Rebecca loaded Parker in the car. School had just ended and now she was going to drop Parker off at the lab. After driving the distance, and getting passed security, Rebecca approached Brennan's office. She wasn't looking forward to seeing Brennan again, not completely sure what she now thought of her, but she could be nice, and respect her.

"Angela!" Parker called, he pulled his hand out of his mother's. "I'm gonna go see her!" He announced and ran off before Rebecca could say anything. Returning to the task at hand, informing both Seeley and Dr. Brennan that Parker had arrived, Rebecca knocked, softly, on the door, and opened it.

She wasn't prepared for what she saw.

Though she, like the rest of the planet, had always believed that Booth and Brennan would someday be something more, barely any of them had believed that it would actually happen. Rebecca was of the second group, and now, seeing Brennan sitting on her desk, lip-locked with Seeley, was startling.

Rebecca coughed, since the otherwise engaged couple didn't seem to notice her. The pair jumped apart, almost guiltily.

"Hello Rebecca." Seeley said.

Somehow, this didn't seem enough. "When did you get together?" Rebecca asked.

"A few days ago," Booth told her. He wondered why they were even having this conversation, he had never done this to Rebecca when she had a new man, and she'd never done it when he'd had another girlfriend.

"Is that why Parker called her Mom? Did you two put him up to it?"

"No!" Booth cried, how could she even think that? He looked to Bones, who was strangely silent, but she'd slid off her desk and logged onto her computer, ignoring the battling ex's.

"How can I trust you? How can I take your word for it?" Rebecca demanded, bringing Booth's thoughts back to her, instead of the usually vocal Bones.

"You know me Rebecca, that's how. Besides, we weren't even together when Parker said it."

Someone knocked on the door, and Zack appeared, Parker hanging off of his back. "Did someone lose something?" He asked, as Parker slid down.

"Dr. Zack is so cool. He and Dr. Jack were building this . . . thing and then it went BOOM!" Parker yelled.

Brennan suddenly spun around, eyes on her intern. "Did Cam approve?"

Zack shook his head.

"Did I approve?"

Zack shook his head.

Brennan stood up. "Excuse me. I have an entomologist to talk to."

"Ento-what?" Parker asked, attempting to follow her and Zack out the door.

Rebecca reached out and snared her son around the waist. "I don't know if I can do this, Seeley. If you and that woman-"

She was cut off by a very angry voice. "That woman has a name! Her name is Dr. Bones and you will be nice to her!" Parker yelled.

Rebecca swayed a little on her feet. Her own son was picking Dr. Brennan over her! This was it, the final straw. "I can't do this, any more Seeley."

"Do what?" Booth said quietly, his eyes never leaving Parker.

"Let him come here. Let him see you." And her, Rebecca sneered in her mind.

"You can't take Parker away from me!" Booth yelled.

"I can and I think I have to!" Rebecca hollered back.

"You don't have to do anything, Rebecca, please, he's my son." Booth begged.

"He's my son too."

Parker pulled his hand out of Rebecca's and listened to the conversation very carefully. As soon as he realized what was going on, he let out a cry of "NO!" and ran out of Brennan's office. Rebecca and Booth ran out after him, but they were no match for the fast seven-year-old who knew the lab like Brennan did.

He skidded around a corner.

When Rebecca and Booth rounded the same corner, he was gone.

"You lost my son!" Rebecca yelled at Booth.

"Our son! And I didn't lose him. If we needed to have that conversation at all, it didn't need to be done in front of him!" Booth told her.

"We needed to have it th-" Rebecca stopped, "do you hear him?"

There was silence for a few seconds, then Booth heard Parker's voice too.

"Up!" He whispered.

They ran up the stairs to find Parker sitting in Brennan's lap, face buried in her shoulder, across from them was Angela.

"Parker, come here," Rebecca encouraged. "It's time to come home."

"NO!" Parker yelled, his voice muffled.

"Bub, maybe it's for the best that you go home now," Booth said. He took a step closer to his son and his girlfriend, but she gave him a look that quickly made him back off.

"I know it's not any of our business," Angela butted in, making it her business, "but maybe it would be a good idea for us to take Parker somewhere and for you two to finish talking."

Without waiting for an answer, the two women stood up, Parker still in Brennan's arms, and walked away.

Rebecca, angrily, flew after the trio. She darted in front of them, forcing them to stop. She reached out and attempted to pull Parker out of Brennan's arms. The boy and Brennan clung to each other though, and it was a futile effort. "He's my son! Give him to me."

"I will when you start being a mother!" Brennan snapped back. "He doesn't need to see you and Booth yelling at each other. He doesn't need to know about your arguments. He knows that you aren't together, he understands that it's not a possibility that you two will get back together, but he does need to know that you can be kind to each other, respect each other, and I think you can do that, for him." Brennan finished. Without waiting for an answer from the dumbstruck Rebecca, Brennan continued her way down the stairs.

"You're not perfect!" Rebecca yelled to Brennan.

Brennan turned, "I never said I was." She, Angela and Parker entered her office.

"Man," came a female voice behind them. Booth and Rebecca turned to see Cam and Hodgins standing behind them, "you two really screwed up."

"Us?" Rebecca shrieked defensively. "I am a good mother to my son, she has no right to say those things."

Hodgins gave her a look, "She has every right. Brennan loves Parker, and she knows what it's like not to have a mother there, for no one to care. You have to earn her respect, and so far, you aren't doing a very good job."

Rebecca opened her mouth to argue, but Hodgins and Cam just walked away.

Booth let out a breath, "time to go apologize."

"I am not apologizing." Rebecca snapped, crossing her arms.

"Yes you are."

"You can't make me." She whined, sounding like a six-year-old.

"If you want Parker to leave this place with you, you're going to have to be good." Booth told her.

"He's my son."

"That's not a good argument. Three seconds ago, he didn't get down and defend you, he stuck to her. I'm not saying that he loves Bones more than he does you, but at the moment she seems like the better choice. You, we, have to prove to him that while we're not in love with each other, we still care enough for one another, and that we both love him."

Rebecca glared. "I hate it when you're right."

Booth led the way to Brennan's office, "so does she, but lucky for her, it doesn't happen often."

***

"I'm sorry for the way acted, toward you," Rebecca nodded toward Brennan, "Seeley and my son. My actions were childish, and I wish for all the world I could take them back, but I can't, so this will have to do." Rebecca concluded.

"I'm impressed," Angela said from the corner, where she was giving Parker finger casts.

"As am I," Brennan agreed. "Everyone is entitled to their 'moments' I suppose, and I must also apologize to you, partly because I was wrong to say what I did, even if they were the truth, and partly to get it over with because sooner or later, he," She pointed at Booth, "will make me call you and do it anyway."

"He does that a lot," Rebecca smirked, "it gets annoying sometimes."

"This is not pick on Booth day!" Booth protested, but Rebecca and Brennan exchanged glances.

"So, Parker, have fun with the mummies, and maybe you could stay with your Dad for a while this evening."

Parker finally turned to his mother and smiled, a devilish smile because the plan was still in play, but no one noticed that part. "Okay, Mom." He raced over and hugged Rebecca. "See you later."

Rebecca smiled, and left. Moments later, Angela also slipped out. Brennan, Booth and Parker left for the exhibit, and she was on her way to tell Cam and Hodgins.

Okay, so this is a little . . . heavier than what's usually written for this story, but I hope you like it anyway! Okay, so I started writing chapter nine, the final chapter, in Parker's POV, but then I realized, hey, a lot of details are going to be left out, I don't want to totally scrap what I've written though, because I rather like it, so, my question now is: just general POV, or do the last chapter several times over in several POV's (Parker, Booth, Angela, Brennan . . .)? It's all up to you!

I don't own Bones.

~DI4MGZ~