A/N: this is a follow up to the last chapter

"Booth, I wish you'd tell me where we're going. It'd be easier to pack…"

"All I'm going to tell you is it's our make up new year's date. Pack your little black dress and little else. We'll be home late Sunday morning. Angela and Hodgins are taking the kids. I packed them up yesterday. We're leaving from the lab."

"Where are we going?"

"That is a surprise it's in the city though…. "

"I don't like surprises though…"

"I know, but you'll like this one. Please just go with it."

"Okay."

"I'm going to get Hank up then I'll make strawberry chocolate chip pancakes."

"Okay." Brennan finished packing and headed for the kitchen. Hank reached for her "Momma!"

Brennan smiled and walked over to Hank's highchair, "Good morning sweetheart." She kissed the top of his head. "Are you enjoying your pancakes?" Hank stuffed another piece in his mouth and grinned. Brennan pulled out her phone and snapped a picture.

"Good morning, Christine. "

"Morning, Mommy."

"Are you looking forward to spending the weekend with Michael Vincent?"

"Yep. Aunt Angela said we could make cookies next time I came over…"

"That will be fun."

"Yep."

B&B

At four o'clock Booth knocked lightly on Brennan's office door, she looked up. "Ready to go, Bones?"

"Yes." Brennan started packing up her files to take with her…

"Uh Bones you're not taking files with you…"

"I can work Sunday when we get home…"

"When we get home we're hanging out with the kids…"

"Then I'll work after they go to bed…

"When they go to bed we're continuing whatever we start at the hotel…"

Brennan chuckled and began to unpack her bag. A few minutes later they were in the SUV.

"Where are we going, Booth?"

"Not far."

Brennan sighed, knowing Booth wasn't going to say anymore. "Okay…"

A few minutes later Booth pulled up in front of the Hay Adams hotel, Brennan gasped, "Booth, this is expensive…."

"Yeah, but I know a guy…"

"Hodgins?"

"And Angela…."

The valet opened Brennan's door, she got out and waited for Booth to join her they walked in and over to the front desk.

"Welcome to the Hay Adams Hotel. How can I help you?"

"We have a reservation under Booth…."

"Ah Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Booth." Booth squeezed Brennan's hand to keep her from correcting the front desk agent. Normally he didn't mind when she did, he was proud of her and her achievements that Booth knew she'd worked harder than anyone to attain. For this weekend though he wanted her to just be 'Mrs. Booth' Booth grinned a little, Brennan kissed his cheek. The desk agent smiled at them as she handed Booth the keys. "Enjoy your weekend in D.C."

"Thank you. We will."

The bellhop took their bags from Booth and led the way to their room. Booth unlocked the door to their junior suite overlooking the White House and let Brennan enter the room. "Booth…"

"Do you like it?"

"Yes, when you said we were going for a weekend getaway downtown I wasn't thinking it would be anything like this…"

"Well, this is a combination New Year's and anniversary get away since we had to go to Charlottesville for you to do your bone thing on our anniversary."

"I remember that. It wasn't so bad we were child free and we went to dinner…"

"Yeah, but you deserve better than a diner for our anniversary…."

"I was with you, that's all I wanted."

"All I wanted was to be with you too, Bones. " Booth started kissing Brennan and before it could turn into something more Brennan's stomach growled Booth chuckled , " I guess we should get some food. Our reservations are for tomorrow night at 7. Tonight, you get to pick."

"Can we go to Grilled Cheese D.C.? I want grilled cheese and tomato soup."

Booth Chuckled, "We can go anywhere in D.C and eat anything and you want grilled cheese and tomato soup?"

"Yes."

Booth kissed Brennan, "I love you, Bones. Let's go. Remember the first time I took you there ?"

"Yeah, we were going on a stakeout it was cold and neither of us had lunch…."

"Yep. You had the American minus the bacon and tomato soup. I had the Philly and soup. Do you wanna eat in the SUV again?"

"Sure." forty minutes later they were sitting in a parking lot overlooking the National Mall eating their tomato soup and fancy grilled cheeses." Is it as good as it was the first time we had it?"

"Better. We don't have to do a stakeout when we're done."

"True"

When Booth finished his soup he turned to Brennan, "do you want to go for a walk around the Mall?"

"Not tonight. We will before we go home Sunday."

"Okay." Booth drove back to the hotel. Brennan took Booth's hand as he came around the SUV and they walked in the hotel and took the elevator to their room. When Brennan entered the room again she noticed the chocolate covered strawberries, roses, and Champaign. "Booth…"

Booth came up behind Brennan and wrapped his arms around her. "Do you like them?"

Brennan nodded and picked up the roses, giving them a smell. "Our room package also comes with breakfast delivered to our room tomorrow. We have dinner reservations downstairs tomorrow night. I also got us brunch reservations for Sunday after we check out. Brennan turned and put the roses down, and kissed Booth and began walking him backward towards the bed. "Bones…." Booth fell onto the mattress.

A little while later Booth's phone buzzed, he groaned and kissed Brennan before snatching his phone off the bedside table. "it's Ange, she wants to know if we're free to talk to Christine…"

"Speakerphone only. We're not presentable enough for facetime." Booth laughed and texted Angela back. A few minutes later Booth's phone rang he put it on speaker and Christine's voice filled the room. "Hi daddy!"

"Hi Angel. Mommy's here with me on speakerphone."

"Hi Mommy."

"Hi sweetheart. Did you have a good day at school?"

"Yep we painted, I got some on my shirt…"

"That's okay we can wash it when you get home."

"K. Tomorrow we're going to the children's Museum then we're making cookies we get home. Then we're going to funflatables before you and daddy come home on Sunday."

"It sounds like you're going to have a fun weekend."

"Yep. I wish you and daddy could go with us…"

"Angel, next Saturday mommy and I will take you to funflatables or wherever you want to go."

"Will you BOTH play with me?"

"Absolutely!"

"Yea! I need to go, Uncle Hodgins is gonna let me and Michael Vincent sleep in the theater seats tonight. We're watching The Lion King first though!"

"Okay enjoy the movie. Goodnight, Angel I love you."

"Love you too, daddy!"

"Goodnight sweetheart. I love you."

"Love you too, Mommy.."

A few seconds later Angela's voice filled the room "Having fun with Booth, sweetie?"

"Yes, quite a lot actually-"

"Goodnight Angela…" Booth hung up and tossed his phone on the nightstand.

"Booth I wasn't done speaking to Angela."

"Ange doesn't need to know about our weekend activities, Bones…"

"it's perfectly natural to-"

"I know. Not when I'm in the room though, it's weird. You two can go for drinks next week."

"Fine …" Booth chuckled and kissed Brennan. "Would you like to reenact page 187?"

"I thought you'd never ask…"

B&B

Booth wheeled the room service cart into their room, Brennan propped herself up on an elbow. "What smells so good?"

"Probably my American breakfast, the room package comes with the American breakfast for two. I got it for myself and was able to get them to swap yours for oatmeal and toast with a fruit plate."

Brennan slipped on Booth's dress shirt and joined him at the table. "Thank you, Booth."

"You're welcome, Bones. What do you want to do today?"

"We can reenact pages 245 and 325 of my new book if you would like…"

"Only problem with that is your new book isn't out yet and I haven't read pages 245 and 325 yet…"

"I have a copy of the manuscript in my bag, you can read those two pages…"

"Okay…"

A half hour later Brennan stood in the bathroom doorway watching Booth, "Well?"

"Oh, we're doing this, multiple times. We're warming up with page 187. Get over here.."

Brennan chuckled softly and walked over to Booth…

Later that afternoon Booth looked at the clock, "3:15, I'm starving!"

"Booth, you aren't starving, you're extremely hungry due to our activities today. As am I.."

Booth laughed and kissed Brennan. "It's too late for lunch, but we've got a while before dinner… I need a snack…"

"I have the bag of emergency snacks for the kids in the SUV…"

"I need more than fruit snacks, granola bars, and goldfish…"

"I also have squeeze applesauce in there…"

"Yum!"

"Booth…"

"I'm going to go get some uncrustables…."

"Get the Nutella ones for me, please…"

"You got it. I'll be back in a bit …"

"Okay."

B&B

A little bit later Booth was on facetime with Christine while Brennan was getting ready for their dinner date.

"Mommy, you look pretty." Booth looked over and smiled as Brennan sat next to him on the bed. Booth took her hand

"thank you, Sweetheart. Did you have fun at the Children's Museum?"

"Yep, it was soo fun. We went to the diner after I had chicken fingers."

"That's good. What was your favorite part?"

"The light brite thing… What did you and daddy do today?"

"Mommy and I just hung out in the room and spent time together this morning. We slept in. tonight we're going to dinner in a little while."

"Oh. Are you gonna have chicken fingers?"

"Probably not."

"Oh."

"Angel, mommy and I need to go to dinner. Good night. I love you."

"Okay. I love you too, daddy. You too, mommy."

"Good night sweetheart. I love you." Christine waved and disconnected facetime.

"Christine is right, you look pretty, Bones…."

"Thank you, Booth. you look very handsome tonight…"

"Thanks, Bones." Booth kissed Brennan.

"Don't you recognize my dress, Booth?"

"No…"

"Tony would…"

"Your Roxie dress still fits?"

"Yes, infarct it's a little loose…"

"Oh, Tony's gonna have fun taking it off of Roxie later..."

"She can't wait/ Lets go to dinner Booth…"

They went downstairs to the Lafayette Restaurant Booth had the steak with roasted root vegetables and mushrooms./ Brennan had the squash ravioli and salad.

B&B

Too early the next morning Booth woke up and tried to get out of bed without waking Brennan, she tried to pull him back into bed. "Go back to sleep, Bones. I'm going to go to Church and when I get back we'll check out then we'll go to bunch before we take a walk at the Mall and go get Christine and Hank."

"Can I go to Church with you?"

"If you want to sure."

While Brennan didn't believe in Organized Religion, over the years she'd accompted Booth to church occasionally, usually Christmas and Easter because it meant a lot to him for her to be there

After the service Booth took Brennan's hand, "Thank you for coming with me, Bones."

"You're welcome, Booth." They walked back to the hotel and finish packing and checking out before heading to brunch. The reseraunt had ice sculptures of swans, hearts, and assorted fruit dotting the front of the room. Brennan took out her phone and took pictures of them.

"Bones, why are you taking pictures of the ice sculptures?"

"Because Christine always wants to see what we do whenever we go somewhere…"

"Right. Seeing as what we did actually do isn't something to show her."

"it isn't, but I much enjoyed our weekend, Booth."

"I did to. We'll have to do it again soon…"

"Absolutely …"