temperance didn't know what to do so she awkwardly patted Cam on the back.

"I'm glad to see you're well Dr Brennan, you can take as much time off as you need" she smiled and moved back.

They remained with the Squints for a while and talked about everything other than the kidnapping. They laughed and joked and to a stranger on the street it would seem that nothing so tragic had ever happened. Everything was so normal.

As Temperance watched the interaction in the group, she realised that this would still be her family, but she had one of her own now. She looked at Booth and Parker; once up on a time she would have thought this moment to be completely impossible, but now a life without her boys would be an impossibility.

Before they departed Temperance had a quick word with Ange to help plan the surprise for later that day. Booth entered Angela's office and found that they quickly stopped talking, their eyes wide.

"What are you two planning?"

"Nothing, you just surprised us that's all" Temperance said as she made her way over to him and took his hand in hers

"Okay" he said not completely convinced "We'd better get going" giving her a kiss on the cheek. As he pulled back Temperance pulled him to her lips. They broke apart as a squeal emanated from Angela; they looked up to see her smiling giddily.

"See you later Ange"

"Bye have fun Sweetie" she watched her favourite non-couple turned couple walk out of her office hand in hand and let out a contented sigh.


They sat under a tree in the Jeffersonian gardens enjoying their picnic. Booth sat with his back against the tree trunk with Temperance leaning against him, her head resting his shoulder. Birdsong drifted in the air masking the fact that they are in the middle of the bustling city that was Washington DC.

Though most of the food was finished now Parker sat by their feet happily eating a carrot stick.

Not long after they packed up and made their way back to the Jeffersonian to the dinosaur exhibition. Parker went ahead bouncing with excitement, Booth and Temperance walked at their own pace in a comfortable silence their hands entwined.

Parker looked behind before he rounded the corner.

"Daddy...Dr Bones hurry up"

They chuckled at him "I don't think the dinosaurs are going to go anywhere" which earned another chuckle from Temperance as she pictured the mounted skeletons coming to life and walking around the Jeffersonian wreaking havoc.

They approached the exhibit. Parker saw the huge skeleton in the centre of the room; he stopped completely and stared at it in awe, his eyes huge as they wandered over the ancient structure. He looked at Dr Bones "Dr Bones what is that?"

"That's a Diplodocus"

"WoW its huge, what did it eat?"

"It's a herbivore"

"Bones, he's a kid, she means that it eats plants and stuff"

"Dad I know what a herbivore is, Dr Bones taught me" he beamed at her as she congratulated him by telling him what a genius he is. Booth watched this exchange and he couldn't help but smile at how brilliant they are together. And he was getting a feeling that soon he'd have two squints in the house if they continued to spend so much time with one another.

They went into the next area of the exhibition; the room dominated by the prominent figure of the Tyrannosaurus.

"Is that a carnivore Dr Bones because it has really big teeth?"

"Yeah it is"

"Daddy that means that it eats meat"

"Thanks Bud" smiling back at Parker, and mock glaring at Temperance for laughing.

They continued to walk around the exhibit, and then Parker looked up at his Dad "Dad you don't know much about dinosaurs do you?"

"I don't know as much as Dr Bones but I know a bit about them"

"Like what"

"What do you call a dinosaur with no eyes?"

"I dunno"

"A doyouthinkhesawus"

Parker started to giggle and he turned around to see Temperance completely perplexed.

"I don't think that's correct Booth"

"Bones it's a joke" the confusion wearing on her features still hadn't eased "a do you think he saw us" he said slowly.

"Well if he was blind then it's evident that he wouldn't see you, and if all of them were male then the species wouldn't have been able to reproduce. Its not logical"

He laughed and slung an arm around her shoulders "Bones, Bones, Bones" he said whilst shaking his head.

Once at the end of the exhibit they went to the shop where they bought Parker a toy dinosaur. After taking ages to decide between the Tyrannosaurus and the Diplodocus he finally settled on the Diplodocus and was now carrying it by its long neck. They exited the shop and Booth was about to make his way to the exit.

"Booth you're going the wrong way"

"No I'm not"

"Yes you are, come on follow me" Booth and Parker followed wondering where on earth Temperance was taking them. They wove around the corridors of the Jeffersonian, it was just past closing time and the halls of the Jeffersonian were silent apart from their footsteps and Booth and Parker constantly asking where they are going.

Booth knew she was up to something when he saw her talking to Angela earlier that day; she never had been a good liar. He had used his charm smile to no avail, wherever they were going she wasn't going to tell them, and much to his disappointment he couldn't even guess as he had never been in this area of the Jeffersonian before.

"Bones are we there yet?" he said like a tiresome child.

She looked back at him and rolled her eyes "We'll be there in a minute"

They came to some double doors and walked inside. The room was absolutely huge; the area was full of seats with a domed ceiling. If the room wasn't completely circular he would have thought it was a cinema but there was no screen. He scanned the room again and saw the console, his stomach dropped at the thought of her bringing him to a lecture of some kind.

"Hey Bone lady" Sid greeted

"Hi Sid"

Booth looked at Sid; which momentarily confused him, was that her surprise? Was he going to give us a talk about dinosaurs? Then he saw Sid hand her a couple of takeout bags he said his goodbyes and he left. She told them to go sit and dish out the food. He watched her as went to a console at the back of the room trying to figure out what she was up to. Then the lights began to dim and the domed ceiling came to life; mapping the planets and stars.

"WoW" Parker said in awe as the ceiling drifted to planets and galaxies.

Temperance made her way to where the boys were sat. As soon as she sat she had Booth pulling her into a hug and pressed a thankful kiss upon her lips "Thanks Bones this is amazing"

She smiled back at him "I'm glad you like it"

"I love it" pulling her into another kiss "I love you"

"I love you too Booth"

They ate their food and stared at the stars in their reclining chairs.

"That one there is Orion's Belt" Booth pointed out.

"You know the constellations"

"I learnt a few when I was in the Rangers" as he mentioned his past he felt her hand which was entwined with his give a comforting squeeze. "And I know that one from The Men in Black" lightening the mood, not wanting to taint this blissful day.

"I don't know what that means"

"It's a film Bones"

"Oh"

They continued to point out different constellations; though Temperance did most of the pointing. It was getting late so they started to tidy their mess, once done Booth lifted Parker who had fallen asleep and they went home.

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