Angela and Hodgins headed towards where Brennan was lecturing and she was filling him in on what she knew. Hannah had been the reason Brennan left and Brennan had been pregnant, in fact she had twins.
"So what is the plan?"
"I don't have one Jack, but we can't let her leave DC until Booth has time to talk to her. As far as I know she doesn't know we know she has the babies."
"So do we tell her we know?"
"No, I need to make her tell me."
"How are you going to get her do that, this is Dr. B we are talking about."
"She is nursing the babies."
"How do you know that, if you didn't know they existed and how would that force her to tell you?"
"Jack do you remember what happened to me if I didn't nurse Michael?"
"Yeah you had to use that machine."
"Jack! Think."
He looks at her out of the corner of his eye, with a mild fear if he got the answer wrong "Okay", he creases he brow as he thinks. His eyes go wide "Oh, Oh, I got it."
"Very good Honey." Angela had a knowing smile on her face as she nodded.
"So you are basically going to hold her milk hostage?"
"Pretty much."
"Dr. B isn't going to like that."
"No she isn't"
"And why am I here again?"
Angela staged Jack at Brennan's limo in case she left through another door. Angela was waiting at the main entrance until the lecture was over. If she had to hogtie Brennan she was going to get out of her that she had the twins.
As the lecture let out Angela got inside the door and off to the side to watch Brennan surrounded by future anthropologist. As the crowd thinned out Angela made her way towards Brennan.
"Ange, Hi."
"Hey Bren."
"So what are you doing now that your lecture is over?"
"Was just going to go back to the hotel, have some things I need to finish up there."
"You can do them tomorrow, can't you?"
"I wish I could, but not very likely."
"Bren, what is so important that it can't wait until tomorrow? I haven't seen you in a year and I want to spend some time with you before you vanish again off to who knows where."
"Ange I didn't vanish?"
"Really, what do you call it then? You left everything in your apartment, you left your car, and you vanished.
"Angela, I don't have time to stand here and argue with you, I need to get back to my hotel, I have urgent matters that need to be handled." Brennan moved past her heading towards the exit.
"Could that urgent matter entail nursing a baby or two?" Angela slowly turned to face Brennan, who had her back to Angela still facing the exit. Angela crossed her arms over her chest.
"How did you find out?"
"You flinched with you hugged me yesterday and your hips look just a tad fully. And Booth saw them today." Brennan turned sharply to look at Angela.
"Booth knows?" Angela could see the panic. "How?"
"He was questioning people this morning and he got your nanny. Why did you lie to him, to us?"
"Ange, I have to go." Brennan turned and headed back to the exit
Angela caught her arm, "You owe him an explanation."
"I owe him nothing. We had one night, one night where I foolishly let him in." Tears started to fill her eyes. "One night I allowed him to feel how much I loved him. One night I believed he loved me. That is all, we had one night. Then Hannah came back and…and…" Tears broke free of her eyes. "I need to go." She turned and ran for the exit.
As she came out the driver hustled to open the door to the limo, as she got to the limo Hodgins stepped in front of her. "HODGINS! What the…"
"Hi Dr. B."
"Please move."
"I-I…can't" he stared nervously at his wife
Turning back to Angela, "What do you want from me?"
"We want you to hear Booth out."
Shaking her head "No, I can't do that, you don't understand, you have no idea." She shoved Hodgins aside and got into the limo and slammed the door. As the driver ran around to get in the drivers seat, Angela opened the door.
"Hodgins I am going with Bren." With that she jumped into the back.
"Angela please."
"You need to hear him out. He was tricked just as much as you were. And you didn't fight for him. Why didn't you tell her you were pregnant? Why did you tell him you weren't? You know he found the ultra sound after you left, he carries it with him. Everyday he calls to see if anyone heard from you. He was at an early release of your last book; he sat in line for 24 hours to get your book hoping it might give him a clue as to where you were." Brennan just stared out the window like she was frozen in time. The only signs she wasn't were the fresh tears running down her face.
As they got out of the limo at the Hilton, Angela looked at her friend. "Bren give him a chance."
Brennan looked at the ground "I did and that didn't turn out so well." Brennan turned and walked into the hotel.