"waking up in July"

Seeley Booth woke up in the morning. His eyes still closed he wondered what sound could have caused him to wake up. Then he realised it must have been the baby.

He opened his eyes, sat up and looked into the crib. The little baby boy was lying there, his eyes open, babbling a bit, but not yet crying. Booth knew he would start to do so, if Bones would not take care of him soon. He always had to smile, when he saw them together... his younger son and his Bones, the nursing mother.

He decided to get up and search for her. More sensing than seeing the movement the baby started to whine, but when picked up by his father stopped instantly. Booth placed a soft kiss on the forehead of his little son and whispered "Good morning, Ryan. Let's go find Mummy..."

He heard a noise from the kitchen and walked towards it, as silent as possible. As if he wanted to support his father, Ryan remained silent too.

He came close to her and whispered in to her ear "Good morning, Mrs. Booth."

She froze for an instant, then laughed and turned around. "My boys are awake already?"

"What do you think you are doing, Bones. You can not sneak away in the morning just like that. This is our first morning together as Mr. and Mrs. Booth and you leave me alone..." He looked at her with his puppy dog eyes and Ryan whined a bit.

Temperance laughed again and answered. "I did not mean to leave you alone... I just made coffee for us... I wanted to come back to you right now... Besides... you were the one sneaking here... " She touched her son's tiny nose with her index finger "And you even helped him, hmmm?"

"Mrs. Booth" Booth whispered. She smiled up to him "Yeah? You love to call me that, hm?"

"I love YOU." He corrected and lowered his head to kiss her. Ryan chose exactly this moment to start crying. "Well I guess he wants to say he loves you too." Booth grinned.

Temperance took Ryan and kissed his forehead. "I love you, Ryan. And I love your father... He's a wonderful man. Pity I can't call him Booth anymore... since this is now my last name too... Temperance Booth... doesn't that sound good?"
Hushed by the low murmur of his mother's voice Ryan stopped crying and looked at her curiously.

"Now what is this family going to do now?" he asked her.

"Going back to bed and spending a lazy day doing nothing except being happy... does that sound good?" She whispered in his ear.

"Sounds wonderful" he mumbled into her hair. Ryan whined again. "See, my son agrees."

"He's my son too, Seeley, you do not own him" she teased him. "Don't take everything so literal" he gave back as they made their way back to the bedroom.