Title: Fear

Series: Anniversary 1/?

Author: Chymom

Spoilers: Any episode of Bones maybe talked about in this story.

Rating: PG

Word count: 1492 words

Characters and parings: Booth, Bones, Parker, Cam, Angela/Hodgins, and Sweets.

Disclaimer: I don't own any thing you know. Anything else thought is mine.

Summery: The field trip that changed things for Bones was now two years ago and a lots changed. There is one thing that hasn't changed and will never change what is it?

Beta: XOC13

Authors Notes: Any and all honest feedback is welcome. THIS IS A FOLLOW UP TO FAMILY. You don't have to read family to understand this story completly but it would help with some facts if you did.

Anniversary

Chapter one: Fear

Laying in bed watching her lover sleep, Bones' mind drifted over the events that had led her and her family to this day. Her mind drifted back two years ago to the day a tragedy had occurred. The day had started out well. The case she and Booth were working on had a lead and Parker's class had been at the museum. Seeing Booth with his son had always made her day brighter. Even now the spark the two got in there eyes at seeing each other makes her smile.

Little did she know back then that things were about to change. She had a family; sure there was the one that had left her, but her new one had chosen not once but a few more times NOT to leave her behind. Before this time she never knew what Booth had meant when he said there were all kinds of families. Now she knew that Cam, Angela, Jack, Charlie, and even Sweet's were one of her families. But she was seeing a closer family with Booth and Parker. This was all new to her and after the field trip it took her months to get use to it. If she were honest, she was still getting use to it.

That morning in the hospital after Parker had talked with her she had sat there for a few minutes holding him. He was so young and had so much to deal with now. But even with what she knew was to come she wouldn't have changed the outcome if she could have.

The abuse she had suffered to keep him safe she would gladly take again if it meant that he was still unharmed. It was then that she spoke to the child in her arms' father. After a few minutes the team or as she now saw them her family had come in the room.

"Bren, I have seen you look better." Angela was trying to make the heaviness in the room leave but only added to it.

"Dr. B, if there's anything you need just ask. No matter what time. If the G-man won't do it for you, we will." Getting a laugh from the room Hodgins knew things would be okay. They had a long road ahead of them but they would all make it.

"Uncle Jack?" Parker's small voice stopped the laughter as they awaited what he had to say.

"Yes, little Booth." Jack tried to keep his anger towards the men who had hurt them hidden as he wanted to find out what the young man who yesterday was silent had to say to him.

"Can we talk alone for a minute?" At Parker's request Bones hugged him tighter to her then started to let him go, but as she did his small hand held tight to hers. Booth saw this and spoke up.

"Who's up for coffee? Bones, you want some tea?" At her nod Booth lead the others out of the room closing the door on his way out.

"Parker?" Bones asked as the child in her arms seemed to want to crawl under her skin.

"Whatever you need to tell me, Parker, take your time. I have nowhere to be and your dad will be gone as long as you need him to be." Jack sat down in the chair Booth had just vacated. Bones didn't know what to do. After the things she knew he had heard and the things he had told her she wasn't sure what he was going to say to Jack. Not knowing what else to do Brennan simply hugged him to her body as he clung to her.

"I…I wanted to say I'm sorry for your desk being flipped over." The words came out of his mouth and the look of shock came on Jack's face.

"Listen to me, Parker." He stopped waiting on the small boy in his boss' arms to look at him.

"Nothing about last night is your fault. You did nothing wrong. In fact, I am so proud of you for being there for Dr. B when we couldn't. You kept her safe when no one else could…not even your dad." As he finished his statement he noticed the tears in Bones' eyes as well as Parker's.

"No, I didn't see this." His small hands were pointing to the bandages on her arms.

"I didn't keep her safe! They still hurt her and when I ran away 'cause they were going to hurt her really bad they did this. It's my fault mommy is stuck here. It's all my fault!" Both adults had been waiting for this to come. The things Parker had seen over the last twenty four hours no child should ever have to see; no one for that matter but especially not a child. Bones and Jack simply held him as he cried. After a few minutes Jack spoke up, knowing that as much as he needed to tell Parker that things were going to be alright he wasn't the one that was needed right then.

"Parker, things happen to the ones we love. Sometimes it will be hurtful words other times things like this. But the one thing that will never change is the best way to heal is with honesty and love." Having said that, he stood and kissed Parker's head. Something that Brennan and he both found out of place for him. He headed out the door. A few minutes later Booth came in with milk for Parker, a tea for Bones, and a coffee for himself.

"Buddy?" Booth asked after freeing his hands. Not a moment later his arms were full of his crying, heart broken son. Booth had always tried to keep the hurtful part of his job away from his son but this time there wasn't much he could do. The world had made its presents known and it was going to leave a mark.

"Daddy, I was so scared you weren't there and I had no idea how to keep mommy safe and she and I needed you." As the fears that Parker had kept hidden from him all night came flowing out of his mouth, Booth listened. For the next ten minutes Booth and Bones listened to what Parker was saying. Outside in the waiting room the team was gathered around Jack as soon as he entered.

"What did little Booth need?" His wife asked as he came to sit by her side.

"He wanted to say he was sorry for my desk being flipped when he hid under it. The desk was and still is the least of my worries." Jack took a small sip of the coffee that appeared in front of him.

"He is trying to come to terms in his own way with what happened by starting with the safest place he could find when they hurt Dr. Brennan." Sweets offered.

"Sweets is right." Angela said then turned to the young doctor.

"Don't get a big head." She told him before turning back to Jack. She saw there was something else on his mind.

"What is it? Did something else happen to him that we don't know about?" The fear in her voice was apparent as was the sound of the group holding their breath. They had all seen Booth join Jack in the hallway and talk for a moment before he joined them in the waiting room. Booth hadn't looked scared or upset more than he already was but that didn't mean anything.

"Its just that when I told Parker that he had kept Dr. B safe when we couldn't he told me…" He waited a second, trying to get the words right.

"What?" Angela gently asked as she slowly rubbed shapes on his hand.

"He told me that he didn't keep mommy safe. That the men had hurt her anyway." The team took a moment to look at each other. Bones had been there for Parker a lot over the last few years and they all knew that he would need her for the next years to come. However, no one knew how close he thought of her. That one slip was all it took to make them more at ease. Yes, the last few hours may have been hurtful but the family, their family, was strong and it just got stronger. With each step there would be heartache but with each day it would lessen. Things were going to change and the family in the waiting room only hoped it would be in the way they wanted for. They weren't happy about the way it had happened but happy that it seemed to be happing.

A/N: What does Parker do next? Why the trip down the years past? The rest of the story will answer these questions and more. Please drop me a review good or bad?

Thank you to every one who has read this and my other stories. I will update this one as soon as I can. But it wont be daily sorry.