Blacktail Deer Plateau blue sky black death

Poor guy, lmfao. He's going to need a good stiff drink after all this. XD Btw, I'm taking a few liberties here in assuming the different ways that Bones resembles Atti. If you disagree with anything I've written, just lemme know and I'll fix it. :D

His whole world rocked around him. Finding out he had children completely changed everything. Everything. He looked at her as she spoke, revealing that there had been three of them -- one of whom had passed away -- and he noticed how she had the same toothy, half-crooked grin as he. Her nose and ears were shaped like his, the set of her shoulders much like his own. She was tall, gangly, and spidery in her build, just as he himself had been at her age. "You're…my child," he spoke the strange, foreign-sounding words more to himself than to her, a tone of wonder seeping into his voice as he did.

He didn't know how he'd ever be able to fit himself into the mold of a dad, how he'd ever be able to adapt to that new identity, and yet…she was so beautiful. So strong. So resilient and vibrant and independent already. She'd traveled here by herself from god only knew how far away with the single-minded task of finding him. And she'd succeeded. Any father, even one who'd only known he was a dad for three minutes, would've been proud of that. "I…I don't even know what to say," he confessed after a moment, unable to suppress the crooked grin -- just like hers -- that crawled across his face and the sheepish chuckle that accompanied it. He was a dad.