I clicked it on in the last three minutes and watched about 30 seconds of it. I'm going to cry all summer and I don't even know what's happened since she's been shot!
I don't own them, if I did I would make Booth train my puppy because it's about the size of Booth and it's only ten months and…jeeze. I don't own them.
BBBBBBBBBBB"Marcus, we have to stop meeting like this." Booth said with one eye open, glancing up at the man who his girlfriend loves like a father. His girlfriend that was once again curled around him, her limps mixing with his limbs in a tangle of body parts, her warm breath on his neck as she slept peacefully unaware that Marcus had once again came into their room.
Marcus 'hmmm-ed' in response, "You know, if you two would pick a room and stick to it, it would make my mornings so much easier."
Booth blinked up at the other man, trying to release the fuzzy feeling in his head, "I'm sorry, I didn't realize you needed to know which room Bones and I were in. Is it like a room check thing, or…."
"Oh, ha ha." Marcus rolled his eyes, and crossed his arms, "Well I was looking for you to see if you wanted to join the family, but now…" He trailed off rolling his eyes once more.
Booth knew the older man wasn't really angry, but played along, "I'm sorry, where is it that you wanted me and Bones to go?"
Marcus shook his head, and Booth didn't miss the sad look that flashed across his face before it was gone in the next instant, "She won't go, there's no need to beat that horse, it's already dead." And at Booth's confused and slightly horrified expression at Brennan being compared to a horse that was beat, Marcus explained, "its Sunday, son, I was under the impression you were religious we thought maybe you'd like to come with us."
Booth was touched and slightly shocked that he hadn't realized that today was the holy day, "I'd love to come, I need to wake Parker…"
"Already awake, dressed and eating breakfast." Marcus retorted, "Those kids have been up for about an hour. We leave in half hour, is that enough time for you?"
"Plenty, thank you Marcus." Booth said with a smile and looked down to his sleeping girlfriend wondering how he was going to get out from underneath her and untangle their limbs without waking her up. It was so rare for her to actually get a good night's rest that he was loath to wake her. Marcus snorted seeing his predicament, told him that he'd see him in a bit and left Booth to his own rescue and release of his own body.
"Booonnnes." He said softly hoping to wake her enough that she would move but not enough to wake her fully, "Bones, baby, I need to get up and go to church." Brennan made a grumbling noise and buried her face in his neck, her hair tickling his shoulder. "Dr. Brennan."
Brennan's eyes snapped opened he could feel her lashes on his neck and she moved her head to look at him, "Booth?" she asked confused.
Booth grinned sheepishly at her before giving her a quick kiss, "Sorry, baby, I need to get up to go to church with your family, Marcus just came in and asked me and I'd really like to go."
Temperance nodded, "I don't mind if you go Booth, I know that your religion is very important to you." She slowly pulled her limbs away from his before settling back down on the pillows, "Have a good time…do you have a good time? I would assume otherwise people wouldn't go back week after week." She frowned looking up at him as he sat up looking down at her with an amused expression.
"It's…complicated, it's educational, we learn about our Lord and what we have to do to get into heaven as well as getting help to be forgiven for our sins." Booth replied, "You could come."
Brennan shook her head thinking of the last time she went with him, "I'll believe you that it's fun for those who have your faith, I'm going to stay here and relax."
Booth didn't know why, but he felt like those words coming from his partner's mouth should be filed under 'famous last words', he smiled however and leaned down to give and receive a very pleasant 'good morning' kiss, "I'll see you in a few then." He said with a grin and got out of bed.
"See you." She replied and as he closed the door behind him he caught a glimpse of his partner curled into a ball on his side of the bed and smiled, his thoughts light while he showered and dressed for the day.
He made his way quickly down to the breakfast room and grabbed a muffin off the table nodding to his son, "Morning Parker, are you all set for church today?"
Parker nodded, "I sure am, is Bones going to go too?" he asked, looking behind him towards the doorway expecting to see his dad's girlfriend and partner come through the door.
Booth shook his head, "No, Bones doesn't believe and we have to respect that, right now she believes that her pillow is her new best friend, and I'll let the pillow think that until I return." He said electing a few laughs from the people settled around the table.
Turned out that everyone but Bones and Avery were going, Wes' father Morgan even made his first appearance so they ended up taking three cars to the church service. Booth found it rather pleasant was glad to find that Bones family were Catholics, he slipped into the confessional before church began to get a few things off his chest, like his sin of thinking about his partner…girlfriend…the way he had been now that he was officially allowed too, Bones was testing his sexual patience and he couldn't say that he minded that much at all.
After confessional he slide into the wooden pew next to Parker and besides Chloe and her brood, her husband having suffered from jetlag decided not to come. The service was long and the kids were glad when it ended, Booth enjoyed the service and the patrons treated him and Parker as well as all the others like they belonged to the church family even though none of them lived there on a permanent basis so it wasn't their usual church.
By the time church was over it was going on one o'clock, deciding that they would order pizzas for lunch much to Elise dismay at the 'fast food' even though the woman and her husband had joined the family at the church services. Christopher and Booth elected to pick the pizzas up.
When they got home Booth, Christopher, Parker, and Dylan carried the six large pizzas in, they'd made it to the library door when they heard Avery's bark of laughter, Booth looked in to see Avery leaning on the found of his desk arms crossed over his chest, when Booth shifted his position he saw the source of amusement.
Brennan and another man, whom Booth assumed was Walton Chloe's husband, looked to be playing twister though there wasn't a sheet with colored dots on the ground, the positioning of their bodies looked similar to those who would be involved in the game.
They took the pizzas to the dinning room and Booth volunteered to go get the rest of the gang, if only to discover what they were doing, his jealous side flaring up. When he made his way back into the library he found his girlfriend and the other gentleman weren't there, but Avery was, "Hey its lunch time, where's Bones?"
Avery blinked up at him from the paperwork he was filling out, "You just missed them, they took one of the four wheelers out for a spin…her and Walton." He clarified standing, "Don't worry, Walton is a master at maneuvering them so she's in good hands." He said clasping his hand on Booth's shoulders, "Let go eat, I'm starving watching those two."
"What were they doing when we first walked through?" Booth asked, and at Avery's confused look he illuminated, "They looked like they were trying to be one joined human pretzel."
Avery's confusion stayed in place for another couple of seconds before it lifted and was replaced with a look of fond amusement, "They we're trying to settle a bet they made a few months ago." Avery said walking towards the door, "Don't worry about it, it was something silly and meaningless." He shrugged.
Booth knew that Bones was entitled to her personal life, and that he had no reason not to trust her, but he couldn't help his possessive side from coming out and wanting to know why the other man was touching her, even though he knew that the other man was like a brother-in-law to her, he couldn't help his feelings. But he also sensed that he wasn't going to get any information out of Avery, and decided that the other man was right and that it was something that didn't matter. Booth shrugged and followed Avery down to the dining room where they all enjoyed pizza.
Booth was on his third helping when Bones and Walton came in laughing, "You should have seen it." Walton started out by way of greeting, "We were sitting at the top of the hill and got caught in the mud slip and started sliding backwards ass first going down the hill and Tempe is screaming like a girl." Walton said to which Chloe replied with 'Kids' and he ducked his head apologizing, "Don't repeat that word kids." He said, "But anyway, I get the four wheeler back up the hill mud is flying everywhere, but Tempe screaming like a scared little girl is going to be burned into my mental photo album forever." He said dropping down in his chair next to his wife and kissing her cheek before grabbing a slice of pizza.
Brennan rolled her eyes, "First off I am girl so I fail to see what the big deal is if I scream like one, I feel that it should be an insult but fail to see how it is one, secondly, you gave a little shout of panic as well." She retorted settling in a chair next to Booth who gave her a tight smile causing her to frown, "Are you alright?" She asked quietly leaning into him.
Booth gave himself a mental shake and nodded his head taking her hand in his, "I'm fine, I'm glad that you're fine too." He said with a soft smile, "Grab a slice of pizza before Parker eats it all." He joked lightening the mood between the two; it wasn't her fault after all that he couldn't handle a little bit of jealousy.
Brennan eyed him with doubt but decided that the lunch table was not the place for further discussion on the matter, she reached into one of the pizza boxes and pulled out a slice of plain cheese before turning her attention to the conversation around her, apparently the kids had all decided that it was a stay at home sort of day because they all declared it pool time after lunch.
With lunch over with the group threw the empty pizza boxes out and set about getting ready for swimming, the D.C. trio made their way up the steps and Parker raced into his room to change, Booth and Brennan both opened their separate doors but before Booth could enter his he was pulled into Brennan's room. "Wha…"
"What's wrong?" she cut him off, closing the door behind them, "And don't tell me nothing or suck me off, I know that something is off."
"Suck…Uh, Bones." He said turning beat red, "The phrase is 'blow me off' don't say it the other way alright, I don't want anyone taking advantage of your lack of pop references." He said with a low groan because now he was feeling the need to visit confessional again.
"Suck, blow doesn't matter, you're doing it." She said with an unBrennanlike pout crossing her arms over her chest.
Booth sighed placing his hands on her arms and stepping closer, "Nothing is wrong, I was being a stupid alpha male, but nothing is wrong."
"I don't know what that means." She said with a sigh but didn't pull away from him either. "Being an alpha male about what?"
Booth sighed taking his hands off his girlfriend and using one to run over his face, "Come on." He said, taking hold of her hand and leading her to the bed where they sat down together bodies angled towards each other, he repositioned their joined hand so it was more comfortable with the new position and looked at her, "It means that as irrational the thought, the thought of you spending time with another man that isn't me…" he trailed off looking away with a shrug, "Look." He said and for a second she thought she was meant to look at the floor like he was, but realized he didn't actually want her to look at anything, "I know that you don't hold traditional values because you don't like what marriage and everything stands for, in the old days it meant that the man owned the woman, and I don't want you to think I think that, but…"
He stopped when Brennan placed her free hand on their joined ones, "Booth." She said and he turned to look at him, doubt etched in his expression, "Booth, you were feeling jealous of Walton?" at his nod she smiled at him, "Walton is like my brother by extension because he is married to Chloe who I would never want to hurt like that, and I'm committed to you."
"I know, I just…" he shook his head, "I know I'm sorry."
"Booth, my past makes it hard for me to trust people." She said and could read in his expression that he didn't know where she was going with this, "I don't like the thought of letting people in because I feel like they will leave, and past relationships haven't done much to disprove my fears." She said and he knew he was speaking of Sully, he opened his mouth to dispel her fears of him doing the same but she shook her head, "I know that we've talked about my past relationships and you know that I've tried dating more than one man at the same thing." And Booth couldn't hide the amusement when he remembered how that hadn't worked out.
She looked at him in that squinty way of hers before continuing, "Booth, throughout the years you've shown me that there are different types of family. You, Cam, Angela, and Hodgins are my work family and I don't know what I would do without any of you, but more than that, none of you have left me. Sure part of that could be because of the paychecks everyone receives, but I also know that if there was a bug in my apartment I can call Hodgins to come get it, and he would in a way that makes me fear for his sanity as he walked out the door talking to his new pet. Or if I wanted a girl's night Angela and Cam would be there, and if I wanted anything under the sun, you would be there. And Booth I know what I want under the sun, Booth I want you, and only you."
Booth grinned and reached for her but she pulled back, "Booth my past makes it hard for me to trust people that they aren't going to leave." She repeated at his frown, "Just like your past makes it hard for you to trust that I'm not going to do something to ruin this. Not on purpose and not just because you're afraid I'm going to fall back on what has always worked for me and run. But Booth your past if full of women who didn't know the real you or they didn't appreciate it, and that makes it hard for you to know that I'm not going to go after the next guy that meets my eye even though logically you know that isn't something I would do." She smiled at him, "We just have to work together, like you said, I'll talk to you when I feel like I'm overwhelmed by this and you'll talk to me when you feel like I'm going to hop Mr. Bray."
Booth raised his eyebrows, "Any reason that you choose Mr. Bray over any of the other interns?" he joked, skipping over the fact that she said hop instead of jump.
Brennan grinned, "Well he is very pleasing to the eye his structure is rather pl-" her words were replaced by a squeal as Booth lunged at her pining her to the bed, "of course he doesn't hold a lamp to you."
"A light, he doesn't hold a light to me." He said before capturing her lips with his own to let her know just how possessive he could be, when he pulled away moments later their breathing was heavy and Brennan had that foggy just 'mind blown' look on her face, "I love you."
She smiled up at him, "And I love you as well Booth." She said before a look crossed her face and she tilted her head.
"What?" he asked moving his weight unto the arms so he wasn't pinning her to the bed.
"I was just thinking that in all these years my thought process has shifted to include you into what I do." She replied and at his confused expression she expanded her answer, "Without me realizing it, I've taking your feelings into account when I make decisions that could affect us both, I stopped seeing Andrew because I knew that you didn't like it. As it turns out, and if you ever repeat this I'll deny it and then shoot you, but, a part of me already belonged to you." She frowned, "No, that doesn't make sense and I'm the genius."
Booth laughed softly at her self-doubt at something she wasn't a master at, "No, I get it, it makes perfect sense and it was really sweet of you to say." He said, "I won't tell anyone that you said it, but if it helps, I've always belonged to you, I'm with you all the way. I told that to Cam when she first joined the team and I'm telling you now, it's always you. You and me we're equals, so if you give yourself to me then you get me in return, okay?" she nodded, "Thank you."
"For what?" she asked as he took hold of her hand and gently pulled them both back so they were sitting again.
"For not being upset that I acted like a jealous blockhead, for using that squint brain of yours to tell me that you understand that I have my own fears." He said with a small grin, "You're right, I haven't had the best record with previous relationships, and I feel like I'm just not offering anything good enough, Rebecca didn't want me, you didn't want me, Hannah…but you've…we're…I'm starting to feel like I have something to offer after all."
Brennan nodded, "You do Booth, you have so much to offer I'm not even sure you realize it all, and I'm sorry that I was too scared to take you up on your offer to see where this would take us, a part of me wonders what our last year would have been like if we'd taken that leap….if I had taken that leap, but I was scared, Booth it wasn't that you didn't have anything to offer, it was that I didn't know if I had anything to offer. I'm used to comfortable one night stands, to relationships that involve the sexual aspect but not the romantic, my two attempts at real romance blew up in my face, and you were to important to take that chance with, I didn't want to lose you." She said, "You still are important don't get me wrong, but I'm starting to see that maybe you were correct that we are metaphorically made for each other. I want it all with you, I want to take the third chance at a romantic relationship because I hear that third time is the lucky charm, and even though I don't really understand that statement because it can't possibly be true, I want that chance to be with you. I want you, Booth, just you."
Booth gave her his trademark boyish grin, "I want you too Bones."
Brennan nodded, "Good, that will make our relationship a little smoother I'm sure, that we have a mutual want of each other." She leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the lips and even in its shortness Booth still was glad he was sitting for it made him a little weak in the knees, "Now let's get ready for swimming, and you can meet Walton, who is married to Chloe with two beautiful children and he loves them all so very much."
Booth chuckled standing, "Alright, alright I've got no competition here." He said and threw her a joking stare, "However, I'm going to have to shoot Wendell when we return home…just in case." He winked at her to let her know he was just kidding.
Brennan rolled her eyes and pointed to the door, "Go get changed before I have your scan card disengaged, and you have to wait for Wendell to let you up on the floor with us."
Booth gave her a horrified look and hurried out of the room leaving her to change into her swimwear as well, and when she pulled her door open and stepped into the hall both her Booth boys were waiting for her, "I'm surprised you aren't down trying to become fish already."
Parker shook his head and slipped himself in between her and his father, sliding up her side so she was forced to wrap her arm around him, not that she minded in the least, "Of course not Bones, we wanted to wait for you." He said and Booth wondered if Parker had felt the tension between the pair and was feeling a little jealous of the new person in the house as well.
"I'm glad you waited for me." Temperance replied, "It's nice to know that I don't have to walk down to the pool by myself, and that my favorite person in the whole world is right next to me."
Parker grinned and Booth gave them both a false wounded look, "What about me?"
Brennan and Parker exchanged amused glances before replying in unison, "What about you?"
Booth placed his hand over his heart, "Ouch. Right here, both of my so called favorite people, I'm wounded." He said lowering himself onto the stairs they had been walking down and acting like he was a bad actor who had gotten shot through the heart, "No, no. Just…leave me. Go swimming, play Marco polo, try not to…" he fake coughed and wheezed for effect, "try not to think about me."
Again the pair exchanged glances and shrugged, "Okay." They said and continued their path down the stairs and were almost out of the main lobby when Booth caught up with them.
"Welcome back." Brennan threw him a playful look and he rolled his eyes, "I'm glad that you are here too, Booth." She said softly, and he gave her a fond smile.
"Me too dad." Parker said and the three made their way down to the pool happily chatting with each other. When they got there Booth's guess on Parker's actions proved to be true as his son stepped closer to Bones, his small arm finding its way around her waist and Booth couldn't help but smile at the possessiveness his son was emitting.
Avery was the first to greet them, having just gotten outside himself, "Hey Booth family." He grinned seeing his sister's slight flush, "We're trying to organize a water volleyball game are you in?"
The trio nodded the idea sounding fun, Walton walked up noticing that the small group had arrived, "Hey, Tempe you on my team because I'm making beats with Avery that we're going to cream him."
Temperance glanced over at Booth and to his surprise she placed her arm around Parker's shoulders and smiled, "Actually Parker and I were just saying how much fun it would be to wipe the floor with you and Christopher, so I think us three will be taking Avery's side."
Booth noticed his son stand up straighter and by the way his girlfriend looked at Parker he knew that she had picked up on his possessiveness as well. Turning to meet Avery's eyes he noticed that the other gentleman had a mixture of shock and amusement on his face telling Booth that it wasn't often that Avery had Temperance on his team.
"You're seriously going to break up the dream team?" Walton asked his jaw dropping open but there was amusement in his tone.
Brennan shook her head, "Haven't I told you before, this so called Dream Team is going strong, we have the highest solve rate." And by the time Booth realized that Bones had taken the team comment literally and was referring to their team she was already reaching over Parker to pull him close, "Walton this is my partner Agent Seeley Booth, you may call him Booth."
Walton blinked and looked the agent over before standing up straight and holding his head out, "Nice to meet you." He said.
Booth took the proffered hand in his and shook it, "Nice to meet you as well." He said pleasantly, after all he really didn't have anything to worry about, and Bones assurances helped to ease him…a little.
"And this young man is Parker Booth." Brennan said to drawing Walton's attention once more, dipping her head towards Parker she added, "Parker this is Chloe's husband and my brother-in-law Walton. Dylan and Melanie's father."
Parker nodded, "Hello sir." If his father could be nice than so could he.
"Hello Parker, I've heard a lot about you, Tempe never stops talking about you which I have to say is a nice change from all the bodies she usually talks about." Walton smiled, "And please call me Walton, after all we're all basically family here right."
Parker's body relaxed and he smiled, "That's right Walton, sir!"
Walton laughed, "How about we go off and get in the water while Avery here figures out just how he's going to win against me." He said and Booth wasn't too surprised that Parker went off with the other man where they met up with Dylan and Melanie before getting into the water together. Avery shrugged and turned intent on finding other recruits for his team now that Temperance and Booth were on his team.
"You didn't have to do that." Booth said quietly his arm finding its way around her shoulders and pulling her closer, "Bones I don't want you to not have fun because Parker and I don't want to share you."
Brennan tilted her head so she could see him better, "I know that Booth, but as important as it was for me to tell you that you had worries, it was important that my family knows that I'm going to choose you too, and it's important that Parker knows that I'm going to choose you and him. You're my family too, and you matter to me."
Booth grinned and kissed her softly not caring that there were other people around, "Thanks, baby, I love you."
Brennan frowned at him, "I let you get away with that earlier because I wanted to sleep." She poked him in the chest, "But stop calling me baby or I'm going to start calling you…" She frowned trying to think of something, "Lover clown."
Booth gave her an honest horrified expression, "You wouldn't!"
Brennan nodded, "I love you Booth, but call me baby one more time." She said seriously before walking away and he could hear her laughter as he followed behind her shaking his head.
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There you go, hopefully that will help now that the finale happened and my sister sent me angry text messages so I know that it wasn't an overly happy ending, but please don't spoil it for me!
Send me lots of reviews they make me happy I love you all, and I'll write something soon. I have another story floating around in my head, but I'm not sure I'll post it, because then I'll have two stories I have to keep up with, but then again I'm bored today so who knows. Also, I think I've lost Hammie, are you out there? I hope you are doing well and I'm sorry that you got flooded.