REVELATIONS

Chapter 4

Booth and Brennan had a ton of paper work to catch up on so they were glad for the brief respite. As agreed on Monday they met at the Diner across from the Jeffersonian at 1 o'clock. Booth had arrived first. When Brennan came in and approached his table he stood up and gave her a kiss on the cheek. As they sat down they heard one of the cooks call out "You win Kathy."

A waitress, her nametag said Sophie, approached Booth and Brennan's table. "Have you two decided what you're having or is it the usual?"

"The usual for me." Brennan answered.

Booth wanted a change from his usual of cheeseburger and French fries. "I think I'll have a Chef's Salad today with only olive oil and unsweetened ice tea."

"If you don't mind my asking, what did Kathy win on?" Brennan asked. They had been coming to the Diner for so long now they knew all of the waitresses.

"We had a pool going as to how long it would take you two to finally take it to the next step. Kathy had 5 years, I had 4 years. If you two had made your move last year I would have won $100 plus interest." Sophie smiled at them and went to get their order.

Both Booth and Brennan blushed since everyone was looking at them.

"I guess were pretty easy to read now." Booth said.

Brennan tried to act like nothing unusual was going on. Sophie brought their drinks and left.

"Did you get a good night's sleep?" Booth asked.

"Yes but it took me awhile to get to sleep."

"Missing me already?" Booth said with a grin.

"Yes and no. I am having writers block with my new book."

"Anything I can do to help?"

"No, you're part of the problem."

"How about we give it one more night then you can come over to my place and we'll work on your problem. Maybe I can force a pole into the dam to make it release what is blocking your creative flow." Booth whispered to her.

Brennan turned a bright red just as the waitress came with the food. She turned her head so the waitress couldn't see her face. She could feel her face burning with embarrassment at what he said. She turned to her purse and pulled out something so she would have an excuse to turn away. When the waitress was gone she turned back to Booth. She didn't say anything because she couldn't think of anything to say in reply.

Booth just grinned at her and started in on his salad. When Brennan felt she could control her voice she said, as calmly as she could, "I believe that would be a good idea."

When Brennan was through with her meal she took one of her vitamins. Booth had seen her do this many times before so he didn't think to question her about it. Since she had gone to see her "female" doctor he didn't ask how her visit went either. When they left Booth drove her up to the Jeffersonian since she had walked over to the Diner.

"I have to go and pick up Parker tonight after work. Rebecca has to go out of town tomorrow and she asked me if he could spend the day with me. Do you think I could bring him over for a visit to the Lab tomorrow after I pick him up from school?"

"Yes bring him over. Everyone likes Parker and enjoys having him around. Maybe he can get in trouble with Dr. Hodgins and one of his experiments. Parker is a very intelligent boy and understands more than most children his age would."

Booth put his hand around her neck and pulled her to him. He gave her a kiss that would stay in her mind until he saw her the next day.

The next morning Brennan received a call from her Doctor while she was at work.

"This is Dr. Brennan." Brennan just happened to be at her desk when the call came in.

"Dr. Brennan this is Dr. Wayne's office. We need you to come back in and give a blood and urine sample again. They had an accident at the Lab where we sent everything and the specimens were lost. Could you come in today so we can get what we need?"

"Yes, I'll be there as soon as I can."

Brennan grabbed her purse and started for the door. Cam was walking by at the same time so she joined her.

"Cam I have to take care of some personnel business and I should be back in about an hour."

"Okay, no problem." Brennan left the Jeffersonian and Cam continued on to a meeting she had upstairs.

Booth had dropped Parker off at school and gone on to the FBI headquarters. As he drove by the Jeffersonian he saw Brennan pulling out into traffic. He wondered where she was going at this time of the morning. He was missing her so much that he found himself wishing for a body to turn up so they could be together through the rest of the day. He quickly chastised himself and tried to refocus his thoughts back onto his work.

The rest of his day was spent gathering all of the evidence and paper work to be turned in on their last case. He found himself constantly watching the clock. Waiting for it to reach 2:30 when he would have to go and pick up Parker then head over to the Jeffersonian. By 2 o'clock he was heading out the door. He dropped off all of the paper work with his boss and took the evidence down to the evidence room.

By the time Booth arrived at the school Parker was standing outside by himself. All of the other children were either being picked up by one of their parents or standing in line to get on the school buses.

Booth pulled up in front of him and leaned over and opened the door for him. Parker was getting taller and Rebecca said she was having a hard time keeping him in clothes. It was clear that he was going to take after his father in height. Parker jumped up into the SUV without any problem. It wasn't very long ago that he had to climb in by using the step under the door.

"Hi Dad." Parker said while he buckled in.

"Dad? What happened to Daddy?" Booth was a little hurt by this.

"Only little kids call their fathers Daddy. I'm going to be 10 pretty soon."

"That's not for another year though. You just turned 9. Besides, you still call your mother Mommy."

"Yeah, but I thought you would take it better if I started calling you Dad. Mommy might start crying if I call her Mom. You know how girls are. She might start crying and hugging me and saying my little boy is growing up." Booth could see Parkers face turning red.

"Did someone tease you about calling your mother Mommy or me Daddy?"

"Yeah, I was telling one of the guys that you worked at the FBI. When I said my Daddy works for the FBI he started teasing me about calling you Daddy and said I probably called my mother Mommy. Then he started making sucking sounds. I felt like running away from them but I didn't. I just stood close to him and said "Yeah I call my father Daddy and I call my mother Mommy. Do you have a problem with that?" Parker put his fists on his hips and showed his father what he did.

"Did you two start fighting?"

"No he backed down. He said "No problem. I still call my father Daddy too but I call my mother Mom". The bell rang then we went back into the school."

"I'm proud of you son. You did well, you had a problem and you handled it without getting mad. That, more than calling me Dad, tells me that you 'are' growing up."

Nothing more was said about Parker calling him Dad. Parker telling him about what happened at school took the sting out of the change from Daddy to Dad.

When they arrived at the Jeffersonian everyone greeted Parker like he was an adult since none of them had children. Parker always liked that. Since Dr. Bones, Angela, Dr. Hodgins and Dr. Saroyan was on the main platform checking some bones Booth took Parker up there also.

"What are you guys doing?" Booth asked.

"We are endeavoring to determine the age of these bones that were found at an anthropological dig over in Arizona. We just received them this afternoon. Would you like to see how we go about determining their age Parker?" Dr. Brennan answered. She never changed her way of speaking to accommodate the IQ or age of the person she was speaking to. She felt it was up to them to research or ask what she meant. It was how she learned as a young girl.

"Yes, I think that would be very interesting. Since your all here can I ask everyone a favor?"

They all answered with an okay.

"Next month we are having a career day at school. I would like to invite all of you to come and talk to us about what you do."

Since Dr. Saroyan was the Boss, as Booth put it, they all looked to her for the answer.

"If everyone agrees I think that can be done. When you find out when we have to come to your school you can send me an e-mail as to the date and time that we have to be there. Your Daddy can give you my e-mail address." Cam told him.

"I'm not his Daddy any more I have been officially renamed 'Dad'. My son has informed me that he is too old to be calling me Daddy." Booth said in a serious tone of voice.

"I believe that is the usual nomenclature to use as one goes into another phase of their life." Dr. Brennan told Parker.

"Do you understand what she said?" Booth asked his son.

"Sure Dad, she said it was normal for me to start calling you Dad at my age."

"You're smarter than I was at your age." Booth said with a smile.

"Just because Parker can understand Dr. Brennan doesn't necessarily mean that he is smarter. It's more likely that he has been exposed to more information than you were at his age. Kids now days are exposed to a lot more information than we were at his age. Parker is especially lucky that he has come to visit here often and he is around Dr. Brennan frequently. No one treats or talks to him as though he was a child." Dr. Saroyan told Booth.

Booth had a broad grin on his face. "I prefer to think that it is my superior genes that I have passed onto him." Booth beat his chest and gave a Tarzan yell. "Boy want to go and see Tarzan's jungle in the museum or do you want to look at dried up old bones?"

Parker followed suit. "Boy want to look at Tarzan's jungle then we can come back so Dr. Hodgins and I can get into trouble."

"What makes you think we're going to get into trouble?" Hodgins asked Parker.

"My Dad said you're always getting into trouble with Dr. Saroyan. But that's okay because I always have fun with you even though we get yelled at. You should have children Dr. Hodgins because you're a lot of fun."

Hodgins looked at Angela and said "I don't know if I should take that as a compliment or criticism."

Booth picked up his son, threw him over his shoulder and left the platform.

"Well I guess a boy's father is still more important than a playmate." Dr. Saroyan said. Everyone went back to whatever they were doing.

Capital Mall: 3 PM

A group of boys were walking through the mall after getting out of the movie theater that was attached to the mall. As they crossed in front of the Walden Book store one of them stopped in front of the entrance.

"Mario, isn't that the woman that Ortiz had a run in with last year at the FBI?" Mario came and stood by his friend and looked at a large poster announcing a book signing by Dr. Temperance Brennan at the book store on Friday evening at 6. The picture included a large picture of Dr. Brennan.

"Yeah and I think he will be very interested in this. He knew he could never get to her with the FBI so close. But this is different she's coming into our territory. I think he is going to be very happy about this." The group left to go see Ortiz and give him the news.

Booth's apartment: Wednesday evening.

As Booth was making a vegetarian chili and salad for them (Brennan had made it for him one evening and to his surprise he liked it) Brennan was setting the table and pouring them some wine.

After another ten minutes Booth brought over a bowl of the chili along with some fried corn tortilla chips and the salad.

As they started eating Brennan said "Very good Booth, you copied my recipe exactly."

"Thanks, I learned from the pro."

After dinner Brennan helped him clean the kitchen and put the food away. They had eaten at each other's home so often that they knew where everything was. Booth had dropped off Parker at his mother's house before going home so they had the apartment to themselves. He could tell that Brennan wanted to tell him something but was having a hard time. He poured two glasses of wine and they went to sit on the couch. He sat down first and she sat next to him and leaned against him. They both took a sip of their wine.

"So what's up Bones? I know you have something to tell me so just say it. Did you have some bad news from your doctor?"

"No, nothing like that, I had some tests done but the lab had an accident and I had to go in this morning again to give them more samples."

Brennan sat up and looked at him. She wanted to tell him so badly that she was pregnant but she didn't want to say anything until the lab confirmed it. "On Friday evening Angela and I will be going to a local Mall for a book signing. I have to go because it's in my contract with the publisher. I won't be able to come over until Saturday afternoon. I just wanted to let you know."

"Okay, no problem. Is that all you wanted to tell me?"

"That's all." Brennan said with her eyes down. She was afraid she couldn't keep the proper look on her face. She concentrated on her wine.

Booth sat back and studied her for a second. He could tell she still had something on her mind. "Okay Bones, spill. You know that I can read you like a book."

"Okay, yes I do have something else I would like to tell you but I don't want to say anything until I have all of my facts straight and test results prove me to be correct." Brennan leaned back on the couch again and looked at him. She could see that he had that same look on his face that he always had when he was figuring out whether the person they were interrogating was telling the truth or not.

"And don't try to get me to tell you what it is or there will be no play time later."

"Yes Dear." Booth said while laughing.

Brennan socked him in his arm.

TBC…..