Seems like people are more positive than negative about the flashbacks. :)

But you don't need to worry, there won't be many more of them, I know everyone wants the story moving forward…

I also know everyone wants Parker to hate Hannah, well… it's not exactly like that, but I hope you like the way it is…

It was fun to write it. ;)


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"Hi, I'm Parker." The blonde little boy greeted Hannah with an excited grin on his face. Booth picked him up at school and went directly to Hannah's work to get her. "Are you my dad's girlfriend?"

"Yes, I'm Hannah. It's very nice to meet you, Parker." She said, enchanted by the boy's enthusiasm. She was a bit scared about what his reaction would be like. After all, she was the woman marrying his father and she knew every kid wanted their parents to be together. Booth assured her it wouldn't happen with Parker, since when he was born he and Rebecca were already separated, the boy was used to the idea of their parents not sharing the same roof. But still, she was afraid.

"You're pretty." He smiled and Hannah noticed he definitely inherited his father's charm. "But not as pretty as Bones, though. You don't have her blue eyes. She has the most amazing eyes, right, Dad?"

Booth's face changed from completely white to bright pink in a matter of five seconds. He couldn't believe Parker just said that.

"I think Hannah's eyes are very beautiful, bub." He said, hoping his kid would stop bringing Brennan to the conversation. He would meet her later that day, he didn't have the opportunity to leave the FBI during the morning and sent Brennan a message telling her he would meet her for lunch.

"They are, but they are green and not blue like Bones'." Parker explained.

Hannah noticed Booth lied when he said Dr. Brennan only allowed him to call her Bones. Apparently, the little Booth boy called her that as well.

"You like Dr. Brennan a lot?" Hannah forced a smile.

"I like her a whole lot." He spread his arms as to demonstrate how much he liked Brennan. "She's so cool and beautiful and she helps me all the time with my science homework. She's the smartest person we know, isn't she, Dad?" Parker asked his father.

Booth inhaled and exhaled slowly. It wasn't in his plans to have Bones as the main subject of their conversation on Parker's first meeting with Hannah.

"Yes, Bones is very smart." Booth agreed uncomfortably. "Why don't you tell Hannah about your science project?"

"I made a skeleton with clay. Mom helped me and I got second place in the science fair at school. I can't wait to tell Bones. I think she'll be proud of me." The boy said excitedly and Booth wondered what was with his son today that he just couldn't stop talking about his partner.

He didn't know why his son was acting like that. Maybe it was because he was so used to have Brennan around them every time and somehow felt Hannah was an intruder in their life? Since Rebecca and Booth never got married, Brennan was the closest thing Parker had to a step-mother. Booth couldn't deny she acted pretty much like his step-mother, helping him with the homework, going out with them on the weekends, having meals at the diner, taking Parker to amusement parks… It never passed though his mind that the boy would keep comparing Brennan to Hannah.

Hell, he had to do one damn good job to not compare them all the time. Not that he would ever admit it to anyone.

"Will we go to the lab to meet her for lunch, Dad? You promised we would." Parker pouted.

"Yes, Parker. We'll go there."

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"BONES!" Brennan was startled by the excited scream. She was examining some bones from the limbo while Booth didn't show up there with a case.

She turned around and opened a delighted smiled when she saw the little blonde boy running with opened arms towards her.

"Parker!" She chuckled and bent down a little to hug him back when he threw his arms around her. "Oh my God! Your father wasn't lying when he told me you grew quite a lot in this past year."

"I'm ten, now." Parker said proudly and straightened up his body, as if that would make him look even taller. "I missed you, Bones. I'm glad you're back." He said with that adorable smile of his and his eyes sparkling. Brennan couldn't help imagining if Tommy would grow up to be as cute as his older brother.

"I missed you too, Parker." She said touched by the kid's words.

"I wanted to send you a letter, but Dad told me you were in the middle of a jungle in the Mapoopoo Islands and probably you wouldn't get it." He told her. "Was it cool there? Did you see any monkeys, and snakes and huuuuge lions?"

"I was at the Maluku Islands." Brennan told him and smiled at the boy's excitement. "And yes, I've seen some monkeys and even held a snake, but there aren't any lions there at the island. Most of them live at savannas in Africa."

"Or at the zoo." He added.

"Or at the zoo." Brennan chuckled and nodded. She missed him so much.

"So you held a snake? That's cool." Parker looked at her with admiration in his eyes. "Did my Dad tell you about my science project?"

"No, we didn't have a lot of time to talk when we met briefly at the mall last week. What was it about?" Brennan asked genuinely interested. One of the things that made Parker like her so much was the fact that unlikely most of the adults, she didn't talk to him differently because he was a kid.

"I made a skeleton with clay. I got second place in the fair, Mom helped me doing it. I'm sure I would have gotten first if you were here to help me, though." He smiled.

"Second place is pretty awesome." Brennan told him. "Congratulations!"

"Parker! Oh my God, is that really you? You grew like, three feet in this past year!" Angela commented when she saw the little boy talking with Brennan.

"Hi, Angela!" He hugged the artist. "Mom said that if I keep growing this fast she'll only buy me two shirts every three months, because I'm losing them all."

"You came here alone?" Angela asked and looked around trying to find Booth. She doubted Parker had driven himself to the Jeffersonian.

Brennan's shocked face answered her question. Following her friends gaze, she saw Booth passing throw the automatic glass door with a blonde woman following him from behind.

"Parker! I've already told you tons of times to not run around here in the Jeffersonian!" Booth reprehended the boy and approached the platform. "I don't want you running into a squint and make him overthrow whatever it is he's carrying. You never know what that might be."

He felt his heart flipping when he saw Brennan standing there next to his boy wearing her lab coat and with her hair tied up in a ponytail, the way he saw her many times before. It was almost like he was having a déjà vu and that entire year they spent apart had never happened.

"I just really, really wanted to see Bones, Dad." Parker pouted and bumped Brennan with his shoulder before taking her hand. Brennan always went in his defense when his father was angry with him.

"Hey, there, Stud!" Angela decided to step in and get a better view of the blonde standing next to Booth and looking slightly scared. "You're looking very good." She touched his upper arm and squeezed it.

"Hi, Angela." Booth chuckled. "This is Hannah Burley, my fiancée."

"Fiancée, hmm?" She smiled and eyed the woman up and down. She was beautiful, she couldn't deny it. Good. Another good reason to hate her, she decided. Brennan was standing behind her, holding Parker's hand while trying to decide what to say. "I'm Angela Montenegro." She reached out her hand to the woman and opened a fake smile. "I hope you didn't mind my little reception here for Booth. I'm just like that. But you don't need to worry, I'm married." She showed her left hand to Hannah and waved her fingers showing her wedding band.

"There's no problem." Hannah smiled. "Seeley told me about all his squint friends from the lab."

"Aw, that's sweet." Angela sighed and brought a hand to the heart.

"Hey, Hannah! Come up here and meet Bones." Parker jumped up and down trying to catch his father's fiancée attention. Brennan held a breath when all the eyes in the room turned to look at her. "Doesn't she have the most beautiful eyes?"

Booth wanted to disappear from the face of Earth and Brennan felt all the blood in her body running up to her cheeks.

"Yes, Parker, you were right." Hannah agreed with a yellow smile. What else could she say? And the woman had indeed stunning blue eyes. "I'm Hannah Burley. You must be Dr. Brennan."

"Y- Yes." Brennan managed to say and reached her hand to shake Hannah's.

"It's really nice to meet you. Seeley talked a lot about you." She said, trying to be friendly. That woman looked intimidating without even trying. She decided she didn't want her antipathy.

"It's nice to meet you too." Brennan said. Liar.

"Will you be able to have lunch with us, Bones?" Booth asked.

"I- I'm not sure." Brennan tried to think of an excuse to get away from that. Having lunch with Booth and the blonde journalist wasn't on the top of her list of the things she wanted to do before she died. "I still have to finish identifying these remains."

"Oh, come on, Bren, that guy is dead for centuries. He can wait." Angela said. "I bet you guys have a lot to talk about." She added suggestively and Brennan felt an urge to jump on her friend's throat for that innuendo.

"I really don't know-" She tried.

"Why don't I take Booth, Parker and Hannah for a walk around the Jeffersonian while you finish with that dude? There's this new exhibition and I've heard it's amazing." Angela said. "Then you guys can meet here later and go have your lunch."

"Yes! You'll love the museum, Hannah! It's the coolest place! Sometimes Bones take me to the dinosaurs' wing after the visiting hours are over. It's awesome!" Parker said excitedly. "She even let me touch some of the bones, as long as I don't tell anyone about it, because we are not supposed to touch them." He murmured the last part and Hannah started to get annoyed by the boy's adoration for Dr. Brennan. Maybe she was wrong at first when she thought she should worry about him not liking her because he wanted his father to be with his mother. The way things looked, it was Dr. Brennan the one who got the boy's affection.

"Is that okay for you?" Booth asked Brennan, both still uncomfortable around each other.

He hated that.

"Yeah, sure. I think that is acceptable." Brennan nodded her head agreeing. It was not like she could get away now that Angela put her in that trap.

She would have a little talk with her about that later.

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When Angela, the Booth boys and the journalist came back to the platform, Brennan wasn't there anymore. Looking at her office, they realized she wasn't back there either as all the lights in the room were turned off.

She ran away, Angela narrowed her eyes.

Wendell was standing where they left Brennan just half an hour before and finishing the forensic anthropologist's work.

"Wendell, where is Brennan?" Angela asked the intern.

"Dr. Brennan received a call about fifteen minutes ago and she seemed pretty worried when she hung up." He told the artist, his eyebrows knitted in a confused expression. He was completely surprised by his mentor's reaction when she hung up her cell phone. Without any word, she went back to her office, took her coat and purse and just told him to tell Angela where she was going. "She asked me to tell you she'd go to see Thomas." Who that person was, he had no idea. He wouldn't be the one to ask Dr. Brennan about it. It was none of his business. "I never saw Dr. Brennan leaving work like that, she didn't even bother to put the bones back to the boxes."

Angela swallowed at the mention of her godson. Booth's fast instincts quickly caught the unfamiliar name.

He knew better than anyone only something really big would make Brennan leave all her work behind without think twice about it. Whoever that guy was, he must have been someone really important.

"Thomas?" He narrowed his eyebrows and looked at Angela. "Who's Thomas?"