Brennan sat in her office going over some paperwork; she had managed to sneak into the Jeffersonian without Cam or Booth finding out. She had been dying to get back to work. She finished with the paper work and put her pen back down her desk, making sure to shut the cap tightly.
She got up and went around the room towards her couch. She flopped down with a loud sigh and proceeded to drift to sleep.
--
She got up about an hour later and saw that someone had been in her office. She stood up gently and placed her hand on her large stomach to balance her self. She was almost five months pregnant with twins and she felt - and looked - bigger than ever before. She waddled her way over to her desk and sat herself back down in her desk chair.
Temperance looked through the papers on her unusually cluttered desk. None had gone missing, but the pen that she had been using to do paperwork with was uncapped, and she had made sure she put the cap on.
Brennan looked through her papers again and found a note scribbled hastily in very untidy handwriting, she read it over and promptly dropped it; her hands flying automatically to her abdomen.
Temperance shook herself and breathed in deeply. She picked up the note and grabbed her coat off the coat rack. She made her way out of the Jeffersonian, this time not caring if anyone saw her or not.. Brennan called a cab and made her way to the FBI building. Once she got inside she headed straight to Booth's office, stopping only to explain who she was and to run herself through the metal detector.
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Booth sat staring at the agent in front of him, a confused look on his face. There was no way the idiot had already messed up on a case! Agent Sanders was a new agent, fresh from Quantico, and he had an extremely annoying knack for messing things up. Booth opened his mouth to express this opinion to the young agent, but was quickly cut off by his wife bursting through his office door looking pale and frightened.
Booth stood up immediately and made his way over to Temperance. He wrapped an arm around her and hugged her tightly.
"What's wrong, baby?"
She looked up at him and wordlessly handed him the note.
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Temperance Brennan-Booth, I am writing to you to inform you that your life is in serious danger. Now, you may be asking how I know this, but that is obvious. I am the one who is endangering your life. I've thought about what you've said and decided that if I can't have you; no one can. You will be terminated. How? I do not know yet. When? I also do not know, but it will happen. You may think these are the ramblings of a mad man; a mad ex-FBI agent man, but they are not, they are serious, and I hope you know that!
Signed, your ex-beloved,
Thomas Sullivan.
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Booth's mouth dropped in surprise. He didn't think the note was very creative, and most definitely thought that Sully sucked at being a deranged psycho killer, but still, it was a threat on his wife's life an unborn children's lives. He pocketed the note and looked back at Brennan, his face mirroring her frightened expression.
Booth went to his boss'es office and knocked loudly on the door, ignoring the jittery secretary. Cullen answered and looked at Booth angrily.
"I hope this is worth calling me out of a meeting agent Booth!"
Booth shook his head yes.
"Someone's threatened my wife's life!"
Cullen looked at Booth his expression still bored..
"You are an FBI agent, Booth. Deal with it.. What makes your wife any more important than all of the other people the FBI deals with?"
"It's not that, sir. I came because of who is threatening my wife's life. It's Sully, sir. You know, Thomas Sullivan, the one Temperance dated before marrying me?"
Cullen nodded his head and his expression became slightly more interested.
"I understand agent Booth. I'll get my secretary to get you any information we still have on Sullivan that might help your investigation. In the mean time, get Dr. Brennan somewhere safe."
Booth nodded.
"Thank you, sir."
Booth turned towards the secretary, who had already started pulling data from her computer.
"Oh, and Booth, next time you come into my office like this, you can count on getting your ass kicked." Cullen said as he closed the door to his office.
Booth barely heard him as he headed out of the door, information in hand.
--
When Booth arrived back at his office Temperance was sitting in one of the chairs in front of his desk. He was remotely surprised that she hadn't run after him, but came to the conclusion that as large as she was getting, running would be quite difficult for her. He sat the folder he had down and pulled Brennan up from the chair.
"Temperance, you've got to tell me where you found the note, and what you told Sully when you spoke to him, it might help me catch him." Brennan nodded and told Booth what Sully had said over the phone, then explained were and when she had found the note. Booth was unhappy that she had called Sully herself, and even more unhappy that she had gone to work when she knew she shouldn't be going.
However, he quickly dismissed these facts and wrote down every word Temperance said. When she had finished talking and he had finished writing, he hugged her to him tightly then held her at arms length.
"You've got to go home, Temperance. You are not safe here, go to our new house. I know it's not furnished, but he won't expect you to be there. I'll be there as soon as I can."
Brennan nodded and kissed him softly, she then made her way out of the FBI building. She was standing on the corner of the street and looking around for a cab when two shots rang out and she was suddenly falling to the ground.
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Booth heard the gunfire and, ignoring all safety procedures, ran out of his office and out of the FBI building. He saw Temperance immediately, surrounded by two EMTs that had fortunately been on a lunch-break at the cafe across the street. He ran to them stopping short when he caught sight of someone out of the corner of his eye; Sully.
Booth ran towards him and tackled him to the ground. He took the gun from his grip and came extremely close to firing at Sully himself, but then thought about what would happen if he was sent to jail.. Brennan would be forced to raise their twins on her own… if she and twins were still alive. He couldn't think like that, no, they would be fine.
He pulled his cuffs from his jacket and made to cuff Sully, who quickly threw his head back when Booth got close enough. He lost his grip on the cuffs, and on Sully. Sully ran off quickly with Booth following close behind. Booth quickly caught up with him and tackled him again, mashing his head into the ground. Sully kicked and wailed as Booth hit him quite violently. A few on lookers gaped at the scene and started to call the police before Booth quickly flashed his badge.
Booth leaned in to whisper into Sully's ear.
"If you've killed her, or our children, I'll kill you. Mark my words, Sullivan, mark my words."
Sully threw his head back yet again, this time hitting Booth slightly harder. Booth was knocked out cold.
--
Brennan came to in a hospital bed with a nurse standing over her. She shook her head, but stopped quickly. It hurt horribly to move her head. She felt her forehead and discovered a bandage that was tied tightly around it. The memories of the shooting flooded her mind and she reached down at her stomach, checking to see if she could feel her babies moving at all.
She sighed in relief, when a few seconds later she felt two small kicks. The nurse was checking her IV and noticed that she was awake, finally.
"Ah, you are awake. It's about time; I thought you would never get up!" The nurse laughed in a nasal tone, then went out to go get the doctor.
The doctor came in a few minutes later, chart in hand.
"You are an extremely lucky woman, Mrs. Booth. You were shot twice, but still managed to pull through. We had an extremely difficult time operating on you. We almost lost you for a minute there, but you pulled through nicely! You've lost a lot of blood and I would like to keep you here at least another month to monitor your recovery. As you are five months pregnant, it's important that you get proper care."
Brennan looked at the doctor confused. Did he say she had been shot twice? Where else but her head? And where exactly was Booth?
"Where else was I shot? And where is my husband?"
The doctor smiled sweetly.
"Your husband went to get some coffee. Nurse Lina has just left to find him. As for where else you were shot," he pulled back the covers and pointed to a bandage around her left leg.
Temperance sighed, she had been shot twice. At five months pregnant, she was extremely lucky to be alive.
Booth came running into the room just as she had drawn the covers back over herself. He leaned over her and kissed her on the lips anxiously.
"You scared the ever living crap out of me, Bones! I thought you would never wake up! I thought you were you were going to die!"
Brennan did her best to try and hug Booth, but her bandage kept getting in the way.
"Seeley, I'm fine. You can stop worrying now; everything's going to be ok. Did you catch the person who did this?"
Booth looked down and shook his head guiltily.
"He got away. It was Sully, and I let him get away."
Temperance kissed Booth gently and stroked his cheek.
"It's not your fault. You were worried about me, and the babies. You'll get him, I know you will."
Booth smiled sadly and shook his head no.
"But that's just it. I won't get him. Cullen pulled me from the investigation because of the way I treated Sully when I did catch him. I wish I had done more though, I just bruised him a little and maybe uttered a teeny tiny threat but he deserved it after what he did to you!"
Brennan sighed again and closed her eyes.
"It's ok, Seeley. Don't you have confidence in your fellow FBI agents? And would you have really stopped yourself from beating him up again if you could go back and change what you did?"
Booth shook his head no and smiled down at his wife, kissing her once again. Maybe she was right.
--
"Hodgins... can you bring me some more nails from in the living room please?" Angela yelled over the radio that was blaring in the room.
Angela and Hodgins had been helping Booth with the house as Brennan wouldn't be able to do it herself, seeing as she was still in the hospital.
Angela was working on the final touches in the master bedroom. At that moment she was hanging up all the pictures that would go in the room.
"Sure, hold on."
Patience began crying in the background.
Hodgins came into the room, swaying back and forth with Patience in the crook of his arm and the nails in his other hand.
"Here," Hodgins said as he handed Patience to Angela. "It's your turn."
Angela gave him a fake smile and stood up bouncing Patience up and down trying to make her stop crying.
"Hello everyone!" Booth came in and said very cheerfully with Parker right behind him.
"HEY!" everyone said. Parker went and sat on the floor and opened his bag of toys that they had picked up on the way to the house.
"So, I was thinking," Booth said. Everyone began to laugh. "Hahaha...that maybe we could throw a big baby shower, we don't have anywhere close to all the stuff we need and... I don't know what a set of twins need."
Angela handed Hodgins Patience and jumped up and down.
"That would be perfect! We could have it on Friday! I’ll make the invitations and find a cake and decorations. We could even have it in the hospital so that Temperance can be in on it!"
Everyone seemed to be happy with this idea, Angela most of all. They all felt happier that day than they had since four weeks ago when Temperance had been shot. It had taken Booth a long time to get over the fact that he had let Sully slip but he had come to the conclusion that feeling guilty about it wasn't helping. Instead, he had put a ton of effort into fixing up their new house so it would look fantastic when Brennan got out of the hospital. Even though he still snuck some information about the case involving Sully's disappearance, it didn't take up all of his time.
"Daddy, how are we going to give the babies a shower when they aren't even here yet?" Parker asked very confused as Booth buckled him into the car. Booth chuckled and replied,
"No one is going to take a shower. It's just like a party were people bring things for the babies."
Parker looked at him and asked
"Well then, why do they call it a shower?"
Booth thought about it while he got in the car and buckled himself in before replying,
"You know, that is a very good question!" Booth started the car and backed up out of the drive way. "Why don't we sneak Brennan in some McDonald's?"
Parker agreed and said,
"Can I have some to?" Booth threw his head back and chuckled
"Of course you can, but you have to remember not to tell her about the baby shower!"
Parker nodded his head in agreement.
--
"Welcome to McDonald's, can I take your order?" a lady's voice came over the speaker.
"I would like one chicken nugget Happy Meal, with coke to drink. A Big Mac with a side of large fries and a large Pepsi. A ten piece chicken nugget meal with a large sprite, and that will be all."
"That will be seventeen fifty eight. Please drive to the first window."
Booth drove up to the window grabbed their food and started driving toward the hospital.
--
Booth leaned over and kissed Brennan. He shut the door and pulled out the food he had brought and smuggled past the nurses.
"Oh my gosh! Outside food!" Temperance said in a whisper so that no one could hear her.
"I thought you might be pleased with it."
Brennan stuffed about four or five fries in her mouth and nodded her head.
Brennan, Booth and Parker ate their food and conversed.
"Sitting in this hospital is sooooo boring. Especially when you are as fat as me and you can barely roll onto your side or get up to go to the bathroom."
Parker laughed at the thought of Brennan wiggling trying to get up.
"Well you are over five months pregnant did you expect to be the same size as you were when you were eighteen?" Booth chuckled.
