Sorry it took a few days, major writers block about half way through the chapter and i kind of got caught up reading other fanfics...but any way here it is

Chapter 8

Cleaning Things Up

Booth smiled as he looked at the text message. When he had read that it was sent from Angela, he was extremely curious. He quickly opened the message to find a short note along with a picture. He scanned the note, reading:

Thought I could brighten up your 'black and blue' day.

Here's a picture I thought you might want to see.

P.S. Next time, punch harder.

He laughed at what Angela wrote; apparently she wasn't as fond of Bones' new boyfriend as he had thought. He was interested in what the picture was, so he scrolled down. What he found made his heart stop.

It was a picture of Bones looking down fondly at the sleeping form of Parker in her lap. Her beautiful aburn hair was pulled back, but a few whisps of hair cascaded down her face and all he wanted to do was to be able to lightly brush them from her face. He felt a sudden surge of joy as he looked at the two of them.

She was running down a long dark hallway. At each door, she would run into the bodies. Not just those of Aidan and Lucas, but also the ones of all the victims she had been unable to save before.

They would stare at her with white eyes and reach towards her. Their mouths were sewn together but she could still clearly hear their voices calling out to her. "Why couldn't you help us?"

She kept running, but was met with a dead end. They came closer and gathered around her. The cries of the children, the screams from them; they hurt her, causing her to fall to the ground. The crying.

The crying…

Brennan woke with a start. She heard crying coming from a figure standing in her doorway and quickly worried that she was still in her dream. But as the small figure approached she realized that it was Parker crying. She opened her arms and the boy ran to her.

"What's wrong, baby?"

"I had a scarewy dream." He shook in her grasp as he let out another sob.

"It's alright, Parker. I'm here. Nothing's going to happen. It's over now." She whispered over and over again, until she felt his small body relax in her arms.

Deciding it would be best to let him sleep in her bed instead of moving him, she got up to retrieve another pillow from her closet. As she silently got up, a small scream escaped from the bed and Parker ran to Temperance.

"Don't leave me Dr Bones." Looking in his brown eyes she saw his fear and she instantly bent down and picked him up, taking him back to the bed.

"It's alright, I won't leave you."

"Promise."

"I promise." And with that, they fell asleep in each others arms.

Brennan was a workaholic and everyone knew it, even herself. But when morning rolled around the next day and her alarm went off at 5:40, she whacked the snooze button and went back to sleep. Until it went off again five minute later. At this point, she wasn't thinking clearly and she yanked the plug from the wall and turned back over.

As she fell back asleep, Brennan felt a small body snuggle into her and she remembered the events of the previous night – or this morning, depending on how you think about it. A small smile crept across her face while she wrapped her arms around Parker's sleeping form.

BEEP.BEEP.BEEP.

Brennan looked up confused; she distinctively remembered unplugging her alarm clock. Noticing that the clock was in fact unplugged, she glanced around the room trying to decipher what was making that annoying noise this early—She grabbed her cell phone and shot out of bed.

10:30! 10:30?? That can't be right!

She stared at the empty bed for a few minutes before realizing that Parker wasn't there. Hundreds of scenarios played through her mind of things that could have gone wrong while she was asleep. Shaking her head, Brennan jogged into the living room.

"Parker?" She looked around the room trying to find the boy. "Parker?"

"Dr. Bones, your awake!" Parker popped his head out of the kitchen. "You looked happy sleeping so I didn't wake you and I wanted to make you breakfast, like in bed, like daddy did for me once and so I decided to make you breakfast to make you even more happier."

She walked towards the smiling boy, relived that he was safe.

"No!" He ran out to her, stopping Brennan from entering the kitchen. "It's supposed to be a surpwise."

She laughed at the boy's eagerness and then at his appearance. He had some how managed to cover himself in probably every thing possible from her kitchen.

"Alright, I'll be on the couch…" She sat down and opened a book that she had left on the table.

A few minutes later, Parker appeared next her. "I'm finished!" He tugged her up from the couch and pulled her towards the table.

Glancing down at her 'breakfast', she wondered if it was safe for her to actually eat it. He had made her toast, minus the toasted part because he couldn't work the toaster, which had butter and jelly spread on top along with something else that was green which she didn't recognize. Also there were probably three different types of cereal mixed in a bowl with orange juice in it, along with a glass of milk.

"Thanks Parker, this looks delicious!" She feigned the comment, but the smile that appeared on her face was completely real. Parker was so proud of himself, that while he was jumping up and down, he didn't realize that Brennan had thrown out most of the breakfast.

"Okay, buddy, we need to get you cleaned up." Along with my kitchen. She noticed the milk and orange juice on the floor and the smears of jelly all over the counter and cabinets.

Parker ran down the hallway towards the bathroom. Brennan followed close behind and turned on the water as Parker got ready for his bath. "What are we doing to day, Dr. Bones?"

"Well, we could…um….what do you and your dad usually do?"

"Daddy and I play at the park and watch movies, but not scary ones because I get bad dreams, and we play catch, and we play hide and seek and play at the park! Can we do that today?" Parker asked as she rinsed the shampoo out of his hair.

"I don't know if we can do all of that today, but we can start." He clapped his hands in excitement. As she pulled Parker out of the tub, there was a knock at the door. "You start to dry yourself off while I get the door, okay?"

Parker looked up at her as she wrapped a large towel around his very small body. "Okay."

Temperance got up from the floor and walked over to answer her door. When she opened it she was slightly surprised by who was standing there.

Booth walked out of the interrogation with a slight hop in his step. The investigation was over and he was going home earlier than expected to see his two favorite people. What could be better?

He got into his car and double checked to make sure that he had all of his luggage. Once he was set to go, Booth pulled out of the parking garage and made his way to the airport. The traffic wasn't too bad and he got to the airport in no time at all.

Once he exchanged his plane ticket and was checked in, he sat waiting for the plane to board. He sat for a few minutes doing nothing, but couldn't take the waiting and the silence, so he turned to the person sitting next to him.

Although she was very attractive and obviously traveling alone, the first thing he noticed about the women next to him was what she was reading. Bones' face stared back at him from the back of the book that he was looking at.

"So do you like that book?" He asked casually to the woman, giving her his charm smile.

The woman looked up towards Booth and smiled, clearly liking what she saw. "It's a really good book. Have you read it?"

"A few times. I personally like that Andy Lister character." He laughed inside thinking about how he knew that the character was based off of him and how whenever he asked Bones about it she would deny it, a little too quickly.

"He is quite amazing. I would love to meet someone like that in real life, but I don't think he exists. I mean, he risked his life so many times to save Kathy, he's extremely moral and old fashioned in how he treats her, he's such a gentleman."

"I guess you could call him old fashioned." Booth wasn't really sure if he personally could be described as that, after all, he did kind of get Rebecca pregnant and they didn't even get married. But still, the character had to be based off of him.

"Her life must be so interesting."

"Who's?" Booth was confused, weren't they just talking about Andy?

"Temperance Brennan's, the author. Her life must be exciting, I mean, I doubt that she is coming up with the whole thing from her imagination, so it must be based off of her life."

Booth was mostly talking to himself when he answered. "Her life's not that great. And she works way too much."

"What?" Booth had temporarily forgotten that he had even been talking to someone.

"Bones—I mean Brennan. She works way too much, whether it's a case, some 500 year old remains, or she working on her new novel, she spends a lot of her time working."

"You know Temperance Brennan?"

"Yea, I'm her partner, Special Agent Seeley Booth."

"The one she dedicated her book to?"

"Yes…"

"So you're Andy Lister!?"

"Flight M832 for Washington, D.C. Now boarding."

Booth stood and prayed that the woman wasn't on his flight; otherwise she might spend it asking him questions about Bones and her book and he might just have to strangle her. It's not that he didn't like thinking and talking about Bones, it was just that he didn't like the way their conversation was going. Luckily for him, she didn't stand to get on the flight. But she did continue to stare at him, hoping for an answer to her last question.

"So are you?"

He smiled and picked up his bag. As he turned to leave he called over his shoulder. "Well, I have saved her life a few times and I do try to hold the door open for her when she lets me."

He boarded the plain, leaving the woman behind, and found his way to his seat. Booth couldn't help but glow at how proud he felt for his Bones right now. He put on the flight headphones and listened to the radio as the plane took off.

A little while later Booth was awoken by a flight attendant poking him. "Sir, you're going to have to adjust your seat back to the upright position. We're about to land."

He looked out the window and saw D.C. below him and realized that he slept through the whole flight. It was probably because he hadn't slept very well the night before after he had seen the picture; he was just too excited to get home.

After claiming his luggage and finding his car in the parking lot, Booth tried to think about what to do. He was unsure if he should go home first or if he should go directly to Bones' place. She does have Parker after all, so it only makes sense…

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