chapter 1
little wonders
as they pulled up to the crime scene brennan had a sinking feeling in her stomache. she felt as if something made this crime scene worse than any others. she chastized hersefl for thinking a "gut feeling" meant anything then advanced with her kit to were the two body's were.
crouching down she realized two things. 1) the woman only had her face disfigured, she was otherwise unharmed excpet the bullet whole in her chest. 2) the only part of the man that was not disfigured was a tattoo on his ankle, in very tiny letters it read "bren".
brennan noticed this and screamed. not very loud or disernerable but booth heard it and as she fled the scene he followed immediately. "bones... bones! brennan!" she wasn't responding to him so he tried his last resort, "temperance!"
at the sound of her name she turned to booth. she had silent tears rolling down her cheeks and she looked genuinely scared. "booth the male its..." she couldn't continue and she fell into him crying. he immediately moved them so they weren't being watched and started trying to comfort her.
"hey shush its okay...bones its gonna be okay. ..baby you need to calm down." brennan had heard the 'baby' comment but instead of fighting it she decided she really liked it.
"booth i need to tell you something." brennan stated once she calmed down enough.
"okay bones you can tell me anything." booth responded in total honesty.
"that man is-" she was cutoff by a very stunned cam
"SEELEY! GET BACK HERE YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!" she called
booth put his arm around bones' shoulders and guided her back over to the scene where cam was crouched in front of the female. "what is it cam?" he asked slightly annoyed.
"look at the ID i found in her pocket." she said handing him an evidence bag.
inside said evidence bag was a drivers license. the license had a picture of the woman, "rebecca?" he barely whispered
"o my god." brennan said.
"booth im so sorry." cam tried to consloe him.
"booth come on you and i need to go." brennan stated dragging booth towards the car. he didn't fight her just let her pull him along. he was to much in shock to even comprehend what was going on. brennan got the keys from him and got into the drivers seat. booth took the passengers seat for once. he sat there trying to figure out what was going on at the moment.
"bones?" he finally asked,
"yes booth?" she replied
"where are we going?" he thought that was something he should know.
brennan sighed, "to pick up our kids."
"what the hell?" booth asked, "what do you mean our!" he shouted
"booth you need to calm down so i can tell my story." brennan said already exasperated.
"o please do continue." both made a grand gesture.
"thank you." she replied, "as i was trying to say before, that man is daniel craig. i met him right after i got out of college. we started dating. it was nothing serious, just a fling, but that fling had one little after effect. two weeks after we parted ways i found out i was pregnant. nine months later, on march 15th, i gave birth to samantha craig, sam for short." she paused for a second and booth interupted saying
"o my god. thats parkers best friends name. wait is your daughter and my son best friends?" he asked
"i'm not sure but they do go to the same school. so as i was saying, i get sam the same weekends you get parker which works out well so that you can spend time with parker and i can spend time with sam. we are now headed to said school so we can pick up both of our kids and we are then going to the diner. we can tell them about rebecca and david after but first i want to spend some time with my little girl when she isnt sad." brennan finished her speech.
"bones you are a genius." he said taking hold of her hand that was placed on the console.
"i know that booth. i don't need you to remind me." she pointed out
booth just sighed and sat back, they were only 5 minutes from the school now so he decided to just wait.
"hey lindsey can you call sam down." brennan smiled at the receptionist while booth cleared his throat, "o and parker booth?"
"sure dr. brennan no problem." she replied
"thanks." brennan made her way over to a chair and sat down while booth sat next to her.
"so bones, you never told me what sam lookes like?" he asked
"o she is just the cuest little thing. she has brown hair but in the sun it has tints of red. her skin isnt tan but its not pale either. she has startlingly blue eyes and the most angelic face." just as brennan finished her description a girl fitting it walked through the door with parker.
"mommy!" she yelled rushing to brennan and throwing her arms around her. brennan picked the little girl up and kissed her cheek
"hey baby."
"dad what are you doing here?" parker asked walking up to his father
"well me and bones wanted to come see you guys." booth said smiling, "if your hungry we can go to the diner?"
"o ya definetly." parkers face lit up, "can we get pie?" he practically begged.
"sure bud." booth looked back to brennan and sam, "you two want pie?"
at the same time they answered, "i don't like my fruit cooked."
"i should have known." booth said under his breathe
"mommy, who is he?" sam asked
"well baby thats my partner and parkers dad agent booth, but you can just call him booth." brennan said setting the little girl on the ground. sam immediately went over and grabbed parkers hand.
"come on parks lets go!" she said while happily skipping. the adults let the kids go out in front of them so they could keep an eye out while they followed behind. parker and sam held hands until they reached the car and booth kept his hand at the small of brennans back. both booth boys opened the car doors for the brennan girls, which they accpeted just this once. booth then walked around the car to slide into the front seat while parker climbed in next to sam.
"you guys buckled?" booth asked
"ya daddy!" parker replied
"yes mr. booth." sam said politely.
"sam you can just call me booth no need for the mr." booth said. he hated it when people called him 'mr. booth' it made him feel old.
"mommy do we get to spend the day with parks and booth?" sam asked from the back.
"if you want to baby.' brennan replied
"course i do parkers my best friend." she said, "is booth your best friend?"
brennan turned to look at booth who was focussed on the road, "ya baby he is." she said
"are you two like boyfriend girlfriend best friends or just best friends?" sam asked innocently
"we are just best friends." brennan replied having to force the words out of her mouth. she wanted to be so much more with booth but she didn't want to ruin their friendship by telling him this. if he didn't reciprocate she would be crushed.
"ooo ookkaayy." sam said stretching out the words in a totally sarcastic voice.
brennan and booth both sighed, they had two of them now. this was going to be a long day.
the group finished there lunches and were waiting for the check to come.
"hey kids?" brennan asked. booth loved hearing that phrase come out of her mouth.
"ya?" parker and sam answered
"do you guys wanna go to the pool in my apartment building?" she asked
the kids faces lit up instantly, "really?" parker asked
"yes really." she answered sounding more and more like a mom with each passing minute.
sam clapped her hands excitedly, "lets go!"
"okay okay. just let me pay for this and we'll go." booth said. brennan groaned but it was sam who answered
"alpha-male" before grabbing parkers hand and standing up heading for the counter to pay.
booth sat there with his mouth open in shock when he finally regained his voice he said, "did she just call me an alpha-male?" to brennan
"yes she did. isn't that just the cutest thing ever?" brennan asked beaming as she walked over to her daughter.
"ya its cute. not insulting at all.." booth said talkng to the now empty table.
"daddy hurry up i wanna go!" parker yelled
"booth if you don't hurry i'm paying." brennan called out to him
he predictablly got up right away and had his wallet out before he got to the register. brennan smirked...she knew him to well.
"low blow bones, low blow." he said as the chasier took his money.
"well you were taking to long." she replied
the cashier handed him back his money and said, "you're kids are adorable."
"o they aren't-" he was cutoff by brennans proud
"thank you." she smiled at the woman before taking one of the kids hands in each of hers and walking out the door towards the car. booth was to surprised to move. he like the new brennan. he always knew she would be an amazing mom. now if only she really were parkers.