So, holy moly me oh my I've returned...
She don't know what she wants to be
With all the pictures in the magazines
Holding hands when she's mad at me
'cause she don't wanna go, don't wanna go
I met her at anthropology….
Purple boots and her golden dreams
Standing there like a Tennessee queen
Singing don't look at me, don't look at me…
Singing oh oh
won't you help me sing this song
Singing ee ee ee
She don't ever want to go to sleep
Singing hey mama, don't want no drama
Just a kiss before I leave
Hey lady, don't say maybe
You're the one that I can believe
Hey lover, don't want no other
finger for my ring
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Oh oh
Ooh oh oh oh
Ooh oh oh oh
I can see it in her Cherokee eyes
Those baby browns and the golden thighs
What you doing for the rest of your life?
Cause you don't want, don't wanna go
Singing oh oh
won't you help me sing this song
Singing ee ee ee
She playing like a mystery
Singing hey mama, don't want no drama
Just a kiss before I leave
Hey lady, don't say maybe
You're the one that I can believe
Hey lover, don't want no other
finger for my ring….
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Oh oh
Ooh oh oh oh
Ooh oh oh oh
Couldn't be more opposite….
I'm hard to please and you're hard to get….
You're Mississippi and I'm Oregon
You're sun tanned and I'm porcelain skinned.
Singing hey mama, don't want no drama
Just a kiss before I leave
Hey lady, don't say maybe
You're the one that I can believe
Hey lover, don't want no other
finger for my ring
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Hey mama, hey hey mama
Oh oh
Ooh oh oh oh
Ooh oh oh oh
Brennan and Booth sat on the bench by the reflecting pool while they watched the girls.
"They got so big so fast Bones." Said Booth
"Children tend to do that Booth. Though, I agree. It does seem like they were both still running around the lab with Hodgins' stink bugs yesterday." Brennan said.
Booth turned to eye her, "Bones they still run around with Hodgins stink bugs."
She returned his mischievous glare with a matching glint in her eyes and scooted closer to him. His arm around her she placed a kiss on his lips and rested her forehead to his. He smiled falling into her deep blue eyes.
Ashley looked at the little girl with sparkling eyes walking along the edge of the reflecting pool. Ashley's hand was in the little girls so she didn't slip and fall.
"Ash! Ash! Look at me!" Ash smiled as the little one turned and caught her eye. Sticking her free hand straight out to balance herself. Ashley noticed the light she knew so well looking back at her through those pristine blue orbs. Christine had Brennan's eyes all the way.
Ashley smiled, "I'm watching Chrissy."
Ash couldn't help but smile as Chrissy smiled their dad's smile back at her. "Mommy are you watching?" Christine looked up toward her parent's awaiting a response. "Can you see me?"
Booth and Brennan smiled still lost in each others conversation and life itself. "Wow. Good job Chrissy! We're watching!" Brennan yelled. A few minutes passed and Brennan looked to the reflecting pool and back to Booth with a furrowed brow.
"What are you thinking about Bones?" Booth wondered.
"Did you see what she did?" Brennan asked.
"I think she was walking on the edge of the reflecting pool." Booth said.
"Piper did that when she was six and fell in." Brennan said.
"No, Piper jumped in and Angela had to practically go in after her to get her out of the pool. She had to make her stop chasing the geese." Booth reminded her.
Brennan smiled, "Yes, I remember that was quite amusing."
"It still is." Booth said and Brennan smiled looking at the girls.
They were five years apart. Brennan found out she was pregnant with Christine when Ashley was five. After Brennan got out of the hospital Booth and Ashley remained living with Brennan. Brennan went to Ashley and Piper's fourth and fifth two in one princess birthday parties. She went everywhere with Booth and Ashley.
Angela said they were a family without realizing it. Just as Bren and Booth had been a couple without a sexual relationship. Brennan stated they had always been a family and there were all different kinds of families. Angela just rolled her eyes. Now that Ashley was ten and Brennan had not only adopted her, but gave her a half sister as well. Brennan understood what Angela had meant.
Booth claimed he moved in with Brennan because he was going to help her to remember her old life. He needed his partner back. Booth didn't sleep in the guest bedroom with Ashley, but for two months until he and Brennan realized they were the ones that should be sharing the bed. They still had a lot to work through, it was a long road. The currents never stopped moving. Everything Brennan knew had crashed into the sea and been lost. Though, she managed to find her way back to shore, back to him but she always had. Though, she hadn't managed to remember her work or the team. It hurt her too. A wound she only let Booth see.
The waters were still uncharted but she did start to gain her memory back. It was always strange random things that would trigger certain memories.
Everyone had thought the smell of the lab would do wonders for her. It did nothing. Though, Booth brought her to the lab everyday, never giving up. She still couldn't remember ever having known Sweets, Ms. Wick, Hannah's face or the rest of the team. It was strange and hard on Brennan she remembered when Ash was still at the Jeffersonian daycare she would hole up in her office or wander the Jeffersonian corridors counting the hours until Ashley got out of daycare and she could hold something familiar again. To speak to Ashley who she remembered everything about, felt...Ash had become Brennan's world.
Once while Brennan was wondering the Jeffersonian corridors she bumped into an older man.
"Oh, sorry…I just." Brennan started.
"It's okay Dr. Brennan." Micha said.
"I take it we know each other from before my accident?" asked Brennan
"Yes, indeed we do. My name is Micha. I was a security guard here up until a few years ago." Micha said.
"Oh…" Brennan didn't understand why she would be friends with a security guard. "Why were we friends? You are not a coworker of mine."
Micha laughed, "Nope, I'm just your everyday miracle worker."
"I don't understand." Brennan said shifting her weight.
"It's okay, some things one has to find out for themselves. No one can tell them, they just have to see that one day the world will turn right side up. It will all work out."
Brennan smiled, "No Micha you are wrong. Three days. It takes three days for the world to turn right side up." Brennan's eyes actually lit up a bit as she hugged Micha.
"I remember you were here that night. I stayed here all night." Brennan said.
"You did." Micha agreed.
"Thank you Micha." Brennan said.
Micha winked and walked away as the Eames case flooded her mind.
Once Brennan, Angela, Piper and Ashley were at the mall together, they were shopping for school clothes for Ashley and Piper. Christine was asleep in the stroller and Brennan was ready for shopping to be over with. She was almost excited that Angela was starting to look drained as well.
Brennan heard giggles coming from the center of the store and walked over to see Piper and Ashley in hysterics. Angela looked to Brennan and nodded her head back and forth shrugging her shoulders.
"Auntie Brennan we are so cool." Piper said as she turned to Ashley giggling and said "Sweetie those sunglasses are soooo you!" The girls were seven and eight then.
"Mom, look at me!" Ashley said to Brennan as she struck a pose hand on her face mimicking Piper's many poses.
Brennan only stared at the tiny carbon copy of what she suddenly remembered as Hannah. Ashley was smiling sticking her tongue out and laughing wearing shades similar to a pair Brennan once remembered giving to her mother. She could see Hannah as clear as yesterday lying in the hospital suggesting Brennan give her, her sunglasses as a traditional gift.
Angela walked up and glanced at her friend. "Bren?"
"Mom? Are you looking?" said the little girl with blonde hair halfway down her back.
"Oh, yes… I see Ashley." Brennan exhaled, "They look great on you."
"No mom they are too big. These don't fit us right they are for big people silly." Ash said in return.
"Oh, yes of course." Brennan said and Angela eyed her.
"Well I want big people glasses! Mom movies stars have big sunglasses why can't I?" Piper whined.
As they drove home Ashley and Piper entertaining the quiet yet awake Chrissy. Angela had to know.
"Bren, what were you thinking of when Ash and Piper were trying on sunglasses? And don't say it was nothing, because I know it was something." Angela said.
Brennan inhaled, "I gave Hannah my sunglasses once."
Angela was quiet knowing her sentence didn't require a response.
"It was when she was in the hospital. Booth was so worried. I can see her now, I remember what she looked like, how she use to sound, and small traits of hers I can now correlate as Hannah's when I see Ash do some of them." Brennan exhaled.
The road was quiet just the hum of the tires on the pavement. "Ash has her nose, eyes and cheek bones."
Angela smiled a sad smile and nodded.
Brennan went on, "She has Booth's smile." Brennan laughed, "She acts so much like Booth." She continued to laugh louder and then started to get a bit misty eyed giggling and smiling through the gloss in her eyes.
"They are so silly Angela, the two of them. I swear I hardly understand what they are saying sometimes. Did you know she told Parker she wanted to play ice hockey when she got big enough? Booth will either love the idea or hate it."
Angela nodded no.
"What is so funny?" Piper wanted to know.
"It's…it's…nothing. Just a funny memory Piper." Brennan said and Angela smiled.
Piper went back to entertaining Christine with Ash and giggling their selves as they told her a princess story.
That day Hannah had looked down through the holes in heaven and smiled. Making Brennan her child's Godmother was the best choice she had ever made. For even when Hannah was alive she sensed that Brennan would look after any of Booth's children as her own. She was wonderful with Parker and young Michael even if she was unsure of herself with children, they loved her.
"Come on girls time to go home!" Booth stood from the bench near the reflecting pool as did Brennan.
Chrissy jumped down holding onto Ashley's hand. Once on the ground she let go of her hand and ran toward her parents. Ashley walked behind her.
"Daddy!" Booth knelt down to his knees arms open ready for the catch then he grabbed her and lifted her up in the air spinning her in a circle.
Ashley meandered up next to Brennan and looked up to who she now called mom. She slid her arm around Brennan's waist and Brennan put her arm around Ashley's shoulder. Ashley buried her cold nose deeper into Brennan's side.
Brennan looked up at Chrissy her long loose wavy brunette hair bounced all over as Booth ran around with her on his shoulders. She looked down to Ash her long blonde hair still in the two French braids Brennan had done up this morning, and smiled.
"Mom?" Ash asked and Brennan looked down to the ten year old. Booth was right, they grew up so damn fast.
"Yes Ashley?"
"I love you." Ash said with a sleight smile.
Brennan smiled a barely there smile and kissed the top of Ashley's head. "I love you too baby."
Booth drove his girls home, home not to a house. Their own home one where they could begin their new life together as a family. They had bought what they referred to as their mighty hut while Brennan was pregnant with Christine.
Booth remembered how they had come to the conclusion it was finally time to start looking for a house. Ashley was five going on eighteen and Brennan was very pregnant. Brennan was sitting on the couch, Ash on the floor and Booth next to Brennan all of them eating Mac N Cheese.
"Daddy?"
"What Ash?" Booth answered.
"Why do you still have our old house when we all live in this house?" Booth looked to Brennan and Brennan stared back wondering the same.
"Mommy, why?" Ash asked Brennan when Booth didn't answer in time.
"I don't know why your father still owns his old apartment when we reside at my place." Brennan said.
"I think we should get a bigger house and sell both places." Ash said with a cheeky smile full of Mac n Cheese.
Brennan looked to Booth. "She has a good point Booth. We will need an extra bedroom for when Christine comes and a guest bedroom as well."
"So we need a four room house?" Booth asked.
Brennan and Ashley glanced at each other and then both nodded yes.
"I guess we should start looking."
"Not now. Tomorrow Booth I'm too tired to look now and most realtors' offices are closed at this hour." Brennan said and Ash smiled excited with the idea.
"Right, what was I thinking Bones."
"Clearly you weren't." Brennan said as she sat her bowl on the coffee table and snuggled into Booth's side.
"Clearly Bones." Booth smiled kissing her temple chastely as Ashley jumped up on the couch with her mom and dad.
Soon Booth was putting Christine to bed. Brennan knocked on Ash's bedroom door.
"Come in." Ash called.
"Hey." Brennan smiled warmly at her. Ash was sitting on her bed taking her braids out. Brennan sat down next to her and automatically took over the task. Ash scooted down to sit on the floor so Brennan could take the braids out easier.
Ashley was quiet which wasn't unusual. The little girl had always taken a back seat to Piper growing up. Brennan thought Ash had grown up to have what Booth would call a bit of an old soul.
"Did you like my biological mom?" Ashley asked suddenly. Brennan paused unbraiding Ash's hair for a second and then kept on.
"Yes." She just didn't like the fact she had come into her partner's life and taken away the man she loved. Though, that was all in the past and everything worked out okay in the end. Well to an extent. Hannah had died. Brennan wondered if the only way to happiness was through sadness.
Ashley nodded and then turned to look up at Brennan. "I don't…I don't really remember her. Is that a bad thing? Am I bad person for forgetting her?" Ash's eyes were glossy and Brennan wished Booth was here. She stopped braiding and cajoled Ash to sit next to her on the bed.
"Come here baby. You are not a bad person." Brennan said as Ash held back tears. Her eyes were red rimmed.
"But aren't you supposed to remember your mother? You remember your mom and she died." Ash argued.
"I was fifteen when my mother disappeared from my life for good. You were only three. That is a big age difference Ash." Brennan rationalized.
Ash tried to reason, "But you remember. I know I look like her and I see her in a picture." Ash pointed to the picture she kept on her dresser of Hannah holding her around three years. Ash was smiling at her and Hannah was looking at her.
"I mean see the picture, but I don't know that time. I don't remember it." Ash said shrugging her shoulders. Brennan knew how she felt. Booth had showed her countless pictures of the team and her out at the Founding Fathers or some other venture. Though, it did no good.
"It's okay Ash, I still have never remembered the first time I met Cam, Sweets or anyone else on the team except Angela. Sometimes things happen, Ash and there is nothing we can do to change them. Nothing but move on with our lives the only way we know how. Everyone moves on in their own way." Brennan smiled remembering the speech Booth had given to her years ago.
"So, don't ever be sorry you don't remember Ashley because you are a good person and the brain is still a complex enigma to us. It's not your fault your hippocampus grew at the rate it was suppose to and did not file those long term memories away. You were young and motor skills and speech were much more important to your brain at that point in your life." Brennan said and Ash nodded a small yes.
They sat quiet for a bit until Ashley spoke, "She used to buckle me in the swing at the park and push me with dad." Brennan smiled a sad smile hugging her little girl close and nodding yes. Ashley now knew the park was where Hannah had been bringing her to meet Booth when the fatal crash took place.
Ashley sniffled and swallowed the lump in her throat feeling silly for showing emotion. She was a bit like Brennan that way.
"I have to get in the shower and go to bed. I have school tomorrow." Ash said ready to be alone.
"I know, I'm almost finished taking this one out." Brennan said and Ashley waited impatiently.
"There I'm finished." Brennan said rising from the bed. Giving Ash one last hug, "Night Ash."
"Night mom." Ash said and walked into her bathroom as Brennan walked out of her door.
Brennan smiled when she saw Booth in bed watching television. Booth noticed her and turned the t.v off. Brennan slid in on her side of the bed.
"Booth, you do realize to receive a penalty for an overdue book you actually have to check one out." Brennan said a mischievous smile on her lips.
"Didn't I tell you about this really cool book I found Bones?" Booth said and Brennan furrowed her brows now interested.
"No, where did you find it?"
"A museum." Booth said honestly.
"Really? Where?"
"Anthropology."
"Why? You don't like anthropology. And I already told you a book is not going to help me remember my old work Booth." Brennan argued.
"The book is great Bones. I only had to check her out once and I knew it was for me." Booth said.
"You said you hate anthropology. How could it be for you?" Brennan argued.
"That's true, but I love Bonesology." Booth smiled and rolled over to kiss Brennan on the mouth.
"Booooth." Brennan whined just getting it. He only chuckled at her.
She tossed the covers up and stood, "I need a shower." She started to walk off toward the shower and then stopped turning, "Well? Are you going to tell me about this amazing book which you claim to have found in a museum? I imagine it is overdue."
Booth hopped out of bed quickly and followed her. "Oh, it definitely is."
So, should we see more of Brennan getting her memory back? How is little sissy Chrissy? Will she ever regain her memory of the team...So many questions. Me oh my. I like this song ...I met her at anthropology...singing hey mama...hey mama don't want no drama just a kiss before I leave... ;) Geez...if you like it lmk if you hate it and I need to reread and rethink before I post tell me! Thanks you guys are awesome!