set between Hero in the Hold & Beaver in the Otter; if you've been following the spoilers, you'll know some of this will likely be AU pretty soon…if it isn't already! I do follow some spoilers, so I have adjusted names and a couple minor details to fit, but nothing else to worry about. Of course, I do not own any of these characters.

Just wanted to get it started before the real fun begins!


Chapter 1--Surprise!

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Booth rubbed at his eyes tiredly as he stumbled to the front door. Whoever was outside (not his partner, by the pounding) was impatient and not shy about letting the whole building know. But it wasn't even 7:30 in the damn morning, on a Saturday, for God's sake.

Checking his peephole in his new and more careful fashion (his cheeks burned at how easily he had been fooled into letting in his own abductor! And he still couldn't pull a clear face to mind. He didn't know which one bothered him more), he groaned. There was no denying those features, those eyes…or the rage. Why me, Lord? he asked, casting eyes upwards as he opened his door.

"Dad," he said. "What in Hell are you doing here?"


"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it." ~Wendell Berry