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Author's Note: A couple of you asked for an epilogue, and I have been toying with it for a long time and this is the result. I have edited a few things in the previous chapters, so you may want to give them a re-read. Enjoy the end of this story. Just a warning, it's pretty fluffy.

Epilogue:

Two and a half years later, Sunday 3:13PM

A visibly pregnant Angela stretched on the bench as she wrinkled her nose at the pungent aroma of the monkey exhibit across the pathway. She turned her face up toward the sunshine, enjoying the nice day. Her thoughts drifted to next summer when she would be pushing a stroller containing her own son on his first visit to the zoo. A soft grunt brought her back to the present day as a body sat on the bench next to her.

"Hey you."

Hodgins leaned in to kiss his wife and rubbed her belly, greeting his progeny in his own way. Angela placed her own hand over her husband's.

"Where are the rest of them? I was told that after my bathroom break that I would meet you guys at the monkey exhibit, and it's been like half an hour. I almost have to pee again."

"I'm sorry, babe. But you will never guess who Booth, Dr. B, and Parker ran into." Angela raised an eyebrow at Hodgins, who looked positively giddy at the thought of beating his wife to the gossip. "That agent that almost got them separated as partners after the mummy thing."

"The one that finally pushed Booth and Bren together with a little boost from Hacker?"

Hodgins grinned at his wife. "Yeah, only get this. He isn't an agent anymore. He's a security guard at this very zoo. Apparently, Parker was leaning a little too much into the grizzly exhibit. He tried to yell at the kid and then Dr. B went all Mama Bear on the guy before realizing who it was. He was already running for the exit."

Angela's eyebrow raised to an impossible height. "Wait, didn't Bren joke about having him transferred to Alaska? What's he doing as security at a zoo?"

Hodgins shrugged. "Well, former security now, if what he was shouting can be believed. I don't know. But, apparently, she didn't go through with it. Right?"

"No, I don't think so. She only told me that she and Booth called in some favors and agreed to more therapy with Sweets or something like that. That the Bureau wasn't going to split them up."

Now it was Hodgins' turn to raise an eyebrow. "Sometimes I think that I am well connected, and then Dr. B goes off and calls in one of her contacts. Remind me to never get on her bad side." He shook his head and his wife laughed.

"Remember how Hacker ran off to India like two months after Booth and Bren started dating? And Bren threw him a farewell party? Bren swears that she had nothing to do with that one, but he seemed awfully eager to move across an ocean."

The husband and wife continued to laugh for a few moments but soon feel silent, leaning against each other and enjoying the sunshine. Eventually, they heard familiar laughter nearby. Hodgins opened his eyes and noticed Parker dragging the partners by their hands toward the monkey exhibit.

"Dad, Dad! Do your monkey impression for Dr. Bones!" Booth complied and Parker roared with laughter as Brennan indulged her partner with a smile. Parker tugged a little more on Brennan's hand.

"Bones, tell Dad about the Rhesus monkeys and about all the cool stuff that scientists know about them." Brennan launched into a technical explanation about some fact that Parker seemed to understand, but left Booth scratching his head. Parker turned to the monkeys and watched them play around for a few moments before growing bored. He suddenly let go of both Brennan's and Booth's hands and faced his father.

"Dad, I'm hungry. Can we get ice cream now?" He turned to Brennan. "Bones, you and me, we are getting strawberry, right? It's the best. Let dad have boring old vanilla." Brennan nodded and ignoring Booth's protest pulled out her wallet and handed the boy a twenty dollar bill.

"Parker, Angela and Hodgins are over on that bench. Why don't you go see if they want anything and we will meet you in line in a few minutes." Parker quickly hugged Brennan and without even waving good-bye to his father he ran over to the couple on the bench. Angela's eyes lit up at the mention of ice cream as her husband and Parker helped her to her feet and they made their way to the short line for ice cream.

Brennan stepped toward Booth and he placed his arm around his partner's shoulder. She smiled and leaned into him. The two watched the monkeys scamper for a few more minutes until Booth finally spoke.

"It was weird running into Tom, wasn't it?"

"I wasn't expecting it, no."

"He wasn't very happy to see us."

"Well he was offered a promotion to transfer to Chicago. I didn't know that he had turned it down." Booth looked sideways at his partner.

"Chicago? I thought you were sending him to Alaska."

Brennan gently swatted at Booth. "I don't know why you think that I had any power to get Masters or Hacker transferred, especially out of the country."

Booth just shrugged, "You must have some pull. We are still partners."

"For a few more months, anyway."

Booth released his grip on Brennan. "What do you mean for a few more months?"

Brennan realized her slip and pulled one of Booth's hands into her own. "Booth, I have a confession to make."

Booth's gaze was sharp and hard as he looked down at his partner, they had been so happy these past couple years and now something had gone wrong and she was going to pull his heart out and stomp on it. "What?"

Brennan smiled at him, the smile that had graced her face often since they had started dating. Only now it seemed even more radiant. Booth let out the breath that he didn't even know that he had been holding. "Booth, in a few months, I will be going on maternity leave. I can assure you that after a suitable length of time has passed that we will be back to work together as partners, although I understand that some adjustments will have to be made, especially considering your over-protective streak, but..."

The rest of her sentence was cut off as Booth quickly kissed her, then grabbed her and spun her around in circles.

Angela gave her husband a knowing nudge and proceeded to lick one of the two cones that she held in her hand. The chocolate one was for the baby. The peanut butter ripple was for her. She leaned over to her husband and whispered in his ear. "I've been telling Bren that our little guy needs a best friend to hang out with. It seems like she finally listened to me." Hodgins nearly dropped Booth's vanilla cone, but he recovered quickly. He was truly happy that Dr. B had let Booth into her heart and was excited for another future squint.

Parker looked between the two couples, "Angela, what's going on? Dad hasn't looked like that since Bones said that she would marry him."

Angela just shrugged. "I'm sure they'll tell you soon. I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise." She took a lick of the peanut butter treat and urged Parker to save the ice cream about to drip off of his own cone. Parker was suitably distracted for the next few moments and the partners finally walked to the group. Booth swung his fiance's hand in his own, and Angela was able to catch glints from the ring on Brennan's left ring finger as it caught the rays from the sun.

Booth took his cone from Hodgins as Parker handed his future step-mother her own cone. Parker's cone quickly disappeared and he was ready to move on to the large cats. He led the group to the next exhibit, growing impatient that the two couples were walking at such a leisurely pace. He could understand why Angela was moving so slowly, but was a bit annoyed that Brennan and Booth were also taking their time. They seemed to be in their own little world, a common occurrence when he spent time with his dad and Bones. He only heard part of their conversation, but they reached the big cats and he missed what they were saying as he leaned on the railing of the lion exhibit.

Brennan warned the boy away from the ledge and turned to her future husband. "Booth, now that we know that Agent Masters is in town, do you think that we should invite him to the wedding?"

Booth nearly choked on the last bite of his dessert. "Bones, I think that we just cost the guy his second job in two years. I doubt that he wants to come and offer us his best wishes."

Brennan appeared thoughtful for a moment. "Well, it is because of him that we finally crossed the line. It only seems fitting that he should be invited. I never got a chance to thank him."

Booth turned to his fiance. "Aww, Bones, you are going soft on me."

"I blame the hormones."

Booth grinned. "Go ahead, send him an invitation then. There is a lot that I would like to thank him for as well."

"Like what exactly?"

"For making my dreams a reality. For making reality even better than my dreams."

Brennan looked at her partner with exasperation. "Now who's going soft, Agent Booth?"

Booth grabbed his partner and kissed her deeply. Parker was oblivious to his father making out in a public setting, while Hodgins tactfully looked away. Angela merely finished her last bite of chocolate ice cream and fanned herself.