So I changed a few things in the previous chapters. With Bellabun's mention of it being easier to read and follow when it is written in the past tense, so I did that. Thank you by the way for that tip.
The main things that I changed are:
I changed the 'other' God Parents to Caroline and Sweets. (Not because Zach is a murderer ((I actually think that he didn't. He has nightmares when he is on drugs… but hey that is just my opinion, until August 26 anyway)) but because I think that Zach is too…. Rational, thank back to when Hodgins asked him to be his best man…) Chapter 3
Booth telling Parkers friends to not call him Mr. Booth… Doesn't really seem like a Mr. now does he? Chapter 5
Parker has met Max and Russ (because Max is no longer in jail- even though it really screws up my story but hey whatever!) Chapter 7
Booth's ring tone for Bones has changed. Chapter 10
Parker and Aderyn's kiss. I know that a few people did not like the wording… Chapter 11
Sorry to keep everyone waiting so long, there is just a lot on my plate right now so… again I say sorry!
As they drove to the Jeffersonian they were silent with the radio playing loudly to help cover it. When they walked into the lab everyone was on the platform talking over a skeleton from limbo. Angela was facing Bones and she had her back to Booth.
"I can't leave until Seeley gets here and I don't know when that will be. He had a friend come in today, and I am not going to try and call him again, I don't want to make him mad." Tempe was saying to Angela "So why not get some work done in the mean time?"
"If you think you calling me would make me mad you are crazy." Booth said loudly with a smile. She turned around and smiled at him.
"Well I know you had a lot to talk about, and I didn't want to disturb you."
"Okay so you are crazy, what's going on, why is Ange trying to get you to go home, I am only fifteen minutes late!" Booth said looking at his watch
"It's okay, I know you had a lot to talk about, and I would have this guy identified if," she raised her voice so Ange can hear her, "Angela would stop yelling at me and put a face on the skull I gave her 20 minutes ago!" She walked down the steps and Booth give her a kiss on the forehead.
"Tempe this is Nik Kaehr, Nik this is my wife Temperance."
"Very nice to meet you Nik," Tempe said with a smile extending her hand.
Nik grabed it and shook her hand, "Nice to meet you as well."
"Would you guys mind waiting for about half an hour? I want to type up the report on this guy after Ange gives me his name."
"Yeah that's fine, what are we having for dinner tonight?"
"Well Parker is brining Aderyn over after they are done at the park so we can meet her. So I was thinking of angel hair pasta with lemon and chicken. That sound okay?"
"Wow that sounds really good." Nik said.
"Yeah Tempe here is a good cook, whatever she makes is usually really good." Booth smiled at his wife.
Ange walked up with a printout and handed it off. "Hey do you want to see a demonstration of the Angelator?" She asked Nik.
"The Angelator?"
"Yeah it is really sweet, you have to see this thing!" Booth said as they walked off after Angela to her office.
"Okay, what should I show him Booth?" Ange asked.
"Oh do the one from the Lynch case, the arm in the jacket he'll like that one," Booth said laughing. "Do you still have that?"
"Oh, I think so let me look." Angela said as she made a face, "That one hurts me, but if you say so…" She hit some buttons and then there was a whirling sound and then the torso of a skeleton with arms appears on the screen, and then the sequence starts and the first pop made Nik cringe and the second pop seemed to put Nik is in physical discomfort.
"Ouch!"
Zach walked in, "He was dead when this happened. Ange could you look at this for me, I need to see if you can see what this shadow could be."
"I will in a few minutes, I want to show them some more stuff, and they need to be occupied until Bren is done."
"Bren?" Nik asked.
"Brennan, as in Temperance Brennan-Booth, it is just what I have always called her." Angela answered him, as she brought up another simulation, "Okay so I have shown this to just about everyone," she hit a button and then there are two pictures side by side, one of a baby, and one of a teen about Parkers age. "If Booth and I ever had a kid, this is what he would look like. He's gorgeous isn't he?" Booth and Nik laughed.
"Can you do that with anyone? Put in two pictures and do that?" Nik asks surprised at what the machine could do.
"Oh yeah, I can do so much on this baby," they continued to talk with Angela showing a few more simulations when Bones walked into the office and was are ready to leave.
"Do you need to go to the store to get stuff for dinner or do you have everything you need at home?"
"I have everything at home, but we don't have any wine to go with it for you guys, so if you want wine we will have to stop." Tempe says ask she is walking, and it is more of a waddle at this point, to the car.
"I know that I wouldn't mind a nice glass of wine, how about you Nik?"
"Sounds good."
They stopped and got wine and then headed home to make dinner and wait for Parker to bring Aderyn home.
After Parker dropped everyone else off back at the diner he and Aderyn headed back to his house. The drive was uneventful and they got there twenty minutes later. Parker turned off the car and then looked over at Aderyn. "You seem nervous," he sad to her while rubbing his thumb across the back of her hand while she looked out the window at the house.
"Yeah, parents don't like me much." She said with a shrug and small smile, and then looked back out the window.
"That can't be true, you are great!"
"Nope, if I am dating their son they hate me, and if I am not dating their son they want me too. And it is true I promise." She did not turn form the window this time. Parker opens his mouth to protest, she could hear him, she decided to stop him be fore he even started. "Bruces' mom hated me because of what his little sister told her about me, Jordans' mom hated me because he is Mormon and we were dating when he was 15, I never could figure out why Michaels' mom hated me, but the way she looked at me was almost physically painful, Travis' mom didn't like me because of the age difference, Jimmys' mom didn't like me because I don't go to church, Drews' mom hated me with the fire of a thousand suns, Waynes' whole family, except his brother Blain, didn't like me because I wasn't Jayme. Just so you know that is every person that I have ever dated. Nicks' mom and dad, Ryans' mom, Davids' mom, Alexs' mom, Andys' mom and dad, Seans' mom and step-dad, and Teds' whole family have all at some point told me that I should date their son."
"Damn," Parker whispers, "My family is really different though. The only person that would not like you would be my mom, but she is not someone that you ever need to worry about. If she liked you it would make me like you less, if she didn't like you it would make me like you more. My dad will like you because me and my dad have the same gut instinct about people, and I liked you right away and that means that my dad will like you too. Tempe will love you, I hate to say this but, you are a foster kid and she always treats them like they are the most important people in the world. You have nothing to worry about," he brought her hand up to his mouth and kiss it softly, "I promise."
"Does your parents opinion matter to you?" She asked, finally turning and looking at him again.
"Not even a little bit." He said looking her straight in the eye.
She nodded, "Can I just have a minute?"
"Take all the time in the world," He said and was still rubbing the back of her hand with his thumb.
She took a couple deep breaths then looked up at Parker, "I think I am ready." They both got out of the car and walked slowly, with Aderyn setting the pace.
"I'll be with you all night okay? They will love you, you have nothing to worry about, I promise." He put his hand on the knob of the front door, and waited for her nod, then pushed it open. "Dad, Tempe, we're back!" He called out as he pulled Aderyn through the door, and then closed it softly.
"God damn it Booth! No! You can't do that!" Bones screamed through the house.
"Are you really fighting with me about this? You know that I am right!" Booth yelled right back.
Aderyn looked nervously at Parker, but he just had a smile on his face. "Why are you smiling? Your parents are fighting, maybe we should go?" She whispered to Parker.
"Just wait, you'll see," he whispered back, leading her to the source of the commotion. Booth, Bones and a man Parker has never seen before, except maybe in a few pictures from Booth's Army days, were
sitting around a Scrabble board in the kitchen.
"HA! I told you qi was a word!" Booth was laughing at the look on Bones' face. "'The circulating life force whose existence and properties are the basis of much Chinese philosophy and medicine!'" He said triumphantly.
"This is so not fair!" Bones wined.
"You are just mad because I am beating you at scrabble for the first time in my life! Please just let me enjoy it!" Nik had an amused look on his face, he then saw Parker and nodded to him, who retuned it.
"I am not mad, I just don't think that it should count! It's Chinese!"
"I'm sorry but if you get to use all of your technical terms I get to use qi!"
"My 'technical' terms, as you call them, are English!" Parker was leaning up against the counter with a smile plated on his face. Aderyn still looks a little uncomfortable, but she now had a small smile on her face.
"AH! But most of them are derived from Latin! Not English!"
"But I use them in daily life! Name one time that you have used qi in your daily life?!"
"WOW! You don't have to use the words in daily life! Get the rules out, it does not say anywhere in them that you have to use the words in daily life!"
"Let's just keep going," Bones said.
"No! I want you to get the rules out and prove it to me!" Booth reached around the back of his chair and grabbed the rules from empty box.
"Booth, come on! You are acting like Parker!"
"Ouch! Tempe, I am standing right here!" Parker feigned hurt, putting his hand over his heart.
Bones jumped up, "Oh Parker, I didn't know you were standing there! I am so sorry!"
"Oh, so you just insult me whenever I am not around? To think I used to like you!"
"Oh, stop it! Hi, you must be Aderyn, I'm Temperance." She said moving around the table to shake her hand. "I forgot to have Parker ask you, do you eat meat?"
Aderyn smiled, "Nice to meet you too Mrs. Booth, and yes I eat meat." She said taking the offered hand.
"Please, call me Tempe."
"Aderyn, this is my step-mom Tempe, and my dad, Tempe, dad, this is Aderyn."
Booth pushed the game back into the box, then stepped up to Aderyn, "Hi, I'm Seeley, Parker has said so much about you!"
"Dad, stop it!"
"Sorry! Parker this is Nik, Nik this is my son Parker and his friend Aderyn."
"Nice to meet you Parker, Aderyn." Nik said still sitting at the table.
"So how many moves were they into the game? I'd say no more than 10." Parker asked Nik.
"2. And each move was a argument." Nik responded with a laugh.
"Yeah. Who picked the game? Tempe right?"
"Yes, Seeley was all for it though, so I think we can blame both of them." He laughed.
"Okay, everyone sit down, I'll get your plates and then we can eat!" Bones is running around the kitchen trying to get everything.
Neither Parker nor Booth sat down. "Tempe, we can do this, sit down." Booth tried to convince her.
"Seeley I am pregnant, not incapacitated!" She tried to reason with the two Booth men that were staring at her. "Fine." She said in a huff and sat down. "So Aderyn, did you have fun at the park?" She asked with a smile.
"Yeah, I had a really good time, Parker's friends are great."
Booth and Parker put plates and silverware down on the table. "The boys had dinner over here the other night, they couldn't stop talking about how excited they were about Parker going out with you."
"I am now going to ask you what you want to drink before Tempe embarrasses me even more, so what would you like to drink?" Parker asked turning slightly red.
"Water please," Parker nodded and then looked at Tempe.
"And for you?"
"I will have water as well," Parker walked to the cabinet to get the glasses for everyone while Booth poured two glasses of wine. "Seeley, the pasta is in the oven, use oven mitts!"
Everyone is seated, they pass the serving dish to Aderyn first, then pass it to Nik, "Guests eat first as they always say!" Booth chuckled to himself.