This is just an introduction to this story so you know what's going on. I know it's kind of overdramatic in a way, but in a way not so much…

January 23, 2003

Temperance Brennan said she never wanted children ever since the horrible incident with her parents. A year before she had started working in the Jeffersonian she received a phone call that changed her plans.

It was close to midnight, Brennan had just gotten home from her last class of that day, she was finishing up her doctorate this year, and she was taking as many classes as possible. She sat on her couch in exhaustion, when her phone rang startling her.

"Hello, is the Temperance Brennan?" The man on the other end of the line asked.

"Yes, who is this?" Brennan questioned confused as to why someone would be calling her at this late of time.

"I'm sheriff, Randal Coffee of the Washington D.C police department. I'm calling because Erin Chace has just been killed in a car accident."

Brennan was in shock; Erin Chance had been her closest (and only) friend she had all through college. Erin, like Temperance, had come from a broken home. Unlike Temperance, Erin believed in love, and that there was someone for everyone. This way of thinking led her to having a baby girl named, Mandy well she wasn't exactly a baby anymore since she had just turned six last October. Mandy's father had died before she was born so the only person she had was her mother.

Since Erin had no family Brennan was her emergency contact. So it was no surprise that the police had called her.

Tears started to fall down her face, realizing that the person who was the closest thing she had to a family now was dead.

"I'm very sorry to tell you this." Sheriff Coffee said, "But, as you probably know Ms. Chance has a daughter, and you are the registered godmother."

Brennan held back her tears trying to regain her composer, "Yes I know."

"Now unless you want don't want to become her permit caregiver, she will be placed in the system."

"No," Brennan quickly said, she shuttered at the mere mention of the foster system, "I want her."

"Ok, you will have to go to court and confirm this, until then she will have to stay in the system but once all is finalized she will be yours."

After Brennan spoke to the police officer a little longer she hung up the phone, and cried herself to sleep.

February 1, 2003

Today was the day when everything became finalized, Brennan now had custody over Mandy. The day after Erin had been killed Brennan was allowed to see Mandy, that was one of the hardest days of her life, she had to explain to a six year old that her mother was dead. Since then Mandy had been placed in a foster home, but she saw Brennan just about every week, but today she would get to go home with her.

"Tempe!" Mandy came running into the court room, she wrapped her tiny arms around her legs and clung to her. Brennan smiled at her and picked her up, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. Mandy nuzzled her head into her neck, "Tempe?"

"Yes, Mandy?"

"Are you going to leave me like mommy did?"

Brennan let out a sob and held her tighter, "No, I'm never going to leave you."