Episode 4: The Scientist in the Desert
"We all know how this ends... the woman will wind up surviving." Sweets sighed as they walked through the desert in search of scattered bone remains a hiker had discovered upon making his trek.
"What the hell are you talking about, Sweets?" Booth asked Sweets as he slinked along the orange desert. The heat was causing Sweets to see a pond ahead.
"You know, people get stuck in a desert and they wind up dying, but the woman lives. Basic horror movie plot line. You cannot kill the woman." Sweets said panting slighly. They came across a skull and Booth whistled and motioned to it. A group of FBI agents hustled over and picked it up. They continued to walk.
"Listen, the only woman here is an agent. Bones is at the Jeffersonian enjoying the air conditioning because she is likely to implode any second." Booth said.
"How did she get off materntiy leave?" Sweets asked with a raised eyebrow.
"She wrote a very threatening letter to the head of the medical department at the hospital we go to." Booth replied after finding a clavical with some flesh still hanging off of it. He whistled again and shoved a flag down next to it.
"Why am I here again?" Sweets asked.
"I needed someone to come with me." Booth replied.
"Couldn't you have gotten Dr. Hodgins? I had to clear my schedule for this. You said we were going on a hiking trip. We were going to have some man to man discussions." Sweets retorted as his voice cracked a little.
"Sure we are. Aren't we hiking at the moment? And here is the man to man talk. Push all your shrikness away to the back of you mind and listen like a friend... remember, a friend... not a shrink." Booth said.
"I prefer therapist, but ok." Sweets said. He then attempted and failed at whistling. He gave up and shoved the flag next to a femur.
"I'm thinking about asking Bones to marry me." Booth said.
"Are you crazy? You're going to get a no!" Sweets yelped.
"Friend! Not Shrink!" Booth repeated.
"I am answering as a friend," he stated as he shoved a flag onto another spot. "Bones is very weirdish when it comes to marriage. She doesn't view it like you do."
"I know she doesn't, but I think she understands my thoughts. I think if she loves me enough, she's say yes. Her telling me no to marriage and always commenting on it is a sign she is scared and that way it's an easy run." Booth said.
"Now whose being a shrink." Sweets chuckled.
"I don't care if I get a no... I want to try... with a ring... and I can keep that ring for a later date in case she changes her mind." Booth said.
"Why didn't you give Hannah this choice?" Sweets asked.
"Because I didn't love her as much as I love Temperance right now." Booth retorted.
"Whenever you say each other's first name, I take it as a sign of endearment." Sweets smiled. Booth slammed a flag down and whistled.
"Ok, right, no shrink talk." Sweets repeated. Booth then turned around.
"Do you think we're done?" Booth asked as he stared at the flags.
"Well, there is 206 bones in the average adult and there are 40 flags, so I'm suggesting no..." Sweets sighed.
"You brought me back an incomplete skeleton!" Bones said.
"What did you want us to do? It was reaching 106 degrees and we had on those funky clothing so we don't contaminate the evidence even though it's been exposed to who knows what in that desert. Heck, it could have been an alien body!" Booth yelped leaning on the table.
"Don't lean on that." She said quickly. She then looked at the skull.
"Go back and bring Hodgins this time!" Bones replied.
"You want me to go back into that heat?" Booth yelped.
"Awesome, am I doing some field work now? Yes, I can get out of this lab!" Hodgins cried.
"Why do I have to go?" Booth whined.
"If I were to go, you would go. You've always done that. Does that mean you only did it to spend more time with me?" Bones asked. She glanced at Booth who was just staring at her.
"Bones, we were practically a couple back then. We always were together, even on Christmas. Somehow, we never solved a case without one another." Booth smiled.
"True. You always seem to come when there's trouble." Bones smiled back.
"Enough! Are we going or what?" Hodgins chimed. Booth grunted and then led Hodgins out of the room.
"Sweetie, aren't you being a tad bit harsh on Booth? It's not like he can control what's happening around him." Angela said as Bones stared at the school and other bones they had found. So far the bones that had been found were very nice and undamaged.
"What do you mean?" Bones asked as she rotated the skull.
"Well, the fact that the desert it home to about fifty different kinds of carnivores that would devour a human, flesh and bone, in a second." Angela retorted. Bones rolled her eyes and picked up a clavicle.
"This all doesn't make since. It's bones are in perfectly good shape. How can you wind up dead, his bones dispursed along the desert? It was as if someone kicked it out of an airplane and exploded on impact." Bones said picking up a femur.
"But the bones would be damaged then. Maybe he died from dehydration and the animals got to hims and dispursed his bones." Angela retorted quickly. Bones rolled her eyes once more and then asked, "Do you have the rendering of the face?"
"Yes and he wasn't one pretty guy." Angela said as she handed the photo to Bones. She stared at the photo intently for a moment. She then felt something click in her head. She quickly hoped down the steps. Behind her, Angela asked, "Should you be hopping like that so close to birth? The baby might fall out of you..."
"I know this guy. He is a very well-known scientist. He spoke at my college when I was merely a freshman. I took a picture with him in which he followed up with how I was the most promising student he had seen in a while." Bones said reaching for a picture on her shelf. She pulled it down and showed Angela.
"It looks like him. Wasn't an attractive man, was he?" Angela asked.
"Despite the fact he wasn't attractive, he was very sexually active and had anywhere between 4 to 7 sex partners a week. You don't know about children this man fathered." Bones replied.
"A man like this? I know I have crappy taste in men, but I wouldn't sleep with him." Angela shivered.
"He offered me a chance to sleep with him, but I refused." Bones stated.
"Because he was ugly?" Angela repeated.
"No, because I was sleeping with my other professor." Bones replied.
"Is that how you got through college?" Angela asked.
"No, I was very smart..." Bones froze. She stared into the distance.
"What, sweetie? Did you realize something?" Angela asked.
"Um... I think I'm going into labor..." Bones said as she held her stomach tightly.
"What? Oh my gosh... um, doctor... hospital... I'll get you there safe!" Angela yelped. They ran past Cam who shouted, "Where are you going?"
"We're going to have a baby!" Angela shouted. Cam stared in silence for a moment and then pulled her cell phone out.
"So, you're really going to propose to Dr. Brennan?" Hodgins asked as he placed a flag down and whistled.
"Yes and did you know Sweets couldn't whistle?" Booth retorted.
"Oh, what a man." Hodgins joked. They walked in silence some more and place more flags down and whistled.
"Are you ready to become a dad yet?" Hodgins asked.
"I already have one child. I feel like I'm ready, but I've never had a daughter before. It's going to be difficult. I worry about Bones, but she's become so comfortable around Parker. Even thought that's not her child, she treats him as an equal. I think she's ready physically, but not mentally. When we finished the baby's room, she stared around and muttered something about how she hadn't imagined doing something like this in a million years." Booth explained. Suddenly, Hodgins phone went off.
"Hello?" Hodgins answered. He then handed it to Booth and said it was for him.
"Yea?" He asked in his usual tone.
"Booth, Angela and Dr. Brennan just left in a rush saying that she's having the baby..." Cam said quickly.
"What? Why didn't you call my phone?" Booth yelped.
"I did, but it didn't go through. I called twice." Cam retorted. He hung up quickly and handed the phone back to Hodgins. He then ran to his SUV. Hodgins ran behind him and hopped into the front seat.
"What's going on? We catch the criminals?" Hodgins asked in a hopeful tone.
"Bones is having the baby!" He yelped.
"What?" Hodgins replied in a shocked tone.
"I need to get there fast!" Booth yelped.
"Where exactly is there?" Hodgins asked.
"I don't know. We're two hours away from home. Call up Angela and asked where there at!" Booth demanded. Dirt flew from his tires as he drove off. Hodgins quickly dialed Angela's number and put in on voicemail.
"Hey, did you hear?" Angela answered. There was screaming in the background.
"Is that Temperance?" Booth yelped.
"You wish. That's the woman who stubbed her toe earlier. This is Tempe." Angela said. She held the phone into the room as bloodcurtling screams were let out.
"It turns out she's been in a labor for a while. She just felt it thirty minutes ago. Booth... she's going to have this baby soon." Angela replied.
"TELL SEELEY BOOTH TO GET HERE NOW! THIS IS HIS DOING ALSO!" Bones yelled in the background.
"You heard the woman... get here fast." Angela said.
"Where are you?" Booth asked.
"St. Joseph's. It was the closest. She's in a lot of pain." Angela replied. Booth hung up and stormed down the road with his sirens blaring.
"Is he coming, Angela?" Bones panted from the intense pain. Now she had wished she gone for that epideral. She was trying to wait for Booth to get there because he had explained how much he wanted to be there. Another contraction hit and she let out another scream.
"Sweetie, is it that painful?" Angela asked.
"Haven't you been in this situation? You should remember!" Bones cried as another contraction hit.
"Are they getting closer?" The doctor asked as he walked in.
"Ah, yeah." Angela replied. Bones panted some more.
"I repsect your guys decision to use artifical insemination to concive this child..." The doctor said opening up the medical charts on Bones.
"Artifical insemination? What? Oh god no, we are not lesbians. Although I wouldn't mind a lesbian relationship with Temperance, we are both happily taken... by men." Angela said waving her hands.
"Where is the husband?" The doctor asked, a tad bit disappointed.
"Boyfriend. He is on his way. He's actually an FBI agent who was two hours away at a crime scene with my husband..." Angela stated.
"I don't think this baby can wait two hours. He might miss the birth of his child. Do they know the sex of the baby?" The doctor asked.
"Yes, a female." Angela replied. Bones let out another blood curtling scream. She was griping the side of the bed, sweating and in pain. The contractions had felt like a very, very intense period cramp. She hadn't felt one in nine months and almost forgot what the pain felt like. Now, she would never take a period pain for granted ever again. Another contraction hit.
"Temperance Brennan... what room is she in?" Booth asked rushing into the hospital an hour and a half later.
"Room 209, but you can't go in there. She's having the child at the moment." The nurse retorted.
"I am the father of that child. I need to get up there quickly so I can see it!" Booth yelped running toward the elevator. He pressed the button multiple times waiting for it to go up. The woman who got on next to him stared at him.
"He's having a child at the moment." Hodgins smiled. The old woman smiled up at Booth who was watching the light change to two and quickly dashed off as soon as the doors opened. He counted to room 209 and busted into the room. What he saw was Bones with her legs spread open in all her glory... a postion he had not scene before. Crowning was their child. Booth rushed to Bones's side who was screaming his name.
"I'm here, Tempe." He said soothing her. Bones cried in pain as the doctor kept telling her to push. Angela was on the opposite end of her hold her hand.
"Seeley, it's so painful." Bones cried.
"But it'll all be worth it when it's over. I promise." Booth replied. She was told to push a few more times and then they heard the sound of a crying baby. Booth stared at it in awe. His eyes lit up as he saw the patch of brown hair be rushed to the cleaning area. Shortly after, they wrapped the crying baby up and handed her to Bones. Bones stared down at her with happiness glowing in her eyes. She looked at Booth who had tears in his eyes.
"Booth, you're crying." Bones said with a slight chuckle.
"I'm just so happy." Booth sobbed. He wiped his eyes and stared down at his daughter that Bones was holding in her arms. Angela smiled at them and left the room.
"Everything's fine. Booth made it in time." Angela told Hodgins.
"Well, that's good." Hodgins said kissing his wife. They hugged for another moment and then Angela replied, "I'm pregnant."
"What?" Hodgins yelped pulling away.
"It must have been one of our drunken nights..." Angela smirked.
"After this child, you are going on the pill. No more condoms because they can be forgotten." Hodgins yelped.
"But aren't you happy?" Angela asked.
"Always happy if it's with you." Hodgins smirked and kissed her.
Cam sat in the waiting room along with Angela and Hodgins. Nine months earlier, they had been in the same spot, only for Hodgins and Angela. It was the same night Bones had told Booth she was pregnant with his child. Cam was waiting eagerly to see the baby.
"She's precious." Angela said to Cam.
"It's not fair you got to see her." Cam retorted.
"Someone had to be in there with her. I wasn't going to leave her in there alone." Angela smirked. Suddenly, the door opened and Booth was holding a tiny pink blanket in his arms. Peeking out the top with a pink hot was an adorable little girl. She had light brown eyes that looked up in wonder.
"Oh, Seeley, she is just... amazing." Cam said getting a closer look.
"Her name is Sirius Angela Booth." Booth smiled happily.
"You guys named her after me... I am so touched." Angela started to cry into Hodgins shoulder. He patted her shoulder. Everyone began to take turns holding the baby and cooing her name. Soon, it became late and everyone went home. Booth watched as Bones held her daughter tightly, never wanting to let go of her.
Booth could hardly describe his feelings at the moment. He was so happy he was in tears. Watching the women he loved gaze down happily at another girl that he already loved with all his heart was something undescriable. Bones glanced up at Booth and muttered, "Say hi to daddy."
He hadn't heard those words in a while. He told Bones he would return to the apartment to get some things and Parker. She kissed him on the head and then kissed his daughter also. He left goodbye and drove home. As he drove home, he pondered everything that had ever happened in their relationship. Everything had led down to this single moment. All the waiting and yearnings were in good name. He felt like nothing to stop him from feeling this wonderful.
As he woke Parker, he packed a few on Bones's belongings. He shuffled Parker out of the house and was greeted by Max. He was standing still, his face eager. He was looking for Temperance... Booth could tell. His eyes directed toward the bag and there was a smile on his face.
"Am I a grandpa?" Max asked happily.
"Do you want to see her?" Booth asked with a smile.
"Of course I would love to see Tempe." Max replied.
"Not only Temperance, but your granddaughter, Sirius." Booth retorted with a bigger smile.
"My granddaughter..." He sighed with a smile.
"If your mother was alive right now, she would be so proud of you, Tempe. Lemme see my granddaugher again." Max said the following morning. He had stayed the whole night and was hogging Sirius. Bones had effortlessly handed her father her daughter. Bones was sitting in a rocking chair while Booth had taken Parker to school. Parker had said hello to his baby sister and even kissed her when he left for school from the hospital.
"She weighed 8 lbs 11 oz. The doctors said she was a mighty one to push out." Bones stated.
"Your mother had you effortlessly. When your brother was born... now, that was a different story." Max snorted.
"Booth cried last night." Bones said as Max handed Sirius back to her.
"Of course... a man's bond with his daughter is something that can't be broken or damaged." Max said.
"Ours was." Bones interjected.
"Tempe, when you were born, it was one of the happiest days of my life. I was to have a daughter, someone I could protect. I did everything possible and it even led to you hating me. I wish it hadn't been like that, but I'm proud of who you became because of it. Tempe, I'm proud of you. Now all you have to do is marry him. It might do me good having an FBI son-in-law. I could get off sometimes." Max chuckled.
"Dad..." Bones said.
"I know. You don't believe in marriage, but just think about it." Max said as he rose to leave.
"Are you going already?" Bones asked.
"Whenever Booth gets done with work, he's going to want to spend some alone time with you and Sirius." Max said stretching.
"Come back?" She asked.
"Always." He smirked at her.
"He dehydrated in the desert? You can tell that from the bones?" Booth asked as Bones analyzed a picture. Booth was holding Sirius and rocking her at the same time. Bones nodded and placed it down.
"Dr. Yates was a renown scientist when it came to the desert and fossils. He had alchziemers. He probably forgot where he was at and died. The animals got him and dragged him to peices. This is an accident. Not a homocide." Bones said.
"How come I'm not getting any hard ones?" Booth yelped.
"Let's take it easy... so we can spend time with our daughter." Bones said cooing at her. Booth handed her back and grabbed something from his pocket. He felt this was the best time. He kneeled down on one knee.
"Temperance Brennan, will you please marry me?" Booth asked.
