Waiting - Chapter One
Author's Note - Hey guys this is my first Booth/ Brennan fan fic. It is set in the future maybe a year or two after the season's current point. Dont let my username fool you my names is actually Maddie : ) So let me know what you think, by pressing the pretty Review button. Thanks enjoy!
Temperance Brennan paced around her lab, and she paced some more and then she paced some more. Once she finished pacing she sat down on the lounge in her office and began to tap her feet impatiently. She drummed her nails on the top of her stomach and she began to huff and puff a little. She checked the clock on her office wall for the 17th time that minute and eventually frustrated with time pushed herself off her office lounge and she decided to walk out of her office.
It had been two days four hours and thirty-seven minutes since she had received that phone call that had put her so on edge. She had barely eaten or barely even slept for that matter and her body was exhausted but as much as her body was telling her it wanted sleep and food she just couldn't let it; she had to wait, she just had to keep waiting. She resumed pacing and all she could hear in the building was the tapping of her small heels hitting the ground, so she continued to pace keeping her head down.
After what seemed like a lifetime but what turned out to only be a matter of seconds Angela came running out of her office towards her and put her hands on her shoulders. It was only then that she decided to look up and she found her best friends eyes full of sadness and worry. She realised that she worried every one and she supposed that she even felt a little guilty about making them worry about her but she couldn't help it. This was what everything had come down to and to her this was the only way that she was going to be about it.
"Brennan, you need to go home." Angela stood there before her and fixed her hair and smoothed her dress down over her belly.
"But I can't."
"You need to go home, you have been here ever since you got that phone call and you have been completely on edge. You haven't changed clothes and as much as I have been trying to force you to eat something or even take a nap you have been ignoring my efforts and you are seriously going to put yourself in a hospital. You shouldn't think about that phone call Brennan it's been months it could be nothing so don't go stressing yourself out it isn't good for you right now." She completely understood everything that Angela was trying to say and even went so far to think that Angela was probably correct on most grounds of their conversation but she just couldn't do it, she need to wait.
"Fine if you aren't going to listen to me, I'm going to get someone that you are going to have to listen to." She watched Angela storm off down the corridor and in that short time she went back to pacing and staring at the clock, she felt that this was as about as productive as she could be at the current time.
Angela came back down the hall with Cam and they both were not happy with her at all. They strode over to her and came to stand in front of her, both with their hands on their hips and both of them looked exhausted. For the last two days as long as she had been here one of them had always been with her waiting. She didn't know what they were waiting for, maybe for her to break down or collapse or need emotional or support but she really wasn't going to she just need to wait. That was all that she wanted to do, she just wanted to wait.
"Brennan look at me", she made her eyes level with Cam's and she could see the sadness in them that was almost mirrored to Angela's.
"Brennan you need to go home. You need to shower, you need to eat and you need to sleep. Your body is feeding off nothing and you are going to need a hospital shortly if you don't do what I'm telling you to." She shook her head, she needed to wait. That's all she could do.
"Shit Brennan you are seven months pregnant does that mean nothing to you? If you don't do what Cam is telling you to do you are going to lose that baby and you are going to lose yourself." She didn't understand how she could lose herself but she put a hand over her belly instinctively, she couldn't lose that baby. She finally decided to speak up and there were tears in her eyes, she never cried over anything but she was just so exhausted.
"I get what you are trying to say but what if I leave and he gets here and I'm not here?" Tears were falling down her face now and she saw the looks on their faces and they were just as devastated. She was so frustrated she began to yell.
"I have to be here, I have to be here when he comes I just have to. That phone call was the first sign of hope I have had in four months and I can't not be here, I have to be here. I just have to be here when he comes, I have to, I just have to…" Her voice began to trail off as the tears turned into sobs and Cam and Angela began to cry as well. They took her into their arms and they just held her for a few minutes as she continued to sob.
She felt pathetic and helpless, things that she was not used to feeling at all. She was usually the most level headed, rational and in control person that she knew. She hated being so vulnerable and she blamed her unborn child for that. Ever since she fell pregnant she had become emotional and that led to feeling pathetic and helpless all of the time. The normal Dr. Temperance Brennan would frown upon such behaviour but at this point in her life she was most definitely not the confident sexy best selling author and famed anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. She was just Dr. Temperance Brennan the anthropologist who just stayed in her office and with every day got more and more pregnant and felt more and more alone.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at Angela.
"Come on sweetie, I'm going to take you home."
She didn't want to go but she didn't have the energy anymore to argue so she didn't resit when Cam put her arm around her shoulders and they started to walk downstairs to Angela's car. Cam waved goodbye to her as Angela drove them out of the parking lot. It was silent in the car as Angela drove Brennan back to her apartment, they went the usual route back to her house and Angela parked her car underneath in her usual car space. They got out of the car and got into the elevator and took it up to her apartment. She handed Angela her keys and she opened the door.
They walked through her apartment that was spotless as usual and they made their way to the kitchen. Angela gave her a stern look and pointed towards the bathroom.
"You need to shower, now. I will make dinner and you just give me a yell if you need anything at all. Anything at all Brennan." She nodded her head and walked off towards the shower.
She took off all of her clothes and her body was so tired it hurt to lift her dress over her head. Her feet were swollen and fat and it hurt to stand, her skin was stretched so tightly that it made her stomach sore and her breasts were heavy, they were just so heavy. She turned on the hot water and felt it run over her skin and it felt so nice and relaxing and it reminded her of the time just before he left, when she was really happy and that was something that she had never truly felt and she didn't realise back then just how easily it was able to be taken away from her.
It was the morning that he left, the morning that he went away on his assignment and she had just jumped into the shower needing to shower before going to work that morning. She remembered just how good the hot water felt over her skin and just how nice it was when she felt a pair of large hands creep across her stomach and pull her towards him. She let out a laugh and turned herself around to face him.
"Booth I didn't realise that this was supposed to be a shared shower?" He smiled devishly at her and pulled her closer to him and she could feel the heat of skin against her and the hardness of his muscles among others things against her own body.
"Well I just thought since you aren't going to see me for a week then there would be no chance for a double shower for a week and that just wouldn't do so I saw an opportunity right then and I took it." She laughed as he kissed her and she held her hands within his. She never remembered when she got so comfortable with such intimacy between them but once they had admitted their feelings to each other there was no holding back, they were in the deep end and it was going to be what they made of it.
"You are never a man to miss an opportunity are you?" He smiled that devilish smile again and she mirrored it.
"No, no I'm not" He replied and he began to kiss her. His hands were all over her body and already she began to feel aroused as she knew that he certainly already was. He backed her up against the shower wall and they made love that morning in the shower.
They did everything together that morning; they made their bed together in the morning. They got dressed together and they left the house together. They had breakfast together at the diner that morning and they drove to work together. He dropped her out the front of the lab and they kissed each other goodbye albeit a little more passionately as normal goodbye kisses went but they were just like that, they rarely could keep their hands off each other outside of the workplace.
There was nothing that morning that indicated that it would be the last time that they would see each other, that that would be the last time that they would make love or wake up next to each other. There was nothing that could tell her to be prepared for him not coming back, nothing at all. There was nothing that told her that she would be spending the next four months of her life waiting in fear and trying to keep up hope for him to come back to her. People just didn't understand she needed him; now that she had him she was nothing without him. She wanted, no needed her Booth back.
She tried to calm herself down a little bit by stroking her belly over where her baby was kicking, that often made her feel a little more relaxed. She hopped out of the shower and began to dry herself and get dressed. She hoped that during dinner Angela wouldn't start bugging her about the baby's things again as that was something she really couldn't deal with. She didn't know the sex of her baby, she didn't have any baby things or any names she was waiting for Booth. She needed to wait for Booth; she couldn't do this on her own Booth would want to be there to pick everything out, she couldn't take that away from him, she needed to wait.
She had on a pair of her maternity pants and one of Booth's old sweat shirts and she made her way into the kitchen to Angela, who smiled upon her coming into the kitchen. She rubbed her belly and she had forgotten just how hungry she actually was, she hadn't had a proper meal in two days and the stir fry that Angela had made was looking really good.
They sat down at the table together and just ate; she finished her food quickly and helped herself to seconds and when she had finished that she gulped down a glass of water. It felt like her body hadn't eaten in months and that she had been starved but now she felt good. Angela looked at her and she seemed to be a little happier with what she saw, a clean and non starving Brennan that seemed to make her happy.
"You feeling better now?" She nodded her head and Angela stood up and made her way to clean the plates.
"You should probably go to bed you need to sleep." She nodded her head and quickly called out to Angela the guilt she felt earlier was creeping back into her system.
"Ang"
"Yeah, are you okay?" She nodded her head quickly.
"You are really good to me, thank you for being my friend."
Angela looked as if she was nearly in tears from that and she strode the few steps across the room to her and Angela hugged her.
"You're welcome, I would do anything for you Bren even if you don't tell me. And Brennan don't worry about that phone call just keep going along with anything whatever it is that is going to come will come to you soon. Just don't stress about it, it's not good for you." She nodded and told Angela goodnight and she went back to the bed her and Booth shared or did share anyway.
She wrapped herself in the blankets and tried not to look at the empty right hand side of the bed where he would have usually laid. Instead she turned her head back to the other side and she sat there and thought about that phone call.
Two days ago she was in the lab when her cell phone rung and she felt it was strange to be receiving a phone call off Andrew who though in fact was the deputy director of the FBI was still someone that she had dated in the past.
"Brennan." She said into the phone and she felt her stomach turn in knots as she waited for Andrew to say something.
"Temperance, how are you?" She wanted to die every time that she got asked that question it literally made her want to curl up in a ball and not talk to anyone any more.
"I'm managing" she barely got into the phone.
"What's the reason for your call?"
"I have news." She nearly had a heart attack on the spot, news could be good or bad and she dreaded to think of the later.
"Temperance?"
"I'm waiting Andrew." She said impatiently.
"One of the Agents in Booth's crew has escaped from where they were being held captive. He assures me that Booth and the other agent are still alive." She nearly burst into tears on the spot but she held it together on the phone just so she could get a little more info out of Andrew before he hung up.
"We are organising a team to go in there in the next day and retrieve Booth and the other Agent from captivity and then we shall get him back to you. But be careful about your hopes Temperance a lot can happen within a short space of time." She breathed out deeply and finally got words into the phone.
"Thank you Andrew." He sounded relieved on the phone that the conversation had gone over fairly smoothly.
"That's okay; now all you have to do is wait." And wait she did, that was all she did until Angela and Cam finally forced her into getting her life back into normal habits.
She finally closed her eyes and thought that it wouldn't take long at all for her body to fall asleep as she could really feel the exhaustion taking over her body now. She held her stomach against Booth's sweatshirt and she began to breathe deeper and deeper as the hope that Booth would be back with her shortly came over her.
All she had to do was wait, all she had to do was wait for another phone call. Her body fell asleep shortly after but it wasn't until the next morning that she realised that she had been in that deep of a sleep due to her exhaustion that she had missed a phone call from a particular FBI Deputy Director.