Special Agent Seeley Booth was rather abruptly awoken from a deep sleep by the sound of his girlfriend's rather loud gasp of fright or shock (he wasn't sure which).
"Bones", he mumbled, still half-asleep "What's the matter?"
"Um, nothing," she replied, rather unconvincingly.
"Bones, Temperance, come on, you can tell me, what's wrong?"
"Well, I had a dream and…" she stopped, unsure how to continue.
"And… what happened?" he asked, concerned now.
"Ange was in a cemetery. And she was standing in front of a grave and she was holding something…" she stopped again, shuddering.
"Hey, shhhh it's ok." He held her until her shudders had slowed. "Then what?"
"She moved aside and I saw the headstone, I can't quite recall what it said exactly but it was…" she stopped again and Booth noticed that she was silently crying.
"It was what Bones?"
"Ours," this last was said so quietly that Booth was sure that he'd heard her incorrectly.
"And, and then she looked at what she was holding, it was a child Booth, a girl about two years old and she said, she said…" she was crying in earnest now.
He rocked her slowly back and for some time until her tears slowed.
"She said 'I'm sorry, Sagan Christine Booth, sorry that you shall never know how much your parents loved you, because we couldn't figure it out in time.'" Her tears started falling again and she was heaving in great gasping breaths.
"Hey, Bones, Temperance, TEMPERANCE look at me!" He is trying in vain to get her attention. "It was just a dream, it isn't real!"
"But, but what if it happens? Or something similar and we can't protect…" She pauses and just looks at him blankly.
"We will protect him or her I promise," he states calmly while his hand rubs soothing circles on her slightly protruding abdomen.
Hey all! I updated already! Aren't you proud of me? I am! Please R and R and tell me your thoughts. I know it's kind OC but she's pregnant, I get to blame the hormones! YES! I have an excuse!
