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Chapter 12

That amazing kiss held more emotions than all my life together, it was so intense and it felt so right…like coming home. And it's right now when I realize that Home is not the Jeffersonian, it's not my house or Booth's, home is wherever Booth and Parker are. It's beside them and taking care of them and letting them take care of me. I still don't want to get married and I'm not sure about having kids on my own, even more after what happened to Parker, but I love Parker and I wouldn't mind quite the contrary actually, now that I think about it, spend the rest of my life with the Booth boys and that scares me a little, but only because I'm not sure Booth or Parker wants the same. But for now what we have is enough, besides it's too soon to think that, and there's still the trial tomorrow but I want a future with them on it. I can only hope they want it too because now I know what it feels to be more than partners with Booth I can't go back to be only friends.

With this thoughts running through my mind I feel my eyelids drop and I finally succumb in the arms of Morpheus.

Booth's POV

As my alarm clock goes off I start to come back to the world of the living and everything that happened yesterday comes rushing back, all the bad things: the trial, Rebecca, Camille, Parker's beatings; but also the only ray of light that I had yesterday, my Bones. But even the thoughts of her are not enough to lift up my spirits. I'm definitely not looking forward to whatever happens today because it can end up being a great day or a horrible one.

I get out of bed and start heading for the bathroom, which is connected to my bedroom by a door. As I get inside the bathroom I start the shower and while I wait for the water to warm I shed PJ bottoms. I get in and start washing my hair and body, once I finish I turn off the water after rinsing myself and I envelop my body in a towel. I go to the closet and take out a black suit, a white shirt and a black tie to match my mood and also to give it a more formal look for the trial, I open a drawer and I take a pair of black socks and black boxers. I get myself dressed and go back to my bed to wake Parker up. As I get near him my cell phone starts to ring.

"Booth" – I answer without looking the caller ID because I'm too busy now leaving the bedroom carefully trying not to wake Parker up. I start heading to his bedroom to get him some clothes to put on him after his bath.

"Good morning Booth" – Answers a beautiful voice from the other side of the line matching the beautiful person it belongs to.

"Morning Bones, how are you?" – I ask as cheerfully as possible, which is not much, but I must admit that listening to her voice it really helps.

"I'm fine. I would ask you the same but I think I know the answer" – She says a bit bluntly but she's speaking the truth so I don't really mind – "I was calling to tell you about breakfast. Yesterday, I talked to Angela and Hodgins. They asked to meet the three of us for breakfast today, if that's ok with you of course" – She says in a rush and I know there's something behind all this and I think the topic it's pretty clear but I guess I'll know soon enough.

"It's fine with me Bones. At which time and where are we meeting them?" – I ask looking at the clock and seeing it's a quarter past six.

"At seven in the dinner" – She answers.

"Ok, be ready at a quarter to seven. Parker and I will go to your apartment and give you a ride" – I say to her and I know she will try to convince me she can take her car but I hope she concedes and lets me give her a ride because I need to see her badly, I need to feel her near; today more than ever before.

"I'm nearly ready so that won't be a problem" – She concedes and I feel like she really understands what I'm going through.

"Ok, see you in a bit then" – I say with my arms now full with a pair of jeans, a black T-shirt, a white long sleeved T-shirt, socks, underwear and a pair of red converse.

"See you later Booth" – And with that both of us hang up. I go back to my bedroom and I carefully leave all his clothes on my bed, the shoes on the floor and I go to Parker's side to wake him up.

"Buddy it's time to wake up, rise and shine" – I say shaking him carefully trying not to startle him. He opens his eyes and gives me a big smile that brightens up my day, well as much as it is possible today and with that though I feel myself go gloom again.

"Good morning Daddy!" – He greets me cheerfully and, an involuntary but not unwelcome smile comes to my face.

"Morning Parker! Come on, you have to get out of bed and take your bath because Bones has called and we are going to have breakfast with her, Angela and Hodgins" – I say to him smiling.

"Yay!" – He says getting out of bed and starts heading for the bathroom so fast that I nearly don't have time to react, thanks God for the ranger's training.

"Wait Parker! Be careful ok? I don't want you to hurt yourself" – I say catching up with him and I take him by the hand. We start heading for the bathroom and get inside. I start a bath for him and, carefully, I take his clothes and bandages off.

"Ok buddy, get in" – I say to him once the bath is full and all his clothes are off. He gets inside and starts to clean himself with a sponge. I take my jacket, tie and shirt off when I realize he won't be able to get his hair clean with the damaged ribs and arm. I wash his hair and help him rinse himself.

Parker gets out of the tube with me helping him and I start to carefully dry him and put the new bandages on. Some tears leak from his eyes at the pain that the new bandages causes him and it breaks my heart even more. Once they are on, I dry his hair with the towel, I carry him to the bedroom and I dress him, leaving only the shoes to put on.

I look at the clock in my bedside table only to see that we have five minutes to spare if we want to make it to Bones' apartment on time. I redress myself, I put my shoes on and sit Parker on the bed to put his on too. I take my gun and bandage from the table beside my bed and we get out of the room. We go to Parker's room and I ask him to choose some things to play with in the lab. I help him put the coloring books and his crayons in his Sponge Bob bag and we start heading for the door.

I take my keys and wallet from the living room table, a jean jacket from the hanger for Parker, in case he gets colder later on; and we get out of the apartment. I close and lock the door behind us; we go to the parking lot and I help Parker inside the SUV, I strap him in his seat and I put his jacket and bag beside him. I close the passenger door; I get inside the drivers seat, pull off and I start heading in the direction of Bones' apartment.

Exactly at a quarter to seven we arrive, I see Bones waiting outside her apartment building, when she sees us arrive she hurriedly heads down the stairs and gets in the car.

"Morning Bones"

"Hello Dr Bones" – We greet her as she is fastening her seat belt.

"Good Morning Booth, good morning Coco" – She says giving both of us a beautiful smile, but I can see that, as happy as she is to see us, there's something there clouding her happiness; and I can't help but wonder if it has something to do with what she wants to talk to us during breakfast, the trial or something completely different.

I drive us off her apartment building, after five minutes of driving in silence I can't resist it any longer and I take her left hand in my right one. I feel her give me a reassuring squeeze and I know I wasn't the only one craving the physical contact. I look in the rear mirror to see Parker's reaction, and also because he's been too quiet all the drive except for his greeting to Bones, only to find him fast asleep in his child seat. I take my eyes off the mirror to look back to the road and at the corner of my eye I see Bones smiling tenderly at me.

"What?" – I ask self-consciously while smiling at her. I see her blush embarrassedly and give me a small smile.

"Well, it's just that when you look at Parker you get this tender and caring look in your eyes that I've never seen before and…I really like it" – She says blushing even more at the end all the while rushing the words.

"Well Bones, believe it or not, yesterday you were looking at him with the same look" – I say to her hoping she doesn't take it wrong and I end up scaring her off – "And I really like it too" – I add tenderly with a playful wink trying to take some of heaviness off.

"It's just…you will have to have to have some patience with me because there's something I want to say and I don't know how to phrase it because I don't want you to take this the wrong and…" – She starts rambling not even breathing between sentences and, because of that, I know this is important so I stop her before she hurts herself.

"It's ok Bones. Take all the time you need" – I say to her inwardly knowing this has something to do with what we will discuss at the dinner with Hodgins and Angela. I guess you can say my gut is fully working at the moment.

"Tank you Booth. No interruptions ok?" – She asks me and at my nod I see her start gathering her thoughts – "You see the thing is that yesterday my whole world got turned upside down. That call from the hospital changed everything. I just wanted to be there beside you, taking care of you and Parker; and, at the beginning, that really scared me because we both know that I'm not good with children and I wasn't sure if I would be any good for you and Parker, I mean, I can be so blunt that I was worried to say the wrong thing. Afterwards we discovered what Rebecca and her mother did to Parker and I..." – I see her pause herself, clench her fist and tighten her hold on my hand. I caress her knuckles with my thumb in a soothing way, a minute or so later she continues – " After what they did I felt so sure I was doing the right thing by not bringing children to this world…then you asked me to take care of Parker and, even if I was insecure about it, I knew you needed the alone time. And in that room, when he asked me to hold him, I felt so nervous and so enormously happy at the same time, happy that he felt secure with me by his side…then, I spent the afternoon with him, and it was so much fun! We couldn't stop laughing! I never felt happier. But when we went to the lab and Dr Saroyan said those things, I felt so much anger…but not anger about she said about me, that hurt that much I can tell you, but anger was for what she said about you and Parker. Then he came to my rescue and later on you came too, and I felt so cared for that I thought my heart was about to burst, even if that's not possible. And, when he explained his nickname for me and said he wanted to be a FBI Agent and a Squint in the future, I started to feel my walls around the children topic crumble. And later that night that kiss, that amazing kiss with you, so fantastic that it was the only thing I could think about yesterday night when I was in my bed, that and the fact that my whole life changed in less than 24 hours, and for the better. I just want to be next to both of you and take care of you two for as long as you want me to, if you both want me that is" – She says, and I swear, I feel my whole body lighten up like the Christmas tree in the Rockefeller Plaza during Christmas time.

I'm lucky that in that moment we arrive to the Dinner because what I have to say to her needs her whole attention, and mine too. I let go of her hand to park the car but I don't turn the engine off, knowing that if I do, Parker will wake up. I take my seatbelt off and urge her to do the same. I turn to look at her, now sitting sideways, and she mimics my position. I take both her hand in mine and I start pouring my heart to her.

"Bones, that kiss yesterday, meant the world to me too. Having you beside me through it all was the only thing that kept me going and stay sane at the same time. About the kids and what happened to Parker" – I start, my heart clenching at the thought of what happened to my little boy – "well, it's different. You have nothing in common with Rebecca, and I couldn't be gladder. If someday you change your mind about it, and you decide you want to have kids, you will be an awesome mom. I know because I have seen you with Parker, the way you took care of him yesterday is the way a good mother, a real mother, takes care of her kids" – I say to her and, when I see her open her mouth to contradict me, I add – "What Camille said to you both was so wrong at so many levels, that I don't even know what to begin with. You are simply an amazing being Bones, and, without a doubt in my mind, I can tell you that I really want you in mine and Parker's life forever. And I'm pretty sure Parker want the same thing" – I reassure her speaking nothing but the truth.

I look into her eyes only to discover that they are full of happiness, not even a little bit of fear or apprensiveness, only happiness and she gives me a dazzling smile.

"You don't know how happy that makes me" – She says to me and I can't stop myself from bursting into a laughing fit.

"Oh Bones, I think I do" – I say giving her one of my goofiest smiles. I let go one of her hands and I tenderly caress her cheek. I sneak my hand behind her neck and I bring her face closer to mine. We stare at each other eyes for what seems like forever before closing the remaining space. We share a sweet and loving kiss that conveys all our love and respect that we have for each other but we both stop before it turns passionate. We share a small smile and I sneak, from the corner of my eye, a look at the dashboard clock to see that we are five minutes late.

"Come on Bones, we have to get inside" – I say to her, giving her hand a last reassuring squeeze. We get out of the SUV, she goes to the back and opens the passenger door, when I'm next to her she hands me Parker's bag and jacket. I take them in my hand while she soothingly wakes him up and unfastens the straps of his child seat. She takes him in her arms, takes him out of the car while I hold the door open for them. She puts him on his feet and I close the door behind them and lock the car up. Parker puts himself between us, takes both of our hands in his as we start heading for the Dinner's door and, all the while, I'm wondering what will this breakfast bring.

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