"Booth… what…" Brennan started but Booth looked away from her, towards the girls who were both staring at him.
"Ok girls you have to understand, before you were born your mother and I had one of the highest solve rates ever. And there was a lot of people that didn't like us for that. You know families of people we had put away. so when you were born some took it as an opportunity to get back at us, and even though we tried to keep you separate from out work lives, I still received multiple threats against the… the three of you things got very out of hand. Fake babysitters, kidnap attempts even shootings." He saw Brennan look down at the floor from the corner of his eye. The girls' mouths both dropped. Booth had hoped he'd never have to tell his daughters that they had almost died. "We thought we could handle it but things got very bad, and one day when Angela was minding you, her car was driven off the road and the three of you went into a river." Brennan gasped she had been in New York giving a lecture and she had been so stressed out about everything that they had decided not to tell her. "You were all fine but it was too much for me. I couldn't go anywhere without being terrified that you'd be hurt. And about a month later my boss Cullen suggested that… that we split up to try and mind you. To mind you all." he looked back at Brennan. "So he got me a position out of town. I asked Bones to come but I was praying she wouldn't. but it killed me having to split you up! To drive away from you Trinity nearly killed me. I thought it was for the best. Cullen gave me a choice stay together or stay alive." He was nearly crying. Brennan couldn't even look at him. She just stood up and walked out of the office. Booth stood up.
"Bones!" he said looking towards the girls he said "I have to…"
"GO!" they both said together. He ran from the office.
"Am… what do you make of that?" Taylor asked after a minute of silence.
"I suppose it's a… reason at least." Trinity answered.
"I'm not sure if I'm ok with it though." Taylor said. "he lied! There surely could have been some other way to get around it! Without splitting us up."
"Maybe he was too scared to think of anything else!"
"I've never seen Dad scared before not about anything."
"I've never seen my
Mom act like that before either. She was so hurt."
"This is
too much to handle for one day."