A/N: Okay, just for reference, I think that Parker is nine at the end of season six so that places him at about the age of ten when Alyvia is born. Rest of A/N at the end of story so that way no spoilers.
"What is it Livs?"
"Um. Mom. Mom, she-"
"Livs, spit it out. What's wrong?"
"Mom doesn't remember me."
"Mom doesn't remember you? What?"
"Mom woke up after you called and when she started to talk to me, she kept on looking at me confused, she said that she didn't have a daughter. We kept on talking and then she fell asleep. Dad got moved to another room in the ICU and doesn't know that anything's wrong yet. Parker, what do I tell him?" She said as a few stray tears fell down her cheeks.
"Don't say anything to him. I'll take care of it."
"Are you sure Parker?"
"Yeah. I'll be back in a half hour. I'll have to call Angie and Hodgins and ask them if they can babysit Molly a little longer."
"So you're coming back later?"
"Yep. I promise. Look Livs, Lily is waiting for me to call her back so as soon as I talk to her, I'll head out."
"Okay Parker. But hurry please. Dad is up and-"
"Don't worry about it Livs."
"Okay." Parker hung up and Alyvia slid down the wall, burying her head in her left hand, her right arm sticking out with her hand wrapped around her phone.
"Livs?" She lifted her head to meet the brown eyes of Michael and he gestured to the empty space next to her.
"Mind if I sit down?" She turned her head and Michael slid down the wall until he was sitting on the floor. He took Alyvia's left hand in his right.
"What are you doing here?" She asked him. He shrugged.
"Oh, just wondering around town." Alyvia rolled her eyes towards him and then turned away.
"Mom told me to check up on you. Said she wanted to make sure you were holding up alright. And who am I to tell her no." Alyvia looked towards Michael, her eyes a dull blue.
"My mom doesn't remember me. I was sitting next to her bed and I was holding her hand. She squeezed my hand and I called the nurse and she took the tube out of her throat. She didn't stay up long but she was up long enough for me to know that she doesn't remember me or Molly. I don't know if she remembers dad. Parker's coming up after he makes sure your mom and dad can watch Molly for a little longer so he can come… help with this." Michael looked towards her as she spoke and when she finished, he pulled her into a hug.
"You guys can get through this. My mom even said, 'If Booth and Brennan can make it through near-death experiences, relationships, and family stuff, they can make it through this.'" Alyvia smiled and wiped away a stray tear.
"Yeah, sounds like them." Alyvia put her head on Michael's shoulder and Michael leaned down until his cheek was on top of her head.
"I think your mom knows about us." Alyvia said as she watched the snow fall outside the window. Michael laughed.
"Yeah, I think she does too."
"Wanna tell my dad? This way he can't kill you if he doesn't like it." She said jokingly.
"Oh yeah. Let's do that now. Wanna do it before Parker tells your dad or after." He answered jokingly. She smiled, and Mikey poked her side.
"There's that famous smile." She sighed and he ran his thumb along her hand.
"I just want everything to be back to normal."
Parker walked into the elevator and pressed the two which would take him to the ICU. When the elevator reached his floor, the doors opened to reveal a sleeping Alyvia with her head on Michael's shoulder and each holding the others hand. He walked out of the elevator and stopped a few feet in front of them, and then he cleared his throat. Michael lifted his head and then his brown eyes filled with panic.
Parker lowly chuckled and then smiled.
"I may not be here a lot but I knew something was going on in between you two. You actually gonna start telling us?" Michael nodded.
"Good." Parker clapped his shoulder. "I'll come get her after I break it to dad, tell her how he took it. It was good seeing you Mikey."
"Good to see you too Parker." Michael squeaked out, the fear still traced in his body.
Parker walked out of the waiting room and stopped in front of the nurse's desk.
"Excuse me." The nurse looked up to him and smiled.
"Yes sir."
"Can you tell me what room Seeley Booth is in?" The nurse looked down at her computer and then looked back up to Parker.
"Wait, are you Parker Booth?" He nodded cautiously and the nurse held out her hand.
"I'm Katie Williams. Your sister said you would be here soon." He nodded once more as he shook her hand.
"Wait a second. Did you go to school around here?"
"Alumni of George Washington High School." Katie told him.
"What class?"
"Class of 2019."
"I knew I knew you. I went to high school with you. I dated your best friend there for a while and after she broke up with me, you and I became friends." Katie looked at Parker and then her eyes lit up.
"Parker Booth!" She hugged him and then let go.
"Your hair isn't blonde anymore." She told him.
"And your hair isn't blonde anymore."
"So how you been?"
"Good. My wife just gave birth to twins last night."
"Oh wow. Who's the lucky lady?" Parker smiled.
"Her name's Lily." Parker showed her a picture.
"Wow she's gorgeous." Parker glanced down to Katie's hand and saw the she wore a wedding ring.
"And who's the lucky guy for you?" She blushed and looked down at her ring.
"His name's Jeremy. We've got a two year old at home."
"Oh wow." He said as she showed him a frame picture of a toddler.
"He's adorable Katie."
"His name's Tyler."
"Well good for you Katie."
"Same for you Parker."
"Um. I really hate to break this short, but can you tell me what room my dad's in?"
"Oh! Your dad is in room 263; press the call button if you need anything or if he starts breathing heavily or anything like that." Parker nodded.
"Thank you. I'll talk to you later Katie." Parker followed the arrow that pointed towards Booth's room. When Parker reached the door, he took a deep breath and slowly opened the door. As he walked in, Booth heard him and called out, "Sweet Pea is that you?"
Parker walked fully into the room and Booth's face fell.
"Parks have you seen your sister? She went to go call you about a half hour ago and she never came back." Parker nodded.
"Yeah, she was in mom's room. I went to go check on them and they were asleep." Parker half lied.
"Oh. Okay."
"Hey dad look I gotta tell you something." Booth's face grew a little confused.
"Yeah shoot."
"Well." Parker paused. "There's no easy way to say this-"
"Parker just spit it out."
"Mom doesn't remember Livs." Parker said quickly. Booth froze and Parker took a step forward to make sure his chest was still rising and falling.
"What?" Booth said so quietly that Parker almost didn't hear him.
"Mom, she woke up and Livs was talking to her and Livs called her mom. I guess mom told Livs that she didn't have a daughter and that she had no idea who she was." Booth's eyes moved to the window on the other side of the room.
"Does she remember me?" Booth asked Parker, his eyes never leaving the slow-falling snow outside his window.
"I don't know. Livs said that they didn't talk that long and then mom fell asleep."
"I gotta go see her." Booth said as he threw the blankets on his bed back and threw his legs over the side. Parker walked up and gently pushed Booth back onto his bed.
"Dad you can't." Booth fought Parker's hold and began to stand up.
"I need to go see her." Parker pushed harder on Booth's shoulders, trying to sit him back down on his bed.
"Dad you don't even know if she's awake."
"I need to go see her!" Booth yelled. Three nurses ran into the room and helped Parker push Booth back to his bed. One nurse put a medication into his IV and the other two helped Parker set him down.
"I just need to make sure she's okay." Booth moaned before he became unconscious.
Parker walked down the hall towards Brennan's room. He poked his head in the door and saw that she was starting to wake up.
"Hi." He said.
"Hello." She answered back, her eyes slightly filled with confusion.
"I know you." She said and Parker's shoulders slumped with relief.
"You do?"
"You look very familiar. Your bone structure especially." Parker fought the urge to bite his lip and said quietly.
"I'm Parker." Brennan's eyes lit with recognition at and Parker almost fell backwards with the relief that filled his body.
'One hurtle partially down.' He thought.
"Bones." Parker said and he rushed forward to hug her when he remembered the burns that covered her body.
"Parker…why do you look as though you are in you mid-to late twenties?"
"Bones… I'm twenty-six."
"What? No you are not. I just saw you yesterday and you were nine." Parker quickly did the math in his head and realized that Brennan had forgotten anywhere from returning back from Maluku, to her and his dad getting together.
"Bones-"
"Parker?" She interrupted.
"Yeah Bones?"
"What happened? Why am I covered in burns?"
"You and dad were caught in an explosion, dad has second and third degree burns on random points of his body, and you have first and second on random points of your body." Brennan's eyes scanned her body and she looked up to Parker, noticing that he had more to the story.
"You've also forgotten the past sixteen, maybe seventeen years of your life."
"What? No that's not possible."
"Bones, what is the last thing you remember. Really remember."
"I remember standing next to your father in the garden at the Jeffersonian. We had just found this deaf teenager's real parents and re-introduced them to each other." Parker took a deep breath and tried to figure out a delicate way to question his next question.
"Who are your interns Bones?"
"Daisy, Wendell, Vincent-"
"Vincent?"
"Yes. Mr. Nigel-Murray. Your father refers to him as the English squint. Speaking of your father where is he?"
"Um. I will be right back Bones. Don't go to bed, don't leave, just stay right there. Okay?" Brennan nodded.
"Okay, I will be right back." He told her.
Parker walked out to the nurse's station and saw Katie.
"Katie?" He asked.
"Yes Parker."
"Um. My mom, she's up and she wants to talk to my dad. Can we do that?"
"I don't know Parker. I'll have to consult their doctor and then she'll have to approve it. After the way your father just acted I don't think there's a big chance of her allowing it."
"My mom," Parker blurted out. "She remembers me, but she only remembers me from the time I was nine which was right before her and my dad got together and had my little sister. I don't know how to tell her she has two daughters and I really don't want a doctor telling her either." Katie looked to him.
"I'll consult Doctor Hess and tell her the circumstances. If she allows it, we'll give your parents probably twenty minutes to talk and then, if things haven't improved, we'll bring your father back to his room. This isn't a definite plan but this will probably be what will happen." Parker nodded.
"Thank you." Parker walked back towards the waiting room where Alyvia was still sleeping on Michael's shoulder.
"Hey." Parker said and Michael looked up.
"I've got it from here. Go home; tell your mom and dad I'll call them with an update soon." Michael nodded and slid Alyvia's head off his shoulder. When he stood up he nodded at Parker and got on the elevator.
Parker leaned down next to Alyvia and gently shook her.
"Alyvia." She turned her head to the other side and began to lightly snore again.
"Alyvia." He said, slightly louder. Her head rolled forward and then she jerked awake.
"Mikey?" She asked groggily while she rubbed her eyes.
"No Livs its Parker."
"Parker? Where's Mikey?"
"I sent him home."
"Oh." She said and then she fell back asleep. Parker sighed and walked back up to the nurses' station.
"Excuse me." Parker said. A nurse looked up to him and gave him a cross look.
"Can you bring a cot to room 263?"
"No." The nurse said and Parker tried again.
"But my sister-"
"Nancy." A voice said from the back. Katie appeared and looked to the nurse that Parker had been talking to.
"What is it Kathryn?" Katie grimaced.
"Nancy, this is the brother of the girl that Doctor Hess allowed to stay. She gets the cot." The nurse grimaced and glanced towards Parker.
"Kathryn here will bring you your cot." Katie smiled apologetically at Parker and grabbed a cot from the side of the station.
"Sorry about Nancy. She's one of the older nurses and she doesn't really like anyone under the age of thirty."
"So I'm guessing she doesn't like you?" Parker said as they passed the waiting room where Alyvia slept.
"No she doesn't. She's the only nurse that knows my full first name and she always calls me by it." Katie pushed the cot into Booth's room and set it near the door.
"If you need anything else, just have them page me. When my shift ends, ask for Elizabeth. She's one of the nicer nurses on the night shift tonight."
"Thanks Katie." She nodded.
"No problem Parker." Parker walked back out to the waiting room, leaving his dad's door open, and picked up Alyvia. Her head fell against his shoulder and she began to lightly snore once more. He carried her to their dad's room and set her on the cot.
He covered her with the blanket that sat at the end of the cot and then settled himself in a chair in the corner of the room, catching up on his sleep for now.
A/N: Brennan has remembered up to "The Signs in the Silence".