Booth and Brennan are standing in between the kitchen and living room, looking out. Brennan's head is on his shoulder and their hands are clasped, their fingers intimately intertwined. They hear the pitter-patter of little feet rushing down the stairs and then their daughter comes into view.
The child doesn't notice them standing there, she only notices her brother, who's sitting in the recliner, absently flipping through the channels. "Parky?" Christine skips over to him and jumps up and down by the side of the chair. "Parky!"
Parker jerks, wincing slightly from the unexpected and unwanted movement, and looks at his sister. "What, Teeny?"
"I wanna watch a movie."
"Okay? I don't see what that has to do with me." He sort of pushes her to the side so he can see the TV screen.
"I wanna watch a movie with you." She smiles. "Please? Pretty please?"
He sighs, turning to look at her again. "I'll watch a movie with you if I can pick it. I promise it won't be a scary movie."
"How about Cars? That's not scary." She suggests, wide-eyed and smiley.
"I said I'd watch a movie with you if I can pick the movie."
"How about Cars?"
"Let's watch Transformers or Spiderman."
She shakes her head. "I'll just ax mommy and daddy to watch a movie."
"There are other movies in the universe bedsides Cars, Teeny."
"Nuh-uh."
"Yeah-huh."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No!" She crosses her arms over her chest and stomps her foot. "I wanna watch Cars."
"Not gonna happen, baby sis."
She sticks her tongue out at Parker. "You're mean."
He smiles at her.
"You're a big fat meany head. I don't wanna watch a movie with you no more."
He shrugs one shoulder. "Okay." He turns his focus back to the TV and settles on an old episode of Family Guy.
Booth looks over at Brennan and smiles at her, letting out a soft chuckle. "Ah, the sweet sound of everything starting to go back to normal." He nudges her and kisses her when she turns her head.
Brennan smiles against his lip and twists her body to face his, cupping the back of his neck with her hand as she deepens the kiss.
Christine taps on her brother's shoulder. "Parky, wanna watch a movie with me?"
Parker sets the remote down in his lap and looks at her. "I'm kinda tired, but I'll watch a movie with you if it's not Cars. I'm serious, Teeny. You're one viewing away from the DVD dissolving."
"That's not probly."
"It is too probable. I'm older. I know more than you."
"Nuh-uh. I know lots of stuffs."
"But I know more."
"Nuh-uh. Prove it. It's not a fact 'less you can prove it, Parky. Mommy says so."
He laughs. "Just go pick out a movie. Not Cars," he reminds her.
"Okay." She skips over to the DVD case and searches her father's collection. She grabs one immediately.
"It better not be Cars."
"It's not. I promise."
"Let me see it."
She walks over to the recliner and hands it to him.
"Teeny."
She shrugs, smiling at him and letting out a string of giggles. "It's not Cars. It's Cars 2." She holds up two fingers to prove her point.
He rolls his eyes. "You get away with it 'cause you're cute. Go put it in."
"I'm not cute. I'm beautiful. That's what mommy and daddy say."
"Yeah, yeah. Go put it in before I change my mind, Teeny-tiny."
She walks away, dropping to the floor by the TV and placing the DVD carefully into the player. She presses play and goes back over to Parker. "Move over please."
Parker scoots towards one arm of the recliner, leaving enough space for his sister to squeeze her little body beside him.
She climbs up and nuzzles into his side, resting her head on his shoulder. She tugs on the blanket and covers herself with it.
"You comfortable?"
She nods. "Shhh, it's starting." She clutches his shirt and focuses on the TV, smiling. "I love you, Parky."
He slings his arm around her. "I love you too, Teeny."
Brennan tilts her head and looks up at Booth, squeezing his hand. She blinks back tears and sniffles.
Booth looks down at her and sighs. "Bones, what's wrong?"
She shakes her head. "Nothing's wrong, Booth."
"We should give them some privacy. We'll talk to Parker about tomorrow after Christine goes to bed."
She nods. "Booth?"
"What?"
"Do you think Parker's going to be okay with us getting married?"
He laughs. "He's gonna be thrilled, Bones. I promise." He pauses. "I never told you this, but a few years ago, Parker and I were playing catch in the backyard and when we took a break, he asked me when you and I were gonna get married. I didn't have an answer for him then."
"What'd you tell him?"
"I didn't tell him anything. I distracted him with pie and a milkshake from the diner."
Brennan laughs. "Of course."
"What I'm trying to say, Bones, is that he'll be thrilled. He loves you. I never told you this either, but when I'd pick up Parker for the weekend or Rebecca would come by my place to pick him up, she'd always tell me that he talked about you constantly. It was Dr. Bones this and Dr. Bones that. He looks up to you, Bones. He always has. I may be his superman, but you're his wonder woman."
She slaps him on the arm. "Stop it," she croaks out.
"I didn't mean to make you cry." He wraps her in his arms and she tucks her head in the crook of his neck.
"I'm a hormone factory, Booth. It doesn't take much to make me cry right now."
He laughs. "I love you."
She swallows and nods against his shoulder. "I love you too."
"C'mon." He separates from her and starts to walk away, but she reaches her arm out, grabbing onto his shirt and pulling him back to her. "Whoa," he mumbles when her lips smash against his unexpectedly. He swallows and rests his hands on her hips as he kisses her back. A moan gets caught deep in his throat when she deepens the kiss.
She steps back and smirks. "I'll make some popcorn. We can turn tonight into a family movie night."
"I like the way you think, Bones." He smiles at her and heads into the living room.
She joins him a few minutes later. She hands a smaller bowl of popcorn to Parker and walks over to the couch, curling up with Booth. "I may regret my decision to indulge in this bowl of popcorn come morning, but right now, it's delicious," she says, popping another piece in her mouth.
He adjusts his position and rests his hand on her stomach, pressing a kiss to the side of her head. "I can't wait until I can feel him kick."
She's too into her handful of popcorn to correct him on the fact that the baby could be a girl. She just relaxes against him and turns her focus to the TV.
He smiles wider. "I can't wait to meet you, little one," he whispers to himself, so low that Brennan wouldn't be able to hear him even if she was actually listening. He lets out a breath and pulls his hand away. "Are you gonna share that popcorn or should I make my own?"
She turns her head quickly and glares at him. "Excuse me?"
He swallows. "Nothing, never mind. Can I have some popcorn?"
She puts the bowl more in the middle of them and nods. "I'm not going to eat all of it. It's for us to share."
He digs in, draping his arm around her and focusing on the TV. Right in this moment, he feels like everything is going to be alright.
This was definitely not the direction this chapter was originally going to go in, but I thought you guys needed a break from all the angst. Hope you liked it :)