A/N- Jared and Seeley parted on bad terms nearly a year ago and now Jared has died in an accident. (He had been in the war zone in Iraq as part of his job as a liaison with the Pentagon.) This story is set sometime in season 3. Thats how far I've watched the show consecutively. I have up to season 4 on DVD but haven't gotten there yet. I have watched this season (7) religiously though. (Yay Baby Booth/Bones) But here, Brennan and Booth haven't gotten together yet.

Word Count:1,049 (doesn't include author's notes)

Haven Booth

Chapter 1 I Found You

Agent Booth was lying on the couch in Dr. Brennan's office, waiting for her to finish up on the platform so they could go. They had just wrapped up a case and were headed out to get dinner. Normally, they'd go out for a few drinks, but ever since the news came in that Jared had been killed in Iraq last month, he just hadn't been in the mood to go drinking. He missed his brother, regretted so many things with him, and he'd never get a chance to make it right. He wished he could've helped Jared more. But they hadn't spoken in a year, and now they never would.

He was laying with his arm over his eyes to shut out the light, so when he sensed someone coming into the room, he assumed it was Bones coming to get him. "You ready to go, Bones? It's about time. I'm starving." He said, not moving from the couch. He heard no response. Then there was a tap on his arm… from a hand too small to be Brennan's, or any adult's for that matter. His first thought was, 'What irresponsible jerk let a child wander around, unsupervised, at the Jeffersonian Forensics Lab?'

When he opened his eyes, he was met with a pair of the bluest eyes he'd ever seen; like bright sapphires lit from behind. 'And I didn't just think that.' Booth shook his head. She spoke.

"Are you Mr. Seeley Booth, the bestest, most bravest FBI agent in the whole world?" She asked with obvious hope. Booth studied the girl from his reclined position on the couch.

She was short. She was missing her two front teeth, but she hadn't spoken with a lisp; she just couldn't quite get her R's fully pronounced. Her hair was hidden partially under a pink ball cap, but was hanging in messy, dark blond ringlets that reached just past her shoulders. She had a smudge of dirt on her cheek. She was wearing a white turtleneck under an overall dress made of denim, with white tights, pink shoes that looked like they may have once lit up when she walked, and a backpack. She looked, at the most, six years old. Booth made all of these observations in just over a minute, but by the look on the little girl's face, he had kept her waiting too long for a response.

"Yeah, I guess I am." He said with a smirk. He glanced up at the door, but there was no one there. He had expected whoever she belonged to, to be looking in with a smile for her blatant flattery and over all adorableness. 'Adorableness? Where did I come up with that one? I've got to stop watching My Little Pony with Parker.'

"You guess?" She asked, pulling Booth's attention back to her from the empty doorway. "How can you guess you are someone? You are someone or you are not someone. Unless you have Namnesia and you don't know who you are, then maybe you would guess. But you don't have Namnesia, right?" She asked skeptically. Booth laughed.

"No I don't have amnesia, and yes, I am Seeley Booth. Can I help you with something? Do you need help finding your mommy or daddy?" He asked.

"No, my daddy died. And he told me that if my mommy ever told me that he was dead, I was supposed to get away and call you. E'cept I lost the phone number he gave me. But I did remember he told me that you worked at the FBI. I didn't know how to get there, but my daddy brought me here, once, to the museum and I remembered he said that you worked with the Bone-lady in a lab here. I also remembered which train stop you have to get off at to come to the museum. So I came here. And then I found a sign that told me where the lab was. I'm really glad I found you, because sneaking past the guy who watches the door was really hard. And then I had to wait a really long time for someone to come out of those big slidey doors so I could sneak in. And I still get words wrong sometimes when I read, so I wasn't sure if this was where the Bone-lady works. But then her name was on the sign by this door, and I saw you laying in here and I thought I must have found the right place. And now I found you." She finished by wrapping her arms around him in a tight hug.

Seeley had already sat up sometime in the middle of her mile-a-minute speech, and was still processing when she shocked him by climbing into his lap to give him a strangling hug. After a few moments he realized that the gist of her little speech was that her father had told her to find Booth if he was dead, because her mother wasn't to be trusted with her, and she had come to the Jeffersonian, alone, from wherever it is she lived in order to do just that. Now he was utterly confused. He didn't realize he knew anyone well enough that they would send their little girl to him if they died. In fact, he hadn't heard of anyone dying recently. …wait.

"What is your father's name?" Booth asked the little girl who had snuggled into his neck. She sat back on his knees to look at him when she answered.

"Daddy." She said, with her head tilted to the side in confusion.

"Yes, your daddy- what was his name?" Booth asked again.

"His name was Daddy." She said, giving him a look that inexplicably made him feel stupid.

"Alright, then, what is your name?" Booth tried. The little girl smiled, showing off her missing front teeth.

"My name is Haven Seeley Alexandria Booth."

A/N- Leave me a review, please :) I'll be updating this tomorrow. And I mean that this time. So tell me, what are your theories on Haven's situation? What do you see happening next? Do you think Haven talks like a six-nearly-seven year old? And can someone give me an idea of how old Parker was at the end-abouts of season 3? Would anyone like to Beta this story for me? The job would involve badgering me to write the next chapter, and helping me get this into some semblance of a cohesive plot. That may include helping me brainstorm a bit of an outline for this story. I've gotten the basic direction down but I'm not set on the major conflicts of this story besides Booth finding out he has a niece and trying to get custody of her from her horrible mother, and becoming a full-time dad as opposed to a part time dad like he is with Parker.