Disclaimer: I do not own Bones or any of the characters in Bones.

Summary: A new addition to Booth's life throws all the character's specially formed relationships for a loop, as they are constantly being forced to ask just what or who really matters.

Waking Up

Agent Seeley Booth was just having one of those days when everything seemed to be going wrong. First his alarm hadn't gone off this morning so he was late leaving for work, then Starbucks had screwed up his order and it was well known that people shouldn't mess with Special Agent Seeley Booth's coffee. Then as if the morning wasn't bad enough he didn't even make it to his desk before his superior called him and told him he had a case. So he had to turn around and go pick up his partner Dr. Temperance Brennen from the Jeffersonian Institute and fight traffic all over again. The rest of the day was spent gathering evidence and questioning people who insisted on lying to him.

The only agreeable part of his day was the time he spent alone with his partner, even if they did bicker most of the time. It was friendly bickering and it was just one of the many reasons that Booth loved her.

Anyways, it was finally the end of the day and he had been hoping to gather his work together and take it home for a nice and relaxing evening, but fate just didn't seem to want that for him. On his way to his office, Matt Randolph, one of the runners stopped him.

"Agent Booth!" Matt called hurrying down the hallway and into the elevator with him.

"Yeah Matt?" Booth asked a little bit impatiently.

"I'm supposed to tell you that there's a girl waiting for you in your office." Matt ran off quickly, hoping he wouldn't be on the receiving end of Booth's bad mood.

"What does she want?" Matt grew more nervous as Booth's tone turned sour.

"I don't know. Agent Macklin screened her. I was just sent to let you know." Matt sucked in his breath as he waited for Booth to reprimand him.

Booth watched Matt's reaction out of the corner of his eye and decided to take it easy on the kid, he was a good kid and Booth wasn't really mad at him. "Okay. Do you know anything else about her?"

"No sir." Matt answered refusing to look Booth in the eye.

Booth sighed. "Okay then Matt, thanks for the heads up." I am going to kill Agent Macklin for blind siding me like this. Oh well she's probably just here about the case. Might as well get this over with so I can get home Booth thought as he made his way out of the elevator and into his office.

"Hello I'm Special Agent Seeley Booth, how can I help you?" Booth asked as he walked through the door without really looking at her. As he seated himself at his desk he looked at her for the first time and nearly jumped out of his seat, his mother was starring back at him.

"Hi, My name is Amnity. I need your help." Her voice cut through the haze that was settling around his vision and he was able to see that this girl was not in fact his mother, his mother was dead. This girl's hair was slightly longer and a darker shade of brown, her face more round, her eyes were a shocking blue, like his partner's, instead of green, and she was much younger.

"What can I help you with Amnity?" He asked once he had calmed down a bit. While he waited for her answer he continued to evaluate her. He found that the skin beneath her eyes looked bruised and her skin was pulled tight across her face, like she wasn't eating enough. Even though it is summer and quite hot, she wore long sleeves and pants, and she was shivering. Her arms were also crossed in front of her as if she was holding herself in, keeping as much distance between him and her. The direction his thoughts took made him frown and she responded to that as if she was afraid of him, drawing even further back.

"I… my family died recently and I…, well I…" Booth nodded to himself as he watched her flounder for words trying to bring herself to say what she needed, but being unable to voice those needs. He felt bad for the poor girl who was obviously very affected by what had happened.

"Do you think they were murdered? Would you like me to look into it?" He hoped to save her some discomfort by finishing for her, figuring that was what she wanted, what else could she possibly want. He wondered who was heading the investigation now and why she wasn't satisfied with them. Although he and Bones had been ranked the number one team of investigators, so it wasn't too much of a surprise that she came to him."

"No," her quite answer shook him out of his thoughts again, "my parents died in a car accident. A drunk driver hit them on the highway…" her words trailed off into silence and she struggled to recover from the intense feeling of pain that washed through her body.

"Well then what can I help you with?" Booth questioned, thoroughly confused. He and his partner investigated murder, there wasn't anything he could do if she knew everything that happened.

"I have very few family members left alive, two cousins to be exact, and I was hoping that I could stay with one of them while I get back on my feet. I have no where else to stay and I was led to believe that I could find them here." Amnity hedged glancing around nervously, avoiding looking at his face.

Suddenly Booth has a sickening feeling that he knew just who her cousins were, but he asked anyways, hoping he was wrong. "What are their names Amnity?"

"Jared and Seeley Booth."

Author's Note:

This fanfiction will definitely play with the family set ups in Bones. This is a forewarning to not expect my set up to follow canon. I will try to go as close as I can to the original, however I do not know enough information to be completely accurate and my story may simply require I make some changes. A family graph will be added into the author's note section of the next chapter.

That being said I could use any and all information that people have on Booth's family.

I also apologize if there are any grammatical errors in my work. I do edit, but sometimes my eyes skip right over things. If there are any major things please let me know so that I can fix them.

Thank you and Enjoy!