Title: Blurring The Lines
Author: TheCritter91
Chapter: 9
Pairing: Jared/Wendell
Warnings: Slash, Swearing, Hurt/Comfort, Mpreg
Rating: M
A/N: I keep apologizing because I don't update regularly and I am sorry for that, truly! I take on so many WIP that I just can't seem to focus on one to finish it! URGH! I am going through your reviews to make sure that anything you mentioned that you would like to see gets put in somewhere. So long story short: if you want something to happen, let me know!
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"Alright people, you know the drill. It's time for those yearly exams. I will be taking each of you aside for blood work and Dr. Sweets will be taking you aside for a one on one psychological evaluation." Cam said, pacing in front of her employees and seeing their eye rolls. The only ones that didn't seem like they would mutiny were Wendell, Daisy, and Colin, but she didn't want to think too much on that. "And yes, they are mandatory and not in any way optional or up for debate." She said, cutting off both Dr. Brennan and Hodgins' protests.
As everyone disbursed to their own areas of the Smithsonian, she let out a sigh and trudged back to her office. If there was one thing she hated about her job, it was the exams. Everyone seemed to act like she wanted to give them a live autopsy, when all she needed was five minutes and a sample of their blood. Sometimes being the boss wasn't worth it, and made her want to mutiny herself, "Dr. Saryoan?" Wendell called, cutting off her thoughts and causing her head to jerk up to the doorway of her office.
Blinking a couple of times to try and get her bearings, "Yes Mr. Bray?" She asked. Wendell walked further into the room and paused in front of her desk, his smile understanding, "I was wondering if you could go ahead and take my blood work?" Cam gave a polite smile and nodded her head in agreement, "Okay, if you would just go over to the table I'll everything ready." She gathered the needles and vials and headed to the table where Wendell sat, his feet swinging back and forth like a five year old making Cam's smile become genuine.
Silence coated the room while she the required blood sample quickly and efficiently. She pulled the needle from his elbow and pushed a cotton ball against the puncture site. As she labeled the vial, Wendell cleared his throat, "When do I see Dr. Sweets?" Cam turned back to him, capping the marker in her hand, "Just whenever you get some free time." Wendell nodded and hopped down from the table, pulling his sleeve down.
As he opened the door to the office Cam called out to him, "Wendell," he turned back to her with his headed tilted to the side, she paused, "thank you." He grinned back, "No problem" he told her before walking out. She took a deep breath and went back to her desk. As she sat in her chair, she let out a heavy groan. It was going to be a very, very long day.
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"Grandpa what are you doing here?!" Jared grinned as he wrapped his arms around Hank for a tight hug. The older man just laughed and hugged just as tightly before pulling away and sitting back in his seat. He had called Jared and had invited him out to lunch, his treat, to catch up with his youngest grandson. After talking to Seeley he knew that some type of intervention was in desperate need for the two and he was not above meddling.
Hank put an affronted look on his face, "I need a reason to spend time with one of my favorite grandsons? Well that's news to me." Jared smiled as he fingered the menu in front of him. They studied their separate menus in silence, let it mold over them comfortably. While Seeley could talk to Hank for ages, Jared could also sit in silence with his grandfather and never have it feel awkward or strained. Jared constantly reminded Hank of his younger self, taking pleasure in the calm while Seeley was so much like his late wife that sometimes it made his heart ache.
"So when do I get to meet the young man that has managed to snatch you away from bachelorhood?" Hank asked, never taking his eyes away from his menu. Jared's head snapped up in surprise, his eyes wide with disbelief. Hank smirked, letting a small ounce of glee over take him. "H-how did you… what?" Jared stuttered.
"You didn't think that I actually knew you that well did you?" Hank asked, wondering how long Jared had been hiding himself away from the rest of his family. He knew his son well enough to understand why his youngest grandson was hesitant for everyone else in the Booth family to know, but he wasn't just anyone. And from what he gathered from his talk with Seeley, he and Jared weren't close enough to talk about anything in their personal lives to each other. He had a lot more to fix than he would have originally thought.
Jared looked like he was a floundering fish on the shore, "Grandpa" he whispered, whether in horror or relief Hank couldn't tell. Their staring contest was interrupted when the waitress came to their table for their order. With their silence broken, it was like a dam had burst open and Jared couldn't seem to stop talking, about Wendell, how they met, their trips with Parker, basically everything that Jared could think of. Hank's smile never left his face.
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It was late and she should be at home and in bed by now. Cam blinked her eyes furiously trying to keep her tired eyes open. She had at least a hundred and fifty results to go through still and it seemed like a never ending pile. She also had yet to start tackling the pile of paperwork from Sweets on the evaluations that he had conducted one on one. Sometimes the bigger paycheck was just not worth it, and this was one of these times.
Picking up a familiar file, she glanced through the results before signing off on it and putting it down. But something caught her eye at the last minute, causing her to pick it back up again. She looked at the results and froze at what she saw. 'There is just no way' she thought as she read the results for a fourth time. Standing from her desk she hurried over to the filling cabinet and pulled the top drawer open. Flicking through the names she came to what she was looking for and pulled the personnel file with a copy of the medical records.
She slowly walked back to her desk as she read through the file, taking in everything; towards the back of the file there was a small side note, barley a footnote that caused her to stop short; the small note that made the results of the blood test possible. 'Oh my god' Cam gasped as she dropped the file to the desk surface. Now that she knew, what the hell was she to do?
TBC
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A/N: Alright, so I know that this is shorter than the others, but I figured you guys would appreciate an update sooner than wait god knows how long for me to lengthen it. I've started the next chapter and I think that we're really moving now. Let me know what you think. I'm going back through the reviews for people who wanted to see something specific happen with any baby/babies so let me know if there is something you would like to see. Thanks! And thank you to all the people who have Subscribed/Followed this story.