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"Wait, what? What are you talking about Bones?" He asked, obviously flabbergasted.
"That girl is my daughter, Lili Kendall is my daughter." Brennan replied.
Booth could not believe what he was hearing, has hyper rational Dr. Temperance Brennan telling him she had a daughter? "Tempe you are under a lot of pressure and this case is really difficult for you, it is okay if you are confused."
"I am not confused she is my daughter."
"You never had a daughter Bones."
"Yes I did, and obviously I still have one out there."
"Bones I need you to explain this to me, make it come from your emotions and don't be all logical."
Brennan took a deep breath and looked him in the eyes. "Okay, just give me a minute."
"Sure."
"Okay, I got pregnant a month before my eighteenth birthday, I was accepted to North Western early. I sort of knew from the beginning that I wouldn't be able to keep it, but I loved it so much. Then I found out it was a girl and I um..." She froze as wave of tears and heavy sobs racked her body. Booth wrapped his arms around her trying to comfort her. "I started to think about what life would be like with a baby girl and it seemed all ideal but those were all dreams. I had no money to take care of both of us. So even though I had a terrible experience on foster care, I knew that infants are more likely to be adopted, and then lady I talked to assured that she would be adopted by a good family." She took a second to wipe some tears away. "I got to hold her for a little while after she was born, you know to say good bye. A nurse walked in, she must have heard me talking to her because she said that she thought Lili Christine was a beautiful name. I heard that a nurse names a baby that is in foster care, but I did not know it was true."
"Well it looks like she has a gift from you Bones."
"Speaking of gifts I gave her something. I gave her this small locket with a picture of me in it from my eighteenth birthday, I always wanted to be close to her heart. And I have this one." Brennan pulled out a small square locket with an ultrasound picture on the inside of it. "She has changed so much."
"Everybody changes but that doesn't mean she is not your little girl anymore."
"Booth she is big now, she probably doesn't even have that locket."
"You didn't look that close at that picture did you?"
"I stared at it for hours."
"Here look you see, there is the locket." He paused for a second. "I think she knows that you are her mother."
"Why do you say that?"
"I took a peek in her room, she has your books, every single one. Each one looked well read but the back cover was preserved perfectly."
"That only shows that she enjoys books, Booth there is no solid facts."
"How about she won her science fair by matching pictures of people in their teenage year to pictures of them in their early thirties?"
"That doesn't mean she did it for me."
"Bones listen to me, in my heart I know she knows who you are and that she loves you."
"Booth, I can't..."
"Forget rationale, think with your heart."
"What did her foster parents say she was like?"
"She is really smart, love science, she is just like you Bones."
"I do not want her to be just like me, I want her to have wider horizons."
"I thought you might say that come here." He went over to Brennan's computer and pulled up a video.
"Booth what are you doing?"
"Just sit down and watch."
Temperance sat down and braced herself for the worse, but she found the best. Lili was on the screen clad in an outfit inspired by 1912 London, she was Mary Poppins in the flesh. She was on stage singing Stay Awaketo two young children, Jane and Michael Banks. Her daughter's large voice sent chills down her spine, she never heard anything like it.
"Now she is defiantly better than Cyndi Lauper." She smiled.
"Indubitably. I think she got her voice from you."
"No she didn't that voice is stronger and has higher octaves then mine."
"Heart Bones, not your head."
She looked up into his eyes, there was a flicker of hope that he saw. "You really want to find her don't you Booth?" She asked.
"I want to find her for you Bones, she deserves the love you can give her. You have so much love you don't even know about and when you hold her in your arms again all of that love will bubble to the surface and present its self."
"Thank you."
"That's what partners are for."
"No that is what best friends are for."
"Since when I am your best friend?"
"Since I realized I don't know what I would do without you here helping me and making me feel okay."
They were soon interrupted by Cam, who seemed to have a sense of urgency.
"Booth you need to see this." She said, they returned back to the forensic platform with Brennan following close behind. There was not just Lili alone on the screen, there was a second person whose face was not seen. They could see the person talking to the girl who just shook her head. The presume kidnapper proceeded to kick Lili in the stomach and a few times in the chest. Temperance felt bile rising in her throat and she ran to the nearest trash can. She once she stopped vomiting she found Seeley holding her hair back and ready to hold her steady. Her body began to rack with sobs again. Even though Booth was a man of great strength he found it hard to hold on to his partner who was shaking violently and obviously ridden with emotion.
For Brennan who usually thought based only on science and fact she found everything hard to comprehend, she did not know what to say or do, she did not know how to function. She found it hard to keep her eyes open, so she just let them shut.
"I am going to take her back to her office." Booth said carrying Brennan away, leaving the rest of the team utterly confused.
"What is going on?" Angela asked.
"I have no idea but I don't have a good feeling about it." Cam replied.
Wendell pulled up the picture of Lili Kendall again, he looked closely at the photo. It didn't take a trained eye to see the resemblance, it was hard to believe that nobody noticed it before.
"When you look at Lili who do you see?" Wendell asked. It took everyone a moment.
"Oh. My. God!" Angela gasped.
TBC... Once again please tell me what you think. :)