Here be no monsters.

A/N: This one took slightly longer. I had to finish my library book first…it was due! I was thinking about just giving a skip on this one, because just reading through summaries; it seemed so many had already done add-ons for that final B&B&C scene, but well this one just wouldn't leave me alone.

"Daddy, I'm ready!" Christine skipped into the room ahead of her mother. Mommy had just supervised her bath and now it was time for her Daddy to tuck her into bed and they'd read one story together.

Booth turned as they approached. "I see that. Have you decided what story you want tonight?"

Christine smiled up at him as she shook her head no. "You decide tonight!" Turning to her mother she held out her arms for a hug, which she received enthusiastically. "Good night Mommy."

"Good night Sweetheart. Sweet dreams. I'll see you in the morning."

"Come on Daddy." Booth followed her out of the room, but turned to see his wife already reaching for the case files that she'd kept hidden away. She only pulled out work once both children were in bed.

In the room Booth turned down the bedcovers. He turned to tell her to climb in and noticed that while she was standing next to him, she staring at her closet. He sat on the edge of her bed and reached out to take her hand. "Princess, are you okay?"

"Daddy, are you sure there isn't a monster in there." She asked with eyes still glued to the closet door.

He walked to the closet. "Let's check it out." Reaching out he pulled the door fully opened and stepped into the closet. Looking back to where she was still standing beside her bed, he gestured her over. "Come on Princess; look with me so that you can be sure."

She cautiously crossed her room to stand next to her father. "See Monkey, nothing in here." He started moving things around to show there wasn't a monster hiding behind something. The closet was monster free. He didn't notice as he turned and squatted down to her level that some of those items on the high shelf were now precariously balanced.

Seeing that she still looked skeptical, Booth decided on another tack. "Okay, well Mommy already told you there are no monsters, and I told you that I'll always protect you, but I was talking to your Uncle Aubrey today and he had another suggestion for your monster situation."

"What's that?"

"Uncle Aubrey suggested you confront whatever you're afraid of and tell it to go away, because you're not afraid, you know monsters aren't real, and besides your daddy can protect you." No way was he going to tell his little girl to say he'd pop a cap in the monster's ass. "Do you think you can do that?"

She looked at him and shrugged. "I guess so."

"Why don't you practice now?" He moved to stand outside of the closet. "Go on, give it a try. Tell the monster you're not afraid."

She looked up at her daddy, then took a deep breath, moving to stand next to him she took his hand and held as tight as she could. "Go away monster! You're not real, my mommy said so, and my daddy protects me from bad things, so go away before he gets you." She then looked up at her father with her brows raised and gave a little shrug. "How's that."

"I think you did great. So what do you say: a bedtime story and then sleep?" They made their way to her bed where Booth helped her under the covers and tucked them neatly around her. He then went to the bookshelves to pick out tonight's story. His hand hovered over "Where the Wild Things Are" before deciding that might not be the best thing to read right now. He finally decided on "The Lorax" and moved to sit on the side of the bed and started reading. By the time he was half-way through the book Christine was sleeping, breathing steady and comfortable. He kissed his little girl on the head before rising and replacing the book in its spot on her shelf.

Before rejoining Brennan he made a detour to check on Hank. He moved into the baby's room to find him deep asleep on his back, with his arms thrown wide. Booth replaced the blanket that had been kicked aside before leaving Hank's room and rejoining his wife.

"Is Christine okay?"

"Yeah, she's sleeping like a baby."

…then…

"I'm always right." She hugged her daughter tight to her again.

When they parted Booth stepped forward and picked up Christine. He hugged her to him and walked out of the closet. "I don't want you to cut your feet on the broken snow-globe." He carried her across to her bed. "Here you go, climb back under your covers. Why don't you let Mommy finish reading that book to you while I clean up the mess? You fell asleep before we finished reading it earlier."

He reached out and kissed her on the forehead before standing and crossing to the bookshelves. He pulled "The Lorax" back out and found the page he'd been on just a short while before and handed it to his wife, reaching out he stroked her cheek before leaning forward to kiss her. Resting his forehead to hers he took a deep breath. "She's okay, we're okay. Go ahead and lay next to her on her bed to read the story, I'll clean up the snow-globe. It'll give me a chance to calm down."

Brennan settled onto the bed next to Christine and stretched her legs out on the bed; she put her arm around Christine who snuggled into her side. They picked up reading the story where Booth had left off.

He went out and gathered the supplies he needed to clean up the snow-globe. When he returned he stood for a short moment taking in the sight of the two of them reading the book together, then headed to the closet. He made quick work of the cleanup job and disposed of the remains, stowed away the supplied and returned to the bedroom.

Booth settled into the other side of the bed, sandwiching Christine in between her parents as Brennan continued with the story. Once again she was asleep before the end of the book, but Brennan read on. Once the story was finished they still remained scrunched together on the bed watching their daughter sleep.

After a while Brennan reached out to Booth and whispered "Come on we need to let her sleep in peace."

They made their way out of her room and taking his hand she led him to Hank's room. Smiling down at the sleeping baby. "Look at him, sleeping away. I think he could sleep through anything."

Booth chuckled softly. "It's good someone in this family is a good sleeper. God knows the rest of are such poor sleepers that we need some balance here." He wrapped his arms around his wife and together they watched their son sleep for several minutes. "I was so scared for a few minutes there. I knew it wasn't possible, but I thought we'd lost her, that somehow the monster out there had gotten to her."

Brennan turned to face him and rested her head on his chest. "I was terrified too. I know it's not physically possible, but I now understand the expression of something making your heart stop, because it felt like that happened to me when she wasn't in her room. I can't face that casefile again tonight. Why don't we clean up pick up everything then just head to bed. I need you to hold me tonight."

He pulled back to kiss her and said. "Let's do that." Then taking her hand led her out of the room.

A/N: I probably should have posted this in two part, since one it would have meant I could have posted the first part earlier, and two it'd have meant this second part could have been proofed better, when I wasn't so tired, but I just saw it all as one post and once I had that in my mind I had to go with it. Let me know what you think