Chapter 10

The next three days passed without issue. The beginning of the week was starting, and I realized that my days with Bones were numbered. Waking up on Tuesday morning, I realized again that in one day, she would driving me to Fort Benning in Georgia. I would ship out from there.

I rolled over to see her smiling at me, bright, and without reservation.

"Hey baby. How's you sleep?"

"I slept great Booth. How about you?"

I nodded, but there were a few things on my mind.

"Bones, since we start driving tomorrow, can we spend all day in bed? And I want you to call me Seeley."

She rolled towards me, tucking into my chest. Her feather light touches sent tingles down my spine. I ran my hands down her back to rest on my normal spot.

"If that's what you want, then I am all for it Seeley."

I relaxed, feeling much more at ease. I just wanted to spend the day in bed with my wife, and make love all day. She made me feel whole, like my life was worth something. She made me feel like I wasn't the bad guy anymore, that I wasn't wrong for killing those people I considered were monsters. She made me feel like I wasn't one of those monsters. She made me appreciate each pasing day more. She made me realize that because of me, Parker would be a carbon copy of myself, reliable, brave, and respectful. She made me realize that I love her more than any other woman before. She did this all for me in a span of a couple of days, but in reality, her influence over me extended over the past six years.

"Seeley, talk to me, what are you thinking?"

"Bones, I am just thinking about how you have changed me over the years. Despite what you may think, you have made me a better father. You have made me appreciate each day I have with Parker even more. I appreciate you more."

She leaned into my chest, buried her nose in the crook of my shoulder and smiled against my skin.

"You know Seel, I never realized what human emotion was before I met you. I realize what kind of love a child can bring. I love Parker with more body and soul than I love myself. And you taught me that. But this isn't your last hurrah, as Angela put it once. You will come home after serving because of Parker. Because Parker needs a father. I can be another mother to him. But not one can replace you as his father. You will come home because you want to have lots of babies with me. You want all of that for us. I want all of that for us. So let's get home, preferably in one piece. But I'll take you anyway frankly. As long as I have one piece of you somehow."

"Wow, Bones, I never thought you loved Parks that much. I know that you treat him as your own son, but not to that extent. I just don't really want to leave you or him. I mean, we just got married. Are you going to be able to deal with post wedding woes without me?"

She nodded, laughing. And it warmed my heart, as well as some nether regions. I pulled her down under me, laying deep lingering kisses on her collar bone. She squired, groaned, and pulled me deep inside of her. I started at a nice, slow, passionate pace, but she was meeting me thrust for thrust, and it turned into hard core lovemaking.

"SEELEY! YES! YES! JUST A LITTLE DEEPER!"

She lifted her hips off of the bed as I felt her climax, then I pushed myself over the edge. A s our dual orgasms washed over us, I rolled over as to not crush her.

"Bones, you never fail to amaze me. You have given me a couple of mind blowing orgasms already."

I was about to start round two when I heard my cell ring. I desperately wanted to ignore it, but Bones urged me to answer it. I looked at the ID and frowned. I mouthed 'Summers' at her and she rolled over my chest to allow me to stay focused.

"Captain Summers, sir, how can I help you?"

"Of course, Dr. Brennan and I will be down shortly."

"Goodbye sir."

It seems that in our haste, we forgot to fill out all the paperwork. I wanted to change Bones to the contact in case of my death in active combat.

"It looks like we won't be spending the day in bed. We have to go down to the readiness center to get some paperwork completed."

She nodded, rolled completely out of bed, quite gracefully, and motioned to the shower, "Care to join me?"

I'm almost positive my eyes rolled into the back of my head. I followed her in, nestling my chin against her shoulder and allowed our own passion to generate more steam than the shower itself. We quickly changed, got out of the apartment, and down to the readiness center. I felt that constant frown fr the last month show up. I also felt Bones huff beside me.

"I know that I have talked all about social construct and the obligation you feel when you need to protect someone. But you need to learn that you can't beat yourself up over this. Its ridiculous. You have told me before that's its not my fault when someone dies. Well, now its my time to tell you that its not your fault that you killed those people. They were bad people, and you were ordered to stop them. You did what you were told to do. Your whole theory of a cosmic balance sheet is null and void. You have helped me give justice to all those victim. That has by far made up for your former profession."

She stopped me as we walked through the parking lot and put her hand over my heart.

"Who you are in here is what matters. You have helped save the world from people who intend to only do harm. In here, you are a father to a handsome little boy who truly warms my heart. In here, you are a man who holds no barriers to protect those he loves. In here, you are a good man, so stop giving me that bullshit about being a bad guy, because you aren't."

I leaned in, kissed her gently, and led her into the readiness center. I approached Captain Summers who saw me and ushered us into his office.

"Booth, we need to change a few papers. Then you can go home with you lovely wife. First off, because you are one of our vets, we want to offer you and your lovely wife the full benefits of Tri-Care. Are you interested?"

"Yes, I want the best for Temperance. So please enroll us. What else sir?"

"Obviously, you are now married, so I will change that which will automatically make Dr. Brennan aware of something happening to you. Just precautionary."

She elbowed me in the side, "Do you hear him Booth? No fake dying. That was not funny the first time."

Capt. Summers looked at us funny, then smiled, "I read your file from the FBI and I have to agree with your lovely wife. Fake dying would not be on the top of my list either to hear about. But I think that's it. Have a good day Booth, Dr. Brennan."

We got up and physically ran into John in the parking lot. I had to ask him something, something important. I tossed Bones the keys to the truck and told her to get in. I rounded on John.

"Dude, will you keep an eye on Bones while I'm gone? She might be pregnant, and we are all set up for Tri-Care. So just keep in touch with her somehow. And don't keep an eye on her like I have heard other guys do. If you do that, I will kill you when I get home."

He blinked at me.

"Of course, Seels. I'll watch over her. If she is pregnant, I'll keep a closer watch over her. Just stay safe dude. Come home in one piece."

I shook his hand, clapped him on the back, and joined Bones in the SUV. She had a smile plastered on her face, and seemed to be excited about something.

"Bones, what's got you all excited?"

"I just want to spend the rest of the day in bed with you, a couple of beers, a pizza, and lots of lovemaking. Is that possible?"

I leaned across the center console and pressed a kiss onto her forehead, "Always."