Temperance
"Hey." He said walking to where I sat in the Royal Diner, "This place has the best pie!" He sat down on the other side of the booth. I guess he saw the disgust in my face because he asked me if I ' like pie.'
"No. I don't like my fruit cooked." His smile was devilish.
"Their pie is really good. You sure you don't want just a little piece.
"Yeah."
"So, what do you do when you aren't vacationing?" He looked very interested in me and my life.
"I'm a doctor at Sibley memorial."
"That's cool. How long have you been a doctor?"
"A while. I worked at the hospital for six years now."
"Wow. That's pretty cool." I felt weird talking about me so much. The guys I was usually with always talked about themselves. I think they just wanted to show off their masculinity and try to impress me but it never worked.
"What work do you do?"I wanted to learn about him. I already knew just about everything about myself.
"I'm an FBI agent. That's why I moved here. I lived in Philly with my family and after my brother got married he lived with my parents. I wasn't needed so I found a job with the FBI. Now my parents live with my aunt." We talked for over two hours.
"I've got to get back to work now. I didn't realize how long we have been here."
"Yeah I need to go too. I have to pick Eva up from school." We had seen each other much of the next two weeks, usually during school."
Booth
I wanted Tempe to meet Eva. I had grown very fond of Temperance and I hoped maybe she could start coming over. We had planned she would come over today at six. I picked Eva up from school a little earlier than she got out. I put her in her booster seat and we were off to go.
"Today you're going to meet a very special friend of mine. Her name is Temperance Brennan."
"Temperance?"
"Yep. She's really happy to finally be meeting you. She's been waiting."
"How does she know about me?"
"Well.. Remember at the DMV?"She nodded her head, "Well she held you while you were sleeping and I've been talking to her about you." She looked confused.
"Are you going to marry her?" I laughed but her cute little face was still scrunched.
"I don't know. Maybe." She turned her head to look outside. It was amazing how strong she was, I knew she missed her parents and nobody in the family could relate to her except my parents. But my parents didn't lose theirs until they were older so nobody knew how it felt to lose both parents at such a young age. I knew she hurt because she would have nightmares about her parents death. Many nights I hear her calling to them saying, "Mommy! Daddy! Don't go. Stay home!" I try and think of all the pain I feel, inside her little body. I don't know how she does it. When we got back to the apartment Eva started some homework and I cleaned up and got things ready for Tempe to come over. When everything was ready and Eva was done with her homework we watched some cartoons, not those lame cartoons they have now. We watched boomerang, all the shows I used to watch.
Eva
I was really excited to meet my daddy's friend. When it was 5:30 I went into my room to get ready. I was in school clothes but I wanted to look really pretty. I got my stool from the bathroom and looked at the dresses in my closet. I had a lot of pretty ones. I decided on my new one I had just gotten for church. It was white with a blue floral pattern and a dark blue tie that made a bow in the back. I picked out my white tights and my and a pair of white church shoes. Then I looked in the mirror. I looked just like my mom. I remember playing with her curls but now they were mine. I did have my real dad's nose and mouth though. I put a blue bow in my hair, holding it past my ear. It really made my blue eyes stand out. I walked into the kitchen. Uncle Seeley, or Daddy now, was ordering food. Probably Thai or Pizza.
"Thank you, bye." He hung up the phone, "You look very pretty. Come here." I curtsied and ran to him. He picked me up and gave me a tight hug.
"I love you." He whispered in my ear.
"I love you too Daddy." I was starting to get used to calling him daddy. Sometimes I almost called him Daddy Seeley. My arms were wrapped tight around his neck and I was really happy. When I was with Uncle Seeley it made my heart hurt less. It was at that moment the doorbell rang. He put me down and I ran to answer it. I unlocked it and pulled the door open. I looked up. She was so pretty. She reminded me of my mom. She had the same color hair and eyes.
"I'm Eva." She gave me a smile and bent down.
"Hello Eva. I'm Temperance." She held her hand out and I shook it. I anted to hug her but she might think it was weird, "You look very pretty."
"Thank you. He's never had a girl over so I thought you must be special. I've actually never seen him date before." I whispered. She seemed to take that.
We went and sat on the couch. Then we all sat talking. I sat right next to her on the couch. I really liked her. She talked to me a lot and Daddy talked a little. When the food guy got there Daddy answered the door. He brought the food into the kitchen. It was a lot! I don't think I'd ever seen so much food in my life!
"I didn't know what you like so I got some of everything at the Thai place."
"Thank you." The pretty lady thanked him. We sat at the table eating. I had a piece of chicken and I bit into it and pulled out a bone.
"Ugh. I thought they pulled the bones out." She took the bones from me.
"That's the corucoid."
"You know the bones names. Do you know my bones names?"
"Yeah. I studied bone structures throughout high school. They are pretty cool. I know the bone structure of just about every animal."
"That's awesome. What's this bone?" I asked pointing to my bone right above my dress by my neck.
"That is your clavicle." I couldn't help but to grin. I talked the rest of the night with her. Mostly about bones. Then my daddy said it was getting late and I should probably be getting ready for bed. I went and showered and I got ready by myself. I brushed my hair and everything! When I came out The bones lady was still there. Her and Uncle Seeley were talking very close. They were talking into each others eyes! I decided to go up and talk to them too. I crawled under the table behind bones lady and crawled onto the chair. I popped my head up right next to theirs. I don't know why but they moved away. Daddy was rubbing his neck and bones lady's face turned red.
"I'm going to go put her to bed." Daddy smiled at bones lady.
"You know what. It's getting late. I think I'm just going to go home." Bones lady grabbed her purse and gave my daddy a kiss on the cheek and he gave her one too. Then she left and I was brought to bed. He got a book from my bookcase and began reading A Fly Went By. He was really good at reading to me. When he was done he put the book back on the shelf and tucked me into bed.
"Hey Daddy. When is the bones lady going to come over again?" His eyebrows jumped when I asked that.
"Bones lady?" He laughed. I just nodded, "I'm not sure. Soon hopefully."
"Alright. Well night. I love you."
"I love you too."
AN: I thought it might be interesting to see from Eva's point of view. I hope you all enjoy. Please Review!!!
