Brennan was the first to wake up. It never mattered what time she went to sleep at night her internal clock always seemed to wake her at the regular hour every morning. It was eight am, so Brennan calculated that she had only had around three hours of sleep. She rolled back over and tried to force herself to get some more rest. It was no use; she sighed.

Brennan looked over at Booth; he was so peaceful sleeping, any stress had been expunged from his face. Then she looked down to the small boy in her arms and noticed a circular bruise on his hip where his night shirt had come up slightly. She suddenly felt herself become furious. Brennan gently extricated herself from bed and went to take a shower and get ready for the day. This was her perfect opportunity; she looked over at Booth a second time, he was, thankfully, still sound asleep. Brennan threw her hair up and grabbed her coat, but before she ran out of the door she decided she had better leave a note in case Booth thought she had run off in one of her coma-induced delusions.

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Booth and the kids woke up well passed noon. Booth could not recall sleeping in this late since he was a teenager. He stretched and yawned. Emily tapped him on the shoulder.

"Where's Bones?" she asked rubbing her eyes.

Booth scanned the room. "Uh-oh," he thought.

"Um, maybe she went to make breakfast?" Booth told the girl hopefully.

"Come on let's go brush our teeth and find out what we are doing today," he told the kids.

They followed him into the bathroom and Booth handed them each a tooth brush that Brennan had purchased. Booth slammed the toliet lid down quickly and shuddered as he remembered something in Brennan's latest book regarding airbourne fecal matter.

"I''ll be right back." he told them wandering into the kitchen. It was then that he noticed a note and Brennan's perfectly precise handwriting.

Dear Booth,

Went to Lab, be back soon.

Tell the children I say good morning.

Love,

Bones

P.S.-Emily and David will be staying with Angela tonight, because if you don't mind I have some things I'd like to discuss with you. I''ll be home at seven pm.

Booth growled as he read the first line. He knew he told her she could go to the lab, but after the wild night they had Booth, thought, well had hoped, she would at least rest first. Both the Jeffersonian and the FBI had given the partners a few days off to adjust to the situation. He was pretty sure she was the only person on earth to pass up a paid vacation from work. Booth picked up her note and re-read it, the first time through he had been so focused on the "love" part that he hadn't really read the P.S. Now he was nervous. She needed to talk to him? What could that be about? He'd have wait seven hours to find out. Seven long hours. Just then the kids came out of the bathroom.

"Hey guys, Bones had to go to work for a little bit, but wuddyu say we make some breakfast then go to the park, huh?"

"Yay!" cheered the kids happily.

"Mommy used to take us to da park," said David.

"But then John wouldn't let her anymore," said Emily sadly.

Booth's head shot up from the chocolate chip pancakes he was cooking, "Did John tell you his last name?"

David and Emily looked at each other puzzled.

"It was like that song from the movie mommy showed us," said David.

"The Sound of Music!" screamed Emily.

Booth looked at them confused.

"Doe!" they shouted together.

"Huh?" asked Booth.

"His last name is uh Doe like the deer!" David told Booth.

"John Doe huh, and I bet their mom's name is Jane," Booth thought sarcastically.

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Brennan arrived at the Lab right at her usual time. Angela who had just returned from her baby moon, ran right into her best friend's arms. She had only left after Brennan had re-assured her she was fine and there was no reason to waste non-refundable tickets to Paris to stay around and babysit her.

"Sweetie! I got your message about watching the kids; so it's true then? You and Booth really are taking care of children together?"

"Yes, It's true. Listen, would you like to talk in my office?"

"So, Ange.." Brennan said after she had pulled the door shut behind them. Then she procceeded to tell the entire story starting after the part Angela already knew about Brennan kissing Booth.

"Oh my God you are totally going to adopt them aren't you." It wasn't really a question; Angela knew her much too well.

Brennan didn't say anything; she was afraid to admit just how attatched she had gotten to these children in only one night.

Angela had agreed to watch the kids for a while so Brennan could talk to Booth. She had examined the body with Cam. Flesh really wasn't her area of expertise, but she helped to the best of her considerable abilities. David and Emily's mother was 5'6 122 lb with no sign of drug usage, which was suprising to all of them. When Cam had gathered every last shred of evidence from the body she gave Brennan permission to remove the flesh so Hodgins helped her strip down the body to the bones.

From the bones Brennan was startled to find marks that suggested the woman had been bound and gaged for long periods of time. Cam had figured out from the internal organs that she had also been starved for days.

It was 6:15 before Angela came to interupt. "Sweetie, you promised Booth you'd meet him at seven; go clean up."

Brennan had lost track of the time, she peeled off her gloves and quickly followed Angela to her office where Brennan changed into a light blue dress and a gray sweater.

"You look great Bren!" Angela told her and they walked together out to the parking garage.

Booth had a great day with the kids and he had them fed, bathed, and in pajamas before seven, which was an accomplishment. When Brennan walked in Booth's mouth went dry.

"I, uh, didn't know we were going anywhwere nice..."

"A new Thai resteraunt opened around the corner," she smiled.

"Right, I'll go change then."

Booth was having trouble tearing his eyes away from Brennan. Her dress perfectly matched the brilliantly blue eyes and her hair was down out of it's usual ponytail. He forced himself not to linger on the edgy neckline and those tantalizingly long, smooth legs.

Brennan turned to the children.

Emily and David had ran into her arms as soon as she opened the door.

Emily pulled on her dress and Brennan bent down to her level.

"You look really pretty," she whispered.

Brennan was pretty sure, to use Booth's words, her heart had just melted. She smiled at the little girl.

"Not as pretty as you," she told her.

"Whoose that?" David asked as Angela followed Brennan into the house.

"This, is my friend Angela; she will be caring for you tonight for a little while so I can go out to dinner with Booth."

The kids looked skeptical, but they were very polite.

Soon enough Booth returned dressed very hansomly, Angela told him so.

"You guys should go; seems you have a lot to talk about," Angela told them winking at the kids.

"That's the understatement of the year," Brennan thought.