With the social distancing and restrictions on everyday life that has gripped the world in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to do a Booth and Bones story that added some humor to it. My question is what would happen if Booth, Bones, and their kids wound up in home quarantine? How did they end up exposed? This is my humorous take on that. I hope you enjoy this one. Gregg

Disclaimer: I don't own, or profit from, these characters or franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.

Day One

Booth groaned as he was woken by a constant tapping on his shoulder. He cracked open his eyes and saw his daughter Christine smiling at him, along with her little brother Hank. Then he noticed the time: 5:30am! What the Hell?

"Why are you waking me up at this horrid hour?" he asked, talking in a calm tone, rather than the shrieking yell he would be letting loose if it were adults waking him up.

"Mommy said it's time to get up," Hank said with a grin.

"Uh, why?" he asked, trying to fathom what was going on in Bones head.

"We need to have breakfast and get ready for lessons," Christine said with a cheerful eagerness that he knew she reserved for school and learning. She was a junior Bones in the making and Bones was her idol.

Something didn't sound quite right with that one to his fully educated mind. Lessons? At this hour? They were on the first morning of a 14-day home quarantine because of exposure to that total waste of skin Hacker who tested positive for the Coronavirus.

"Good for you and Hank, but Daddy needs his beauty sleep, so enjoy the lessons and I'll see you in a couple of hours," he said, fully intent on getting back to the totally sinful dream of him and Bones on a deserted island, naked as the day they were born and taking full advantage of the situation as only they could!

"But Mom said you have lessons, too," Christine said, giving his shoulder another shove.

Booth's eyes popped wide open on hearing that one. "ME?" he said a bit louder than he'd intended.

"Yes, you, Booth," Bones said from the door of their bedroom, a smile on her face. She'd been planning this ever since they had gotten the word yesterday that Andrew had exposed them. "I have decided that this is the perfect opportunity to give you an abbreviated course in forensic science."

"I know everything I need to know about that, and what I don't know, I have you ready to give me information ad nauseum," he defended his lack of forensic knowledge.

"I disagree and have obtained permission from the Director to have this as a mandatory element of your duties," she told him bluntly. She was going to be making sure that their children did not lack for educational time during this quarantine, and that also meant she was not going to let Booth be lazy and do nothing. If their children were attending home school for the duration, then so was Booth. She also had to admit that the idea of being Booth's professor supplied her with any number of fantasies to fuel her more carnal imagination.

There was no doubt in Booth's mind that she was referring to FBI Director Chris Wray. The man thought that the sun rose and set with Bones, so that meant that Booth's goose was cooked with this education BS. He had one little bit of defiance left, though.

"But 5:30? We're on quarantine, Bones. 5:30 in the AM is obscene and shouldn't even exist!" he protested.

"Classes begin at 6:30m every morning," she informed him. She ushered the kids out of the room and turned to look at him. "Get showered and come to breakfast. I have pancakes, and even made bacon for you."

Booth grumbled as he watched her walk out of the room. Yes, the bacon was a surprise as she ordinarily refused to have anything to do with the preparation of meat, but this up at the crack of dawn and lessons was not what he would classify as an appropriate way to spend a quarantine. He was going to make damn sure that Hacker suffered for this one. He'd planned on sleeping in until about 9 and then laze around the house all day today in order to get his head wrapped around the idea of being quarantined. After that, he would start watching movies, TV shows, and recordings of his favorite sporting events in the Man Cave on that absolutely Heaven-sent wall sized 5K Ultra HD TV that Bones had gotten him for Christmas a few months before. What was the good of being on a forced quarantine if you couldn't enjoy the luxuries in life? Obviously Bones was missing the up side of the stay at home business! He had a feeling that this was going to be a long day.

A/N: This is the opening of this one. I plan on working on this story and posting a daily chapter, as I am at home for the duration of this as I am a high risk category due to the heart issues and artificial valve in my heart. The next chapter will be the "lessons" that Booth is subjected to, as well as a flashback on how Hacker exposed them. I hope you enjoyed this opening chapter. Gregg.