A/N: Here we go! Chapter Two. Ch. 3 may take a little longer, cause it's not written yet, but I'll be sure to get to work on it!


Name: Special Agent Seeley Booth

His secret: Sometimes he thinks that it actually would be better if Parker had never been born.

Of course, no one will ever know this. He knows that he'll never say the words aloud, for the fear of making them true.

But sometimes he does wonder how life would be.

Maybe it would be better for Parker, having no life versus one of unequal parents and a father he never gets to see. A life without the being shuffled from mom to dad and back again, a life without the sounds of shouting when everyone thinks he's asleep.

Maybe he would still be with Rebecca. Maybe it would've worked between them and he would have a wife, kids and maybe even a dog in the house with the white picket fence he's always dreamed about.

Maybe. But when he gets these thoughts, he pulls out his wallet and looks at the picture of his son.

And he remembers that day in the hospital, holding him for the first time. He remembers all the moments he's spent with him, and all the important events he's seen, even if he missed a lot of the others.

That's when he shoves the thought of a Parker-less life from his head and vows to never think of it again. Because even though he knows that he will, he thinks that maybe, one day, he won't.