Ok. Here is my new story. I hope you'll like it! And great thanks to Katrina for being my Beta!
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The title: "Dum spiro spero"
Disclaimer: I don't own 'Bones'. New characters are mine.
Characters: Booth, Brennan, Jeffersonian team and their children.
Pairs: Brennan/Booth, Angela/Hodgins
Rated: T for now. Rating may change to M, I'm not sure right now.
Summary: Can Agent Booth and the Jeffersonian team live without Dr. Temperance Brennan? They would have to because she disappeared, vanished with no evidence. They would try to find her…but eventually even the most pertinacious would give up hope. They would move on, would try to be happy without her, until a little child turned their lives upside-down.
Time of the action: The action starts where the forth season left off.
Prologue.
Washington DC
Near 03.00 am
Temperance Brennan hurried down the streets. She was so deep in thought that she didn't even notice where she was going. That's why she was very surprised to find herself near her and Booth's favourite bench not far from Washington Memorial.
Booth…all her thoughts were about him. There were a lot of them: dozens, hundreds, thousands…who knows? All these thoughts mixed in her head preventing her from rationalizing the situation as she was used to. A lot of memories crowded in her mind – joyful and sorrowful, happy and sad. She remembered their first meeting, their conversations at nights, crimes they solved, guy hugs, their bickering, his tumour… His tumour was what had caused everything. Despite the fact that Booth had woken up from his coma a few days before, Brennan couldn't forget the fear his words, 'who are you?', had made her feel. At that moment she realized that he was an important and inalienable part of her life, even her personality.
The truth was that he just wasn't able to distinguish his memories from his coma-dream. Booth needed to know, who she was – his wife? His friend? His partner? But Brennan had known this piece of information for only a few hours because after those fateful words she had just run out of the hospital room without waiting for his explanation and not able to stand him not knowing her.
The last few days she'd stayed at her father's. She made him swear not to tell anybody where she was. Max kept the promise. But he was also the one to persuade her to stop hiding and go talk to Booth. Not that he wasn't happy with her decision to stay with him, not her friends.
That was the reason for her being at her partner's apartment that night. He had just been discharged from hospital and was going nuts trying to find her.
There was no conversation though. As soon as Brennan understood that Booth remembered her she couldn't stop herself from kissing him. And then…then they did what she had been waiting for and afraid of at the same time – they crossed that line.
A few hours later she was sitting on their favourite bench thinking about everything. Brennan realized that it was a terrible decision to leave while Booth was sleeping but she had to sort things out all by herself. The other reason was fear. The fear of the intensity of her feelings, the fear at being left alone and heart-broken again. What had happened could jeopardize their partner's relationship, their friendship.
Brennan didn't know how much time she had sat there without moving. But the decision was made. She got up, stretched her muscles and was going to head home when she felt somebody behind her back, than a sudden injection in her neck and everything went black…