This must be one of the saddest shots I have ever written. I don't own the song or Bones. Please review.
Kenny Chesney: Who You'd Be Today
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Sunny days seem to hurt
the most
Wear the pain like a heavy coat
I feel you everywhere
I go
I see your smile, I see your face
I hear you laughing in
the rain
Still can't believe you're gone
It had been a year since he lost his son to cancer. The pain, oh the pain... At times it was unbearable. Everywhere he'd look, something would remind him of Parker.
Driving by the Zoo, he recalled that fateful day.
"Daddy! Daddy! Did you see the power beers?" Shrieked an excited Parker.
"Yeah, Bub, I saw them. Let's go see the penguins, ok?" Booth replied.
"I love pen... pengin... PENGINS!" The excited boy grabbed his father's offered hand and started to drag him off toward the 'pengins'. About halfway there, he stopped and put his hand on his stomach. "Daddy, my stomawk huuurrrrttttsss." Booth knelt down to his son's hight.
"Where, Parker?"
"Wright der." The little boy pointed to his stomach. "It reallly reallllyyyy hurts, Daddy."
"Let's go to the hospital to get you checked out, ok? And then we can come back to see the penguins."
"Ok, Daddy."
They sat in the emergency room for about half an hour, Parker entertaining himself with an episode of Spongebob on a small TV. A nurse called them up.
"How are you today, Parker?" She asked, friendly.
"My stomawk hurrrttsss."
"Ok, we are going to run some tests. Do you think that you can be a brave boy?" The nurse took his enthusiastic nod as a yes. "Come this way." She lead him off, Booth trailing behind.
The blood tests confirmed a cancerous tumor under his stomach.
It ain't fair you
died too young
Like a story that had just begun
The death tore
the pages all away
God knows how I miss you
All the hell that
I've been through
Just knowing no one could take your
place
Sometimes I wonder who you'd be today
"It's not fair, Bones! He was m-my son. He was only five. Five, Temperance. Five-..." Booth's enraged wail trailed off as he clung to his partner in front of his son's grave. "I miss him so much." Sinking to the ground, he dragged her with him.
"It's ok, Booth. And it's not fair, he had his whole life ahead of him. You will see him again, up there." She soothed, pointing to the sky. Booth sniffed.
"But you don't believe in heaven."
"No, but I do believe that you will see Parker again, and I will see my mum. Being with you has taught me many things, one of which is to believe in miracles. You WILL see him again, Booth. Until then, he will be waiting for you to finish fighting the bad guys down here on Earth." Brennan finished, tears making their way slowly down her face.
"We were going to go see the penguins." Booth said miserably.
"Tell me about the penguins, Booth." Brennan encouraged, rubbing his back soothingly while cradling him as best she could. She was speaking like she used to speak to Parker when he was scared. Oh god. Used to.
"We were at the Zoo, watching the polar bears. He called them 'Power Beers'." Booth let out a choked laugh. "I suggested that we go see the penguins, and he got all excited, shrieking 'PENGINS!'. We were walking there and he told me that his stomach hurt. He never got stomach aches, so I took him to the emergency room, and..."
"Shhhh..." Brennan clutched him tighter as he broke down again.
Would you see
the world?
Would you chase your dreams?
Settle down with a
family?
I wonder, what would you name your babies?
Some days
the sky's so blue
I feel like I can talk to you
And I know it
might sound crazy
"I wonder what he would have become. Would he ever travel to Paris? Australia Would he ever fulfill his life long dream of becoming an FBI agent like daddy? He thought my job was so cool... I was very popular at Meet the Parents day." Booth mused. "Would he have kids? What would he name them? Bones, I miss him. I talk to him, come out here and sit in front of his grave... Some days, when the sky is clear, I look up and can almost see him waving at me..."
"Seeley, no parent should have to bury their child. We'll get through this." Brennan said comfortingly. Booth reached over to rub her large belly with a sad smile.
"All three of us."
Today, Today,
Today
Today, Today, Today
Sunny days seem to hurt the
most
I wear the pain like a heavy coat
The only thing that
gives me hope
Is I know I'll see you again someday
Someday, Someday