Parker's Plan

AN: I'm back! Sorry I've been so bad about updates…so busy! It's officially Hell Month! Anyway here's the next chapter and they are going to be long from now on so I hope you enjoy! :D

The trio had just finished eating their lunch, with Brennan constantly stealing fries from Booth's plate. They decided to start their conversation and then see where their day goes from there.

Booth and Brennan leaned back against the squishy red booth, ready to have a nice long conversation with Parker. They both looked at each other, communicating with their eyes and began.

"Parker" Brennan began but stopped because she was at a loss for words, so Parker decided to break the ice.

"What exactly is it that you wanted to talk about?"

Both Booth and Brennan looked at each other shocked. They held gazes for a while, before Brennan turned her gaze to the small child and began again."Well the change in our relationship, and how you might feel about it." Booth who had finally recovered, squeezed her hand tightly for support and she glanced at him and told him again silently with her eyes that that wasn't the only thing on her mind, and he understood.

"Oh only that, I'm perfectly fine with you two being together and being boyfriend and girlfriend…now it'll feel like I have two mommies!" he smiled ecstatically at the revelation, and Brennan, in shock, had tears in her eyes. Booth was in shock as well, he couldn't believe how smart Parker had gotten.

"Yeah Parks, it's like having two mommies now" Booth said very touched that his 8 year old son would think of Bones in that way. Then he added "So you're sure you're ok with us being together?"

"Yes Dad!"

Brennan, absolutely touched, just nodded her head in agreement and they spent the next few minutes in silence and then the rest of lunch discussing what they were going to do the rest of the day.

"How about a movie?" Booth suggested.

"No, Booth it's such a nice sunny day outside, we need some kind of outdoor activity." Brennan replied

"I agree with Bones, sorry Dad."

"Ok Parks…since you don't really like my idea and agree with Bones who doesn't exactly know what she wants to do, why don't you chose an activity?"

Brennan's mouth gaped open with faux hurt by Booth's comment and said "Booth, what is the deal? Maybe I did have an idea! But I agree that we should let Parker chose."

Booth chuckled a bit; he loved that woman so much and they smiled at each other in the cutest way.

"Ok I'd be glad to choose." He thought for a minute or two and exclaimed "How about we go to the zoo! That's something we can all enjoy!"

Pleased by his idea, they all hopped into Booth's SUV and drove to the Zoo. The drive was filled with easy conversation about what animals they were going to see. When they arrived at the zoo, they parked and freed an eager Parker from the evil clutches of his seatbelt, then walked to the ticket booth, and bought their entrance inside.

They started with the White Tiger cage which Parker was absolutely enthralled with and Booth got a little bit nervous when Parker got pretty close to the large and wild feline. Then throughout the day they also visited the Pandas, other Tigers, Penguins, Hippopotamuses, Polar Bears, Cougars and finally Lions.

Parker read the signs by each and every cage, trying to learn as much as he could about each animal. When he reached the lions cage though he was surprised to find out very interesting facts such as only the females hunt and sometimes they eat their young.

Both Parker and Booth had seen what they had wanted to see, and Booth wanted to have Brennan see something she was interested in too. He looked at the map he had and saw that there was a dolphin show at 4:30. He quickly looked at his watch and saw that it was going to start in about fifteen minutes. He wanted her to see that show but he needed to somehow sneak away to get the tickets without her noticing. He had a plan.

"Hey Parks, come here for a second." Parker walked over with worry in his eyes.

"Dad, did I do something wrong?"

Booth saw the worry in his son's eyes and said "No Parker, definitely not, but I need you to distract Bones for a little while, so I can sneak away and get her a surprise…can you do that?"

"Yeah sure Dad." he replied with excitement in his voice.

"Thanks Bub, I'll be back in a bit."

He told Brennan that he had to go to the bathroom and asked her if she could watch Parker, of course she said yes. So he quickly snuck away and walked up to the ticket booth and asked the man for 3 tickets to see the dolphin show at 4:30, the man said it wasn't a problem and gave him the tickets, they may have cost a lot of money but they were worth it for her.

After about ten minutes Brennan started to get worried "Parker, since your father isn't back yet, do you want to go and look for him with me?"

"No, we can talk though…he said he would be back soon."

Brennan gave him a suspicious look, but quickly brushed it off "Ok so what do you want to talk about?"

"Are you enjoying your time at the zoo with us today?"

"Of course I am Parker, why wouldn't I?"

"I don't know…"

"Anyway, what is your favorite animal?"

"I have a lot of favorite animals, Parks."

"Well everybody has lots but in a life or death situation what would your favorite be?"

At first Brennan didn't understand what he was talking about and she scrunched her face up in the way she normally does when thinking hard about something…she wasn't in a life or death situation but then after thinking about it for a few minutes she got what he was saying. He was saying that if she was in a life or death situation which animal would she chose "Well I love this animal even if I'm not in a life or death situation but since you asked it would have to be a dolphin."

"Oh that's so cool! I don't know much about them but they seem really cool!"

Just the Booth came back with the tickets safely in his pocket. He took in the beautiful sight of his son and his partner…girlfriend, talking about something animatedly and laughing about it. He knew that this was a moment he was going to remember forever. They noticed him and waved him over. "Hey guys sorry I took so long but I had an errand to run."

"That's ok Booth we were just bonding a bit and it was fun."

"Oh yeah what were you talking about?"

"Animals and what our favorites were. Since I know both yours and Parker's, he was interested in what mine was so I told him."

"Oh and what is that?"

"Dolphins and they sound really cool Dad! Could we go see them?"

"Yeah let's head over in that direction." he smiled to himself knowing what was going to come and Parker had done a good job at keeping the secret.

They walked over to the aquarium section of the zoo and Brennan started to go inside but was stopped by the sign that said Dolphin Show at 4:30. She quickly went up to the ticket man to see if they could go, but he said that they were sold out for that show. She walked away shoulders slumped and head hung in disappointment and Booth figured it would be a good time to give her, the first surprise he got her.

"Hey Bones, are you ok?"

"I'll be fine, I just wanted to see the show, but it's illogical to be sad about something that we can see anytime."

"No Bones it's not illogical to be upset about this. Come on let's go for a walk for a minute, I need to give you something."

Immediately Brennan perked up like a little kid on Christmas "What?"

Then he pulled the tickets out of his coat pocket and gave them to her. She was stunned "Booth are these what I think they are?"

"Yeah they're tickets to the dolphin show at 4:30."

Brennan jumped into his arms and hugged him then pulled back and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips "Thank you Booth, but how did you get these? The man said they were sold out."

"Well when I said I was going to go to the bathroom, I was really buying these tickets for you…I figured that since you hadn't really seen your favorite animal today while we had was unfair, so I wanted to do this for you."

"Booth you didn't have to do this, but thank you. What did I do to deserve a man like you?"

"Nothing…but I was thinking the same thing, what did I do to deserve a beautiful woman like you as my girlfriend?"

She didn't answer, and he hadn't expected her to they both knew the answer. "Can we go in now?" Booth chuckled and said "Of course we can."

They walked into the stadium and gave the usher the tickets, and she led them to the front. "Booth did you buy front row tickets?"

"Yeah…" he blushed.

"Booth why did you do that? That had to be really expensive!"

"It wasn't so bad." he avoided her gaze but she made him look at her by taking her hand and gently moving his head in her direction.

"Yes Booth it was bad and I want to thank you again for doing this for me."

The sincerity in her eyes was so powerful that Booth had never seen in her before and before he could comment the lights went down and Parker was bouncing in his seat. The commentator came on the speaker and said "Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to welcome you to the 4:30 showing of the dolphin show! Please no flash photography and I hope you enjoy the show!"

When the commentator had finished, the trainers came out with some live fish to lure them up to the surface of the water. Once the graceful grey creatures broke the surface of the blue pool the trainers gave them the mackerel and then started doing specific hand movements to have the dolphins do specific tricks. Throughout the entire show the trio was in awe, but while Booth was watching the show he was also looking at Brennan's reaction to the amazing animals she loved so much and that meant more to him than the show itself. The mammals kept doing all sorts of amazing flips and jumps and after about an hour the show ended.

While they were walking out Brennan said she had to use the restroom, so while she went both Booth and Parker went into the gift shop and chose out another gift for Brennan. Booth decided to get her a little blue dolphin figurine made of glass, whereas Parker got her a book on dolphins and their lifestyles. They paid and left the store just as Brennan came out of the restroom.

Just then Brennan decided she wanted to look around the gift shop but didn't want Booth to come with her, so she called Parker over "Hey Parker?"

"Yeah Bones?"

"Can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure."

"Can you stall your father while I go into the gift shop?"

"Yeah sure"

"Ok thanks, Parks"

She quickly left for the gift shop and searched around for the perfect gift for Booth, she decided on both a book on Tigers and a necklace with a Tiger tooth on it. She paid for it and left the store and made it back just in time because Parker was having a bit of a difficult time keeping his father at bay.

"Sorry about that guys, I just wanted to check something out really quickly, we can start heading home now." "It's ok Bones, let's go home now."

So they walked through the zoo to the parking lot, found their car and drove to Booth's apartment.

AN2: Ok guys I promised you a long chapter and that is what we have…a long chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it! Review please for they make my day :D