The Missing Parts in the Sum of the Whole

by Delightfully Dysfunctional

This story starts after Booth and Brennen's first case, not Cleo Eller, the one before that, as covered in The Parts in the Sum of the Whole. She didn't get in the cab. This changes everything. *COMPLETE*

15. Chapter 15

Did you miss me?

"Noah, get out of bed." Temperance turned on the lights in her son's bedroom. "Don't make me get your father." She threatened.

"Mooommm." He dragged out the word. "I am on vacation. I should be sleeping in."

"We are going to be late for your sister's graduation if you don't get up and get dressed."

"Is there a problem here?" Booth asked from where he stood in the doorway behind his wife.

"Nope." Noah shot out of bed.

"Now could you do the same thing with Parker and Harrison?" Brennan turned to face him. "Why is raising boy so much more difficult than girls?" She sighed.

"Lord knows." He kisses her on the forehead and headed across the hall. "Boys." He bellowed. "Get out of bed before I get you out of bed."

"You should have stopped, I mean, you got the perfect child the first try." Her 24 year old son slid his tall slender frame around her through the doorway. He looked exactly like his father.

"Total fluke actually. Required no effort at all." Seeley teased from across the foyer.

"Bones, I'm sixty years old. I am too old for this." He scraped his hand through his graying hair.

"Just think, in one year, Noah will be of doing whatever it is that Noah does-"

"I'm training to be an FBI agent Mom, you know that." Noah interrupted.

"A career path I will never agree with. I guess I should be glad he got his masters' degree first" She stated, and turned back to her husband. "Joy and the boys, they'll all be away at college and we'll miss this. We'll be all alone in this big house."

"I can't wait for that. This house seems awful small today." He pulled his wife close to him, chaos ensuing around them as the boys got ready for the day. "Who thought four was a good idea?"

"We only signed up for three. Harrison was the free gift with purchase." She smiled at her own joke.

"Parker could just have easily been the accident." Harrison shouted from the bathroom, mouth still full of toothpaste.

"You have 20 minutes." Seeley shouted to his three sons. "If you are not in the car and ready to go by then I will drag you out of here myself."