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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Talking Babies

Brennan sat up in her bed with Peter sleeping soundly in her arms. He had been having trouble sleeping lately, and even though he'd dozed off during the ride home, the second he got to his bed he began tossing and turning, so Brennan picked him up an carried her to her room while booth got him some warm milk to help him sleep.

But, evidently, it seemed that he didn't really need it. He snored in Brennan's arms as she ran her fingers through his hair, soothing him.

She smiled down at him, wishing dearly that he was her own child. That she had some parental claim over him that would keep Jared from taking him from her when he got things settled at his own home. Some way so that she had been the one to give birth to him, so that she'd be the one who could legally raise him. But she had to remind herself that that wasn't the case and it would never be the case, because nearly three years ago, she didn't give birth to him, because at that time, she didn't even like children, but now, now was different. She loved this child and wanted him as her own. Or a child like him.

She was startled out of her thoughts by the mattress below her moving as Booth sat down beside her with a plastic cup filled with warm milk and a plastic top on it that somewhat resembled the nipple of a baby bottle. The cup had colorful dinosaurs on it, that weren't very realistic, in Brennan's opinion.

"What's that?" she asked, smirking at him.

"It's one of Parker's old training cups. This one was his favorite. He used it til he was about five. It took us forever to get him to use normal ones. But, for some reason, I kept it." He explained, smiling back at her.

Brennan nodded in understanding. She understood completely why Booth would keep something from his son's childhood. It was a little piece of Parker's innocence that Booth always wanted around, and she could appreciate that, considering that she was thinking about keeping something from Peter's youth, even if he wasn't really hers.

"I don't think we'll need that." she said, smiling, looking down at Peter's sleeping form.

Booth nodded and put the cup on the end table, then draped his arm around her shoulders, as she leaned into him. He kissed her temple. She whispered something inaudible.

"What was that?" He asked, kissing her again.

"I said, I want one." Brennan said, not looking up to meet his eyes, but instead running her fingers through Peter's hair again.

Booth raised his eyebrows. "One what, exactly?"

Brennan blushed. "A baby." she clarified.

Booth smiled. "You know," he said, kissing her yet again, "that's the second time you've said that to me in the last year."

Brennan sighed. "Yeah, but last time you didn't want one." She whispered, a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Hey," Booth said, pulling her chin up with one finger, and looking straight into her eyes. "I never said I didn't want another baby. I said that I didn't want to just be a donor, and be left completely out of the child's life, which is what you wanted to do. Remember?" He poked her nose at the word you and she scowled at him, then gave him an apologetic look.

"I remember," she sighed, "And I'm sorry, Booth. But, I wanted a baby so bad, and I didn't want to ruin what we had between us, and I thought you wouldn't want to be a part of the baby's life, and-" Booth cut her off with a kiss to her lips.

"I forgive you." He said, pulling away. "And I'd still like to have a baby with you."

"You-you would?" Brennan asked, taken completely by surprise.

"Yes, but I still think that we should wait until we get a little more serious with each other, first." He said, resting his forehead on hers.

Brennan contemplated this for a second. "How serious?" she asked, willing to do anything for Booth at this point.

"I don't know," Booth said, running his fingers nervously through his hair. "We should at least be living with each other, and our friends should know about us being, you know, together?"

"So as not to surprise them when I start getting bigger from the pregnancy?" Brennan asked.

Booth chuckled. "Yeah, Bones, that would be good too."

There was a short silence as Brennan thought things over. "How soon can you move in?" she asked.

"What?" Booth asked.

Brennan scowled. "I said, how soon could you move in, Booth. If you couldn't hear me then maybe you need hearing aids."

Booth glared. "I heard what you said, Bones," he said, sighing, "But what happened to telling our friends about us? I'm pretty sure that's a step before living together."

"We'll tell them over drinks after work someday this week. And as for moving in, half your stuff is here already, we just have to move the rest in." Brennan said, nonchalantly, switching Peter so that his head rested on her other arm, so she could wake the one that was sleeping from his weight.

Booth contemplated this. They had already said 'I love you' to each other, which was a big step for Brennan, and she had agreed to tell their friends about them, which he had been wanting to do for a while. He nodded. "Sounds good to me," he said, smiling down at her, "as long as we tell Sweets and Hacker last. I don't want that little twelve year old breaking us up, or that arrogant jerk." He huffed, making Brennan giggle.

"You are such a baby, sometimes." she said, smiling, then reached up to kiss his cheek.

"I know," Booth said, kissing her lips, "but you love that about me, don't you?" Brennan smiled.

"I love everything about you." she said, then began to get up.

"Where do you think you're going?" Booth asked, sitting up straight.

Brennan motioned towards the sleeping child in her arms, and Booth shook his head. "No, no," he said, "You get yourself ready for bed. I'll put the little one to bed."

Brennan smiled. "I like the sound of that." she whispered, handing him Peter.

Booth smiled back, getting up, cradling Peter carefully, so as not to wake him up. "Hey, I do, too." He said, winking at her as he left to put Peter in bed with Hailey.

Brennan smiled after him, loving her life more than she ever had before.

Kinda cheesy, I know. But what can I tell you. I really want her to have a baby, and I think the pregnancy will be fun. Don't you? Anyway, next update is on Thursday. Please REVIEW!!