I'd like to mention that Lynne's character is dedicated to and based on my best and truest friend in the whole world. ily!!

The next morning, Maddy walked into Lynne's office, plopped down on the couch, and groaned.

"Rough night?" The brunette asked without looking up from what she was doing.

"In more ways than you know." Maddy replied.

"I feel your pain...at least in theory." Lynne commiserated.

Maddy looked over at what her friend was doing. She was intently focused on rearranging the tiny figures that adorned one end of her desk. They were her vast collection of Winnie the Pooh figurines that she had acquired over the years. She had at least one of every character in any style you could think of. There were vintage Roos, gold plated Piglets, plush Poohs, ceramic Christopher Robins, contemporary heffalumps, sterling silver Tiggers, and a multitude of others.

"Having fun?" Maddy asked said with a smirk.

"I'm trying to figure out the best way to place them. At first I had them in order by style, but that was too obvious. Then I separated them by character in alphabetical order. Then by order of appearance in the show. But none of those seemed fair to them, they're all too orderly." She turned silent now and stared at them. Maddy picked up one of the many up to date fashion magazines that were always in stock in this particular office and began to flip through it. The pages that weren't taken over by advertisements were filled with super skinny models in whatever crazy fashion the designers had recently come up with or teenage wannabe models in their mall-rat versions of the real divas' outfits. She was in a rather foul mood and everything was annoying her today. She threw down the magazine in disgust and started snapping the hair tie on her wrist, a habit that she had picked up from Jack.

"I think I'll disperse them amongst each other, creating the most likely groupings depending on the characters' relationships." Lynne stated. "Yes, that's what I'll do."

Maddy took the hair tie and flicked like a sling shot and watched it bounce off her friend's head. Lynne unglued her eyes from her formation and glared.

"Well you're feeling cheering today, aren't you?"

She was answered with another groan.

"Where's Owen?"

Maddy sighed and cursed the world for making talking take so much effort this morning. "Jack has him."

Using her great persuasive and people skills and good reputation with her boss, she had convinced Dr. Brennan to let her bring Owen to work with her. It had taken quite a bit of persuasion too. All of her friends had back her up though, so eventually Dr. Brennan gave in and allowed Owen a two week trial. This worked out perfectly, because when Maddy brought her son to meet her boss, he liked her enough to give her his million dollar smile. Lynne called it his charm smile. She said that he got it from Booth, and even Maddy had to agree. It wasn't the smile exactly that showed the part of his daddy in him, because his smile was definitely from Sophie; it was the look that he got in his chocolate brown eyes, which were also from his daddy.

Maddy's office was different from Lynne's because it was also Owen's. It had a mini fridge for baby food, a high chair, a play pen which doubled as a crib, and a couple of boxes filled with toys and books. It also had two bookshelves, plenty of drawing materials, the comfiest couch that she and Lynne could find out of all of furniture stores in D.C., and of course the usual office furniture. All of which was baby proofed.

Owen always behaved very well at work. In between meals and breaks, he usually played on the floor next to wherever Maddy was. All of her coworkers were used to absentmindedly working their way around him. No one complained, except for Camille. She constantly made snide comments about him being distracting and how he should be at daycare, and one day she made the mistake of making a complaint to Dr. Brennan. When she explained all her reasons of why having him there was unsuitable, Brennan simply replied coolly that Maddy was a very important part of the team there at the Jeffersonian and that if she said that Owen couldn't stay then Maddy would leave, herego she would be jeopardizing the Jeffersonian's success over a small trifle of forbidding an infant to come there who caused very little disturbance at all. Now Camille kept her comments to herself for the most part, but never spared Maddy if she happened to be nearby when made one of those rude remarks. Everyone else gladly chipped in to help with the baby, for which Maddy was very thankful.

Four hours later; lunch break...

As the clock struck 11:30, Maddy pushed up from the table she was working at and asked if anyone wanted her to pick up coffee for them on the way back from her lunch. Everyone replied yes, which meant that they wanted their usual drinks. She nodded and strapped Owen into his stroller, stuffing a few containers of baby food into the bottom compartment.

Maddy picked up a salad to go and took it to a park that she often went to. She and Owen sat at a picnic table and enjoyed their food in the sunshine. It was a beautiful day out and she was finally starting to enjoy it. After clearing up after herself, she pushed Owen's stroller over to the nearest Starbucks.

The mother and son waited over to the side for the barista to make their drinks. In under two minutes he produced two hot chocolates with extra chocolate, for Lynne and Maddy; extra strength black coffee, for Zach; a hazelnut espresso for Jack; and a sugar cookie, for Owen. The baby gnawed on this gratefully. Just as she turned around to go out the door, a man ran right into her, spilling his lidless cup of coffee all over her. They both swore with the same word at the exact same time. Maddy glanced up to see his face.

It was Seeley Booth.

The two ex lovers just stared at each other for atleast twenty seconds, then Seeley's eyes landed on Owen, then back to Maddy. Finally her senses came back to her. She blinked and then did what she should have done eighteen months ago. She raised her hand and slapped him square across the face, and took Owen and walked out.