AN: Okay, here we go first chapter in my new Bones fic... i know it's been done before but i figured i'd give it a try before we dind out how and why Brennan asks Booth to be the father of her child (can't wait to see that... or them naked in bed)... anyway here's the first chapter, read, review, and enjoy.
Chapter 1
Bile rose strongly up her oesophagus and she fought strongly to push the unpleasant avid back down into her stomach. The bile rose again and this time Temperance Brennan was powerless to push it back down and she forced her legs to carry her away from the mostly skeletal remains that she was examining. A horrible mix of bile and undigested food spewed unceremoniously from her mouth and into the foliage below her. She'd never vomited at a crime scene before, in fact Brennan couldn't remember the last time she'd vomited at all.
"You okay Bones?" Booth asked approaching her tentatively.
"Yeah, I'm good" Brennan responded wiping the last vestiges of bile from her pink lips before turning back to her partner noticing a few of the local cops in chuckling at her in the background. She was a laughing stock, a forensic anthropologist who lost her stomach at the sight of a pile of decomposing flesh and bones.
"Really Bones, because your lunch is keeping the worms company down there, that's never happened before" Booth pointed out sarcastically gesturing to the disgusting pile of bodily fluid and semi digested food that had Brennan almost grabbing her stomach again and spilling her breakfast in a similar pile.
"I'm fine Booth" Brennan reiterated though her voice held little of its usual self assurance.
"Well if you're sure..." Booth accepted, without believing his partner in the slightest "Can we get back to examining the body then?"
"Yeah, just give me a minute" Brennan stated gesturing for Booth to return to the scene, which he did, reluctantly wondering what was going on with his partner. Brennan leant against the large tree whose roots she had just vomited on and with the bark hard beneath her arms she took a few deep steadying breaths before following her partner back to the body that it was her job to give an identity to.
"The body's been her for at least two months. Female eighteen to twenty five, Caucasian, good bone structure looks like she was a dancer" Brennan concluded after snapping her latex gloves over her fingers and wrists and bending over the rotting flesh for a few moments while she fought back the urge to dash away and vomit again. Her stomach twisted uncomfortably and cramped, Brennan fought the urge to press her forearm against her stomach in an attempt to brace herself against the pain, but she knew Booth would worry immediately.
Instead she turned from the body "Send it back to the Jeffersonian and I'll be able to tell you more" She called back over her shoulder wanting to put distance between herself and the pungent smell of human flesh which did not usually bother her but on this day had her stomach wanting to leap out of her mouth.
"Shall we grab some Wung Fu's on the way back to the lab?" Booth asked Brennan as he climbed into the SUV next to her.
"Sure" she found herself answering though her stomach protested vehemently that she should not put anything into her mouth at that moment, least of all the sometimes strange ethnic food that Booth suggested.
Syd greeted the pair happily when they entered and took their usual booth, Brennan's stomach still doing cartwheels when Syd disappeared to the kitchen. He returned a few minutes later with a bowl and a plate, placing the bowl in front of Brennan and the plate in front of Booth.
"Congratulations Doctor Brennan" Syd said before heading back to the counter leaving his customers to their meals.
"What is he talking about?" Booth asked digging his fork into sesame coated port while Brennan dipped her spoon cautiously into her soup, hoping that Syd had once again got it right.
"No idea" Brennan shrugged before taking the first taste of the soup which somehow soothed her burning digestive tract and stomach.
When Booth and Brennan had finished eating Syd returned "What did you mean before?" Brennan asked harshly.
"You don't know?" Brennan shook her head "You'll know soon enough. It's not my place to tell you" Syd said before Booth stood and ushered her out of the restaurant.
"The body should be back at the lab by now" he said by way of explanation.
"Yeah right, the body" Brennan agreed still distracted by Syd's words.
"So Bones, any idea what Syd meant when he said you'd find out soon enough?" Booth probed as they made the short drive back to the Jeffersonian.
Brennan wanted to give a firm and resounding 'no' to her partner but the truth was she did have an inkling as to what Syd had been speaking about.
"Maybe, but I hate jumping to conclusions. Syd is right, I'll know soon enough" Irrationally she already knew it was true, rationally she knew that the next few days would tell her everything she needed to know. It was only fear that stopped her from going to the pharmacy right then and clearing things up for certain. For the first time in her life Brennan found herself cursing her damned five and a half week menstrual cycle. Rationally she knew waiting wouldn't change the outcome, nor would worrying about it and irrationally she knew she was pregnant. But as usual Brennan pushed back her irrational side and listened to the rational... examine the evidence.
That was exactly what Temperance Brennan did while the two partners continued to drive in silence towards the Jeffersonian. First: Temperance Brennan had sex exactly four weeks ago. Second: she had vomited at a crime scene. Third: she had been feeling nauseous. That was all she knew for sure. Her only option was to go to the all night pharmacy and buy a pregnancy test. Then she could worry about the consequences. Then she could worry about what to do, once she knew for sure. When Booth followed her into the Jeffersonian her possible pregnancy hung over her head, she wouldn't be able to concentrate on the case until she knew.
"I'll be back in a minute Booth... Tell Zach to start the external exam and have Hodgins take soil and particulates from the body" Brennan commanded turning and walking back out of the Jeffersonian, the pharmacy was two blocks away, and she knew those sorts of tests took time so she calculated she'd be gone at least half an hour... maybe nobody would notice.
The tests came in packs of two. She examined the boxes quickly, self-consciously as the other customers bustled around her. Which test would be best? In the end she just grabbed one, surely they would all be as accurate as each other and headed up to the counter.
The boy who placed her purchase in a tiny bag smiled "I hope everything turns out how you want it to" he told her and she tried to grin back before taking the bag from him and dashing back to the Jeffersonian and into the women's toilet. She groaned a little as she scanned the instructions in the packet; pee on a stick, it seemed somehow wrong and messy but she did it anyway. Then she had to wait. She hid the stick under her jacket and made her way quickly back to her lab hoping no one would see her on the way. She was lucky and managed to sneak into her lab unnoticed and began flicking absently through the case file Booth had handed her earlier her fingers drumming rhythmically against the table while she waited for the stick to determine her situation.
And then it was there, the tiny pink strip that told her all she needed to know. There was a tiny life growing inside her, it probably didn't even have any bones yet. She shoved the tiny stick hastily into her drawer when Booth appeared in the doorway.
"Where have you been Bones, Zach and Hodgins found something on the body" Booth told her inviting himself into the room.
"Just had some things to do" Brennan replied vaguely already standing from her desk hoping to get as far from the evidence as possible. She knew it was time to start thinking about what she was going to do but in the back of her mind she still hoped that it was a false positive and that the second test would prove it.