Title: Knowing
By: DOSrip
Story Summary: Just something I wrote.
Disclaimer: I only own Bones on DVD. I do own my characters.
A/N: This is a re-written version of the first. Still just a one shot, but I realized when I re-read this story I got an idea from it. So a message from this story is going to play into my untitled story.
She was trying to hide her pain, but he knew her to well. So when he asked her to dinner the night before to wrap up their latest case, she said no and left the lab. All she wanted to do was lock herself away in her apartment. Yet twenty-four hours later here she sat on a park bench.
She watched as the children ran around and played. Smiling as she could tell they were tired but none of them would give in until their parents pulled them from the park. She couldn't help but think about how innocent they were, no knowing of the real world.
Letting her eyes move from a few kids on the slide to a mother who picked up her son, she sighed. She lets a small smile shine on her face for their happiness, but it slips away when she remembers she'll never have that. She'd never know the joy of having a child.
Her thoughts are broken when her partner sits down and asks, "What are you thinking about Bones?"
"How did you find me?" Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan asked as she moved her eyes to the kids on the swings, remembering what her best friend had once said about them.
"I've been calling you all day. I was worried." Booth said softly then nodded to the little blond boy saying, "I had to pick Parker up. We turned around and here you were."
"Hi." Parker Booth says shyly as he stands near the two adults.
Brennan turns to Parker, she gives him a small smile before asking, "Where are you two headed off to?"
Parker smiled back and said, "Daddy's taking me to dinner at the diner. Do you want to come?"
Brennan looked from Parker's brown eyes to Booth's matching brown eyes, Booth smiled and said, "Yeah come on, it'll be fun. Afterwards we're going home to watch a movie."
Parker shook his head excitedly saying, "Yeah, we're gonna watch Finding Nemo. And Daddy says if I can stay awake I can watch Cars tonight to."
Booth flashed his charm smile saying, "He won't make it through Finding Nemo."
Brennan gave them a puzzled look and said, "I'm assuming those are names of movies."
"Yeah Finding Nemo is about fishes." Parker said smiling.
"The plural for fish is fish." Brennan informed the little boy.
"I don't know what that means." Parker said wrinkling his nose.
"Plural is a big word that means more then one." Brennan explained then asked, "Is this move Cars about cars?"
"Yep. Their Disney movies. Daddy says that I can only watch certain movies cause I'm so young." Parker said then perked up and said, "Bones tell Daddy that I can watch Pirates of the Caribbean. He'll listen to you, you're smart."
"No way Bub." Booth said shaking his head.
"I have no idea what that is Parker." Brennan told him.
"Okay you and Daddy can watch it when I fall asleep. Then you can tell Daddy that I can watch it." Parker said happily.
Booth stood up asking, "So dinner and a movie with to dates Bones?"
Brennan stood up and said, "Sounds good. But what is this movie that Parker is talking about?"
Booth thought for a minute, "You may like it Bones, but the kid isn't watching it."
Parker groaned saying, "Come on Daddy."
The two adults laughed as they started for Booth's SUV together. Only a few steps from the bench, Parker reached up and grabbed Brennan's hand. He also started in on how his one classmate had seen all three already.
Booth kept saying no, but Brennan looked down at the little boy and said she'd have to see them first. Booth looked over he was about to protest but noticed that with just a promise to see they were both happy he stayed quite.
All three walked out of the park with smiles on the faces. The two adults listened to Parker as he talked about his week at school, thankful to let the memories of the last case slip from their mind. Halfway to the car Booth put his arm around Brennan, they smiled at each other before turning their attention back to Parker. From the outside they just looked like a happy family ending a day in the park.