Because I'm awesome like that and updated so quickly. Thank you so much for the reviews! They helped me to update so quickly lol more A/N at bottom of chapter.

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for.

Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Stairway To Heaven by Zeppelin

Booth smiled as the large carrier plane touched down on United States soil. It had been one long flight and a much longer tour than he had originally expected. He was glad to be home and couldn't wait to get back to their mighty hut and surprise his Bones.

He hailed a cab and gave the cabbie the address to his new house. God it felt so good to be home! In the cab his cell phone suddenly went off with a million alert tones letting him know that he now had service along with a ton of new mail and messages. Though, he would take care of them later. For, he only cared about one thing right now and he was on his way to see her.

Or so he thought.

"Angela! Have you checked?" Brennan asked in between contractions.

Angela glanced at her friend's cell phone. "I checked it sweetie. I'm sure he is really busy right now. He will get it soon."

"I changed my mind. I want the epidural." Brennan told the nurse who had paged the doctor.

"I'm sorry it's too late to give you an epidural now honey. You can do this." Said Robyn the nurse.

Booth hummed along to a song he loved on the radio station. It was Faithfully by Journey. Booth was singing the words in his head. He smiled reminded of one of the kids back in Afghan who loved Journey and would play it often in their tent. He had drifted off many a nights with the song playing in the background. He smiled thinking of eighties bands when Foreigner came to mind. He chuckled to himself thinking of Cam and Hodgins catching Bones dancing around to Hot Blooded at work.

He fidgeted a bit in the cab stretching and mouthing the words to Faithfully. The cab came to a red light and the cabbie spoke, "Welcome home buddy. Long tour, eh?"

"Thanks and yeah, very long." Booth said. He felt his phone in his camis and decided it wouldn't harm anyone to check some of his messages. Maybe Bones had sent him something. He smiled when he opened up his inbox to see her e-mail.

"No it's not too late!" Brennan argued irrationally. "I want more drugs!" she said sternly then shifted in her bed "Oh shit!" Brennan mumbled as another contraction hit.

"Temperance you are fully dilated. We need you to push." Robyn said, but her words fell on deaf ears.

"It's not time, not yet." Brennan argued. "Angela?" Brennan asked sighing she laid her head back in defeat, "I just wish he was here…" she sat back up, having giving up hours ago on ever trying to be comfortable in any position.

"I know sweetie, me too." Angela said not knowing what else to say.

Some random nurse wasn't supposed to be holding her leg. It was suppose to be Booth. Angela was awesome with ice cubes and a wet cloth. Though, she wasn't Booth. He was a legit want. It was also a want that she knew would never come true. He would not be able to see Christine the day she arrived into the world. He was in Afghanistan.

Hodgins walked in the room "Hey Ange I…"

"GET OUT!" yelled Angela.

"GO AWAY!" followed Brennan.

Needless to say Hodgins didn't go back into the delivery room. It was time. He decided to call Cam and check on her and Michael. He tried once inside the hospital, but his phone service was being temperamental so he headed down stairs and outside to make a quick call.

He sighed on his way down in the lone elevator whispering to no one, "We got her Booth. Don't worry man. She is in good hands buddy."

Booth's cell lit up and he opened her message:

Booth,

I'm scared Booth and I'm never scared. I want you to be here so bad, so bad. I just want you to know that I love you and I need you. I need you to know we are not together just because I became pregnant Booth. I do not believe in two people carrying out a relationship or trying to make it work just because a person became pregnant out of a night of sex. Booth that is just the thing, maybe we only slept together once.

Although, I have known you many times Booth, I know you sometimes better than I think you know yourself I believe you know me better than I know myself as well. Angela says that as well. I feel small and alone tonight without you here. It's strange because tonight I need to be strong and I'm definitely not small, not one bit. I love you Booth. Well tonight seems to be the night our daughter planned to arrive into the world. Booth, I'm in labor.

Love,

Bones

PS Don't worry Angela and Hodgins should be coming through my door at any moment and taking me to the hospital. I'm fine, don't worry about me. I love you. Soon to be Christine Angela Booth and Mommy Bones.

He almost dropped his phone when he read that one little line, Booth, I'm in labor.

Oh my God, Oh my God. Holy Shit! She was in labor having their daughter and she had written that over five hours ago. She was scared. She wanted him and he wasn't there. Bones

"Turn the cab around! I need to go to Washington Memorial now! Step on it buddy!" Booth said finally finding his voice and wishing so damn bad that he had the SUV and lights to go with it.

"Why what's wrong?"

"Turn the damn cab around my girlfriends in labor!" Booth said and the cabbie did so with an anxious Booth in the backseat. He knew it was going to take forty five minutes to get there.

Would he make it? He silently pleaded with God. The way people do when they want something really bad to happen. He would never do that again and he would always do this and so on. Just as long as he let him get to the hospital in time to see Christine come into the world. Though, he should just be happy his discharge had happened when it had and he was chosen to go home, right? It was fate he would at least get to be there the day his daughter made her entrance into the world. He should be thankful for that and let the rest go, right?

Though, he couldn't. As much as he tried to be thankful for fate and destiny working in his favor. He just couldn't let himself be content knowing it was very likely he may miss his daughter's birth.

"Anything?" Brennan breathed out between contractions to Angela.

Angela just shook her head no and gave her a sad smile. Brennan looked away from Angela nodding yes, accepting the fact of the matter.

"It's time to push again Dr. Brennan." Said Robyn, "Come on honey, you can do it baby girl."

Booth called her baby and she ended most of her letters with love Bones and baby girl. She wanted to cry, but she wouldn't. Booth hated it when she cried, it made him sad. She would be strong and happy. She frowned as she looked to one young nurse in her twenties and then to Robyn, an older woman built like Ms. Julian. Though, Robyn had a warm smile and motherly tone.

Booth threw a fifty at the cab driver and ran toward the hospital entrance his bag over his shoulder. He ran up to the front desk frazzled, "Temperance Brennan. I need to find her. She should be on the maternity ward."

The girl at the front desk glanced at her coworker letting her know the guy in camis freaked her out.

"What is your name sir?" asked Samantha.

"Seeley Booth. Seeley Joseph Booth." Booth was desperate and put up with Samantha already. He was so close and so far at the same time.

"Are you related to Dr. Brennan?" asked Samantha.

Are you serious?

"I hope not because she is having my daughter." Booth growled frustrated.

"Sir you aren't on her list of…" Samantha started.

"What do you mean I'm not on her contact list? I'm her medical proxy for God's sake!" Booth yelled and Samantha sighed.

"I don't know what to tell you sir."

She had to be kidding. This wasn't happening!

Hodgins looked up at the frustrated man in camis and recognized the voice immediately. Booth.

"We need you to push again Dr. Brennan." Dr. Richards said, only when the time finally came to push she didn't want too.

"No. I need Booth!" Brennan said stubbornly.

"Honey, honey, look at me baby." Said Robyn. Brennan opened her eyes and locked them onto Robyn's. "Now you listen to me. You are going to have this baby regardless if your husband is overseas or not. Do you understand me? Now go on and push." Robyn said and Brennan nodded sitting up as she pushed and moaned through the next contraction.

"Atta girl." Robyn said to a closed eyed Brennan squeezing Angela's hand.

"Booth!" Hodgins yelled as he ran toward the man utterly confused. "Holy Crap! How the hell did…"

"Hodgins where is she?"

"Come on man. She is in labor right now. She has been at ten for a while now and last I walked in she was pushing. She is good buddy. She is doing fine." Hodgins said as they raced toward the elevator.

"Hold the elevator!" Booth screamed. They got to it as it shut in their face. "Damn it!" Booth banged his fists against the elevator in defeat. Then they heard a loud rumble as the elevator behind them opened momentarily and shut and opened again. Hodgins and Booth looked to each other.

Brennan closed her eyes and squeezed Angela's hand hard as she concentrated on Angela and Robyn's voice. They coached her reminding her to push and when to stop. Angela tried the cold rag, but Brennan had only growled not to touch her. A half hour later she didn't mind the wet cloth so much. Every now and then Brennan would pretend Robyn or Angela's voice was Booth's as he whispered comforting words to her.

"Atta girl, she should be breaching soon." Robyn said and Brennan couldn't take it anymore and finally let the gloss spill over. It wasn't because of the pain, she wanted Booth.

The elevator finally stayed open. Only to show a little boy around seven standing alone crying hysterically. If it wasn't one thing it was another.

Hodgins took the little boy's hand, "I want my…Mommy!" he sobbed. "The elevator was stuck! I was all by myself. I want my Mommy!"

Security ran up to them. "Sir, this elevator is temporarily out of use."

No shit?

Booth looked to Hodgins, "What room and floor?"

"She is on four room 205." Hodgins said and Booth bolted toward the stairs seeing as how he didn't want to end up missing his daughter's birth because of a damned malfunctioning elevator. As he ascended the stairs he swore they would never end. He only climbed the stairs faster.

"Good job sweetie." Angela said smiling at her friend.

"Bones!" He burst through the door trying to catch his breath. "Bones! I'm here!" but his features changed to a look of defeat when he looked at the party of people in the room.

Brennan sighed taking in a much needed deep breath. She swore she could actually hear him now, a faint whisper, but his whisper. He was a million miles away yet she swore she could still hear him clear as day. It made her wonder if she was dreaming? His voice sounded so very real. She smiled because it felt as if he was really here too.

Stairway To Heaven ;) Led Zeppelin

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all is one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Hum...So, what is going on? Did she have Christine? Didn't she have her? Is everything okay? When will Brennan finally believe in fate? Probably never ha...but "It makes me wonder" oh and stairway of heaven? So good.