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"Who is that man mommy is yelling at?" Isabella asked with her chin resting on her fist as she sat on Angela's lap.
"Someone mommy use to know a very long time ago"
"Doesn't sound like they were very good friends." She sighed flinching as the voices rose.
"You could have waited Bones. But no the minute I leave you go and get a husband and a child. Things you swore you would never have!" Booth yelled pacing in her office.
"That's not how it happened." She answered softly twirling her diamond engagement ring on her finger. She noticed his hot gazed had refocused to her hand, she stilled her movements shoving the offending hand into her pocket.
"Sorry, habit I guess." Booth sighed putting his hands on his waist.
"Is she mine?" he asked.
"Of course, can't you tell?" Brennan said staring at him with disbelief. "Look maybe we can all get together later. Right now I'm busy I have a few remains I need to identify and the remains of a civil war soldier I need to authenticate. So if we could-"
"That's why I'm here Bones." He interrupted. "The FBI heard through the grapevine that someone has put a hit out for you."
"What!" Brennan looked outside her window to where Isabella and Angela were sitting contently.
"Yeah, and since I finished working undercover I volunteered. Thought that it would be a good way to catch up." Booth replied pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Hey Temperance why don't I just take Isa home?" Peter chose that moment as his opportunity to pop his head into the office.
"No, I promised her we could go to the Ice Cream Shoppe on our way home." Booth was taken aback at the thought of a domestic Temperance toting around with her juice boxes and children snacks.
"Well I can accompany you two home." Booth cut in receiving a menacing glance from Brennan.
"Why would you do that?" he asked inserting himself into the office fully. Booth looked Peter up and down. He seemed like Brennan's type, academic, literal with no sense of humor, and someone who would never break her heart. Basically he was type A Squint.
"Someone is trying to kill your fiancée. Apparently they don't like the fact that she's put away so many criminals that they want to eliminate her altogether." Booth explained while staring him down. Brennan scoffed obviously there was no contest in Booth vs. Peter, sure Peter was tall guy with a pretty solid build, but Booth could easily take him with one well aimed attack.
"Peter I think it would be in our best interest if Booth followed us home."
"But," he moved closer to Brennan placing a hand on her waist "How would we explain his presence to Isabella?"
"Well he is an old friend we'll just say he's staying with us for sometime."
"He's going to be in our home!"
"Yes, would you rather risk me being hacked to pieces in front of our daughter or have Booth watching us 24/7?" His heart had jumped into his throat as Brennan described his daughter, their child, as Peter's. Six years had been too much, not only did he miss valuable time with Parker but now he had missed the birth and growth of his own daughter. Brennan put a reassuring hand on his shoulder and murmured a few comforting words into his ear until he nodded dejectedly. She pressed a soft kiss on his lips and turned to face Booth.
"Okay, I guess I'll have to get the guest room ready."
"Are you guys even gonna discuss…" Angela started trailing off.
"Yes eventually." Brennan said flipping through some papers.
"If I were Booth I would have been pissed. Knowing that after six years deep undercover that I have another child who I knew nothing about. It's like Rebecca all over again."
"We thought that he was dead Angela. There was tangible evidence all pointing to his demise." She answered softly not looking up from her desk.
"I know that at times from another person's perspective it looks like I'm this cold person but it hurt a lot when I found out he was dead. I just had to deal with it differently."
"Like you are now?" Angela asked.
"Whoa Booth's back, are you two gonna shack up?" Hodgins asked as he entered Brennan's office.
Ignoring his remark she gestured to the cup he held.
"Is that the sample?"
"Yeah. So does he know about Isa?"
"Yes Jack he knows. We're just trying to take it slow and figure out where to go from here."
"Sure!" Hodgins and Angela replied rolling their eyes.
"Hi." Isa said as she walked up to Booth.
"Hey." Booth turned his face softening visible as he spoke.
"My mommy doesn't like you very much." She concluded.
"Believe it or not we use to be really good friends."
"What happened?" she asked intrigued.
"Well I had to go away for some time and I told her that I would be back soon. But I didn't come back until now."
"I'd be mad too." She nodded in agreement. "What's your name?"
"Seeley Booth." He said giving her his hand to shake.
"I'm Isabella Brennan." She paused looking down at the ground. "My middle name is Booth. Is that a coincidence?" she asked innocently. Booth sighed his heart breaking at her innocent revelation.
"Oh there you are Isa, I've been looking everywhere for you." Peter said barging into the conversation. "Let's go mommy's waiting for you." Isa got up turning back to look at Booth and then quickly ran off.
"You do realize that she is my daughter." Booth said standing up.
"Yeah but where were you when she was having her? Did you hold her hand and kiss her brow telling her you loved her? Did you stay up at night with her during thunderstorms making up silly reasons for why the thunder made that noise? Experience Isa lose her first tooth? No. So you may be her biological father but I'm her father in every sense."
"We'll see what Bones has to say about that. But Peter, in the end you're gonna have to come to terms with the fact that she is mine and we're going to be spending a lot more time together. Especially now with me protecting the good doctor and all." Booth smirked smugly taking in the panicked face of Peter. There was no way he was letting this squint take over his family.