Sorry it's a very short chapter but I have a cracked rib and just got a small tattoo and it's been a rough month. Plus in November I have to fly out to Cali because my best friend's husband is working the ball (officer with the sword) and she is not going to go - when one has been to many why spend money if your husband is working it- so it's girl time! The Ball isn't even in Vegas like last year it's on base! What is up with that military? The good news is I will try to update tomorrow :) Without further ado...
Ch.25
"I'm going to get a little brother or sister! Dr. Bones is pregnant!" Parker said excited to his mother.
Brennan glanced at Booth first as he stared up at Rebecca who wore a knowing smile. Brennan's gaze soon shifted to follow Booth's and she looked up at Rebecca as well. Lacey and Cheyenne had gone silent. Rather than her sister's care free I could care less what she thinks expression. Lacey wore a more concerned one as music drifted through the diner.
"In these bodies we live in these bodies we die, where you invest your love you invest your life…"
Rebecca looked at Booth as she spoke to Parker in a mock surprised voice, "Wow that's exciting news Parks. A big brother, huh?" she asked Parker and he smiled nodding yes. Rebecca looked at Brennan, "I've always thought of you as his step-mom Temperance. I figured why wait for the inevitable to change my thinking." Rebecca said a smile on her face her tone now lowered she looked at Booth as well "Congratulations."
"Awake my soul, awake my soul…For you were made to meet your maker…"
"Thanks Bec." Booth said
Brennan echoed him with a "Thank you Rebecca."
Lacey and Cheyenne looked at one another. As Parker hopped out of the booth to his mom, Rebecca and Parker waved goodbye as they walked out of the diner. "That went well." Cheyenne said addressing the table.
Booth leaned back and chuckled, "Yeah, yes it did."
Cheyenne leaned into Lacey her words a whisper. "I liked her better than Hannah." Chey said and Lacey only smiled and rolled her eyes. Lacey gave her sister a look that said to be quiet and to keep what she was thinking to herself. Then again it was Cheyenne she was speaking about.
"Booth are you going to have some cooked fruit?" Brennan asked.
"What are you talking about?" Lacey asked but Cheyenne had heard Tempe call 'pie' this before.
"She means apple pie." Cheyenne explained to Lacey who nodded.
"Actually that sounds good." Booth said.
"I agree I could eat some apple pie." Cheyenne said and Lacey agreed.
Soon Booth, Cheyenne and Lacey were almost done with their slices of pie. "I'm going to quick hit the restroom before we leave." Cheyenne said and Lacey went with her.
"Okay." Tempe said. It was the first time all night it was just Booth and she.
"Bones?"
Brennan looked at him her big eyes full of wide eyed wonder, curiosity etched into her irises. "Hhmm?" she asked softly.
He had scooped up some apple pie onto his fork and was holding it up to her mouth. Her eyes sparkled, "Try it." He said.
"Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again…whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am young again…whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am fun again..."
She opened her mouth and he fed her, she chewed the pie with a smile on her lips and then decided to grab her napkin and yak into it. She looked at him sheepishly, "I believe the correct term would be at least I tried to humor you. I told you Booth I don't like cooked fruit." Brennan said taking a drink of his water to wash the taste down.
"Well I thought since you were pregnant maybe you would crave it." Booth said
"Just because I'm carrying your child does not mean I'm suddenly going to start eating cooked fruit Booth."
"You don't know that for sure Bones."
Cheyenne stopped Lacey when she exited the restroom and they watched the anthropologist and agent interact. She smiled at her sister. They were definitely a pair that's for sure.
"No I don't and neither do you. Although, I believe the chances are more unlikely, then likely. Only sixty eight percent of women have cravings. Plus, pickles and ice-cream is very stereotypical. Also, some women have cravings for things such as laundry detergent or something harmful, that type of craving is called Pica."
"Did Lacey crave anything? She is related to you maybe you might still have some pickles and ice-cream in the house."
"I do not keep old food around. Plus, I'm unsure Booth. I didn't know she was pregnant. I just said Pickles and ice-cream is stereo typical why would you suggest we may have some out of all the foods in the world why that?"
"Because it's stereo typical." Booth said and kissed her forehead. She locked eyes with him and smiled, she was happy. She really was, secretly deep down all she ever yearned for was to be loved. She felt...satisfied.
"Booth, while I'm still nervous of being someone's mother, I find I'm not as scared as I was when I first found out. Though, I'm still scared just not as scared. I'm growing comfortable with the fact of the matter."
"Well that's a good thing Bones, because the fact is only going to get larger."
"If you said that to Angela when she was pregnant, she would have hit you." Brennan said with a glint in her eye and a playful smirk on her face.
"That is why I'm with you, and not her."
"Are we?" Brennan asked.
"Are we what?"
"With each other?" Brennan asked.
"Yes Bones, yes. I explained this to Parker already so you can't back out now."
"But I'm not parked in anything."
"Oh Bones, I love you." Booth sighed stifling a chuckle.
"However far away I will always love you…however long I stay I will always love you…I'll always love you…" Adele's lyrics drifted through the air on the diner's soundtrack.
"I know."
"You're supposed to say it back Bones."
"I know but I do a lot of things I'm not supposed too." She said and Booth laughed.
"Name something Bones. You are a follow the rules kind of girl."
"I'm a woman not a girl and you forget Booth. I have broken the law of physics." She said trying to make a joke and failing miserably yet laughing anyway. Booth rolled his eyes, oh lord Bones.
"Yes you did Bones."
"Of course I needed your full participation for that action whereas…" Brennan was cut off by Booth.
"I got it Bones."
"It's okay Booth, I was just saying- Oh!"
"Oh what? What happened! Are you okay?" Booth asked.
"Of course I'm okay, why wouldn't I be? Although, I can't believe I almost forgot! I have dinned and dashed Booth! I wasn't supposed to do that either, but I did." Brennan said smiling.
"That required my participation as well." Booth pointed out.
"Yes, it did. It seems whenever I'm with you I get into trouble Booth." Brennan said
"Looks like it." Booth said smiling at her, their eyes locked and the depths of the ocean filled up dark deep grand canyon eyes. The dark blue water became lost in the canyon's depths.
Lacey looked to Cheyenne and they both chuckled at both of their absurdity. A woman named Anne walked up to them. "They are quite the match aren't they?" she said to the girls noticing the agent and anthropologists conversation and watching the girl's chuckle.
Cheyenne eyed the older woman, a waitress who had been here. She had been here since the first day Cheyenne came. She remembered she was their waitress the night Hannah met with Tempe here over coffee. Cheyenne smiled at the woman, "They are indeed."
"They have been together as long as I've worked here." Anne said.
Lacey looked at the woman and asked, "How long have you worked here?"
"Forever, I don't have to work. Though, keeping up on them, watching my customers, it's worth it." Anne said. She was retired and had inherited quite a bit of money from her mother when she passed. Her husband and she were quite comfortable.
"Every moment is worth it." Anne repeated. "Remember that girls. By the way are you two related to the anthropologist? The three of you look a lot alike." Anne asked and Lacey smiled.
"She is our third cousin." Lacey said and Anne smiled nodding to acknowledge her then walked back to the kitchen. The girls walked back and sat down with Booth and Brennan. They ate the last bite of their pie and then everyone walked out of the diner. Booth and Brennan walked behind Cheyenne and Lacey on the sidewalk. They led the way toward the SUV.
"Oh and Bones, you have asked for my full participation from day one." Booth said smugly.
Brennan looked at him and said nothing for a moment, but that didn't last long."I was talking about the case then Booth whereas in the diner I was speaking of…" Brennan was cut off again.
"I understand Bones, gotcha." Lord, either she would be excellent at explaining the birds and the bees to their kid or horrid.
On the other end of town Rachel Cullen received the call she had been waiting on.
"Yes. No. Yes, I'm able to start tomorrow." Thank God she didn't have to work at her dad's place anymore.
Songs-Awake My Soul by Mumford and Sons, Awake My Soul by Mumford and Sons, Lovesong by Adele, Lovesong by Adele
