This onbe is a little different to my usual chappies of this story ... each line is one end of a phonecall from Booth to Bones. Enjoy!
The phone was ringing ...
"Booth?"
"Bones..."
"Not that I'm not glad to hear from you but ... what the hell are you calling me for? It's my day off!"
"Yer...about that ..."
"No, I am not coming in the ID a body today."
"But..."
"I know. I love my job. Usually I would be there at the falling of the hat but I really need today off."
"It's drop of the hat, Bones. And I know you need today off but ..."
"My apartment is a mess. I really need to tidy up, label some boxes, alphabetize my CDs, oil some squeaky hinges."
"Sounds like lots of fun but I was wondering if ..."
"Wait, isn't it your day off too? Weren't you telling me that Parker was coming over?"
"He is over. Or he is here with me at ..."
"You know, Booth, you really need to learn to get to the point on the phone. I still have no idea why you called."
"That because you keep butting in. I can't get on sentence finished because ..."
"Oh, that's right. Blame it on me."
"I'm not trying to blame ..."
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not. I was just asking if ..."
"I'm going to hang up the phone now. When you call back, I expect an apology."
"Bones! Wait!"
"What?"
"I need a favour. Could you ..."
"This had better be good, Booth."
"It is. I was wondering if you could come and pick Parker and I up from the hospital. I ..."
"THE HOSPITAL!"
"Yes. You see ..."
"Did you get captured and tortured again? You seem to have a habit of doing that, don't you?"
"No, Bones, nothing like that..."
"Well, what happened?"
"You know how Parker was over, right ..."
"Of course. It was all you talked about yesterday."
"Yes, well, he was getting ready for a big day at the park when he accidently ..."
"Oh, what did he do? Something bad or daft? That child's exactly like you, I swear."
"Well, yeah, Bones. He's my kid. What did you expect? Anyway ..."
"Technically, he's only half your kid. Only half of his chromosomes are from you."
"Thank you, Bones, for that interesting science lesson. Not that I really need it. What I need is ..."
"Are you ever going to tell me how you ended up in the hospital?"
"I was! You started going on about chromosomes and I ..."
"Yeah, okay, I get it. Continue your story, please."
"So Parker was in his room and he accidently locked the door and couldn't get out. He's only four so he couldn't understand that the locks on my doors and different to the locks on the doors at his mother's house. So..."
"Does this have anything to do with how you ended up in the hospital?"
"YES! So I was trying to explain how to unlock the door when Parker started to get a little frightened by the fact that he was gunna be locked in his room for the rest of his life. So I started to work the lock, like I taught you – with a credit card, right. And then ..."
"Wait, I thought you said the "black ops" stuff you taught me was for use only when I really needed it because the American government would rather it didn't get out that their Rangers were taught how to break into places and such. Maybe there is something to Hodgins' conspiracy theories."
"Bones! I had to get my son out of there. He was getting scared and ..."
"Scared from what? His Spiderman bedspread?"
"Haha, Bones. So I was in the process of picking the lock when Parker finally remembered that 'you had to turn the little metal thing to unlock the door'..."
"The 'little metal thing?"
"His words, not mine. Anyway, he swings open the door and knocks me unconscious..."
"Wow. He must have pushed it open very hard."
"Maybe he was trying to punish it for locking him in ..."
"Of course. Because that's how you pay back a door."
"So when I'm knocked unconscious by my door, Parker does what any four-year-old boy does. Calls the ambulance..."
"How embarrassing."
"Thanks, Bones. I woke up here ten minutes go, with no car, no money for a cab, a distraught son and a large bruise on my forehead. I could barely convince the nurse to lend me a dollar for the pay phone..."
"And you want me to come pick you up, right?"
"Yes, please."
"Fine. Be there in ten minutes."
"Wow, Bones. You just let me finish a full sentence. I said 'yes, please' and you didn't..."
He was listening to a dial tone
So, whatcha think? I'm gunna post it as a oneshot too cause it's kina unique:D
