New chapter!
You guys have been so good through all the drama... thought I'd give you something nice.
"So Bones, what have you got for me?"
They were familiar words, but this time they weren't in reference to any case or murder. Temperance Brennan stood in Seeley Booth's office for the first time in weeks, bringing with her a small white envelope. Since their partnership had been severed weeks ago, Brennan was rarely at the Hoover anymore as Booth insisted that it would be easier for him to come to her and not the other way around. She would have argued against this, but being as she did prefer to spend her time at the Jeffersonian anyway, she let him have this one. Her visit today, however, was for a special occasion.
Brennan sat the small white envelope on his desk, "I requested additional copies this time. This is yours."
His lips curled into a slight smile as he picked up and slowly opened the gift. He wanted to rip it open, but with something like this, he knew he had to be a little gentle, "Wow..."
Her smile reflected his as she watched his gaze flick up to meet her and then back down and the small sonogram he was holding, "It is incredible."
"More than incredible... just... wow," Booth jumped up from his chair and came around his desk to hold her. "That's our baby?"
"Yes!"
"I mean... wow. It really looks like a baby!"
"What were you expecting me to conceive?" she was half teasing and half serious as she took one of his hands in hers and brought it up to her abdomen. There was a definite and visible swell now.
The palm of his hand brushed over her lightly, almost as if he was touching the most delicate porcelain. Here in his hand he held a picture of their child, and that child lay right beneath his finger tips. "Wow... we did that."
"Actually..."Brennan was about to explain how technically her body had done that and how he had only provided the sperm but, "Yes. We did that."
"I wish I could have been there..." Booth had been called in for a meeting and Brennan was unable to reschedule her appointment for that week. It crushed him and her a little bit too.
"I know," she kissed his cheek. "I will have many other appointments still that you can be in attendance for."
"Yeah..." He sighed. "But this was a big one, you know? This was your first appointment for your second trimester. I should have just told Hacker to screw himself and gone anyway..."
"I can assure you, Booth, this appointment was not worth your job," she giggled a little. It was nice to see him like this; ready to drop everything for the baby at a moments notice. "I took several notes, however, and it was more of a check up than anything. You didn't miss much."
"I wasn't there to see this," He motioned to the photo.
"It wasn't as if the baby was moving, Booth. What you see in these printout is basically all I saw as well..."
"Yeah, but you got to hear it," Booth couldn't help but miss that. Something so thrilling about hearing that flutter of their child's heart. He couldn't imagine ever loving a sound more after he had first heard it.
"We have a working ultrasound in the lab, you know, Booth. If you ever want to hear the baby's heart beat all you have to do is ask."
The bright smile returned to his face, "Wouldn't that be improper use of Jeffersonian property?"
"As one of the Jeffersonian most valuable assets... I don't think they'll mind."
He kissed her close, "You are a very... very... valuable asset. You have the best assets I've ever..." Another kiss.
"You know, Angela was telling me something today..."
"Yeah? Does that mean you two are back to being best friends again?"
"We've always been best friends, Booth. We were just in a disagreement..." Since their argument two weeks earlier, Brennan and Angela hadn't been quite as friendly as before. Yes they had both apologized to each other, but things had been a little on the awkward side. When Booth realized he was unable to attend her appointment, he suggested Brennan take Angela with her. Hopefully restoring balance back to the lab.
"I know, but you guys weren't being, you know. You and her."
Brennan rolled her eyes at him, but not that he was wrong. "As I was saying... after my appointment, Angela and I went to the diner for lunch and she informed me that when she went into her second trimester, she had a significant rise in her libido. Which is extremely common due to hormones leveling off and the increased blood flow to the erogenous zone."
"Oh..." his eyes widened at her suggestive grin. "Well, I would be more than happy to accommodate you..."
"I'm very glad to hear you say that, because I would like to alter our daily routine."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yes. Instead of you coming to the lab and visiting me on your lunch break, provided we are not busy with an investigation, I would like for us to meet at your apartment. It's closer."
"For sex?"
"Yes." She said it like it was the most natural and rational thing in the world. "There were can engage in those shorties that you are so fond of."
"Quickies, Bones. They're called quickies."
"Yes. Quickies. Do we have an agreement?"
An agreement to have sex during their lunch breaks every chance they got? "Yeah. Of course."
"Good. But I feel I must stress that the objective of our afternoon liaisons would be to satisfy me. However, you're of course welcome to achieve gratification in that time as well."
Booth could only roll his eyes. This had gone from sexy to a business transaction in a hot minute, "Geez, Bones. Thanks for the permission there."
"What? Sometimes you get a little to excited during the quickies..."
"What? You know I always make sure that you get your... you know." They were alone, but something about being in his office couldn't make him say the real word.
"Well there was that..."
"One time, Bones! One time! I was going to get to you but your father was knocking at the front door!" That time certainly hadn't been because his lack of performance. Just sudden lack of time. "What was I supposed to do?"
"He could have waited three more minutes!"
"Well I seem to remember making it up to you..." how could he forget that.
She moved in close to his ear, "I remember. And I promise to show you my appreciation in the evenings, when we have no time restraints." She lightly nipped his ear, "Lunch can just be our warm up..."
"God, Bones..." And now they were back to sexy. "I'm assuming that your feeling the effects of this second trimester already..."
Brennan glanced out Booth's office door. There were several agents watching them wide eyed, "If it weren't for these glass walls..."
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