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This is one 'all B&B' chapter, maybe you will enjoy this one more…
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~~B&B&B~~
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Booth drove in silence to the crime scene, afraid that saying one wrong word would make Brennan run away. Past experiences taught him that his girlfriend had a tendency to flee away to some remote country whenever she felt confused or too much pressed.
"Bones?" He asked carefully.
She looked at him, her face telling him absolutely nothing.
"Are you okay?" He wanted to ask if they were okay, but maybe he was too afraid of the answer to that.
"Yes. Why are you asking?"
"You almost fled from my apartment this morning." He didn't miss her face when he suggested that they should move in together. She turned as white as a sheet, told him she was late for work and that they should talk about it later and was out of the door before he could even kiss her goodbye. He knew that was a lame excuse. They weren't working on any cases at the moment so there wasn't any life or death situation that needed seven-month pregnant Dr. Temperance Brennan at the Jeffersonian Institute before 9 am.
"I didn't flee." She said, not sounding as convincing as she wanted to. "I had promised Mr. Bray I'd teach him a special defleshing technique this morning."
"Bones, I know you ran because I suggested we should move in together." He couldn't take it anymore. "Why are you scared? I thought we were fine…"
"We are."
"Then why did you turn white as a sheet when I asked you?"
"I don't know." Liar. "I have to think about it. I don't want to make any rushed decision."
"Bones, we haven't spent one single night away from each other since the night we conceived baby B." He reminded her. Booth had Parker the weekend following Vincent's death. So much had happened that weekend, but the thought of spending the night away from her after the past four they slept in each other's arms was almost unbearable. So, he invited her to spend Saturday with him and his son. She told him they could spend the day at her place so Parker could use the pool – where he haven't gone in a long time – and she could cook for them. Both Booths agreed immediately, and the little boy was thrilled that they were back to the good old days. They ended up watching a movie in the end of the day and ordering pizza. It was late when the movie was over and Brennan invited them to sleep over. When he was sure his little boy was asleep in the guest room, Booth went to her bedroom. She wasn't expecting him to sleep with her that night, but she was glad he decided to. After that, they spent the weekends at hers or his place, and when they finally told Parker they were dating, the boy just rolled his eyes and told them that was the oldest news ever, since that was obvious to him since the day Hannah went out of the picture. Then, he assured Brennan he liked her much better than the blonde. Brennan looked happy with the arrangement; she seemed to like to be with him and Parker, but what if she wasn't? A scary thought passed through his mind. "Do you feel like I'm suffocating you?"
He had to admit he was being even more overprotective about her since he learned about her pregnancy. But he had to be, sometimes she just didn't know how dangerous some things were. Bones could be very naïve, not to mention how workaholic she was.
"What? No!" She assured him. "I like very much being with you, Booth." She stretched her arm to squeeze his thigh and smiled. He smiled back. Man, he would never get used to that. Sometimes he wondered if he was dreaming. "I just need some time to think about it. It's not as simple as it seems. I'll give birth in less than two months, I'm not sure we can find a house and make the necessary arrangements before the baby comes."
"So… you'll think about it?"
"I'll think about it." She nodded.
"Okay."
"Oh, I almost forgot!" She said suddenly.
"What?"
"I talked to my doctor this morning and scheduled an appointment tomorrow morning. She'll do an ultrasound and maybe this time we'll get to find out the sex of the baby!" She said excited. She really wanted to find out what they were having, but the baby wasn't cooperating.
"Oh, Bones, you can't blame baby B for being so well behaved and keeping her legs closed. Daddy approves." He smirked.
"See, everybody is already assuming it's a girl, even though nothing that we saw till the moment hinted toward each gender."
"Everybody but Parker. He is really hoping for a boy and is certain that is what he is getting." Booth reminded her. "I hope he won't be disappointed, because I'm pretty sure we are getting a Little Bones."
She couldn't help but smiling at that.
"Hopefully we will know tomorrow. I'm tired of buying unisex clothing. Yesterday I went with Angela to this baby store and they had this adorable pink sundress and the tiniest baby suit I've ever seen." She showed how tiny it was with her hands.
"And you couldn't buy them because we still don't know what we are having…" He nodded, understanding the frustration.
"No, I bought both of them."
"You bought both?"
"They were really cute, Booth." She said like it was a reasonable explanation. "I'm really tired of white and yellow things. Although, I'm pretty sure the cashier thought I was having twins. Not that I should blame her, giving the size of my stomach already."
"You look beautiful, Bones."
"I'm fat, Booth." She said it as a fact, not like women usually do, just trying to get a compliment out of that. "I could barely walk through your kitchen this morning. But it's okay. It's not unusual to gain more weight during your first pregnancy and every body reacts differently, but since I'm planning on breastfeeding, I hope it won't be a problem coming back to my normal weight."
"I think you would look incredible, no matter what." He grinned at her. "You'll always be sexiest woman in the world to me, Bones. You've never looked more beautiful to me than you look right now."
He smiled and pointed at her baby bump with his head.
"Right…" She snorted. "Name one woman you dated that was even remotely fat."
He thought about it for a second. Hannah, Tessa, Rebecca… despite the blondness that they had in common, all those women also had incredible bodies.
"Well… I would always make an exception for you." He parked the car when he finally got to the crime scene and leaned in to kiss her on the lips before they were back to their 'only partners' mode.
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~~B&B&B~~
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The case had been simple and was solved before the end of the afternoon. Brennan and Booth had just finished the paperwork at the Hoover's when Brennan announced she had to go back to the Jeffersonian.
"When do you want me to pick you up?" Booth asked her before she left.
"That won't be necessary. I have a meeting with my editor later tonight and I'll just drive there from the lab." She explained.
"You shouldn't drive so far along in the pregnancy, Bones."
"It's perfectly safe, Booth."
"I can drive you there and wait for you, then we can go and have dinner somewhere." He suggested.
"I don't know how long the meeting will be, Hobbins read the latest chapters I sent him and I'm sure he'll want to talk about a lot of things. You don't have to wait for me." She noticed his frown. "Really, Booth, I'll be fine."
"Okay…" Booth knew when he'd lost a battle. "So, my place or yours tonight?"
Brennan bit and lower lip and looked down.
"Maybe you should go to yours and I should go to mine." Booth immediately froze, so she continued. "Hobbins will want me to write some more, I'm sure of it, because he knows I probably won't be able to write much when the baby comes and you know how distracting you can be… I haven't written anything in months."
"But, Bones…"
"You can pick me up tomorrow morning before the doctor's appointment and we can have breakfast together."
"If that's what you want…"
She knew he wasn't happy about it, neither was she, but she desperately needed time to think and she couldn't think straight about their situation with him by her side.
Brennan walked towards him and cupped his face, kissing him tenderly on the lips –the blinds were closed, of course. "We are fine, Booth."
He stared at her as she left his office.
He really hoped they were.
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You know, writing them as a couple is kind of hard and unusual to me, so I hope it's believable...
Please, let me know what you think! :)
