Okay everyone this is the final chapter and I hope you all really like this one. I'm not sure if I really like the way I ended it so please let me know. I also hope that you liked the whole story. I plan on writing more stories, but I can tell that it is going to take me awhile to figure out a plot line for another story. So enjoy!
Chapter 19
Epilogue (Heaven is all around)
POV Narrator
"Hey sweetie, are the twins here yet?" Angela questioned as she walked up the steps to the platform.
"Ange, does it look or sound like they are here yet?" Brennan said with a hint of laughter in her voice.
"Okay, okay yeah your right." Angela admitted. "They are just so cute when they come through that door."
"Who do you think they got that from?" Brennan countered.
"Ha Ha B…" The sliding glass doors opened and Angela stopped mid-sentence.
"Mommy!" was heard throughout the spacious lab. Brennan turned around towards the sound to see her son and daughter charging towards her and Angela. Brennan's smile grew wide as she hustled down the steps. She dropped down to her knees just in time for the impact of the twins hug. On impact Brennan started to fall backwards. Angela stepped behind her to make sure she didn't bend any father back or else she would snap her legs in half. Brennan then wrapped her arms around her children and picked them up. Emily was placed into Angela's arms. They are all very happy with the lives they are living.
"Mommy?" David asked.
"Yes sweetie"
"Can we go see dad?"
"Yeah mom can we please, please, please." Emily chimed in.
Brennan smiled then laughed a little and answered "Of course you two. I would love to go see your dad as well."
Brennan put down David and Angela did the same with Emily. They both took a hold of one of Brennan's hands and headed for the door. Angela called out and said "Say hi to Studly for me!" Brennan looked back over her shoulder to smile at Ange. She turned back around shaking her head laughing to herself as they headed out the door.
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About 15 minutes later Brennan and the twins were at the FBI Hoover Building heading up the elevator to Booth's office.
"Now remember you two no yelling, talking loudly and do not run ahead of me. Do you understand?"
"Yes Mommy" they answered at the same time.
The elevator doors opened and they made their way over to Booth's office. Brennan knocked on the door and got a mumbled answer of "come in." She turned around and said "you two stay here until I come back out to tell you to come in your father doesn't seem to be in a very good mood."
"But daddy says we always make him happy" said Emily.
"That's why we are going to surprise him that you two are here okay?" Brennan said.
The twins nodded their head in agreement. Brennan entered Booth's office.
"Hey Booth is everything okay?" Brennan asked as she walked over to his desk.
"I just have so much paper work that Cullen is riding my ass for to get done by the end of the day. I don't know if I will be able to make it to David's hockey game."
Brennan had a flash of anger run through her as she said "Booth everyone is coming to this game it's a big one. If they win they go on to the play-offs. David has really been looking forward to this game and you promised him you would be there."
Booth stood up and walked over to Brennan and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to his body. "I know baby. I just can't seem to think straight or concentrate. You know that I'm used to doing paper work at him so I'm used to working better if at least one of the twins is around. I'm used to the noise and questions."
Brennan kissed him and Booth pulled her closer to try and deepen the kiss, but Brennan pulled back and went to his office door. Booth thought she was leaving. "Bones, I'm going to try and make it to his game I promise. Please don't be mad at me."
Brennan opened the door to his office saying "Booth, I'm not mad at you I have something for you."
The twins came in and ran over to Booth. "Daddy!"
"Hey you two what are you guys doing here?"
"We wanted to come see you" David answered.
"Yeah Daddy I missed you" Emily said.
"Well I missed you too baby girl."
"What about me dad?"
"Of course I missed you too little man."
Brennan broke into the conversation saying "David, we need to get you home so you can have a snack and get ready for your game."
That made David take off towards the door.
"Hold it little man I told you before not to run ahead of me."
"Okay I'm sorry Mommy."
"It's alright just give me a minutes please."
"Mom?"
"Yes Emily"
"Can I stay here with Daddy and then go to the game with him?"
Brennan looked to Booth and she could tell that Booth really wanted Emily to stay. "Sure Sweetie."
Booth's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. He loved to have the kids around. "Alright David lets go say goodbye to your father and sister."
"Bye! I'll see you at the game."
"Bye Buddy."
"Bye Davie!" Emily said then walked over to the couch as David was heading out the door. Booth pulled in Brennan for a really quick kiss to show her how much he loved her.
"I love you Bones. I'll see you at the game."
"I hope so Booth and I love you too" with that Brennan ran out of the office to catch up with David. Booth sat back down at his desk to get on with his paperwork. Time flew by and David's game started in one hour and Booth still had to write a one page summary. He was running low on concentration when he heard a beautiful sound coming from his couch. Emily was coloring a picture and singing to herself. Booth had never heard Emily sing before, he didn't even know she could and he was blown away. He then set his mind back into work mode and started to write his one page with the beautiful song being sung in the background. In no time they were headed out the door to David's game.
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Sweets, Cam, Hodgins, Angela, their three year old daughter Melanie, along with Brennan were sitting in the stands at the ice hockey rink. The hockey teams were lining up for the drop of the puck to begin the game. Brennan gave one last glance over to the door to see if Booth and Emily were there, but they were not. She turned back around at the sound of the whistle and saw the puck drop. Right as the puck hit the ice Brennan felt arms wrap around her and she knew it was Booth by the smell of his shampoo.
"Hey baby."
"Booth, I just looked at the door and I didn't see you walk in."
"Your back was turned when we got here about five minutes ago. Emily had to use the bathroom."
"Where is Emily?" Brennan asked.
"She is sitting on Cam's lap."
"Oh okay Booth come down here and sit with us."
Booth sat down next to Brennan and she cuddled into his arms. She turned and kissed him. He slipped his tongue into her mouth their tongues battling for dominance until Angela nudged Brennan in the side saying "Sweetie, you might want to cool it down before you two melt all the ice in the building."
They broke apart Brennan was blushing while Booth had an amused smile on his face. The game went on and David was trying really hard to score a goal. There was only five minutes left in the game and the score was still zero to zero. Emily walked over to sit on Brennan's lap. Hodgins pointed to the ice and yelled "Look!"
David has the puck and was on a breakaway.
"Go David! Go! Go! Go!" everyone in the crowd was shouting and on their feet. David moved to his right then brought his stick back and crushed the puck. It flew right passed the goalie and landed in the back of the net. The buzzer went off and the crowd went wild cheering, jumping up and down, and high-fiving everyone within reach. David had scored his first goal of the season. For the last few minutes of the game David's team kept the other team from scoring until the game clock ran down to zero. David's team ended up winning and they were headed to the play-offs. Booth, Brennan and Emily made their way down to the ice while the others left.
When they made it down to the ice the coach had the kids sitting on the ice as he talked about the game. The coach was holding the game puck in his hand. "One more thing, this puck goes to David Booth for scoring the game winning goal." The coach pulled out a marker from his pocket and wrote the date on it then tossed it to David. Brennan couldn't help, but notice how much he looked like Booth when he was all dressed up in his hockey uniform. They carefully walked out onto the ice and over to David.
"Did you see me? I scored a goal. The game winning goal! I did it Daddy just like you taught me."
"I know buddy we saw."
"I'm very proud of you Sweetheart." Brennan said giving him a hug.
They then asked the coach to take a picture of the whole family on the ice. David held up his puck as the picture was snapped. Booth picked him up as they walked off the ice to help him change. While Booth helped him change Brennan and Emily got a head start out to the SUV.
"Hey Mommy do you and Daddy love David more than you love me?"
Shocked Brennan moved to look eye level with Emily.
"Of course not Emily your father and I love you and David the same. Why would you think otherwise?"
Emily began to explain "well David has his talent in hockey and you guys always go to his games and talk about hockey with him. You and Daddy tell him how proud you are of him. I don't have something that I'm good at like David, and so there is nothing you can be proud of me for."
This crushed Brennan's heart and brought tears to her eyes. "Oh Sweetheart, you Dad and I love you just as much as David. You don't…" A few tears slid down her face. "…you don't need to have a special talent for us to love you and to be proud of you. Emily you have so many special things that make you who you are and we are proud of you for that."
With tears still sliding down her face she waits for Emily to reply. Brennan is met with silence as Emily just moves her line of sight to her shoes. Brennan shuts the door as David is climbing in on the other side. Booth walks up behind Brennan and she turns around to face him. He spots the tears and brings his hands up to cup her face.
"Baby, what is wrong?"
"Emily thinks we love David more because he has a special talent and we tell him that we are proud of him, while we don't tell her that because she doesn't have a special talent."
"Did you tell her that that is not true and that we love her just as much?"
"Yes" Brennan whispers.
"Get in the car babe I have an idea." Booth replies.
Brennan climbs into the car as Booth walks to the other side of the car and sends out a text message to everyone and puts his plan into action.
"Hey guys lets go do something fun tonight, all of us together."
Two happy voices agree from the backseat of the SUV. Booth sends a smile over to Brennan and a slight smile appears on her face.
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Booth pulled the SUV into a parking spot and everyone gets out.
"Dad where are we?" David asked.
"You just have to wait until we get inside and see." Booth answered.
Brennan knew where they were, but had no idea why they were there. She didn't say anything and kept to herself.
Emily reads the sign on the outside of the building "The Checker Box" she says with question in her voice.
"Yes, come on lets go in so I can show you guys what it is."
They cross the street and walk through the front doors. To the kids all it looks like is a restaurant. Brennan looks to her right and sees the stage where she was singing when Booth took the bullet that was meant for her. In the same tables as last time everyone is there Cam, Michelle, Sweets, Jack, Angela, Melanie, and as an even bigger surprise Parker. The twins notice him at about the same time.
"PARKER!" they yell and take off on a race over to him. Booth and Brennan follow the kids. Brennan leans over to whisper in Booth's ear "what are we doing here Booth?"
"Today in my office when I was doing my paperwork I heard Emily singing to herself and it was beautiful. She must have gotten that from you. So I was thinking of having some of us go up and sing then try to convince her to go up and sing so everyone can hear her. This is her special talent Bones. We just need to help her see it."
"That seems rational. Booth, I hope this works."
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The kids had ordered food and it had just arrived so Booth started his plan. "Hey you two you know how I told you we were going to have fun tonight? Well this place has something very special. There is a stage over there and people can go up and tell the guy over on the side what you want to sing and he will put it on and then you can sing for everyone."
"It's called karaoke." Parker chimed in.
Sweets stepped up first. "I think I'm going to give it a shot." Sweets said then he walked up onto the stage. Everyone started to cheer.
"Yeah Sweets!"
"Whoooo!"
"Rock it buddy."
The twins had excited smiles on their faces as he began to sing "(Put the Lime In The) Coconut" by Toxic Audio. The evening went on Cam sang and rocked out to "Skater Boy" by Avril Lavigne while Michelle tried her best to act like Miley Cyrus and sing "Part in the U.S.A." Jack manned up and sang with Angela to recreate "Cinderella Under My Umbrella" by Rihanna and Chris Brown, and Booth and Brennan stole the show with their duet on "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. It was finally time to ask the twins if they wanted a turn. Brennan sat down by them and asked "so do either of you two want to go up there and try?"
David was quick to respond. "I'll go only if Parker goes first by himself." Brennan couldn't hold back her laughter when she looked over to Parker.
"Fine, fine I'll do it." He said.
"Thank you Parker."
"Bones, you owe me big because there is a table of cute girls over there."
"You'll be fine you know how to play the guitar and sing."
Parker then stood up and headed to the stage. He grabbed the guitar that was up there and came over to the microphone.
"This one goes out to everyone that I can call family that is over in the back corner."
The crowd had become larger as the evening had gone on. The team from the Jeffersonian added and brought in more people because they all were better than they thought. The crowd fell silent as Parker began to play. He heated up the room with "I Melt" by the Rascal Flatts. Now that Parker was done David shot up out of his seat and headed for the stage. Emily yelled from her seat "Go Davie!" David tried his best to get all the words right and out on time as he tried to be like Parker and pick up chicks by doing "One Less Lonely Girl" by Justin Bieber.
"I'm not very good at that. Emmy you should try" David said as he sat back down. That was all she needed was a little encouragement from her brother and she headed to the stage. Brennan smiled over to Booth and he smiled back. Emily lowered the microphone and the music began to play. She began to sing.
I wouldn't know what to say
I wouldn't know what to do
If you came back from heaven
Even the people who were in the restaurant that weren't paying attention to the singing had stopped talking. The whole restaurant was shocked into silence as the beauty of the girl's voice.
And I could look at you
Would I fumble for the words?
Would I be a little shy?
Would I bust right out in laughter?
Or break right down and cry?
The lyrics and beauty caused tears to spring to Brennan's eyes. After everything Brennan had been through in her life you would never know this was a happy time with tears in her eyes. She was happy that life was settling into a dream with Booth.
Oh, if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then?
Could we just pick up, where we left off
And try it all again?
Oh, if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows, if he let you go
I'd never send you back
Booth's throat became constricted and he also had tears in his eyes. Everything that happened with his accident a few years ago came to him in that moment. His coma dream and his time spent in heaven. He thought to himself that if he really would have stayed in heaven would Bones ever have been able to listen to this song and sing it to the twins when she did when they were babies or is it all that she would think about. He turned to look at her and their tear filled eyes met as he walked over to her.
Do your kisses feel the same?
Do you still have the same touch?
And will you whisper softly
'Coz you've missed me so much?
Have you heard all my prayers
When I lay down at night?
And did you feel my body
When I held your pillow tight?
As Booth wrapped his arms around Bones waist and pulled her close their tears became too much to handle and they let them trickle down their faces. They were together and they had all they ever wanted and more. David came and stood in front of his mom and dad. Booth and Brennan each placed a hand on his shoulder as they watched their daughter sing her heart out at the end of the song.
Oh,if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then?
Could we just pick up,where we left off
And try it all again?
Oh,if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows,if he let you go
I'd never send you back
And if,God forbid,you leave this earth again while I see
I hope he knows if you go you'll be bringing me
Oh,if you came back from heaven
Would it be like it was then?
Could we just pick up,where we left off
And try it all again?
Oh,if you came back from heaven
It would freeze me in my tracks
And I hope God knows,if he let you go
I'd never send you back
There wasn't a dry eye left in the restaurant. Emily smiled down at her family and they smiled proudly back as Booth had one final thought. "My life is a story from above."
The song and lyrics are from Lorrie Morgan's song "If you came back from heaven". I don't own Bones. Well this is the end so I really hope you enjoyed this story. Let me know what you thought. I would love to hear your comments. Hopefully I can come up with another idea for a story and start again. Thank you all for reading this story, once again I really hope you liked this story. I will be a B&B fan forever.
"Nothing happens unless first a dream…" -Carl Sandburg
(Brennan did say she dreamed about Booth while she was gone.)
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