It had been a week since Parker and Lily had first kissed. Booth was really happy for his son. Parker seemed really happy to be dating Lily. Since day 1, he could tell that Parker liked her.

Booth was alone in his office. It was the first free time he had had in a week. This case had really stressed everybody out. The serial killer was crazy, but he was finally arrested. Now, he actually had time to think about his son's relationship and his new girlfriend.

Booth thought for a minute, and then realized that he knew very little about Lily. Why was she living with Daisy? What about her parents? Everybody has a backstory, what was hers? Booth decided to look her up in the FBI database.

He found Liliana Wick and looked at her records.

Daughter of Ethan and Juliana Wick. Sister of Lucas Wick. Age: 13

Booth skipped past some more general information and got to her school records. She was very smart and was even in an advanced class during 4th and 5th grade. She was in a lot of extracurricular actives, both after school and over summer.

Everything was looking good to Booth. Then he found some other records. He couldn't believe it. Perfect, sweet, innocent Lily? She seemed like a normal teenage girl. He became more and more astounded as he read on. He couldn't believe how stupid the California police was if they actually let this happen.

After a while, he knew he had to go talk to Parker and Lily about this. He looked at his clock. They should be getting to the lab soon. He grabbed his keys and headed over there.

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Lily and Parker walked into the lab to be greeted by everybody, as usual. They seemed so much calmer now that the case was solved.

They teens talked and laughed as they headed for Angela's office. When they walked inside, they found Booth sitting on the couch looking at some papers. He looked up when they walked in.

"Hi Mr. Booth." Lily said politely.

"Hi dad." Parker said as he set his backpack down. "What's up?"

"Hey kids. Can you close the door please?" Booth asked. Lily closed it. "So... How do I bring this topic up gently?" He glanced down. "Well, Lily, you know that since I'm an FBI agent, there are many people that want to get back at me for arresting them, so I have take care of Parker and Christine because they could get hurt in the process too."

"Yes, of course." Lily said, half-confused. Deep inside, she knew what was happening, but she didn't want to admit it to herself.

"Well part of doing that is knowing who Parker spends time with. I hope you're not offended by the fact that I looked you up in the FBI data base." Booth said.

"Not at al-" Lily said, only to be cut off by Parker.

"You looked up my girlfriend!" Parker exclaimed.

"Parker, you know I'm only doing it to take care of you." Booth tried to explain.

"That's totally unnecessary! Anything you need to know, you can ask her or me! There's nothing important that she hasn't already told me or isn't planning to tell me!" Parker was really mad that his dad had done this. He took Lily's hand and intertwined their fingers.

"Yea, well you know what. Sometimes there people who have done things and aren't planning to tell you!" Booth said.

"I was gonna tell him. I knew you were gonna look me up. I'm not offended at all, I actually quite admire that you take care of him like that." Lily said. "I have a feeling I know what you found. And I was going to tell Parker, but I didn't know how to start that conversation." She told Booth, then looked down. "Well, I guess this is a way to start it." She laughed.

"Yea. You should know that you could've told any of us. We can help you through it." Booth sympathized.

"Yea, I know. But I'm fine now. I didn't, I don't want the sympathy that usually comes with me telling people about my... Past." Lily said sadly.

"Your past? Can someone explain what's going on?" Parker asked, still holding her hand.

Booth and Lily looked at each other. "Can you tell him please?" Lily asked him quietly.

Booth nodded. "Parker, so, I looked up Lily, and what I found were hospital records."

"Hospital records?" Parker asked.

"Yea. First ones were that she passed out from lack of nutrition." Booth explained.

Parker looked at Lily, slightly confused. "What?"

"Well... That kinda means... Like..." Booth tried to explain.

"I'll just say it." Lily said. "I was anorexic."

Parker just looks at his girlfriend, shocked. Why would she feel the need to starve herself? She was perfect and beautiful.

"I know you're wondering why. I was bullied a lot in elementary and in middle school. I've always been fat. Don't you dare take this moment to be sweet and say that I'm perfect and beautiful, 'cause I'm not. I know I'm fat. Not as much as before, but still. And I really don't understand why you're interested in me." Lily explained.

"You are not fat Lil!" Parker exclaimed. "And you know that I can help you through that."

"I know, but I've gotten through it. That was almost a year ago. I'm past that. What I'm not past is my other hospitalization." Lily said.

"You've been hospitalized otherwise?" He asked and looked at his dad.

"Yea, that was the first time. The other 4 times were for being beaten up. Broken bones and extreme bruising, mostly. Although on the fifth one, she needed stitches on her back." Booth explained. "Both from experiences and from other records, I can tell what this is. You wanna tell him Lily?"

Lily nodded. "Part of the reason why my parents are divorcing is because, my dad was abusive." A single tear slips down her cheek. "He would get drunk and hit me. The ones where I was sent to the hospital were just a few."

"Stitches on your back?" Parker asked.

"Yea. My dad, um, threw a beer bottler at my back once. It hit the wall next to me and the glass bounced on to my back." She explained.

Parker just silently looked at his girlfriend. He could not believe the things that she had gone through. He couldn't believe how strong she was even though she had gone through those things. "Oh my gosh." He said quietly. He saw two more tears slip out of her eyes and he put his arms around her.

Lily felt Parker trying to comfort her, so she leaned into him. "It's okay, really. I'm, I got used to it at the end. He always made stupid excuses for how I got hurt. My mom seemed to be happy with their marriage, so I didn't say anything. I didn't want to ruin it." She sighed. "Then she realized that he had a drinking problem. Their relationship started to fall apart. She realized that he had never really been there for her. He was a terrible father and husband. He doesn't know my birthday or my brother's doesn't know how to spell my mom's name. He never encouraged anything that I did. And so my mom kinda got sick of it. I knew it was on the edge of a divorce, so I still didn't say anything of what he did to me. I didn't want her to suffer. Then he threw the bottle one day and I was taken to the hospital. When they took out the glass, my mom saw that it was from a beer bottle and she flipped. Sent me here while she finished the divorce over there." Lily explained her story and two more tears slipped out.

"Oh my god Lily." Booth said. The things that she had been through were very different than what he had, but the basis was the same. "When did he start abusing you?"

"He got meaner and meaner when I was around 8. He would get drunk and saw some stuff. But it got worse when my brother went to college. My brother was always the perfect child. He was a boy, he played soccer, and he did what my dad wanted him to do. That was all my dad cared about. So he took it out on me for not being like him. I'm not athletic, I never gave a shit what he said, and I was a girl. Exactly what he didn't want." Lily said.

"Wow." That was all the Parker could say.

"There's no need to talk about it. It's the past, it's behind me. You both know now and that's why we're here." Lily got off of Parker and wiped her eyes. She had only shed 5 tears, but it was a lot for her. "Is there anything else in my records that you wanted to discuss?" She asked Booth.

"No, not really. Those were the only things." Booth said and got up. "Thanks for being so open to share that, Lily." And he left.

Lily and Parker just looked at the door for a minute. Finally, Lily got out her homework. "Let's start this. Otherwise we won't finish in time." She said lightheartedly.

Parker could tell that she wanted to move on, so he didn't say anything about what had happened. "Yea." Was all he said.

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What do you think? And what should I put in the next chapter, I'm having writers block.

Also, please review! I didn't get any reviews last chapter, and I was really sad.