Chapter 3
"Dr. Brennan." Brennan gave a small nod to Sweets and Charlie as they walked over with two agents behind them. "I heard what happened." Sweets said glancing at Angela who shook her head.
"Did you bring any luggage, Dr. Brennan?" Asked an agent she had seen around Booth's office once or twice.
"No." She told him.
"We are under order that you are not to go back to your apartment."
"I know I was already given orders by Cullen." She said irritated.
"I do not recommend going out to get new clothes and items you need." Said the other agent she had also seen once or twice before. Brennan looked at Sweets as Charlie watched her curious. Everyone at the FBI had known she was pregnant but no one knew who the father was, even though there were bets and rumors that she and Booth had finally gotten together.
"Uh, why don't you let Dr. Brennan get settled in? I'm sure she's tired from today." Sweets said trying to help only making the others, more curious as they all went up to Booth's Apartment. Brennan let everyone in and left Sweets and Angela to keep the agents from wandering too far into he apartment and discovering anything of hers as she went to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
"Sweetie, are you okay?" Angela asked as she walked into the Kitchen to see Brennan bent over resting her weight on her arms on the counter top.
"I'm fine Ange, just tired and uncomfortable."
"Well Sweets is going to stay for the night so if you need anything you don't have to call and wait. But make sure you call me if you need me, I'm only a fifteen minute drive away." She smiled as Brennan looked at her about to protest. "We all know you don't need a baby sitter. We're just really worried and it would make all of us, me and Booth especially, feel better if someone was here with you." Brennan sighed in defeat.
"Alright, I'll let you and Booth have your way just this once." She said and saw a bright smile spread across her friend's face. The two hugged before Brennan's phone started to ring. "Brennan."
"Hey Bones." Brennan smiled and looked at Angela who was ginning. "You talk to the police and get everything straight?"
"Actually Cullen showed up and told Angela to take me to your place. He is having the FBI go through and process everything. He also gave orders for two agents outside your building and Charlie and Sweets are here too. Apparently Sweets is spending the night." Brennan paused scrunching her face while Angela pulled a soda from the fridge. "Don't laugh at me." She scolded as Angela turned smiling; she could only imagine Booth laughing at her torment of having to have Sweets stay with her constantly.
"I'm not laughing at you. I just think it's cute how upset you're getting over having security outside and your very own shrink for the night."
"Keep it up I'll let Sweets into your sports things."
"You really know how to hurt a guy." He chuckled. "Just be careful when you go out. And I'm not telling you what to do-"
"I know, I know. You worry about me and love me." She said with a small smile. She heard a knock on the door and saw one of the Agents answer it, letting Cullen in. He turned seeing her in the kitchen.
"That Booth?" Cullen asked and saw Brennan nod. "Let me talk to him." Brennan handed him the phone. "Booth. Yeah, I checked it all out…" He said walking into the other room.
"Did you call Cam?" Angela asked.
"No, but I'm sure Booth has already called everyone. I'm surprised swat and the army isn't here." She said irritated.
"Sweetie, you know Booth is worried and wants to make sure you and the baby are safe when he can't be here. He knows the FBI will take care of you, especially his friends there. He definitely knows you can kick butt when you need to, he's just a nervous father." Angela smiled as Brennan sighed in defeat against her friend.
"Dr. Brennan." They heard making her turn around to see Sweets and Charlie. "Agent Burns is going to be staying the night with us since he has the gun."
"And you're staying because Booth told you to watch me." Brennan watched as Sweets shook his head.
"No, no. Agent Booth asked if I could just stay and make sure you were alright." Brennan glanced at Angela who gave a little smile.
"I'll get the extra blankets and pillows from the bedroom." She walked through the living room and into the bedroom to grab the extra items she knew Booth had in the closet with Sweets following her. He took the blankets from her as she turned bumping into the dresser, knocking a picture frame from the top. "Oh no." She said as she bent to pick it up.
"What is it?" Sweets asked as Brennan stood and turned it over looking at the picture of Booth and Parker sitting in a bench in the park holding the football.
"The glass broke." She sighed and started walking out with Sweets again following her.
"Everything alright, we heard something break." Angela said as Brennan held up the picture frame.
"I bumped into the dresser and the frame fell." Angela took the frame and looked at the picture with a smile. "They decided to try to teach me to throw the football." Brennan rolled her eyes as she turned to look on the desk sitting in the corner of the living room. "I think there's an extra frame around here from Parker's school pictures." She started going through the draws of the desk before smiling. Angela took the picture out of the old frame and handed it to Brennan.
"I'm going to head home; Hodgins is probably teaching Michael all about bugs and slime. Do you need anything before I go?"
"No, I'm fine."
"Dr. Brennan, wouldn't you like to get some clothes?" Asked an agent.
"I have everything I need." Cullen walked back in handing the phone back to her. "Hi, Booth."
"Hey Bones. You okay?"
"I'm fine."
"You don't sound it." Brennan sighed taking the picture from Angela.
"I'll see you later Ange." Brennan and Angela hugged before she left and Brennan turned to walk into the other room.
"Bones."
"I'm fine Booth really. I just do not like having baby sitters, especially ones who don't know about us and are going to be watching everything so closely."
"It will be fine. Besides Cullen knows, and that's the only one who really matters. If the others find out, it's not like it's going to cause problems. Just relax and try to get some sleep tonight."
"I don't know how much sleep I'll be getting with Sweets and Charlie watching me. Sweets is worse than you. He's been trying to get me to stop working for the last month and a half, and now he's going to be even worse."
"He's a kid. He doesn't understand how this stuff works. Let him pretend he's taking care of you, it'll make him feel good and he'll back off a bit. He wants to feel like he can help. It's just like when Parker comes over and you let him take charge." Brennan smiled.
"I guess I can do that until you come home."
"Good. Now I got to go for now. Call me later."
"I will." The two hung up and Brennan went back out to talk with Cullen.
"You have everything you need?" Cullen asked
"Yes."
"Agent Brown and Agent Hall will be outside, and Dr. Sweets and Agent Burns are going to be staying in here. That's okay with you?" Brennan nodded. "If you need anything call me."
"Yes, I will. Thank you."
"Sir, perhaps she should go somewhere to get clothing and such." Agent Brown suggested to Cullen who looked at Brennan.
"Dr. Brennan has everything she needs, let her make her on decisions about her comfort, you just watch the door." He looked back at Brennan and the two men who were to stay with her. "If there's anything I want a call."
"Yes sir." Charlie said before they all exchanged good byes and Cullen walked out with Agents Brown and Hall. "I'll take the floor I guess."
"One can have the couch and the other can stay in Parker's room." Brennan said as she walked over opening the door to Parker's room. "It's a small bed but it's better than the floor."
"I'll take the couch." Sweets said as Charlie shrugged.
"You sure Booth's son won't mind?"
"Parker is very generous. He would probably insist, considering you're here to make sure I am alright." Brennan explained. "There is beer, soda and juice in the fridge. Help yourself to anything you want."
"We're not going to drink Booth's beer and eat everything he has." Charlie said feeling a little awkward.
"Well everything is there if you want it, just don't drink his scotch." She said as she picked up a basketball Parker had left by the door, walked it into the room, and put it away as Charlie moved his bag into the room and saw a picture of Brennan and Parker smiling brightly at the camera as he sat on her lap. He picked up the picture and looked at Brennan.
"You and Booth's son are close." Brennan turned to look at him.
"Yes."
"You know you and Booth are the only partners I've ever seen who are as close at home as they are in the office. There have been pools going around since you guys started working together. Everyone picks how long it will be before you get together. The pool has pretty much died since you got pregnant. I mean obviously you're with someone."
"If you need anything else just ask. There are more blankets in the closet." She walked over and opened the closet to see everything fall out at her feet making her sigh and shake her head. "Like I said you can help yourself to anything in the kitchen, just don't drink the scotch." Charlie nodded, watching Brennan walk from the room and into the living room to talk with Sweets while he looked around the boy's room. He flipped open the photo album and started flipping through the pictures of Parker with his friends and father and paused as he came across a picture of Brennan smiling at Booth as he sat with his arm wrapped around her and Parker was kissing her swollen stomach. He looked at the doorway even more shocked as he flipped a few more pages and found ones of Brennan and Booth holding onto the other looking extremely happy. He closed the album and walked back out to see Sweets sitting on the couch with the TV on.
"Where'd she go?"
"She's getting a shower." Sweets said as Charlie walked back into the room to get the album before he sat next to Sweets. "What's that?"
"It's a photo album I saw." Sweets looked up at him as he flipped through to the pictures he had seen of Booth and Brennan. "Does this mean what I think it means?" He asked and watched Sweets look away and back to the TV. "Booth and Dr. Brennan…. but I thought…"
"It's easier if you don't think about how you missed it." He said softly. "They only let a few people know, so don't say anything."
"About what?" They heard as Brennan walked from the bedroom.
"Agent Burns found Parker's photo album." Brennan paused as she looked from Sweets to Charlie who sat waiting to be yelled at but was surprised when she gave a small smile and turned away to one of Booth's jackets.
"Booth said to show these to you. But with everything going on I completely forgot." She said as she handed the little pictures to Sweets. "He told you about the visit?"
"Yes." Charlie looked over at the pictures and then his eyes moved between the smiling Brennan and the smirking Sweets. "He said it's a girl."
"Yes, apparently she is going to be as stubborn as Booth." She smiled. "It took a while to get her in the right position to be able to see." Brennan's phone rang and she answered. "Brennan."
"Hi Bones!" She heard making her smile.
"Hi Parker. Is everything alright?" She saw Sweets and Charlie look up at her.
"Yeah, I called dad like I do every night and he said I should call you. Did something happen?"
"Everything's fine, someone just broke into my place."
"Did they hurt you or anything? Dad seemed really worried."
"No, I wasn't hurt, just a lot of my things were broken. You know how your father is. Your father made sure that I'm well taken care of." She smiled as the boy listened intently and worried. "I have Dr. Sweets with me and Agent Burns is staying in your room. Your father's boss even set up two agents outside."
"You should call him, he sounded really worried."
"I will. Listen you get to sleep, it's getting late and you have school in the morning."
"You gonna get me tomorrow after school? I mean I know Dad's not home." He said as Brennan smiled.
"Yes, I will pick you up after school tomorrow and you can take over as my protector while your father is gone."
"Okay, night Bones."
"Good night Parker." Brennan hung up walking into the bedroom to grab pajama pants and shirt before getting a shower. After fifteen minutes, she walked back out seeing Sweets with a glass of water and Charlie next to him with soda. "Do you both have everything you need?"
"I think so." Charlie said as Brennan nodded walking into the kitchen as she pushed speed dial.
"Booth." She heard after three rings.
"I told you I would call." She said with a sigh. "You know you had Parker all worried."
"What?"
"He called a little while ago to make sure I was alright. He said you were really worried when you talked to him."
"Yeah, well it's not every day that someone destroys your place and writes in blood on the wall to die." He said as Brennan sighed sitting on the high chair in the kitchen. "How you doing? Want to kill Sweets yet?"
"Actually he hasn't said or done anything. He helped me get the blankets from the closet earlier and I knocked over that picture on your dresser. I put the picture in a new frame. But Sweets is sitting in the living room watching TV with Charlie. He seems like he's awkward."
"Well it's Sweets, you know how he is."
"No, Charlie. He was acting as if he didn't know what to do. I told him he could use Parker's bed."
"Sweets going to take the couch?"
"That's what he said. I tried to get the extra blankets from Parker's closet and everything fell out. I think he has been using the closet to hide everything."
"Figures." Booth chuckled.
"Charlie found Parker's photo album."
"He saw the pictures didn't he?"
"Yes, he seems very shocked and now even more awkward here."
"Yeah, well it's not every day that you get asked to stay at a college's house while he's away. Besides Charlie is a little out of place when he is put into places like this. He'll survive."
"I suppose." She sighed looking through the doorway at the two men watching a law and order show. "Did you find anything useful for the case?"
"Jay's been talking to Steve; he got a few things from him but not much. I already talked to Cullen and he's running a few things down while I'm stuck here. Did you find anything new before you went shopping?" Brennan looked up as Charlie walked into the kitchen.
"No, we're still trying to match the exact weapon to give you a better idea of what to look for, but a very large streak knife is the best assumption we have been able to determine. We also have found out that the killer cut her throat before they stabbed her abdomen. Two strikes struck the mother's vertebrae and I was able to find evidence of another three strikes that only affected the baby."
"So the killer was probably upset about the pregnancy."
"That would be my assumption. Something about this child set the killer off on a rampage."
"I'll see if Jay had anyone who was angry about her pregnancy."
"You think we'll be able to find something that they weren't able to find when she first went missing?"
"I'm hoping. There aren't any other leads right now, we're getting nothing new out of Steve. This is turning out to be a bust." He sighed as Brennan shifted in her seat as Sweets walked in to see what Charlie was doing.
"Like you said, we are the best."
"Yeah, Jay still doesn't believe we've solved all those impossible cases."
"They weren't impossible. Impossible means there is no way to be able to solve them, we were able to solve each one, therefore they were not impossible."
"Then what would you call them?" She thought for a minute seeing Charlie steeling glances at her.
"I would propose that the cases we are handed are…. exceptionally problematic."
"That's just a fancy way of saying impossible."
"It is not. We have had very big problems trying to solve cases, the title fits."
"Sure, Bones," He chuckled. "I'm going to try to wrap this up tomorrow so I can get back to you and we can get Parker."
"Parker asked if I would get him anyway if you're still there."
"I told you he loved being with you." Brennan gave a little smile. "I'll try to make it home in time."
"We'll be fine."
"Did you show the new pictures to Sweets?"
"Yes, he was happy to see them." Brennan looked at her watch as the two men started making food for themselves. "Booth, is it possible that the killer was a boyfriend or lover?"
"That's a very big possibility." Sweets said making Brennan look at him. "The killer not only attacked the mother but also the child it would suggest that it was someone who did not like the concept of her being pregnant."
"I'll look into it in the morning. There was no one that stuck out like that or had any relationship with the victim like that except Steve. From what Jay has told me, everyone he could track down for any leads were close family members."
"I'll see if there's anything I missed on the remains. Maybe I can help find something that can tell you something else, and I'm hoping we find a match for the weapon."
"What did he say?" Sweets asked as Charlie looked at Brennan.
"Booth said he's going to look into it." She relayed.
"Jay's here, I'll call you tomorrow. Take it easy tomorrow."
"I know Booth."
"Good night Bones."
"Good night Booth." she said before hanging up. "Good night." She said standing and walking off to the bedroom leaving the two men to cook their food.