I'm pregnant.

I'm going to have a baby.

I'm pregnant and I'm going to have a baby.

With Booth.

These same words kept racing around in Temperance Brennan's head as she sat on the toilet seat in her bathroom staring at the little plastic pregnancy test in her hand that yielded a positive result.

This can't be happening.

Would undoubtedly be the words to follow immediately after the previous thoughts but, all she had to do was turn her head to the counter next to her and see the five other positive tests and use her hyper rationality to know that it was not logical that all six tests would yield a positive result if that weren't the case to know that yes, this was happening. She felt a myriad of emotions welling up inside her. Emotions that she wasn't sure she would ever be able to express openly. Except to him maybe but wasn't that what led to this situation in the first place?

The night that Vincent Nigel-Murray had died Booth had insisted upon her spending the night at his place. Mere months ago her first reaction would have been to insist that the precaution was unnecessary and she was perfectly capable of looking after herself. But now, she knew better then to argue with him with regards to something such as this and if she was being honest, she did fear Broadsky and she always felt an unnerving sense of security when Booth was around. She knew that he would never let anything happen to her and so did everyone else. Booth had never made much secret of his feelings in regard to their relationship. And because of this, he was afraid Broadsky would use that against him and come after Brennan to get to him and wanted her where he could keep a close eye on her. Brennan was able to understand the rationality in this and used it like she always did to hide behind in order to shy away from the emotions that were really in play here. Aside from that, she was also dealing with extremely strong emotions regarding the death of her colleague and friend and she knew that if she needed to talk about them Booth was the person she would be able to do that with.

It was that night, lying on Booth's couch, everything surrounding her uniquely his and reminding her of him, wearing his sweatshirt that overwhelmed her with his scent, that she realized how much she needed him. How much she needed one of his hugs and to tell her how everything was going to work itself out in the end like he always did when she was unsure of something. She wasn't even thinking about whether or not her imperviousness was gone or if he was still angry. All she could think about what being with him which is what prompted her to go into his bedroom. After getting a gun pulled on her and receiving the reassuring pep talk that she most desperately needed she sought to get one of his hugs that always made her feel safe and secure. She was not expecting him to pull her down onto the bed into a cuddling position with him but she did not object to it either. She let herself go and she melted into the contours of his body and let him hold her while she cried. She was surprised at how perfectly her body melded with his. Just as compatible as she knew they would be together. The old Brennan, the impervious Brennan, would have fled from fear at just how compatible they were. But Brennan did not flee because there was nothing to flee from. She was not afraid anymore. No longer afraid of what would happen if she let herself go and enter into a relationship with him. No longer afraid of what might happen if it ended badly. No longer afraid of what might happen if it didn't. Her imperviousness was gone. She turned her head up to face him and gazed deeply into her eyes. What she saw there, was compassion beyond anything she had ever witnessed before. He gave her a look her mother used to give her. One that said he loved her more than anything and would do anything for her and she wanted to return the favor so she leaned up and kissed him on the lips. She had fully expected him to recoil but he didn't. Instead he tightened his arms around her and pulled her closer to him and deepened the kiss. Tangling his fingers in her hair and stroking her back before breaking the kiss and looking straight into her eyes.

"Are you sure about this Bones? I'm ready for this if you are but once we go there, there is no going back and I won't be able to let you go." Booth told her and for the first time in a long time, Brennan didn't rationalize the situation. She just followed her heart.

"I don't want you to ever let me go." And with that, Brennan let herself go, and gave herself to Booth. It was a beautiful night. Full of some of the most tender and passionate love making and Brennan finally understood what Booth had meant about two people breaking the laws of physics and becoming one. It was a night filled with nothing but two people's love for each other. And a night filled with nothing but that, does not have room for menial things such as birth control.

So now almost a month and a half later here Brennan sat in her bathroom staring at the product of that night. She got up and went to her bedroom and laid down on her bed to think things over for herself. She supposed the first thing she needed to do was tell him. She had no idea how Booth would react to the news that he was going to have a second child out of wedlock. If he had had his way, he wouldn't have had his first child out of wedlock. Would he want to marry her? Would she marry him? There was a time her in her life when she wouldn't even have had to think about it she just simply wouldn't hear of marriage. Also, during that time in her life she would never have wanted a baby. She wasn't even sure if she would have gone through with it. That scared her now because she had never doubted for a second that she wanted this baby. She had wanted a child for a while now and not just any child, his child. And now she was getting the chance. She placed her hands on her still flat stomach and caressed it lovingly. She knew it was irrational but she was already in love with the life growing inside her. It was a different kind of love. A love she had never felt before. Very different from how she felt about her friends and family. Different from the love she felt for Angela's unborn baby, Parker, and her nieces. Different even from the love she felt for Booth. This was love that she could never doubt for a second to be unconditional. Nothing in this world, could ever interfere with the love she felt for this little life growing inside of her and she would go to whatever means necessary to ensure its safety and happiness. She lay there, with her hand on her stomach and she felt compelled to speak to her child.

"Um, hi baby. It's me…Temperance….your mommy. Woah…I'm going to be a mother. That is just…so strange for me to comprehend. I'm going to be completely responsible for another life. Your life, and you are going to be completely dependent on me everything. It's impossible for anyone to be perfect at any task but I promise to try my hardest to be the best mom for you that I can be. I must look foolish. Sitting here talking to you as if you can actually hear me but I don't care. I like to believe that you can hear me and by me talking to you while you are in my womb you will know my voice when you get here. Clearly your daddy has rubbed off on me. You are going to love him. He is a great man. Probably the best man I have ever known and I already know that he is an amazing father because of how he is with your brother. I haven't told him about you yet but I'm fairly confident that he will be there for you as well as I am. I don't know what's going to happen yet baby. I want everything in your life to be perfect but obviously I can't promise you that but I do want to ensure that you have the most stable, loving, and nurturing environment that you can possibly have to grow up in. I want to be able to tell you that you, daddy, and I can all live together and be a family but I don't know how things will turn out yet. I'm very tired baby. You have worn your mommy out and you aren't even past the multicellular division level yet so I'm going to sleep because I'm exhausted and I have to be ready to be there for you Aunt Angela when she has her baby. I love you." Brennan said to her stomach caressing it gently before she reached up to turn out the light. She didn't know what was going to happen but just for this brief moment, she pictured that happily ever afters really did exist and she just might be on the road to getting hers.

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