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"What's wrong, Sweetie?" Angela asked when she entered Dr. Brennan's office. Her friend was sitting in her chair and staring at an empty spot at the room. Whatever was passing through her mind, it was something serious.
"Booth and I had an argument at lunch." She blinked and focused in her friend.
Tell me some news, Angela thought.
"What made you two argue?" She asked sympathetically.
"He found out I'm pregnant." Brennan pursed her lips.
"You're pregnant?!" Angela screamed in shock.
"Yes." She confirmed.
"May I ask how on Earth you didn't tell me about this?! I thought I was your best friend!" Angela crossed her arms.
"Booth said the same thing." Brennan sighed and closed her eyes. "One in every three women has a miscarriage in their first pregnancy. My doctor said it would be better if I waited till the end of the first trimester to share the news with my friends and family. In her words, if I happened to lose the child, it would be harder for me to deal with the situation if I had to tell everyone there wasn't a baby anymore, so, it was better to wait till the pregnancy was secure. I just entered the second trimester, Angie."
"Wow… this is huge." Angela let the air leave her lungs and sat in the chair in front of Brennan. "Wait a minute. Who's the father?"
Brennan bit her lips.
"It's Booth, isn't it?" She smirked when she saw her friends face blush. "Of course it's Booth! How come you had sex with him and didn't tell me? Jeez, Bren, you weren't this big secret's box. Come on now, spill it all. Is he as good as I think he is?"
"We didn't have intercourse. " Brennan defended herself and stared at her friend. She didn't like the idea of Angela fantasizing about Booth in bed. "I got pregnant through in vitro fertilization."
"Oh." Finally things started making sense to Angela. "And I guess you hadn't told Booth about it."
Brennan bit her lower lip again and shook her head "no".
"Before he went to have his surgery, he told me I should have the baby if something happened to him." Brennan told her friend.
"And when he didn't wake up after months in coma, you decided you should go for it." Angela completed her thought.
Her friend nodded her head.
"Why didn't you tell him after he woke up? It's been three months, Bren." Angela pursed her lips.
"I don't know." Brennan admitted. "I always thought I would have a baby alone. I've always been an independent woman. I have my own apartment, my own job, my own car. I'm successful in my career. I've always been enough for myself. I wanted to have a baby and I wanted it to be only mine."
"No, you didn't." Angela smiled.
"What?"
"You didn't. If you wanted to have a baby by yourself, you would choose an anonymous donor. But you chose Booth." Angela said as it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I've already told you why I chose Booth to be the donor, Angie. He has traits I would never know if an anonymous donor would have. Like courage, compassion, empathy. Those would be tremendous assets to my child. Also, he's very caring and has exceptional social skills." Brennan stated.
"And he's a great father to Parker." Angela smiled.
"Yea- what does it have to do with my pregnancy?" Brennan asked confused.
"It has everything to do with it, sweetie. You're denying, but you know you chose Booth because, deep inside, you want him to be your baby's father."
"Wha-? No… we would drive the child crazy, Angie. Can you imagine that? Booth would try to make the kid believe in mythical things like God. I would be completely against it, since it obviously doesn't exist." She said. What did she get into? Her child wasn't even born yet and she could see all the damage she'd done. Maybe choosing Booth wasn't a good idea after all. But how could she give birth to a baby with an unknown father? What if he was a psychopath? A lot of psychological diseases were hereditary. No. It had to be Booth. "My baby deserves a peaceful life."
"Your baby deserves to have a father who loves him. Booth wants to be that baby's father. That's why you argued." Angela smiled sympathetically. Brennan didn't have to tell her the reason of their fight. "Do you realize you are denying your child the chance to have a father who will undeniable love him with all his heart? You know how many kids in the world would die to have that?"
"If they died, why would they want a caring father?"
"It's an expression, Brennan. I just meant it's a gift to have both parents loving you, and it's evil and selfish to take that away from your child just because you think you and Booth would confuse him or her."
"But… what if we end up hating each other, Angela? I mean… Booth and I…" This was what scared her the most. Statistics proves that most people sharing a child's custody doesn't get along well. They fight all the time to see who spends more time with the kid; they disagree with the other's opinion just for the sake of it. Just look at Booth and Rebecca. She didn't want her and Booth to be like that. Booth was the person she trusted the most in the world. He was her best friend. The last thing she wanted was to lose his friendship.
"You will make it work. Do you love your baby, sweetie?" Angela asked.
"Of course I love my baby!" Brennan replied quickly.
"Then you would want him to have the best. Don't take away from him or the chance to grow up with an amazing father just because you are afraid of how things could end. Do you love Booth?"
"No- I mean, not that way…" Brennan blushed.
Angela held back a smile. Of course you don't.
"He's my partner and he's always been there for me. Of course he's an important person in my life." She finally said.
"So, you don't want to hurt him."
"Of course I don't. Why would I want to hurt Booth?" Brennan creased her forehead. She couldn't see where Angela was going with that conversation.
"Keeping this baby away from him you're hurting him. You are hurting two people you love."
"So, you think I should let Booth be the father? Give him all the rights?" She asked her friend desperately. "What if everything goes wrong?"
"You got yourself in this mess, sweetie. You'll have to deal with it. Just don't forget it's Booth we're talking about. No matter what happens, you know he'll always be there for you."
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