Cam
"I was wondering what was taking you so long." I said when Jared walked back into the room. Sweets was asleep when I came back from visiting with Angela so I had just been flipping channels for the last couple hours finding myself unable to sleep.
"I fell asleep while they went on a walk and after Tempe and Seeley got back he took Parker…sorry I didn't mean to keep you up." He said sinking onto the floor between the two beds.
I turned the TV down and rolled over and rested my head on his shoulder and wrapped my arm around his neck. "You were talking to Brennan then. You doing okay?" I asked him.
He turned and looked into my eyes, "What is it with you two?" He asked me with a sad smile.
"Jared, I have known you since you were in high school."
"She knew that Becca and I had been friends without me saying anything and she just sat there and listened to me. I totally never would have thought she would do that after what I did to Seeley but it is really like she is family. I can totally see why Seeley loves her so much if she is really that forgiving."
"She just understands the difference and importance of family." I told him.
"What do you mean?"
"Her parents left when she was in high school and then Russ left and she ended up in foster care. A couple years ago we found her mom in bone storage and Booth helped to catch the guy who killed her and in doing so they found her father and she got back in contact with her brother."
"Are you serious?" He asked. She had only told me she had an abnormal childhood and that she didn't want to talk about it…now I understood why.
"Booth helped show her what family was."
"She asked me if I was okay and I just kinda spilled my guts to her. She sat there practically holding me until Seeley got back."
"So how are you doing?" I asked him.
"I thought I was okay but with Parker…I just…it makes me think of Becca." He said leaning his head into mine.
"Are we going to sleep at all tonight?" I asked patting the bed beside me.
"I have known her almost as long as I knew you." He told me.
"You stayed close even after what happened between her and Seeley and you are scared to tell him because you think he will think you went behind his back."
"Are you guys telepathic?" He asked me sarcastically pushing himself up off the floor and collapsing on the bed next to me.
"We have to get up in four hours."
"I have slept less." He told me.
"Emotionally charged and physically exhausted to go to Disneyland." I said sarcastically.
"You worry too much. It is the happiest place on Earth." He said closing his eyes.
I threw the blanket over him and rolled to face him with the only light being that from the glow of the television. "Are you going to run again when we get back home?" I asked him.
"I didn't run…" He started to object.
"Jared you joined the Navy when we heard he had been captured and you thought Seeley was dead. When the stuff happened with your parents you got yourself transferred to the west coast. When you found out Seeley was going to ask Becca to marry him you transferred over seas. You finally come back and you push away everything with alcohol until he told you he wouldn't save your ass anymore and we didn't hear from you for weeks until Cullen told us you were bringing Parker here…so tell me Jared. Are you going to run again?"
"I don't know." He said putting his arm over his eyes trying to cover the tears streaming down his face.
I scooted closer to him and pulled him towards me, he buried his face into my neck and I held him as his body shook with raw emotion. I think it was the first time he had cried since he was a child. He always bragged about never crying and being a real man whenever Seeley would show the slightest bit of emotion so for Jared to be crying into me it was huge.
I held him in my arms until he caught up to his breath and the tears had stopped flowing. Kissing him on the forehead I whispered, "Now you are a real man Jared."
He snuggled himself around and looked into my eyes, "Thanks Camille." He said drawing out my name.
"You feel better now?" I asked wiping a lone tear from his cheek with my thumb.
He nodded his head and looked over at the clock. Five-thirty. "You want to go for a walk?" he asked.
"How about the hot tub?" I asked.
"Even better." He said sitting up and smiling.
We changed back into our swimsuits and walked down to the hot tub area and climbed in. "I am totally coming back to sleep after lunch." He said putting his arm around me.
"If we can even make it that long." I said poking his side.
We sat and talked for about fifteen minutes or however long it is the jets are set to go for and then we walked back up to the room to get dressed for the day. When I came out from the bathroom Sweets and Jared were sitting on the bed arguing over who had the coolest shirt.
"Guys seriously are you ten?" I asked. "We totally have to get you guys some classy clothes while we are here in LA."
"Come on Cam what is wrong with my shirt?" Sweets asked me. He was wearing a lime green t-shirt with some sports logo on it. It looked like one he got in high school or something.
"You both are getting Disneyland shirts today…in fact…we all should." I told them pulling them both up and out to the hallway where we met a very bouncy Parker.
"Hey Little Man!" I said as Parker ran over to us.
"We gotta go hurry up fast so we aren't late. Daddy says that they are opening the park special for us and we don't want them to think we don't want to be there." He said all in one breath.
"You look well rested." Angela said smiling at Jared and I.
"Did anyone sleep last night?" Jared asked.
"Bones and I got a couple hours." Booth answered.
"Jack and I fell asleep around three." Angela said doing a little dance.
"Well I got plenty of sleep. Looks like Parker and I will be dragging you all around today." Sweets said winking at Parker.
"Where do we go in Booth?" I asked once we got to the main entrance area.
"Just follow." Booth said leading us around to the side. "The breakfast is going to be in Mickey's House and they said they should have a special surprise for us waiting there." He said as we walked through an unlocked gate that had a young employee waiting to open it for us. The guy led us through tunnels and down a staircase to more tunnels that went beneath the park until finally going up another set of stairs coming out in the back of Mickey's House.
They had a picnic table set up in the front that had piles and piles of food on it. "Dig in!" Jack Sparrow said jumping out from behind a tree and putting a Pirates T-shirt on Parker with a special Pirate belt to hold his knife. "You young Sir appear to be the one in charge of all these Pirates therefore making you the Captain so I give you my hat in hopes that you will carry on our Pirate Traditions. This…" He started handing Parker a special Lanyard, "This is for you to acquisition Pins from every different Disneyland employee. If you succeed in acquiring said Pins and find yourself in possession of twenty or more by our Noon meal you will be in fact the true Pirate Captain and will be given an even greater prize that will be shared by all of your crew. Do you accept the challenge young Pirate Captain?"
"Yes Sir Captain Jack I totally do!" Parker said jumping up and down.
"This is going to be a long day Sweets I hope you are prepared to baby-sit." Booth said to Sweets as we all sat down to eat. Putting the two of them together as leaders for the day would certainly keep us moving. Hopefully I could sneak off and take a nap somewhere at some point.
