The next morning Booth comes down stairs following his nose. There was a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen and he couldn't believe he smelled it. He looks over and there is Brennan with her nose wrinkled up cooking bacon. "Bones, you are vegetarian."
"But you aren't"
"Honey, while I appreciate it and I love you so much, you don't need to cook meat for me."
"I don't?"
"No, no. I am willing to open myself up to a more vegetarian lifestyle, however, I still like my eggs, milk, and cheese, any of that stuff that comes from the animal naturally and doesn't kill them."
She smiled at him and threw herself into his arms crying, his arms going instinctively around her. "Baby, are you Okay."
"I am fine", she said between sniffles.
"Honey, why are you crying?"
"I don't know."
"Huh?"
"Really Booth, I don't know." He just held her and let her cry it out.
Again they sat in the doctors' office and again Booth looked like a scared little boy. Brennan just watched him and finally reached over and took his hand. "Booth, it will be okay."
"I know Bones, I know." Since he hadn't been around for as much of Rebecca's pregnancy, he was doing this for the first time and he wanted to get it right.
"Dr. Brennan." The nurse called
Brennan stood up and looked over her shoulder, Booth was lost in thought. "Booth", she leaned over. His eyes caught hers and he stood and took her hand as they headed back for the examination room.
Again he turned away while she disrobed. "Booth, why does me disrobing here bother you so much?"
"It doesn't bother me."
"They why do you turn your back."
"It isn't proper."
"Booth you see me naked almost every day, how is this not proper?"
"Bones, it isn't seeing you naked that isn't proper, you are beautiful. It…it...is what it does to me that isn't proper."
"Oh" she giggled
"And it isn't funny either."
The doctor came in examined Brennan and again Booth talked to her about the house while the doctor did the exam. She confirmed Brennan as 15 weeks along and was getting ready to leave and she looked at Booth.
"Would you like to see your baby?" Booths grin was enough for her.
"She managed to get a full on 3d face shot of the baby and snapped a picture for Booth."
He couldn't believe it looked like a real little baby. "Mr. Booth, your baby is about the size of a soft ball and weighs about 2 ounces." The doctors' voice brought him out of his daydreams. All he could do was smile.
"Is he going to be like this the whole pregnancy?" Dr. Gibson asked Brennan
"I am suspecting so."
"Good to know." She smiled at Brennan, "see you next time."
Booth sat in his office turning a small velvet box around in his fingers. He opened it and would look at the ring thinking about how it would look on her finger and how every time she looked at it, it could remind her of how much he loved her.
He also thought of the date and smiled to himself. The date he wrote down and burned so very long ago. A lot had happened since that night and he had a lot of work to do before his date arrived. He hoped she remembered when the time came.
Since they hadn't had any cases Brennan and Angela took some much needed time off to shop. Angela had taken it upon her self to become Bren's decorator, not just for the baby's room, but for the whole house.
"Bren your house is a little empty, even moving everything from both your apartments in, it is still empty. So are you ready to spend some money?'
"Booth will not like it if we spend too much money, he has this thing about supporting his family and I haven't got him use to the idea that I have money too."
"He will get use to it soon enough, especially after he sees what we did for the house and him. Hodgins and Wendel are at your place waiting for painters and will be working on Booths man cave. The man is going to seriously hurt someone if he doesn't get to go play with the boys soon"
Angela and Brennan went store to store buying furnishings for their new house and of course they had to have outdoor furnishing, Brennan wasn't exactly sure why, but she went with the flow. Angela has masterfully set up the delivery and set up of items and what the store couldn't set up Hodgins and Wendel could.
Next was shopping for Brennan, she needed all new clothes to get her through the next few months as her size changed. When the ladies left they each had multiple bags and were trying to figure out how to get them all in Brennan's prius. Brennan smiled, pulled out her cell and hit the familiar speed dial button.
"Booth"
"Hi honey" That should have been his first warning something wasn't right, but Booth's gut failed him.
"Hey Babe, you and Angela having a good day?"
"You could say that. Are you busy?"
"No, not really."
"We could use your help?"
"What do you need?" he was finishing off signing some reports as he talked to her, maybe that is why his gut feeling was suppressed.
"Could you come meet us at the mall?"
"Sure, where do you want to meet?"
"We will be in the parking lot on the south side, we are in my Prius."
"Okay, should take me about 40 minutes." She closed her phone and smiled
"We have 40 minutes to kill before he gets here." Angela grabbed her arm and pulled her towards Babies R Us.
"Bren I know we could go to those overpriced stores and if you want to we can, but we are here, we might as well get stuff for the babies room, especially if we have Booth coming to pick up the other packages."
They found a bassinet, a crib, a changing table, a dresser, diaper holder, and a diaper disposal unit. "Bren, what theme do you want in the babies room?"
"Theme?"
"Yeah, you know like Mickey Mouse or Bambi, or rainbows." Angela looked hopeful at her.
"I-I don't know Ange."
"That is okay, I will do some thinking on that. That part can wait until I get a look at the room you want to make the nursery in." Angela was babbling and wandering away, she failed to notice Brennan stop by a rocker, it was a glider rocker, however, it looked antique and something about it called to Brennan. "Angela, I want this too."
Angela came back with an employee in tow and started pointing out everything they wanted and had it all taken to the front of the store.
As soon as they paid for it, Brennan's phone rang. She smiled as she looked at her caller ID. "Right on time."
"Hey Babe." Again he missed the red flag
"Hi, I am at your car, you aren't."
"Come to Babies R Us." Now the red flags went up, but it was too late. As he pulled up he noticed several employees' bring items out of the store. Angela was already around the back opening up the SUV and laying the seats down.
"Bones, how much shopping did you and Angela do exactly?" She looked at him nervously. He raised his eyebrows at her, "Bones?"
She looked up at him with big blue eyes. "We just bought what we needed?"
"I didn't realize we needed anything."
"Oh no booth, the house had to much empty space even combining our apartments and the baby's room needs to be put together and Parker still needs to pick out stuff for his…"
"Hold it right there." He put his hands on his hips and he was glaring at her, "We are not spoiling our kids."
"But Booth, we aren't spoiling them, the baby needs this stuff and Parker deserves to have a boy's room, his own room, not a room that is set up for guests."
He was within inches of her face "We will talk about this later." He then put a kiss on her cheek and headed for the SUV. As he was getting in, "I will see you at home."
As he drove away a little faster than normal, she stood there staring after him. Angela saw the look; she pursed her lips and started walking deliberately towards her car. Battle lines had been drawn, Angela just hoped herself and any other innocent survived the fall out.