Chapter Fourteen:
He entered the room and found Sully sitting in the room with her. "Booth," He said getting up greeting him. "Temperance and I were just getting caught up."
Booth looked over at his partner. "She has gone through a lot in the past couple of days." He sat down in the chair next to her. "When did you get back?"
"I flew in when I saw the news report." Sully answered. "I knew she would need someone." He said. Booth saw red and was getting ready to retort when he heard a soft voice.
"How is Parker?" Brennan asked trying to break the tension in the room.
"He is sleeping. Angela is keeping an eye on him for me."
Sully got up. "I am going to check in with the office since I am officially back from vacation. I'll be back in a couple of hours Tempe." Sully stood up and dropped a kiss on her cheek. "Feel better, okay. Booth keep an eye on her for me, will you?"
"You can count on it." Booth answered. He watched as Sully left the floor and turned back to his partner.
"Is Parker alright?" She asked him. The concern for his son was evident in her bright blue orbs. "No child should have to relive that situation."
"Bones . . . he opened up like a flood gate. Parker told us everything that happened down in the tunnels. He said that you agreed to a trade and that he touched you." Booth was pacing in the hospital room.
"I agreed to a trade to keep him from getting to the boys. He coped a feel and lowered his gun. It gave me enough time to kick down the dry rotted support beam to protect the boys." She answered.
"That bastard touched you! I swear . . ." He started. He looked at his partner. She was twirling her hair. "Temperance . . ."
"Booth, what do you want me to say?" She flinched at the thought.
"Bones." He whispered.
"Booth, my last foster father tried to touch my younger foster sister. I had done one trade before, I would do anything to protect your son."
The tears began to flow. Booth saw it and thumbed away her tears. "Oh my God Temperance. I am so sorry. I didn't know. Your foster father raped you." He whispered.
"Yeah he did. It happened a long time ago, and because of that experience, I learned to defend myself, and it helped me defend your son."
Booth sat down beside her and held her hand. "Temperance," He didn't know what to say. She just admitted something that should have never happened to her. It's not your job to protect Parker."
"Parker needed me. You couldn't get to him. He needed someone you were counting on me."
"Bones, I put you in harms way. That wacko could have hurt you the same way your foster father did. I will never put you in harm's way again."
"Yeah, I know. But you can't control the world Booth." She shut her eyes, forcing what her father foster had done back into her mind. "He coped a feel, not more than what would happen at a club or a bar." She answered him. "He is a sick man Booth."
"Temperance, no guy should ever touch a woman like that. I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you." He said dropping to the seat beside her. "Bones, I don't know what I would do if I ever lost you. You shouldn't go around getting yourself into trouble."
"You didn't lose me. You found us and we will catch the bad guy." She put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"I won't sleep until I find that bastard." He said.
"You will have to sleep eventually Booth." She quipped at him.
"It is a figure of speech Bones." He said. He looked at her. He realized just how worse it could have been in the mines. The man could have raped her, the man could have scarred his son worse, what if he hadn't been able to find them? Now his partner was probably reliving what happened to her when she was a teenager. He knew she was thinking about it, however he knew when the topic was closed.
"What is going on in your head?" She whispered.
"Just thinking." He answered.
"You got this look on your face, the one you get when you are overly worried about Parker or me. It's irrational Booth. You can't keep the both of us safe all the time."
"I can try." He told her. She nodded knowing that she was defeated. There was gong to be no talking sense into him.
"What else did Parker say in the session?" She asked. Her eyes started fluttering.
"He was talking about how you told him that you lo-" His phone rang. He looked at the caller ID, his mom.
He gave her a quick update on Parker's condition. He turned to his partner to find her sleeping peacefully. Booth smiled. He picked up her hand and kissed it. "Eventually Temperance, we are going to have to have this talk."
She lay in her bed listening to him. "Yeah, I know." She thought. She needed to put it off. All that Temperance Brennan knew was that she needed more time, and time was not on her side this time.
Booth leaned down and gave her a quick kiss on her forehead. He had kissed her like this several times before, but for some reason, this kiss held an electrical shock for them. When his lips left her forehead, she immediately missed his touch.
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The nurse came in to check on her favorite patient's IV. She smiled when she saw the FBI agent was back again. She walked back into the nurses station and placed her wager in for the "When are they just going to admit it" pot.
AN: Sorry it took a little bit for me to get this up. I had to keep tweaking until I got it the way I wanted it to read. I hope I haven't lost anyone because it took a little bit. Anyway, read and review. Reviews rock my socks. My readers rock! Have a thought, let me know. Always willing to write something new into the story.