The next letter came while he was again writing to Parker but at the sight of the name, he placed down his son's letter and found time to read about his unborn child and its mother.
To hear about her and her team, it was if she was there explaining it all in his ear.
15 July 2010
Booth,
It's been almost two months since we last saw each other and each day I find myself dreading the time apart. Good news, the hospital says the embryo, as it is at this stage, is growing fully but just to be sure I took time this weekend and flew to Darwin in Australia and saw a doctor at the Royal Darwin Hospital, they agree with my Indonesian doctor.
I hope everything is going well there, I've never been to Afghanistan and would like to see the culture, take some photographs if you get a chance for me. Daisy has been asking about you and I tell her simply that you are still alive…as it is all she needs to know. Sweets flew in yesterday and is now the team's psychologist…we are all in agreement that we needed one since the tension has been high…we haven't found many bodies yet.
Anyways, I must say goodnight and wish you well.
Bones…and baby.
He found the ultrasound to be somewhat as unreadable as the last but still he pinned it up with the other one and Parker's new photo. Writing his own letter, he placed Parker's picture in it as Parker had drawn a picture for Bones…of him, Parker, Bones and the new baby which in the picture was a ball in it's mother's arms…undefined.
He summed up his pay and managed to secure an hour and a half satellite time as well as catching a flight to Indonesia for the time when his son or daughter would be born…even talked his commanding officer into letting him go to Indonesia for the birth, jungle or no jungle he'd be there, as he hadn't been for Parker's due to duty.