Thank you for all the reviews on the past chapter! And now, here is the epilogue for you!

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"Up, Parks! Up! I wanna hang the balloon!" The little girl jumped up and down, arms raised, when she realized her older brother had finished filling the red balloon with air.

"No, Parks! Lift me! It's my turn, Ollie!" The other little girl pointed out, hands on her hips.

"But I want to hang the balloon!" Ollie pouted.

"Then you have to wait till it's your turn!"

"You two, stop right now." Parker snapped. He knew his sisters, if he let that discussion go farther, it would end up with the two of them crying and looking miserable, trying to earn the sympathy of whoever was around. He knew better than anyone how they could be little drama queens and given the fact they were so darn adorable - especially now with matching outfits and pigtails, they'd always end up getting what they wanted. But not this time. They didn't have time for that. Bones could arrive any minute now.

"You know Ollie, Parks, she always wants everything!" His sister whined.

"Alright, alright. Ollie, this is Lizzie's turn. Wait for yours." He ignored Olivia's pouting lips and huge eyes and lifted Elizabeth, who joyfully taped the red balloon to the ceiling. "You two will drive me crazy one of these days, I mean it." He added and put Lizzie back on the floor.

"You were the one who wouldn't stop begging me for a little brother or sister." Booth chuckled entering the living room with a tray of snacks. "And the one who kept calling to ask me if Bones and I were working hard on making a baby, because you were oh, so tired of waiting." He added, just to tease his son.

Parker blushed. Now that he was older and wiser, he felt quite embarrassed about his younger-self behavior.

"A little brother. Brother." The fourteen-year-old gazed at his father. "And you gave me these two little devils instead." He narrowed his eyes at his little sisters in a playful way. Yes, they did drive him crazy sometimes, but he loved them more than anything. Plus, he loved that he was their hero.

"We are not devils!" Ollie shook her head offended, creasing her forehead in a way that reminded Booth so much of her mother.

"Daddy says we are his little angels." Lizzie added.

"You are, sweetheart." Booth smiled delighted at his little girls.

"And like it wasn't enough, they came at the same time!" Parker continued, tickling the little girls as he talked.

"No surprise in there, sweetie. After denying the hot S-E-X they obviously wanted for so many years, it's no wonder Brennan got pregnant with twins at their first time." Angela, who was finishing setting the table on the other side of the room, couldn't help commenting.

"Thanks for talking about that with my son, Angela. Very much appreciated." Booth groaned.

"He's fourteen, Booth. He knows how babies are made." She smirked.

"Daddy, what's 'sex'?" Ollie asked her father, who blushed slightly and felt an urge to throttle his friend.

"WHAT?" Angela couldn't believe in what she had just heard.

"I don't know what it means either." Lizzie shrugged and looked puzzled at her identical sister.

"Something neither of you will even think about until you are thirty, let alone speak aloud." Booth warned them. Jeez, just the thought of his baby girls thinking about it freaked him out. Too bad Bones would never allow him to send them to a convent…

"But it's gonna take so long till we are thirty, Daddy. It took ages for our fourth birthday to come. We'll have to be old as you and mom and it will take forever." Ollie reminded him with a frown. She and Lizzie had a little calendar over their beds, in which they scratched the days till they finally got to the very expected day of their princess party.

"Pity." Booth sighed sarcastically.

"They can spell?" Angela asked finally. "They are four years old!" Mia turned five the month before and she was just starting to learn about the alphabet.

"Only small words." Booth pursed his lips. He knew letting Bones teach their children so early wouldn't be a good idea. "They are Bones' kids, Ange." He put the tray on the table. "She's been teaching them about the alphabet and numbers since they were two with educational games."

"That's crazy."

"And you want to know what's crazier? They love those games." He opened his eyes widely. "Gotta tell you, those two are two little squints in the making, and giving how much Parker loves science, I'm doomed." He faked a sad sigh. "I'm literally going to be the only normal person in this household."

"Yeah, because you're so very normal." Angela laughed. "I won't even start talking about clowns, or striped socks and funny ties…"

"There's nothing wrong with my socks and ties." Booth frowned.

"Mommy's games are cool." Lizzie felt the need to defend her mother's educational games while her aunt and her father bantered.

"And I always win." Ollie grinned.

"No, you don't. I win plenty of times." Lizzie disagreed.

"I win more."

"Alright." Booth looked at his watch and decided it was time to end the discussion and get the girls ready. "Mommy is gonna be here really soon, so, let's go upstairs and get dressed up."

"I want to wear my blue dress tonight." Lizzie said, taking her father's left hand. "The one with the Cinderella charm, can I, pretty please, Daddy?"

"And I want my pink one, can I wear it, Daddy?" Ollie asked, taking his other hand.

"Yeah, yeah, like I have a choice when you two look at me with those big, begging, Bones eyes." Booth chuckled as he took his little princess upstairs.

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It was six o'clock sharp when Brennan turned off the car at the garage. She smiled as she always did when she arrived home. Since the girls were born, she made sure to never work extra hours. Usually Booth would pick them up at school and then met her at the Jeffersonian, but the twins had the day off today and she had to drive herself home. It still scared her a little bit how much she wanted to get home every night, how much she missed Booth the days they weren't working in any case, how much she missed having dinner with her daughters and Parker and snuggling up on the couch with her family when she had to travel for a day or two for business.

The pregnancy had been a huge surprise; she hadn't expected to get pregnant so quickly. One month after she began dating Booth officially, she started feeling nauseated frequently and when she had to leave a crime scene to throw up when she saw the body, Booth was thrilled with the possibility of becoming a father again. She told him it was ridiculous, she couldn't be pregnant, it wouldn't happen that fast. But it did, and when they found out they were having twins, she freaked out for a little while. And blamed Booth for his super sperm. He, of course, was delighted by the idea of having not one, but two adorable little babies with his Bones, and it didn't take long until she was also over the moon.

All Parker would talk about for months was his little brothers, when it came out to be two little sisters, he felt a little disappointed, but as soon as the girls were born, they had their older brother wrapped around their little fingers. The same with their grandpa, and Auntie Angela, and Uncle Hodgins, and Uncle Sweets – who'd always, always fall on their traps, and Auntie Cam, who wasn't even that much found of kids but couldn't resist them, and even Caroline Julian, who admitted the girls had a lot of personality and she liked that.

The house was oddly quietly when she slipped the key on the lock. Booth told her Parker would be home tonight, which meant the girls would go crazy with happiness, which meant lots of squeals and laughers.

She opened the door slowly, squinting as she tried to find the light switch. Where did Booth go with the kids?

"SURPRISE!"

She jumped startled and laughed when she realized what was happening. The house was all decorated for her birthday, which she had completely forgotten, and the living room was filled with all her friends and family.

Two tiny pairs of feet started running toward her and Brennan went down on her knees to hug the two most precious gifts she'd ever received in her life.

"I love you, Mommy. Happy Birthday!" The girls said together, dropping sloppy kissed all over their mother's face.

Brennan held their tighter and kissed them back. "I love you too."

She stood up and smiled widely when she saw who the next person coming to talk to her was.

Well, he kissed her before actually talking, but hey.

"Happy Birthday, baby." And then, he kissed her again, just because it never got old.

"I completely forgot today was my birthday."

"Don't try to hide it, Bones… I know it's hard to turn 40, at first you're gonna feel old, but you'll get used to it, I promise. Welcome to the club." He teased and leaned forward to whisper on her ear. "And… you are just getting sexier and sexier with time."

"Daddy, let go of Mommy, I want to show her the decoration." Ollie poked him.

"And she has to talk with everyone." Lizzie added. "They brought gifts!" She grinned excited.

"Alright, alright, there's no way I'll win this, right?" He pouted at Brennan, who just laughed and took her little girls' hands and walked to the center of the room, where everyone was waiting to give her their best wishes.

"Lizzie and I helped with everything, because Daddy and Parks were doing it all wrong!" Olivia told her mother. "And then Auntie Angie arrived and helped too. Men can't do anything right..." She rolled her eyes.

"Where do they get those things from?" Booth asked.

"I told you we shouldn't introduce them to television, but you wouldn't listen to me…"

"I didn't want my children to be the only ones at school who didn't know a thing about Nickelodeon or Disney Channel! Plus, I bet she heard that from you."

"Mommy said that when you went to the grocery store and bought her the wrong tofu." Ollie remembered.

"Ha! See? I knew she's heard that from you!"

"What's so hard about buying tofu?"

"It's tofu! I don't eat tofu and they looked all alike!"

"No, actually-"

"Happy Birthday, Bones!" Parker cut her off with a hug, knowing their bickering would last forever if he didn't stop them. He knew where his sisters got that from. He was pretty sure his dad and Bones liked to bicker just as much as they liked to kiss each other, which he politely asked them to not do in front of him, but they'd never listened anyway.

He let go of his stepmother and watched as she greeted all the other guests, his father always by her side, his hand never leaving the small of her back. He smiled. Their life had never been happier than in the past five years and he was very thankful for the way things turned out. It still bothered him that they took so long to get together, since even when he was a little boy he knew those two were meant to be a couple. But maybe they were supposed to go through everything they did, or maybe grownups just liked to complicate simple things, but what mattered was that after a lot of denial, and hurt, and missing changes, they finally got to their eventually.

And the eventually was such a happy place.