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Years ago
"No. Absolutely not." Bones told her husband sternly.
"Why not Bones?" Booth asked as he began to undress for bed.
"She's too young." She reached behind her and unhooked her bra and Booth's eyes fell directly on her breasts. "I can't believe that you're actually entertaining this crazy idea." Bones suddenly realized that Booth was no longer participating in their fight. "Booth. BOOTH."
"What? Huh?"
"We are in the middle of an argument and you are thinking about having sex with me."
"Sorry but when I see you standing there; baring your breasts for me, having sex with you is all that I can think about." Bones quickly put one of Booth's tee shirts on.
"Now can you please focus so we can continue our fight?"
"Sure, as long as you don't take off your pants I should be able to focus."
"You are impossible."
"But you love me." He flashed a smile at his wife.
"No charm smiles allowed during a fight. You know the rules." Booth laughed. Whenever they were in an argument and Booth felt that he was loosing, he would smile his charm smile at her causing Bones to lose her train of thought because that damn smile always distracted her so she made a rule that if he flashed his charm smile during an argument then she would win by default.
"We weren't arguing right then because I was staring at your boobs."
"Are you done imagining having sex with me so we can continue arguing?"
"Yes. What was your last point because I was staring at your boobs and I missed it?" Bones shook her head.
"I said that Morgan is too young."
"Okay right. Bones she is twelve years old. She is not too young."
"Twelve year old little girls should not be leaving her home for a month."
"It's camp Bones. She wants to leave her home to go to camp not travel the world alone." Dr. Freed had sent Morgan some information about a summer camp for kids that had cancer and are in remission.
"Exactly. It's a camp Booth. What about if she gets sick again? I want her to be close to a hospital if that happens again." Morgan had only been in remission for two months and Bones was constantly worried about her. If Morgan so much as yawned at dinner then her mother drug her to the doctor.
"Can I be honest with you?" Booth asked her gently.
"Of course."
"You are hovering. No hovering isn't the right word. You are suffocating Morgan."
"What are you talking about?"
"Bones how many times have you taken Morgan to the doctor since she has been home?"
"Sixteen times."
"Exactly. Sixteen times is extreme Bones. She is fine. She is healthy again but if she has the littlest complaint or does something that you think isn't normal you take her to the doctor. Morgan needs to be a normal twelve year old again. She doesn't need to be at the doctor multiple times a week. She wants to play hockey again. She wants to go to sleepovers. She wants to go a day without thinking about having cancer and you are making that impossible."
"Has she told you that she feels like this?"
"No but some of the comments that she has made combined with the fact that I know our daughter very well leads me to believe that she just wants to be a normal kid again."
"You jumped to a conclusion Booth without the proper evidence."
"This isn't a case Bones. It's our daughter."
"I know it's not a case Booth." Bones snapped.
"Then quit thinking about this like it's a case." Bones went and sat on their bed and Booth sat next to her.
"I…I don't mean to suffocate her."
"I know you don't sweetheart." Booth reached out and took Bones' hand.
"I'm scared everyday that her cancer is going to come back and if I don't catch it in time then it will kill her."
"Honey, we can't live everyday in fear. That's no good for anyone. If her cancer comes back there is nothing that we can do to stop it. What we can do is let Morgan be a normal little girl and do what she wants to do, within reason of course so if God, forbid the cancer comes back we will have no regrets because we will know that she lived her life to the fullest."
"What if she gets sick at camp? What if they let her do too much?"
"The camp is staffed with doctors and nurses. They will know what limits to set." Booth knew he had almost won this fight so he played his last card. "Bones this camp is the best camp of its kind on the east coast. It's staffed with the best doctors and nurses in the country. Morgan will be in great hands and you know that Dr. Freed wouldn't of recommended it if it was a third rate camp."
"I concede. Morgan can go to camp."
"That decision has just made our daughter very happy."
"I never wanted to make her unhappy. I just worry about her."
"I know that sweetheart and so does Morgs. She needs this and she will have the time of her life."
"I hope so."
"Are we done arguing?" Booth asked her.
"Yes we are." Before Bones could react, Booth had pulled her tee shirt off of her head.
"Can we have sex now?"
"You sound like a horny teenager."
"I'm always horny when you are around." Deciding not to wait for her answer, because he knew the answer would be yes since she can't resist his body, he gently pushed her back on to the bed, kissing her gently as they both fell back.
"Did you lock the door?" Bones whispered breathlessly.
"Don't I always?"
"No you don't. I recall a time when you didn't lock the door and our seven year old daughter walked into our room."
"And she walked out thinking that we were wrestling."
"She may have believed that when she was seven but she is twelve now and she won't believe that now."
"Bones, I love you and don't take this the wrong way but shut up. You're constant chatter is making it very hard to make love to you. There are so many more useful things that you could be doing with your mouth." Booth told her huskily.
"Seeley Booth I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Well I guess that I am just going to teach you some things that you can do with your mouth."
"I really do love being a student."
"Hmm and I love being your teacher." Booth growled, right before their lips met each other's in an explosive kiss.
"Morgan sweetheart, dinner's ready." Booth said to his daughter from the doorway from her bedroom and Morgan jumped out of her seat.
"I'll be down in a minute."
"What are you doing?" He walked up behind her to see what she was doing on the computer.
"Talking to David." He could see that her instant messages with David was the only thing on her screen. Morgan was allowed to have a computer and the internet in her room, simply because she needed them both for a lot of her school work but there were major parental controls and rules in place such as whenever Morgan was on the internet she had to keep her bedroom door open and at anytime requested Morgan had to show her parents the web sites that she had visited and Angela downloaded a program that allowed Booth and Bones to pull up her internet history, current or deleted at any time and Morgan has not disappointed her parents. Her internet activity has been innocent and honest.
"Wrap it up and come downstairs."
"Yes sir." Booth kissed the top of her head and left her alone to say goodbye to her friend.
"Where's Morgan?" Bones asked when she saw Booth without Morgan.
"Talking to David."
"Do you think he told her?" Bones asked, handing Booth the bowl of salad.
"By the grin on her face, I think he did."
"Did we do the right thing?"
"Because of what we did, we made our daughter very happy so yeah Bones. We did the right thing."
David was a boy that Morgan met while she was at the hospital. They immediately bonded over hockey and became the best of friends. Since they both have been out of the hospital they have kept in constant contact through email, instant messaging and the occasional phone calls. Booth and Bones had promised Morgan to take her down to West Virginia where David lived for a weekend visit and Morgan was excited about that but when she found out about the camp and the fact that David had received the invite from Dr. Freed as well, Morgan was ecstatic to be spending a month with her best friend but Morgan's elation quickly disappeared when she found out that David's family couldn't afford to send him to camp. She was devastated so Booth and Bones did what any good parents would do; they made sure that their daughter's best friend would be able to attend camp.
"Mom, dad, guess what?" Morgan shouted, running into the kitchen.
"Morgan, please don't shout." Bones told her daughter.
"Guess what? Guess what? Guess what?"
"What Angel?"
"David can go to camp. Dr. Freed called him and someone anonymously donated enough money for David to go to camp this year and every year for as long as he wants."
"That's wonderful Morgan. I am so happy for you." Bones told her, trying to keep a straight face.
"Thank you so much. I have the best parents in the world."
"Yes Morgs, you do have the best parents in the world so why are you thanking us?" Booth asked her with a grin.
"Because only the best parents in the world would donate the money so my friend could go to camp."
"Morgan I'm sure that we have no idea what you are talking about." Bones said.
"Yeah. Sure you don't." Morgan wrapped her arms around her parents and hugged them tightly. "Thank you."
"I need you to listen to me Morgan." Bones told her when Morgan finally pulled away.
"Okay mom."
"Whatever you think you know just remember that you have no evidence to back up your claim so please honey, keep your thoughts to yourself." Booth and Bones knew that Morgan would figure out that they donated the money but they didn't want David or his family to know. They were afraid that they would think of it as charity. It wasn't meant to be charity. It was meant to be a gift for a family who was struggling with medical bills. It was a gift for a child who had beat cancer and it was gift for their daughter who wanted nothing more then to see her best friend, the friend who had supported her through the scariest time of both of their lives. "Do you understand what I am trying to say?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Well I'm starving." Booth announced. "Let's eat."
"Where are Parker and Emily? I can't wait to tell him about David." Parker was on a short summer break, two weeks, before he returned to school to take summer classes and since he and Emily would be apart for the rest of the summer, he begged his parents to let his girlfriend stay with them and they agreed as long as the two of them slept in separate rooms.
"They went out." Her father answered her.
"Oh."
"Why are you asking?" Bones asked.
"Parker promised me that he was going to take me to a movie tonight, just me and him."
"I'm sure that is still the plan. He and Emily probably just ran out to grab some dinner. I'm sure Parks is still planning on taking you to the movie."
"You're right dad. I'm sure that's what's going on." Morgan said unconvincingly.
They finished their dinner in silence and after it was cleaned up Morgan got ready for the movies and then sat in the living room waiting for Parker to come home. When the time for the movie to start Morgan sent Parker a text message, asking him what he was going he responded that he and Emily were at the movies. Fighting back tears, Morgan retreated to her room for the rest of the night while Booth, sat in the living room, fuming, waiting for his son to come home.
It was after one in the morning when Parker and Emily finally came home. Parker was shocked to see his dad still up. "Hey dad, what are you still doing awake?"
"I was waiting for you to come home."
"Is everything okay?"
"Emily, can you give us a few minutes alone please?"
"Yes sir. I'm going to go to bed. Goodnight Mr. Booth."
"Goodnight Emily."
"I'll walk you to your room."
"Make it quick Parks. It's late, I'm tired and you know how grumpy I can get when I get tired."
"Yes sir." Booth waited less then five minutes before Parker returned. "What's up dad?"
"Did you have a nice time tonight?" Booth began.
"Yeah I did."
"I'm glad you did because your sister didn't."
"Is Morgan okay?"
"No Parker she's not. She's angry, heartbroken, and hurt."
"What happened?"
"You did." Booth watched as Parker finally remembered the promise he made to his sister.
"Oh hell." Parker muttered.
"Oh hell is right. You promised Morgan a date night, just the two of you. You broke that promise and I had to sit here and watch it all unfold. I don't like to see your sister hurt, especially when her big brother is the one who hurt her. She had some really exciting news to share with you tonight."
"I forgot." He said lamely.
"Look Parker I know what's it's like to be in love. You and Emily are young, in love and want to spend all of your free time together. God, I wish I could spend all of my free time with your mother but I can't because I have other commitments and promises that I made to keep."
"I get it dad."
"I'm not sure that you do. You and Emily have been together almost everyday for the past two years. I know it's got to suck that you will be taking summer classes and she won't be and I also know that you are trying to squeeze in every possible minute together before you go back to school and I totally get that Parker but in the rush to spend every possible minute with your girlfriend you have forgotten that you need to spend time with your family, Morgan mainly. Since you started school you have only seen Morgan for a month, maybe two total. That little girl adores you. She thinks that you hung the moon and all she wanted was a little one on one time with her big brother."
"I feel like an ass."
"You should. I know that you love Emily and I know that she loves you and for your sake, I hope it lasts because I don't want to see either of my kids get their heart broken but there is something important that you need to keep in mind."
"What?"
"Love. Love may come and go but your family will always be here."
"I understand."
"I hope you do."
Parker had two more days before he went back to school and the next day, he spent the entire day with his sister trying to make up for ignoring her and on his last day in town, he spent it with his family and Emily. What his dad said to him made sense. He hoped that he and Emily would last forever but he knew that his family would always be around and by the time Parker left for school, Morgan felt like she had her brother back.
"Will you be examining my daughter on a daily basis?" Bones asked the doctor in front of her.
"Bones relax. Morgs will be fine." Booth assured her and Bones ignored him.
"Yes Mrs. Brennan-Booth. Morgan will be examined daily."
"And you'll call if anything is abnormal correct?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Mom I'm going to be fine."
"I know. I'm just worried because I have never left you alone for such a long period of time before so I'm entitled to worry."
"And it's not because I had cancer that you are crazy worried right?"
"Maybe it's a small part of why I am worried."
"Mommy, my cancer is gone. I kicked it's a…butt. I am going to be fine so you…DAVID." Morgan suddenly shouted, running away from her parents and into her best friend's embrace.
"Look how happy she is to be with him." Bones told Booth as they walked over to the two friends.
"They remind me of the younger version of us?"
"How can that be? They are both kids. David is not an F.B.I. agent and Morgan is not a forensic anthropologist."
"Not literally Bones. Their friendship, that what reminds me of us. They have such an intense, deep friendship that is just like ours."
"Do you think that they love each other and don't even know it, like we did?"
"No not yet. Right now it's just friendship."
"Do you think that they may fall in love?"
"It's a possibility."
"I hope that it happens. Our marriage is so strong because of our deep, intense friendship and I want that for Morgan. I want her to find a man that she can have a wonderful life with. I want that for her more than anything."
"So do I sweetheart and she'll get that."
"You can't know that for sure."
"You're right I can't know it for sure but I do."
"Okay."
"That's it. Okay?" Booth asked in a shocked voice.
"Yes. That's it. Okay."
"Okay then."
"Hi. Mr. Booth. Hi Mrs. Brennan-Booth."
"What's up D-man?"
"Hello David. How are you?"
"I'm great now that I'm here at camp. Morgan and I are going to have so much fun."
"I know that you will."
After five minutes of visiting with David and his family they were given a golf cart tour of the camp which was amazing. The kids all had air conditioned cabins, there was an indoor and outdoor pool, state of the art horse stables and gym, and beautiful lake with canoes and the dining hall was beautiful. These campers would be spending the next month in paradise and they deserved it. They had been through hell to get to this camp so they deserved to be treated like princes and princesses.
"Mom, you can let go of me." Morgan begged.
"Come on Bones." Booth gently pried his wife's arms off of their daughter.
"I'm going to miss you, so much."
"I promise that I will write you everyday." Bones nodded and bit her lip so she wouldn't cry. Leaving her daughter was much harder then she ever anticipated. "I'm going to be fine mommy."
"We'll let you get started on your adventure." Booth said. "Promise me something Angel."
"Sure dad."
"Promise me that you'll have the time of your life."
"I promise daddy." It was Morgan's turn to hug her father.
"I love you Angel."
"I love you too daddy." Morgan pulled away from her father. "Make sure that mom isn't sad and mopey the whole time I'm gone."
"I'll do my best. Go on honey. Start your adventure." She nodded and then hugged her mother once more. As excited as she was about staying at camp she really was going to miss her parents.
"Bye mommy. I love you."
"I love you too." Once his girls broke apart, he led a crying Bones to the SUV.
"She'll be fine sweetheart." Booth tried to reassure her.
"Leaving Morgan here is just as hard as it was when we left Parker at school."
"And Parker has been perfectly fine hasn't he?"
"Yes." She sniffed.
"And so will Morgan." Booth reached out and squeezed her hand.
"Promise?"
"Yes Bones. I promise."
"Okay."
"God dammit. Son of a bitch." Booth grumbled from inside the tent that was falling on top of him.
"Are you having problems Booth?"
"No. Everything is fine." Bones just laughed and decided until he asked her for help.
Since their wedding anniversary occurred when Morgan was in the hospital they didn't celebrate it for obvious reasons taking Morgan to camp in Virginia gave them the perfect opportunity to celebrate. Booth did some research and found a campground that had lots of hiking and caves to explore and he made a weekend reservation for the two of them and now he was starting to regret it because he was about to be suffocated by a tent that wouldn't stay upright.
"There I think I got it." He mumbled to himself. The tent had been standing tall for the past five minutes. When he moved towards the exit flap and brushed against the tent, it crashed around him. "Oh man come on." He groaned as he struggled to crawl out from the tent. When he poked his head out from the tent he was met with Bones kneeling in front of him laughing.
"Problems?" She smirked.
"This tent is defective." Instead of helping him out Bones just laughed at him.
"No. The tent is fine. It's the man who is putting the tent up is defective."
"So you think you can do better?" Booth taunted
"I know I can."
"Okay darling. Prove it."
"Fine. I will." Bones headed to the tent while Booth headed to cooler for a nice cold beer and then he made himself comfortable in a chair. He couldn't wait to see the tent fall on her head. He figured that after he had a nice hearty laugh they would work together and then hopefully christen their temporary home.
"Booth could you come in here please?" Bones called fifteen minutes later and Booth grinned. The tent was standing but she was probably holding it up and was ready to admit defeat. He honestly expected her to give it more time before she gave up but he would take this win and gloat about it. Wearing a cocky grin, he opened the tent and his grin was quickly replaced with shock when he saw his wife sitting in the middle of the tent naked as the day she was born.
"No way." He was referring to the fact that the tent was up, not the fact that she was naked. He walked around, shaking it but the tent stayed up. She did it. "How in the hell did you do it?"
"Get naked? That was easy. First I removed my shirt…"
"Get the tent up in minutes?" His ego was taking a big hit right now.
"Booth, before I met you I traveled to many remote locations for my job which required my knowledge of putting tents together quickly and accurately so I would have somewhere to sleep."
"Damn Bones. You're awesome. In fact you are queen of the campground."
"Yes I know." She stated matter of factly. The fact that Bones was sitting naked in front of him had finally made its way into his brain.
"So I'm curious about something."
"Yes."
"When you went to these remote locations was putting up a tent naked a requirement?"
"No. I always had my clothes on when I put a tent up."
"Did I miss something in the directions for this tent that requires you to be naked?"
"No you did not."
"So I gotta ask Bones. Why are you naked?" He knew damn well why she was naked.
"If you have to ask then you do not deserve to know."
"I do know. I just want to hear you say it."
"Say what Booth?"
"Stay right there and close your eyes." Instead of closing her eyes, she rolled them.
"You really want to play a childish game right now?"
"What I have in mind, children should not be present. Now close your eyes." With a sigh, she did as he asked and Booth stepped out of the tent, grabbed one of their sleeping bags, returned, spread the sleeping bag out and finally he got out of his own clothes and sat in front of her. "Okay. Open your eyes." When she did and saw that he was naked as well her eyes became dark with arousal. "Now say it." He demanded as he gently began to caress her naked body.
"Say what?" She mumbled through closed eyes
"Tell me why you are naked."
"You should know." Booth slowly pulled his hands away and her eyes flew open. "Why did you stop? It felt so good."
"I know it did. I love the way your soft skin feels under my hands and as soon as you tell me why you are naked then I can continue."
"You know why I'm naked."
"I think I do but I want to be sure because I wouldn't want to do anything that you don't want me to do." He really wanted to win this battle.
"You can do whatever you want to me Seeley." He almost gave in with those words.
"Tell me what I want to hear and then I will do whatever you want me to do."
"I want to make love to you."
"Now was that so hard?" With a grin his hand went to one of her breasts and his mouth pressed against hers and they christened their tent.
"How can something so bad for you taste so damn good?" Bones asked with a mouth full of a s'more.
"I knew once you tried them you would love them." Booth handed her another s'more fresh from the fire.
"I do." Booth finished making his own s'more, pulled Bones out of the chair, sat in it himself and pulled her down on his lap in front of the perfect campfire.
"Now we just have to work on making them since you ruin every one you have ever attempted to make." She laughed and tucked her head on his shoulder, into the crook of his neck and she inhaled his scent.
"Booth?"
"Hmm?"
"This was the best weekend that we have had together in a very long time." And it was. They spent the past two days, hiking, exploring, talking, making love and just relaxing and they had the pictures to prove it.
"Yeah. It really was. You know, sitting out here under the stars it reminds of some of the late nights in the dessert when I was serving. It's actually very similar. Some times, at night even during a war, it would be so quiet and you would see nothing but stars and you would hear nothing. It's something that I will never forget."
"So you think about it often?"
"What? My ranger days?" Bones nodded. "Not really and if I do its good things that I think of."
"You have had any nightmares for years. Do you not feel guilty anymore?"
"I think that I'm always going to feel guilty but it's not forefront in my life anymore. I have too much in my life to be thankful for and to be happy about to feel the constant guilt everyday. There are still some times, when the guilt is overwhelming but it's nothing like it used to be and that's because of you Bones." She lifted her head and looked at him in surprise.
"I don't understand."
"It's because of you and the family that we have created. Being your husband, our children's father, that has made me happier then I ever thought."
"But you were Parker's father before I came into your life. You weren't happy then?"
"When I was with Parker, I was happy. At that point in my life the time I spent with Parker was the happiest times of my life. Back then, the nights that Parker was with me, those were the only nights that I didn't have nightmares."
"I'm sorry you had to go through that. I wish that I could have done more to help you." Booth lowered his head and kissed her softly.
"Bones." He whispered. "You have helped me more than you will know. I've accepted my past and what I have done and know all I want to focus on is the present and our future."
"I've never used to be a person that dreamed about my future but now, I dream about it all of the time. I dream about Parker becoming a forensic anthropologist and working side by side with my son, putting murderers in prison. I dream of his family. I dream of what kind of father he will be, a good one I'm sure because he has had a wonderful example. I dream of Morgan graduating from college. I dream of her wedding, you walking her down the aisle; I dream of her holding her babies. I dream of you and I growing old together, one day finally retiring and spending that retirement traveling and spoiling our grandchildren. Before you came into my life I never dreamed of the future and now that's all I dream of and that is because of you. You gave me the future I dream about now."
"Bones I didn't give you that future. We made that future together." He tightened his arms around her. "A future I can't wait for. I love you so much Bones, so much."
"So you're not ready to trade me in for a new model?"
"Nice pop culture reference Bones!" Booth said proudly.
"I heard it from Angela."
"When someone buys a brand new car, as soon as it's driven off the lot the value of the car goes down. If I would dare to compare you to a car, which I 'm not cause I know that if I dared compare you to a car, you would castrate me." Bones smiled at the truth of his statement. "But if you were a car your value continues to increase everyday that I put you in drive." Bones burst out laughing.
"You are comparing me to a car."
"Maybe I am but it's the only way I could think of to make my point since you used the trade-in analogy. All I meant by comparing you to a car is that I love you more today then I did yesterday and the day I married you and I know that I will love you more tomorrow and more the next day, and more the next day and everyday thereafter."
"If I didn't love you so much I would have castrated you for comparing me to a car."
"Is it really your love for me keeping you from castrating me or is it your love for my penis?"
"Both." Booth raised his eyebrows.
"I think I should feel insulted."
"Oh no. It's a compliment. I love your penis and what it does for me but I do love you more, more than you can ever imagine." Again, Booth leaned down and they two of them shared a, slow, sweet kiss.