A/N: I don't own anything. Well maybe the writing but the characters or songs. Nope not a one.
Warning: May contain spoilers for remaining eps of Season 4.
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"So you're seriously considering having a baby?" Booth asked skeptically. "I mean I saw how great you were with Andy and how you are with Parker but I didn't think you'd ever change your mind."
"Just like you," Brennan said with a smile, "I'm constantly evolving. And while years ago I never would have considered this a viable option for me, I have ascertained that…yes I do want a child."
"What was it that changed your mind?" he asked.
"People have been chasing answers since their primitive brains first had a cognitive thought of 'why.' And scientists have spent millennia trying to understand how life starts," she said. "It's a question that I feel like I'm ready to tackle."
"So you're curious?" Booth asked. "You're planning on bringing a life into this world because you're curious? You do realize that this is a full time job, being a parent. You can't just put the kid back after you've settled your curiosity."
"Of course I know that Booth," she said as she furrowed her brow. "Realistically speaking the birth canal is a one-time journey and I could never physically put the baby back anyway. And it's not just scientists who have had this curiosity as thousands of volumes of literature have struggled to understand how life began. And since I'm a bestselling author and a scientist, I have twice the curiosity."
"Have you even picked out a father yet?"
"Yes," she said with a pleading look on her face, "if you'll say yes."
"You do realize that I could never just be a sperm donor. That I'd want to be with you and the baby as a family," he said. "I couldn't handle doing the parent from a distance thing again."
"I know," she said as she pulled him into an embrace. "I told you, I'm evolving. Though I will admit I'm rather eager to make a baby the old fashioned way."
"Well that's good to hear," he said. "But aside from artificial insemination, what other ways are there to create life?"
"Dr. Frankenstein created life using lightning to reanimate dead tissue," she said. "And even he had assistance in making life."
"Are you calling me Igor?" he asked with a grin.
"Maybe," she said with a chuckle. "But I don't think we'll need to harness any lightning."
"Well I'm sure there will be fireworks, though," he said with a grin as he scooped her up and held her in his arms.
"To the bedroom Igor," she commanded.
"Yes mistress," he said as he started walking while dragging one leg behind him.