Okay It's a short ending, but I'm happy with it. I needed to finally finish this story; it was about time! I hope you like it :)

"Bones!" Booth came rushing inside the apartment door to find Brennan sitting criss-cross on the floor while Emily adorned her head with all kinds of colorful hair accessories.

Brennan had been anxious to hear the verdict all morning, however she had already delivered her expert testimony to the court the previous afternoon. Therefore, both her and Booth had agreed she should stay home with the kids today, especially after all they had endured over the passed few days.

"Booth wha..."

He had literally picked her up off of her feet and spun her around, effectively cutting her off.

"Guilty on all counts," he whispered in her ear.

She breathed a sigh of relief. "That is very good news Booth."

"Well, I have something else," he told her.

She looked perplexed and waited for him to continue.

"I asked Caroline to pull a few strings and she got the judge to get a rush on that adoption request."

He pulled a sealed envelope out of his suit jacket pocket.

"You haven't opened it?"

"No, this is something we should do together."

Brennan nodded in agreement and braced herself; she quickly ripped the seal on the envelope but couldn't seem to bring herself to look at the letter. So much was riding on this.

"I can't Booth, you do it, please."

They simultaneously looked over at the children that they both had come to care for so much and then back at each other. Suddenly, Booth just knew that this was meant to be and he no longer felt nervous to read the letter.

He scanned it quickly and broke out into an ear splitting grin. Bones threw her arms around him and crushed her lips to his.

"Yuck," David whispered to Emily. She giggled. Booth and Brennan were beyond noticing.

When the partners got control of themselves, Brennan ran over and scooped up her children. She squeezed them really tight for a few seconds and then sent them to get on their coats.

"Where are we going?" Booth asked.

"Relator's. There's an open house."

He smiled and took her hand, then she took David's hand, and David grabbed Emily's.

They didn't know it yet, but as they stood in front of that big brick house, the one with the pool of course, they were standing in front of the very house that would one day be their home.

They were standing in front of the house where they would finally tell their friends about their relationship, not that it wasn't completely obvious at that point.

They were standing in front of the house where Booth would get down on one knee and make a monumental request, one that Brennan, against all odds, would accept.

They were standing in front of the house where they would raise their children, including a new addition, or two, sooner then they knew it.

They were standing in front of the house that they would eventually grow old together in.

And finally, they were standing in front of the house that they had been moving towards since that very first question.

"Do you believe in fate?"

She still doesn't.

He still does.

He knows if Emily and David hadn't come into their lives,

if Brennan hadn't been in that coma,

if she hadn't had that dream...

But of course, everyone knows...

Nothing happens, unless first a dream.