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Everything was silent on the way to Temperance's apartment. All CJ could do was shed more tears. She was confused as ever about her friend, about his dad, about everything. Booth didn't want to interrupt, he knew she was scared and he had to get her to a safe place and talk to Temperance.
At Temp's place: Booth knocks on the door, Temp looks through the eyepiece and he could tell she was being cautious. She sees that it is him and opens up. She has a piece in her hand.
"Jesus, Bones where did you get that?" Booth asks when he walks into her apartment, CJ following slowly still sniffling.
"At a gun shop. Don't worry it's licensed." She says as she puts the gun away in a drawer and looks at CJ who was sniffling. She gives Booth a questioning look of "what is going on?" Booth shakes his head to say "not now."
"Can, I take a shower?" Were the first words out of CJ's quivering voice.
"Sure, right in there." Temperance points to her bedroom and leads the child. She grabs some towels and another pair of sweats from the drawer to give to the girl to sleep in. CJ graciously nods and shuts the bathroom door. Booth is on the couch waiting for Bones when she comes back in. Bones sits next to him. "What's happened?" She questions.
"She tried to find her father on her own. A friend from school told her his father was an FBI agent in New York. The guy gave her some papers about her father's mission, now he's been murdered."
"Are the papers real?" Temp asks.
"I don't know. I thought maybe the agent wasn't real, but when my boss calls me on it and says that he is dead, he must have been working with the FBI or something. CJ is torn now because she thinks she killed the man by getting the information." Booth put his hands on his face rubbing it out of stress.
"Whoever knew he was giving her the papers didn't like it. He lead the men straight to her and they were done with him. What does this mean? He had something to do with her father?" Bones asks.
"I don't know. It has to be figured out in the morning, I guess. I'm going to stay here with her if you don't mind. I can't risk someone coming after her again, and now I am wandering if it safe to have her here. I don't want you in any danger either." Booth responds.
"I'm find I can take care of her and myself." Bones argues.
"Yeah, well I'm staying here despite what you think." Booth looks at her.
"Okay, are you going to try to ask her more?" Bones asks.
"Not at the moment. Unless she wants to talk." Booth says.
At that moment Bones gets up and starts to make some coffee and tea for the girl. Booth sits in silence. The door finally opens to the bedroom and CJ walks out with her blond hair in a pony tail and the sweats that Bones had given her. She takes her place quietly next to Booth and curls herself up holding her legs with her chin resting on her knee caps staring blankly at nothing.
"Here you are," Bones says as she gives the girl some hot tea and hands Booth some coffee. They both say thank you and Bones herself sits in a chair beside the couch.
"So does this mean Michael's dad wasn't an agent?" CJ speaks.
"No, he was an agent, but I don't think he was the good kind." Booth says.
"Crooked?" CJ looks at Booth somewhat astonished.
"Could be, but we don't have to talk about it right now. You need to get some sleep." Booth says.
"I'll get some blankets." Bones excuses herself to her room.
"I want to talk about it now though. I'm more confused then ever, Booth. I don't know what is what anymore." CJ says.
"What ethnicity were the men?" Booth asks realizing that he should have asked her that from the get-go.
"They were all American. That's all I know. Oh, and one had a tattoo or something on his arm, though I don't know what it was because it was dark." CJ says. "The only reason I know that is because when the arm wrapped around my mouth I remember seeing it on his forearm."
"Anything else, CJ? Anything at all?" Booth asks.
"No, I'm more concerned on the men's plans for me and my dad." CJ says.
"Here we go." Bones says as she walks back into the room. Booth and CJ get up from the couch and the girl is the one who makes the bed.
Booth starts making phone calls from outside Temp's door. "Yes, I'm wandering about the agent killed." Booth starts talking to his boss.
"The man wasn't a crooked agent. I don't think he meant for the men to follow him. Of course from the coroner's point he was dead not long after he gave the papers to CJ." The man on the other side of the phone says.
"Was there anything on him, the real papers perhaps?" Booth asks.
"No, they might have them. Though, I don't know how he would have had access to anything like that. There might be something bad happening here Seeley. We don't know yet. We are still investigating. Maybe CJ should go into protective custody." He says to his agent.
"No, I'm not letting her out of my sight until this is over. We have got to find out what is going on. Her father worked in New York I'm assuming the agent found the papers that way. Have you found out what kind of mission he is on?" Booth asks.
"We looked into it. It has to do with some underground things going on here in Washington with some crooked law makers. He had been sent to Virginia to start with, he actually went undercover with some of the men who we had hits on." He explains.
"And what kind of men are we talking about?" Booth asks.
"The kind you don't want to deal with, who have power. I think that is why he went missing. He found some things out, they may have found him out and he ran. I don't know that yet. Like I said we are working on it." He continues.
"Alright, I'll be there in the morning." Booth breathes out loud.
"Get some sleep. We'll figure this out, an agent dead, and another one being threatened along with family involved, I'm putting my full attention on this I promise." The man says and hangs up his phone.
Booth closes his flip phone and walks back into the apartment where he sees Bones and CJ sitting on the bed made couch sipping their drinks in silence. "So did you figure anything else out?" CJ says.
"Your friend's dad," he pauses. He doesn't want to say it to make her feel worse, but they promised to share all information. "He wasn't a crooked agent. And he knew your father." Booth finishes.
"So, he led them to me because?" CJ asks.
"That's what we are trying to figure out. You're going with me in the morning to the FBI." Booth says.
"So, is that all you are going to tell me?" CJ tries to argue.
"That's it for now." Booth says.
"Ugh." She utters and rolls her eyes in frustration, getting under the covers.
"I'm going to bed." Bones speaks up emptying her cup into the sink. She didn't even know if they would hear her.
"Goodnight, Bones." Booth nods.
"Goodnight." CJ repeats.
Bones then goes into her room and shuts the door.
"Well, goodnight CJ." Booth kisses the girl on the forehead.
"Where are you going?" CJ asks.
"Nowhere, why?" Booth asks with a smirk.
"It just looked like you were getting ready to leave is all." CJ shrugged.
"I'm not going anywhere, I told you that and I keep my word." He smiled. "Oh," he said grabbing a bag he had brought in and opened it to grab something. "Here." He smiled handing it to her.
Her grim face immediately lightened up. "Is this thee Eeyore?" She smiled.
"The very one, I bet you thought I threw it away or had given it to Parker didn't you?" He smiled. CJ grabbed and hugged the stuff donkey tightly. Booth had given the stuffed pet to her for her 10th birthday to cheer her up when once again her father couldn't be there. The military school didn't allow such things so Booth promised he would keep it for her when she visited.
"Thank you," She says with a small tear in her eye and sat up and gave Booth a tight hug.
"You're welcome." He says hugging her back. "Now get some sleep. I'll be right here, okay?" Booth says as she lays back down and nods. Booth turns one of lights out and pulls the sofa chair closer to the couch, his gun ready at his side for anyone who dared to mess with him and his family.
A couple hours later.
Bones comes out of her room to see Booth is surprisingly still awake watching the girl sleep peacefully.
"I was wandering if you ever slept." Bones smiles as Booth looks up at her in her pajama pants and sweatshirt with her hair tossed in a messy pony tail. God, she looked so cute.
"I was wandering the same about you." Booth smiled back. Bones sits down in another chair beside Booth. "Did I tell you how she got named after me?" Booth says in a quiet voice not to disturb the girl sleeping.
"No. Though I thought it odd." She says back.
"Me and Luke had been in boot camp together same company and all. We were fire fighting one time-" he is interrupted by the look Bones gave him. "No not as in fighting a fire with hose, I mean in gun battle." He looked at her and she nods and her mouth makes an "O" giving understanding what he had just said. "Anyways, in the middle of it all I see a gunmen targeting him from a building up above. I pushed him out of the way when the shot was fired. Luckily, neither of us got shot. He immediately went back into position and fired back killing the man." Booth explains Temperance looks at him almost giving him an "I'm sorry" look. "Bones, it wasn't one of the bad times, it was a good time. We won that fight. Later when it was over, Luke thanked me, he showed me the picture of Lily, his wife, and said that for saving his life he was going to give his kid my name." Booth laughed in remembrance. "I asked him what if it was a girl. He told me it didn't matter, she was going to be named Seeley and she was going to know me and what I had done for her father. Then he made me promise that if anything happened to him that I would take care of Lily and the baby." He paused in thinking.
"And you said yes." Bones smiled.
"It took me a minute. I told him that there was nothing to promise, that he was going home and get to see the baby grow up and be with his wife. Then he said he believed me, but he still wanted me to promise. So I did. Fortunately, we got done in time for him to see the little girl born, and unfortunately her mother suffered an aneurism during the birth. They couldn't save her." His face went grim in sadness.
"You really do care for her like she was yours, don't you?" Bones asks changing the subject somewhat.
"I promised him I would protect her," Booth gears away from her question.
"Say it, you care for her, admit it. There's nothing wrong with admitting that you care for her like you do your son." Bones says.
"I admit it," he looks at Bones whose face is only inches away from his. They had been in this situation before, but this was different, he found himself, and her, inching toward one another.
Bones stops right as their lips are about to touch and pulls back. "Well, I'm going to try to get some sleep before the alarm clock goes off." She smiles and gets up.
"Goodnight again, Bones." Booth sits back in the sofa disappointed.
"Goodnight." Bones says and walks into her bedroom.
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