Title: The Right Decision?
Summary: Booth is undercover, Drew is dead, Rebecca is in a coma and Brennan has to take care of Parker, Can she do it? Drama and Fluff!
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Chapter 3.
Brennan floored the gas in her Mercedes. Glancing at the clock she muttered a curse underneath her breath. This is precisely why she always thought she wouldn't be a good mother. Brennan hurried her way over to Parker's school, breaking at least 2 speeding laws, but she didn't care, she was late...she was never late.
She pulled up to Parker's school slamming on the breaks and grabbing her purse. The children already stood on the play ground, waiting for their parents. Brennan scanned the crowd to see if she could locate Parker, but she couldn't find him anywhere.
Panic began to overtake her, what if it was the people who were after Booth? Concerned, she walked into the school building; she spotted a teacher and quickly walked over to her.
''Excuse me? I'm looking for Parker Booth, he wasn't at the playground...and I can't find him anywhere...''
"You must be Dr. Brennan. I'm sorry, there was some trouble with Parker...'' The teacher trailed off. She had felt sorry for Parker's situation and understood what was going on in the little boys mind.
"What kind of trouble? Is he alright?" He might have broken a bone or something on the playground she thought. But at least he was in the school.
"Yeah he's fine, let me take you to the principal's office…"
Brennan followed the teacher to the office when she saw Parker sitting in the chair across the principal. He looked so small sitting in the winged back chair. Tears were forming in his eyes. Relief flooded Brennan, and then she saw the principal. He looked to be in his forties and wore a very stern expression on his face.
''Dr. Brennan, please take a seat,'' the principal ordered as he motioned her to sit across his desk.
Brennan sat down and looked at Parker with a puzzled look.
''You're probably wondering why Parker is here, He got into a fight today and hit one of the other students." The principal explained quietly.
Brennan looked at parker with a puzzled look. "Is that true?"
"I'm sorry Tempe, I didn't mean it, he was mean, he told me that no one cared about me and everybody was going to leave me." Parker explained. His voice was trembling. Tears were welling up in his eyes.
She got down to his level, "I understand why you did what you did, but it isn't acceptable to be fighting with people." She explained to him looking him in the eyes. Brennan saw Booth in his eyes. Parker wrapped his arms around his Tempe. "I won't leave you. I care about you. I love you Parker." She whispered. She thumbed the tears away, giving him a tissue to blow his nose.
"Can I talk to you in private please, Dr. Brennan.'' The principal asked, Brennan nodded and told Parker to stay in the hallway for a little while.
Parker left the room and closed the door, leaving Brennan and the Principal in the office. Brennan felt slightly uncomfortable; the last time she was in a principal's office was when she was 16.
"How will you punish him?" Brennan questioned.
"Well...I'm not going to punish him, he's a good kid and this is the first time he caused any sort of trouble. I think you should decide whether to punish him or not, and if you will, how you'll do it." The principal advised.
Brennan surprisingly looked up. "You're not going to punish him?'' she asked amazed.
"No, I know he's going through a lot at the moment, with everything that happened to his parents''
"Yes he is." She agreed with that assessment.
"Parker has been knocked off kilter with everything that is happening in his life. The adjustment is taking a little while. Aggressive behavior is not uncommon in children with these types of problems. I suggest you might want someone to talk to him''
Brennan didn't like the way this conversation was going anymore. She hated psychiatrist. "You mean like a psychiatrist?" She groaned, psychology is a soft science.
"Yes...but it's your choice and you have to decide what's the best for him."
The conversation ended and Brennan took Parker to the car. She wasn't really mad at him just a little bit disappointed.
''I'm sorry Tempe...'' Parker said on the most regretting tone she'd ever heard.
"Look, I'm not mad at you but I want you to tell me exactly what happened…"
"I was talking with Peter and than I told him about Mommy and Daddy, and he said they weren't ever coming back for me anymore, and than I got mad and hit him." Parker explained linking together his thoughts of the day.
"That wasn't really nice of Peter, was it?" She said sympathetically.
"No." He replied looking down at his lap.
"But it wasn't nice of you to hit him, and because the principal wasn't mad and understood it, you'll get away with 4 days no TV and videogames."
"4 days!!!" Parker was clearly upset.
"I hate to punish you, but actions have consequences and you have to take responsibility for those actions." She was rambling and stopped talking when Parker didn't seem to understand it anymore.
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That
evening Parker was bored, he couldn't watch TV or play videogames
for 4 days.
Brennan thought about what the principal said.
Should she really let Parker talk to a psychiatrist, when her parents left her child services forced her to go talk to a shrink. She hated it. Was she going to put Parker through the same process? No, she decided. Not without talking to him first.
That night when she brought him to bed, she sat on the edge of his bed...it was now or never.
''I'm sorry, I know you miss your mommy and daddy a lot'' Brennan started.
The boy nodded and Brennan continued. "When people feel sad and they're mad they sometimes talk about it with other people."
Parker nodded again.
"Do you want to talk about it with someone?" she asked
"You mean with you?''
"Yeah with
me...or someone besides me...''
"I don't know," He
said, his eyes dropping.
"Just think about it 'kay?'' Brennan tugged him in and kissed his cheek, she glanced into the room before she shut the door.
Brennan returned to her living room, was this going to work? She remembered her own sessions with a shrink.
Flashback.
"Okay Temperance, I'm doctor Mallory. So why are you here?''
"I'm here because child services forced me to.''
"Why and how did child services forced you?
"They think something's wrong with me because my parents are gone, and if I wouldn't go they would make the state stop paying my school.''
"What happened to your parents?''
"I woke up one morning and they were gone and didn't came back, my brother left me a few days after that.''
"And
how do you feel about that?''
"How do you mean?''
"You must feel betrayed, all the people you loved, suddenly gone...''
"Well...Yeah!…Can you blame me?" She screamed at the man. All the moron did in her mind was state the obvious.
"So...How long ago did that happen?''
"2 months ago...''
"They told me you're in foster care now." The psychiatrist stated sympathetically.
"Yes." There he goes again with stating the obvious.
"And how is your foster family?''
"Okay...I guess...I don't really know them yet.''
"How's school?''
"Good...I've been having a lot of good grades''
The
shrink gave her a pen and paper. "Draw something please."
"Why...? What should I draw?" She questioned. She hated
drawing.
"Draw a tree or something else you like."
She grabbed the pen and paper and drew a tree without leaves.
"Very interesting'' the shrink said as he looked at the tree ''Why didn't you put leaves on it?"
"I don't know... it's too much work."
"You know, maybe you drew the tree because of how you feel, you feel like a tree without leaves...empty…"
"No I don't." She retorted. She drew a tree because he said to draw a tree.
The shrink looked on the clock, it was already time.
"Thank you miss Brennan I'll see you next week."
Brennan got her stuff and left the room, okay...now she officially hated psychology.
End Flashback.
She turned on the TV she bought for Parker, having a child in the house without having a TV couldn't have a chilling effect on both of them. At first she didn't watch TV, but she found herself zapping much more lately.
The news was on, first there were some uninteresting items, like an old lady killing her husband...Yeah, like that was going to lighten her mood, she was just about to turn off the TV when the next item caught her attention.
"We're here with breaking news, 6 FBI agents part of a 20 agents large group were killed today, in an undercover operation trying to take down a Terrorist organization, The 6 were FBI agents from all over the country, the FBI has not released any names yet. Further information will follow''
No, no...This couldn't be happening she thought.
"Was it the same as Booth's undercover operation, would he still be alive?''
For the first time she let the hope drift off and let the fear take her over.
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