Booth quietly let himself in the house, he smiled when he saw the Christmas tree decorated, standing in the corner. He walked over to Brennan, "Hey Bones." Booth kissed Brennan.
"Booth you're home! How was your undercover assignment?"
"Blissfully uneventful. We got the guy early this morning, he didn't fight us. We got the paperwork done and I decided to come home tonight. I dropped Aubrey at Jessica's."
"She'll be happy, she's been moody this week."
"Aubrey has been too. It's hard to be away from your partner if you aren't used to it."
"It is hard, I'm used to it mostly, but I don't like it…"
"I don't like it either, Bones. I see Christine couldn't wait to put up the tree…"
"She was going to wait, but she was really sad when we came home from having Thanksgiving dinner at Angela and Hodgins' so the next day I got it out and put it up. It made her happy and feel a little better about you not being here."
"Aww. I didn't like missing Thanksgiving with everybody. "
"I know. Everyone is coming here next Saturday and we're having another Thanksgiving."
"Cool." Booth walked over to the tree. "Bones, where are our ornaments?"
"I didn't put them on yet, I was waiting for you…I also didn't decorate Pops' tree or put out his decorations. I thought you'd want to do that with Christine."
"I do. Thanks, Bones. Let me take a fast shower and change clothes then we can put our ornaments on and I can give you this years."
"You're welcome, Booth. Christine wanted a turkey burger for dinner, I made extra. I can warm one up for you if you want it."
"Sounds great Bones. It's been a long time since lunch…"
"Okay." Thirty minutes later Hank woke up. Brennan finished heating Booth's burger then she went to get Hank only to find Booth carrying him down the hall to the kitchen.
"Is Hank okay? He usually doesn't wake up at night…"
"Yeah, I think so, he's not running a fever. He probably just missed me." Booth smiled a little.
"He might be hungry, he didn't eat or nap well today. I hope he's not getting sick." Brennan quickly heated a bottle and handed it to Booth. Hank grabbed the bottle and started drinking, settling into Booth's arms. "See? He was just hungry." Brennan smiled a little and waked over to Hank and Booth, softly kissing them both. Booth made his way to the couch and sat down, grabbing a box from his bag along the way. "Come sit, Bones, you can open this year's ornament while Hank has his snack." Brennan sat down next to Booth, he handed her a box. Brennan opened it and she held up Booth's clay handprint, attached to the inside was Parker's handprint and inside of that was Christine's, Hank's hand print was inside of hers.
"I love it Booth. I can't believe how much Parker and Christine's hands have grown in the five and a half years since you made the first one."
"Me either. Hank didn't cry like Christine did when Angela took his handprint. I actually think he liked it."
Brennan chuckled, "Hank likes a lot of things Christine didn't as an infant."
"Yep."
Brennan handed Booth a box, he opened it to find another picture of Parker, Christine, Hank, and Brennan with Santa.
"You did another one, Bones?"
"Yes. We needed an updated ornament. This time it wasn't so easy, Hank cried as soon as he saw Hodgins in the suit. It took a while of Hodgins holding him without the beard on for Hank to calm down enough for Angela to get a decent picture."
"Aww, I guess I'll just take Christine to the mall next weekend to see Santa then."
"That would probably be for the best…"
"I think this is my favorite Santa picture, even though Hank isn't completely happy about getting his picture taken."
"It's my favorite too. I had Angela take a picture of just the kids with Santa, I made copies for our desks at work."
"I can't wait to see it, Bones. I'm going to put Hank back in his crib then I'll eat and we can finish decorating the tree."
"Okay. I'll go warm up your turkey burger again…"
"Room temp is fine, Bones."
"Okay." Thirty minutes later Booth and Brennan sat on the couch looking at their fully decorated tree.
A/N: See you tomorrow for day 10…