Disclaimer: I don't own Bones.

Title: Home

Author: ReadingRed

Chapter Three: Why'd You Have to Wait?

"I don't know what that means Booth."

"It means you get to keep them forever Bones." Brennan tightened her hold around Booth and laid her head on his shoulder.

"I don't even know them Booth. What if they don't like me? I haven't seen Harper since she was two years old. She won't remember me, and the younger child, I don't know anything about. How are we going to do this Booth? What will Parker say? How is going to feel about having two new younger siblings? He's just now getting used to having you back in his life, what if he doesn't like having the children come live here?"

Lifting her head so he could look her in the eyes Booth answered "They will like you Bones, Parker loves you and they will too. We'll raise them just like we raise Parker. One day at a time. Parker will be ecstatic, he's always wanted a younger sibling and now he'll have two. Believe me, he'll be happy. Now anything else worrying you or can we start working on getting the kids home?"

"Let's bring them home."

"It's a little late now. The law office will be closed by now but we can get the house ready for them." Bones knew that he was trying to keep her busy to try and distract her from other things and she was happy that he cared enough to try.

"We can give them the office and move all the furniture that is in there to the living room for now, at least until we can find somewhere else for it all. We don't need a home office anyway; we both have one at work." Booth smiled at her suggestion.

"That's a great idea Bones."

Booth and Bones moved the two desks, chairs, and other assorted items that had somehow ended up in the office out into the living room. They had done all they could for the night because neither wanted to leave Parker alone to go out and buy new stuff, they both felt it could wait until the morning. They decided that they would take Parker with them when they went shopping for the children to help Parker feel involved. Booth and Bones were sitting on the sofa watching TV when Booth started asking questions.

"Hey Bones? Tell me about Harper. What was she like the last time you saw her?"

Bones smiled happy that he was interested. "She is beautiful and so smart, blond hair, bright blue eyes and a wonderful smile. She is very intelligent, when she was just two she could count to a hundred, she knew all the colors and the alphabet. I even taught her the names of some of the bones." Brennan said with a laugh. Booth watched her face light up as she talked about the little girl she hadn't seen in so long. It was the same way she looked when she talked about Parker.

"What about the other child? Did those papers you got say anything about that kid? Do you know if it is a boy or a girl?"

"I don't know, I just read the first part, just enough to know what had happened." Bones stood up and went and found the papers. She brought them back to where she had been sitting and started to look over them. When she had finished with a page she would pass it to Booth so he could read it too. Once they were both done reading and had found out all the information there was available they started talking.

"So from what I could gather, you can go get the girls whenever you like. There'll be a court hearing and a few home visits to make sure everything is ok and then you can keep them."

"Are you ok with this Booth? They aren't your children biologically. Will you still want to be their Daddy?"

"Bones do you consider Parker your son?"

"Of course Booth! I love him."

"Well there's your answer. I'll love them and cherish them and treat them they same as I treat Parker." Bones smiled and leaned in to kiss Booth.

"Thank you Booth."

"There's nothing to thank me for. I always wanted a big family and now I'm getting one. I should be thanking you."

"Do you really think Parker will be happy getting two new sisters?"

"I promise Bones, he'll love Harper and Ember. Three kids Temperance." Booth said grinning.

"Three kids."

The next day started bright and early with Parker coming into his parents' room and jumping on the bed.

"Wake up, it's Sunday! Family day. Come on! Wake up!" Parker continued to jump and great progressively louder and his parents pretended to be asleep. All of a sudden Booth jolted up into a sitting position and grabbed Parker.

"Rawr, I got you!" Booth growled while tickling Parker. The boy started laughing hysterically and started to beg Brennan's help.

"Mama Bones, help meeeeee." Parker begged. The plea backfired though because Brennan then started to tickle him.

"St…Stop! I'm gonna pee!" Parker shouted. Immediately his parents stopped the tickle torture.

"Just kidding." Parker laughed. The small family then laid back and rested for a moment. Brennan on one side of the bed, Parker next to her, and Booth on the other side of him. Booth looked over Parkers head and found that his wife was doing the same thing. Silently he mouthed to her "now?" asking whether or not now would be a good time to tell Parker about the two new additions to their family. She nodded and he began to think of the best way to break the news to the boy. After a minute he decided just to try and explain what was happening in a way Parker could understand.

"Hey Park? You know how your friend Samuel and his family adopted Jamie a while back?" Waiting for the boys nod he continued. "Well we're kinda going to do something like that, only a little different." He paused seeing the little boy's confused face.

"Ugh Bones I'm not explaining this very well. You want to try?" Booth looked to his wife across the bed. She nodded and then patted her lap, motioning for Parker to come sit on her lap. The little boy crawled over and climbed on his mother's lap.

"Parker a long time ago when you were just a baby and before I met your Daddy I had a friend who needed help. Her name was Grace and she really, really wanted a baby, but her body didn't have all the right stuff, so she asked me for help. I wanted to help so I said yes. I gave her a little bit of myself, the part that it takes to make a baby, and she used it to make a baby with her husband. We did this twice and they had two little babies, only now Grace and her husband John died and there is no one to take care of those two children. Because it was a part of me that helped make them, the mommy that raised them decided that they should come live with me if anything happened to her and her husband. Do you understand?"

"Kinda. So two new babies are coming?"

"Well yes, they're coming soon, but they aren't babies anymore. Harper is four so she's just a little bit younger than you, and Ember is two."

"Ugh, why could they be boys?" Parker lamented. Booth and Bones just laughed.

"Are you ok with this Bub?" Booth asked.

"Yeah Daddy, I think it's cool, as long as the girls are nice. I can be a good big brother like Uncle Russ was to Mama."

"I know you will be Parker." Bones said before leaning down placing a kiss on the top of Parker's head. The small family laid in the bed, enjoying some of the last moments they would spend as a family of three before their brood would expand to five.

"Hey mama, when are they gonna get here?" parker asked breaking the silence.

"Soon baby, as soon as possible." Bones said placing another kiss on the top of Parkers head, happy the boy was eager to meet his sisters.

"Why'd you have to wait to go get them?"

"That's just the way it works bub. We'll be a family soon. Just be patient." Booth told the boy. Parker nodded in understanding before settling back down in the bed.

"We'll be a family soon." Bones echoed almost to herself.