I'm sorry people for the late post! school is an evil thing!!!! nways here is the next post. typed in a jiffy so sorry for any errors. Review :)

Two weeks ago

"Yes. 9 am is perfect. Thank you," she said into her cell phone, "I'll see you tomorrow then."

Ange stood by the door and watched her friend finish her call.

"So you're really doing it?" she asked in disbelief.

"I don't see why not," she answered her in a curt manner.

"Tempe," she sighed and moved closer to her.
"Ange I know we don't share the same values on this issue, but I'm thinking what's best for me. Dr Goodman gave me a job…I'm only 24 and not ready to be a mother not forgetting I have the rest of my life ahead of me. So yes I'm doing it,"she finished living no room for argument.

"What about Seeley," she asked silently. Tempe knew where she was going but tried to deter her question.

"I just don't want to be a bad mother to …it," she said replacing child with it. She knew she had to stay detached from the "it" growing in her womb or she should never go through with the procedure she scheduled.

"I take it you're not going to tell him about the baby," she concluded.

"It's merely a baby. It's just a cluster to growing cell. So no, I'm not going to tell him about his sperm growing inside my egg," she said.

"You don't have to be so detached you know," she commented, "You have a child growing inside you Temperance. No matter how much you try to scientifically explain the child in your womb the fact remains that…"

"Please Ange," she stopped her, "I'm trying to let go of the things in my past. This child will remind me of Seeley, Michael, Rachel and every fucking thing that happened almost two months ago!," she stopped, took a deep breath and continued choosing her words carefully, "Removing the cells in womb will take care of that. It will give me a new slate and I'll be able to restart my life normally."

PRESENT

She felt her self in a slightly laying on a stiff matress, 'Clearly not my bed,' Tempe thought. Her eyes felt heavy as in two boulders were resting on top of them. She knew she needed to wake up and find out whether she was still alive or residing in the land of the dead. She wanted to know if Ange was okay, and most importantly if the faint heart beat inside her womb was still breathing. With her eyes closed she tried to sense where she was, but immediately recognized her new residence, due to the beeping sounds of her life support machine. She smelled the detergent in her room; it was cheap and sterile and the cold air that hung around Temperance immediately knew she was in the hospital.

Wanting to find out the status of her unborn child Temperance, tried to lift her right hand to feel her stomach, an action that had become a habit, but her right hand was clutched tightly and had weight resting on top of it. She pulled her hand again but this time she felt pain shoot from her hand chest and stomach. Temperance winced, and to her luck the weight on top of her moved.

"Sweetie," she heard and smile crept upon her lips. With all her might Temperance finally open her eyes finding Ange sitting by her bed side. 'She's okay' she thought.

"Ange…" she managed to choke out. Gently Angela moved her index finger and rested it on her lips.

"Shhh…Don't talk. I'm right here Sweetie just stay put. I'll go get the doctor," she soothed and immediately exited her room.

The word 'shhh' was the last word she needed to hear. Temperance wanted to know if her child was okay. Ignoring Angela's advise to stay put Tempe attempted to sit up, but the broken ribs in her abdomen prevented her to so. "AGGGHHH" she winced in pain. She reluctantly stayed put, knowing that if she made more movements she might suffer internal bleeding and she didn't want that for her child.
Not a minute later the doctor male doctor entered with Angela. Professionally the doctor walked up to her and checked her vitals.

"How are you doing Dr. Brennan? How are you feeling?" he asked still performing his duties.

"Okay but, I have pain in my abdomen," she informed him information he already knew.

"That's expected for some one in you position. You ha…" before he could finish he piped in.

"I know I have about three broken ribs and suffered a minor
concision, but what I need to know is if my child is okay?" she demanded.

"Dr. Brennan…" he paused not knowing how to continue, "ugh I'm sorry to inform you," he started in a detached voice. Tempe knew that voice, she had used it numerous of times with her clients.

Temperance didn't hear anything else the doctor said but words that broke her heart "You had a miscarriage". The doctor when on to say that it is common in the first trimester but her had had lost Tempe at miscarriage.

"Dr Brennan," he called her. She neither responded nor flinched. She just stayed put her eyes closed, pain mounted her chest, and distributed itself through out her body. She didn't even hear the doctor leave, or when Angela grabbed her had and started to whisper words of comfort. Temperance felt herself go numb. She felt her heart skip a beat. She felt pain she had never felt before.

"I've been asked to perform sexual acts against my will," she randomly began after what seemed like hours of silence, "I've been targeted by the mafia. I've been shot at. I've been cheated on. I've had a broken arm. It was painful…but this," she choked letting releasing tears from her eyes, "This hurts. It hurts more than any of that."

"Sweetie," Angela said as she moved closer to her friend and embraced her into a warm hug. If she knew what to say she would have. If she could say, 'I know what you're going through,' she would have, but truth be told she did not. By the look on her friends face and the tears she had shed and the torn look in her eyes, Angela knew that she had never felt an ounce of pain Tempe was feeling.

Silently Tempe sobbed into Angela's chest trying to erase of the pain, anguish and the thought of the life she had growing inside her. However, it seemed that the more tears shed the more pain ripped through her abdomen and her heart, also an unsettling feeling settled at the bottom of her stomach. With her head resting comfortably on Angela's chest she recalled the day she found out about little muffin. Saying she freaked out would be the understatement of the year; Tempe wanted to get an abortion immediately. She hadn't felt a pang of happiness when she held the pregnancy stick with a plus sign. She didn't have the love of her life holding her hand telling her it was going to be okay and that they were going to be great parents. Everything was going wrong. So wrong. She had just gotten a job at the Jeffersonian and she sure wasn't going to let the cluster of cells growing in her womb get in the way of that.

"Bren," Angela broke the silence.

"Yeah," she answered with a shaky voice.

"You never told me why you changed your mind about the abortion. You said you were going to tell me about it some day and well," she hesitated, "If you don't want to I completely underst…"

"I was sitting in the waiting room," she said cutting her friend off, "I thought about what you said…that no matter how scientifically I tried to look at my pregnancy the fact remained that I was carrying with Seeley's child. I realized that I really didn't want to forget Seeley. The probability of him dying in Afghanistan, is not in his favor, so I wanted to keep a piece of him, something to remember him by…you know I case he," she pauses and reluctantly finishes her sentence, "dies. Plus, he promised me he would come back…I guess a part of me wanted to wait for him, welcome him back with our child and maybe we would become a…"

"Family again?" Ange offered.

"Yeah. It's not like me to try to romanticize situations, try to come up with irrational fairy tale endings but I guess the baby made me…" before she could come up with a logical explanation why she was all hormonal besides the pregnancy Ange piped in.

"Sweetie it is okay to want that. There's nothing wrong in wanting that. You deserve a family just like everyone else and Seeley is perfect for you."

"Sometimes I doubt that," she said as her romantic feelings changed into bitter ones, "I mean he is so different from me. He is a playboy Ange, I was so stupid to think that he would want to have a baby with me," on top of the bitterness she started crying again, "You know he slept with Cam the night before we slept together, so I doubt that he will be faithful to me when he comes back..well if he comes back."

"Honey calm down," said Ange rubbing her hand up and down her forearms, "You know I'm can always bring you two together, besides you two have major sexual tension, remember that time in Barkleys during the famous Cape Cod," she said trying to distract her from stressing on the negative and the loss of her child.

"Yeah," Tempe smiled and took a trip down memory lane.

CAPE COD VACATION [Seeley 18 Tempe 17 Ange 17

Friday was a shinny sunny day and Tempe decided to treat herself and go shopping for a couple of clothes. It wasn't a treat per se it was more like a necessity. She got in to Barkleys to get a couple of tanks and jeans and maybe a bra or two. She got into the air conditioned store and started to look through the merchandize, oblivious to Ange who was standing behind the register. Ange spotted Tempe and walked her way. She had to find out why Seeley and Tempe had been playing 'tango' with each other the whole week.

"You know he is completely miserable without you right?" said Ange with a grin on her face. If she knew that Tempe was limited in the social skills department she would have approached her differently.

"Excuse me?" asked Tempe. It took her a second to realize that the girl before her was Ange…the girl from the diner.

"I mean you and Seeley," she continued ignoring the blank stare from Tempe, "are you guys dating or something because I have seen you avoiding him at the beach and you don't surf as much as you do anymore. Is it because he is the lifeguard now? Cuz ton of girls would reconsider dumping a lifeguard but yo…?"

"Are you stalking me? And Second we're not dating and third its non of your business," snapped Tempe.

'What the h3ll is she trying to prove,' thought Tempe.

"I was just saying I mean you two have been playing Tango with each other the whole week and I'm kinda thinking that its time to stop and have a serious make-out session. You know to release the sexual tension vibes I'm picking up from both of you." said Ange with a naught grin on his face.

"Would you stop! He is not my boyfriend! Jeez."

"Ugh-ha," she said placing her hands on her hips not buying a word Tempe was saying.

"He is not."

"If he isn't then Mr. Hot Stuff has the hotts for you! He is clearly not into Cam but you … he spaces out when he looks at you and his eyes…"

"Would you stop…,"

"Yeah sorry got caught up there for a second," Ange turned at the register and his eyes landed on a very hot and solo Mr. Hott Stuff. Seeley Booth saw Tempe and Ange and walked over were they were standing.

"Hi Temperance," said Seeley

It took Tempe a couple of seconds to realize that Seeley had uttered those words. Truth be told…Tempe missed Seeley's soothing voice, look and touch. The time she spend running away from him made her crave him more, but after a couple of days she started to erase everything about him. She was starting to forget his scent, the way he looked good even though his hair is such a mess and those warm brown orbs. And here he was standing a little more that five feet away from her, reminding her of what she was missing.

"Hi Seeley," said Ange with an innuendo grin.

"Hey Ange…," he said spaced out, his eyes still focused in Tempe.
Ange looked at the two and saw that no one was giving her the time of day, fed up with their silence she nudged Seeley and said, "I'll see you around guys," neither Seeley or Tempe said anything or looked at her, "Okay I'm gonna leave so you guys can have a nice little chit-chat," and then she left.

Seeley and Tempe stood there looking at each other…neither one not knowing what to do or say. Both Seeley and Tempe had picture this scenario millions of times in their minds. Gone over what they were going to say a million times. Somehow they both convinced themselves that they would be ready to talk next time they met each other. But with the chilling thick silence between them, they weren't even close to being ready.

Seeley looked at her, observed every detail of her visible to him. She was sending off nervous vibes from her body though her stance said otherwise. She wasn't looking well. Pretty yes…but well no. Her face had turned pale, she had lost a couple of pounds. She didn't look like the dieting type and that realization worried Seeley. Her hair was resting gracefully on her shoulders and her eyes looked stone cold. Tempe wanted them to. Seeley looked beyond her cold eyes, she saw a side of Tempe he didn't want to see. It wasn't anger or coldness it was fear. Fear mixed with pain, betrayal, abandonment and loneliness. Seeley wanted to close in those five feet and just embrace her in his arms but he knew that it was going to scare her. That he didn't want.

They stood there for what seemed like eternity, but in reality it was only a minute or two. Neither one of them spoke, neither one of them coughed, or moved an inch. They just stood there looking at each other, devouring on what they both had missed. But they weren't going to admit that. Especially Tempe. She truly had missed him and Seeley had missed her.

"Hi," repeated Seeley nervous as hell. He had never had to work so hard to get a girls attention. Usually the charm smile did all the work, but with Tempe…he had to give some effort.

"Hi," said Tempe finally looking away, and started to move through the jeans on the hangers. She tried to show no interest in him…but after a week of hide and seek, the eternal look she doubted that he was going to leave just like that.

"So…" he said trying to come up with something to say.

"So…" she said no sure what to say either. She just kept on looking through the jeans trying to ground her mind from a Seeley who was standing closer, 'God he smells so good,' she thought.

Seeley chuckled when he saw what size of jeans Tempe was going through. She was going through sizes well over hers.

"What?" she asked. All of a sudden she was self conscious. "Do I have something on my face ," she thought….

"No you don't have anything on you face," said Seeley still smilling.

"Shit…I said it out loud," said Tempe, " I wasn't supposed to say it out loud. I was just thinking it. I didn't think I was going to because ugh you know…." she stopped after seeing Seeley look…the one that says shut up and stop rambling.

Seeley kinda smiled when he saw her rambling, she couldn't stay still and she couldn't look at her. 'Good she's nervous just like me,' he thought.
"Ugh Tempe…" he said hoping to God she would respond

"Yes." she said curtly.

'Not the response I was hoping for…but okay,' he thought stepping
closer to her. He was now standing a little less than a foot from her. Talk about invading some personal space. Tempe backed away but found yet another rack of clothes behind her. Seeley had successfully cornered her.

"You've been avoiding me," he said in a low voice only meant for her. The close proximity made it very difficult for Tempe to think of a quick smart-a$$ comment.

"That's because I didn't want to talk to you," she said bluntly.

'Woa she's blunt,' he thought

"I figured and the reason I kept looking for you is because I wanted to know if I had done something that offended you in anyway. If I did I'm really sorry, though I'm not sure what I did but I'm really sorry. If it has anything to do with the Cam or any girls who have been tagging along with me, I'm sorry its not my fault. I was just hoping that…," Seeley stopped when he heard Tempe calling his name a little loud that intended.

"Seeley!" she said and he started at her nervously, "If you stop rambling about pointless information that doesn't concern me or you…I'll meet you at in front to Tim's shop around 7 okay. Then we can talk like two civilized adults."

"Umm..ughh..Okay. But what guarantee do I have that you're going to be there, and you're…"

"Of course I'm gonna be there. I'm not going to stand you up. Jeez Seeley. Be at the shop and I'll meet you there around 7 okay." she said leaving absolutely no room argument.

"Okay." he finally said. Still in close proximity and finding it difficult to part each other Tempe finally said, "Can I finish shopping now."

"Sure," he said reluctantly.

PRESENT

"Plus he doesn't give up easily," Tempe said.

"I know. You should know...so does that mean you will tell him about…" Ange didn't finish her sentence.

"When he comes back...yes. I just wish he was here with me."

"I know sweetie," with those words the two friends slept soundly in the hospital bed and awaited what the sunrise was going to bring.

Seely will come back in the next post! It going to be a 2-3 years in the future and the reunion is going to be...well let me just say bitter sweet.