Sorry for the wait, but life kinda got in the way. For those that waited patiently evil glare to those that didn't and you know who you are I thank you for the fact that you are reading. For those wondering what's going to happen I do know where I am going it just may take some time to get there. But you'll like it... I hope. For now, enjoy.

Chapter 5

The sun was shining brightly on the Hodgins estate when they showed up. Lily was amazed at the size of the home; she had no clue regarding Hodgins financial status until Brennan had mentioned something about the nearly Olympic sized pool next to the hot tub and the mini bar. The house was bigger than Derrick's, her rich best friend from home. Booth parked the car next to the garage and the four got out of the car and headed for the front door.

Upon Angela's urgings, or demands rather, they were forced to return back to homes and retrieve the appropriate summer wear. Lily was glad that she actually packed a bathing suit. She assumed that she would spend the whole time busy at work, but in fact was rather glad that the end of the week was finishing with a relaxing event. She also hoped to use it as a chance to check out the team outside of the work environment.

Four o'clock was rapidly approaching and before the girls knew it, Booth was calling to say that he had arrived to pick them up. All right was restored, as the adults sat in the front. Theo gave Lily a knowing smile.

"He made sure that I would sit in the back," he said.

"Did not!" shouted Booth in return. Brennan turned to him.

"Sorry Booth, but I believe the kid." Booth mumbled something as he pulled away.

Now that they had arrived at the Hodgins estate Booth appeared to cool down a bit. Lily thought it was funny how much he acted like a child. She found it cute that he was in touch with his inner child. It was sort of like a comedy act.

Once inside, Hodgins appeared from the kitchen dressed in a Hawaiian shirt that matched Booth's. Angela and Brennan sniggered, laughing at the dreadful looks they gave each other.

"Aw how cute," remarked Lily daringly. "They match."

Brennan went along. "Aw Jack, you didn't tell me you and Booth conferred on your clothing choices for the day. How sweet." Booth and Hodgins gave the women dirty looks.

"Okay seriously, I'm not liking this intern thing. All you people do is bash me. I don't think that I can take this for another two months." He quickly pulled off his shirt and threw it to the floor with meaning. "I'm going to find a drink in this castle." He stomped off towards what he assumed was the kitchen with three pairs of eyes following his toned upper body. When Hodgins noticed he scoffed at Angela's entranced look. Lily caught herself, but not before the image was implanted in her mind. She smiled to herself and found herself following Theo as he went with the others to the patio.

True to the rumors the backyard was huge. There was room for grilling with a table under an umbrella for relaxing. A minibar was perched against the house. In the grassy area under the shade of an oak tree was a trampoline. But the most dominant form of the backyard was in fact the pool. However the pool itself appeared to belong in the landscape with a small waterfall generating serene sounds.

Hodgins gestured to the table that had food set up on it. "Help yourself to whatever you'd like. I'll start grilling in a bit." All of the adults headed immediately for the table, sitting down and grabbing drinks. Lily went away from the adults, opting to jump on the trampoline. As much as she wanted to sit with them and enjoy the relaxation she preferred to watch their interactions from afar.

She rolled onto the squeaky trampoline and deposited her sandals on the ground. She was on for only a few minutes before Theo strode up to the trampoline.

"Mind if I join you?" He jerked a thumb towards the adults. "They are talking about stuff I don't care about."

"Of course," replied Lily with a smile. She was glad that he was actually willing to talk to her. She could tell from the way he looked and the way he acted that he was one of the popular kids. She wasn't in school, not since middle school before he parents had left. After that she threw herself into her studies.

They were jumping, but before they knew it got old. Instead they mutually stopped jumping and lay down on the trampoline to enjoy the natural shade of the tall oak. Lily's eyes traveled towards the adults on the cabana as their laughter was carried through the air. Lily couldn't help but to notice that Brennan's gaze remained on the shirtless Booth who she sat next to.

"When do you think they'll do it?" they both asked each other at the same time. They exchanged glances and quick laughs.

"Who knows?" questioned Theo. "Though the sexual tension is palpable. I don't know how anyone could work with them two." Theo began removing his sunglasses and shirt. "It's hot out here. I think I might go for a swim." With those words he quickly ran towards the pool and cannonballed into the cool water.

Lily opted not to sit by herself and instead moved towards the adults who were preparing to get into the pool. Lily removed her sandals and shirt before joining Theo in the pool. The cool water was a godsend in the heat of the summer. She swam a few laps around the large pool before noticing the Theo was watching. She lifted herself to the edge of the pool allowing only her feet to remain submerged.

"What?" she asked him curiously.

He simply shrugged. "Nothing…" Their conversation was disturbed by the slashing of something in the water. Lily turned her head to see that Jack had thrown a wide variety of Funnoodles into the pool.

"Noodle war!" shouted Booth as he jumped into the pool and grabbed a blue piece of the foam. Theo reached for a red one and began a sword battle with Booth. Lily laughed as they mixed Lightsaber techniques with the moves of the Matrix to create a humorous battle.

"Dude, we should have jousting battles!" said Hodgins excitedly. Theo came over to Lily.

"Get on my shoulders, we're going to joust." Lily looked to see that Angela was already on Jack's shoulders and Booth was having trouble trying to coax Brennan onto his. With a shrug she slid onto Theo's shoulders and his hands went to her thighs so that he could keep a good grip. He handed her "lance" as they lined up to face Jack and Angela. Brennan had finally agreed to get on Booth's shoulders though it seemed that he was afraid to hold onto her.

"Let the jousting begin!" shouted Booth.

After a few rounds it was clear that Theo and Lily were the better jousting after knocking down the others two time s a piece.

"And the dynamic duo of Theo Girard and Lily Walsh prove to be the triumphant victors in the world of pool jousting. And the crowd goes nuts!" Theo hissed as he said so raising her hands in the air.

"Yeah, but I bet you can't win in pool wrestling," growled Booth as he lunged for Theo. Lily quickly fell back into the water as Theo dived to the left to avoid Booth's swipe.

"Booth, stop being a sore loser," warned Hodgins. "I'm going to start dinner now anyway."

Booth and Hodgins went to start cooking while Brennan and Angela were preparing drinks. Lily retrieved a flotation device from the shed and lay on it, using the sun to dry her before dinner. Theo was swimming around the pool and purposely bumped the raft when he swam under it. Lily laughed at his antics enjoying the relaxation time.

Theo stopped and swam beside her, leaning on the side of the raft. He shook his head, which sent water droplets flying through the air and landing on Lily.

"Thank you Theo, I really appreciate that one."

He smiled. "Anytime."

"Well is there a reason why you are here?"

"Well I'm here because my parents decided to have a kid and then they wanted me to have the best opportunities to make it into the FBI so they made me apply for this thing. That's why I am here."

"Well thanks for your life story."

"Hey if those adults are going to keep pushing us out if their conversations we might as well know each other." Lily considered for a moment.

"Okay then. What's your full name?"

"Theoren James Girard. What is the stupidest thing you've every done?"

"That is most likely irrelevant to anything that we'd need to know."

"Hey I've got nothing but time at this point." Lily glared at him before thinking. "I suppose it was with my best friend Derrick on Halloween. We went around throwing eggs at house for the hell of it. We went to this old guy's house because we knew that he never gives out candy. We started throwing eggs and he came out and started to chase us down the street. We ducked under some bushes to lose him. He called the cops and they stopped us as we were on our way back to my house. We had egg spilled on our shirts but we lied to the cops saying that we were at the civic center at a cooking class. They believed it and we got away."

Theo began laughed. "Wow, that sounds like fun to me."

"Well it was at the time, until the cops came. I guess that makes it my turn. What was the best moment in your life to date?"

Theo's face was contorted in thought, but he saved by Booth shouting that dinner was ready.

…

Dinner passed quickly as everyone savored the easiness of the dinner. Despite being near a hundred during the day, the temperature had dropped quickly, leaving the ones in wet bathing suits cold. Dishes were brought inside and Hodgins lead everyone to the basement where they were shown the big screen HDTV.

"You know Hodgins, if I didn't know any better, I'd think that you were showing off," said Booth as he marveled at the size of the television. "Next year we are having a Super Bowl party here."

"Sure Booth," replied Hodgins. "Only if Angela approves though." He clapped his hands together and moved to a chest that sat in the corner. "I figured that since it was too cold outside to swim or do something, we could watch a movie together. The only problem is that we have to decide on one, together."

It took ten minutes of arguing and an intervening butler to finally decide on a movie. They went with something with the chill factor, a horror movie classic, Friday the 13th.

...

Jack and Angela lay together on a couch as they watched the movie, occasionally making comments as the characters were killed off. Lily lay on the floor using a blanket as a pillow as Theo sat up beside her, using the table behind him as a support. Booth and Brennan sat side by side on the other couch, whispering comments to each other. As the movie winded down, Brennan began getting loud with her pondering over why people would play strip poker at a summer camp, or why people would continue to explore deaths even when they know that there is a killer around.

The music turned peaceful as the movie ended the others began to prepare to go to sleep. However, as the decrepit body of Jason screamed from beneath the lake, Lily couldn't help but to laugh at the reactions of the others (she had watched the movie with her father a long time back and he had laughed at her response to the movie). Angela had screamed and jumped into Hodgins arms. Brennan had let out a scream and gripped Booth's arm so hard that he had screamed in pain. But the reaction that struck her the most was Theo's. He hadn't screamed, nor did he visibly jumped. His hand had flown to hers and gripped it tightly. She looked down at their hands, then up at him, and then at the hands again.

"S-sorry Lily," he mumbled and pulled his hand back as if he had touched a stove. "I was caught off guard."

"Come on you two," said Booth, unaware of what had happened. "Time to go home."