Time to meet Baby Bones! :)
"She's beautiful." Brennan was sitting up as straight as she could in the bed, cradling their new addition to what was now their family. The baby wriggled around a bit, almost as if she were trying to break free from the pink blanket she had been wrapped up in just a few minutes before. Her eyes were open and she stared straight back at her mother who chuckled a bit at all the squirming.
Booth was right. This was the happiest day of her life. She'd heard the words, "Congratulations, you two are the parents of a healthy baby girl," she had listened to her daughter's cry for the first time, and she was instantly overcome by this indescribable joy and an emotion she could only try to classify, as scientists like her do, as love. It was the most incredible feeling in the world, one that only a mother can fully understand.
She was a mother now. Temperance Brennan was somebody's mother, and it floored her how much that fact delighted her.
"Hey there," Brennan cooed, her voice still a little raspy from all the screaming she'd completely forgotten about. "I'm..I'm your Mama." She gently shifted her body to the left a bit so that the baby could get a good look at Booth, who was sitting back in the plastic chair at the head of the bed, watching with that same lovable grin on his face.
"And this is...Daddy." Brennan was beaming, tears freely falling from her eyes, but this time for a very different reason. She was still in somewhat of a state of shock, and if she weren't such a brutally rational woman, she would've sworn that this was all a dream, that she'd wake up any second, back in her bed at her apartment, alone.
It was just so unbelievable to her. How she got here, to this moment, so extremely fast. To call it surreal, even unreal, would be an understatement. Sitting there, marveling at her child, her and Booth's child, their daughter- she wouldn't trade it for anything.
"So, do we have a name?" The nurse, friendly and chipper as she reentered the room after giving Booth and Brennan some private family time with their new arrival, walked up to the happy parents with clipboard and pen in hand.
"Taylor. Taylor Angela Brennan-Booth." Booth responded, the joyous pride evident in his eyes.
"That's a beautiful name for a beautiful little girl," the nurse commented as she scribbled it down on the paper attached to the clipboard she was holding.
"Wait." It was Brennan who did the interrupting this time. The nurse stopped writing, and looked up, clearly confused.
Brennan then turned to Booth, her expression serious. "I don't think I want her to have a hyphenated last name."
Booth's face fell, automatically assuming the worst. She didn't want their baby to carry his name. She didn't want baby Taylor to be a Booth. "Oh."
His partner could sense he'd misunderstood, and she could tell he was hurt by what he thought she'd meant, and so she clarified her words. "No, Booth- I want her to have your last name. Just Booth. Taylor Angela Booth."
"Wh- Bones, is that what you really want? Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure." The tips of Brennan's mouth curled upward into what Booth thought resembled a sort of amused grin.
"Alrighty, easy fix. Taylor Angela Booth it is." The nurse scratched out what she had written on her paper, turned on her heels, and with a twinkle in her eye, exited the room, congratulating the couple again as she crossed the threshold into the crowded hallway.
Booth was once more at a loss for words, but that sure as hell turned his frown upside down.
"Thank you." It felt inadequate to him, but it was all he could think of to say. "Thank you, Bones."
"You don't need to thank me, Booth."
Lord, did that man love her.
Brennan brought her gaze back to wiggly Taylor, and after unwrapping a bit of the blanket, she started fiddling with one of the tiny hands. Her fully grown index finger looked huge in comparison, especially once the newborn clenched her little fist around it and held on. She was so small, so fragile.
Booth just sat there for a while, perfectly contented as all was right in his world, until he finally found his voice again.
"Hey, Bones?"
"Yes?" Brennan was still distracted by the soft pink bundle in her arms, and her answer was more natural or involuntary than anything.
"Bones, you know I love you too, right?"
This caught her attention.
Brennan looked up from her baby girl's face and smiled. "Yes, I know."
So, was that big monster fluff bunny fluffy enough for you? ;) Hope you liked it!
Well, guys, I think this is it. When I planned out this fic in my head, as a oneshot and as a multi-chapter fic, this is where I pictured it to end, and I think it wraps this story of mine up in a nice little bow haha.
But, I did leave it open enough to continue it down the road if opportunity presented itself, so we'll just have to see. ;)
I hope this wasn't too cliche, despite the baby girl and her middle name (I just thought there were already enough boys, you know, with Parker and Michael and all). Thanks for reading! :)
Reviews are greatly appreciated.
