Disclaimer: I don't own Bones.
Title: Home
Author: ReadingRed
Chapter Five: Early Morning
"Booth, Booth." Brennan nudged her husband in the side trying to wake him up. "Booth, come on. We have to get Parker up and ready for school and we can work on getting the girls, but you need to get up." All her talking had done the job. Her husband was now awake and quietly grumbling about how nothing should ever happen before nine in the morning.
"Just get up Booth." Brennan said laughing. She left to go wake up her son. Walking down the short hallway and past the girl's room on her left she went into her son's room. Looking around she saw some of his toys laying on the floor and made a mental note to have him clean up his room after school she went to his bed. Kneeling down beside the head of the bed she looked at her son for a moment. He was beautiful, with his wavy blond hair and innocent face he looked like an angel.
Bones thought back to the first time she met this child. It was after one of her first cases with Booth. Rebecca had given him permission to take Parker, who was two years old at the time, for the weekend and Brennan was with him when he went to pick the child up from his mother's house. She had stayed in the car when Booth went up to the door of the ranch style house. He was afraid that Rebecca might change her mind about letting him take Parker if she saw Bones and got the wrong idea. She watched him walk up to the door as fast as he could before gently knocking. It took Rebecca a minute to answer and in that time Booth fidgeted quietly. Bones barely knew the man at the time and yet she could see that there was nothing more important to him than his child. Rebecca opened the door and passed the toddler into Booth's waiting arms. Bones watched him as he cradled the small child to his chest and carefully placed a kiss atop the boys head. Booth said goodbye and Rebecca shut the door. Booth walked slowly back to the car, savoring every moment with his son. When he reached the car he pulled open the door and gently sent the squirming child in the car seat. Brennan turned around in the passenger seat to get a better look at the little boy. She could easily see the family resemblance between this child and her partner. He had the same piercing eyes and the same charming smile.
"Hello" Brennan said. Although the boy was able to talk, and even form short sentences he bowed his head and bashfully stared at her from under his curly hair.
"Sorry Bones, he's just a little shy." He explained. Turning to the child he asked. "Parks, can you say 'hi' to Dr. Bones?" The child mumbled something that sounded like it could be hi, and Booth satisfied finished buckling the boy in shut the door and got in the driver's seat.
"He's a beautiful child Booth. You should he proud."
"Thank you, and I am. Every day he does something new and amazing. I thank God that he gave me such a blessing."
Snapping out of her reminiscing Bones gently woke up the sleeping boy.
"Parker. Hey Parker it's time to wake up. The sooner you get up the sooner you can go to school and the sooner the girls will get here." The second those words let her mouth Parker was up. He scrambled out of bed and started pulling shirts out of his dresser.
"Hey Mama. Did you mean it? We get the girls today?" He asked her still searching for his favorite t-shirt.
"Yes Parker I meant it. If everything goes as planned you should be able to see them when you get out of school." She went to the closet and pulled out the shirt he had been looking for. It was red with black letters proclaiming phrases such as "Man of Steel", "Hundreds Saved", and other front page headlines with a picture of Superman appearing to fly out of the front of the shirt. It had been given to him by Angela for his birthday, he loved it.
"Here's your shirt kiddo. Remember it's a school day today. You have to wear your uniform, just put this on under your polo." Bones said, throwing it to him. She then went to his chest of drawers and pulled out a pair of gray slacks and a pair of socks. Parker was taking off his pajama top so she put the pants and socks on the end of his bed.
"I'm going to go make breakfast Parker, when you're done here grab your backpack and come down to the kitchen okay?"
"K, mama." Bones left Parker's bedroom and walked to the kitchen where she started to prepare breakfast. On weekdays it was Bones' job to make breakfast which usually meant cereal. She took two ceramic bowls out of the cupboard for her and Booth and a plastic Superman bowl for Parker. She set them on the table and pulled the milk out of the fridge. Parker liked to have Lucky Charms, and Booth and Bones usually ate Raisin Bran so she grabbed the two boxes of cereal on her way back to the table.
"Booth hurry up. We have twenty minutes 'til we have to get Parker to school." Bones yelled down the hall.
"I'm coming Bones. Hold your horses." Booth said his voice getting louder as he came closer. "Look at what I found in the hallway. It's a little Superman." Bones looked over at him and saw he had Parker hanging over his shoulder in a fireman's carry. The boy was giggling at his father's antics.
"Daddy put me down. I gotta go get my backpack." Parker pleaded. Booth set him down and he raced off down the hall back to his room. Booth walked over to Bones and kissed her softly.
"Morning Temperance."
"Good morning Seeley." She murmured.
"Are you ready for today?"
"Yes. More than anything I just want to see them, to see how much Harper has grown and to finally meet Ember. Now that I have Parker and I know what it is like to love a child, I can't believe I was ever ok with letting someone else raise my children."
"Bones if you had said no back then Harper and Ember would never have been born. All that's in the past, all we can do now is move forward and make the rest of their childhood a happy one. We'll help them deal with the loss of the parents that raised them, and make sure that they know that we love them."
"I know, that's what I plan on doing."