Jared
They truly are a family; every last one of them. I always thought that he was a loner and went from one girl to another like I did and that he didn't really care about his job but I see that I was very wrong. The trail of girls he had were undoubtedly scared away by his close connection to his partner. Temperance was definitely intimidating! And as far as caring about his job I see that he would care to do it every day for the rest of his life. The FBI is truly his calling.
"Jar-head this is our room." Cam said jokingly bringing me back to reality and pulling me into the middle of the three suites.
"Cam what is the deal with Bones and my brother?" I asked her sitting down on one of the beds.
"Haven't you seen them together?" Sweets asked plopping down on the other bed.
"For like five minutes when they were working and then at his birthday party but Seeley and I were not exactly on best terms then." I told him.
"Booth told her your Dad drank."
"Oh." I said. He is really close to her to tell her something like that.
"Wait, what does telling her that have anything to do with their relationship?" Sweets asked.
"Seel has always made excuses or else doesn't mention his family…our family." I told him.
"She knows about his military past. More than I do even and I knew him when he was in the military. She knows about Raddick."
"The birthday party." I whispered. He trusted her with his dark past and she didn't run.
"I am lost." Sweets said sitting back up. Obviously Seeley didnt trust Sweets as much as he trusted Bones.
"Nothing. Just a part of his military past." Cam said.
"Oh." Sweets said crossing his arms.
"So do you think they will get married now?" I asked quietly.
"Bones doesn't believe in marriage." Sweets told me.
"With the two of them I wont say no but I wont say yes either." Cam said smiling.
"Are we going to the park today or do we have to wait until tomorrow?" I asked standing up and walking towards the door.
"Lets go now!" Cam said linking her arm in mine and pulling Sweets up off the bed. We walked out to the hallways and I started banging on Seeley's door and Cam went to Angela and Jack's.
"Uncle Jared good grief Daddy says you are going to break the door." Parker said opening the door and jumping into my arms.
"What do you say Bub lets go find Mickey."
"Daddy we are going to go find Mickey for Uncle Jared and I wanna find the Pirates!" He said rolling his eyes at me.
"Parker come here and put your other clothes on." I heard Bones say from inside the suite.
A half hour later we were walking through the gates and under the rail road bridge into the park. We walked into a mob of characters and Parker started jumping around like mad. "Family Picture!" Angela yelled out and started pulling the different characters together with all of us. One of the Disney employees took her camera and starting snapping wildly on her digital camera.
In the photograph it had me, Seeley, Parker, Bones, Angela, Jack, Cam and Sweets and also Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Tigger, Pooh, Buzz, Jack Sparrow, Mary Poppins and Jasmin. It was a huge photograph and one I was sure would end up blown up and framed in Seeley's house. It took about a half hour before Angela was happy with all the different poses. One with Minnie kissing Booth and Mickey kissing Bones, one of Parker sword fighting with Jack Sparrow, one with all the girls, one with all the guys, and about two-hundred of all of us.
"Ange please tell me we don't have to have any more of these photo shoots this week." Booth said putting his arm around her shoulders.
"Oh come on Booth you know you are going to want a copy of all the pictures." Angela said jumping up and kissing his cheek before running off to Jack and skipping down main street.
"Are we staying together or did y'all want to split up?" I asked walking by an ice cream shop.
"We stay together." They all said in unison.
"God you guys are creepy." I said smiling at them.
"Oh don't worry Jar Head you will be one of us by the end of the week." Cam said putting her arm around me.
"I want to go on Splash Mountain!" Parker said grabbing Bones' hand and pulling her to the front of the line. One good thing about being with the FBI is that we didn't have to wait in line. There weren't much of lines anyway, the part was pretty much empty.
"Are you sure Parker it looks pretty scary." Booth said teasing his son.
"Come on Buddy your Daddy is scared." Jack said taking Parkers hand and running up the stairs to go to the ride.
"I want to be in front with Dr Bones behind me and Booth behind her and Angela and Jack behind us." Parker told the ride attendant who smiled and did what was asked. We went from ride to ride each time Parker making it so he was always with his Dad and Bones, always putting the two of them together and never going out of sight from either of them.
As it got dark we started to slow down and Cam kept lingering with me watching Seeley and Bones. "You okay with it Cam?" I asked her as we hung towards the back of the group while they went to stake out a place to watch the firework show.
"They deserve each other Jared. They have an understanding and can accept each others faults like no one else ever would be able to." She said putting her arm around me and pulling me into her.
"Is it weird for you though I mean the two of you have been together for like fifteen years?" I asked her.
"Jer we were together fifteen years ago, not together for fifteen years." She told me explaining the difference.
"When did you know?" I asked her.
"We were dating again and it was when the gravedigger took her and Jack. We were on a date when he got the call, the determination and fear in his eyes when we all thought we ran out of time and then when he pulled her out of the ground…Everyone knew, everyone knows except them. Their relationship changed not long after that and it has been changing slowly since then. Then all of this… the way she has been with Parker… it is how it is suppose to be." She said leaning her head into my shoulder. I nodded and wrapped my arm around her and sat down on the grass to watch the fireworks with everyone.
Parker sat on Bones lap while watching the fireworks and pretended to fall asleep leaning into her shoulder right as it ended. I watched as Booth tried to take Parker from her to carry him back but she refused to hand the child over. That Tempe is so stubborn, Seeley wrapped his arm around the two of them and led them towards Main Street.
"Jared will you make sure they get back to the Hotel? I need to do something before I go back there." He told me about halfway down Main Street.
"Sure Seel but are you sure you want to separate yourself from the rest of the family?" I asked jpkingly.
"I'm not going to be totally separate. Hodgins is going to be with me." He said smiling over at Jack.
"What are you two boys up to?" Angela asked kissing Jack on the cheek.
"That is classified Ange." Seeley told her. Pulling Jack to the side of the street and waving to the rest of us.
"Come on ladies lets get back to the hotel before the pool closes." I told them leading them out under the bridge and down the walk.
"I am not a Lady." Sweets said tagging along behind us.
"No you are a kid." I said laughing and picking him up and throwing him over my shoulder…he was even lighter than I thought he would be.
"Put me down." He yelled over and over as I ran in a circle around the girls as we walked toward our hotel. I finally did put him down and stopped in front of Tempe. Somehow Parker was still 'asleep' and she was running her fingers through his hair as she walked, seemingly in another world.
"Don't question it Jared." Angela said pulling me back to the side.
"When did you know?" I asked her.
"When she talked Booth into talking Cullen to let him take her into the field...and then when he actually took her into the field." She stated pulling her hair into a pony tail.
"Why does it make a difference when people knew Jared?" Cam asked me as we walked into the hotel elevator.
"Just curious." I said smiling and putting my arm around her again.
"Who all wants to go in the pool?" Sweets asked standing outside of our door.
"I will." Angela said.
"Me too." Cam said.
"I can't." Temperance said.
I pulled Parker from arms and whispered into his ear, "Buddy do you want to go swimming?"
He was instantly awake. "Can we really Uncle Jared?"
"I knew you were awake you faker." I told him. "See Tempe now you can go too." I said smiling at her.
"Okay I guess we are all swimming." She said walking into her room. "Meet out here in five?" She asked.
"I only have five minutes?" Angela asked.
"God Ange how long does it take you to strip down and put a bikini on?" Cam asked rolling her eyes.
"Fine. Five minutes." She said walking into her room.