"So are you ready for Christmas?" Seeley asks Cam as they stand over an autopsy table.
"No. I... nothing is ready."
"Have you started shopping?"
"I'm done shopping," she admits.
"So why aren't you ready?"
"Luca is coming to stay with me."
"Over Christmas? I thought that she wasn't talking to you."
"She's still not talking to me, but she's coming to stay with me."
"For how long?"
"Until she goes away to college, if she goes away for college."
"What do you mean?"
"She's coming to live with me."
"Why?"
"It's a long story," she sighs.
"How old is she now?"
"She'll be fifteen in January."
"I can't believe that she's that old. I haven't seen her since she was... eight or nine. Has it really been that long?"
"Yes."
"So are we done here?"
"Yep. The report is almost done, and the body is going to be released to the family tomorrow."
"I'll see you on Monday," he tells her as he walks out.
On Monday when Seeley arrives he finds Angela in Temperance's office chatting away.
"What are you two ladies so talkative about this morning?"
"She must be gone now," Angela comments.
"Yeah. They left ten minutes ago."
"Who?"
Angela begins to explain, "This morning some kid came looking for Cam."
"What did she look like?"
"She was tall and skinny. Wait how did you know that the kid was a she g-man?" Angela questions.
"Was she about fourteen or fifteen?"
"Yes why?" Angela answers.
"Her name is Luca," he informs them.
"Do you know her?" Temperance asks.
"Yeah,"
"Who is she? A niece, or cousin... or what?" Angela asks.
"No," he shakes his head with a smile, "Luca is Cam's daughter."
"What do you mean she's her daughter?"Angela questions.
"I thought that she said that she didn't want kids," Temperance adds.
"Luca is Cam's daughter?" Angela wonders.
"Yes," Seeley nods.
"How?" Temperance asks.
"Bones, what do you mean how?"
"She and I had a conversation and she told me that she didn't want kids," Temperance recalls.
"Maybe she meant she didn't want anymore," Seeley answers.
"No. I'm pretty sure she said something about how she didn't want to give up her figure for a kid, or something along those lines," Temperance argues.
"Well she's got a kid," Seeley tells them.
"Is she adopted?" Temperance asks.
"What? No," Seeley shakes his head.
"So then...," Angela tries to straighten things out.
"She gave birth to her," Seeley answers.
"How old is she?" Angela asks.
"She's fourteen."
"So why haven't we ever met of her, or heard of her for that matter?" Angela wonders.
"Luca lives... lived with her dad. She and Cam are like oil and water, they're complete opposites."
"So? It's her kid," Angela points out.
"Cam wanted a career."
"So she abandoned her kid?"Temperance asks.
"No. She did what she thought was best for her."
"By abandoning her?" Temperance repeats.
"Bones she didn't abandon her. Luca's dad chose to raise her," he answers.
"Why?" Angela inquires.
"It's a long story," Seeley answers.
"Angela it's obvious. He took her because Cam didn't want her," Temperance points out.
"Is that true?" Angela casts her glance to Seeley.
"Cam wasn't ready for a kid. She never wanted to have them. When she got pregnant she decided that she wasn't emotionally, or financially ready to take on the responsibility of a child. Look I shouldn't be discussing this with the two of you. She's going to kill me. It's not my place to tell you all of this."
"So what was she planning to do?" Temperance ignores what he said about not telling them.
"What do you mean?"
"With Luca?"
"She was going to give her up for adoption," he answers.
"Didn't her dad have issues with that?"
"They had broken up. When she had Luca she called him, and told him. He decided to take Luca and raise her by himself."
"So does Cam see her?" Temperance asks.
"Only when Luca chooses to see Cam."
"Why?"
"Look Bones I don't know? You should ask her if you really want to know," he tells them.
"Is she coming back?"
"Of course she is? Bones what do you mean is she coming back?"
"Is Cam coming back today?"
"I would assume that she is."
"Wait how do you know all of this?" Angela questions suspiciously.
"I've known Cam for a long time," he admits.
"Right," Angela nods.
"She'll probably be back soon, so we should get to work," Temperance changes the subject.
"On what? We don't have a case," Booth reminds her.
"I'm headed down to bone storage if you want to help," she tells them.
They groan, but head to the platform. By lunch time they have identified the man in bone storage along with how he was killed. A few minutes after Booth leave to pick up Thai food Cam finally returns.
She finds Temperance and Angela sitting in Temperance's office waiting on Seeley to return.
"I'm back if you need anything," she tells them.
"Where did you go?" Angela asks.
"I had to take Luca home."
"Who is Luca?" Angela questions.
"She was the girl who was here earlier," Cam answers.
"But who is she in relation to you?" Angela probes.
"She's my daughter," Cam admits.
"I didn't know that you had a daughter," Temperance adds.
"It's a long story."
"Oh..."
"She was living with her dad."
"Does she look like him?" Angela wonders.
"I don't know. Sort of, maybe," Cam digs around in her purse. She pulls out a picture and hands it to Angela. "That's at her eighth grade graduation."
Angela studies the picture. The girl is in the middle. Cam is on one side, and a tall, muscular man with skin the color of cinnamon sugar is on the other side.
"This is her dad?" Angela asks.
"Uh huh," Cam nods.
Angela hands the picture back.
"Anyway I've got some case reports that I've got to finish."
"Ok."
"Let me know if you need anything," Cam tells them.
"Will do," Angela agrees.
Cam is out of earshot when Angela turns around to look at Temperance.
"What?"
"The man in that picture is not that girl's dad."
"What? What do you mean?"
"I've worked here with you long enough to know, that kid doesn't belong to the man in that picture."
"I think that you've been around Hodgins too long."
"Bren... trust me that isn't his daughter."
"Why do you think that?"
"The skin tone is wrong, the facial structure is off. The hair isn't right. None of it is right."
"You're being ridiculous."
"No I'm not. You saw the girl what did she look like to you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Did she look like Cam?"
"They have the same eyes and nose."
"But that's pretty much where the similarities end. Luca has a cleft chin, thin lips, and the jaw line is different."
"So?"
"That guy doesn't look like Luca."
"Seriously Angela you're being a little ridiculous."
"About what?" Booth asks joining the conversation.
"Angela doesn't think that Luca belongs to the man Cam says is her father."
"Why?"
"I saw a picture of him."
"When?"
"Cam just showed it to me."
"And?"
"She doesn't look like him."
"So?"
"Have you seen the guy?"
"Yes why?"
"Do you think that Luca looks like him?"
"No Luca doesn't really look like Will, but lots of kids don't look like their parents."
"Don't you think that Luca should be darker?"
"Why?"
"She's lighter than Cam is," Angela points out.
"So?"
"He's as dark, if not darker than Cam is."
"Not to interrupt, but I'm starving," Temperance interjects.