Chapter 8: Visitation

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I know you probably remember this from chappie one, but I feel it's good to remind people.

Author's Note: Wow, long time no post? Srry this took forever, it was a toughie to write. I'm not making this note long cause I'm tired and want to sleep..E-mail me if you have any questions. Now on with the Jon Bon Jovi junkies!!lol…(I love "Livin' on a Prayer"!!)

Chapter 8: Visitation

Cassie shifted restlessly in the passenger seat next to Booth. Glancing over he saw her playing with the strap of her purse. He knew she was nervous. Booth looked down at the radio and began to play with the buttons. Cassie glanced his way but soon returned to staring out the window. When he had it were he wanted he clicked play and the music began to fill the car. Grinning Cassie looked back over at him.

"Tommy used to work on the docks.

Union's been on strike,

He's down on his luck.."

Booth sang along with the cd, by the time the he reached the chorus Cassie was singing too.

"Oh, Oh, we're half way there. Oh, Oh, been livin' on a prayer! Take my hand and we'll make it I swear!..."

Cassie laughed and turned the cd down as the song ended.

"Thanks Booth," she told him giving him her special little half smile.

"Your welcome, Cass. Do you know what she has planned for today?"

"No," Cassie replied biting her lip. "She just said to meet her at her house and we'd go from there."

"I'm sure it won't be that bad," Booth said pulling on to the street. "What number?"

"312." Searching the sides they quickly found the house. Cassie was starring up at the two story house not really sure she wanted to get out when her door opened and Booth extended his hand to her. While Brennan usually protested such chivalrous actions; Cassie rather enjoyed them. Once they were out of the car the front door opened and Sara and another man came out.

"Cassie!" she exclaimed hurrying down to meet them. "How are you? And your Agent Booth right?" she asked shaking his hand.

"Yes ma'am," he said. Turning to the man beside her,

"This is Ethan, he's my husband. Ethan this is Cassie and Agent Booth." The two men shook hands.

"It's nice to meet you both. Sara can't stop talking about you," he told Cassie. Cassie gave him a weak smile.

"Well I thought we could go out to eat and then maybe go to the mall? Does that sound ok?"

"That's fine with us," Booth replied glancing over at Cassie.

"Alright, you can follow us then," Sara said.

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Within minutes they were at a nice little restaurant not far from the mall called "Ryan's".

"I'll have a hamburger with everything. Cassie you wanted the fetticini alfredo right?" Cassie nodded. "And we'll both have sweet tea to drink," Booth added looking at the menu. After the waiter had taken their order there was an awkward silence.

"So Cassie, what school do you go to?" Ethan asked breaking the silence.

"Lakewood Academy," Cassie replied quietly.

"She's really smart," Booth chimed in. "She has a genius IQ or something? She skipped a grade and is still the top of her class!"

"Really?" Sara asked clearly impressed.

"Yeah," Cassie admitted a little flushed.

"What do you want to major in?" Ethan asked.

"Forensic Anthropalogy," Cassie replied. However softly she had spoken did nothing to diminish the challenge in those blue eyes. Booth knew she was waiting for her mother to comment on her career choice and decided a change in subject was in order.

"So…Ethan what do you do?"

"I'm a doctor," he replied somewhat relieved.

"Really? What kind?"

"A surgeon," Sara said proudly. "He's one of the best."

"And what do you do Sara?" Booth asked. Cassie looked up at her mother.

"I'm a nurse," she replied. "At D.C. General."

"Really?" Booth asked shocked. "'I'm surprised I've never seen you there."
"Do you go there often?" Sara inquired.
"Well no, but I was there once after I was injured on the job," he said making sure to phrase his words so as to not hurt their case. After that the waiter brought them their meals and the topics were lighter. Once they had finished they headed toward the mall.

"I thought it might be fun to go shopping for a while. We have two hours left," Sara explained. "Where would you like to go first?"

"The bookstore," Cassie and Booth replied in unison. They grinned at each other.

"You Brennan girls can be so predictable sometimes," Booth teased.

"So we like to read, it's not a crime," Cassie defended as they headed toward the bookstore.

"The amount of books you two read should be! I mean come on, you finished that last Harry Potter book in one day!"

"That's because I read faster than you!" Cassie shot back; it had taken Booth two weeks to finish it. They stopped bickering when they entered the book store and Cassie took off for the teen fantasy section first. She immediately began scanning the shelves.

"10…9…8…7…6," Booth began counting down under his breath. "5…4…3…2…1…" Cassie pulled a book off the shelf, scanned the back, and placed it on the floor beside her then started looking again. Sara watched Cassie take another book off the shelf as Ethan went to look at the medical section.

"Does she always do this?" she asked Booth as Cassie scooped up her three books and hurried off to the forensic section.

"Oh yeah, Cassie loves books. I think they go to the book store once a week," he told her as he began glancing in rows for the forensic section. Finding her he grinned when he saw her sitting cross-legged on the floor an anthoropology journal open on her lap and two more added to the stack of books on her left.

"Slow down kid! We want to leave some books in the store," Booth commented. Cassie looked up long enough to give him a replica of the glare that he was given two or three times a day by Bones.

"I left plenty," she replied grinning," I need to have something to get next time." Booth laughed and picked up her books.

"Are you getting any magazines?" he asked.

"Yeah, I wanted to see if they still had that magazine on Buffy? I wanna give it to Angela, she'll love it," she told him dragging him off to the magazines.

"Here it is," he announced spotting it on the lower shelf.

"Alright, I'm done," she told him adding the magazine to the pile.

"Jeez, Cass, could you pick thicker books?" he asked sarcastically.

"I didn't want you to hurt yourself," she retorted with a cheeky grin.

"Here I'll get them," Sara offered when they reached the register.

"No it's fine, Tempe gave me money for today," Cassie told her searching through her bag.

"I insist, really, I want too," Sara replied taking out her wallet

"Here, Cassie you can pay for these and Sara can pay for these," Booth interrupted handing the journals and magazine to Cassie and the books to Sara. "Good?"

"Yeah," Cassie said rewarding Booth with her special little half smile. After they had paid for their books and tracked down Ethan they went to look at clothes.

"Come on Cass!" Booth called. "You're taking forever!"
"Just be patient Booth," Cassie called from inside the changing room.

"I was patient, it's been 15 min. since you went in there!"

"Your point?"

"My point is that it doesn't take 15 minutes to try on three outfits!" Booth complained sharing an amused smile with Ethan who chose to sit down the moment the girls had entered the dressing rooms.

"Fine," Cassie exclaimed unlocking the door and storming out with a look that Booth could only describe as "Her sister". "Happy?" The outfit she had on was the perfect combination of elegance and casual. Her shirt was made of silk and dark blue with Japense letters down the right side, there was a thin belt of the same material that tied in back. The shirt ended mid-thigh before revealing dark blue, boot cut jeans and black leather boots.

"Wow Cass, you look great!" Booth told her shocked. Gone was the cute, innocent teen he was used to and in her place was the woman he was sure she would be, funny enough she looked even more like her sister.

"Thanks," Cassie replied blushing. Booth couldn't help but give her his infamous charm smile.

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Not long after that the girls decided there was time to hit one more store before the day was over. This would, however, require a stop by the restroom to fix hair and make-up that had been removed from the many clothes they had tried on. Sara handed Cassie her purse.

"You can use the hair brush in there if you want I have to go," she said pointing at the nearest stall. Nodding Cassie moved toward the mirror and began looking for the brush. Her hand hit cold, smooth metal. She looked into the bag surprised and brought out a flask. Her blue eyes widened as she looked at the proof that nothing had changed, but she had to react quickly as she heard the lock on the door open. Shoving it in quickly she grabbed the brush beside it and began running it over her auburn locks still wondering how she had been so gullible.

"Are you having fun?" Sara asked.

"Oh, yeah, it was fun," Cassie replied now desperately wishing the day was over. They met the boys outside and as they walked to the next store Booth noticed the change in Cassie's behavior, but chose not to comment on it till they had said good bye.

"Are you going to tell me what's the matter?" Booth asked her as they got into the SUV..(Haha, the first time I typed this I typed SVU..LOL. too much Law and Order!)

"I don't know." Booth shrugged and turned the car on. He hummed only to the radio as he waited for Cassie to tell him what was wrong.

"She hasn't changed," Cassie stated abruptly as he moved to change to a cd.

"What do you mean?" Booth asked surprised. The woman he met today seemed nothing like the one who had abandoned her daughter eleven years ago.

"When we were in the restroom she told me I could use the hairbrush in her purse. When I went to get it out I found a flask of alcohol hidden in her purse. She was an alcoholic when I was four, why would she still be drinking if she had changed?" Cassie explained.

"Are you sure?" he asked. He wanted to believe she had changed, for Cassie's sake.

"Positive." He looked over at her. She was fighting the tears that were filling the ice blue eyes.

"I'm sorry," he said honestly.

"Stupid," Cassie muttered under her breath as she leaned back against the seat; the unwanted tears streaming down her face. "It was stupid to believe she had actually changed this time."

"No it wasn't Cassie," Booth said taking her hand. "It's natural for you to want her to change. I thought she had."

"I didn't want to leave Tempe, but I wanted to believe she had changed. Then I could get to know her again, ya know?" Cassie said looking up at Booth. She looked so young and broken at that moment that he vowed to help her before she built up walls as high as her sister had; it was taking him forever to break those down as it was.

"I understand, and maybe she can still change," Booth told her optimistically. "Hey, how about we grab so Thai food and pick up a movie?" he asked trying to keep her mind off her mother.

"Yeah," Cassie agreed rewarding him once again with that adorable smile of hers.

"If we hurry we can convince Bones to watch it with us," Booth added smirking at the thought that his next hour would most likely be spent convinceing Bones to watch what ever movie Cassie wanted.

"Can we get Scooby Doo?" Oh boy…

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So what do you think? That took so long to write! It was one of the hardest chappies cause I was already thinking about what was gonna happen in the court scene and I couldn't concentrate on writing this chappie. I think it turned out good. I'm actually very proud of it! Lol. Which is rare..I'm extremely critical of my own work. Cassie did alot of things in that chappie that I would do..the books? Harry Potter? all me...lol. Yeah, I actually bought that book Sat. morning (cough 12:01 cough) and finished it sat. afternoon Anyway that's it I guess…Review!!
-Phoneix

P.S.- I'll send a hint about the court scene coming next to anyone who can point out all of the things related to Buffy or B/A in this story!! I swear I didn't realize it until I re-read it earlier but there are tons!!