A/N: Thanks for all the reviews.
Chapter 2: Learning The Ropes
Parker wasn't in the least bit surprised when he walked into Hodgins' lab and saw that he had some kind of robot that he was playing with. "Uncle Jack, Aunt Ange sent me to make sure you weren't going to blow the lab up. But I don't feel like checking for explosives so if you tell me that that robot isn't an IED I'll believe you."
"No worries stud we've been here the whole time none of us saw dad with any C-4 or anything like that." Bailey assured him she was so much like Angela sometimes that it wasn't funny.
"Bug I really wish you wouldn't call my brother a stud that is wrong on so many levels. Starting with the fact that he is kinda ugly if you ask me." Eli said without looking up from her project.
"Ha, ha that's very funny Gizmo. I have news all you squints might give dad lip but I'm not going to take it." Parker informed his sister but everyone could tell that he was joking.
"Aunt Tempe is the head squint around here I don't think she is going to listen to you when you say that." Booth Hodgins pointed out. He was tall and muscular with his dad's light hair and blue eyes.
"Junior Squints leave the Junior G-Man alone he is having a rough day." Hodgins said playing with his robot. He wasn't going to tell Parker but hearing about Rebecca had put him into a bad mood.
"Uncle Jack I know you didn't just call me Junior G-Man." Parker said arching an eyebrow.
"Little G-Man just doesn't suit you when you're working. Because to be honest with you in that suit you look like a mini version of Booth." Hodgins said not looking up from his robot because he didn't want Parker to read what he was feeling.
"So what exactly are you guys working on?" Parker asked curious as to what type of all around nerdy things they were getting into.
"It's really your basic science experiment bumped up a level for these geniuses. They are hatching eagle eggs. It's just something to keep them occupied and their minds working." Hodgins answered absent-mindedly.
Parker was good at reading feelings and no matter how hard Hodgins was trying to hide what he was feeling he couldn't hide it from Parker. "Uncle J I'm sorry if I upset you earlier I shouldn't have said anything."
"Don't worry about it you just know how I feel. And you know why I feel that way." Hodgins said locking eyes with him.
"Hey I feel the same way Uncle Jack but lets not worry about it unless it becomes a problem." Parker said he just wanted to put the matter to rest and forget it ever happened.
Hodgins smiled at him. "It's a deal you'll get no arguments out of me there."
Parker went to reply but his phone rang before he could. "Booth," he said answering it sounding very much like his father. "Whoa, slow down Seeley I can't understand a word you're saying." He listened again as his brother took the time to calm himself. "I'll take your word for it I wasn't really paying attention this morning hold on let me find out." He put the phone to his shoulder and looked at Hodgins. "Uncle Jack are your security guys following me around again?" he asked.
Hodgins made a face like he was trying to remember if he had a protection detail on Parker again. "No I didn't put a protection detail on you there hasn't been any need for that since five summers ago when you were home."
Parker nodded and tried not to look worried before he put the phone back to his ear. "Look Seeley I'm sure it's nothing but I want you to come back to the lab. I did break quite a few hearts while I was in high school. Park next to dad's bureau car if anybody is following you they'll think twice about messing with you when they see that car." He instructed. "Ok I'll see you in five." He said before he hung up the phone. He was relieved that none of the Junior Squints were paying attention to his conversation they were too lost in what they were doing. But Hodgins looked at him with concerned eyes. "Uncle Jack I hate to ask…" he started to say.
"Say no more I'll stick a couple of guys on you and your car we'll see if that doesn't shake something loose I'll get to the bottom of this. And I won't tell your dad or there will be a legion of agents following every move you make." Hodgins said before he could even get the words out of his mouth.
"Thanks Uncle Jack you know I don't want him and mom to worry unless there is reason to. And it is possible the Seeley is just being paranoid he did get dad's investigator genes after all." Parker said giving him a smile to show that it wasn't bothering him.
"For all you know the man is having you followed to get to me if so don't worry I am prepared." Hodgins joked.
"That is very possible Uncle Jack bring down the master by going after the student." Parker intoned solemnly. He was really enjoying this he had forgot what it was like to be home.
Bones and Booth had decided since they had yet to pick up a case they might as well go to the Hoover Building and pay Sweets a visit.
"It's a pleasant surprise to see my two favorite patients today. Our regular session isn't until tomorrow so I take that you need help on a case." Lance Sweets said greeting his two friends.
Booth sat down on the couch he didn't really trust himself to speak at the moment.
"Actually we didn't come to see Dr. Sweets we came to talk to Uncle Lance." Brennan told him pointedly.
"I assure that even though Seeley is a genius he is still going to go through the normal moody teenager stuff it will pass it's nothing to worry about." Sweets assured them thinking they were talking about Seeley Jr.
"Please Sweets I know that Seeley is fine. He is the most normal out of the Junior Squints. He just got my flare for the ladies that is the one I don't worry about. But I'm happy that I'm not the only one who has noticed how moody he has been lately." Booth replied.
"Actually if you're ranking based on IQ Seeley is the least normal of the kids he has the highest IQ. Parker would be the most normal his IQ is only 160. But I know that you don't classify him among the Junior Squints. He is more of a Junior Booth." Sweets pointed out.
"Yes, we figured that out this morning. Booth has been throwing a fit for two days because we got a new agent assigned to the lab. It turns out that agent is Parker. I had no clue that Parker even went to Quantico so it came as quite a shock." Brennan explained.
Sweets looked uncomfortable. "Really that is an interesting development. I can't say that I didn't see it coming though Parker hero worships Booth not only that he is a warrior just like his father." He said like he was analyzing the situation.
"Stop trying to play innocent Sweets we know that you knew." Booth said glaring at the younger man.
"No Hodgins knew and he told Angela, then Angela told Cam, and Cam told me. I didn't want to know. But she said if one of us was going down for this we all were. I tried to tell Parker to tell you guys but he said he wanted it to be a surprise." Sweets said trying to displace some of the blame.
"Trust me I already laid into your ringleader Sweets and then his mother made me apologize to him. Don't worry Cam and Angela are next on the list. I'm saving the second in command for last. Just because a young Marine Captain tells you to keep something from his parents it doesn't mean you do it." Booth preached at him.
Brennan rolled her eyes at her husband. "Really, Booth I think you've vented your anger enough for the morning save it for later."
"Thanks Brennan I really didn't want him to kill me." Sweets said.
Just then Booth's phone rang. "Booth, ok we'll get right on it." He said before hanging up. "Come on Bones as much as I would like to continue this we have a case." He watched as his wife whipped out her phone. "Bones what are you doing?" he asked.
"Calling Parker I don't want to have to wait for him to get his stuff together." Brennan replied as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Booth just rolled his eyes he didn't know if he was going to like this or not.
Parker was waiting out on the parking lot when his parents pulled up. He opened the back door of the black SUV and climbed in. He was a big ball of nerves this was his first crime scene and he didn't want to blow it.
"So what's the deal?" he asked when his father accelerated the car.
"They are doing some rehab work on a night club and they found a body up in the ceiling or rather the body found them it fell through. Pretty much the usual." Booth answered without taking his eyes off the road.
"So I'm guessing that this is a hard body to Id or they wouldn't have called mom in." Parker said he could tell that his dad was still pissed. His suspicions were confirmed when Booth only grunted in response.
"Parker the remains are not easily identifiable or else they wouldn't have made the call to your father." Brennan answered turning in her seat to give the younger Booth an encouraging smile.
"Right it makes me wonder why I didn't get a call too." Parker mused.
"Because I'm the handler and they're not going to trust a junior agent with no experience." Booth pointed out logically.
"I think the word liaison is more appropriate because there isn't anyone I know who can handle mom." Parker laughed.
"Thank you Parker that was very sweet of you." Brennan said taking his statement as a compliment.
"He's only trying to butter you up Bones he has to have one parent on his side." Booth observed.
Parker rolled his eyes he knew that his dad was going to be mad he just didn't know that he was going to act like a five year old. "Dad how long are you going to be mad at me?" he asked.
"I don't know maybe until you're thirty I haven't decided yet. But you'll be the first to know when I do." Booth assured him.
Parker knew better than to say anything else so he just sat in the back and kept his mouth shut until they reached the crime scene. After his phone call with Seeley he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being followed but he just decided to let it go for now. When they pulled up to the crime scene he broke his silence. "Wow, I had no idea that this was going to be the crime scene. The Inferno Lounge has been one of the hottest nightspots in D.C. for like the last half century if not longer. All the heavy hitters have played here." he exclaimed.
Booth quirked his eyebrow as he got out of the car, "That's pretty good memory retention for a low level genius."
"Dad this is me history is my thing and may mom forgive me for what I'm about to say but so is psychology it is pretty useful in my line of work." Parker bragged.
"I think you can be forgiven just this once for that slip. As much as I hate to admit it soft science can come in useful every now and then." Brennan smirked at him as they made their way inside the club.
A local police officer met them in front of the storeroom where the body was found. He introduced himself as officer Hicks. He was an older man he kept his sparse hair buzzed close to his scalp and he had a paunch.
"I'm Special Agent Seeley Booth and this is my partner Dr. Temperance Brennan." Booth introduced himself and his wife to the officer.
Brennan sent him a subtle glare, "This is Special Agent Parker Booth our assistant." She introduced Parker.
"The body is in there the crew was doing some work to repair the ceiling tiles when it fell down on them. If you need anything just holler." Hicks said before walking away.
Parker went to step into the storage room but Booth stopped him by grabbing the back of his collar. "If you value your life you won't do that. Your mom will kill you it's bad enough that there have already been other people through the crime scene." Both men stepped back to make way for Brennan.
Brennan snapped some photos of the body before she pulled out a ruler and began to do some quick measurements.
"What do we got?" Parker asked leaning against the door with his arms crossed over his chest.
"From my measurements we have a Caucasian male in his late thirties to early forties I'll know more when we get the body back to the lab." Brennan replied all business. Her husband was standing behind her looking over her shoulder while she worked. "Booth it might prove to be useful if you go get the statements of the crew." She suggested.
"I'm not leaving you in here alone Bones." Booth protested.
"I'll be fine Booth besides that Parker will be with me." Brennan assured him.
"Fine but I'll be as quick as possible." Booth promised. "Keep an eye on her." he told Parker as he walked out the door.
Parker grunted in response two could play at the game that Booth was playing with him. He watched his mother as she worked. "Do I have to stand here or can I come in?" he asked.
"Come in I think you can stand to learn something of the process." Brennan replied.
"I just didn't want to mess up or anything the truth is I'm nervous and dad isn't helping matters any." Parker said he walked to stand beside his mother.
"There is no reason for you to be nervous Bub you're doing fine. As for your father he isn't as mad as he would like you to think he is." She tried to assure him.
"Do you know how long he is planning on giving me the cold shoulder?" Parker asked sighing.
"That I don't know but I will talk to him again. But as ridiculous as he is acting right now you need to realize that he does have a good reason to be upset with you. All you ever had to do was tell us that you wanted to be part of the team." Brennan reasoned with him.
"I know but I was scared he would say no. He does have a tendency to baby me." Parker sighed again he was well aware that he had brought this all on himself.
"You know why he does that he is trying to overcompensate because your mother walked out on you at such a young age." Brennan explained to him.
Very rarely did Parker get angry with his mother as a matter of fact there were some who would call him a momma's boy but those words did manage to piss him off. "My mother did not walk out on me she is sitting in front of me right now doing something that very few people can do. Rebecca is not my mother Bones you are." He said heatedly.
Brennan couldn't help but smile at him a little. "I would say that you are correct in that statement Agent Booth. As I learned from Sweets this morning you inherited my intelligence but from that display just a moment ago it's not hard to tell that you're your father's son that was the Booth temper."
Parker smiled back. "Agent Booth does have a nice ring to it coming from you mom. Thanks for throwing me a bone back there when dad was being a jerk."
"No thanks required Bub you're my son too and if it is at all possible I'm prouder of you than your dad is." Brennan said before getting back to work.
Parker was just content to stand and watch her work this woman had been such a big part of shaping who he was. He didn't know where he would be without her. She was his mother in every way that counted and it was hard for him to remember a time before she was in his life.
Unbeknownst to his wife and son Booth was standing right outside the door listening to their interaction. He knew the minute Bones said something about anyone other than her being Parker's mother that he was going to be pissed off. He cringed but Parker's blowup had been better than he expected. He could still remember the first time that Parker called Bones mommy.
Booth was lying in bed next to Bones sound asleep when a loud whimpering roused him from his slumber. His thoughts quickly shifted to Parker and then he remembered that the little boy was sleeping in between them. He turned over to see what was troubling his son.
"Bub wake up you're having a bad dream." Booth said gently shaking his son awake.
Parker opened his big brown eyes and they landed on Booth. "I don't want you I want mommy." He protested.
Booth sighed as he felt his heart break for his son it had been three months since Rebecca left he was hoping that he would be over this by now. "Parker you know that your mommy isn't around right now." he said gently.
The commotion had woken Bones up. "Booth what's wrong?" she asked concerned for Parker.
"Nothing I think he had a bad dream." Booth answered pulling his son closer for him.
Brennan looked down at the little boy and she could see the tears in his eyes. "Parker what's wrong sweetie?" she asked him.
"I had a bad dream and I kept calling for you mommy but you never answered. And then when I asked daddy for you he told me that you weren't here." Parker cried wrapping his little arms around her neck.
Bones took one of Parker's hands and put it over her heart so he could feel it beating. "Bub I know you can feel my heart beating and as long as it is and there is still a breath left in my body I'm not going to leave you. You and daddy are my life, I wouldn't want to live without either of you." she told him hoping to ease his fears.
Parker snuggled closer to the anthropologist. "I love you mommy."
"And I love you baby. Now try to go back to sleep." Bones told him running her hands through his curls.
Booth was content to watch his son and the woman he loved. "I love you so much Bones. That was a really nice thing that you did for Parker." He said when his son had drifted back to sleep.
"I love you too Booth. I wasn't being insincere when I was talking to Parker I do love him like he is my son as well." Brennan explained.
Booth gave her one his charming smiles before he kissed her. "I know you do Bones. That is part of what makes you so special." He replied putting his arm around her and their son.
"Seeing the little G-Man standing there beside Brennan really brings it home that he isn't a little boy anymore." Hodgins said bringing Booth out of his thoughts. He and Wendell had just made it to the crime scene.
"You're telling me, he makes me feel old." Booth replied.
"For what it's worth Booth I did tell him that he should let you know what he wanted to do. But you know Parker he's stubborn when he wants to be." Hodgins said.
Booth glared playfully at Hodgins. "This isn't over Bug Man but right now I have to go question witnesses. We'll continue this later." he warned him before walking away.
Hodgins just smiled and shook his head before walking into the storage room where Parker and Brennan were. "There better be bugs and slime around here somewhere or I'm not going to be happy."
Parker rolled his eyes at his favorite uncle. "Dude I have to tell you that you look like an overgrown infant in that jumpsuit. And my guess is that any bugs and slime there might be is going to be up in the ceiling where the body came from."
"Wendell get the ladder out of the van. We're going up there." Hodgins ordered.
"Uncle Jack do you have any gloves?" Parker asked he wasn't sure what he should be doing but he wanted to help out.
"Yeah, why do you need them?" Hodgins asked handing him a pair of latex gloves.
"I want to check the dead guy's pockets. He might have identification on him that makes my job easier." Parker explained.
Brennan looked at him and arched an eyebrow. "Parker were you planning on asking me?" she asked him.
Parker frowned he didn't think he was doing anything right today. "Sorry mom I didn't think you would mind."
"My body, my rules just remember that and you will be fine." Brennan informed him seriously.
Parker chuckled to himself. "That is not the first time that I've heard that from a woman. But that is the first time I've heard it from my mother and in that context."
"Parker this is one of those times when I don't even want to know what you're talking about. So I'm not even going to pretend to understand." Brennan said looking at him slightly confused. Sure she was better with feelings and pop culture now but there were still some things that she just didn't get.
"Little G-Man I take that you are quite the ladies' man. You sure make your Uncle Jack so proud." Hodgins said patting him on the back.
"Thanks Uncle Jack I do what I can. Mom are you going to let me check his pockets or not?" Parker asked he really needed to feel useful.
"Given the condition of the body I really wish you would wait until we get the body back to the lab." Brennan said she didn't want to disturb the clothing until they were back at the lab.
"Ok, so I guess I will go help dad with the questioning." Parker said as he walked out of the storeroom. And then he caught sight of Wendell struggling a little with the ladder. "That is after I help Wendell with the ladder." He said a smirk coming to his face.
Angela muttered something to herself and sighed she couldn't believe her bad luck at getting stuck babysitting eight geniuses while they worked. What made it worse was she only counted seven geniuses somehow she had managed to misplace one. Or rather he was just doing a good job at keeping himself hidden. Considering who it was she decided to check Brennan's office before she went into panic mode. Thankfully her gut was correct and she found Seeley lying on the couch in his mother's office.
"There you are I've been looking all over for you." Angela told the brooding genius.
"I obviously didn't hide well enough or you wouldn't have found me so quickly." Seeley replied tossing up the baseball he carried with him everywhere before he caught it.
Angela moved his feet so she could sit down on the couch beside him. "What's wrong sweetie? And don't try to tell me nothing I know you well enough to know when something's bothering you."
"This is about a girl Aunt Ange." Seeley said not really wanting to talk about it.
Angela looked at the expression on his face she had seen that expression before. "You're all Booth that's for sure you may have a brilliant mind like Bren but you have heart. And you are more like your big brother than you realize."
"I'm a pretty well rounded guy I don't get lost in all this science and I'm normal. But I just don't understand why I have no luck at all with girls. They always find some reason to break up with me." Seeley sighed he just couldn't understand his bad luck with the female gender.
Angela chuckled at him a little bit. "Like I said you're all Booth you understand the need for deep emotional connections and you know how to feel. So you understand what you're looking for in a woman. It's for the best that none of them have stuck around they don't deserve you and that big heart you have."
"I guess you're right Aunt Ange it just doesn't make it any easier. It's bad enough that I have this huge brain but I'm a jock with feelings I'm just not normal." Seeley laughed.
"Sweetie Brennan is you mother you look like the king of normal when compared to how she used to be." Angela assured him playfully.
"Sometimes I envy Park he doesn't have to deal with the brains we all inherited from mom. He can get away with being a simple FBI agent and not get a guilt trip for it. While I'm expected to get all these PhDs and do all around wonderful things but the truth is I hate science I don't want all this I want to do what dad does." Seeley said that was totally off topic but more in line with what he really wanted to talk about.
Angela gave him a soft smile. "We're not mind readers around here Seeley you have to open your mouth and say the words if you want us to understand. Trust me I know your mom all you have to do is tell her the truth and she will be ok with it." She said gently.
"Right because that turned out so well for my sister, she and mom barely spoke for a week. I guess mom is just going to have to rely on Hank and Lance to carry on her work." Seeley chuckled.
"God help the world if the three Hs ever get control of this lab. And it would be even worse if they had their little sidekick Lance with them." Angela laughed.
"God help the world if Booth and Gizmo ever get their heads out of their asses. Those two could rule the world. But sadly they are both too wrapped up in other things to realize what they're missing out on with each other." Seeley sighed.
"Never fear your highly intelligent older brother might have a plan in the works for those two. You leave them to Park and me. You just worry about telling your parents why I managed to get you a spot in the FBI internship program." Angela winked at him.
Seeley gave her a Booth charm smile that showed his rows of perfect teeth. "Aunt Ange I don't know what I would do without you sometimes."
"Easy with the charm killer. I love your Uncle Jack and if something happens to him I've promised myself to Parker." Angela joked with him.
Booth Hodgins and Elizabeth Booth were both standing over a microscope looking at something in a pea tree dish.
"This fungus is really growing. Remind me again where we got this sample." Booth said as he observed his specimen under the microscope.
"The one in that dish came off of the tires on Seeley's dirt bike." Eli replied and then she grabbed another dish. "Now if you'll slide this one under there you'll see the progress of the swab we took off of the bottom of Harper's shoe."
Booth reached for the dish without looking and his breath caught in his throat when his hand brushed against hers. "Thanks," it was a simple one word answer for the young genius but he couldn't formulate a better answer.
Eli too felt the sparks when their hands met. "No problem," she replied. She didn't know where those feelings had come from. Booth was just like another little brother to her. But lately she had been noticing little things about him. Like the way his blue eyes sparkled when she said something to make him laugh.
"Dad is going to find this interesting. I wonder where Harper has been running to pick up spores like this." Booth mused when he put the new specimen under the microscope. He reverted back to science when he felt the feelings that he had for Eli making their way to the surface.
"Knowing H3 the way that I do I don't think I want to know. He likely picked it up running from some overprotective father with a shotgun." Eli laughed.
Booth laughed too he loved the sound of Eli's laugh it was like music to him. But then again those could have just been his artist's genes kicking in. "I think that is only Uncle Seeley that does things like that when it comes to you, Bailey, and Hayden. As you know he says that my dad can't be trusted with an gun because there is no telling which government official he would try to kill."
"Uncle Jack isn't that bad he gets worse when Parker is around to encourage him. I sometimes don't know if Parker is joking or being serious when he starts in on that conspiracy crap." Eli said rolling her eyes.
"So I heard that you just about broke Aunt Tempe's heart when you told her that you wanted to be like Uncle Seeley." Booth said trying to keep the conversation flowing.
"Don't be dramatic Booth I know that you're half artist but you can control your genes. It wasn't that bad we just didn't talk for a few days but mom is over it now. It helps that I took this internship but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do sometimes. Besides that they don't seem too bothered that Parker is in the FBI now." Eli said shrugging.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you that it's not nice to talk about your big brother when he isn't around to defend himself?" Parker asked coming into the lab with Wendell and Hodgins. He had rode back to the lab with them. He figured it was the only way he was going to be able to help out. His mom wouldn't let him touch the body and his dad wouldn't let him help with questioning.
"Sorry, Park if I had known you were going to walk in I would have thought of something worse to say about you." Eli replied not at all repentant for what she had said about her brother.
"Alright Junior Squints move over and let the king of the lab show you how this is done." Hodgins said clearing the kids away from the microscope.
"So we're done for the day?" Booth asked his father.
"Yes you can go do whatever it is you and Eli do when you leave the lab." Hodgins answered.
"So I guess then we can catch the baseball game this afternoon I can still get tickets." Booth offered Eli.
"Yeah that sounds like a date." Eli agreed looping her arm through his.
Parker shook his head at the retreating teenagers. "I really don't understand how those two can be so blind. But I won't pursue that line of thought right now."
"Don't wish that on me Agent Booth. Your father is on my side for now we have joined forces to chase boys away from those girls. He could kill me and Booth if they started dating." Hodgins said off handedly.
"No he would just kill you since it is part of a big government conspiracy he wouldn't kill his godson." Parker said fueling the conspiracy theorist's paranoia.
"Agent Booth I would suggest that we analyze the samples that Dr. Hodgins found back at the crime scene. Dr. B and the other Agent Booth will be asking for them when they get back." Wendell said seriously.
Parker walked over to Wendell and clapped him on the back. "Congratulations Wendell you're the first person to call me Agent Booth and be serious about it. Now lets get down to some bugs and slime."
"We've got plenty of that little G-Man we've got what looks like some fossilized bugs so the body has been there a while. How long I won't be able to say until I examine this stuff further." Hodgins replied all business.
"What can I do?" Parker asked he pretty much felt useless and useless was the one thing he didn't do well. He had been a marine for four years.
"There is nothing you can do until Dr. B determines a cause of death and Angela does a reconstruction. You have nothing to work with until then." Wendell supplied.
"Park if you want to do something useful go tell Cam what we're working with this time." Hodgins said things really weren't going as smoothly as he had hoped they would.
"Ok, I can do that Uncle Jack not that I know much about what we've got no one will tell me anything at all." Parker grumbled as he walked off in search of the coroner.
Cam was bent over her desk dealing with the paperwork that came with running the lab. She didn't know whether to be thankful or annoyed when she heard a knock at the door. She settled on the former option when she saw who was standing in the doorway.
"Come on in Parker." Cam said smiling at him.
Parker sat in the chair across from her desk. "Aunt Cam I'm supposed to report on the case that mom and dad caught this morning. The crew working on the renovations at the Inferno Lounge found a body this morning and the remains weren't easy to identify. That's all I really know right now." he reported there really was nothing more he had to tell. They wouldn't know anything for sure until the Squints worked their magic with the evidence.
"They wouldn't let you help much would they?" Cam asked with a knowing smile.
Parker grinned, "You could say that. And you could also say that I think dad is less thrilled about this than mom is."
Cam reached out and placed her hand over his. "Give him time Park he still sees you as a little boy and he feels the need to baby you, we all do."
"Yeah I know and I don't think any of you would buy the argument that I'm a grown man who has been basically on his own for the last eight or nine years. Hell Uncle Jack still calls me little G-Man" Parker said.
"Not a chance Park. And you will always be Hodgins' little G-Man no matter how old you get. I don't know if it was his impending fatherhood or what but he really took it hard when Rebecca did what she did to you." Cam explained to him.
"I know Aunt Cam." Parker said not really wanting to talk about it.
"No Parker you don't know. I have never seen Hodgins so angry as he was the day that Rebecca just dropped you off. I honestly had to keep him from calling her and giving her a piece of his mind. I know that you might not remember any of this but we all do. I remember the early mornings when Walt would carry you up here still asleep. I remember Hodgins going through the roof the night she didn't pick you up at all. I remember the way Hodgins and Angela damn near moved you in with them when it became apparent that Rebecca couldn't take care of you. I remember the look in your dad's eyes and the way you were devastated when you found out she had left you for good. So yeah Park we're all more than a little protective of you." Cam went on.
"I understand all of that Aunt Cam I lived it and in large part I've tried to forget it." Parker replied.
"Again you don't understand Parker. Let me explain it to you this way. You know how Sweets is your mom and dad's baby duck?" she asked and Parker nodded. "Well that is how we all feel about you too we don't want to see you get hurt anymore than you already have been."
"Aunt Cam I love all you guys and you might remember all the bad stuff. But I remember the good stuff. I remember Uncle Jack teaching me how to identify bugs, and Aunt Ange showing me how to do computer generations. I remember Wendell would take me to the park on his lunch break and play ball with me. I remember when you guys couldn't deal with my pent up energy you would call Michelle and set me loose on her. I remember Sweets would take me to the movies sometimes. Like I said I blocked out everything bad with that time period and I focus on the good." Parker replied.
"You sure did cure Michelle of wanting to have kids for a while." Cam laughed at the memory.
"Speaking of how is my godson?" Parker asked.
"He is good he is also all boy just like his Uncle Parker used to be." Cam answered his question about her grandson.
"Talk to my mom she can tell you a thing or two about raising boys there are four of us." Parker chuckled.
"Park give your mom and dad some time they just need to see you as the man you have become. More accurately give your dad a lot of time he will come around though." Cam assured him.
Parker was about to reply when there was a knock on the door.
"Dr. Saroyan I hate to interrupt but I need to talk to Parker." Walt the security guard said.
Parker took one look at him and he knew he wasn't going to like what he had to say.
A/N: Here is another chapter I know I left you guys with a little bit of a cliffhanger but I hope you enjoyed it. Until next time please review.