A/N- Another story from my old account. I was certainly into Bones. Which I don't own by the way.

Special Agent Seeley Booth opened his eyes and rolled over in bed, only half awake. He glanced at the clock, 3:16 a.m., and groaned. What could possibly have woken him up at this hour? He sat up and looked to his left; the bed was empty. Booth sat quietly for a minute then heard his girlfriend, Temperance Brennan, speaking in quiet tones coming from the living room. He got out of bed and followed the sound of her voice.

"I'm at home. Where else would I be?" she whispered into the phone.

There was a pause as the person responded.

"I am not whispering it must be your connection." she lied, "Were you under the impression that I did not have a personal life? Am I to cold and heartless? I'm sorry, I simply dislike waking up. Did you have a reason for waking at this hour other than to question me about my personal life?"

Another pause as they explained the reason for calling at this hour.

"Bones, what are you doing?" Booth asked sleepily.

"I'm on the phone. What does it look like I'm doing?"

"No, that was not Booth. Why couldn't this wait until the morning?", the person she was speaking to reasponded "Well, I do not care that the CEO of The Macerich Company, Arthur M. Coppola, wants to keep the mall open. You will tell him that it is an active crime scene and that all consumers are prohibited from entering the mall until we have closed this case which, I refuse to investigate until the morning. If he has a problem he can take it up with the FBI." she said to the phone.

"What's The Macerich Company? Why are you telling that person I'm not here? Who are you talking to, anyway? And, why couldn't they call at a decent hour?", he asked, feeling a little irritated that he had woken up for what was sounding like that beginning of a long, difficult conversation.

"It's Cam. She's telling me about a body that was found at Tyson's Corner Mall.", she said to him while moving towards her office.

"Okay, we...I'll be there first thing in the morning to investigate the scene. Thanks. Bye." she hung up as she sat down at her desk and started up her MacBook Pro.

"Bones, what are you doing?" Booth asked.

"I'm going to work on my newest Kathy Reichs story. It's about to get interesting between Kathy and Andy, a big change and my publisher needs this book soon. I plan to end it with a cliffhanger. What's my password?" she said struggling to remember.

"Daffodil, why would I tell you that? You are absolutely not going to work at three a.m.", he said while swiftly taking her laptop.

"Booth, Give it back! I usually work this early anyway." she said as she reached for the laptop.

"That was before you were pregnant and before you had me to take care of you." he said

"You always took care of me except when Hannah..." she trailed off. Hannah, Booth's ex-girlfriend was sort of a taboo subject for the couple. They hadn't mentioned her since his disastrous proposal to her approximately seven months earlier. Hannah and Brennan had actually become very good friends during the time she and Booth were together despite the fact that Brennan loved her boyfriend.

"Let's just go to bed, babe." he said. It was obvious that what she had started to say had bothered him.

"Don't call me "babe". I want to talk about her."

"Hannah?"

"Yes."

"Now?"

"Yes. I would not have brought it up if I did not wish to converse about her and what happened now."

"Why?"

"Because I am having mixed feelings and certain aspects of our relationship and your breakup are bothering me and I cannot fully commit to you because of these feelings."

"Okay, Bones. Let's sit down and talk this out. What do you want to talk about first?"

"You said that you loved Hannah that she wasn't a consolation prize…. I don't know I guess… What I'm trying to say is…"

"You're wondering if I ever loved Hannah. Bones, you can love more than one person but, there is only one you loved the most. Did I love Hannah? Yes. But, did I love you? Yes. If I loved Hannah then I loved you one hundred times more. She was absolutely a consolation prize. I lied to you. I couldn't just leave Hannah because of what you told me that night."

"When you proposed to Rebecca and she turned you down, you left her. When you proposed to Hannah and she turned you down, you left her. What about me? I don't know if I am ready for marriage if I will ever be but, I don't know if I could handle you leaving me because I couldn't marry you. I'm just not sure if I can give you what you want, marriage and the perfect family. And I don't want you to feel and obligation towards me because I'm pregnant with your child…" she trailed off again and Booth could see tears in her eyes and knew she was about to cry.

He felt awful that she could think that she was the same as Rebecca and Hannah. She was different, she was the one and he wasn't going to let her go because she didn't want to marry him. He turned to look at her again and saw tears silently streaming down her face.

"Oh no, no, no, Bones please don't cry." he said as he pulled her into a tight embrace, "I would never force you to marry me and you are not an obligation. I'm with you because I love you. Got that?"

"Yes."

"Alright. Now that that is settled lets go to bed.", he said as he carried her to their bedroom and placed her on the bed.

"Good Night, Booth."

"G'night, Bones."

A/N- Yup. Review.