DISCALIMER: I don't own Bones and i don't make any money from it.
Chapter 2.
"You lost her again, what did you do this time?" Booth asked looking at his girlfriend.
"How should I know, she was obviously upset before I came in," said Temperance looking back into his brown eyes.
"Let me guess you ignored her because of it," said Booth rolling his eyes.
"You know I can not talk to her when she's like that," said Tempe.
"Yeah like you are any better," said Booth.
"Will you stop blaming me everything something goes wrong," said Tempe, feeling a little bit hurt.
"Well mostly you are the fault," he said.
"I can't do this right now, I have a case to solve, will you please find her," she said grabbing the sheet of paper pushing the elevator button.
"And just where exactly do you think you are going?" he asked raising his brows.
"I'm going where the both of us was going to the mall to ask if anyone knew the victim," she said.
"And our daughter?" he asked.
"Booth," she raised her voice.
"No either I am going and you are searching or no one is going," he said in a serious tone.
"Fine go and see how much I care," she snapped at him as the elevator door opened and he got in saying, "I'll help you look if you haven't found her by the time I get back."
She didn't replay, just looked at her with angry eyes as the doors closed again.
When she was sure he was out of view and hearing, she found a private room and let her tears fall. There in the darkness the otherwise strong Temperance Brennan fell to her knees and cried.
She even covered her ears to shut the world out and let everything out.
She had become the opposite of what she thought she be… The worst mother in the world.
At least in her eyes. She felt like she couldn't do anything right and that her daughter hated her most of the time. And if it was one thing Tempe hated it was to feel like a failure.
It was like the role of motherhood was the one thing she couldn't do. She felt lost when it came to her daughter and how to handle it.
"Napkin," she heard from somewhere in the dark.
"Little Booth, is that you?" she asked, her voice sounded insecure.
"No it's Sweets," it came in a sarcastic tone.
"That is so not funny, do you have you any idea how much you worried me?" said Bones searching in the dark.
"You are so way off, Bones," said Lizzie in a very Booth way.
"Then stand still or please come to me, that will make it easier," said Bones frustrated as she sat down on the floor.
"Why should I?" she said.
"I don't know, I mean it is reasonable to believe that a young girl would want to be close to her mother if she was having trouble?" said Bones.
"But it is also reasonable to think that a young girl would have distance if she was having trouble with her mother or father or both?" said Lizzie in a very Bones tone.
"Why am I even trying," said Bones and got up before she started to walk towards the door slowly.
"Please, please don't go," she heard from her left side and slowly moved in the direction of the voice.
"Why not?" asked Bones in a softer tone than before.
"Because…" Lizzie said and slowly hid behind her mother's legs.
"Yes, little Booth," she said as she bent down to her level and embraced her in the darkness.
"There might be spiders here," Lizzie whispered hiding into her mother's safe embrace
"Spiders are nothing to be afraid of Hannah Elizabeth. They aren't often dangerous. They're bites doesn't often penetrate your skin and even if they do, their venom isn't often strong enough to harm you," said Bones in a comforting tone.
What she didn't see because of the dark was that her words were scaring her little girl even more and that she now had a terrified look on her face. She somehow managed to keep her voice steady long enough to beg, "Can we please get out of here."
"Of course," said Bones calmly as she took her hand and lead her towards the door.
"Bones," the little girl said once they were out in the light.
"Yes little Booth," Bones said looking down at her.
"Are you afraid of anything?" she asked.
"I am yes, Bones answered.
"What?" the young girl asked curiously as her mother didn't seem to be afraid of anything.
"The grave digger or have something happening to you or your father," Temperance answered as a shiver of fear ran down her back by the mere thought of the digger.
"What's the grave digger?" asked Lizzie confused.
"Something we don't talk about, now would you be a good girl and go play in my office for a little while as mummy needs to talk to Hodgens," she said.
"Ok, may I look at your laptop?" she asked.
"Yes, but no dangerous pages," said Bones in a firm tone.
"No," she said looking down before running off as Tempe headed for the lab.
"Daddy, what is a grave digger?" asked Hannah Elizabeth when she and Booth were sitting in his office after he came back.
"That is a very bad woman that hurt mummy a long time ago," Booth answered without explaining any further or looking up from his papers.
"What did she do?" she asked looking at him with very questioning eyes.
"Nothing that you should worry about," he said, still not looking up.
"You know I can get all the info from your computer right as I know your password and Bones as well," said the young girl triumphant.
"Oh no you will not," said Booth in a warning tone.
"I wanna know," she said in a very upset tone.
"Well some things you are to young to know, so you better stay out of it. We had that talk about the password before, so leave it," said Booth in a very firm tone, giving her a warning look.
"But why?" she asked in a very Bones tone.
"Because I said so, you can play with the computer at home, not the one in my office," he said looking at the little girl with his office desk.
"But why, Bones let me play on hers," Lizzie complained.
"Because I don't want you to mess up my computer like you have done the couple of other times you have barrowed it," he said.
"You're no fun," she said with a disappointed look on her young face.
"Don't be like that, little Booth, if you'll be good I will reward you for it later," he said.
"I can get a new bug?" she asked hopefully as she collected stuffed bug, all but spiders that was.
"We'll see," he said with a little smile.
"Cool, can you give me my book please," she asked polite as it was in her backpack next to her father. Booth took it out and handed it over before going back to his work.
As he was working Booth kept a half eye on his little girl that was now reading.
She had done that since she was a little over three as she was smarter than most children her age, he assumed she had gotten that from her mother. She also seemed to speak like her at times. Which of course was when she was born he wanted to name her little Bones. She of course disagreed saying that it was too early to tell who she resemblance as it was too soon the tell her personality.
They at first mostly called her baby Bones as Bones was her mother, but that wore of and everyone called her Lizzie, everyone but her parents that was.
It was first later that they ended up with little Booth as even though she had the intelligence of her mother, she was also a feelings person like her father. That and the fact that she argued a lot with her mother just like her daddy which was sometimes cute.
The main difference was that in most cases she talked back just like Bones so it could seem like she argued with herself which everyone found quite amusing. Everyone but Bones that was.
But when it came to love there was not a mother in the world that adored her little one more than Temperance. From the moment she was born she had her with her everywhere except of course in the field as she didn't want her to get in harms way. The fact that Temperance couldn't stay of the lab, she just felt lost when she was not there and that was perhaps also the reason as to why little Booth was raised mostly there.
And that could also have something to do with that she had become so smart in every way. She learned about every discipline from the people at the lab. She had bugs from her uncle Hodgie and drawings from Angela. And even at her young age she drew faces on the skulls just as well as her.
Booth was a little bit against this as he found it a tad inappropriate, but it was an argument he soon lost and as long as his girlfriend and daughter was happy that was more than he could as for.
His thinking got interrupted by Lizzie saying, "Daddy."
"Yes little Booth," he answered looking up at her face.
"The boy me and Angie draw earlier, you and Bones are gonna catch who killed him right?" she asked with wondering eyes.
"Of course we will," he said and smiled at her.
"But you don't always right? So how can you say that you will, when you don't always catch the bad guy?" she asked.
Booth slowly walked over, picked her up from his desk chair with one arm, and tickled her tummy, making her shriek with laughter.
"We don't always catch him immediately you mean… or do your doubt your mummy and daddy? Now do you huh?" he repeated teasingly as he tickled her a little bit harder. Her small hands tried to push his bigger one away to stop his onslaught.
"Stop it daddy, stop it," the little girl giggled happily.
Booth slowly stopped smiling at her and the little girl sat down on the couch next to him, looking at him with very serious eyes saying, "It's not that I doubt you in any way, but it's not always you can catch a bad guy. Sometimes it's just too hard. But mostly you do."
"Mostly we do and sooner or later we will catch them all," he said with another smile.
"I know you will daddy," she said in a very girlish tone before giving her daddy a hug.
Both Booth and Bones ended up working overtime because of different reasons leaving Hannah Elizabeth to keep herself occupied on her own.
This was something the young girl was used to as her parents worked a lot and it also made her discover lots of new things that normal children didn't do as she was after all a little genius, much like her mother. What she couldn't find in books or on the computer she mostly found all over the lab. And should her parents the too busy she could always go to one of her aunts and uncles if she felt like it that was.
Right now however she was on her own in one of the storage facilities looking around. She had looked at some of the bones a little earlier without moving them out of their boxes, but now she was looking at some chemicals. She didn't try to test it knowing it might be dangerous, she just read on the labels trying to remember them for later.
She startled a little when she heard a voice say, "You look a little lost."
Slowly she turned to see a man she assumed would be at the same age as her daddy. But she didn't answer, after all she did not know this man and her parents had told her never to talk to strangers. For all she knew he could be a bad man.
"What are you doing here and where are your parents?" he asked, looking at her with wondering eyes.
Again she did not answer, but her hazel eyes went quickly up and down his body as she was examining him to see if he was a good guy or not, before stopping on his ID card quickly reading his name before saying, "They are at the lab working and for the record I am not lost, I am exploring."
"And your parents are aware of this?" he asked.
"Yes I am allowed to occupy myself as I see fit as long as I stay out of trouble," she answered in a very mature tone.
"And you are how old?" he asked a little amused.
"Six, how old are you?" she asked.
"I prefer not to answer," he said.
"You're real old then or otherwise you woulda said," she concluded.
"I better go," he said a little uncomfortable.
"Yeah, cause I'm real busy and I don't like being interrupted," said Lizzie shooing him of as he shook his head while Lizzie smiled satisfied by her doings.
But her smile didn't last for long as when the young girl was going to exit the storage room to get back to her parents she saw a spider on the handle of the door and backed off.
"Go away," she whispered terrified not knowing what to do.
But the spider simply decided to sit there, not moving, not even an inch as the little girl slowly withdraw even more wishing the spider would go away.
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