I would like to thank Bellabun, my favorite reviewer (and you all should too) because otherwise I would not have been motivated to stay up till 2 in the morning writing this chapter, true i didn't post it until tonight, but hey, i can't spoil you too much. And I hope you like it, I slightly was shocked when I wrote it, but it just seemed to fit, so hopefully you will be shocked too.

Chapter 6

Repercussions

Angela just stared as her friend walked into her office the next day, smiling. She followed her friend and closed the door behind her.

"You slept with him!"

Brennan turned to her friend shocked, how does she know? "I don't know what you're talking about, Ange." She avoided looking at her friend and turned on her computer.

"Please, you're walking on air at the moment and you won't look at me." She saw Brennan blush and she knew she had hit the mark. "So how was he?"

"Okay, I feel slightly uncomfortable talking about that now, no wait, at all."

"Alright fine. But I will get information from you at some point." She grinned at her friend, God she had deserved last night so much. "Well, how was the dinner part of the evening?"

"Short."

"What!" This so wasn't like Brennan...

"Well, we got to the restaurant and we were talking and then I asked if we could get out of there. God I'm wishing we had eaten something." She just continued typing on the computer as she talked over he grumbling stomach, as if they were talking about nothing at all. The lack of response caused Tempe to look up from her work.

Angela's face was shocked. "You just asked to leave?"

"Yea, you know, we were flirting and then when I saw Booth, I asked if he wanted to get out of there." She went back to her work, satisfied with her answer.

"Wait, Booth was there? And you were flirting?" Angela grabbed her friend and pulled her to the couch. "Bren, explain what happened after you left the office." So she told Angela what had happened down to every detail. And as she finished, Angela sat back, speechless.

"Ange, you're scaring me. You always have an opinion."

"You want the truth Bren?" She nodded her head. "I think that Booth..."

" Booth what?" Brennan was confused why her friend had stopped talking.

"Yeah, Booth what?" She turned to her office door, where she found Booth leaning up against the door frame. "Okay, don't reply. Brennan, I came by to see if you found anything out from the second body." He used her last name, making her feel the intensity of the cold shoulder he was giving her.

Brennan stood up and walked to her desk, put on her lab coat, and walked past Booth. "Well, apart from what we found out yesterday, no." She walked down the hallway of the lab, trying her best to be professional.

"What do you mean, what you found out yesterday?"

"Oh, what Cam didn't tell you that we've identified the victims?" She was so caught up in trying to make him upset that when she turned the corner, Brennan ran into someone, causing her to nearly fall over.

"Tempe! I'm so sorry. I was just on my way to find you." Boyd said laughing. "I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to interview the family?" He graced her with a smile, which she quickly returned.

Booth, on the other hand, was about ready to knock this guy's lights out. "Boyd, I believe that I am the agent in charge of this investigation." He said stepping forward.

"Of course, Booth. I just figured Tempe and I could do the gruesome work while you check out the boys' teachers. They were the last ones to have seen them." He continued, confidence glowing. "Do you know the names of the teachers? I could get it from the file for you." He said indicating the manila folder in his hand, as he put his arm around Brennan.

Booth had had it; Boyd's arm trying to snake around Brennan's waist was the last straw. He pulled his fist back and punched Boyd square in the face, brining him to the floor.

Pulling his hand away from his now rapidly bleeding nose, Boyd called to Booth, who had turned and started walking out the door. "I hope you know I'll be informing Cullen of this."

Booth turned toward the man who was on the floor, finding Bones crouched down next to him. She looked up at Booth with a confused look on her face, unsure of whether to be mad and yell at him, or proud of how he had hit him. Proud! He just hit your boyfriend, why would you be proud?

Seeing her come to the realization that she was on Boyd's side, Booth replied, "I hope you do." And with that he was out the door, leaving a hurt doctor and a bleeding agent behind.

"I should have at the least had you suspended for this, Booth." Cullen fumed across his desk. "But you're too damn good and we need you in the field right now."

"Thank you, sir."

"Don't start thanking me yet. You are from this moment on, banned from this case and Agent Boyd will be taking over your role in the investigation. You are now being reassigned to the Delvaugo case in New York. Your flight is leaving tonight at five." Cullen stood from his desk and looked at Booth. "Now you may say thank you."

Booth was momentarily speechless, but quickly stood up and solemnly replied. "Thank you, sir." He turned and reached to open the door.

"Booth."

He turned to look at his boss, "Sir?"

"Off the record. Did you hit him hard?"

Booth smiled, "Hard enough to bruise my own hand. Pretty sure I broke his nose."

"Good." Cullen surprised Booth with a chuckle. "Now go pack Booth."

"Thank you, sir." Booth walked out of the building laughing to himself. Who knew that Cullen cared about Bones?

Brennan opened her door and threw herself onto her couch. It had been a long day, and things had only gotten worse after Booth had left. She had gotten in a fight with Boyd over him calling Cullen. He got pissed at her for defending Booth and stormed out.

Angered, Brennan then got into a fight with Angela. She recalled the argument and started to hate herself.

"You haven't told him yet!? He deserves to know."

"I just haven't found the right time yet."

"You can't just continue keeping things in and lying to him."

"Oh, what only you can do that?" Angela had suddenly regretted what she had said.

"Of course, turn everything on me, just because I don't go out every night and party with a new guy every night, doesn't mean I don't live my life." She was fuming at that point and just kept going. "Because you are the perfect role model right? Everyone should get pregnant after dating a guy for only a month!" At that point she stormed out of the building past a confused Hodgins.

"I am such an idiot!" Brennan yelled at herself. She remembered the hurt look in Angela's eyes as she had turned to leave. And to top it all off she had yelled loud enough for the whole lab to hear, meaning Hodgins now knew, and it was all her fault.

She was torn out of her self pity when the phone rang. She looked at the caller id, but she didn't recognize the number. "Hello?"

"Hi, is this Dr. Brennan?"

"Yes. May I ask who's calling?"

"Oh, right, sorry. It's Rebecca." She had met the woman a few times before and she was nice enough. She even understood the woman, when she had explained why she refused to marry Booth. She was an independent, capable woman and she respected that, but why was she calling?

"Oh, Hi." She was suddenly filled with fear. Had something happened to Booth? She hadn't heard from him since he had left that morning, and he hadn't responded to any of her messages.

"I know that this is probably a lot to ask you but, as you know Seeley's out of town for work." What is she talking about? "But he had promised to take Parker for awhile because I'm supposed to go and see my mother, she's kind of dying, and doesn't have much time left, but I now have no one to leave Parker with." Brennan tried to understand what the woman was saying, she was talking so fast. "And I was hoping maybe you could watchParkeruntilSeeleygetsback?"

"I'm sorry, what?"

"I was wondering if you could watch Parker until Seeley gets back?"

Hah! Me with a kid! "I'm really sorry, but I'm not very good with kids."

"He won't be any trouble at all, I promise, and it won't be for too long. I just have no one else to ask and I really need to see my mother."

"Are you really sure you want me to watch Parker?"

"Yes. Booth talks so highly of you, and you even know martial arts, so you could protect him, which you shouldn't need to. I just…please?" She sounded so desperate.

Brennan grummbled to herself as she answered, "Alright."

"Great! I'll drop him off tomorrow at your office around four. Thank you so much." And with that, Rebecca hung up the phone, before Temperance could reconsider.

What the hell did I just agree to?

Brennan walked around the table to see if there was anything she had missed on the bodies. She had been going over them all day and still had nothing. Then again, she wasn't exactly focused. Why didn't he tell me he got reassigned? Or that he was going out of town? Or that he was supposed to have Parker? Temperance knew that he would have been glowing over that last part and wouldn't have been able to keep it to himself.

She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she didn't notice Boyd scan himself into the platform and come up behind her. "So got anything?"

"Huh, oh, no. Nothing." She turned to face him. "You?"

"Well, by what the parents said, no. But then I went and interviewed the teacher and she said she could have sworn that the dad had come and picked up the kids. But get this, the dad denies it. My bet is that it's the dad."

"And the mother had no clue that her husband had picked up the kids. I don't know."

"They've been divorced for a year and it was his week with the kids. I think that the dad picked up the kids and did something to them, you know, lock them up so they wouldn't have to go back to their mother and he said that they were kidnapped. But after like two weeks, the kids try to get away and the dad tries to stop them, accidentally killing them."

"Do you have any facts to back it up?"

"The dad is a construction worker who was working on the demolition. So he knew about it and had access to the sight."

"Well, it does seem--" She was cut off by a sudden scream.

"Dr. Bones!!" Parker ran up onto the platform causing the alarm to go off. Brennan scooped Parker up into her arms and walked over to the edge of the platform telling security that it was alright.

"Hey, Parker." She looked down at the child that clung to her. She was slightly shocked; after all, she had only met the kid two or three times. Boyd just stood on the side, baffled as to what was going on. "Where's your mom?"

"She was too slow, so I ran ahead." He said giggling. "I'm happy you're letting me stay with you." He looked up at her and whispered into her ear. "I like you."

She smiled at the kid in arms and walked down the stairs to find Rebecca.

"Thank you so much. Okay, here's his stuff; clothes, toys, books, movies, some snacks." She said as she handed over two huge bags of things.

"How long did you say you'd be gone?" Brennan grunted as she took the bags.

"I didn't. Give mommy a kiss goodbye." She kissed her son on the forehead as he refused to disentangle himself from Temperance. "Thanks. Bye!"

Brennan looked down in her arms and asked herself what she was doing. "Do you want to go into my office and play on the computer?"

"Yeah!!!" Maybe this won't be so bad. She turned and took Parker and his things into her office, where he sat in her chair and found his way to some online games. She was shocked that he could already do that at such a young age.

"Parker, I'm going to be working outside. If you need anything let me know." She turned to leave, but turned back and added. "But don't come onto the platform, you'll set the alarm off. Oh, and don't go anywhere unless you ask me. And don't talk to strangers."

She walked back towards the platform and thought about the last thing she had said. Don't talk to strangers? We're in the Jeffersonian, who can he talk to that you don't know?

God, I'm starting to sound like a mother…she grunted as she walked back to Boyd, thinking about how this was the last thing she wanted in life.

Okay, in my defense, Parker is a big part of Booth's life and if Brennan is going to be apart of it, she needs to know Parker better. And plus, parker is just too cute. Alright, so I'm half way done the next chapter so keep your fingers crossed; it should be up soon.

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