Title: Blurring the Lines
Author: TheCritter91
Chapter: 7
Pairing: Jared/Wendell
Rating: M
Warnings: Slash, Swearing, possible Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Mpreg
A/N: alrighty, here is chapter 7! thanks for waiting for me... again letting you know that i'm basically ignoring the last season. Booth is getting together with Brennan, but she isn't pregnant, and obviously the Booth family is different than the show, but other than that and some of the obvious, the other characters were left alone.
A/N: As always, let me know what you would like to see in the fic reguarding the characters and their lives... flames will be used to roast marshmellows...
ENJOY ;)
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Stopping in Angela's domain in the Jeffersonian, Wendell looked around, spotting the woman looking through recent family pictures. Various poses of her, Hodgins and Michael were on the screen, causing Wendell to smile.
"Hey Angela, Hodgins said that you needed to talk to me." Wendell got her attention, causing her to abruptly turn around to face him.
She smiled at him and froze the slideshow of pictures, "Hey Wendell, I kind of need to ask you a favor." She told him, her smile turning from fond to hopeful, "As you know, our anniversary is tomorrow and Hodgins is taking me to New York for some gallery openings. Now I wouldn't ask this if I wasn't completely desperate, but the babysitter that we had lined up for this weekend got the flu and can't watch Michael." Wendell raised an eyebrow at her, knowing fully well where this was going.
"So we were wondering if you would watch him for us?" She finished, keeping that sappy, hopeful look on her face.
"I don't know Ang, you know that Jared and I adore Michael, but I don't know." He knew he wasn't sure about having a baby in the apartment for a whole weekend, let alone how Jared would feel about it.
But Angela went in for the kill, "Please Wendell? We would appreciate it and we would owe you both. So we could take you out for dinner sometime at any resturant you wanted, or anything else you might want or need."
Wendell knew he was breaking, "Alright Ang we'll take him for the weekend, but you owe us big time." He finished, smiling at her as her grin grew and she pulled him in for a tight hug chanting "Thank you" over and over again.
Wendell managed to extract her from himself after a few minutes of bone crushing, "So should I are you guys just going to drop him off at the apartment before you leave?" He asked.
"Well our plane leaves at six in the morning tomorrow, so I was thinking that if it's okay with you, we would just get him from the daycare and you could just take him home tonight. Because we will need to be at the airport at five in the morning." She suggested, leaving it up to Wendell.
Wendell began nodding, "Yeah that actually might be better because Jared is a bear if he's woken up early on his days off."
That just made Angela laugh.
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That after noon at three o'clock, Jared pulled up in front of the Franklin Roosevelt Elementry School. He had decided to take the rest of the day off and pick Parker up from school so they could spend some time together before Wendell got home from the Jeffersonian. He had called Rebecca and suggested the slight change and she had agreed that it would be good for Parker and he would love it.
Getting out of the car and leaning against the hood, Jared took in the surroundings. The younger kids, probably kindergarten and first grade, were meeting their parents or being hearded on the buses. He smiled as he watched a small, blond haired boy go running at was presumably his father and wrapping his thin arms around the man's legs. A shrill ringing of a bell sounded, and not three minutes later, the doors practically burst open and oceans of kids shoved themselves out of the school.
Pushing himself away from the car, Jared kept his eyes peeled for the familiar dirty blond, wavy hair of his nephew. It took him two minutes to find that familiar head. He walked towards Parker as the boy stopped and looked around for his mom. Just when Jared was close enough to call out to him, Parker stopped and caught sight of him.
"UNCLE JARED!" Parker yelled, sprinting towards the older man.
Jared laughed and leaned down to catch Parker before lifting him up in his arms and spinning him around in tight circles. After a couple of turns, Jared placed Parker down on the ground and knelt down to the boy's level, "Hey there buddy, your staying with me and Wendell this weekend and I thought that we could spend the afternoon together before he gets home. How's that sound?" He asked.
If it was even possible, Parker's grin got even brighter and wider, "Yay!" he yelled before grabbing Jared's hand and pulling him along to where he noticed Jared's car was. Jared laughed and let himself be pulled along. After making sure that Parker was buckled in, Jared rounded to the driver's side. Jared hadn't pulled away from the school yet when Parker started rambling on about his class and what they did the last week. Knowing that he could never keep up with what the boy was saying, he just smiled and nodded his head.
"What time does Wendell get home?" Parker asked, tilting his head at Jared.
Stopping at the intersection stoplight Jared turned his attention to Parker, "He'll get home about eight, so that gives us plenty of time to go get some movies and food for tonight."
"Pizza?" Parked perked up, casting wide, puppy dog eyes at his uncle.
Jared laughed and reached over to ruffle Parker's hair, "Sure thing bud" he answered before the light turned green and they were off again.
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Juggling his own bag, a diaper bag, and a baby carrier while trying to get his key in the lock of the apartment door should be considered an olympic sport as far as Wendell was concerned. It hadn't been that bad back at the Jeffersonian, but that was probably due to the fact that Hodgins had set up the baby carrier in the backseat of his car and Angela had dropped the diaper bag in the passenger seat along with his own.
Michael was happily cooing underneath the soft blanket that covered him from the cool outside air. It made Wendell smile slightly as he failed again to get the key in the lock properly. Just as he was about to bang his head against the wooden door in frustration, it suddenly swung open with a slightly confused Jared on the other side. Wendell gave him a lopsided smile and walked into the apartment.
Jared closed the door behind him and turned around to face Wendell. It didn't take him long to spot the reason for the blond's apparent struggle to get the door open on his own. The baby carrier was set on the coffee table in the living room with the blanket pulled down to show off Michael's smiling face.
"So, babe, why exactly is little Michael with you instead of Hodgins and Angela?" He paused, "Oh god! You didn't steal him right? You could have just told me and we could have gotten you a puppy or something." He joked.
Wendell rolled his eyes as he picked Michael up and cradled the infant against him, "Oh you are so funny. Yes, Hodgins and Angela are never going to miss him." The sarcasm practically saturated his voice, "No, they needed someone to watch him while they had a weekend away for their anniversary. Their babysitter got the flu and of course Dr. Brennan couldn't watch him because she and Booth are on a romantic getaway themselves."
Before Jared could think of his reply, let alone talk, Parker burst into the living room from where he had been in the bedroom watching a movie, "Uncle Wendell" he yelled as he made to launch himself at the blond. The flurry of motion was enough to break Jared from his moment of thought in time to catch Parker before he knocked over, not only Wendell, but Michael as well.
"Wait a minute Parker, Wendell's holding Michael so you can't jump at him." Jared told him as soon as he had stopped Parker in his tracks.
Parker tilted his head up at Wendell and took in the baby in his arms, "Isn't that Angela's baby?" He asked.
Wendell nodded, "Yeah, we're watching him while she and Hodgins go on a trip out of town for the weekend. Are you staying with us too?" He asked, directing the last part more at Jared than Parker.
"Rebecca had a last minute work meeting that was out of town and didn't have anyone to watch him, so she asked me and I told her we would. I didn't think that we would have extras." Jared told him, knowing fully well that he should have remembered to mention this whole thing to him.
But Wendell just smile and put Michael on the floor to crawl as he pulled Parker into a tight, yet brief hug, "We'll I'm glad that your here. We can have a lot of fun this weekend." Parker beamed back at him.
"Yay! Movie marathon and pizza party!" Parker shouted as he ran back into the bedroom where his movie was still playing.
Wendell turned his attention back to Jared as soon as Parker was out of the room, "Pizza part? Movie marathon?" he questioned, quirking an eyebrow at the taller man.
Jared held his hands up in surrender, "He put on the puppy dog eyes and then he totally blackmailed me."
"What kind of blackmail does an eleven year old have on a grown man?" Wendell asked, not entirely sure what to believe.
Jared just laughed, "The secret kind"
TBC
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A/N: Alright, all mistakes are mine and the fact that I don't have spell check. I don't own anything associated to Bones. Let me know what you think about the chapter and the artwork that I just discovered that we can add... I'm not too sure about it myself.