They say that introducing a young child late in the series sometimes causes the show to jump the shark, but they never said anything about fanfics.

Disclaimer: The kid is mine. You cant have her!!!

Cam parked in her space in the parking lot of the Jeffersonian, and looked over at the ten year old girl strapped into the front seat.

"You promise not to give any trouble, right Perry?" she asked her Little Sister, a worried look on her face.

"Promise," Perry smiled.

"You stay one place till I can come for you and bring you to lunch with your brother, you hear me?" Cam wagged a finger after Perry.

"Yeah, yeah. Cam, you're supposed to be my Big Sister, not my mom. You don't get to point at me like that."

Despite herself, Cam smiled. When the programme had placed them together, Cam saw immediately the similarities between herself and Perry. They both had the same shiny black hair, though Perry's was in pigtails, the same big brown eyes, and the same penchant for bossing other people around. Sometimes, the similarities between them were the cause of great conflict. But sometimes, like this time, it made Cam smile.

"Alright, I'll try. If you wanna go on a tour of the museum, it'll have to wait a bit, okay? I'm going to be a bit busy today. Grab your bag," Cam helped Perry out of her seatbelt- unnecessarily- and watched her take up her bag and hop out of the car.

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They walked into the lab a few minutes later.

"Hey!" Perry called in greeting to the security guard, giving him a cute smile-and-wave combo. He smiled and waved back.

Cam slid her card through the machine and it granted her access to the platform. Looking first if there was a corpse on the illuminated examination table, Cam ushered Perry up the steps to where the Squint Squad stood.

"Um, morning everybody," said Cam, "This is Perry Alden. She's going to be with us a bit."

Perry waved, "Hi."

Dr. Brennan was closest to the little girl, "Hi Perry. I'm Dr. Brennan, a forensic anthropologist."

Perry nodded, impressed, "Cool. I'm in the fifth grade."

Angela smiled, "I like this kid. Hey, I'm Angela, I'm an artist."

Perry's face broke out in a big grin, "Really? Me too!"

"Maybe you can show me your work sometime," Angela told her.

Perry nodded wildly, "Yeah, okay."

"Hey kiddo. I'm Agent Booth. I work for the FBI." Booth told her, saying it in a way that emphasized how important his job sounded.

Perry smiled, "Do you know my cousin? Jamie Alden?"

"Does he work for the FBI?" Booth asked.

"Nah. You guys put him in jail."

The smile on Booth's face dimmed, "Oh. No I don't know him, honey."

"Oh good. My cousin sells this stuff that my mom says will make you sick. I think it's drugs, but she won't tell me."

Several eyebrows went up around the room.

"Hey, I'm Dr. Hodgins, Perry," Hodgins smiled at her, "I'm an entomologist."

"That's like bugs, right? Dude, I totally wanna do that!"

"You know about entomology?" Jack asked her, looking excited.

"Yeah! I think it's sooo cool! I like bugs and stuff! Do you have any?"

"If she starts talking conspiracy theories, we'd have found Hodgins' twin soul," Booth muttered.

"Hey, who's that?" Perry started pointed at the person on a computer before she remembered it was impolite to point.

"Oh," Cam shrugged, "he's Zach. He's distracted, it happens."

"HEY ZACH!" Perry cupped her hands and shouted into them.

"Perry," Cam sounded just like a frustrated mother.

Zach turned, " Sorry, what?"

"Hi, I'm Perry! I came here with Cam! How are you?!"

"He can hear you fine, Perry, you don't have to shout," Cam sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Oh. Hi," Zach looked at Cam, "I'm going over the results now."

"Okay, good," Cam nodded at him. Then she looked down at Perry, "Will you please go with Angela till I can drop you off at Matthew's?"

"Totally," Perry grinned, "I'll be a little angel. Now, Angela, do you happen to have bright red paint? I'm feeling my muse."

"We'll see," Angela took Perry by the shoulder and led her down the platform's steps.

"Cute kid," said Booth to Cam.

"She's great, but as you can see, she's...a bit of a handful."

"I bet she's a window into what you were like at that age," said Hodgins.

"She does seem to share a few of your characteristics," Brennan observed.

Cam laughed, "Well, yeah."

"Dr. Saroyan, could you come here a moment, please?" said Zach and Cam rushed over and bent slightly to see the screen.

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"Zach's kind of cute."

Angela laughed, "You're something else. Didn't you just say that Hodgins was cute?"

"Well he is, and so is Zach. And so is Agent Booth," Perry grinned.

Angela grinned too, went back to cutting out a picture of Jennifer Lopez for Perry's collage, "Well, I guess I agree."

"You guys are so lucky. My new school has no boys except the teachers and they're old and ugly. I miss my old school." Perry sighed, painting a long green line on the thick paper she was working on, "And Tyler Tam. Now he was cute."

Angela grinned.

Hodgins came to the door of Angela's office, "'Scuse me ladies. Dr. Brennan wants that sketch of the twins in the river."

"Um, sure, it's..." Angela looked around frantically, "it's by the platform, I'll go get it. Perry, are you okay here by yourself for a few minutes?"

"Definitely. I won't even touch the scissors," Perry smiled, watching Angela leave the room behind Hodgins.

She waited a few minutes before she got up.

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Perry walked out of Angela's office and looked around the lab.

Her eyes landed on Zach.

He was now at a different computer, typing and navigating the mouse. Perry half skipped half ran to the stool beside his.

"Hey," she said as she climbed up and sat. He didn't notice her.

"HELLOOOOOO!" Perry shouted in her cupped hands.

Zach turned to look at her, "Hi, Perry."

"You were halfway to Sesame Street when I called you back!" she feigned frustration, throwing her hands in the air, "That's New York, you know!"

"Sesame Street is a fictitious place," said Zach.

"I know. I'm not a baby you know. I'm ten. I don't watch Sesame Street."

"Oh," Zach turned back to the computer.

"So Cam's your boss, huh?" Perry propped her elbow on the table and placed her chin on her hand.

"Yes."

"Do you think she's nice?"

Zach nodded, his attention more on the test results he was looking over than on Perry.

"Do you think she's pretty?" Perry leaned in.

Zach was only half listening, "Uh-huh."

Perry's mouth formed an O and her pigtails flew as she looked to see if anyone was coming. She saw Dr. Brennan but she was engrossed in the file she was holding.

Perry leaned in again, "Do you like her?"

Zach, who was still distracted, nodded.

Perry gasped.

"Perry! Perry, where are you?"

Perry turned to see Cam and Angela looking frantically around the lab. She couldn't sit on this information any longer.

"Hey Cam! Zach just said he likes you!"

Angela started laughing while Cam had on a look Perry's mother got when she was doing something wrong.

"Perry, Zach has work to do, don't bother him!"

Zach turned at the sound of his name, "What?"

"You should ask her out," Perry hopped off the stool.

"PERRY!"

"Omigosh, this is beyond hilarious," Angela continued laughing.

Review. Perry demands it.