I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE ORIGONAL BONES CHARACTERS OR PLOT LINES, THE CREDIT FOR THOSE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO THE WONDERFUL HART HANSON!
Chapter 1
Booth was working on filing the last papers of the case he and Brennan had just solved when he heard a knock on the door making him turn to look at who walked in. He paused and watched as a tall blonde-haired person with gray blue eyes walked closer as the door closed slowly behind her. Booth put the last file away as Hannah stopped at his desk.
"Hannah." Booth said walking over to stand by his chair. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to see you." she said softly. "I wanted to apologize for what happened. I figured I would let you have some time to calm down before I came back to see you."
"Hannah, what are you doing here?" He asked again as she took a breath and looked down for a moment as she gathered her thoughts.
"Seeley, I made a mistake. The biggest mistake of my life, and I want to make it right again." She said softly as Booth looked at her not knowing what exactly to do. he could feel his chest tighten at the memories of the pain she had caused before he pushed them back down remembering how Brennan had come to him and stuck by his side.
"No." He said making her look at him shocked.
"What? Seeley, we went through a tough time, we aren't meant to end like that." She said looking at him trying to silently beg him to at least give it a try. "I know I hurt you, but it wasn't time and I wasn't ready to any commitment. We aren't meant to be apart." She said as she felt tears gather in her eyes as she looked at him set his jaw and shake his head.
"No. Hannah, you missed your chance at anything. We weren't meant to be together, it was only a fling that was caused by high emotions being in a war zone. I've moved on and I've found someone who loves me and wants to be with me. We are really happy together, so why would I screw that up to go back to you?" She looked at him mouth slightly agape as she took a breath trying to relax.
"You wouldn't even consider trying us again?" The door to his office opened and they saw Brennan walk in before stopping and looking between the two. She was confused as she looked at the upset Hannah and the angry looking Booth. He threw the papers he was holding down on his desk making both women look at him.
"Hannah, no. You need to just move on and focus on something else." He looked back at Brennan as she still stood by the door. "How'd it go?" He asked as she gave a small smile and walked over to him.
"Very well. They said that everything was progressing very well."
"Temperance…" Hannah said as she looked at Brennan standing next to her. "You're pregnant?"
"Yes, I am 30 weeks so far." Brennan smiled before she went back to talking to Booth. "They want to see me in a month to keep an eye how I'm progressing. She said that if everything continues as is I should go into labor with a day or two of my due date." She pulled several papers from her purse and handed them to Booth who looked at them with a bright smile. Hannah stood watching the two before Brennan took one of the papers and handed it to Hannah.
"This was taken today at my appointment." She smiled as Hannah looked down at the sonogram picture to see the image of a baby as Charlie ducked his head into the office.
"Booth, Jackson wants you." Booth nodded before he handed the papers back to Brennan and walked out to talk to the other agent leaving the two women alone. Hannah looked at Brennan as she was looking down at the pictures with a smile.
"How are your stories coming along?" Brennan asked looking at Hannah. "I haven't seen you around DC in a while."
"Yeah, things have been a bit hectic in the last few months. And I wanted to try to give myself and Seeley time to calm down and recover. Thank you for staying with him when everything happened."
"It was no problem at all, but you have to know how hurt he was."
"I know I hurt him, but I couldn't agree to marry him when I wasn't ready to. I really just want to make things right. Could you just talk to him?"
"I am sorry, but I cannot. He was really hurt and I can't let him go through that again. I am sorry." She said as Hannah looked at her not knowing what to do as Booth walked back in with a file and he laid it on his desk. "I need to get back to the lab."
"Can't leave the squints alone too long." Booth smirked making her shake her head. "I'll swing by the lab later. I just need to finish up some paper work from our last case."
"You better bring food." She said with a smile making him smirk.
"That baby's always hungry." He chuckled as he turned to grab the file and papers from his desk before walking over to his filing cabinet. "Thai again?" He asked and saw her think for a minute.
"Yes, it's about the only thing my stomach will settle with. And you know better than to blame the baby for me being hungry." She said making him smirk.
"Well I see you have a lot of work to do so I'm just going to go for now." Hannah said with a small sigh. She turned and left pausing at the door as Booth walked back over to his desk stopping slightly behind Brennan as she gave a small smile.
"You better get going. Those squints are probably going nuts without you bossing them around." He said before they kissed. When they pulled apart, Brennan turned and looked at him. "They're probably destroying your lab you know." Hannah's mouth dropped open before she turned away and walked down the hall.
"Angela and Cam are there. Hodgins and Wendell cannot do too much damage, but I supposed you're right." She smirked before he leaned down and gave her another kiss. "Here, don't forget this." She said handing him one of the pictures. "I know how much you like having the new ones." He smirked as he took the picture.
"I would have gotten one eventually." He smirked giving her another kiss. "Now go. As soon as I finish I'll bring you and the baby some food." She shook her head and turned leaving to get back to her lab.
"Seeley." Booth head making him look up from his desk as Hannah walked back in determined. "I want you to give me another chance." She said looking at him as he sat back in his chair.
"Why should I? You were not even serious when we were together and now that I'm with someone else, you come back and start trying to get me to leave her and go with you. I'm not about to walk away from her because you came back."
"Temperance isn't suited for a relationship with a man like you." She blurted out as Booth looked at her before standing up. "She is awkward and deserves someone from the lab, not someone like you. And you deserve someone who's passionate and loving." She watched as Booth took a deep breath and shook his head.
"You really think you can come in here and try to tell me that Bones and me aren't meant to be together? You really think I would agree and go running back to you? Hannah, I did love you. I wanted to be with you, but you didn't want me. My feelings for Bones…. She is just as devoted to this relationship as I am. Besides I'm not about to walk away from her and our child just because you came back."
"Seeley, she may be carrying your baby but she doesn't even know what love is. How can you share your life with someone you claim loves you when she doesn't know what it means to love someone?" Booth grabbed the file off his desk before walking around to stand in front of Hannah.
"You don't know anything about her. Just leave me and her be happy." He demanded before he left.
Two days later Brennan was sitting at her desk going over her graduate papers when there was a knock on the door making her look up at who it was. She gave a small smile seeing Hannah who slowly walked in as Brennan got to her feet.
"Hannah." Brennan said slightly shocked that the woman would show up at her work after all this time.
"Temperance, I just wanted to come by and apologize for what I sad to Seeley the other day."
"Why apologize to me for what you told Booth?" She asked confused.
"He didn't tell you?" She watched as Brennan shook her head. Hannah looked at her a moment, she knew she had made a mistake turning Booth down and knew she needed a second chance. She had gotten to know Brennan over the time she had spent dating Booth and she knew Brennan was only into her work and nothing else. She took a breath about to start a plan she was not proud of. "I wonder why he wouldn't have told you. He must not have thought it was important to tell you what we talked about."
"He probably felt there was no need for me to know."
"Yes, well I suppose he just didn't want to hurt you." She sighed before looking towards the door. "I'll just go then. There's no need to apologies for something that was never mentioned."
"What did you two talk about?" She asked curious as Hannah turned back to look at her. She felt her chest tighten at the thought of her plan but needed to have just one last chance to make things right with Booth.
"We just talked about what had happened. I told him my feelings about everything and he told me he loved me and I left." 'More or less' she said as she saw Brennan's brows furrow as she thought.
"He told you he loved you?"
"Yeah, but don't worry. I'm sure it didn't mean anything." She said as Brennan glanced away and nodded. "I better get going; I have a meeting to get to."
"Yes, of course. Thank you for stopping in." Brennan said before she walked back over to look at her clock with a sigh. It was almost six at night meaning it was time to pack up and go home. She wondered what had happened between Hannah and Booth and her mind wandered even farther as she remembered Hannah's words. 'He told me he loved me.' She shook her head and finished packing before leaving for the night. She would just ask Booth what was going on, it was the only logical choice when faced with such thoughts.
Brennan walked into Booth's apartment, where she had moved her things into five months ago. She could smell dinner cooking as she gave a small smile, walking down the hallway to put her bag by the couch. She set her bag down before she felt two strong arms wrap around her from behind making her relax into this grasp, lulling her head back against his shoulder she looked up at him as he kissed her cheek.
"So, how was the boring lab? I bet it's boring now that we won't have cases until after the baby is born." He smirked as he held her against him. He saw her look away as she took a deep breath. "What's wrong?"
"Hannah came by my office today." She looked back up at him as he furrowed his brows. "She told me that she was talking to you the other day and she wanted to apologize for what she told you. Why didn't you tell me she said something to you?"
"It wasn't important, Bones, she was just trying to get another chance." He said as she looked away again but still stayed in his strong arms.
"She said you told her that you loved her." She looked back up at him worried about what his answer might be before she saw a small smile cross his face.
"I told her that I did love her, I did when we were together, but not anymore." He said before he kissed her temple. "I love you, Bones. I always have and that's not going to change."
"She was saying that you didn't tell me because you didn't want to hurt me."
"She's trying to get between us by playing mind games. She is trying dirty tricks to get me and you to break up. But she doesn't realize just how good we are." He said as Brennan smiled and turned her head to rest under his chin. The two stood for a while longer before they felt the baby start to kick. "Alright, alright. Impatient as ever." He said with a smile before he let go and went back into the kitchen with Brennan following him, holding her belly. "Been like that all day?"
"Yes, any time I sit for too long, or when it's around a meal time. It's like I have a personal alarm clock." She smiled as she sat at the table when Booth finished cooking. "So what was said in your conversation with Hannah the other day?" Booth glanced over his shoulder at her before he stirred the pot once more, and walked over to stand in front of her as he started to explain.
"She was trying to convince me to give her another chance. I told her that I was more than happy where I was before she started telling me that you and me deserve different people. I told her that I had loved her once but I could never give you up." He saw a small smile cross her lips before he turned back to the food.
"Do you really think she is trying to break us apart?"
"Yeah." He sighed before he set a bowl of soup in front of her and he took his own and sat across from her. "It sounds like she's trying to say things to make us fight and break up. It's just a good thing you're so rational in that brain of yours." He said with a smirk as she shook her head.
"What do we do?"
"Ignore her. She can't do anything unless we let her get to us. Other than her showing up, how was the lab?"
"As you suspected, it was quiet uneventful. I over saw a few students on identifying remains from bone storage but that was it." She said as she took a spoon full of the soup. "What about the office. I doubt it was uneventful and boring."
"Cullen came in with a few little cases that other agents needed help with. He's anxious to get us back out into the field but he doesn't want to have you pushing yourself too hard."
"I know my limitations. Besides, I doubt I would be able to work all day and all night even once right now." She said with a smirk as he chuckled.
Two weeks later Booth was at his desk when he heard a knock and saw Hannah walk in. He hung up his phone as she walked closer and Booth stood up walking around his desk to sit on the front of it.
"What are you doing here?" He asked as she looked at him for a minute.
"You and Temperance are really in love, aren't you?" She watched as he looked at her confused. "Seeley, all I want is for you to hear me out and give me a chance to explain and make things right." He sighed before he indicated for her to go on. "I know that I threw away the best chance I had at being really happy. I regret my decision every minute and I want to set things right. I don't think we are done, there is so much more to be said and felt. You just need to give it one last chance. I still love you, Seeley." Booth looked at her listening to her words before he shook his head. Suddenly she pulled herself to him and kissed him deeply only to be pushed away.
"Hannah!" He said as he stood up straight and moved farther away from her. "I told you I loved you once but not anymore. I love Bones, and my decision is not going to change." He said strongly as she stared at him with tears gathering in her eyes.
"All I want is a chance. You can't even give me that?"
"I am with Bones, I love her, Hannah. Our baby is due in two months; I'm not going to screw things up with her because you think there is something between us. There's not, so just leave me and Bones alone. We are happy the way we are. Me, her, Parker and our baby. That's it." He said as she took a step back not knowing what to do or say before she turned on her heels and left. Booth sighed as he went back to work hoping that was the last time Hannah tried anything.
Booth's hopes were for nothing when Brennan walked through his office door looking upset and confused. He wondered what had happened when he saw Hannah standing outside looking in through the glass window making him run a hand over his face.
"Booth." Brennan said stopping in front of his desk. "Hannah showed up at the lab and told me that you kissed her." She said as Booth set his jaw and stood walking over to her quickly as she looked confused, not knowing what to do. "Tell me what happened. That's all I need to hear." She said as he nodded and leaned against his desk and started to explain what Hannah had done.
"Bones, I told you, she is in the past. I don't love her, I love you." He told her as she sighed as stepped forward as he wrapped his arms around her.
"She is starting to make me doubt everything I know, Booth." She felt him hold her tight as he sighed.
"I know, Bones. She is trying hard to get what she wants, but I'm not going to let her do that. I have loved you for years and now I have you. I have you and the baby. I'm not going to do anything to screw up." He felt Brennan relax even more into his hold as he kissed the top of her head.
"I'm sorry, Booth." She said softly as he gave a soft chuckle and shook his head.
"There's nothing to be sorry for. Just relax and forget everything she says. Nothing is true." She pulled back and looked up at him before they leaned into a kiss. "Don't you have sqinterns to babysit?" He asked gaining a small smile from Brennan as she rolled her eyes.
"I should get back to the lab."
"I'll get you about six?" He asked as she nodded. The two kissed again before Brennan left not seeing Hannah duck off to the side. Booth walked out and grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into his office angrily. "You need to stop this now."
"What are you talking about?"
"You know exactly what I'm talking about. You're trying to drive a wedge between me and Bones. I told you before, leave us alone. Stop messing with her head and her emotions. She doesn't need to be stressed about this on top of her lab work. I do not love you Hannah, leave it at that and move on." She looked at him about to argue but settled for a deep sigh before she left Booth in his office angry.