Coming Home

The busy British airport was a buzz with noise and the bustling as crowds of thousands of travellers and the people picking them off and seeing them off, coming and going through the large structure. A beautiful blond haired woman dressed in pale purple sweatpants with a matching hoody, her usually perfectly done hair had been pulled back into a messy pony-tail in her rush to get her son out the door in time to make his early flight to Washington D.C.

Said son was folowing along just a couple of steps behind his mother, pulling his suitcase with one hand, his passport in the other and a back-pack slung over his shoulder.

"Come on Parker, we need to hurry and get you checked in" Rebecca said to her son as she tried to get him to go faster.

As the reached the line for checking in Parker's suitcase, they were greeted by a boy about Parker's age who happily called out to them "Hey Parks, Bex" he said happily.

Rebecca smiled at the eleven year old who had been her only son's best friend during his time living here in London. The blond mother suspected her son's sudden desire to move back stateside to live with his father was greatly influenced by this other boy's descion to do the same. But she couldn't deny that her son might be better off back in D.C with his father. Maybe the former Army Sniper, turned FBI Agent could put the boy back on the straight and narrow.

Parker was a good kid, but lately he had been getting into some trouble. Not big time trouble, some fights, skipping school, tagging public property and even shoplifting. The single mother had tried to reign her son back in, with the help of his father via phone and video-chat, but it hadn't really been enough. Rebecca knew that her son needed his Dad right now and well she was willing to do anything for him, even if that meant not seeing him everyday.

Temperance Brennan, Parker's step-mother for all intents and purposes had made some calls and had managed to get the boy into a high profile and very elite private school that would hopefully keep in engaged and out of trouble. That and the after school programme at the Jeffersonian should be good for the pre-teen boy.

"Locky, where is your Mom?" Rebecca asked her son's friend who appeared to be alone.

"I doubt she even knows I'm leaving" the boy said with a shrug.

"I used her card to book the flights meself, didn't see the need to bother her" he added, Rebecca frowned, she had noticed a few times that Lachlan Lightman's mother was not exactly mother of the year award material and had been secretly glad when she had heard that the boy was going to live with his father from now on. Locky deserved better then the life he had been living until now. But Rebecca knew that his mother was awear of his flights, as she had called the other woman to find out when the flight was to book Parker's for the same time so they could keep each other company on the way.

"I'm sure she does Buddy" she said, pulling him into a one-armed hug.

"Yeah sure, cheers Bex" the kid said in his usual flippant way.

The boys were soon chatting away as Rebecca sorted out getting their bags checked before they needed to head on through customs, where she wouldn't be able to follow them. She turned to the airport worker who would be in charge with keeping an eye on the boys until they were boarding the plane and became the problem of the flight attendants.

"Keep an eye on those two" she warned with a smile.

"Trouble makers Ma'am?" the young woman asked.

"They can be" Rebecca nodded.

The woman turned to her son and pulled him into a tight hug "behave please Parker, and don't forget to call me when you're with your Dad okay?" she was trying to be strong and not cry all over her little boy, who she wouldn't see again for several months.

"I will Mom" the kid promised, hugging his mother back. He gave her a peck on the cheek and said.

"I love you Mom" he said as he pulled out of the hug.

"Love you too Baby" she said back, allowing a single tear to trail down her cheek as she watched the two boys walk through the door and into the customs area.

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Dr. Temperance Brennan had never thougth this would be her life, she had never planned on having children but after Christine's birth that had of course all changed. It had been working well for them, their lovely little home and their charming daughter and of course Parker from time to time too, but then Social Services had called and told her that the baby she had fostered for a short time several years ago had been removed from the care of his legal guardians, the Grants. Andy had been placed in a temporary care situation and they were looking for a more perminant placement for him, they were offering her a chance to foster the boy once more. After discussing it with Booth the couple had agreed and arangements had been made for little Andrew Joseph Taylor to join their family.

This had accured during the same time that she and her best friend Angela had been looking into international adoption. They were looking into adopting children that were waiting to be adopted due to a special need, medical or otherwise, some major and some minor. Angela had decided to go through a programme that covered children waiting in orphanages in China while Booth had wanted to go through a Catholic programme. They had finially settled on South Korea and had been matched with a little girl, Kim Soo-bin. They had chosen to keep part of her birth name and had decided to call her Joya Kim Booth.

By the time they would be able to fly to Korea to meet with their daughter and finalise the adoption, little Joya would just be turning two years old. It was looking like it would be the end of May, possibly June when they would be able to bring their little girl home. Booth was excited, he had a photo of Joya proudly displayed in his office as he did with Andy and his two biological children. He had been talking to the Priest at his church about having Joya Baptised after the brought her home.

A bed had been added to Christine's bedroom for her new big sister. It was a white wooden bed that worked well with Christine's crib. It had a pink and purple checkered quilt with a matching pillow and pale pink sheets. The bed was up against a wall on one side, the other side had a toddler rail attached so that when Joya came home she would be able to sleep safely without rolling out of bed, but she would also be able to have a bed that she could use as she got older. The bed was a solid box, with both a head and base board, and a built in set of drawn at the bottom. The draws were already filled with clothes for the daughter they were anxiously awaiting.

Parker was coming home , he had discussed it with his mother and they had decided that it would be best for the boy to return to America to finish off his schooling. Soon they would have four children living in their home. Seeley Booth loved kids and loved being a father so the idea of having their growing blended family alt together under one roof was very appealing to him. Temperance was excited too, but in her true to form manner she was endlessly researching about parenting, step-parenting, adoption and blending families. She had a few good models to use as a template. Jack and Angela had had it easy, as Leo had been born into their marriage and had never known anything different, he had always had his biological father Wendell and his step-father Jack in his life. It would be a little harder to add their adopted daughter to the mix, but they were strong people and she was sure they could do it and do it well.

Her big brother was another model, he had a partner who had to daughters, although they called him by his first name still it was clear as day that he loved them as his children and they loved him as their father. Now he and Amy had welcomed identical twin boys into the world. Dexter Kyle Brennan and Daxton Hollister Brennan. The twins were now six weeks old and thriving, the were adored by their two older sisters, Emma and Hayley.

Booth was all but bouncing off the walls, Parker's flight would be ariving at quater to eleven that morning, it would take him about half an hour or so to clear customs and then they would be reunited. They had decided to pick him up from the airport together as a family. Andy was excited about having the older boy around. Rebecca had called to let them know that Parker had made it off safely and was very excited to be flying with his friend and not alone like the last time. The father had been happy to hear his son had made such a good friend in England and was also glad that said friend was coming back with Parker too, having heard from both his son and Rebecca that the boy's mother was not all that great.

"Come on Bones, chop chop, let's go!" Booth called out, he had helped Andy with his shoes and coat and was waiting on his partner to finish getting Christine ready so they could leave.

"I'm coming Booth" she called back with frustration clear in her tone of voice.

A/N: Okay so a little more upbeat chapter, hope it helps you start to put together an idea of the families. I know the intro is going a little slow but I hope you still enjoyed! Please leave a review and let me know what you think.