"Parker, can you get Shrimp's medicine? It's in the cabinet upstairs in the bathroom." Booth yelled.

Parker groaned, getting up from the kitchen table to head up the stairs. Parker entered the bathroom with his little brother Tommy behind him. Tommy loved to follow Parker everywhere. Parker searched inside of the medicine cabinet as Tommy sat on the toilet, kicking the garbage can and looking into it. Parker had finally found the medicine and looked down to smile at Tommy. Tommy had a stick in his hand, eyeing it curiously, squinting his eyes. That's the squinty look Booth was always talking about.

"Parks, what is this?"

"I don't know. Let me see."

Tommy shook his head no smiling. He would give it to Parker when he felt like it.

"It's like one of the pee sticks. Patience told me girls pee on them to see if they have babies in them. Whose pee stick is this?"

Parker snatched the pregnancy test away from his younger brother. It had a minus on it, meaning no baby.

"Where the hell did you get this from?"

"The garbage can, it was pushed in." Tommy said absent-mindedly.

Tommy was only eleven; he didn't comprehend what this meant. Someone, maybe one of his little sisters, was pregnant. Parker raced downstairs into his parents' room. He prayed that it was Bones' test, not anyone else's. Bones could give him another half-sibling, yea, she could.

"Dad, is this Mom's?" Parker exclaimed.

Booth came from out of his walk-in closet with Patience to see his son holding a pregnancy test.

"Dad, that's a pregnancy test." Patience announced, not smiling.

"Where the hell did that come from?"

"Is it Mom's?" Parker repeated.

"It's not mine." Patience yelled, raising her hands in a mock surrender.

"Is it Mom's?" Parker yelled.

"I don't know but I doubt it. Why would Bones take one upstairs?"

Parker's eye widened. There was only one more girl in the house, Christine.

"It's Chrissy's." Patience said avoiding eyes.

"How do you know that?"

"Chrissy came home earlier with a bag in her hand. She rushed into the bathroom; I thought she started her period!" Patience exclaimed, quickly defending herself.

Patience knew Christine was going to get it now. Chrissy had her father wrapped around her finger, both of the girls did, but Patience knew this crossed a line.

"Call Bones Dad. Make sure."

Booth quickly pulled out his phone and dialed his wife's work number.

"Brennan."

"It's me Bones. Did you take a pregnancy test?"

"Booth, what are you talking about? Why would I take a pregnancy test?"

"That's all I needed to hear."

Booth hung up the phone. Christine thought she was pregnant, SHE HAD SEX? He was lost in thought. Patience had left the room and was now returning to it.

"Dad, Zach just called the house. He said Chrissy is on her way home."

"Good. We'll get this settled."

Christine walked into her house, no clue as to what was about to unfold. Tommy and Parker were playing the game when she came in, ignoring her to the fullest. She didn't see Patience anywhere, and normally she was attached to their father. She turned the corner from the kitchen, entering the door that led to the stairwell to get to her room. Chrissy walked into her room, tired. She was irritated with everything. Mike was still trying to get her attention. Samantha was about to get pushed into a wall plus she had a mound of homework due Friday and it was Thursday. She could her Zach and Russy playing in their media room which wasn't too far from her room over the garage. Christine noticed a wrapped up velvet rectangular box with a green bow on it on her computer desk. Hopefully it wasn't from Mikey; she wouldn't put it past him to buy her something. Christine opened the box and her mouth instantly dropped. There was her pregnancy test which she had taken not over three overs ago, still negative. Who found it? Why would they wrap it up? A knock came at her door, making her jump. She hid the box behind some books.

"Come in." She said spinning her computer chair around to see Booth entering the room.

"Hey, Parker said he saw you come in."

"Yea, I was pretty tired. I decided to get some work done then crash."

Booth nodded his head, sitting on the couch in his daughter's room. Could she really act like she hadn't seen what he had left her?

"Yea, did you like the gift I left you?"

Christine was about to respond until she realized what had come out of her father's mouth.

"You left that?" She questioned, slightly irritated.

"You know it would have been smarter if you had used the bathroom in your room. Why'd you use the one in the house?" Booth asked, he wasn't teasing, he genuinely wanted to know.

"I … I wasn't thinking. I needed an answer right away. You see I left my book bag in the hallway before I left out again. Why'd you leave it like it was a real gift?"

"To throw you off. … So you thought you were pregnant?"

"Nope. I never did, just a precaution. We never used protection. Don't worry. Mom's got me on birth control now."

"Brennan knew about this?"

"No. She has no clue. She told me when I was ready for the pill, let her know. I did, three weeks ago. No questions asked like she promised when I was thirteen."

"Who is it?"

"Excuse me?"

"Christine Angela Booth, who would have been the father if it was a plus sign?"

"Dad, I don't want you going over there trying to kill him. We don't even talk anymore."

"He stopped talking to you?" Booth asked infuriated, standing up.

"No, I stopped talking to him. Last week. No big deal, I'm fine. I guess he's fine."

"Chris, you've got to tell me who. I won't be able to sleep-"

"Dad, quit over-exaggerating. God! … It was Mikey, fine!"

"Michael Hodgins did this to you?"

"Did what Dad? I'm not pregnant!"

"I'll kill him."

"See this is exactly why I didn't tell anyone! Dad, leave it alone. Don't tell him, don't do anything. I don't want him to know. I'm fine Daddy."

Chrissy's last sentence had a softer tone to it. She was standing up facing her father. He engulfed her in a bear hug. She knew he only wanted her to be safe. He would kill or die for her, she knew that for sure.

"You just tell me next time. I don't want to find out like this."

"I wasn't going to tell you unless it was positive. It's not. I'm fine Daddy. Promise."

"I love you Chrissy." Booth said, kissing the top of his daughter's hair.

"I know. I love you too."

Brennan lounged into bed with her husband who had been on edge all night.

"Booth is there something wrong?"

Booth looked in his mind for the right words to say, he couldn't find them.

"Christine took a pregnancy test. Tommy found it, it was negative. Mikey was the father of the non-existent baby."

Brennan searched her mind for the right response, there seemed to be none.

"Oh. Umm…"

"Yea, I was speechless too." Booth said looking at his wife.

The Hodgins house was quiet. Cathy, Michael and Jack sat in the living room playing Monopoly. Michael had just won three hundred dollars when Angela smacked him the back of the head with a magazine.

"Angie, what is wrong?" Jack yelled, standing between his wife and son.

"Mom, what did I do?" Mike exclaimed as Cathy watched the scene unfold.

"You almost got Christine Booth pregnant! What is wrong with you?" Angela yelled in a fit of fury.

"I did what?"

Mike looked at his sister who was avoiding everyone's eyes.

"Are you crazy? Booth could kill you!" Angela yelled at him.

"I didn't even know. Chrissy stopped talking to me last week. She went off on me."

"Mom, calm down." Cathy said, jumping in front of her brother.

"Cathy, did you know?" Michael asked, rounding on his sister.

"All Chrissy told me was she nervous about something. I never asked about what. And this is so your fault. You knew when you had sex with her this could happen!"

Jack was talking to his wife, calming her down. Angela could be hazardous to them all when she was upset. Michael put his face into his hands. Everything was getting too complicated.