Booth POV
It's impossible! How could she be our daughter? The thoughts were buzzing around in my head like bees.
"How old are you?" It was my turn to ask for answers.
Anabell looked toward me and smiled. "I'm fifteen. But that's not the point." She was poised on the rail of the walkway, as if about to jump over it and fall to the ground.
"Then what is the point?" There goes Bones being….well, Bones.
"Maybe I should come down there…it would be easier to talk." God, they sound alike.
As quick as lightning, Anabell grabbed the rail and hopped over it, jumping off of the twenty foot off the ground walkway. Landing with a practiced perfection and almost cat-like grace, we finally stood face to face. She has Bones's eyes. I could get lost in them….
"As I told you before, my name is Anabell Christine Brennan-Booth and I'm your fifteen-year-old daughter. Anything else?" She definitely got some of Bones's personality. Direct and to the point.
"Of course there is something else! How can you be our daughter? We don't have any children together….yet anyways."
"There is a perfectly good explanation for this. I'm from the future and I'm what they would call 'gifted'."
What? Maybe she's just some wacko. But those eyes, that face, that personality….she has to be ours!
"Who are they?" I said, warily.
She visibly shivered, looking as if she was seeing a ghost. "They are a group called the O.C.E." She paused, looking visibly shaken. "The Order of Chimera Elimination."
Bones looked confused. "Chimera? As in the mythical beast? Why would there be an organization for their extermination when they don't exist?"
"Oh wow, mom. You have no clue just how wrong you are." She said with a grin, slowly shaking her head. Bones just looked at her like she was crazy. The grin faltered. "Oh, so you want proof?"
The grin was back. As soon as it appeared it was gone, replaced with a look of pure concentration. Her form changed; she grew black, shaggy dog-like ears standing straight up. She grew a long fluffed out tail and her eyes turned an almost impossible shade of icy blue. Large wings sprouted from her back; they were the color of an oil slick, with soft looking feathers.
OK. This is starting to get a little weird.
"This is who I am. I am a chimera. And, in the future, so are you guys." Anabell looked sincere.
"Chimeras do not exist!" Bones shouted at her. Anabell didn't respond to her outburst, she had her eyes focused on something beyond Bones and me. Her expression shifted; now she looked agitated.
Her voice took on a demanding tone. "What are you doing here? I thought Mom and Dad told you that you were not to follow me?"
A new voice responded,"Hey, I can't let my little sister go back and get herself killed, now can I? And I thought that Mom and Dad. "
I was stunned. That voice….. I turned around and was faced with a strikingly familiar face. "Parker?"
