BASIC
Booth on the phone "Bones I need to take the rest of the day off…. Yeah…. No…. Father stuff… Yeah… I'll call you tomorrow, oh and Bones… Go home and get some sleep you have been working all day." Turning his phone off, 'Once I get started I won't want to stop and then start back up again' he thinks walking into his office. "Come on Parker let's go."
In the car so many things a going through Booths mind, all the highs and lows, the good and the bad. All of the images flash before his eyes. He shakes his head slightly to clear his mind. Where to begin…
They sit in silence for a dew minutes, Parker taking in the park as they sit on a secluded bench. Booth however almost has no idea where they are. Too many things that he has been trying to forget he now has to remember. He has to remember them and tell them to his son. All of these things came flooding back when Parker said that he wanted to join the Army.
"First off I am not proud of what I have done by any means." Booth finally said. Parker is immediately attentive; his father has been in a painful silence for so long, he doesn't want him to stop because he is not paying attention.
'God Parker is going to hate me for the things I have done' Booth says to himself.
"They don't teach you what you really need to know about war in basic. Yeah they teach you how to shoot and how to fight, but they don't teach you how to deal with what you have seen and done. When they do talk about it, it is nothing like what they say. They don't tell you what it's like to kill someone or what it's like to find you buddy from back home dead, or what it's like in most POW camps. Maybe they really don't know themselves, but it is nothing like what they talk about." He pauses looking at his son for the first time since he has started, seeing extreme interest on his face.
"They don't tell you about the nightmares."