Um so I suppose that I should apologize for the delay. Summer was kinda not as I had hoped and I didn't get as much writing time and so I'm sorry for leaving y'all wondering what happened to the story. But until school gets super hectic I hope to be able to continue to write somewhat consistently.
As for some of the comments that were being left, I feel like I should explain myself. I feel that Booth would act kinda childish in a case like that, especially if he was looking for attention or just being silly. And as for a kid showing him up, I think that is feasible. You know, kind of making a statement. But at any other time if you feel that I am going out of character, please point it out so I can explain it or change it.
As for all the lovely comments, I must thank you for reading and letting me know what you think.
And that's enough from me, it's almost time for football anyway. Go Eagles! Go Booth and Brennan! Go Bones!
Chapter 6
Lily headed straight for her bedroom upon entering Brennan's apartment. She flopped on the bed, too tired to even take a shower. Despite being physically exhausted her mind was racing. She hadn't had that much fun in a long time and it felt good to be carefree, or at least somewhat. The biggest thing on her mind, however, was when Theo's hand touched hers. Though cliché and often the part of the movie that she criticized, she could feel a stream of electricity through her body the she could still feel now. She peeled back the covers, hoping that she cool down and fall asleep. It took three cycles of the air conditioning to kick in, but she finally fell asleep.
…
It wasn't the sound of the honking cars that awoke Lily, nor the police sirens in the background. Instead it was the light tap on the door from the rap of Brennan's knuckle.
The door slowly swung open followed by Brennan's head. "Lily?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah," replied Lily, quickly sitting up. "Is something wrong?"
"No, no. Booth and I got called into work today to meet with counsel on a case that we closed a few weeks ago and the guy wants his right to a speedy trial. We have to meet with the prosecution and go over all the details. The only problem is that Booth has his son and we were hoping that you could watch him for a while."
"He has a son?" asked an incredulous Lily.
"Yeah. Sorry, I don't want to seem like I am imposing upon you, we just thought-"
"Don't worry Dr. Brennan. It's fine. I watch my cousin all the time at home."
"You're a live saver Lily," said Brennan with a smile. "Um, Booth should be here really soon." The quick knock on the door followed by the shout of her name let them know that Booth was there. "The door is open!" shouted Brennan. "I'll let you get dressed."
Lily thanked her and quickly made her bed before throwing on jeans and a t-shirt. She went out to the kitchen to find Booth knotting his tie while using the toaster as a mirror.
"Good morning Lily," greeted Booth. He jiggled his leg. "Please get off my leg Park." From behind Booth's leg came a mass of blond curls that quickly disappeared. "Come on Parker, you are never this shy. Say hello to Lily."
The blond curls appeared again, this time followed with a face. "Hello," he mumbled so quietly that she had just barely heard him.
Lily knelt down to his eye level and smiled. "Well hello Parker," she replied. She extended her hand. He looked at it for a few seconds before returning it weakly.
"Bones we're gonna be late and I really don't want to listen to Caroline…" warned Booth.
"Okay Booth. I'm ready. Um feel free to do whatever you'd like." She pointed towards the kitchen. "There are some cereals. Never mind." She reached into her pocket and thrust some money at Lily before Booth started pulling her away. "Theo will arrive in a little bit."
Before Lily could even say good bye the door shut. She shrugged and headed out to the living room where Parker sat on the couch, his fingers playing with a loose thread on the pillow that sat on his lap. His gaze was focused on the corner of the room furthest from where Lily stood.
"Okay then Parker. What would you like to do?" She looked around the room trying to find things to do. "We could watch some cartoons." The boy still didn't look up. Lily sighed and sat next to him on the couch, placing her arm around him. "Well then Parker, if you don't tell me what you want to do, we can just sit here together and admire the wallpaper. I feel that the beige wallpaper really speaks to the room. It makes it the perfectly calm room to unwind after a hard day. The way the sunlight hits it makes it seem like the room is bigger and I bet that at night the effect with the light from the lamps is the same. How do you feel?" Lily smiled as she looked straight ahead; she could feel the little boy trying to contain his laughs.
He tried to stay quiet but Lily swooped in and started to tickle him. The boy rolled onto the ground laughing.
"Okay, okay. Stop!" Lily obliged and sat back as the boy stood up. "Could we make something for breakfast?"
"Of course." Lily walked into the kitchen. "Um… well it doesn't look like she is a cereal fan. How about we make some pancakes."
"Can I help?" Parker tried his best puppy dog face, and Lily smiled.
"Of course."
….
The process of making the pancakes created a trail of flour and other materials that covered the extent of the kitchen. Parker had syrup on his fingers and everything that he came into contact with picked up the property of sticky. Just as Lily was ready to ass the dishes to the dishwasher there was a knock at the door.
Slinging a dishtowel over her shoulder she told Parker to go wash up while on the way to answer the door. She pulled the door back to reveal Theo standing there. He wore black cargo shorts and a white T-shirt. His hair was a mess, telltale of the fact that he just woke up. As he stepped in she could smell some sort of body spray and instantly she was reminded of the previous night. She willed the thoughts away as she shut the door again.
"Um, so what are we doing here on a weekend? I picked up the phone like half asleep and I don't remember anything."
"Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan had to go to meet with someone for court."
"Oh and we get stuck babysitting for the day, how lovely," whined Theo.
"Get over it."
Theo looked at her and glared. "No, I think not. I don't like being treated like—" Theo shut up as Lily shoved a piece of bacon in his mouth.
"Please, get over it." Theo glared as he chewed the bacon.
Just then Parker came running through the kitchen stopping between Lily and Theo. He grabbed Theo's hand, and with all traces of the initial shyness gone, Parker dragged the duo into the living room.
"Look, look!" exclaimed Parker while jumping up and down. He was pointing towards the couch where the cushions were propped up against a coffee table and a quilt used to make a fort. Theo looked to Lily, who shrugged in response.
"Come on guys! Come play army with me!" Theo shrugged and took off his shoes before getting on his hands and knees and following Parker into the dwelling.
Lily shook her head and muttered, "Boys."
…
Half an hour later Lily sat in her bedroom reading a book. The boys were in the living room playing their game and Lily decided that she should let them be. She turned the page and heard a creak that certainly didn't come from the book. She rolled over and faced the doorway to find a socked foot. She marked her page before getting up to investigate the disturbance.
"Ahhhhh!" screamed Theo and Parker as they appeared around the doorframe and threw socks at her before running away.
"Hey!" shouted Lily before picking up the socks and running down the hall to get them. This time, however, the living room was transformed into a fort that spanned the room.
"Come out, come out, where ever you are," she said as she looked around for any signs of one of them. She saw movement to her right and acted, rolling across the floor and pelting the side with socks.
"Man down, man down!" shouted Theo in mock injury. "Requesting backup."
"I'll save you!" shouted Parker. He appeared from behind the couch and threw a sock that went up and over Lily's head right for the shelf of artifacts behind her. A vase perched on the top shelf was hit and immediately it wobbled. Lily jumped in an effort to get to it before it fell, but her foot got tangled in a blanket and she ended up face first on the ground. The vase hit the ground with a resonating crash and shattered.
"Uh oh," said Parker. He moved to the vase and looked at what he had done. "Now Bones is gonna hate me." He started sobbing and ran down the hall out of sight.
Theo squatted next to Lily who was still on the ground. "I'll tell you one thing," he said. "If we're ever in a chase of some sort, I don't want you covering my ass because you'll trip over a rock or stick or something." He smiled and extended his hand to her, which she took.
"Thanks for the confidence," she replied sarcastically. "Look, go cheer up Parker and I'll try and fix this." Theo nodded and headed down the hall in search for the boy. Lily headed over to the mess. The medium sized vase had split into a few pieces though most of them large though some were on the smaller side. She scooped them up and then brought them to the kitchen. She would need glue, toothpicks, and Q-tips. She found the glue and toothpicks in the kitchen and headed towards the bathroom to get some Q-tips. On the way she passed by Brennan's office where Parker and Theo were. Curious, she stopped to listen.
"Come on dude," urged Theo. "It's okay. Lily's going to fix it back to the way it was and it'll be perfect so that no one will ever know what happened."
"Can she really do that? Make it perfect?"
"Of course she can. She's very good like that." Theo patted Parker on the back. "Come on buddy, let's go watch her work her magic." Parker sniffed and then Lily heard the chairs move and she headed back to the kitchen before they saw her.
…
It took her an hour, but she got the vase back to standing and the cracks almost invisible.
"Wow!" shouted Parker. "You're very good!" Parker hugged her. "Thanks!"
"No problem Parker, but I think that for the rest of the afternoon we should find a kid friendly thing to do."
"Hmm," said Theo who was also sitting at the table, though working on a crossword puzzle. "How about we go back to my house. My younger sister is Parker's age and I have more kid friendly things than good ol' Doc here does."
"Good idea," said Lily. They cleaned up the living room and made sure the place was spotless before getting ready to leave. Lily was about to shut the door when the phone rang from inside the apartment. She ran back inside to pick it up when the answer machine clicked over and she heard Brennan's voice.
"Hello."
"Hey Lily, it's Booth. How are things going?"
"Um good. We were all going to head over to Theo's house because there are more… kid friendly things to do there."
"Yeah, the house is like a museum. Um I called because Bones and I may get stuck here longer than we thought. It looks like we won't get out until late afternoon."
"That's okay. I think that we can manage on our own."
"I should hope so. Alright then, talk to you guys later."
"Bye Agent Booth."
Lily hung up the phone and left the apartment t o where Theo was parked. He drove a black Honda Accord and he leaned over to open the care door for her. She climbed in and buckled up.
"Off we go," said Theo.
…
Theo Girard lived in a home that was not much smaller than the home of Jack Hodgins. As Theo pulled into the driveway Lily was imagining what it must have been like to grow up in such a big, beautiful home. Once parked, they got out and Theo's mother was waiting at the door.
"Theo I thought I told you to do your laundry last night!" she scorned. "Oh sorry, who are your friends?"
"Mom, this is my colleague, Lily Walsh. She's the science genius that I was talking about. And this is Agent Booth's son, Parker."
"Oh he's so cute." She extended her hand towards Lily. "I'm Maggie and it's nice to meet you."
"Same," returned Lily with a smile.
"Well I'll let you kiddies do what you feel. Theo, your sister is upstairs in her room."
Theo nodded and the rest followed inside. If the outside was beautiful then there existed no word to describe the inside. The foyer had marble floor the caused sound to reverberate throughout the high ceiling area.
"Samantha!" shouted Theo. "Get down here!"
"Um, isn't it easier just to walk upstairs and get her?" asked Lily.
"Probably." A little girl of about seven years walked downstairs. "Parker, this is my younger sister Samantha." The kids stared at each other for a moment. "Now, go play!"
"Wanna come see my room?" asked Samantha.
"Okay." Parker followed Samantha up the stairs.
Once out of sight, Theo turned to Lily. "So, what would you like to do?"
"I don't know what there is to do."
"Okay then. Come on, the game room is downstairs." They headed to the basement where there was a big screen TV and a variety of video game consoles. "I was, well am, kind of spoiled."
"No, really?" Lily sat on the sofa. "Do you have Call of Duty 4?"
Theo went over to the Xbox. "Hell yeah I do." He threw her a controller. "We'll play online."
…
"Come on Theo, get the guy!" shouted Lily. Two hours later, they were still playing the game. Theo was surprised that Lily was so good, however once they got used to each other's playing style they became a very deadly team.
"I'm trying! Where's my sniper support on the southern flank?"
"Um trying to defeat the guys coming up the ladder that are kicking my ass." The screen went dark signaling the game was over. They had lost by one point.
"Thanks a lot Theo." Lily got up and headed towards the piano that was in the corner.
"What, you are going to blame this on me? I think not, in fact I think that if you didn't take the stupid bolt action rifle you'd have been able to take out guys faster."
"Don't start on me. I've saved you many times." She started playing a simple tune on the piano similar to The Entertainer.
Theo had no reply because he knew it was true. Instead, he moved over to where she was by the piano. "You're good."
"Thanks. My dad played and then he wanted me to play too."
"My mother made me take lessons when I was like eight and I can play like half of one song."
"Really?" She scooted over, allowing him to take over. "Play it."
He laughed. "I'm nothing in comparison to you."
"Just play." He sighed and started playing the right hand portion of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
"Told you I was lame."
Lily laughed. "You're not lame."
"Thanks for the boost." Just then there was a vibration and Theo answered his cell phone.
"Yo…oh okay… yeah we can… sure no problem… see you soon." He returned the phone to his pocket. "Booth and Dr. Brennan are finished. They said that we should meet them at the dinner."
…
After promising to come back at some point before the summer was over, Maggie allowed them to leave. The drive back to DC was quiet as Parker was tired from playing and being up early and Lily was busy thinking. Her mind was swirling with thoughts of Theo. She knew it was just some kind of teenage lust, but she was picturing a life in which he was always around.
"Did you hear me?" asked Theo again with a sideways glance.
"No, what did you say?"
"I asked if you wanted to listen to any music."
"Oh, sure. Pick something."
They pulled up to the Diner singing Queen's bohemian Rhapsody. Parker had nodded off at some point somehow not awaking with all the terrible singing.
"Lily, look." Theo pointed to a couple in the booth ahead of them, which she realized were Booth and Brennan. They were sharing fries off a plate and staring at each other in that love struck teen kind of way.
"How long do you give before they cave?"
"Not long now. I mean seriously, how long can two people dance around each other's feelings?"
"A while."
Lily got out of the car and gently nudged Parker to wake him up. He was still groggy so she offered to give him a piggyback ride into the dinner. Once inside Parker jumped down to hug his father.
"Hey bub, did you have a good day?" Parker talked about everything they did while Lily and Theo slipped into the booth opposite Brennan. Parker sat on Booth's lap as he told about the events.
"Oh and I learned that Lily is very good at fixing things."
At hearing that, Brennan's interest seemed to peak. "What do you mean?"
"Nothing." Their saving grace was that everyone's dinner had arrived. Lily smiled as she ate. Seeing Booth and Parker happy and Brennan watching happily made her miss her family, but she was happy to know that there were others in the world that still had the love and compassion for others.
"Who wants ice cream sundaes?" asked Booth. There was a unanimous yes.