"Bones" Booth said thoughtfully taking a sip of his beer; Brennan looked at him with a smile. "You'll never tire of that nickname will you" Booth smiled back, "you'd be lying if you said you didn't enjoy hearing it"
"I admit, it would feel very strange not hearing you say it" she admitted as she took a sip of her own drink. They always went to the Founding Fathers when it had been a productive work day.
"What I was going to say was, don't you think we should talk about what Sweets brought up earlier?" Booth asked cautiously. Brennan bit her lip for a millisecond before shrugging her shoulders. "Bones, we're partners, be straight with me"
She sighed. "I don't know Booth, almost losing you made me think about it a lot more" "In what way?"
Brennan was unusually quiet, how was she supposed to tell her partner/colleague and friend of 5 years that she didn't want a child that wasn't half his.
Booth didn't know whether her silence was a good or bad thing, he wanted to father her child, but with them raising him or her together. He didn't want to just donate his..stuff.
"Bones, do you not want a child anymore? You gotta tell me cause' I'm not a psychic like our friend Angie's kooky Miss Harmonia" Booth joked trying to slice the atmosphere some.
"I..I wouldn't want to have a baby if.." she trailed off really struggling with what she really wanted to say.
"If what? Bones, you trust me right?"
"Of course, Booth I trust you with my life. I'm just not good with, I don't know how to correctly say certain things" "Hey, this is me. It's just us two; say whatever it is you want to say"
"Your brain surgery put things into perspective for me. I don't know why, but, I wouldn't want anyone else to father my child" Brennan managed to get out before relinquishing eye contact, choosing to nervously play with her wine glass.
Booth's heart thudded in his chest, there's why I haven't given up hope he thought to himself.
He put a hand over hers stilling her nervous hand causing her to look up at him. "It's okay to say what you actually feel Bones, I'm not going anywhere" he smiled. Brennan covered his hand with her free one.
"So you'd still be comfortable with me being inseminated with your sperm?" she asked. "As always to the point" Booth coughed, they were after all in a public place that they frequented often.
"Yes. But we've got to be clearer on the situation" Brennan looked confused.
"Bones, I don't just want to be your donor, if we're going to do this I want to be involved with the process right from the conception to the birth to the raising of the child. Which I'm not sure you're comfortable with"
Brennan's eyes darted around for a while. "The idea isn't what I had in mind, but if it is what you want then we should do it your way" she reasoned. Booth looked stunned; a smile took over his face. Brennan knew that smile, the one that made it right the way to his eyes.
"So, we're really going to go through with this?" "Yes, we are" "We're going to have a baby and raise it together" "..Yes, it seems so"