It is interesting that they chose to call in for each other to take the week off. It is interesting that she has been staying with him rather than him staying with her or them staying together. It is interesting that after Angela met with them at the diner she dropped all of the questions as to why they took time off together.
When I first started meeting with Agent Booth he said that all military stuff was completely off limits. When Director Cullen called me to find out why he had taken time off it peaked my interest though and Cullen gave me full access to his personal file, including what he did in the Army. If I wasn't scared of him before I certainly was after.
I was curious is Dr. Brennan knew what he had done, and if she did I wondered if it changed her view of him. After looking through both of their files I had to come to the conclusion that she knew he was a sniper, knew that he was in the military and knew that it was a sensitive subject. There were notes in both their files that he had shared classified information with her and I had to assume it had to do with what he has done.
I arrived early at Jack's house and was met by Angela. She ushered me into the living room and told me to wait there for Cam to arrive. I looked around at the pictures, the walls were covered with pictures. Some old, but mostly new. Of the team, all of the team. No newer ones with family. Interesting.
We got into a red Mazda CX-9, it did not even have license plates yet and the paperwork for a recent purchase was on the front passenger seat. "I did not mean go and buy a new car." Angela said sarcastically as she folded the papers and put them in the glove compartment.
"Well I didn't have a red one big enough for all of us." He answered starting the car and pulling out of the garage. When we started driving south instead of North I was confused, "We are getting Parker, Sweets, don't get your panties in a bunch." He said looking at me in the rear view mirror.
Ten minutes later we had Parker in his booster seat sitting next to me in the back row. "Sweets why did my Daddy tell me not to tell you about Dr Bones coming over to the house when I called her?" He asked me.
"You called Dr. Brennan?" I asked. I could see Angela and Jack up in the front giggling and Cam turned around to pay closer attention.
"Ya my Daddy was having a bad dream and he told me if there was ever anything wrong he said to call Dr Bones so I called her and she came over and we got to spend the weekend together and her and Daddy took me to New York to see where Daddy's friends died and then we got to go to the park after school on Monday before they took me back to Mommy's." He told me excitedly.
"Parker have you spent a lot of time with Dr Brennan?"
"Duh Sweets. When Daddy got hurt I saw her and Mommy let me spend lots of time with her while her and Daddy talked and then when we had to pretend Daddy died Mommy let me go hang out with Dr Bones everyday after school and still sometimes even after but Daddy didn't know until we went to the park where the dinosaurs meet the fishes on Monday."
"You had a secret from your Dad?"
"Duh." He answered before turning his attention to Angela and asking when we were going to be in New York. When Jack told him it would be two more hours he leaned against the arm rest and went to sleep.
I watched everyone's body language and listened to their conversations about nothing until I fell asleep only waking up to Dr Brennan climbing into the car and picking up a sleeping Parker. I watched as she held him on her hip as he slept on her shoulder. Agent Booth was talking to a few women who also had sleepy looking children inside of a small diner. I had to assume that they were the wives of his unit that died in the attack. I stood back as he introduced Angela and Jack to everyone and was surprised when Cam went up and hugged them all as if she had known them for years.
Dr Brennan sat down next to who was introduced as Terra, still holding a sleeping Parker against her chest and Agent Booth went over and sat down next to them. He ordered pancakes for the three of them and went back to talking to all of the ladies. The longer we sat there the more people joined us.
"Sweets come sit down with us and stop acting like a stalker." Booth finally called over.
"Sweets this is Terra, Derek's wife, Kristin, she was Mitch's, Carol and Phil are Adrian's parents, Tia was Jason's, Jason and Adrian are Carol and Phil's grandsons. Adrian and Gina were their parents, Adrian died in the attack and Gina died from complications from their early birth." He said pointing at twin boys who were barely older than Parker. "Destiny and Faith are Terra and Derek's girls, Allison, Aaden, Aaron and Alexis are Kristin and Mitch's kids." I knew I would never remember all of their names and I was flabbergasted at how many children were without a parent, or both parents because of the attack.
I watched at a man with a younger daughter walked over, "Sweets this is my friend Payton and her Dad Levi. Shelby was my roommate in college and was Miss Payton's Mommy. She died in the attack." Dr Brennan introduced.
"Well, now that everyone is here we should get over to the site for the memorial." Booth said taking a sticky Parker from his partner and wiping his hands and face.
So much loss, I was in high school when the attack happened, I am barely older than Allison and Destiny. I never really thought about the people who were hurt, the people who lost their families. I lived in California, the opposite end of the country. I remembered hearing about the economy suffering and a bunch of corporations trying to get people to fly again. Other than that I pretty much blew it off until today. Sure I felt bad for people but before now I never had a connection to what happened that day. Now I have a room full of connections.