Putting Heather down for a nap, she decided it was time to face Booth. She was exhausted but she knew she had to do this. She had been so curt with him lately and she had felt bad about it.
Picking up her phone, she took a deep breath and hit the speed dial button.
"Booth" she heard a very sleepy voice on the other end.
"Were you asleep?"
"Bones, no, no, I was just resting my eyes."
"Oh"
"Bones, are you ready to talk?" just as he got the question out he heard something on the other end, he wasn't fully awake.
"MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMY !" Heather was screaming.
"Booth, No, yes, I have to go." She hung up on him.
He laid there, he was sure he heard muffled screaming, very high pitched screaming and it sounded like mommy? He was sitting up in bed now, shaking the fog, There was screaming coming over the phone, he bolted out of bed and got dressed.
She just got Heather calmed down and back to sleep. That was the first 'nightmare' Heather had had. Brennan had found her daughter clutching the bedpost screaming "No, no, me want stay wif mommy." It was heartbreaking to watch her daughter that scared. She assured Heather that woman would never come back to the house, ever.
Just as she got Heather back to sleep she walked down the hall and she heard her front door opening.
"Bones, BONES?"
"Booth, shh" she said as she rushed on tiptoe towards him.
Looking at her confused, he whispered. "Are you okay?"
"Yes Booth, I am fine." She whispered back.
"Why are we whispering?"
She pushed him towards the kitchen, "Because." was the only reason she would give him.
Booth was so wrapped up on why they were whispering and the scream he had heard over the phone. His lack of sleep left his FBI observation abilities a little foggy. He missed the coloring books on the coffee table and the new DVD tower sitting by the TV.
Once in the kitchen he turned around to face her.
"Okay Bones, are you going to tell me what is going on with you?" Then, something caught his eye behind her. He leaned out and tipped his head to the side looking at the item.
"Booth, I have" he put his finger up to cut her off, his eyes darted from the counter to her and back, then he walked around her to the small child's cup. Brennan's gaze followed him to the cup.
He picked it up looked at her and pointed at it. "What is this?"
"A cup."
"I can see it is a cup. It is a sippy cup. Why do you have a sippy cup?"
"Because I have a child."
Raising his eyebrows, "You" pointing at Brennan "have a child?"
"Yes" he almost dropped the cup at that response. Rubbing his hand over the back of his neck, he just looked at her and growled.
"How, why, when, Is this what you have been keeping from me?"
"Yes."
"Is that all you can say to me is Yes?"
"No"
"BONES"
"Booth, shh you will wake her."
He took her shoulders and sat her down at the table. He got them both some water and then sat down across from her. "Bones start from the beginning and tell me how you ended up with a child."
He remember the little girl at the home and how scared she had seemed. She related the story as he listened intently, never taking his eyes off her. She had changed; this little girl had changed her. There was something softer about her, something almost child like.
"Bones are you sure you thought this through, I mean, I think it is great if you want to be a mom, but didn't this all happen pretty fast."
"Booth, don't you think I would be a good mother?"
"No, no Bones, I think you would be a fantastic mother, but this happened pretty fast are you sure you know what you are getting into?"
A knock on the door interrupted them. It was the painters. Brennan had them wait by the door while she collected her sleeping daughter and moved her to her bed. Booth followed closely behind, he wanted to get a look at this little girl.
He stood in the doorway of the guest room that was being transformed into a bedroom any little girl would love. He watched as his partner gentle scooped up the little girl and protectively carried her into her bedroom room, placing her in the center of the bed with her Nemo stuffed fish. Something stirred in him as he watched her with this little girl. He couldn't take his eyes off his partner.
The painters proceeded to cover everything in the little girls room and set out to transform the walls from the light beige to a pale lavender.
Booth and Brennan headed back to the kitchen.
"She is beautiful Bones."
"Thank you, I started the adoption procedures." He about spit out the water he was drinking.
"Bones, are you sure."
"Booth, I have never been more sure of anything in my life. I don't want any more regrets. This is one thing I will never regret."
He watched her sitting across from him with that defiant tilt to her head, arms crossed in front of her, and couldn't help himself; he collected her in his arms and held her. "Okay, Bones, Okay. I am behind you all the way."
