"A vacation sounds nice," Angela smiled.
"You cannot seriously be considering this!" Booth eyed her from across the table at The Founding Fathers.
"Why not?" she shrugged. "We don't have to even sleep in the same house. It'll be like we're neighbors for a week."
"Neighbors with you guys, I wouldn't mind, but Daisy and Sweets…eh?" he gestured to imply the impending doom that sat snuggled to her sometimes fiancé at the end of the bar.
"I'll admit that Daisy isn't my favorite of the squinterns," Hodges shrugged, "But she is, supposedly, using this time to work on her dissertation so she will stay a bit quieter and we really all could use a vacation. If we all leave, it'll give the others a reason to take a break too. Cam needs to step away from that autopsy table and when was the last time you two had a vacation?"
"We –" Temperance started.
"Don't even think about mentioning the pigmies and Afghanistan, honey," Angela cut her off. "We went to Paris and drank wine, that's a vacation, what you two did was work."
"We went to my High School reunion," Bones nodded.
"And Vegas not to long ago," Booth added.
"And you traveled with the circus, and went to London, but again – all work." Hodges raised an eyebrow.
"London wasn't all work…" Brennan said solemnly, slowly realizing that Angela was right. She hadn't taken a vacation that wasn't anthropology related, forensic or otherwise in quite some time.
"No?" Angela asked, "As I recall you solved two murders and other than that, lectured at Scotland Yard and Oxford. Sure sounds like work to me, just work in a different place. You will need to learn how to take a vacation once the baby comes. You aren't dragging her to Peru to study Aztec bones till she's at least two. Plus I want to go because the scenes in the Appalachians this time of year should make for some beautiful paintings."
"Fine," Booth said, finally defeated.
"We'll all go," Brennan sighed.
"But when this all goes horribly, we warned you." Booth pointed to them with the neck of his bottle and took another swig. "Call them over and give them the good news."
Hodges motioned for Lance and Daisy. She frolicked over, dragging Sweets behind her.
"We're going!" He smiled.
Daisy literally jumped up and down. "Yay! This is going to be soooo much fun!"
"Oh," Booth said leaning back in his chair, "Barrels and barrels…"