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Chapter 4

Ten Months

That's the time you must keep on trying, smile what's the use of crying, you'll find that life is still worthwhile if you'll just smile. Smile / Charlie Chaplin

"Agent Booth, Doctor Brennan "Gabriela Brown greeted them.

"Good Afternoon Mrs. Brown, do you think we can come in? We have some questions for you and your husband about Kathe¨"

"Sure come in please" They stepped inside the house and followed Gabriela to the living room where Jhon was.

"Do you think I can take a look of the house?" Brennan suddenly asked.

"Sure"Jhon turned his head to look at Brennan.

"I´ll be right back."

Brennan sighed while she was walking. Seven years ago she would have denied to lie to the parents of one of their victims but now she was worried for the life of a girl. She may be scared, or hurt and that was all that she could think about now. After almost five minutes of looking into rooms she was starting to feel frustrated Sam wasn't in any of those.

Brennan was ready to comeback to the living room to meet again with the Browns and Booth until she heard the sound of a song, coming from the basement. Brennan cursed herself, how didn't she think to look on the basement. How many times she was locked in the basement too.

Maybe she was just trying to avoid those memories. Temperance opened the door softly and started her way down the stairs. It brought her so much memories that she could feel the tears running down her cheeks . A simple bed on one corner , there was almost no light , and she could swear that she saw herself curled up in bed , but this time it wasn't her It was Sam.

"That's a beautiful song "Brennan recognized it. Booth loved that song it was called Hallelujah . She had told him many times that she didn´t like the song. But deep , deep inside she did.

"Doctor Brennan?" Sam told her a little scared and for the tone on her voice Brennan could notice that she had been crying.

"Hi , Sam , I´m sorry I scared you" Brennan sat beside her on the bed and smiled to see a copy of her first book on Sam's night stand.

"It´s okay " Sam was trying to hide the fact that she had been crying but it was too late some tears just flipped out and she dried them with the sleeve of her jacket." I remember that when I was little I used to be scared of darkness and my mom used to sing me this song just to comfort me"Her voice was brittle .

" What happened to your arm?" Brennan´s voice was soft.

"I just…"She cried desperately and Brennan seeing her so vulnerable and afraid put her arm around her shoulders. Sam laid down to rest on Brennan's lap."Please just don't make me go ".

Don't make me go . Brennan couldn't stop her mind to come back to the day when they lost Vincent . He told them those exact words but this time was different . Sam needed to go and Brennan was determinate to make her understand that.

"What? , Sam you can't stay here , they are hurting you"

"This is the only family I have , I don't want to be alone again" Her words were honest , she have been alone when her parents died and this was the only family that she knew.

"You won't be alone Sam , I promise" She took a moment to examinee the wound on Sam's shoulder , It was easier because she was resting on her left side " I think we have to take you to a doctor " .

"Bones " Booth opened the door and started going down stairs to find her partner with an crying Sam resting on her lap.

"Samantha are you bothering Doctor Brennan ?" Jhon's voice sounded trough the air.

Sam sat straight again and brought her knees to her chest , she was scared and ashamed at the same time. She buried her head between her arms to hide all the fears that the voice of her stepfather cause on her.

"What did you do to her?" Brennan stood up and faced Jhon and Gabriela " You have no right to hurt her " Booth looked how mad Brennan was , so he simply touch her arm and she calmed down a little.

"It's ok Bones , I'm here "Brennan stood quietly and then turned to face Booth.

"It's not ok Booth !" She could feel the tears building up on her eyes.

"Look , she is my daughter , Doctor Brennan , you can't tell me how to race her "Gabriela was getting upset.

"I am not your daughter " Sam whispered between sobs .

"You are so ungrateful " Gabriela approached to Sam in an aggressive way.

"Hey ,back off " Booth took a place between them "I'm with the FBI so I have the right to take Sam with us "

"You can't do that " Jhon answered angrily.

"Of course I can , you are hurting her , if you were going to treat her like this then why did you adopted her on the first place ?"

"Jhon and I gave her a family "

"You can't call this a family "He said disappointed "Not for Sam at least "

Booth gently pulled his cell phone out of her pocket and left the room with Jhon and Gabriela behind him . Brennan instead of following them just came back to sit on the bed and offered Sam a friendly smile.

"Thank you Doctor B" Sam smiled as well.

"Are you ok ?" She wanted to be sure that she was feeling good with this .

"You promised I wouldn't be alone , and I trust you "

"So " Brennan was trying to cheer the things up a little , but she was cut off why Sam's question.

"Do you like Agent Booth?" Sam glanced over at Brennan and saw her cheeks flushing.

"Well" She was about to tell her but something stopped her from "I don't think we should talk about this "

"What? , I'm fifteen , and I'm gonna be sixteen in a couple of months"

"How many?" Brennan wasn't going to give up that easily.

" Ten" Sam lowered her voice.

"Then I'll tell you in ten months" She laughed willingly."And , why are you asking these anyway?"

"I don't know " She stood up "It's just the way you look at him , and how much you trust him " she continued her speech walking from one side of the room to the other " and how you always calm down when he's with you , and plus he's really, really cute , but , I'm just a dreamer girl so just ignore what I said "

"You are not a dreamer girl Sam , you are a perceptive girl "

"So , you like him? "

"Ten months , Sam, ten months" She couldn't believe that she had been so obvious ,but being around Booth without looking at him with adoring eyes was really hard for her.

"God , this is going to be long"

Brennan laughed at her commentary , she was surprised of her change of attitude , she had been crying desperately on her lap a few minutes ago , and now here she was asking about her relationship with Booth. If she had learned something from her own adolescence was that sometimes , you have mood swings , you are sad and then 5 minutes later you are laughing , and all that you need is someone there to understand you , regrettably she never had anyone , but now , she and Booth were there for Sam , and that made Brennan a lot more happy.