A/N: A little Halloween two shot I thought of this am. Little late, but I still wanted to post it.
Parker Booth was happy, it was Halloween, and he was going trick-or-treating with his dad. Parker made his way to the kitchen, Booth was there eating a bagel, he looked up when parker entered."Morning Bub, are you feeling okay? You look a little flushed."
"I'm fine, dad. What time are we going?"
"5." Booth put a bowl cereal in front of Parker and felt his forehead."Park, you're burning up."
"I'm fine dad."
Booth grinned a little and went to get the thermometer; he put it in Parker's ear."101, after you eat go rest on the couch."
"Can I still go trick-or treating?"
"I'm afraid not with a fever."
"If it goes away by the time we get ready to go can I still go?"
"We'll see. I'll be back." Booth went to his room and got a light blanket and a pillow. Once Parker was done with breakfast Booth got him tucked into the couch and gave him some Tylenol and handed Parker the remote. Parker turned on the Disney channel for their Halloween movies and promptly fell asleep. A few hours later Parker woke up when Booth was taking his temperature. "Hey Bub, I didn't mean to wake you, how do you feel?"
"Okay, but I'm not going trick-or-treating am I?'
"No, you've still got a fever, I'm sorry Parker. I talked to mom, she said she's sorry you're sick and are going to miss trick-or-treating, but she said she'd get you whatever candy you wanted."
"Okay."
"Do you want to put on your costume and hang around the house?"
"No." Booth felt bad because Parker was sick and because he was missing trick-or-treating, it was the only holiday that Booth got to spend with Parker no matter what. Rebecca hated doing the door to door thing and she felt better knowing that Booth taking Parker, Booth was disappointed too; he missed them having fun together. "Do you want pizza for dinner?"
"Doesn't matter." Parker sat up and turned on the TV
Booth got up and ordered the pizza and 30 minutes later he sat a Halloween paper plate with a piece of pizza on it next to Parker, knowing if he didn't push it the pizza would be gone in five minutes. Like clockwork five minutes later he heard, "Dad, can I have more, please?"
"Yeah, one or two?'
"One."
Booth came over and plopped down on the couch with his own paper plate full of pizza, and plopped one slice on Parker's plate. After they ate Booth got all the snack food he had and popped in Casper "Park, I know this isn't Halloween, but at least you'll still get the best part, candy."
"That's not the best part."
"It's not?"
"No the best part is it's the only holiday I get to spend with you every year." Booth didn't know what to say so he just pulled Parker close. "That's my best part too." Parker just leaned into Booth and grabbed a handful of popcorn. A little way into the movie, Booth noticed Parker was dozing off; Booth picked him up and carried him to bed. By the time Rebecca picked parker up the next afternoon, he wasn't running a fever, but he had a cold.
