Cam figeted on the hard, uncomfortable pinic table seat as she and Arastuu waited for the rest of the team to arrive. Suddenly she felt a large hand on her shoulder and she looked up to Arastuu, who was smiling at her with a sympathic look.
"It'll be okay, Cam..." He instisted, rapping the arm around her now. "They won't bite you."
"I don't know, we both know most of them aren't one's for talking about their feelings, plus inviting Daisy might have taken it a bit far..." Cam bit her lip.
"It'll be fine." Arastuu repeated and soon they heard the team approaching.
"Camille, what's this all about? Do you know how hard it was to find a sitter that fast?" Booth asked as she and Arastuu turned around.
"Seriously." Angela groaned.
"I can explain." Cam said, standing up swiftly and clasping her hands together in front of her. "I called you all here... To talk. About Sweets."
"What?" Booth's eyes went wide and he looked like he might cut and run while Daisy looked sad and immediately looked to her infant son. The others looked uncomfortable.
"Yesterday brought up feelings... a lot of feelings, about Sweets and that is expected, but I realized something... I had forgotten about his birthday, intill Dr. Brennan reminded me. I know, we will never get completely used to working without him, with having him with us, but I had... started to forget and I don't want to, because if we forget him then he isn't alive anymore. So we are going to talk about him, and we are going to have fun doing it." It wasn't a suggestion. The team nodded and joined Cam and Arastuu on the bench. "I got pizza, his favorite... incase anyone was hungry."
"I'll take it." Daisy chirped, reaching for the box. "Little man here through a little fit today after the buyer left, right around dinner time. I'm starved."
"Did you manage to sell Sweets' car, at least?" Angela chuckled, taking little Seeley from her so she could eat.
"Mhm, now I have enough for this cute little mini-van I have my eye on." Daisy smiled as she bit into her slice of pizza.
"Mini-van? That's such a mom car!" Hodgins snorted, earning him a sharp look from his wife.
"Yeah, but Seeley is going to get big eventually and the van just seemed to fit." She shrugged a shoulder. "Plus, when we went to look for cars Seeley loved that van."
"I'm sure." Angela laughed, smiling at the boy. "He's already getting so big."
"Mhm... looks more and more like his daddy everyday." Daisy smiled at her bot.
"Yeah..." Angela nodded, her smile disapating slightly.
"Alright, so who is going to start?" Cam asked, clearing her throat.
"I find it interesting that the murder victim in our most recent case was a psychic and Sweets' birth mother worked as a carnival psychic in Florida." Brennan said bluntly, not batting an eye.
"Not really what I meant, but I'll take it."
"Oh, yeah, I remember when he told us that! Man he really shocked me there, I never got adopted off him." Booth chuckled. "He was so embarrassed to tell us, to. I thought he was going explode, or turn into a tomato."
"She was?" Angela giggled. "Well that might explain it. Shrinks and those fake psychics that work at carnivals are basicly the same thing. They read things from their body language and use mind control."
"I remember this one time, when me and Sweets went drinking, Sweets, he got really hammered... and he decided it would be a good idea to trick people into thinking he was a pychic and the weird thing was, he was actually good at it." Booth laughed, slapping his knee. "The looks on people faces was priceless. Eventually he started to sobber up and started panic. He stood up, shouted at the top of his lungs 'I'M NOT REAL!' and ran out of there as fast as he could." The group burst into the laugher.
"Oh my God, why!" Hodgins howled, keeling over. "Why would he do that!?"
"I don't know, he was hammered!" Booth chortled back and suddenly little Seeley let out a shout and started to babble loudly at them all, flailing his arms.
"Oh, Seeley wants to talk to." Angela laughed, bouncing the babbling boy.
"Yeah, he loves to talk, even if he hasn't got the actual words down. He's very talkative, he gets that from his daddy." Daisy smiled at her boy, grabbing one of his little feet. The team exchanged looks.
"Sure." Cam smiled. No one believed that. No one believed that at all.
"I remember when we were trying to get Christine to talk, Sweets was livng with us." Brennan smiled. "He looked up inforation about babies talking on the internet and found out which sylables they learned first and he tries to teach her them. He started to call her pacifier her 'baba' in hopes that she would say it because he learned b's were one of the consanants babies learned."
"Yeah, yeah, I remember that! He called me 'Boo' around Christine for about a week before he accidiently called me that at work and I threatened to shoot him." Booth snorted.
"What was wrong with him? Why would he do that, why would he do any of these things?" Hodgins snickered, shaking his head.
"Because he was a dork, a big, lovable dork." Daisy smiled before leaning over her child. "Lets hope you aren't exactly like your daddy. I'd like grandkids before I'm eighty."
"Hey, give the guy some credit, he got you didn't he?" Booth smirked.
"Yes, he did..." Daisy admitted before looking to the side. "Though, when we were broken up... the first time... he only slept with two other women even though I smashed his heart to pieces. And then after our second break up he only slept with two women... and he worked with both of them. I mean after that break up I must have slept with..." She looked to her innocent baby son. "He... was not the best with women."
"Yeah..." Booth sighed. "Everytime we confronted a female suspect he managed to piss them off."
"Don't worry, little buddy, we will find you a nice girl, a girl jusstttt like mommy." Daisy gave her son a kiss and the other silently prayed for the child that didn't happen.
"Lets wait for him to walk before we do any match making." Booth said, rolling his eyes.
"I don't know, there is little girl in daycare that is a month older then Seeley who seems to like him alot." Daisy gave her son's foot a squeeze. "Isn't there? Yeah there is."
"Daisy, stop." Angela placed a hand on her shoulder, which Daisy blinked at. "Just... stop."
"Okay...?"
"I remember when Sweets told me he found out that Daisy was pregnant. He was smiling so hard it must have hurt him." Cam chuckled. "He was so happy he was going to be a father."
"He was." Angela smiled, nodding her head softly.
"I remember when he told me he tripped over his own feet as he walked in, the way he laughing I thought he might be drunk. He's blubbering on and he isn't making any sense. I was so close to slapping him and he just blurt it out. He was flailing and grinning, I thought he was going to pop." Hodgins snickered.
"By the time he had told me he had calmed down, though I could tell he was very happy about it." Brennan smiled. "He was helping me with Christine... Then he just told us. Christine was very happy, she hugged him and started to talk about baby names." She laughed before looking to Booth, who looked profoundly uncomfortable now, which every noticed now. It took only a second before they realized the reason. "Oh, Booth..."
"It's fine." Booth shrugged a shoulder, eyes flittering from side to side.
"He wanted to tell you, Agent Booth, he just didn't want to tell while you were in jail." Daisy peeped, tilting her head at the burly man with her sad, puppy eyes. "He didn't want to bother you, that was just how he was."
"Didn't he ever think that I might like to know? That maybe knowing that my best friend was going to have a son and that he's picked me to be the godfather might have been something for me to look forward to in prison?" Booth said in a low voice that was almost a growl. His eyes flashed with anger and something else that Cam couldn't identify.
"He did, but it was his nature, Agent Booth... He didn't want to bother you... You had a lot doing on..." Daisy bit her lip. "It killed him not to tell you, it one of the reasons he was working so hard to get you out... He wanted to tell you so bad but his nature wouldn't let him."
"I... I know..." Booth sighed, hunching over and rubbing his face with both hands.
"I think you need a little of this." Angela smiled, lifting the tiny child in her arms up and over to the agent. Booth looked up at the child, who looked back at him with his father's eyes, before reaching up and taking the child into his arms.
"Hey there, buddy... It's me, Uncle Booth." He smiled at the child and Seeley stared back up at him and sucked on his little fingers with a smile. "I was you're daddy's friend... I remember, when he lived with me and Aunt Brennan, I would see him with our daughter Christine and thought... I thought that he'd make a great dad one day. I like to think I was right. I just wish he got to meet you. We all do..."
"He would have been a great dad... wouldn't he?" Daisy smiled distantly, though her eyes looked like she might burst into tears at any minute.
"Yeah, he would." Cam smiled at her intern. "He's be the greatest."
"I remember after Michael Vincent was born... that year when he was giving out the gifts, that he gave each year on his birthday? He gave Michael Vincent this oncie with a duck on it and told him he was happy he was born, because him being born made the year twice as great. He then preceded to give us one of the those baby swings that you attach to the doorways and hugged us both." Angela laughed, shaking her head.
"He loved Christine and Michael Vincent... He just plain loved kids." Daisy nodded, rubbing at her eyes. "He used to tell me about when he worked with those kids in the rec center... His eyes would always light us when he did. You know... He wanted Seeley to have siblings... A little sister, he wanted to have a daughter, so I could have someone to play with while they were off being dorks." She giggled, shaking her head as some tears leaked out and Angela and Brennan flocked to her side to comfort her.
"It's okay, Daisy..." Angela rubbed circles in her back as Brennan rapped an arm around her. "It's okay..."
"I miss him." Daisy's voice cracked as she leaned into Brennan's arm. "I miss him so much."
"We all miss him... But we can keep him alive by talking about him." Cam said, leaning in closer. "You knew him better then any of us... maybe you could help us out?"
"I can." She sniffled, her ponytail bobbing as she nodded rapidly. "I can do that."
"Did... he ever tell you about the Turtle Party Wagon?" Angela asked, smiling of the faint memory of Sweets sitting down and telling a crazy story as some sort crazy analogy.
"The one he tried to steal?" Daisy sniffled as she started to pull her back together from her small break. "Yeah, that's how he broke his other arm when he was a kid. He also told about how you made him realize Kenny had a crush on him, which explained alot."
"Yeah, he seemed really enlightened when I told him." Angela laughed. "His eyes widened, he looked like a goldfish."
"Yeah, that sounds like Lance." Daisy smiled, shaking her head. "He told me this story once... He was going to go on this little study date with this juniour he was tutoring in math and he was really nervous about it... And, and Kenny, he insisted that he do a practice date with him. Kenny was really into it, he even tried to kiss him at the end."
"Oh my God!" Hodgins cackled, steading himself on the picnic table so he wouldn't tumble over. "And he didn't catch on!?"
"No." Daisy shook her head again, giggling. "He was clueless, even when he suggested they go to prom together when they didn't have dates."
"Whyyyyy." Hodgins chortled.
"I don't know!" Daisy said, smile still withstanding.
"He was just naive." Angela said, looking just a little far off. "I remember when I met him I thought he was such an innocent little puppy... I was so wrong, though."
"Yeah, he was alot more then we gave him credit. He might have been a little naive and bushy tailed at first but he really matured... for the most part." Booth said, bouncing little Seeley Lance in his arms softly as the child mewled.
"He always loved old kungfu and scifi films." Brennan nodded, leaning against her husband.
"Yeah... You didn't get rid of those, did you, Daisy?" Booth looked to the now much calmer woman.
"No... I'm saving them for when Seeley gets bigger." Daisy answered, leaning forward to get a better look at her little boy.
"Could they maybe stay with me intill then?" He asked and Brennan gave him a sharp elbow jab to the arm. "Ow! Or not!"
"It's fine, Agent Booth." Daisy laughed, nodding her head before reaccing her arms out and motioning for him to give her her child, which Booth promptly did.
"Cool. And we aren't at work, Daisy, you can call me Booth." He smiled.
"Alright. It's fine, Booth." Daisy corrected herself, smiling down at her boy.
"So, Daisy, you got any more stories for us?" Arastuu smiled, rapping an arm around Cam, who smiled as well.
"Tons." Daisy laughed.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
TADA! A real chapter! Hooray!
So, cool story, I meant to write this ages ago. The very first time I saw that little talk with Angela and Cam in Psychic in the Soup this popped into my mind. I was going to write it that very night but I got distracted... then things happened... and... yeah. So here it is! In all it's glory XD and it's a half decent length as well. Yay.
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