AN: Hey everybody!I received a PM giving me some tips to improve the chapter and some corrections to what I wrote, so I edited this first chapter. English is not my first language, so mistakes are expected. If you find something, please PM me and tell me all about it. This is also my first time writing (and publishing) something, so my writting style will have a lot of mistakes too. Corrections and recomendations are welcomed!


Brennan looked at Booth. She was agonizingly bad at reading body language, but the FBI agent was clearly happy to be with his son. He was a good father, he really was and she admired that about him. She might believe that bringing kids to this hard and difficult world was a poor choice, but she also believed that parents should always stand by their children. She had seen the consequences of being alone in the world, and she wouldn't wish them onto anyone.

As she looked at the scene in front of her, she was glad. Glad that Parker was in Booth's lap, glad that her partner got to be with the most important person in his world, but there was another feeling too. One she couldn't accurately identify. A little sadness, anger and want all mixed together. It was something she had felt before, but never had catalogued it properly. Maybe it was better if she turned around and left, that way whatever she was feeling would go away.

Suddenly, Booth looked up from the conversation about animals and saw her. He smiled and said something to Parker very quietly. The little boy nodded.

"Bones, wait!" He said while moving his son out of his lap and standing up. He walked towards her. "Stay" he asked, with an annoyingly charming smile.

"No, Booth, this is a family moment. I'd be in the way " stated Brennan. It would make her feel uncomfortable. Participating in a family moment, but not really being a part of that particular family would be even worse than simply leaving.

"Bones, there is Parker and his mother and father, yes. It's a family thing. But Rebecca has someone she trusts beside her, someone who will support her. I trust you, Bones. You are my partner, so be my partner and stay, OK?" He answered; looking at her with his deep brown eyes in a way that left no doubt that he meant what he said. Those same eyes that always said many things to her, but she usually was unable to determine what exactly it was that they were telling her.

"But what about Parker, Rebecca and Drew? They don't even know me" She argued back.

"Come on, Bones! They are ok with it!" He smiled charmingly.

"OK" she sighed. He did a little jump of approval that wouldn't have been out of place if Parker had done it.

They walked back towards the booth they had sat before and Booth introduced Drew to Brennan.

"Drew, this is Dr. Temperance Brennan. She works at the medico-legal lab of the Jeffersonian and is also my partner. Bones, this is Drew, Rebbeca's boyfriend."

"Daddy, why do you call her Bones. Isn't she called Dr. Brennan?" Parker asked with a frown.

"Yes buddy, that's her name, but I have a nickname for her because she is my partner and my friend. And, she works with bones in the museum, so I thought it was fitting" he answered his son.

"Ok. So, you work with bones? And you're a doctor?" he asked looking at her with the same eyes as his father. They were the same color and form, and they also had some sort of sparkle and plenty of emotions to show. Those eyes were going to be the death of her, as they certainly made her feel as if a small electrical current was going through her body. As scientifically impossible as that sounded, those ocular orbs were different than other people's. She mentally sighed, she was becoming sentimental, as bad as Angela.

"Yes Parker. I'm a doctor in Forensic Anthropology which is the study of bones" she answered the 5 year-old boy.

"That's so cool! And you get to touch them?" He asked excitedly.

"Yes, I do" she said. She probably shouldn't mention that she needed to clean them first, or maybe reconstruct them if the murder was too brutal. Simple was better.

"Awesome! That is so gross! Isn't it mummy?" he said looking at Rebbeca.

"Yes, it is very cool, Parker" She looked at Booth and then Brennan.

"Uhm Drew? I think Parker would love to have dinner with his father and Dr. Brennan so he can have some quality time with them. We should go. Seeley, would you like to drop Parker off after dinner?" she asked the FBI agent.

He looked at his ex as if she had grown a second head, but answered anyway. That was an expression Brennan had learned from Angela, and one she could recognize in her partners face.

"Of course!" he answered, then looked at his son "Would you like to go to the Hamburger place with Bones and me, buddy?"

"Yei! Hamburgers!" exclaimed Parker and started doing little up and down jumps. 'Were all children this excitable? Or was it only Booth's offspring?' Thought Brennan to herself.

Rebbeca and Drew said goodbye, stood and left and Brennan still couldn't understand what happened and why now. She was supposed to be Booth's support, but now, Rebbeca was gone. Her job was finished and she was in the middle of their bonding time. So, she said.

"well, Booth, as Rebbeca is gone, you don't need me anymore. I'll be going now"

"No! Dr. Bones! You can't leave! Daddy has to show you his secret hamburger place! And you need to tell me stories about all the bones you have seen! Pleaaaaaaaase?" he asked while making a face that Angela would describe as "puppy-dog eyes". 'Oh, yes. Those eyes were too powerful to deny' She thought and analyzed what would happen if she stayed. Parker wanted her there; Booth was nodding along his son, so he wanted her to stay too. Well.. How terrible could it be?

"Ok, Parker. I'll stay" she said smiling at the boy.

"Yeeeeeeeei!" he squealed.

The drive to the Hamburger place was spent by Parker telling 'Dr. Bones' all about his school friends and classes. By the time they arrived, they had moved onto Dinosaurs.

"They are so cool! I love the T-Rex because it's really big and scary and nobody would ever try to hurt him! All the bad guys would be scared of him, just like my daddy!" he babbled.

Brennan thought about correcting him, saying that Dinosaurs aren't human, therefore they are an 'it' and not a 'he'. Also how even Tyrannosaurus Rex can have predators, despite being 'big and scary' but she remembered that he was five years old. She also understood that he was saying that he was proud of his father. That, she could relate to.

Booth was going to indicate to Brennan not to correct Parker. He could see the wheels turning in her head and pointing out all the inaccuracies of his son's speech. He knew her, and he knew exactly how much she hated inaccurate facts. On the other hand, he was completely touched by his sons candor and comment. Before he could react and indicate Brennan to simply nod, she surprised him.

"Yes, your daddy is certainly a person that can scare bad guys. He is especially good at putting them away so they can never hurt anybody again" She answered the boy, while looking at her partner and smiling.

Parker beamed at her and skipped happily towards the closest table inside the restaurant they had just reached.

Booth was floored. Not only was she allowing Parker to say inaccurate things, but she was also complimenting him in her own indirect way. She was saying he was a good detective. It meant that she valued his input, that she considered him an asset. Sometimes, being partners with a genius was hard in one's self esteem and you started to feel useless. Right now, his heart was bursting with pride for getting her to have such good opinions about him. He was definitely not useless in her eyes. That meant the world to him.

"Thanks for that, Bones" he said truthfully, touching her arm with his hand and smiling gratefully at her.

"I was merely stating facts, Booth. There was nothing to thank me for" she said matter-of-factly while walking towards Parker, a little ahead of her partner. He wasn't able to see the slight blush she got in her cheeks.

During the meal, Brennan told some stories about the different animals and other discoveries she had found while in digs, being careful to keep it age appropriate. Parker asked question after question and took in every little bit of information she gave him. Brennan could see how he was genuinely curious, how he was processing and understanding everything she explained to him. Some things were a little hard to turn into 5-year-old words, but she soon figured out that she could use hard words to explain something, because Parker would listen, process it, ask the hard word's meaning, think a little again and then smile brightly as he understood the meaning of what she had said. He would then proceed to ask more questions. He was a bright child, and Brennan had a good time talking to him, even if she never expected to do so.

From time to time, she looked at her partner who stayed mostly silent. He would sometimes add certain things they had encountered in different cases, but that didn't happen much. Brennan worried she was monopolizing his time to bond with his son, and that it would bother him, but his bright smile negated that thought.

After eating and driving all the way towards Rebbeca's place, Booth got Parker off his car seat and out of the car. Brennan said goodbye, but the boy walked towards her door. She opened it and he jumped on her lap.

"It was great to see you, Dr. Bones" he said while hugging her with his arms around her neck. She hugged him back, a little awkwardly at first, but she relaxed soon enough.

"It was great to see you too, Parker. Be good at school, okay?" she asked the boy.

"I will! I have to be very good so I can get to be as smart as you some day!" with that, he let go of her, jumped off her lap and run towards the house.

Brennan felt good. She didn't like kids, and they usually didn't like her, but Parker saying he wanted to be as smart as her was nice to hear. It made her feel warm inside, which was stupid. Her body temperature had definitely not changed because of what a 5-year-old said. But she couldn't deny it, it felt like her body temp rose a few degrees in a second, and it was very nice. It had been a night filled with different feelings she wasn't used to have, and she didn't know how to feel about THAT. She certainly knew that most of them were centered on her partner and his son. Maybe it was better if she didn't think about them for now, they could certainly complicate things.


Booth was smiling. He was happy. He had spent time with his son and his beloved partner at the same time, and they liked each other! It made him burst with pride about his partner being nice to his son, his son liking her and that final hug.. it was extremely cute! He hoped they could repeat it someday.

The night had gone much better than he expected. While Brennan told story after story, he hadn't been able to stop smiling. She believed she was bad with kids, that they didn't like her, but Parker was clearly an exception to that rule. Maybe, it wasn't that she was bad with kids. Maybe she felt that way because they scared her. She felt that most people couldn't understand what she was saying, and with children that would be even more notorious. She didn't have faith in herself; she didn't trust herself to be able to handle them. Well, he definitely trusted her, and he was going to help her with that. She was his partner, his friend and if he was truthful to himself, so much more. How much more was something he didn't particularly want to figure it out. For now, he was happy. They had a lovely evening and he got to spend time with the most important person in his world and with his partner at the same time. To him, that was Heaven.