A/N: I'm so grateful to my beta, Melissa, for always reading over these chapters and giving me her honest opinion about them. It's very helpful.

I also very much appreciate all of you who reviewed. To those that review, I will start PMing you spoilers to the next chapter before it's updated. Hopefully that will help a lot of you get motivation to review from now on.

I'm not above begging and bribery for reviews.

Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 4

After a pretty normal workday, Brennan and Booth made their way home. They had decided that after dinner, they would sit down and look at some of the homes that Bones' real estate agent was able to get on such short notice.

It probably helped that it was Dr. Temperance Brennan that the house was for.

In instances like that, Booth didn't mind using his love's celebrity status to get ahead.

XXX

"What about this house?" Booth asked as he turned the laptop that they were looking at more in her direction.

"I'm not sure if that's suitable Booth."

"Why not? It has the four bedrooms you want so you can have an office and the kids can have their own room," Booth said.

"That's not enough rooms for us Booth. We need a room for us, a room for Parker, a room for the baby, a room for the office, and another room for guests or if we decide to expand our family, even more. What if we want another two kids after we have this one?" she asked as she put her hand on her stomach. She was doing that more frequently these days.

"Wow Bones. First of all, how about we have this one safe and sound in the world before we try to start on our own baseball team," Booth said a little nervously.

"Do you not want any more kids?" Brennan asked as she saw his nerves. She wasn't sure if she wanted more children herself but she was not above ruling it out.

"I don't know Bones. I honestly haven't put that much thought into it in all honest. I've just been so focused on Parker and this baby…"

"It's ok Booth. I understand. But we do need to talk about this more. I've recently thought about adopting as well so that is also another thing we should discuss at a later time," Brennan reassured her husband.

"Adopt? I guess that makes sense. But when were you going to tell me about these things?" Booth asked.

"I wasn't deliberately keeping you in the black Booth. I'm still thinking about it myself."

"It's 'in the dark', not in the black," Booth corrected with his same in love smile he had whenever she said something like that.

"You know what I meant," Brennan defended in a playful manner.

"Sure Bones," Booth said with a chuckle.

As she walked into the bathroom to get ready for bed, she could still hear him laughing at her.

XXX

The next day at the lab was when a lot of the interns started to suspect that something was weird about Dr. Brennan.

At the moment, she was in her office eating chips and dip. This wasn't what was causing the interns to become curious. It was the fact that the chips were nacho cheese Doritos and the dip was lime sherbet with skittles and m&m's mixed in.

Arastoo was the first to figure it out, but his massive respect for Dr. Brennan had him keep it to himself. Though he did ask her out right about it.

"Dr. Brennan?" he questioned as he came into her office and closed the door.

"Yes, Mr. Vasiri, what can I help you with?" she questioned as she continued to eat her snack.

"Excuse my forwardness Dr. Brennan but I was wondering if I could be permitted to ask you a more personal question?"

"Proceed Mr. Vasiri."

"Are you, by any chance, pregnant?" he quickly questioned before he lost the opportunity or was interrupted.

"Uh-Yes, yes I am. Can I ask what helped you reach the correct conclusion?" Brennan questioned with genuine want to know.

"Well, the eating of weird flavors of foods was the tip off. The tartness of the lime with the sweetness of the skittles and the savory-ness of the chips combine in such a way that suggested your condition. But ultimately, it was the steady widening of your gait to accommodate for the developing fetus," Arastoo finished not sure if he had offended his teacher and mentor.

"Very good Mr. Vasiri. I was wondering if any of my interns would find out due to my bones and their shifting. I see that you will do well in your observations and in this field Mr. Vasiri," she praised.

Arastoo couldn't keep the huge smile off of his face as he made his way out of her office. When Cam passed by him and noticed his look, she figured that she probably didn't want to know what he was thinking about so she kept walking.

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It was a few days later that Sweets finally figured it out. Him and Daisy were at lunch and like always, her obsession with Dr. Brennan came up in discussion.

"It's just so sweet Lance-a-lot. He holds her door open and he's always looking at her in this goofy way like she hung the moon, even though that is strictly metaphorical because the moon was formed before the Earth was populated by life so it's impossible to assume that even Dr. Brennan could have placed the moon in the position that it's in now, even though if there would be anyone who could figure out a way to do it, it would be Dr. Brennan because she's extremely brilliant and you should have seen her when we were in Maluku and all of the doctors were in awe of her and I could completely understand because I feel the same way about her and they don't even have the awesome privilege of working as closely with her as I am and I can't believe that her and Booth are finally together and I lost the bet to Wendell and it's such a shame that Vincent isn't here to see it finally happen but Booth says he's somewhere in spirit which makes no sense to me on a scientific level which is just another way in which me and Dr. Brennan are similar and I don't understand how anyone can think that after you die…" Daisy continued on in her rant not even paying attention to the fact that Sweets had frozen as she talked about something that he knew nothing about.

She didn't even notice his lack of contribution to the conversation. But that could have been because when she went into one of her rants, Sweets would just let her do all of the talking.

So she was surprised when he got up from their table and just started walking out. When she questioned him about it, he just waved his hand and ran out the door.

"Maybe it was something I said," she said with a shrug and went back to her meal.

XXX

Sweets practically ran into the Jeffersonian just a little while after he ran out of lunch. He was doing a lot of running today.

"Have either of you seen Dr. Brennan or Agent Booth recently?" he questioned Cam and Hodgins while trying to catch his breath.

"They went to lunch. What's up with you man?" Hodgins asked.

"Yeah Dr. Sweets, why does it look like you ran all the way in here?" Cam questioned with one of her newly acquired mom looks.

"I'm sorry, it's just that I was at lunch with Daisy and she told me about Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth," he finished in a whisper. "You know, them finally being together."

Hodgins and Cam looked at each other, and then turned back to Sweets. And when they saw his bewildered face, they couldn't help but laugh.

Sweets of course saw nothing funny but he was smart enough to figure out that it was him they were laughing at.

"Let me guess, you both knew. Was I the last to know?" he asked in almost a full whine.

"Pretty much," Hodgins said after him and Cam had calmed down their snickers at Sweets' expense.

"How did you guys find out?" Sweets asked with still a hint of a whine in his tone.

"I found out when they told me and Cullen but Hodgins and Angela were both at the wedding," Cam said matter-of-factly.

"Wedding?" Sweets exclaimed.

"I think I need to sit down," he told them as he did just that. Once he was seated, they told him everything, marriage and baby included. They also told him what Brennan and Booth said about letting everyone find out on their own.

After he had a little time to absorb what was going on, he asked one of the many questions that were cycling around in his head.

"But why not tell me?"

"You'll just have to ask them that yourself," Cam said as her parting words before she walked off into the direction of her office.

Hodgins was already refocused on something under one of his microscopes.

Sweets felt many things after hearing all of that. He felt happy that they had finally admitted their feelings for each other and they were finally together. He was kind of sad that he wasn't there for the wedding as he felt they were close friends but he could also understand them wanting their privacy and not wanting a big wedding, which they would most definitely have had if they would have invited everyone who thought they should be there.

But the main emotion that he was feeling was hurt that they felt they couldn't tell him the way they did Angela and Hodgins. They could have told him the other day when…they were…at the… and that was the moment in which he realized that they deliberately did what they did that day just to get to him.

Now he could only feel his anger at feeling like he was played.

XXX

After returning from lunch, the happily married Booths found themselves in Brennan's office talking about what they wanted to bring to their lawyer's attention. As they were getting into whether or not they wanted to fight to have primary custody or just joint custody, Sweets barged in.

"How could you guys not tell me?" he demanded to know. And while they could see he was upset, his voice portrayed his hurt.

"What are you-" Booth tried to deflect and deny but Sweets was having none of it.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about. How could you guys not tell me that you got married? Or that you're having a baby?"

"We felt that it wasn't any of your business," Brennan explained calmly.

"None of my- you guys. That was not cool," he said as he ran out of steam and fell into the empty chair in the office.

"So what you're saying is, just to make sure we know what the other is talking about, you are hurt that we didn't trust you with information that you felt you were entitled to? And that we're the ones that are in the wrong for denying you that information? Is that what you're saying?" Brennan asked with a raised eyebrow.

Once again, Sweets was nowhere near stupid so he got what she meant in a short time.

"Well, when you put it like that…I guess that means we're even Dr. Brennan?" Sweets questioned hoping that they were so that he could just be happy and not worried that she was going to do or say anything else. He had honestly hoped and thought that she had forgotten his little experiment when Booth was dead, but then again, she did have an excellent memory.

"Yes, we are even. But we didn't intend to keep this information from you as a punishment in response to what previously happened. We just wanted to enjoy our news to ourselves as long as possible. We understand that between the Jeffersonian and the Bureau, there are numerous people who felt as though they were personally invested in our relationship status. Whether that was them being friends, internal bets or a combination of the two."

"I understand Dr. Brennan, Agent Booth. I'm sorry to have disturbed you and congratulations on your joyous news. I'll see you guys later," Sweets said as he got up and walked out of the office.

And he did understand because it made a lot of sense. While Brennan was an outspoken and independent woman, she did value her privacy much like Booth. Booth was more obvious with his secrecy but they both felt that it was truly no one else's concern what was going on in their lives. And he couldn't fault them from wanting to keep their marriage and their baby to themselves.

Look at what he did when he found out. He barged in and completely disregarded them of personal space and he's sure that many others would act the same way if they hadn't already.

Shaking his head, he walked out of the Jeffersonian. He had paperwork that he could be doing.

He decided that once he calmed down, he would see that it wasn't done maliciously, they were just doing what was best for them, and could he really fault them for wanting to keep something to themselves? No, of course he couldn't.

He felt much better as he made his way back to his job.

A/N: I know, not much was happening in this chapter, but it was critical that I had Sweets find out this chapter. My beta felt that I was too mean to him last chapter so I had to fix that because I love Sweets.

That pregnancy craving was described in a baby magazine so it is 100% true.

We'll be getting back to custody battle and the components. And who was that random guy taking pics at the end of the last chapter? I didn't get any reviews asking.

And if you didn't read the top A/N, if you review while signed in, I will pm you a spoiler of the next chapter. Yes this is me trying to get more reviews and I feel no shame…maybe a little…no, none at all. Lol

p.s. Disclaimer: for those who don't know, I'm not Hart Hanson and I don't own anything except a few of the original characters and most of them are based off of my friends so I really don't own anything. *frowny face.