Disclamer: I don't own Bones.
He pulled out eggs, milk, bread and juice that she had picked up at the store and set them on the table.
"Booth can you hand me the eggs, I'll start making Mollie's breakfast." He grabbed the eggs and handed them to her.
She opened the eggs and cracked two into a bowl. Once the egss were started, she started the mixture for the bread to be put into for french toast.
"Hey Bones."
"Yes, Booth?"
"Mollie, did she ever..." he trailed off. She looked up at him and saw him looking away.
"Did Mollie ever ask about having a father?" She blatantly stated.
"Yeah." He stared at his feet.
"One day a few months ago, we were over at Angela and Hodgins' when she asked. She had saw Hodgins playing with Michael and came over and asked me about her daddy.
"I told her that her daddy was gone, but that one day he may come back.
"You had been missing over two years at this point, but I had never given up on the fact that you were not dead. Everyone else figured you would have been because you had been gone for so long.
"I felt that if you were dead, I would know because I would have felt like I had lost a piece of me." She paused.
"She had asked if you had left us and I told her that her daddy would have never left us if he had he choice." Booth walked up to her and gave her a hug.
"Thanks Bones."
"For what?"
"For never giving up on me. For not letting anyone else take up being the father figure for Mollie."
"There would never be anyone for that role but you Booth." He smiled.
"You have no idea how good that makes me feel having that come from you Bones."
"Well actually, from an anthropological standpoint-"
"Don't ruin this moment with your squint talk Bones." He kissed her.
"I wasn't going to talk "squint talk"."
"Bones, whenever you hear the word anthropology or anything related come out of your mouth, it's gonna be squint talk."
She opened her mouth to object, then decided against it.
"Mollie, breakfast is ready." She called.
She set a plate on the table full of eggs in front of a chair.
Mollie ran in and walked up to her chair.
"Daddy." She lifted her arms.
"You want me to pick you up Mols?" She nodded.
"Okay. Up we go." He picked her up and set her in the chair.
Once the french toast was done, everyone sat at the table and started eating.
"Mollie." She looked up from her plate.
"Do you want to go to the zoo today?" She nodded and started to smile with a mouthful of eggs in her mouth.
"Mollie. It's not polite to open your mouth with food in it." She swallowed.
"Sorry mommy."
"It's alright baby."
"Daddy?" Booth swallowed.
"What princess."
"What's your fa. Fa. Fa-"
"Favorite animal?" He asked. She nodded.
"Yes daddy."
"I like the lions."
"Why daddy?" He tilted his head in thought.
"Umm. Well. I like the lions because everyone alaways told daddy to go with his lion heart and look what happened when I did." Booth looked at Brennan. She smiled at him.
"What happened daddy?" Mollie looked at him with her big brown eyes. Booth reached over and pulled Mollie onto his lap.
"Well. I finally got the courageto start a relationship with your mommy and then came along you." He touched her nose and she giggled. Brennan walked up behind Booth and put her arms loosely around his neck.
"And I'm happy you did." She nuzzled her head into his shoulder and they both sighed.
They stayed like that, Mollie sitting on Booth's lap, Brennan's arms wrapped around Booth's neck and her head laying on his shoulder, for what felt like hours, before Mollie started squirming.
"I go get dressed mommy." Mollie stated as she walked out of the kitchen.
They both laughed as Mollie walked towards her room and Brennan started to move when Booth put his hands on top of hers.
"Just because she left, doesn't mean you have to." He whispered.
"But I have to get dressed." Booth looked at her and rolled his eyes.
"Bones, we're going to the zoo. You're fine with what you have on."
"Fine. But I don't think they'll let you into the zoo like that." Booth had on a pair of boxers and a white t-shirt on.
"It'll only take me two minutes to throw on a shirt and jeans." He kissed her and she pulled away with a coy smile on her face.
"You do realize that I could send Mollie over to Angela's so you and I could catch up." He smiled and shook his head.
"No way. I missed you a lot, but I wanna spend time with my girlfriend AND my daughter." He said. She smiled and kissed him.
"Go get dressed so we can leave. Mollie is willingly getting dressed so I know she really wants to go." he sighed.
"Fine." He kissed he and stood up. As he started to walk away, she pulled him into a tight hug. He wrapped his arms around her, surprised.
"Bones."
"Hmm." He started rubbing circles on her back.
"I'm not gonna leave you two ever again. I promise you that."
"Don't make promises you can't keep Booth."
"Fine, but I will make this promise. I promise that if anyone tries to make me leave you two, I will fight back until I see both of you again. I'm going to try with all of my power to not leave you two." He felt the muscles in her back relax and knew he said the right thing.
"Mommy." Brennan picked her head up to see her daughter standing in the doorway with a purple dress on and white shoes and leggings.
"We leavin' soon?" Brennan let go of Booth long enough to swoop down and pick up Mollie to include her in the hug.
"Yes sweetie. We're leaving soon. I promise." She kissed her head and set her back down.
"I go watch tv mommy." She stated walking towards the living room.
"She's definetly your daughter. She loves tv." She paused. "Go. We'll be sitting out here when your done." He kissed the top of her head and she squeezed him a little tighter before they went their seperate ways.
She walked into the living room to see Mollie sitting on the couch with her worn out stuffed dog that Booth had gotten for her before she was born.
"We leavin' mommy?" Mollie asked.
"As soon as daddy comes back." Mollie started to panic.
"Where daddy? Did he leave again? He not come back for long time?" Mollie's eyes started to fill with tears as did Brennan's. She hated to see her little girl cry.
"Daddy's just getting dressed sweetie. He's in our room. He's not going to leave again for a long time."
"Promise mommy?" Mollie sniffed.
"Promise sweetie." She pulled Mollie close and started rocking her again like she did when she was a baby.
"What's with the tears?" Booth asked as he walked into the room.
"Daddy!" Mollie jumped off Brennan's lap and ran towards her father. She crashed into his legs.
"Whoa Mols. What's wrong?" He picked he up and looked at Brennan.
'I'll tell you later. I promise.' She mouthed to him. He opened his free arm towards her and when she walked into his embrace, he pulled her towards him.
"Come one. Let's go to the zoo." He let go of Brennan, but grabbed her hand and opened the door for them.
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