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Chapter Twelve

I love you, she wanted to shout. I love you like I've never loved anyone before. But she just stayed like that, hanging onto his neck, her mouth closed. It wasn't about the attraction, the chemical reaction they each felt when they saw each other.

It was a deeper connection, on a level she couldn't describe.

"Bones, Bones you okay?" He asked. She was trembling violently, having a flashback to her childhood, clinging on to her father, right before he drove away and never came back.

He never came back.

"Bones, please say something," he begged. He put her down on the couch, and she finally returned.

"S-Sorry Booth, I don't know what happened to me for a minute," she stuttered. He sat next to her. She leaned over, putting her head on his lap.

"I trust you Booth. I trust that you won't abandon me. Please don't break that trust. If I fall again, I won't bother to pick myself up." She whispered. He thought of her as if she was a lost little girl, alone in the world, until her hero comes to her rescue.

"Don't cry, Tempe, please. Everything's going to be alright," he knew Temperance wasn't the kind of woman who cried, but it broke his heart when she did. They heard a knock at the door. It was Parker with a man holding a gun that looked like it weighed more than the little boy standing next to him. Brennan sat straight up, wiping her tears, and went to get Parker, thanking the agent.

"Miss Brennan, please don't bring anyone else out here. We had a security breach earlier, so we're tightening security. Until these men are caught, you and Agent Booth are to be confined to this house, understand?

"Yes, I understand," she said, confused. What kind of security breach?

"Hi Miss Brennan," Parker said happily, obviously unmoved from the new house.

"Hello, Parker, call me Tempe or Bones," she said, trying to put on a happy face for him.

"Ok, Tempe, Daddy says we're going on a picnic. Is that true?"

"Sorry, Parker, but we have to stay inside tomorrow, but we can have a picnic inside, how does that sound?" she asked, kneeling down to his level. Booth smiled. He found an odd pleasure seeing his son interact with Bones.

"That sounds yummy. Hey Daddy!" Parker yelled, jumping into his father's arms.

"Hey Bub, how are you?" he asked, kissing his son's forehead. Why did they bring him here, in the line of fire? Oh yeah, Rebecca's vacation.

"Good, but Dad, a strange man was talking to me this morning when I was waiting for the bus outside Mommy's house," he said. Booth's smile faded, and he looked over at Bones.

"What did he say? I told you not to talk to strangers, Parker!" Booth exclaimed.

"I didn't talk, Dad, he just gave me this little piece of paper, and I put it in my pocket," the little boy said, pulling it out of his pocket and handing it to his father.

"What did I say about taking things from strangers, Parker? We're going to talk about this later, young man! It's a phone number, Bones; I'll bring it outside to whoever's in charge. Take care of Parker."

TBC…next chapter involves an indoor picnic with Parker…please review1

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