More Beautiful Days
By Meekerprincess9778
Author's Note: Takes place after A beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Ch 1
It was Saturday morning. The night before, Booth and Parker treated her to a night of eating at the diner and bowling. She found that she liked Parker's company almost as much as she liked Booth's company. Temperance Brennan was dressed in a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt. She was working on her novel. She was falling behind. The dialogue wasn't as witty as it should have been. The argument didn't sound real enough to her. She kept erasing and rewriting a single line and it was frustrating. She heard her doorbell. She was almost grateful for the distraction. She opened the door.
"Bones, you didn't even look out of the peep hole. That's what it was there for. We could have come in and killed you." Booth chastised his partner.
"My kitchen is full of knives, Booth. Besides, my doormen get paid well. They wouldn't let just anyone in. Hi, Parker." She smiled at the young Booth.
"Do you two always argue?" Parker asked.
"We don't argue; we bicker. It's a friendly debate." Booth told his son.
"So what can I do for you two today?" She was wondering why they were there.
"You said we can go swimming in the pool at your apartment. We want you to go swimming with us." Parker said, smiling.
"I really need to catch up on my book." She looked over to her laptop. She wasn't very happy with how her chapter was coming out. Maybe she could use a break.
"Come on, Bones. All you do is work. Don't you ever have fun?" Booth asked her.
"I find my work to be fun. Also, most of the time my writing is very therapeutic. However, today I am not pleased with it. So I will swim with you two. Do you have your suits and towels?" She asked. Booth picked up a bag of things. "Good, well you two can change in the spare room and I will go change in my bedroom."
Booth knew where the spare room was. He spent many nights in there. He was way more curious about her bedroom. He needed to be careful of how he acted in front of his son. Sweets might be right about the whole modeling behavior thing. He didn't want his son to be pining after a woman for years and years with no results.
Brennan went into her bedroom. She has several bathing suits. She put them all out on the bed. She didn't want anything too sexy in front of Parker. She didn't want that kind of impression on the young boy. She did decide on a bikini but it was meant for speed in the water. It minimized her bust slightly like a sports bra would. This would have to do. Everything else was simply too sexy for Parker to see. She should probably go swim suit shopping. She would ask Angela where more homely women go to get their bathing suits. She bought this bathing suit for function.
She walks out of her bedroom with a towel from her personal bathroom. She sees Booth in blue and gray swim trunks. Parker is wearing green and yellow ones. Booth takes one look at her and his jaw drops slightly. She takes Parker's hand and she puts on her flip flops. They walk to the pool.
"Do you normally walk around like that in your apartment building, Bones?" Booth asks her.
"No, sometimes I wear swim suits that flatter my body more. This bathing suit is made for speed in the water. It isn't for parading around in." She laughs.
I have to see the ones that flatter her body more, Booth thinks to himself. They get in the water. Booth is somewhat surprised how Bones just goes straight into the water. A lot of women don't want their hair wet or something. He hates it when women act that way. Not Bones, she dives right in, literally.
"Parker, do you know how to dive?" She asks him, seriously.
"No, Bones. Dad says I am too young." Parker looks over at his father. Maybe this lady will talk him out of it. My mom never goes in the pool, so she can't teach me. This Bones lady is getting cooler and cooler by the minute.
"Booth, could you dive at his age?" She asked her partner.
"Yes, but I also did a lot of dangerous things I shouldn't have done. I don't want him to do anything dangerous, Bones." Booth looked at his son and Bones. He was quickly getting outvoted.
"Parker, you won't do anything dangerous, right?" Brennan asked him. "You will listen to my instructions. If you don't listen, your father is right; you could get hurt."
"No, I will listen." Parker really liked this lady. Of course he would listen. Brennan led him up the steps. Booth had a bad feeling in his gut. He hated that feeling. They went up to the diving board. She showed him how to stand. She showed him what to do. The next thing he knew, Bones dove down into the water. After she came back up, Parker repeated her steps exactly. He was so proud of his son. He was more proud of Bones. She was teaching him things. Of course that is what she would do. He asked her to help. She knows how to teach things. She had him perfect the cannonball so he would get the biggest splash. There was a scientific reason, of course. They were having the best time. They included him in the fun as well. All three of them raced. Booth's only regret is that they didn't come over to swim years ago.
Parker always thought of Bones as that pretty lady that works with Dad with all of the big words. The more time she spent with Parker, the smaller her words became. She taught him how to dive. He knew that she always made his Dad smile. He was really starting to like her now.
It was late in the afternoon. They all got out of the pool and went back to her apartment. She had the ingredients for macaroni and cheese. She let Parker help her make it. His Mom never cooked. She always had Parker's babysitter cook or ordered food. She was too busy being a lawyer. They were in the middle of dinner when they got the phone call for a body. Booth didn't know what to do. Rebecca went to some special outing with her boyfriend out of town.
"Maybe I could call Max. He knows Parker well enough from the after school program and the extra lessons." Bones suggested to him.
Max came over and Booth thanked him. Booth and Brennan left to see the dead body.