A/N: I swear it was not my intention to delay so many days before posting this. Life threw stuff, and the week got a way from me. Hopefully another chapter will be along tomorrow - Sunday for sure.
~Reveal~
Booth and Brennan, the baby cradled in her arms, stepped from the hall into their living area. "Hail, hail, the gang's all here," he murmured to her, in reference to the friends who'd gathered to celebrate - not unlike the night they'd brought Christine home. Then he saw Daisy and little Lance, and grief caught him sideways for a moment. Not completely like that night, after all, as this child would never know and love Sweets the way Christine had. He pushed the thought away, This was a day for celebration.
The crowd was gathered in the kitchen, laughing and talking, and when they turned in response to Cam spying them, he understood why: there was what looked like an enormous amount of food set out on the breakfast bar.
Angela met them with a smug smile. "I told them they could come see the baby, but they had to bring something to eat. No cooking for the two of you for a while."
"Thank you, Angela." Brennan shifted a bit, and hugged Angela with her free arm.
Caroline eyed them. "So are you going to let us see this baby, or not?"
"Angela wouldn't even tell me whether it was a boy or girl." Hodgins' dark look at his wife promised retribution.
Plainly unconcerned, she shrugged, still smiling. "I promised."
Right then, the door opened and Christine and Max came in. The little girl squealed, "Mommy!" and darted across the room toward them.
Booth slipped his arm around Brennan, to brace her in case Christine ran into her, but she stopped a foot away and looked up at the bundle in Brennan's arms, her eyes wide. "Is that the baby?"
As Brennan laughed and nodded, Booth held out his arms, and Christine leaped into them and then studied her sibling with interest. "Is it a girl, or a boy?"
"Yeah, Dad," Hodgins said, laughing at him. "Is it a girl, or a boy?"
Booth and Brennan exchanged a look, and then Booth whispered something to Christine, before nodding to their friends. "Tell them."
Beaming, Christine looked over at the crowd and said, "Our baby is Caroline Cam."
"Camille," Brennan corrected, smiling. "Caroline Camille."
Excitement, some laughter, and cries of 'congratulations' broke out, but Booth focused on Cam. His oldest friend had a stunned look on her face, which gradually gave way to tears as Arastoo, smiling, leaned over and kissed her temple.
When Booth turned to Caroline, she too, was brushing at her eyes, and had to clear her throat before she could speak. "It sure is dusty in here, cherie. Now are you going to let me hold that baby, or not?"
A/N: Girl! For what it's worth, I think they'll probably have a boy on the show (though I'm often wrong on those kinds of points.) I'm good either way, and had originally planned to have them have a boy in this story, but several others who are doing this challenge went that way, so I decided to mix things up and imagine what it would be like for them to have two girls instead. And then I realized that I quite enjoyed the idea of them honoring Caroline and Cam (as well as liking the alliteration of their two girls being Christine and Caroline) and so Christine got her baby sister, and Booth is surrounded by women most of the time. He's not complaining. LOL.