More Beautiful Days
By Meekerprincess9778
Ch 4
Booth and Parker spent the morning at the park. They went back to his apartment and got showers. They were both looking very nice when they went to pick up Bones for lunch. To Booth's surprise, he saw Wendell beside Bones on the platform.
"Hey, Bones, is it safe for me and Parker to come up?" He asked, not wanting Parker to see a rotting corpse.
"It is just a skeleton. If you are not opposed to that, come on up. If you are, I can come down." She knew he wanted to protect his son as much as possible. He was very concerned when Parker found that finger in the nest.
"I think he will be okay, won't you, Bub?" He asked Parker.
"Oh, cool, I want to see a skeleton!" He was excited.
"You have to listen to Bones, though." Booth warned him.
"I promise, I will." He was so happy. This was like a little boy's dream.
Wendell kept his comments to himself. That is why he was there in the first place.
"Hi, Bones. Hi, Wendell." Parker was happy to see them both.
"Hey Bones, where's Daisy?" Booth had been wondering.
"She couldn't keep her own personal space and kept talking incessantly. I had to let her go. I was fortunate enough to get a hold of Wendell on a Sunday afternoon." Cam and Hodgins came up to the platform and started laughing.
"What she means is, Daisy wouldn't stop talking about how you two walked arm in arm last night. It drove us all nuts until Dr. B finally fired her loudly." Hodgins smirked.
"Oh, I see." Booth tried to keep quiet about last night.
"Parker, can you tell me any bones you know?" Brennan asked the boy. She handed him a pair of gloves and he showed her what he knew. Booth was actually surprised. He knew most of the arm and legs bones.
"That is excellent, Parker. Perhaps Dr. Hodgins would be nice enough to show you some of his bugs in the Ookey room?" Brennan looked to Hodgins. Parker's eyes lit up.
"Yeah, Parker, come this way. I will show you a lot of cool stuff." Hodgins had his arm around Parker.
Cam was surprised to see how Dr. Brennan and the staff as a whole were relating to Parker being in the lab. She was guessing she was the only person who had a small problem with it. It was one thing to have Parker in the after school program. But he was on the platform. She wasn't sure it was appropriate.
"Booth, I think that she died in an accident. However, she died on federal property, and we still should identify next of kin. Wendell should have the skull ready for Angela to start tomorrow. Wendell, do you have any questions for me before I go to lunch?" She looked to her student.
"No, Dr. Brennan." He smiled at them both.
"Okay, please don't work too long without taking a break for yourself. Thank you again for coming in on such short notice." She smiled at Wendell.
They started to go toward the Ookey room when Cam asked Brennan to see her in Cam's office. Booth went on to see Hodgins and Parker.
"What can I do for you, Dr. Saroyan?" She asked her boss.
"Do you think it is appropriate to have Parker up on the platform?" She asked the doctor.
"It was an accident victim. Parker wore gloves. She was all bones, no flesh. Booth approved of it. Parker is old enough not to hurt the equipment. I didn't see the harm. Is there something that I did wrong?" She honestly wasn't sure if she did anything wrong.
"It's just that he's a little kid. He shouldn't be on the platform." Cam advised.
"Most children his age, I would agree with you. However, Parker is special. He listens and observes incredibly well. He takes direction well. He is not a risk to the equipment in the lab. Even if something broke, I would pay for it personally. I think I will be taking the afternoon off. Goodbye." She made her point clear.
"Bones, come on, we aren't going to beat the lunch rush at this rate." Booth said, hearing only the last half of the conversation. She nodded to him. She got her coat and satchel. She stopped at the platform.
"Wendell, I will be taking the rest of the afternoon off. If you have a question, though; call me." She made it clear. Booth was behind her shaking his head "no" the whole time. Parker joined in.
"No problem, Dr. Brennan." Wendell smiled as Brennan turned around as Booth and Parker tried to pretend they weren't shaking their heads. He let out a little laugh.
"Bones, there were so many different bugs in that Ookey room. Dr. Jack was showing me a lot of different ones." Parker took her hand and the three of them left the Jeffersonian.
They were in the SUV when Booth asked what the conversation with Cam was about. She said that she didn't want to talk about it. Booth knew that Bones was defending Parker for something, but he didn't know what.
They went to the diner to eat. Sweets was sitting there, by himself. There weren't any other tables, with it being a busy Sunday. Sweets looked up and saw them. "Hey, you guys can join me." Booth and Brennan looked at each other like they had no choice now. Parker sat down across from Sweets.
"Bones, sit next to me please." Parker asked. Brennan smiled and Booth sat across from her, next to Sweets. Sweets folded up his paper.
"What are you doing here all by yourself on a weekend, Sweets? Don't you have a girlfriend?" Booth teased the young psychologist. Brennan cringed. She spent half the morning working with his girlfriend and she was very tired of that subject.
"We had a slight argument after she came home this morning." Sweets looked down. It just occurred to both of them that Sweets probably defended Brennan.
"I am sorry, Dr. Sweets. There is only so much a person can handle." Brennan apologized.
"What are you apologizing for, Bones?" Parker asked.
"I had to fire Dr. Sweets' girlfriend this morning. It makes things uncomfortable sometimes. That is why I said I was sorry." Parker accepted this answer.
"Why was she fired?" Parker asked.
Booth couldn't believe his son kept up with this line of questioning. Brennan thought for a moment. "Do you know when people keep talking so much and you can't concentrate on anything?" He nodded. "She did that. She also kept talking about inappropriate topics; things you shouldn't talk about at work."
Before they knew it, food was on the table. Much to Booth's surprise, Parker ordered his pancakes with strawberries instead of chocolate chips.
