Hey all sorry for the long break I got home work and…. Wait a minute I don't do homework well sorry on excuse wait I got it I was watching Bones!! There I was watching bones well anyway here's your chapter.
Disclaimer: Haven't done one of these in a while well I don't own bones cause I'm not Fox or who ever it is that DOES own Bones.
Plans were made to release Mr. Booth the following Thursday, so they planned a welcome home party including all of Booth's extended family and a lot of his parent's friends.
Booth's grandparents were coming and so were his mom's brother and his three kids. His dad twin sisters were coming and one of them was bringing her son (though Booth could never remember which one had the son) and soon the Booth family home was filled to the brim with family friends and of course…Zach. (Just kidding (not really (ok yes really))).
On the day of the party Tempe, Angela, and Jack came over to help decorate. Zach would have come too but Mrs. Hodgins insisted he take a nap if he was going to stay out late. So about an hour later the Hodgins family was reunited at Booths house. Mr. Booths twin sisters were first to arrive. They were wearing similar outfits in opposite colors. One had on a red sweater with Black pants the other a green sweater with a brown skirt. They reminded Tempe of Christmas.
"Hi Anna." The one in the red sweater said.
"Nicole" Mrs. Booth hugged her.
The one in the Green sweater knelt down to Booth. "Hi Seeley, Do you remember Christopher?"
"Hi Aunt Cara, yeah I remember him he was at my birthday party last year." The little boy continued looking down at the ground. He looked to be about Zach's age so Zach walked over and said hi. By the time the door bell rang again they were talking and laughing like they had always been friends.
Meanwhile Mrs. Booth answered the door again.
"Jimmy!" She said greeting her brother she turned to her sister in law "Sharon how are you?"
"Oh we're all fine thanks Ashley learned how to walk finally." She said laughing and pointing to a little girl who was sure enough toddling her way up the walk.
"Seeley come say hello." Mrs. Booth called
Booth peeked around the corner and saw his cousins. He came out to say hello and found his mother talking to 6 year old Karla.
"Oh Karla you got so big." Karla giggled and hid behind her older brother. Joe was 8 but still nice to the younger kids. Booth showed them back to the play room and introduced his friends to his cousins. Tempe and Angela began to coo over Ashley and Jack started talking to Joe. Karla liked having some one younger than her old enough to still boss around. Zach didn't seem to mind too much so Booth let her. They played for about an hour then Mrs. Booth called them to eat and have cake. Nicole and Cara were laughing about something. Mr. Booth was talking to his brother in law and Mrs. Booth was Carrying over a huge cake with the words "Welcome Home" printed in icing. After everyone stuffed themselves Mr. Booth cleared his throat
"Everyone, I would to thank you all for coming and supporting me. And I would like to toast to the man who saved my life even though they aren't here." A moment of silence "And I would like to publicly apologize to my son for missing a huge part of his life, that is if this counts as publicly" he finished smiling and winking at Booth. "And I have a surprise for the kids. The tri-state carnival is coming in a few months and by then I should be healed enough to take you all there as a sort of thanks for looking out for Seeley when I couldn't."
Booth became very excited and everyone else was too. Tempe had gone last year with her family and she remembered how much she loved it. People from all over Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania came to have a day of fun. The rest of the party was uneventful except for Cara and Nicole fighting about something and getting into a cat fight. Mr. Booth sighed and tried to get up between them out of habit. When his legs didn't respond he looked down and burst out laughing. His sisters stopped and looked at him for a moment before joining in the laughter. Everyone had cake, even little Ashley. She picked it up and dumped it on her own head.
After everyone left Booth was sitting in the living room with his dad watching TV. When it came to a commercial his dad turned it off and turned to him.
"You really know how to pick 'em! Just like your old man!" Booth looked at him strangely for a minute than remembered he had a beer during the toast.
"She's a really nice girl, that Tempe."
"I know dad and she's my best friend, Next to Jack of course."
"Jack Hodgins, that's one lucky boy. He'll go places in life."
'Yeah into a big dark room covered in dead things' Booth thought. (Pretty close its only a big bright room covered in dead things)
"He seemed to like Angela Montenegro"
"Yeah I think he likes her"
"Like or like like?"
Booth thought for a minute. "Definitely like like." He replied.
"And then there's Zach. Whew he's amazing."
"And adorable," Called Mrs. Booth from the kitchen.
"I think it's great that the Hodgins family wanted to adopt a child"
"You know dad they almost didn't get him."
"Why not?" He asked
"Because his biological parents showed up and wanted him back." Booth replied.
Just then his mother walked in and told him it was time for bed.
"K" he answered. "'Night mom, 'night dad." He went up to his bedroom but instead of lying on the bed he put his ear to the floor. His mom was saying,
"They showed up out of some trailer park thinking they could just take him back"
"What happened?" He heard his dad ask.
"They threatened to take it to trial, then the Hodgins and kids got an idea." Answered his mom.
"I see it worked." said Mr. Booth.
"Yes, you should have seen them on Halloween, they were all super-heroes."
"Who was who?" He heard his father ask. He got up and tiptoed over to his dresser and picked up the picture they had taken on Halloween. Then he tip toed down the hall to his parent's room and placed the picture on his dad's side of the bed. He noted that the dent in the bed where his father usually slept had let up and he lie down on the cold side of the bed and fell asleep.
When his parents finally came to bed His mother carried him into his own room, and then realizing what was in his hand took the picture to show her husband. She pointed out Booth in the Superman costume and Tempe and Angela back to back making Charlie's angles signs with their hands. Zach and Jack looked cute in their Batman and Robin costumes, Jack was standing on the back of Zach's green cape and Mr. Booth had a feeling Zach was going o fall over once the picture had been taken.
Looking at that picture reminded him how much of his son's life he had missed. Then he made a personal commitment not to leave on an undercover assignment until his son had grown.
Hope y'all like it. It's my longest chapter yet over 1200 words I'm so proud of my self. Anyway please R/R you know the drill.