About an hour later Brennan woke up still in Booth's warm embrace. Her head was rested on his bare chest where she could feel as well as hear his heartbeat and his breathing. She leaned her head back to see if he was still sleeping. To her surprise his eyes were open as apparently he had been watching her sleep on top of him.

The first thing she did was move her head slightly to bring her lips to the small puckered scar on his chest to give it a kiss, just like she always did when they woke up together.

"Hey, beautiful. How was your nap?" He kissed the top of her head.

"Very good. I always enjoy a post-coital slumber. It is very restful."

"Um. Yeah, my nap wasn't so bad either, but I had an amazingly warm blanket." He winked at her with his amazing chocolate brown eyes.

They shared another kiss, this time on the lips. The kiss was building in pace and intensity when she pulled away before it could get any deeper.

"Booth, I'm hungry."

"Yeah, we kind of skipped our early dinner," he chuckled. "After spending all of that energy I am starving."

"Booth, you are not starving. I have been to third world countries, and have witnessed actual starving people. You have been known to consume a meal consisting of more food than some of those people receive in two weeks. To claim you are starving is a highly hyperbolic description of your state of hunger, and largely diminishes what other people have to try to do to survive."

"Fine. I know I am not starving. It was an expression. Okay, Bones?"

"Oh. Too literal?"

He nodded and smiled at her. "Let's go to the diner. I am in some serious need a big messy cheeseburger and fries, oh, and definitely some pie."

"I'm game, but you should know that you just proved my point about your meals."

"How do you even know that phrase?"

She shrugged, "I supposed I picked it up from you somewhere along the lines. Now, let go of me. I have to urinate." When he didn't immediately comply with her request she poked him in the ribs and said it more urgently, "Now."

B&B

"Bones! You ate all my fries."

"Sorry. I was hungry." She shrugged at him and smiled.

"I know, but you had your own fries. Did you have to eat all of mine, too?"

"Well, if it means anything to you, your little jelly bean is satisfied," she told him smiling even bigger because she knew that would break his argument.

"Okay, you got me on that one. Gotta keep the baby fed. I am glad you are feeling well enough to eat. You have had a rough couple of days with the nausea. I was beginning to wonder if you were eating as much as you need to."

"Well, I am fine now, and rough is the understatement of the century. Telling everyone at the lab didn't exactly go how I thought it would. It was much more chaotic than I anticipated."

"Temperance, when have our lives been anything other than chaotic? It would have been weird for it to have gone according to plan. That just isn't us."

"You're right. Hey. I am going to make a quick trip to the restroom."

Brennan got up and walked to the restroom. While she was gone, Booth pulled out his phone and dialed Rebecca's number.

"Hi, Rebecca…Yeah, it's Seeley. I need to ask you to do something for me. Can you come over for lunch tomorrow?…Well, this is sort of about Parker, and we need to discuss it before I pick him up after school tomorrow. I need your advice on something…No, I cannot just tell you now…Because this is more of a face-to-face kind of conversation….I know you are a busy person…Just, please…Great…Actually, could you meet me at Dr. Brennan's apartment instead?…Do you remember where it is at?…Okay then, see you at Casa-de-Bones…Bye."

Brennan had walked back over to the table just in time to catch the request for Rebecca to meet Booth at her apartment. "Booth? Was that Rebecca?"

"Yeah. I think it would be a good idea to have lunch with her tomorrow to discuss how we should tell Parker."

"I agree. This affects Rebecca, too. She needs to know so that she isn't blindsided by the news if we were just to tell Parker with her knowing."

Booth stood from his seat, laid down some cash for the bill, and hugged Brennan as he kissed the top of her head. "You are wonderful. Do you know that?"

B&B

The two walked into Brennan's apartment, and quickly set off toward the bedroom to ready themselves for bed.

"Bones, have you called Russ yet?"

"No, I was going to do it tomorrow morning. Today has been a long day, and it is late. I don't want a late call to wake up his girls."

"Bones, tomorrow is going to be long, too. We are going to have the meeting with Rebecca to figure out a strategy for explaining things to Parker, then we have to go get him from school, then he is going to want to go to the park and the diner."

Brennan's brow furrowed, and it was clear to Booth that she had something on her mind. "What's going on in that cute head of yours?"

"I don't know. I was just thinking. Are you going to be taking Parker back to your place? Because I know we haven't really talked about this since we have been together. It has always just been an understanding that when you have Parker that you go back to your place, but I think it is time now. I know you already pretty much have, but will you move in with me? You already occupy half of my closet with your suits, half of my drawers, your hockey gear is everywhere, you always leave the seat up, you cook, do the dishes, and my fridge is filled with your red meat and beer—"

"You want me to move in? As in officially move in and get rid of my apartment kind of move in? Are you sure? This is a big step, Bones, and I don't want you to feel pushed."

"Well, it makes sense for you to live with me and our child, and I have an extra room for Parker. With this baby coming, we will likely need to get a bigger place, but I think it is practical for you to go ahead and live with me here now."

"Of course I want to live with you and our child, but I don't want to push you into something you are not ready for."

"You are not pushing me into anything. If I didn't want it, then I wouldn't have brought it up. We have been together for several months now, and you already do spend every night here except the ones you have Parker with you. I think it is the next logical step."

"I think it is a great idea. So, we can get most of Parker's stuff tomorrow before we pick him up from school, and then we will worry about the rest of my stuff later."

"That sounds like an acceptable plan. I am going to bed. I am exhausted. If tomorrow turns out to be anything like today I am going to need every ounce of energy I can get."

"Good night, Bones. I will be in there in a minute. I just need to brush my teeth."

B&B

The next morning was fairly uneventful for the couple as they had slept in until almost eleven because Brennan had been ordered to take the day off, and Booth had no current case after arresting the step-mother of Daniel Garcia, son of the surgeon, for abuse and neglect of a minor child as well as on murder charges.

Brennan had called Russ inform him of the developments of her relationship with Booth and about the pregnancy. He told her that he would try to get away from work one weekend and bring his family up for a visit sometime soon.

Booth and Brennan were fixing lunch for them and Rebecca, when she rang the doorbell. They walked to the door together and Booth opened the door and invited her in.

Immediately Rebecca noticed the hickey on Booth's neck, and her eyebrows shot up upon seeing it. Booth noticed her expression and looked over to Brennan who had a confused look on her face. He thought that maybe she had seen Rebecca's face change, but couldn't tell why her expression changed. Then, his eyes zeroed in on the hickey he left on her neck the previous night. His eyes widened as realization hit him, and he brought his hand up to cover the mark on his neck he knew she had left there in retribution.

Rebecca chuckled when his face turned an embarrassing shade of red. Booth leaned over to Brennan and spoke softly to her, "Bones, you might want to cover that up before we get Parker this afternoon." He said pointing to the spot on her neck. He turned to their guest, "but for now, looks like cat's out of the bag, huh?"

"Booth, what does this have to do with felines being held captive?"

"It's an expression, Bones."

"What took you two so long?" Rebecca laughed. "Is this what you wanted to tell me?"

Booth nodded, and ushered the two women into the dining room. "Yes, it is. We know that this affects Parker, too. We figured a heads up might be appropriate. We didn't want you to be blindsided by this."

She took the plate offered to her, and they passed around the dishes of food. "Dr. Brennan, this looks and smells fantastic. Thank you for inviting me." She turned to Booth, "You know, Parker really looks up to Dr. Brennan. He talks about her constantly when he is doing his homework and every time he comes home from visiting you. I don't think he will have a problem with this change."

"I didn't think so either, Rebecca, but what about you?"

"Seeley, she is a good woman with good values who treats my son like her own when she is around him. What more could I ask for? Can I ask, how long?"

"How long what?" Brennan asked.

"Uh, Bones, I think she is asking us how long we have been more than just partners."

"Oh. Booth and I have been involved romantically for about seven months."

Rebecca almost choked on her food at the revelation. "Seven months? Are you serious?"

"As a heart attack," Booth replied. "Look, we just wanted to keep it to ourselves for awhile, in case it the FBI decided to split us up or if it didn't work out. We kept it a secret longer than we intended to. We actually just told everyone yesterday."

"While we didn't intend on keeping it a secret so long," Brennan continued, "we didn't exactly plan on telling anyone the news, but—"

"Dr. Brennan, are you pregnant?" Rebecca asked.

Both Booth and Brennan shared stunned looks with each other. How had she guessed?

Sensing two were not prepared to answer her question, she explained her reasoning behind her question, "When I entered the apartment, aside from noticing the his and hers hickies on your necks, I noticed some interesting reading material on the side table as well as on the coffee table we walked by in the living room to get in here. Your silence just confirmed my suspicion."

"Yes. I am pregnant. It was completely unplanned, and we decided to tell everyone about us and the baby after we had our appointment yesterday. I am eleven weeks and six days into this pregnancy, and it will not be long before I start to noticeably show."

"Congratulations. I am happy for you and Seeley. You are going to be really great parents. I already know Seeley is, and I know I don't tell him enough."

"Thanks, Rebecca. I—that really means a lot to me," Booth replied. Rebecca and Booth may not have always been civil to each other, but neither could deny the other parent's genuine love and ability to care and provide for their child.

"Me, too," Brennan added with a smile.

They sat and ate in silence for a few minutes before Booth brought up the next thing on the couple's mind.

"Rebecca, you apparently have a really keen eye, so I am sure that you may have also noticed my hockey gear in the living room as well as a few pairs of my shoes in the foyer." She nodded. "I have been spending most of my time here with Bones, except for the days I have Parker, and we would like that to change. I am moving in with Bones, and will be opting out of my lease. We would like to make this change this weekend because we plan on telling Parker at least about the relationship. We think that it might be a good idea to hold off on the sibling thing and let him get used to the idea of us being together, first."

"It sounds like you two have put a lot of thought into this. Like I said, I trust Dr. Brennan—"

"Please, call me Temperance."

"Okay, Temperance. I trust you, and I have no problem with any of this. In fact, I really hope this goes better for you two than it did with Seeley and me," she smiled genuinely. "Parker will be thrilled, and while I understand why you would want to wait to tell him the whole truth, I think it would be fine to just tell him everything. Either way, he is going to have questions that will need to be answered eventually."

Booth gave this some thought and decided she was right. "I suppose it wouldn't actually hurt to let him in on everything, and then we wouldn't have to make sure no one else lets it slip in front of him."

"I will concede that I think that it may be for the best, as well."

"It will be fine, Seeley; our boy is brilliant and he is more than capable of understanding the importance of your relationship with Temperance and why you didn't tell him sooner. I also believe that at his age any questions he may ask need to be answered with the truth." She glanced at her watch. "Okay, I need to get going. Gotta get back to work. Thanks, again, for inviting me, and congratulations to the both of you."

B&B

"Are we taking his bed?" Brennan asked, as she packed away the last of Parker's toys.

"Nah, not today. You have a perfectly good bed in the room already, and since it is bigger than this bed he has here, I may let him decide which bed he wants before we just decide to move it. That will save us from having to find a place to store the full size bed that is already there. I think that we just need to get his clothes and toys for now, and worry about the big stuff like the bed and dresser when I get the truck to move some of my stuff to your place and the rest to storage. Besides, we can't move those with just the two of us."

"Yeah, I suppose you're right. We wouldn't want to injure your back."

"Actually, I was not thinking about my back. Bones, you are pregnant, in case you forgot."

"Do you honestly think that it would be possible for me to forget when you are constantly bending down to my abdomen and talking to it? Or how about the fact that you practically walk around with your hand attached to my stomach? Oh, and don't forget that cocky I impregnated my girlfriend grin that is permanently dry walled to your face as a constant reminder," she snapped.

He gave a loud sigh at her misuse and complete ignorance of his point. "Plastered, Bones. Plastered to my face. Anyways, you should be taking it easy, not moving heavy furniture." He held up a hand to stave off her protests. "I'm serious. The last thing I want is for something to go wrong because of stress or…just, I don't know. Temperance, I would never forgive myself if—"

She visibly relaxed, and he left out a sigh of relief as she saved him from having to vocalize his fears. "Seeley, I understand." She took his hand in hers and walked over into his arms and leaned in against his chest. "I do. I am sure that Hodgins and Wendell would be more than willing to help us out."

"Yeah, they probably would. Alright, why don't you go into my room and start packing up some of my personal stuff, and I will take these boxes out to the SUV."

"Sure. I will start with your clothes, and other essential stuff."

"Okay, I will be right back up."

B&B

The bell had just rung and Booth and Brennan were sitting outside of the school in the parking lot. They had decided that since it was a nice day out, they would pick Parker up in Brennan's Mercedes and let the top down. They figured he would get a kick out of that. Booth stood just outside of car so that he could easily find his father since he was not driving his SUV, and he would not know to look for Brennan's car. He was waiting for his son to emerge from the mass of kids that exploded out of the door. It took several minutes for Parker to exit the building; when he did Booth waved him over.

"Parker, over here!"

"Dad! Awesome car, Dr. Bones!"

"Thanks, Parker. Are you ready to go?"

"In this car? Hell yeah!"

This earned the ten year old a glare from his father, "PARKER BOOTH! Language, mister. We're going to talk about that later. Get in the car."

"Yes, sir. I'm sorry."

Parker climbed in the backseat, and held his head low for the first few minutes of the ride back to Brennan's apartment. The couple decided that it would be best to just take him home, and sit down to talk to him like adults rather than take him somewhere special to butter him up for the idea. Brennan figured that if they wanted him to have a mature response to the news that they needed to just tell him everything and "not beat around the shrub" as she put it. They had decided to be as open and honest as possible within reason given his age. Booth just knew that there would be at least one question that would come out of this that he didn't exactly know how to answer given the fact that he didn't yet have armpit hair.

By the time they reached the apartment Parker's spirit had lifted significantly. He had just rode in the coolest car he had ever seen. He couldn't stop talking about it. Then, he finally realized that they weren't at his father's apartment when they pulled into the parking garage.

"Dad, why are we at Dr. Bones' apartment instead of home?"

"Well, Parks, my truck is here, and we need to talk to you."

"No, you really don't have to. I won't say that word anymore. I'll never swear again, dad. I swear," he whined as he got out of the car.

"Parker, this is not about your potty mouth. This is something much more important. Let's just go up to Bones' apartment after I help her put the top back up, and we can get some popcorn and have a nice talk. Then, we can watch a movie before dinner."

"Okay." The little boy's tension left his body as he realized that he was not in trouble at the moment.

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