Return from Notre Dame

Time travel can have some interesting consequences… like crazy guys kidnapping people. BB

Rebecca sat across the table, looking thoroughly confused. "What?" she blinked.

Booth and Brennan consulted in rapid fire Italian, and reaching their conclusion, they nodded decisively at each other. "Maybe it would be best is we went back to our place to discuss this. There are some other things you should know about it, not to mention everything else. It would probably be best if it was just you and Parker coming," Booth told her, looking at her boyfriend Graham mistrustingly.

Rebecca shook her head, suddenly making her own declaration. "Whatever you can say to me, you can say to Graham. We're engaged now."

Booth gave a dubious look to the weedy looking man. "Who, him? You're engaged to him?" he couldn't help it, but a chuckle slipped from his lips.

Graham's arm snaked around his fiancée's waist, and Rebecca's hand came to rest on the table, a large diamond wound her ring finger. Brennan placed a hand on Booth's leg, calming him. Instead, he raised his hands in a surrender. "Fine, he can come. I was just surprised." His gaze darted to Brennan, who was looking at him sternly. "Congratulations. And nice ring."

Rebecca smiled tightly. "Thank you. Shall we?" she gestured towards the exit.

They all rose to leave, Rebecca beckoning Parker in from the playground. He came trotting in, chatting non-stop about the other children he had been playing with. Booth handed his son the cup of lemonade that he hadn't finished before he went to play, and smiled at him. Parker smiled trustingly back, and Tempe found herself thinking how much Parker looked like Orlando. Parker jolted her out of her reverie, waving enthusiastically. " Hello Dr Bones! Why are you here?"

Tempe had been running late from work, which was why Parker hadn't seen her before. Seeley saved her from having to answer. "She's with me, bud. We're going to go back to my house and have a nice long talk and we'll explain everything then, hey bud?"

Parker nodded, and piled himself into the car without any more thought.

Finally, they were back at Seeley and Tempe's house. "Rebecca, Graham, this is going to be really hard to believe," Seeley began, trying to ease them into the idea slowly, before they opened the door. "And you're going to have to let us explain before you make any judgements, okay?"

Rebecca and Graham nodded uncertainly. Parker merely grinned. Tempe slid the key into the lock, turning it slowly. "Also, you're going to have to disregard some fundamental laws about continuity…" he finished, smiling sheepishly at them as the door swung open.

It soon became apparent that they weren't alone in the house. Angela was shouting orders at two children from her standing position on the couch. "Stop! Please! Stop!" she was rifling through an Italian dictionary, looking for the words that the children might understand.

Before she could find it, Tempe butted in. "Cessa! Sono vergognarsi di voi! Comportarsi!" Stop! I'm ashamed of you! Behave! Orlando and Carmina immediately ceased running and throwing Angela's things everywhere, and came to stand in front of Tempe and Seeley, their heads hung low.

"Sorry," they muttered.

"You know better." Tempe said tightly. "Now go sit down," the two children trotted off obediently.

Seeley helped Angela down off the chair, apologising profusely. "I am so sorry, they're not usually like that,"

Angela just shook her head. "Remind me to never baby-sit for you guys again."

Tempe was surveying the damage. There were numerous lolly packets lying around, and a glass of red cordial half finished on the kitchen table. "I see they've had lollies. And cordial. Lots."

Angela grimaced. "I gave them the cordial, but not much. And I was only in the toilet for like, five minutes! They'd got out all the lollies by then. I tried to take them back but…"

Tempe nodded. "It's okay."

Seeley turned to their guests. "I'm sorry you had to see that."

Parker was gaping openly. "Who're they, Daddy?" he asked, sitting down next to them. Graham and Rebecca sat down themselves. Angela said goodbye, and Seeley and Tempe sat down too, their cheeks burning with embarrassment.

"Parker, this is Carmina, and this is Orlando. They're yourhalf-sister and half-brother. See, last week, while you were with Mommy, Zach, that's Dr Bones' assistant, made a time machine! 'Cept, problem was, me and Dr Bones were sent into the past, into Italy 200 years ago. We were there for five whole years, bud. I missed you. And while we were there, I married Dr Bones and we had Carmina and Orlando."

"Like in Back to the Future! Except, there was no future part. And Marty didn't marry Doc. And they didn't have kids, and…" suddenly realising he was babbling, he stopped. "Does that mean Dr Bones is my step-Mommy?"

While Parker's mind had not yet been conditioned to disbelieve in time travel, Rebecca and Graham's had. They were looking at them even more confused than they had been before.

Hi again! I know I said I was gonna delete this, but you guys were all so nice that I decided not to. So thanks a lot for that. I hope you like the latest chapter. Any tips would be good, 'cos I know that I could be better. Thanks again for all your kind reviews! I love you guys!

Luv, Candi