Chapter 5-Talking,Yelling and Talking Again
"Okay so I have to go pick up Parker from school, then I'll take him to get his stuff from Rebecca's. I am hoping that it will take no more than two hours. Then do you want to go out to eat or do you want to make dinner?" Booth asked as they were walking out of the lab towards his standard issued FBI black SUV.
"Oh, I want Sid!" Bones said.
"Wow, so you want a divorce then?" Booth said with mock concern.
"You know what I mean Booth, I want Sid to cook our food. Why don't you call me when you and Parker are leaving Rebecca's, then I will go to Sid's and get food and then meet you back home."
"Okay sounds good, is there anything that you want me to stop and get on the way home?"
"Um, I don't think so, I still have ice cream at home."
"No you mean that you still have what Parker and I didn't eat last night."
"Hey, I am carrying your twins here, you better be nice to me or I will marry Sid!" Bones said with a very straight face.
"Oh Tempe, you know that I love you, and if you REALLY want to marry Sid who am I to stand in your way?"
"Well you are the father of the children that are currently growing inside me."
"Good point." Booth laughed. The rest of the ride is passed with more of their banter.
"Okay so I will keep my mouth shut, and not tell Parker about his future brother and sister. I will call you when we are on our way back home." He leaned over and kissed her softly on her lips. After she got out of the car Booth waited until he saw her go inside and shut the door before he turned the SUV back on and headed over to pick Parker up.
When Booth pulled up outside of the school, the buses were still there so Booth pulled over and waited until the buses pulled away so Parker could get into the car. Booth saw his son talking a group of people with his back to him. Booth sat for a few minutes before he realized that Parker would not turn around for a while so he got out of the car and walked up the group of teens. Once he got closer he recognized them as Brett and Trey, and Ema and Becca. He was not exactly sure which one was Ema and which one was Becca, but they were both there. "Hey Parker lets go, Rebecca will be waiting for us. Hey guys how's it going?"
"It's good Mr. Booth, better for some than others." Trey said with a smile and looked at Parker. Booth raises his eyebrows, and looked at his son.
"And how many times do I have to tell you to call me Seeley? Let's go Parker, we have to get over to Rebeccas'."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow." Parker said, looking at Trey.
"Let us know what she said okay?" Ema called after Parker.
Once Booth and Parker were both in the car Booth looked over at his son with a smile in his face. "So who is 'she?'" Booth asked.
"Oh you know who 'she' is! Don't play dumb with me dad." Parker said.
"Okay I do know who 'she' is, but I don't know what happened. Why don't you enlighten me?"
Parker began his explication of his day. He told Booth all about how he asked Aderyn to prom, how he finally told Candi off and about how Brett and Trey knew that he liked her for a long time and that they never liked Candi like he thought they did.
"So why didn't you ever tell me that you didn't like Candi?" Parker asked.
"Well, it wasn't really my place. I mean as bad as this sounds I knew that you wouldn't date her for long. You two didn't have much in common, and whenever I saw you with her you didn't really seem to happy, it was almost forced."
"Yeah but why did you never say anything?"
"You would have figured it out soon enough, and I could tell that she was not being completely honest, and you did figure it out. I am hopping that you didn't take things to far with her."
"Yeah I did figure it out, and no things didn't get to far. I had the same feeling that you did, that she wasn't being completely honest with me. She wanted to but I told her no."
"Really? Where were you when this happened?" Booth asked, trying to sound casual.
"Well let's see, twice we were at her house, and it was either 3 or 4 times we were at mom's, and she was about to try once at your house but you came home, and I was really relived."
"You are telling me that you turned her down at least 6 times?" Booth asked amazed.
"Yeah," Parker said as if it is nothing. They are both quite for a few minutes before Booth decides to ask him another question.
"Why did you turn her down?"
"Hmm?" Parker was staring out of the window, not paying attention.
"Why didn't you, you know have sex with her?" Booth asked, trying again to sound casual, Parker can see right though it but does not say anything about it..
"Well…" Parker said slowly, not turning from the window. "There were a few reasons I guess. One of the major reasons was that I, I uh, didn't love her. Then there was the fact that something seemed off about her, and it didn't really seem right. And she wasn't really someone I could see having to deal with for the rest of my life, incase she got pregnant."
"Yeah that makes since. Very rational, you spend to much time with Tempe, you know that?"
"No, that was all you."
"What do you mean by that?"
Finally Parker turned from the window. "Well, that was how you raised me, it is supposed to mean something, it's not just sex, but more than that. If I had sex with Candi that's all it would have been, it wouldn't have meant anything to me." Parker finished.
Booth just smiled at his son 'who would have thought that Parker would have turned down sex, hell when I was 18 if a girl tried to get me to have sex with her more than once it most likely would have happened every time.' Booth laughed to himself.
They pulled up Rebecca's driveway, and before the car was off, she is outside and she looked pissed. "You can't just runaway like that Parker. I was really worried."
"I did not runaway, you knew exactly where I was going, you were on the phone when I said it. It was something along the lines of 'Dad can I come stay with you?' He said yes and you got pissed."
"You do not talk to me like that. Seeley, do something about this. You have never let him disrespect me or Drew before."
"That was before I knew that you and Drew don't respect him. You have to give it to get it. You should know that." Booth said a look of furry in his eyes.
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh so you don't remember Drew hitting Parker when he was, what were you Parker 13?"
"Yeah, and he tired last night, had Tempe not showed up and stopped him," Parker said, a look that matched his fathers on his face.
"Oh yeah that is another thing, he tried to hit Temperance. A woman who is pregnant, I might add. Parker, go get your things while I finish talking to your mother." Parker nodded and walked into the house. "I want to know why you never told me." Booth demanded.
"I never told you because it was none of your business!" She yelled back at him.
"What? None of my business? He is my son, and you damn well know that if you, or he had told me when it happened that I could have tried for custody. That would be why you told him not to tell me!"
"Like I said before it was none of your business. I took care of it and it never came close to happening again!"
"Oh really? Is that why Drew almost hit Parker last night and lets not forget about my pregnant wife! I would be more upset about that if I didn't know that Tempe could kick his ass." Parker walked out of the house with a box and loads it in the car, then walked back into the house again.
"Tempe had no right to step into what was going on! She is not his mother!" Rebecca growled.
"And Temperance would be the first to admit it. But Drew is not his father either! She had just as much right as Drew. More so when Parker said that he wants her opinion."
"How would you know that?"
"He told us last night. He also told me that as of right now he never wants to see you again. That you have treated him like crap for a really long time and that you wouldn't let him come see me whenever he wanted to. Especially once he was old enough to say where he wanted to stay, but you would never give him the chance to say it."
"That is not true!" Booth looked her in the eye and can tell that she is lying.
"Really, then how come you have all of the sings of a liar?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You have known for a long time that I can tell when someone is lying to me. Right now you are lying to me." Booth turned around and walked into the house and into Parkers room. Parker has just about everything packed into 2 boxes and some bags. Booth picked up one of the boxes and a few of the bags. "Is this everything? Because I don't think the locks will stay the same."
"Yeah, I have all the stuff that I want." He picked up the other box and the remaining bags. He walked out of his room, threw his house key on the table, then walked back outside and puts the rest of his stuff into the car. He turned to his mother who is still standing outside. "Bye mom." He said coolly.
They both got into the car and headed towards home. "Call Tempe, tell her we are on our way home, and to go ahead and go."
He took the phone that his dad was handing him and hits speed dial one, "Where is she going?" He said as the phone was ringing.
"She is going to get food from Sid."
"YES! I haven't had good food in awhile. Man I miss Sid. Mom and Drew didn't like it." He stopped and waited, "Um, it went to voicemail."
"Did you call the house or her phone?"
"Her phone, you want me to call the house?" Booth nodded and Parker hits speed dial two. After only two rings she answered.
"Hey sweetie, you two on your way back?"
"Aw, I never knew you felt that way about me Dr. Bones!"
Bones laughed, "You haven't called me Dr. Bones in so long! So are you on your way back?"
"Yeah, go ahead and go! Will you ask Sid to throw in extra egg rolls?"
"You bet Parker, see you guys in a little while."