I don't own Bones, I know I have 206 in my body, but the Bones from Fox isn't mine.
Thanks to nertooold54, I wasn't going to include this chapter, but she asked, and after writing it, I enjoyed it. Although the FBI labs are currently located in Quantico, I took some liberties and placed some of them in the FBI building, because all the travel time for Booth and Parker would prevent them from accomplishing anything.
Did everyone like last night's episode? I loved it; it's about time they talked to each other.
Working with Dad
Booth left work a short while after his conversation with Bones to pick Parker up at school.
"Hi Dad, I'm glad today is your day. I can't wait to spend some time with you."
"Yeah, I'm sorry we haven't spent much time together this week, I've been very busy."
"That's ok Dad I know you get busy, I'm just glad we have today."
"Well, tell me about this girl in your class."
"She's not in my class, it's the science class that I take with the 6th graders, so she's a little older than me, but she's real cute. I did what you said and asked her if she wanted to have lunch with me, and she said yes. We are having lunch together on Tuesday."
"Just make sure you're a gentleman. Girls don't like guys without manners, remember what we talked about."
"Yes, Dad, I'll remember."
They arrived at the Hoover building, and Booth introduced him to the other agents in the office, before bringing him to be fingerprinted.
"Now Parker I want you to be on your best behavior, there are a lot of different crimes that are being investigated here and we can't interfere in that process. I'm going to give you a tour of most of the building, but you can't intrude with the people who are working. Understand?"
"Yes Dad. Are they working on the murder you went to investigate today?"
"In some places they may be, but some of that crime scene evidence is at the Jeffersonian with Bones. They do a lot of their own investigating there. We cover all crimes here not just murders. Many of the agents specialize in drug enforcement, terrorism, counterfeiting, bioterrorism, and many others. I'm just a small part in the whole operation."
"Wow, I didn't know they did so many things."
"Not all the labs are here either, there are three five story towers located at Quantico that has many more labs. This is just a starting point for the investigation." They had finally arrived at the fingerprinting lab.
"Hey, guys, this is my son Parker, Parker this is Agent Simms, Agent Thompson, and Agent Green, they are going to take your fingerprints and show you how we run an analysis to find out if you're a criminal. They are also going to take a sample of your DNA to keep on file for any future problems."
"Awesome." Agent Green led Parker to an area with a computer with a small piece of glass attached.
"Ok, Parker, give me your hand right hand first."
Parker held his hands behind his back.
"Parker, it's ok it doesn't hurt, watch she will do mine first." Booth held out his hand and the other agent took one finger at a time and placed it onto the glass panel, then all four fingers together, and finally his palm. After she did, one of Booth's hands Parker held his out to her. She took the prints of both hands and palms, then typed the search into the computer and ran them through the database.
"Parker this is checking your fingerprints against all the prints we have on file from everyone who has ever been printed anywhere in the United States. If we needed to, we could also run them through databases that we have from other countries."
Parker was watching as the machine pulled up various pictures of other prints to compare them to his.
"Parker, sometimes this takes a while, why don't we go over to see Agent Simms, he is going to run your DNA." Booth led Parker to another part of the room.
"Hi Parker, will you open your mouth?" Parker obeyed, and he ran a cotton swab over the inside of his cheek.
"Why did you do that?"
"This is how we check for DNA."
"We talked about DNA in school. Its Deoxyribonucleic acid, it's a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms."
The Agent gave him a strange look.
"Sorry, that means it's kind of like a blueprint of who you are. It stores all the information about all your cells, proteins and RNA molecules."
"Hey, Booth, you got a squint for a kid?" Agent Simms laughed. Parker gave his dad a horrified look. "Dad, did I say something wrong?"
"No Parks, he's just teasing you. He knows what DNA is; he's the expert here. Don't let him bother you. Hey Agent Greene wants to talk to you."
He sent him back to see agent Green. When Parker was out of earshot he grabbed Simms's shirt."Listen moron; don't ever say anything like that about my kid again. He's very bright and we encourage his science aptitude. Don't you ever make him feel bad about his intelligence. You hear me?"
"Yeah, sure Booth. Sorry." Booth left to go join Parker.
When he arrived, he saw Parker looking at his own much younger face on the computer.
"Dad, how come I'm on the computer, I'm not a criminal?"
"When you were younger, we put your information into the database in case you were ever kidnapped, so we would be able to find you. The computer located those files and told us who you were."
"Wow, that's cool. Will it always stay in here?"
"Yes, unless we request to have it taken out."
"So, if someone takes a kid you can always find his parents?"
Agent Green answered, "Parker, we only have the prints of the parents who have let their children be fingerprinted, if a child's parents didn't give us the information, then we don't have it."
"But this is such a great idea, why wouldn't parents want it to be done?"
"Some people think it is an invasion of privacy, so they won't get their kids fingerprinted. Other parents just don't take the time, but you're right it is a great idea and all parents should do it."
"Hey, Parker ready to go see another place?"
"Yeah, Dad."
"Thanks guys. Bye"
Booth and Parker left and went down the hall to the Latent Print Unit.
"Dad, why did they agent laugh at me?"
"He's an idiot, Parker, don't let him bother you. Come on lets go in here."
Booth took him in and introduced him to the agents in charge of latent prints. They showed Parker how to get prints from evidence and then run them through the database to locate criminals. Their next stop was to go to Scientific Analysis Section and look at the CODIS.
"Parker, this is how we trace the DNA evidence that we get from suspects. Sometimes we get traces of DNA from a victim's clothes or body. Bones, or one of her team usually collects the evidence then, we run the DNA through what is called a CODIS it stands for combined DNA index systems. A computer system holds all the DNA evidence of every one on file in the US. This way we can find the criminals so we can catch them. Bones uses this system quite frequently." His phone rang.
"Parker give me a minute ok?"
"Yeah Dad."
"Hi Bones, what you got for me?"
"Booth, Angela has a face; do you want me to bring it over?"
"Yes. Parker would love to see you."
"Ok, see you in a few. I also have DNA for you, do you want to show him how CODIS works?"
"Yeah, good idea, we were just talking about that. Can you meet me in the CODIS lab?"
"Ok, be right there."
"Hey, Parker, Bones is on her way over with a picture of the victim from this morning and some DNA for a CODIS search, want to watch?"
"Yeah, I could kind of help you out."
"Well, I don't know how much you can help. But you can watch."
"Ok, cool."
Bones joined them a short while later.
"Hi Bones. Hi Booth, Parker, are you having fun?"
"Yeah, but this one guy laughed at me because I knew all about DNA. He called me a squint."
Bones gave Booth a look of regret, she remembered those people from her childhood.
"But I don't care, because Dad said he's an idiot, and besides if I'm a squint that just means I'm like you, and that's a good thing."
"Thanks, Parker." Bones gave him a hug. She handed Booth the picture, and the DNA match.
"I got to get back, but I'll see you later ok?"
"Bones, can't you come with us to see the CODIS, please? I miss you, and I know Dad misses you, don't you Dad?"
"Yep, I miss you too Bones. Can't you stay, please?"
She didn't know how she could ever say no to these two, Booth was teaching his son well, and he had the same sad puppy dog look on his face.
"Ok, I'll stay for a few minutes; Vincent is still cleaning the Bones."
"Cool, thanks Bones."
"Booth handed over the evidence to Agent Patrick to run through the CODIS database.
"Parker, this could take a while, do you want to go get a snack. There is a cafeteria down stairs? We could get ice cream?"
"Yeah, can Bones come?"
"If she wants."
"I'll come but this is the last stop, I need to get back to my lab and examine the body."
They went down to the cafeteria. Both Bones' and Booth's phone rang at the same time."
"Wow, you guys can't go anywhere." Parker said.
"Brennan."
"Booth."
"We got a match from CODIS, got to go. Come on Parks."
"Booth I got to go to, Mr. Murray needs me."
"Bye."
"Bye. See you later Parker." Bones left her two favorite people at the elevator and left the building.
"Come on; let's go see what we got." He led Parker back to the CODIS lab.
"Agent Patrick, what do you got for me?"
"We got a hit from the DNA you provided. It is from a cold case because of lack of evidence. The DNA was a match for a murder from ten years ago. Name of Tyrone Craven, he was never caught."
"Ok, can you have the file, and any information sent to my office? Thanks, that was quick."
"Sure, I'll get it pulled and sent right up."
"Parker there is one more place I want to show you then I need to go to work ok? Sorry, but I need to get back to my office for that file."
"That's ok Dad, this is more fun anyway, because I get to see what you really do."
They stopped at the Explosives Unit; next, he thought Parker would enjoy watching the Agents blow stuff up. They promised to put on a show for him.
"Booth, I didn't think you were coming. We were ready to pack it up."
"We just got detoured, got a case early this morning."
"Oh, ok, well this must be Parker?"
"Hello."
"Hi Parker, I'm Agent Polar, and this is Agent Blanco. How are you today?"
"I'm ok, this is fun; I always wondered what my dad did."
"Well we got the best job here, because we get to blow things up. The only thing is we need to go outside. Ready?"
"Yeah, this is going to be awesome."
They went outside to enclosed area surrounding the property. They explained about how the FBI gets involved with bomb scares and how homeland security is often called in to disarm bombs. When that happens they are the experts who get to go and try to take the bombs apart, but sometimes they can't disarm them and they need to think of a way to contain the blast so as little damage as possible would occur.
"Ok, ready Parker? We are going to show you how we try to contain a blast that we couldn't control."
In the distance, there was a trailer. It was rigged with a bomb.
"You need to stand back here, because we don't want anyone hurt, but you can use these binoculars to see better." They handed him a pair of binoculars, and went toward the trailer.
"Parker, these guys are crazy. Sometimes we need to call them in on an investigation, and they always seem so happy. I don't think I could be that happy about the possibility of getting blown up."
Parker watched as the two agents went toward the trailer. They had protective suits on and held steel doors in front of them. They approached the trailer and slowly went inside. A few minutes later they came out running, as they left, they grabbed a hose and began to cover the trailer with a white substance. After a few seconds, the two men ran toward Booth and Parker and hid behind the glass wall. Within a few minutes, the whole trailer blew up.
"Ok, Parker the stuff that you saw us spray on the trailer is a new type of material that is being invented to prevent bombs from causing too much damage. Sometimes we can't disarm the bomb and we need to go for containment. That is why we sprayed the trailer, as the scientists create better and better materials we will try to use them to prevent damage to people or other buildings. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, you guys have the best job ever, I would never want to be blown up, but that was so cool."
"Thanks guys, now he wants to blow things up. I wanted fun but not that much."
The two agents laughed. "Hey, Booth you said you wanted it memorable."
"Yeah well, we got to go, see you guys later."
"Come on Parker, we need to get back to my office."
They walked back to Booth's office and Parker told him how much fun he had today.
"And Dad, don't worry I don't want to be a bomb expert. I'm not that crazy."
When they got to the office, Booth contacted his various sources to see if anyone could identify the victim, he also send the picture to all the law enforcement agencies to see if he could get a name. By the time he was done, it was very late and he and Parker went home.
"Hey, Buddy, at the rate we're going Bones will beat us home. Let's get out of here."
"Ok, Dad. Hey can we get pizza tonight, because it's so late?"
"Sure Buddy, let's go."
They left and picked up a pizza on the way home. Bones did not beat them home, and she didn't get home until after Parker was in bed. Booth waited up for her, and she saw him sleeping on the couch when she came in.
"Come on Booth, let's go to bed. He got up and followed her into the bedroom.
