46. Smuggle
"Psst! Hey, Bones!"
The whisper came from the doorway of the bone room where Brennan stood over a set of remains. She turned to her partner, only his head peering around the doorframe.
"Booth, what are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to see you, and I figured we'd be bad parents if we didn't try to smuggle her in once."
He stepped completely into view then, three month old Christine nestled against him.
"Booth!"
"Come on, Bones, live a little! Besides, you were about to go to daycare to feed her anyway."
"We should take her back to daycare, Booth."
"Later, Bones, come on."
"Where are we going?"
"Your office. Christine's getting hungry, aren't you Princess?"
She smiled as he spoke to their daughter, walking across the lab to her office, successfully avoiding Cam.
"We could have done this at daycare, like we do every other day." She stated, sitting down on the couch, unbuttoning her shirt before Booth settled Christine in her arms.
"Is it so bad that I like spending time with my two favourite people?"
"No, but you could have spent time with us at daycare."
"Alone, Bones, it isn't the same with screaming children as a soundtrack. Just accept the fact that, at the very least, once a week I will be sneaking in our daughter."
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that."
They both turned to find Cam standing in the doorway, Booth simply smiled, shrugging as his friend glared at him.
"Nothing I can say is going to stop you is it, Seeley?"
"Sorry, Camille."
Leaving the office, she called back to the partners, smiling as Booth immediately began to refute her words.
"You're a bad influence on this lab, Seeley."