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Chapter 9

Park(er) Fun

"Hey, what are you doing here?" She said as she opened the door and allowed him to enter her apartment.

"Well, when you didn't show up at the lab I got kind of worried. And then you didn't answer your cell phone when I called so I decided to come by."

So that's what the annoying beeping sound had been, my cell phone. "Boyd that was really sweet of you but--" A sudden sound of a crash caused Temperance's head to snap in the direction of the bathroom. "PARKER?!?"

She ran to the bathroom quickly followed by Boyd. They found Parker on the floor of the bathroom next to a laundry basket that he had apparently fallen off of. A sob escaped from the boy, "I was trying to reach my toothbrush."

Brennan bent down and brought Parker's still wet form into her arms. She rocked him on her hip and telling him that everything was going to be alright. She kissed him on the head and with her empty hand grabbed Parker's toothbrush, put some toothpaste onto it, and held it up so that he could brush his teeth.

Still in her arms, Parker finished brushing his teeth and looked over at Brennan. "Can you dry me off now? Daddy normally helps."

"Alright, lets just get you into your room." She walked out of the bathroom and turned to Boyd. "This'll just take a second." He nodded in response and watched from the doorway as Temperance took the boy to his room.

Brennan put Parker down on the ground and begun to dry him off, occasionally tickling him in the process. His fits of giggles filled the apartment accompanied with her carefree laughter. Soon, they were finished and he was dressed and ready for their day of fun. They returned to the living room where Boyd had retreated to.

"Sorry, but I'm not going to be able to come into work today. I have Parker."

Boyd bent down to face him. "Hey, little man, how've you been?"

"Sam! Are you here to play with us today? We're going to the park."

Boyd stood back up and looked over at Brennan. "If I'm being invited…"

Temperance smiled back at him. "You are."

"Well, in that case, I'd love to come with you guys." Parker jumped up and down but quickly calmed down as he grabbed their hands and pulled them out the door.

Booth pulled up to her apartment building and got out of his car. He climbed the stairs two at a time and quickly reached Brennan's floor. He knocked on her door a few times but received no answer. Putting his ear to the door Booth was greeted with only silence. Figuring they must have gone out for lunch, he started for the stairs.

"Are you looking for Tempe?" A voice stopped Booth and he turned around. It was one of Bones' neighbors.

"Yea, have you seen her?"

"Well, judging by the little boy singing 'we're going to the park, yay!' over and over again about 15 minutes ago, I think they went to the park."

"Thank you!" Booth said as he started for the stairs again.

"No problem."

As they walked into the park, Parker immediately took off for the jungle-gym. Brennan and Boyd took a seat on a nearby bench and began to talk.

"So you already know Parker?" Brennan asked curiously.

"Yea, I met him a little while ago and I see him every once and while when Booth has him. Booth never mentioned who his mother was, I guess I now know why…"

"What! No Booth and I….Parker's not…we didn't…not mine." Brennan stumbled to find the words to assure her boyfriend that nothing had ever happened between her and Booth and that Parker wasn't hers. In the back of her mind though, for some reason, she just didn't want to dent it and just let him believe it.

"Sorry, I just assumed when Booth went out of town and you had Parker, I just figured…"

"No just doing a favor." She blushed for some reason unbeknownst to her.

"Dr. Bones, will you push me on the swing?" Brenna got up from her seat along wit Boyd and walked over to Parker.

"Hence why Parker calls me Dr. Bones." Boyd just laughed at her comment as she picked Parker up and put him into a child swing.

Brennan began to push him in the swing but quickly tired after awhile, not realizing how much effort it took to push a kid in a swing. She sat in a swing next to Parker as Sam took over for her.

Temperance was about to get up from the swing when she felt a sudden rush of air as her swing was pushed forward. After the initial shock wore off, she looked around and saw Parker and Boyd giving each other a high-five and giggling at her.

"That wasn't funny." She said as she began to slow down. Boyd approached her from the front and started to push her backwards, causing her to slowly gain height. "Boyd! Don't! I will so get you for this and you know I will."

This only caused Parker to laugh even harder from his swing next to her. Boyd lowered her a little so that they we're face to face. "Oh really. You think you could actually get me back?"

"Oh I know I could." She said with a smirk.

"You wanna bet." By this point they were face to face. Boyd realized how close they were and couldn't resist. He closed the gap and pressed his lips to hers. She moved her hands from the swing to the back of Boyd's head, savoring his lips. The 'ewwwww' coming from Parker broke them apart, slightly breathless, after a few seconds. Boyd just laughed at Parkers reaction as Brennan raised herself from her seat on the swing.

"Sam, don't you know that girls have cooties?" Gaining an even bigger laugh from Boyd, and a feigned look of hurt from Brennan.

She turned to Parker and reached to pick him up from the swing. "So you think I have cooties, do you?" As she reached to pick Parker up from the swing, she instead began to tickle him, gaining shrieks of laughter from the boy.

"Sam….help me!!" Parker managed to squeal out in between laughter.

"Alright, if I must." Boyd smiled as he approached Brennan and began to tickle her until she nearly fell over in laughter.

"Boyd, stop!" He did as she asked and stopped tickle her and instead wrapped his arms around her waist as she leaned her head backwards against his chest.

Parker smiled up at them, but then made a serious face. "But, really Sam, girls have cooties."

Booth pulled his car into a parking stop that was near the park. After finding his way to the park, Booth scanned the playground trying to find Parker or Brennan. He spent five minutes looking, but he just couldn't find them. Figuring that he had just missed them, Booth turned to walk away, but stopped when he heard something.

"Don't! I will so get you for this and you know I will."

Booth hopefully turned towards the swings where he had heard Bones' voice come from. What he saw when he turned made his heart stop and then slowly break into pieces. Bones sat in a swing that Boyd was standing in front of, holding her up. They were saying something quietly to each other and then—. He stared as Brennan and Boyd shared a passionate kiss.

He silently thanked God for his son, when his words of protest brought them apart. He saw how Bones interacted with his son and he knew that his heart would have been inflated if it weren't for the fact that they were with Boyd instead of him.

Their shrieks of laughter made him turn away hurting. He started for his car deciding that he needed a drink and that afterwards he would pick up Parker. He glanced behind to see them one more time and then mentally kicked himself for doing so. Bones was picking up a gleaming Parker from the swing while she was leaning up against Boyd, who in return, had his arms wrapped around Bones' waist.

Yea, that drink is looking pretty good right now…

Parker laughed as he slid down the slide for the millionth time. Brennan caught him at the end of the slide and brought him into a huge hug, causing Parker to go into another fit of giggles like he had done every time she caught him. Parker jumped from her arms and ran to climb the stairs to the slide. As he did so, Boyd came up behind her and held her.

"You're amazing with Parker." She turned her head and smiled at him.

"That's ironic, seeing as how I don't want kids." Boyd responded with a light kiss. "Wow, most guys normally seem to complain about that."

"Well, I'm not most guys." He gave her a devilish smile.

"Yea, you seem to have a much larger ego than most."

"Hey!"

"Here I come Dr. Bones!" Parker screamed from the top of the slide.

As she caught him this time, Parker didn't jump out of her arms, he just hugged her closer, which Boyd noticed. "You tired, buddy?"

"Yea."

"I'll go get the car." Boyd said as he pulled the keys out of his pocket.

"Alright we'll meet you at the street." Once Boyd had left, Temperance sat on a bench, with Parker still holding onto her tight. "What else is bothering you, baby?"

Parker pulled his head from her shoulder and looked up at her. "I miss daddy."

"It's alright, he'll be back soon and once he does you can go back home with him."

"Are you going to come with us?" He looked up at her innocently.

"I can't, I have to stay at my house. But you can come and visit me."

"But don't you miss daddy too?"

"Of course I miss your daddy, but that doesn't mean I can just come and live with you guys." Brennan just imagined how much Angela would be enjoying this conversation if she could hear it. "I promise that we'll still spend time together when your dad gets back. Now we should probably go before Sam thinks we've abandoned him."

By the time they reached the apartment it was dark outside. Boyd had dropped them off and left promising to see her tomorrow. Once they changed into their pajamas, Brennan called for pizza.

"So what do you want to do before bedtime?"

"Can we watch a movie? Mommy packed a few in my bag."

"I don't have a tv…wait I have an idea." Brennan walked over to her bag and pulled out her laptop. After she set it up on the table in front of the couch, she told Parker to pick out a movie. Once he returned with the movie and she had put it in, he turned and asked her a question.

"Can we wait until we have the pizza to watch the movie?"

"I don't see why not, but the pizza won't be here for another ten minutes."

"We can play hide and go seek!"

"Alright, I'll count and you go hide. One, two, three…" Parker fled from the room and quickly situated himself in a nice hiding spot. "…Ready or not here I come."

Temperance began by searching the living room checking behind the couch and curtains and underneath the tables. Then she moved to the kitchen where she checked in all of the lower cabinets. The bathroom came with no avail along with Parker's bedroom. She made her way to her own bedroom and began to look around. He wasn't in her closet, he couldn't fit under her table, he wasn't behind the curtains and she lifted up her bedspread only to realize that the legs of her bed were actually larger pieces of wood that wouldn't allow a sheet of paper underneath let alone a five year old boy.

She sat on her bed in defeat. "Parker, I give up. Where are you?"

Suddenly she heard giggles coming from underneath her bed. "Parker? How did you get under there?"

At the end of her bed the foot board flipped up to reveal Parker crawling out. Brennan suddenly remembered that when she had put the bed together there had been two pegs missing and since there wasn't any actual weight being place on the foot board, she had left the bottom two go without pegs, making a hidden enterance to underneath her bed.

"That was a smart hiding place. How did you find it?"

"I always hide under the bed. But don't tell daddy, he always has a hard to finding me." Just then there was a knock at the door.

"Well, it seems that our pizza is here." Parker ran out of the room and to the front door.

"Hurry up Dr. Bones. I'm hungry!" Brennan laughed as she picked up her purse and opened the front door. But she suddenly stopped when she realized that it wasn't the pizza boy at the door.

So who's at the door? anyone have any ideas as to who? Iknow who it is. ;-D

Let me know what you think so far, and maybe anything you want to see and I'll try to see what I can do...