Chapter 1 – Life as we know it

April Booth sighed as she pushed the keyboard away from her, she hated essays and her English teacher really loved giving them to her and her class, her dad always said that that was the price that you had to pay if you were as smart as she and her mother.

Her mother was Dr Temperance Brennan, well now she was Temperance Booth, but hardly anyone ever called her by her real name, many of her mothers friends had started to use her mothers nickname that her dad had given her when they had first become work partners, her mother was a Forensic Anthropologist and worked at the Jeffersonian identifying dead people and finding the cause of their deaths when there was nothing more than bone left. When her dad had met her and they had formed their little crime solving team, with her dad- Special FBI Agent Seeley Booth- catching the bad guys and her mum and her team of 'squints' as her dad called them giving them, the information he needed, her father had given her mother the appropriate nickname of 'Bones'.

Her mother was a genius and she had inherited those genes from her much to her fathers relief, everyone at the Jeffersonian said she was a perfect combination of her mother and her father, she had her mothers brains of course but much to everyone's relief she had her fathers people skills, of which her mother had none, she had her mothers long bright auburn hair that fell in waves down her back, and her fathers soft, warm brown eyes. She was skinny but strong, wary but confident and most of the time gentle but if she ever needed to she was capable of defending herself. She was fourteen, and turning into a real stunner

As she saved her work April felt relief flood through her, another essay done at last, she often did it when it was first set, and didn't care if it made her look geeky, she was the one able to sit back and relax while everybody else was rushing around frantically trying to finish. She wasn't very popular at school but that was how she liked it, she had a small group of friends and wasn't bothered by that fact, she wasn't that comfortable in large groups.

She could hear her father cursing downstairs, her mother was working late trying to finish a case and her father was obviously trying to make dinner for when she got back, judging by the smell that was becoming more obvious by the second, it wasn't going to well, neither of her parents were very good cooks but out of the two her mother was the best, she had taught herself to cook so that when her parents were working late she could fend for herself. With a sigh she pushed her chair away from her desk and went to try and save dinner.

''Daaad'' she complained as she entered quickly assessing the situation ''how many times don't put metal into the microwave it isn't very good for it'' she yanked the saucepan out of the microwave before looking around for the source of the bad smell, she opened the oven to find some sort of meat in there already burnt to a crisp inside a foil wrapping, ''you're meant to unwrap the chicken after a while otherwise it turns out like this'' she said in an exasperated voice. Her dad grinned sheepishly at her from where he was standing in the middle of all the chaos ''fancy giving you old man a hand'' he almost begged so with a wave of her hands she began to help, the first thing she did was take the meat and chuck it in the bin ''why did you do that'' her dad complained ''because dad there was no way on earth anybody could eat that, let alone be willing to eat that, you might as well chuck that away too and start again'' she said eyeing the saucepan in her dad's hands.

After looking through the cupboard's and making a mental note to get some food April decided to cook some spaghetti and meatballs, her father hovered for a while but she eventually shoed him out to give her some more room.

Agent Booth watched his little girl move around the kitchen and felt pride flare up inside of him, he in his opinion was the luckiest man alive. True he had never planned this life but he was sure glad that he had it; he and Bones had started dating in secret nearly fifteen years ago before she had become pregnant, he remembered how scared she had been and had even considered abortion, he had sat her down and asked her why she was so scared and she had confessed that she was terrified that he would leave her and she would be left to raise the child and juggle her career at the same time. Booth had been shocked and offended when she had said that but got over it quickly and told her that he would never leave her or their baby, not for the world. After that she had calmed down a lot and become a lot more rational about it, viewing it like an experiment, becoming a lot more like her old self. Of course after that they had had to tell everyone about their relationship, the team had all been very shocked, but very supportive throughout the whole pregnancy, especially Angela who had been rewarded for her troubles by becoming April's godmother much to her delight.

As Booth mulled over these thoughts and watched his daughter dance to the music on the radio he felt gentle arms wrap around his stomach, nearly causing him to jump out of his skin, ''Ha'' came a voice that her knew and loved so much ''I got you I thought your super sniper training had made you unable to be snuck up on but evidently I was wrong'' with a smile he turned to look into the soft blue eyes of the women he loved, ''I was distracted'' he explained and with a laugh and after giving him a quick kiss on the lips Tempe Brennan moved into the kitchen to help her daughter while Booth began to set the table. He and Bones had never got married; she considered it to be an insignificant service that wasn't needed to show the love between two people, he respected her beliefs and although there were times when her wished he was married to Bones he was happy, completely and undeniably happy.

But little did he know that things would soon change. The life as he knew it would soon change, for better or worse was unknown.

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