The dread she was feeling in telling him was making work impossible, so she decided to take a breather in her office. She laid down on the couch and closed her eyes for a bit. She started to think of Booth and how heartbroken he would be, how she would tell him, how she never meant for it to happen and that she was sorry. Tears started to squeeze through her closed eyes and slide down to ears. She began to sob and then Booth walked in.
"Bones, honey, what's wrong?" he asked, his voice filled with concern and compassion. Temperance popped her eyes open as Booth dropped to his knees by the couch to be at her level. She brought her hand to his cheek and looked at him lovingly.
"I have to tell you something, that you are probably not going to like. You are probably going to hate me for this, but what's done is done and I can't change what happened."
"Bones, what's wrong?" he asked, hesitantly, fear raging through his system, that something is terribly awry.
Temperance sat up and moved so she was looking at Booth head on, tears still flowing from her eyes. She took his hands and held them in her lap.
"Temperance, please tell me. You can tell me anything."
Taking a deep breath, Temperance tried to find the courage to tell him. "Well, you know that night when I told you I loved you? And then we had intercourse for the first time that night? Well, it appears that I am now at six weeks gestation."
"What? You're pregnant?" Booth muttered, completely astonished. "From the first time? Why would you think I would hate you for telling me?"
"I didn't want to be another Rebecca in your life. I don't want to get married, but I don't want to leave you. I love you." Temperance stated.
"We've only been dating for six weeks, I wasn't going to ask you to marry me, at least not yet." Booth responded. "Honey, I am just so happy that it isn't something worse. We can do this…together. We're going to have a beautiful baby in seven months."
"Actually, the human gestation period is closer to ten months, not nine like it is so commonly believed to be."
Booth smiled and got up from his knees to sit next to her on the couch. He plopped down and put one arm around her and another on her soon-to-be-growing belly. "We're going to have a baby. There is no one I want more to be the mother of my child than you." He brought her chin up to his and kissed her. She smiled.
"I love you, Booth."
"I love you, Brennan."