Two days later Brennan was bathing Christine when Booth slowly made his way up the stairs, leaning in the bathroom doorway. Brennan felt him standing there and turned her head as she lifted the baby out of the plastic baby bathtub. "Looks like someone enjoyed today's bath."

Brennan smiled," I wouldn't say she enjoyed it, but at least she didn't scream this time."

"Aw she'll get used to it. Ah listen Bones Hacker called, he needs me to come in for a few hours today."

"Why? You were given two weeks off it's only been three days."

"Hacker said it was an emergency meeting on some RICO case we've been chasing for years. He's probably making a mountain out of a mole hill, but none the less I need to go in case he does something stupid...I'm sorry Bones, I know these first few weeks were supposed to be the two of us getting adjusted…"

"It's fine Booth, I wish you could stay with us and enjoy this time together, but I understand why you cannot."

"Thanks Bones, I shouldn't be more than three hours." Booth kissed her and took Christine from her."Bye Christine, be good for mommy." Booth kissed the Baby's forehead.

"She'll be good; hopefully she'll be content in her swing for a bit while I do the phone interview for the monthly book review."

"Do you want me to stay for that?"

"No we'll be fine, she's been fed and bathed hopefully the gentle swinging will soothe her to sleep. If not and she fusses during the interview they'll just have to deal with it… Carrie only scheduled this because I told them wasn't going to do a book tour this time so, instead she scheduled phone interviews for magazines and stuff."

"Okay if you're sure…"

"Yes."

"Okay, I love you both, bye.'

"Bye Booth, we both love you too."

Booth turned and left the bathroom, stopping outside the door."Bones, don't forget incase I'm not back in time Parker has soccer practice right after school and Joey's mom is going to drop him off here."

"Great."

Booth left and Brennan finished dressing Christine and took her downstairs to get settled in the swing before time for the interview. Christine sat in her swing and dozed until she fell into a deep sleep just before Brennan finished the interview. Brennan let her swing for a little longer while she cleared the lunch mess that Booth left in his hurry to go see Hacker. Once the kitchen was cleaned up Brennan got Christine out of the swing and went upstairs for a little nap of her own. Her body hadn't yet adjusted to the broken sleep patterns she was now experiencing. When Brennan woke up to Booth not home she wasn't too worried. Things with Hacker took longer if Booth had to talk him out of something.

At 5:00 Joey's mom dropped Parker off and he found Brennan in the kitchen. "Hi Bones, where's dad?"

"Hi Parker your dad had to go see Hacker, he should be home soon."

"Okay. Can I eat now or do we have to wait for dad?"

"We can eat after you take a shower. You look like you've been playing in the mud."

"I have the field was still wet. I left my cleats outside."

"Thank you, go in the laundry room and change; I don't want you tracking mud upstairs. I'll bring you something to put on."

"Okay."

An hour later Brennan had put Christine down for the first time that night while she and Parker ate more lasagna. When Parker was clearing the table Brennan quietly texted Booth, it was almost 7 and he wasn't home. Brennan didn't get a reply nor did she have any missed calls or unanswered text messages, she pushed the worry aside and helped Parker with his homework and took care of Christine. It was 9 when Booth walked in the door.

"Hey Parks!"

"Hey dad. I think Bones is upset, when she was helping me with my homework she kept looking at her phone and when we were done she went upstars with christene and hasn't been down since."

"Thanks Park, Bones is probably worried because I'm so late."

Booth found Brennan in the nursery rocking Christine. "Bones?"

Brennan looked up, "Booth you're finally home! Why didn't you text or call? I was worried you said you'd be gone three hours it's been nine!"

"I texted you in case you were still doing the interview or sleeping. Didn't you get it?"

"No." just then Brennan's phone chirped with a message:

Hey Bones Hacker's got us going on a wild goose chase in the middle of nowhere. Cell reception is nonexistent. Be home late tonight, sorry. Love you. Sent 1:47 PM April 5 2012

"Did you get your goose?"

Booth laughed, "No, Bones we didn't. Cullen was fit to be tied when he found out Hacker called me out there, he gave me another week off and ripped Hacker a new one….Sorry I worried you."

"It isn't your fault, its Hacker's."

"Still it upset you."

"I just couldn't help think how I would tell Parker if something happened to you. And how whould I raise Christine by myself." The tears Brennan had been holding in for the last few hours started to fall.

"Oh Bones. I am sorry. Hacker is a jackass, you know that." Booth hugged Brennan, mindful of Christine.

Brennan laughed, "He is. I'm fine, just hormonal still."

Booth nodded, give me Christine and go to bed."

"She'll need to eat in a little more than an hour…"

"I can hold her till then. I missed her today plus I wasted 9 hours of daddy/ Christine bonding time I'll never get back thanks to Hacker's idiocy… I wish you'd let me do night feeding or two so you could get more sleep."

Brennan smiled,"I'll let you feed her soon Booth."

Booth smiled, "I'm gonna hold you to that. Give me the baby, we're gonna go downstairs and get some dinner for me and see if Parker wants to watch a movie. I'll bring her up when she needs to eat again."

"Okay."Brennan kissed Christine's forehead and handed her to Booth.

Booth went downstairs and found Parker sacked out on the couch. Grinning he put Christine in her swing and went in the kitchen to heat up some leftovers. A little over an hour later Booth gently woke Brennan and handed her the baby. Then he went down to get Parker in bed before heading back to his and Brennan's bedroom for the night.

A/N I've decided to keep going on this whenever I feel like writing a little snippet…. all other fics, 'Better Circumstances', What if, and Heart in the Words' will get updates in time…. bear with me please…. this will be my last update for a bit, I'm going on vacation for almost 2 weeks then it will take a few days to finish the better circumstances chapter