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Chapter 2: Old Relationships

Out in the garage of the Booth home the stereo was playing country music and there was an empty beer bottle on the workbench. The hood was raised on the almost ten-year-old red Mustang. The man underneath the car was drumming his tools on the ground to the beat of the song.

"All my friends say I started shootin' doubles when you walked in." Parker sang along as he went back to tuning up his car. It was pretty much what he did when he wasn't working. He worked on his car and if he was feeling really wild after he was done with that he would go clean his guns. This really wasn't the song for him to be listening to given the state of his relationship with Belle or really the lack there of. It had been two days since their little talk and he was feeling alright about it. He would have felt even better if he could win her back. He still remembered her walking out on him like it was yesterday. But he refused to let himself dwell on that right now.

Parker wasn't about to admit it to anybody but he still wasn't over Rebecca walking off and leaving him. So watching Belle walk out the door was really hard on him. He cleared those thoughts from his head though he really didn't need to be thinking about that. It would only cause everyone to worry about him.

"Hey, Little G-Man slide out from under there a minute we need to talk." Parker heard his Uncle Jack's voice call. He also heard the volume on his music go down.

Parker slid out from underneath his car. His hands and his face were smeared with oil. The coveralls he was wearing were covered in oil as well. He stood up and grabbed his shop towel to wipe his hands on before he grabbed two beers out of the cooler he had. He handed one to Hodgins before twisting the top off of his own. "What do you need Uncle Jack?" he asked cheerfully.

"You and I need to talk." Jack leveled with him he really had no clue how to tell him this but he knew that he had to.

Parker tried to get a read off of him but he couldn't, he could tell that he was nervous and concerned. He knew enough to know that those two things were never good where Jack Hodgins was concerned. "Uncle Jack, I thought we could talk about anything you can start talking I'll listen. However I have to warn you if this is about Cantilever I might tune you out after a while." He replied in a light tone.

Jack gritted his teeth and clinched his fists. "Parker, I want to tell you so bad Bub I just have to find my words." This was painful for him he didn't want to hurt Parker but he knew he had to.

Parker was starting to panic now but he didn't let his brown eyes or his body language betray him. He knew that this wasn't good at all Hodgins was gritting his teeth, his hands were balled into fists, and worst of all he had called him Bub. He never called him Bub unless something serious was wrong. "Take as much time as you need I'm not going anywhere." He had to swallow so he was able to keep his voice level.

Hodgins decided that the best way to handle this was to just bite the bullet and tell him. He ran his hand over his blonde beard and he stared into Parker's brown eyes with his blue eyes. "Rebecca is the one that is having you followed." He forced his voice to remain neutral despite the fact that he wanted to kill the woman.

Parker's eyes widened this was the last thing that he had expected. He had to force himself to remain calm. He wanted so badly to hit someone. Instead he took a long pull off of his beer and he counted slowly to twenty. He knew better than to stop at ten he was too pissed off for that. " I would ask you to repeat that but I know I heard you right. You wouldn't joke about something like that." He said finally when he felt his temper wasn't going to explode.

Hodgins gave him a sympathetic smile. "I'm sorry Little G-man, I know how you feel about her. I wanted to kill her but I know if something happened to her I would be the first person your dad came to. If you want I can have a little talk with her." He offered.

"Uncle Jack, I don't want anything to do with that woman so no talk is necessary. I should have known that this had to do with her. She won't just leave me alone she's the one who walked out on me. I'm not the one who left her. I don't know what she wants from me and I don't care I just want her to stay away from me." Parker seethed he wasn't screaming even though he wanted nothing more than to yell and let his temper out.

Jack shrugged he didn't know what to say to make this one better. He wasn't that little kid he had walked up from the lobby of the Jeffersonian anymore. He was a grown man who was going to have to face his demons on his own. "This is the one thing that you know we can't talk about together. But I will help you take your frustrations out on this car if you want the company. It's Saturday Angie and Tempe are out shopping right now."

Parker gave him a half smile. "I would like that a lot Uncle Jack. And I guess it's too much to hope that you didn't tell mom and dad about this." He replied.

"I didn't tell your mom but I did tell your dad. He told me to keep my conspiracy theorist brain on a leash. If he even heard the phrase hit man used by a stranger on the street he would arrest me best friend or not." Jack laughed.

Parker ran his hands over his face and sighed. "Damn it Uncle Jack, I just don't know why she can't let me be happy. She got her happiness now she should let me have mine." He wanted to cry he knew that he shouldn't but he was just so pissed. So he let the tears flow like he was a little boy.

Hodgins put a comforting arm around him. "It's going to be ok Parker, you don't have to see her if you don't want and I'm sure I can get her to back off." He assured him.

Parker dried up his tears or he did the best he could. "Sorry I went to pieces on you like a little girl for a minute." He laughed.

"Hey, all men cry and chicks think it's sexy." Hodgins tried making him laugh for real.

Parker just shook his head. "God, Uncle Jack, I'm going to tell Aunt Ange your secret." He let out a genuine laugh. Hodgins smiled at that that was what he had been hoping to accomplish.

Bright and Early Monday morning Booth was sitting at his desk in his office. The palms of his hands were sweating and his heart was racing. He really needed his Bones here with him for what he was about to do. But the problem with that was he didn't trust Brennan to behave herself. Not that it didn't make him super hot when his wife decided to get into fights because it did but the Hoover Building just wasn't the place for that type of thing. That was partially why he was holding this meeting here because he didn't trust himself not to do something stupid. Hell he didn't trust Hodgins not to let him do something stupid. Of course his friend was here for this one he needed some sort of support.

"Booth, calm down you're sweating like you just ran a marathon." Hodgins advised him.

"Can it Dirt Boy. I'm nervous I can't believe I let you talk me into this." Booth shot back at him.

"It's for Parker so there is a good reason for this. I don't want to do this either but he's my Little G-man I can't let him swing in the breeze." Hodgins replied.

"You can consider this payback for helping him lie to us." Booth smirked having found the bright side of this extremely fucked up situation.

"Damn, I knew that it was going to come to that sooner or later." Hodgins snapped his fingers like he should have seen this ambush coming.

Both men clammed up when they heard a knock at the door. "Come in." Booth called making his voice sound as steady as he could. Hodgins chose to lean on the filing cabinet that was in the back right hand corner of the office.

A second later a striking blonde with long legs and blue eyes came waltzing through the door. "Seeley, I have to say that it was a pleasant surprise when you called me." Rebecca Stinson-Jamison said smiling at her child's father.

Booth took a deep breath he was itching to pull out his gun and shoot her. "Rebecca this isn't a social call this is business." He said firmly.

"What is this about Seeley?" Rebecca asked like she didn't have a clue what was going on.

"You know what this is about Rebecca this is about you having Parker followed." Booth was already dangerously close to loosing his temper he had about eighteen years worth of pent up rage when it came to her.

Rebecca shrugged, "He won't talk to me Seeley I had to do something." She reasoned.

Hodgins snorted, "I wonder why he won't talk to you Rebecca he damn near lived with me and Ange the last two months before Booth and Brennan came home." That felt damn good to him. He had wanted to do that for so long.

Rebecca locked eyes with him but Hodgins wouldn't look away. "I explained that to you then Jack. Parker and Drew didn't get along so I needed someone to watch him."

"Right well no one was watching him that day you didn't pick him up from baseball practice." Hodgins folded his arms over his chest and continued to stare her down.

"I couldn't do it anymore. I had given up my life just to raise him." Rebecca admitted. At least she was woman enough to admit she had been a selfish bitch.

"So that made it alright for you to uproot him? For you to leave him without so much as a goodbye? He cried in his sleep for months. I had to put him in bed with me just so he would know that I wasn't going to leave him during the night. He was so scared that he was going to do something to make me mad and I would leave him just like you did. It took me two years to convince him that there was nothing he could do to make me leave him." Booth asked he kept his tone level but firm. His brown eyes were cold as he stared at her. He knew better than to raise his voice even by a fraction his would really lose his temper if he started yelling.

"Seeley, you didn't have to be there with him everyday I did. He was just this big ball of energy I couldn't get him to go to sleep when I wanted him to and he was one more handful." Rebecca pointed out to him. Those words cut right through Booth he wasn't there for his son as much as he would have liked to be because she wouldn't let him.

"Rebecca, I would have been there for that boy every minute of every day if you would have let me. You were the one who chose to take on all of that by yourself. You're also the one who chose to leave him for a man and the life you wanted. He never gave me one ounce of trouble I guess he just needed his father like I had been trying to tell you for years." Booth didn't back down from her this was his little boy she was messing with. It didn't matter that he was a grown man he would always feel the need to protect Parker because of what she had done to him.

"I can't help but wonder what you want with him now after all these years." Hodgins' words came out as a statement but they all knew it was a question. One that he and Booth had wondered about aloud to each other before setting up this meeting.

"I just want to get to know my son." Rebecca answered honestly.

Booth snorted now. "Rebecca, by having him followed you might be able to learn a few things about him but that's not Parker. You're not getting the real Parker when you do that. You not learning why he does those things are what really goes on in his day to day life. Parker is just such an amazing man and you have no idea what a joy he was to raise. I don't know how to explain him to you he is just a really great guy who makes me so proud."

"Seeley, I just need him to really and truly talk to me once." Rebecca was almost pleading with him.

"Rebecca, I don't know what you're looking for from him but you're not going to get it by having him followed." Hodgins was doing a very good job of being civil considering how he felt about that woman.

Booth knew what she was looking for and he picked a picture he had of Parker in his baseball uniform up off his desk and studied it. "I can give you the facts about Parker Joseph Booth if that makes you feel any better. I can tell you that the kid was a natural born jock. He was the best outfielder that I have ever seen. He was damn good running back and he could play hockey like no tomorrow. I can tell you that he graduated at the top of his class when he was in high school. He got a full ride to the University of Florida to play baseball. Then the football coaches saw him playing around with some of his friends that were on the football team and they got him to juggle both sports while maintaining his perfect academic record. After he graduated college he was commissioned as a Lt. in the Marine Corps where he served four years before coming back home and joining the FBI." He laid out the cold hard facts about his son.

"You must be very proud." Rebecca said not knowing what else to say.

Booth looked her dead in the eyes as he spoke. "His mom and I couldn't be prouder of him if we tried. He is a great older brother. I can also tell you that he was in love once but she broke up with him and he has never gotten over it. Fuck that he still loves her even though he won't admit it to himself. I guess those are all the cold hard facts about Parker. But what you want to know is what exactly is going on in the head of his when he smiles that mischievous smile. Or what exactly he had been doing just before this picture was taken. You want to know the little things that make Parker, Parker but I can't tell you that because you can only find that out by spending time with him." He pointed at different pictures of his son as he spoke.

"I'm his mother Seeley." Rebecca said lamely when he called another woman his mom.

"You may have given birth to him but Bones is his mom. If you even suggest to him that someone else is his mother he will flip out and lose his temper. Becks, you need to leave him alone. You walked away from him you don't have the right to want to be in his life now that he is a grown man. You weren't there for him when he needed you and he doesn't need you now. As a parent you don't get to decide how much of your child's life you get to be there for. You have to commit to them you can't just turn tail and run because the going gets a little tough." Booth lectured.

"I don't know what you want me to say Seeley. I'm his mother he can't change that nor can he change the fact that I love him." Rebecca argued with him.

Hodgins' eyes bulged out of his head when he heard her say that. "If you call walking away from your son love then I don't think I want anyone to love me the way you supposedly love him. If you loved him you wouldn't have left him in a park all alone. Hell you could have at least had the decency to tell him bye. But in the end it was your loss because he turned out to be one hell of a guy. Rebecca, you couldn't be bothered with him when he was a little boy and he doesn't want or need you now. So do all of us a favor and stay the fuck away."

Rebecca's blue eyes filled up with tears. "Fine, I'll give him time. But I really do want to talk to him it's important. I should really get going though because I'm due in court." She said standing up.

"Becks, if only you'd stuck around long enough to talk to me we could have worked something out. I would have gladly taken him more. But now you know how I felt being kept from your child when all you want is to be with them. You used him against me for years. Now he's the one that doesn't want anything to do with you. You might want to think about whose fault that is." Booth advised her before she walked out of his office.

Hodgins cast him a glance. "Well at least neither one of us killed her I suppose that is a good thing." He commented dryly.

"That is a damn good thing." Booth replied sighing.

"I guess we should get to the lab we still have all those bodies to sort out." Hodgins mused.

"Right how could I forget the graveyard that we found on that property? I'm sure Parker is already over there." Booth stood up and grabbed his suit jacket.

Parker was standing on the platform staring off into space while he waited for his mother to get around to examining the bodies they had found. He was startled when he heard someone call out his full name. He turned around and grinned when he saw who it was. It was a young woman about his age with light brown hair and blue eyes. "Alexandra Bishop long time no see." He said as he pulled her into a hug.

"Lex, is just fine Booth." Lex corrected him as she punched him on the shoulder.

"Ow, Lex that shit hurt." Parker complied rubbing the spot where she had hit him.

Lex hit him on the back of the head with her open hand. "Good, I hope that hurt too. You are a real piece of work Booth I can't believe you came back to town without telling me. We have been best friends since we were five and you want to pull shit like that with me."

Parker chuckled at her. "Holy shit, Amy wasn't kidding when she said that you were pissed at me. I don't know how she stands to put up with you."

"Amy loves me unlike some so called friends of mine. I had to find out that you were back from Belle when that was clearly your job." Lex was poking him in the chest with her finger while she spoke.

Parker grabbed her small hand in his larger one. "I'm sorry I messed up I should have told you what was going on. Now did you have a reason for coming here today? I mean aside from assaulting me." he asked sounding highly amused.

Lex smirked at him. "I will have you know that getting to assault you was just a bonus. I am actually here to see your mother."

Parker looked at her confused. "Why do you need to see mom?"

"Because I'm her new intern." Lex reported proudly with a smirk on her face.

Parker put his hand over his face and groaned. "This can't be happening to me it's bad enough that I have the misfortune to be her best friend but now I have to work with her too." He rambled dramatically.

"Ah, Alexandra I see that you found Parker." Brennan announced cheerfully when she walked down on the platform.

"Mom, found is not an accurate description of what she did to me. She beat me if for no other reason than it amused her." Parker whined trying to get some sympathy from his mother.

"Well, you should have told her you were back in town then. She has every right to be mad at you and someone needed to hit you for the stunt you pulled when you fell through the ceiling." Brennan said objectively.

Parker threw his hands up in the air. "This is great my own mother is taking your side. I always knew that she liked you better than she liked me Lex." He pouted.

"That's because I'm an anthropology major and you have a degree in psychology." Lex smirked at him sticking her tongue out.

"Parker, Alexandra is right that does help her case. You chose to study a soft science while she studied a actual hard science." Brennan teased her son by agreeing with his friend who was just like another daughter to her.

Parker scowled at Lex he couldn't stay mad at his mother no matter how hard he tried. "Thanks a lot Lex, now you're getting me lectured on top of everything else. And then you wonder why I didn't tell you I was back in town."

"Parker, I believe that you have work to do." Brennan reminded him really she was just picking on him mercilessly now.

"I can't do my work until a certain forensic anthropologist I know gets to work and gives me a cause of death on the many bodies we found littering that property." Parker pointed out with a charm smile that he knew she couldn't resist.

"Well, then you should probably go tell Wendell to get to work. He is known to drag from time to time this early in the morning." Brennan had gotten good with personal interactions over the years and now she could joke with the best of them.

"I will do no such of a thing, I need him because we have to make the trek back out to the crime scene. And if I learned one thing from my parents when I was growing up it's that you never go out to the crime scene alone if you can help it." Parker pointed out while tapping his temple.

"I don't know what's going to worse for the lab having him and Wendell together all the time or the fact that Lex is your intern and they are going to be working together." Booth chuckled as he walked up on the platform.

"Ah, we're not that bad together Uncle Seeley, at least give me some credit. Besides I'm not really talking to Parker right now so you have nothing to worry about." Lex smiled at him innocently. She and Parker were so close that she called Booth, Uncle Seeley, and Brennan, Aunt Tempe.

"Dad you knew that Lex was going to be working here and you didn't tell me?" Parker asked in disbelief.

Booth arched his eyebrow at his son. "Oh, I see that someone doesn't like it when he's kept out of the loop. Maybe he'll think about that the next time he decides to keep something big from his parents." He ribbed his son.

Parker put up his hands in a sign of surrender. "Ok, I get it dad, I should have told you and mom about the FBI and I'm eternally sorry. I won't let anything like that happen ever again. And Lex I hope that you'll find it in your heart to be able to forgive me for not telling you that I was back in town." He apologized to all three people. He knew that they wouldn't let up on him until he did.

"Thank you for that Booth I know how hard it was for you. I can't remember the last time you said you were wrong." Lex really knew how to push his buttons it was the kind of information she had gleaned from spending most of her life as his friend.

Parker glared at her playfully. " I never said that I was wrong I said I was sorry there is a huge difference between the two." He corrected her.

"Trust me Booth, that was you saying that you were wrong about something. It doesn't happen often so when it does I tend to enjoy it more than I should." Lex argued back.

Parker rolled his deep brown eyes. "Don't you Squints have work that you should be doing?" he asked wanting to change the subject.

Brennan grew serious now. "He's right we do have work to be doing. Alexandra you are more than welcome to join me in examining the bodies that we have or you may help Hodgins with his work."

"I think that I should probably ease my way into working with bodies so if it is alright with you I will assist Dr. Hodgins." Lex replied.

Brennan nodded her head. "That is more than fine with me, although I will tell you that Hodgins is a lot to take in on the first day."

"I'm sure that he's harmless, I'll be able to handle him just fine." Lex assured her.

Booth rolled his eyes. "Another one that knows how to speak Squint I don't know what this world is coming to." He sighed dramatically.

"The world is becoming a wonderful place since I have FBI agents that actually understand that collecting evidence and finding answers from it is a long process that can't be hurried along." Brennan really zinged him good it didn't happen often but when it did Booth just didn't know what to say to his wife.

"Mom, in all fairness I was raised in this lab. Dad has to learn as he goes." Parker gave his father a Booth charm smile to soften the blow of that comment.

"Don't give me that grin Bub, I perfected that look." Booth chided him but he couldn't help smiling back at him.

"Ah, come on dad I was merely stating facts they're a big fan of the facts around here. I can't help it that you raised me to be honest." Parker said fixing a mock pout on his face.

"I also raised you to take my side over your mother's. I swear you are nothing more than a Squint with a badge." Booth said shaking his head at his son.

"That one hurt a little dad I'm not going to lie about it. Now come on let's leave them to examining the bodies and the bugs. We have good old fashioned police work to do, or at least that is what I have to do. Wendell and I are going to head back out to the crime scene and see what can find out there." Parker told his father.

"Bub, be careful out there you never know what you're going to find. I don't want you getting surprised." Booth cautioned his son.

"I promise I'll be careful dad you just worry too much." Parker assured him as he went off in search of Wendell.

A/N: Here is the next chapter. I'm so sorry that it took me this long to get it out my muse just left me on this one for awhile. But it's back now and I'm going to work on getting this out faster. Thanks for sticking with me.