Thanks to Astellya for the proofread. This is my first fic writing. So I hope you guys will read and enjoy it. And review too. Everyone loves getting those right? Anyways. Here ya go.
Chapter 1
"Where's Parker?" Nate asked.
The leverage team (minus Parker) was in Nate's living room. Sophie was reading a fashion magazine she ordered. Eliot was drinking a beer and Hardison was typing something rapidly into his computer before each TV flashed with different football games on each screen. Nate was reading the newspaper. He got suspicious that there was no noise of cereal being crunched, and looked up to see only three of his 4 teammates.
"I don't know," Sophie responded, noticing the absence of the noise. "Last I saw her was when I was teaching her how to socialize."
There was a chuckle from Eliot. "What?" he said when he noticed them staring at him.
"Oh, man what if something happened to her? What if she took a side job? Wait," Hardison said as he pushed a button on his laptop. The screens went black and there was a map of Massachusetts but no red dot to be found.
"Zoom out," Eliot demanded.
"What do you think I was about to do," Hardison turned to tell him. He zoomed out to the East coast of the United States and saw a red dot moving fast south.
"Hardison, cross reference flight passengers with any of Parkers IDs, Eliot Sophie pack some stuff for a couple days." Nate turned to his spiral staircase but Hardison began to protest.
"Woah, wait a minute, I have to go too. You can't just leave me here, man. I need to know what's going on."
Nate turned to face the hacker and said, "Fine then book us on the next flight to wherever she's going."
Hardison, looking satisfied, turned back to his computer and started checking the passengers on each flight that left Boston in the last hour. After locating Parker he booked everyone a flight on the next plane and went to his apartment to pack some clothes. He called everyone else to let them know where they were going. Knowing Parker he was anxious to find out what she was up to.
"Rebecca I can't watch him this weekend, I have a stakeout and a lot of interviews to get to. I know that, but can't you watch him until just Saturday and then I'll clear everything for Sunday so I can watch him then?" Booth really wanted to watch Parker this weekend but he hadn't planned on Rebecca having her 'I need me time' moments to kick in last minute, and hadn't asked for time off on this case. "Rebecca, fine I'll see if I can get a babysitter last minute to watch him 'till Saturday night. Ok? Just stop yelling," Booth hung up and called Parkers nanny to see if she could do on-call. He hadn't known that she was out of town visiting family. None of the squints could do it because they were all working the case with him and were very busy trying to find the killer. There was no way he was going to ask Sweets because, come on, Sweets was a kid. Booth arrived at Brennan's office and updated her with what was going on. "Booth I'm sure we can find a qualified babysitter in one day." Brennan said as Booth helped her with her coat.
They were on their way to Brennans' house when she suggested they use craigslist to find possible candidates that were willing to work last minute. Booth was hesitant at first. He wanted the best care for his son and didn't really trust a website to find a babysitter. After looking on Brennans computer they found some possible candidates and called them in for interviews to take place on that evening.
On the plane to Washington DC, Hardison had booked everyone seats and gave himself first class. Nate and Sophie also got first class with their seats together while Eliot sat in coach. He got a lame explanation from Hardison saying that since he had an air marshal badge, he was supposed to sit in coach to protect people.
"What are we going to do when we get there Nate?" Hardison asked through the comm.
"We'll go to the hotel to drop our bags off and you can check where Parker is from there."
"Ooh, what hotel are we staying in Hardison?" Sophie asked excited to hear his answer. "I hope it has a jaccuzzi in our room."
"It better have a gym Hardison," Eliot growled. He was already upset with his seat and was eager to also hear a response.
"Isn't anyone worried that Parker might be in trouble?" Was all they heard from the worried hacker.
"If she was in trouble she would have called us already." Nate said.
"Yeah, she probably just wanted some 'me' time or whatever," Eliot.
"Or she wanted to steal a painting from one of their many museums." Sophie said calmly earning a glare from Nate. "Oh Nate, you can't keep her from doing what she wants."
"Don't worry Hardison, I'm sure she's ok. We're just going in case she needs back up on anything, ok?" Nate said trying to calm him down.
"OK," Hardison said.
The interviews went well. Most of the candidates were young between the ages of 16 and 22. Others were elderly women. There was one candidate who seemed very excited even though nobody had told her she had gotten the job. After her interview was done, Booth stood up to shake her hand and told her that, even though the job was for just one day, he still expected the best for his son.
"Alice we'll see you Saturday morning at 7. Have a good night," Booth told Parker, who had been staring at him with excitement through the entire interview.
"Don't forget, we need you at this address on time because both Agent Booth and I have very important jobs that we can't be late for," Brennan said handing Parker a piece of paper.
She took it and turned to leave. "Don't worry about me; I'll be here at exactly 7." She confirmed more to Booth than to Brennan. She turned away and skipped down the hall to her rented car.
"She seems very confident and very attracted to you Booth," Brennan teased as she stood up to make herself a cup of coffee.
"Yeah, I don't go for teenagers Bones," Booth said, he was making himself comfortable before Brennan came back with coffee and a stack of files for them to look over.
"She's not a teenager Booth; it's obvious from her facial features she could be between her mid 20s and early 30s," Brennan corrected him.
"That doesn't matter Bones, I only have eyes for one woman." He said looking at Brennans back while she was preparing the coffee.
Brennan didn't hear him over the sound of the coffee machine starting.
