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Speeding through the streets of Washington, Booth was pretty sure that he was breaking at least ten different traffic rules if not more, but he couldn't care less. He had to get Brennan to a hospital. Contractions didn't usually start at the end of the fifth month and that's what worried him the most. What if she lost the baby?

Relax Booth, she's not going to lose the baby.

It probably wasn't even what they thought it was. Or was it?

"Booth, I can hear you thinking. Quit it." Brennan said without looking at him.

She didn't want to tell him but the more he worried, the more it made her worry about this whole thing and she needed to stay calm, for her own sake and for her child's. Stressing over what was happening surely wasn't helping the baby much.

The contractions were not getting stronger or more frequent as time passed but they still hurt and caused her great discomfort. Even though she didn't want to worry, dozens of questions ran through her mind. Why was she having contractions? Was there in fact something wrong with the baby?

She felt her baby kicking in-between contractions and felt an urge of love run through her.

"It's OK baby, everything is going to be alright." She mentally told her child.

She really hoped everything was going to be just fine. She was beginning to make out the shape of the hospital standing tall and proud a few corners away. She had never been this relieved to see a building before.

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Booth paced back and forth in the emergency waiting room, waiting impatiently for Temperance to get out of the doctor's office and casting nervous glances to the closed door down the hall every now and then. She had been in there for about twenty minutes and he just knew that something had to be wrong. It was the only explanation to why it was taking so much time.

He was aware of the other patients staring weirdly at him but he didn't care. His girlfriend, the love of his life, was in that office with a certain Doctor Hambrook, getting tests done to see if the baby was in some kind of trouble. There was no way he could remain calm.

He had his back to the entrance of the waiting room but he recognized her voice as she almost screamed:

"Where is she?"

He turned around to face a rather distraught Angela. Brennan had called her best friend on their way to the hospital and Angela had insisted upon coming even though Brennan had said that it wasn't going to be necessary. But Booth knew fully well that there was no point in arguing with Angela and he could see that he had been once again right as he looked at her as she made her way to him.

"She's still in the doctor's office." He replied when she was standing in front him. "Listen Angela, thanks for coming down."

"No problem. Come on, let's sit down." She replied as she grabbed him by the hand. "I'll bet anything that you've been pacing back and forth ever since you got here."

Booth nodded and the two friends sat down on the chairs. They sat for a while in a rather uncomfortable silence before Booth spoke again.

"What if the baby is not OK? What if she loses it?"

"Don't you think you would have known by now? I mean how long has she been in there?"

"Almost twenty-five minutes."

"Then I'm sure it's nothing bad. I mean, if the baby would have been in any kind of trouble, someone would have told you by now."

"I guess you're right. I'm probably worrying for nothing. It's just... I love them both so much."

Angela rested her hand on Booth's and squeezed it lightly in a way that she had wanted sympathetic. Booth turned to her and smiled weakly.

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"So everything is alright?" Brennan asked the doctor for the third time.

"Everything is alright. But if you don't mind, I would like to bring in the father. There are a few things I would like to discuss with the both of you."

Dr. Hambrook got up and walked towards the door. He walked in the waiting room and called out Booth's name. Booth was up in a second and casted Angela a worried glance before making his way to the office.

"Is everything alright?" he asked the doctor, his voice betraying how extremely concerned he was.

"Yes but there are a couple of things I wish to talk to you about." Dr. Hambrook answered as he stepped aside to let Booth in the office.

The doctor closed the door behind them and walked back to his desk. As he sat down he tried reassuring Booth.

"Mr. Booth, you have no need to be nervous. I told you, everything is fine."

Booth nodded but he still wasn't reassured. If everything has been in fact alright then Temperance and him would have been on their way out of this hospital this second. Instead Booth found himself sitting in the doctor's office. Therefore there was something else. There just had to be.

"Your wife..."

"She's not my wife." Booth immediately cut in.

He turned to look at Temperance and was rewarded by an evil glare that told him it had been rude to cut off the doctor like that.

"Sorry. As I was about to say, your girlfriend simply experienced Braxton Hicks contractions. I can assure you that there is nothing to be concerned about. The baby is safe, the uterus was simply contracting but there was no dilating of the cervix so she is not in labor. Most people confuse Braxton Hicks contractions with labor so you did a good thing to bring her to the hospital."

Booth let out a sigh of relief. Braxton Hicks, why hadn't he thought of that before? He remembered his sister having the exact same thing when she had been pregnant with her first child. He should have known.

"But this doesn't mean that there isn't a slight chance for her to lose her baby. Temperance and I discussed her work schedule and I am a bit worried that if she keeps things up like this, she could give birth prematurely. To avoid any of that, she is being put on bed-rest starting today. I think it would be a very good idea and could save a whole lot of further complications."

"Got it." Booth replied.

"Also, I noticed something very... interesting as I was checking you earlier." The doctor added, talking directly at Temperance this time. "Has your obstetrician ever said anything to you about multiple births?"

"No, she hasn't. Why?"

"Because when I did your ultrasound, I noticed two babies in your uterus, not just one like it was written in your file, and I definitely caught two distinctive heartbeats."

Brennan's eyes grew wider as the words spoken by the doctor registered in her brain. Two babies? How was that possible? How come her obstetrician hadn't noticed that before?

"But how is it possible that...?"

"Your obstetrician hadn't noticed? Well, at first, I wasn't so sure myself so I'm not surprised that he or she hadn't noticed. What I think happened in your case is that one of the babies was hiding the other one. What surprises me a bit more is the fact that your doctor hadn't heard the two heartbeats."

Brennan thought back to a few appointments ago. She remembered her doctor mentioning that the heartbeats were really quick. Could she have been mistaken two different heartbeats to be just one? It was the most logical explanation but she still thought that her obstetrician had done a rather poor job.

She turned to look at Booth but he avoided looking at her. Twins? They were having twins? Twins as in two babies, he felt like asking the doctor but he knew that would only make him look stupid. How was it possible that her obstetrician hadn't seen that before? Not that it truly mattered. He'd love them both anyway but... would they be capable of raising two kids at a time? One seemed hard enough.

"One last thing. If you are interested in knowing the sex of the babies, I have it right here in the file."

"No. We want to wait." Booth replied, snapping back to reality.

He had spoken before Temperance even had a chance to. He didn't want to know but he had gut feeling that she did.

"OK then." The doctor said, getting up. "You can go home."

"Thank you."

The three of them shook hands before the doctor escorted them to the door.

"Uh Doc, just so we know. There aren't any more babies hiding in there, are there?" Booth asked.

"No there aren't." The doctor replied, laughing lightly, opening the door for the couple.

Booth and Brennan stepped out into the hallway and made their way to the waiting room where Angela was still sitting. They had barely walked in that Angela was already up on her feet and was rushing to them.

"Oh my god, Sweetie." She said as she pulled her best friend into a hug. "Are you okay? Is everything fine? Why did Booth have to go in? Something is wrong with the baby, isn't it?"

"Relax, Angela, everything is fine." Brennan replied, trying desperately to free herself from her friend's tight embrace.

"Then why did Booth have to go in?" Angela then asked, freeing her friend.

Brennan looked up at Booth and smiled. She then turned her attention back to her friend and took a deep breath.

"We're having twins." She announced somewhat proudly.

"What?"

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Booth laughed quietly to himself as he drove Brennan back to her apartment.

"What?" Brennan asked, laughing at Booth's out-of-the-blue laugh.

"I was just thinking about Angela and the face she made when you told her that we were having twins."

Brennan smiled as she recalled what had happened in the waiting room.

"Yeah. That was pretty priceless, wasn't it?"

"It sure was."

The two of them laughed again.

Angela's mouth had dropped after Brennan had announced being pregnant with twins. She had been in shock for a few seconds before jumping up and down and squealing in joy. Several people had turned to look at them and slightly embarrassed, Brennan had dragged her friend out of the hospital where Angela had hugged Brennan for the second time in less than five minutes. She had then hugged Booth who had been rather surprised.

Temperance turned her attention back out the window. She still couldn't believe she was having twins. She didn't feel like she was carrying two babies. Now she understood why she had gain so much weight over the last few weeks and why she had feel like the baby had been kicking all over the place.

Suddenly a weird feeling crept inside of her. She was going to be a mother. It hadn't fully hit herthat she was going to be one until this second. She suddenly got really scared. She was going to be a motherof two babies, as if one wasn't enough.

"Booth, we're having twins." She said after being quiet for ten minutes.

"I know. I was there when the doctor told us." Booth replied, teasingly.

"No, I mean, it just hit me now. We're having twins. That's two babies, Booth."

"I know how to count Temperance."

"What are we going to do?"

"We're going to raise them, that's what."

"You really think we can handle two babies?"

Booth casted a quickly glance at her before turning his eyes back to the road.

"No but I'm sure we can manage."

"How can you be so sure?"

"I don't know, I just am."

"But I don't know how to be a mother. What am I going to do once the babies are going to be born?"

At that instant he wanted to reach out for her. She needed comfort and unfortunately he couldn't give her some at the moment. He knew how she must have been feeling at the moment. He remembered feeling the exact same way a couple of months before his son's birth but he also knew that that feeling was normal.

"Temperance, parenting is something you pick up with time. You'll pick it up, just like I did with Parker. I was scared too at first when I found out Rebecca was pregnant. But the day that I first saw Parker, I knew that that was why God had put me on this Earth for."

Booth heard her laugh lightly.

"I know you don't believe in religion but you'll see what I mean the day you'll hold your babies for the first time. There isn't anything like it."

Brennan smiled. She still didn't want children but hearing Booth talking about parenting, she found herself being excited at the thought of holding her children in her arms. She couldn't wait to see them.

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OK so now that it's out in the open, I need your help. I'm having the hardest time deciding what to name Temperance's twins. Now I haven't decided yet if it was going to be two girls, two boys or a boy and a girl but I still need to figure out how to name them. I found a lot of names but narrowed it down to 8 names for the girls and 11 names for the boys. That's when you come in. Pick your favorite name in each category and send me a review with your decision in it. Oh and one more thing, keep in mind that the last name is Brennan. Here are the names:

Boys: Andrew, David, Elliott, Blake, Lukas, Seth, Skyler, Leo, Elijah, Derek, Anthony

Girls: Mia, Brooke, Riley, Lily, Caitlin, Paige, Brianna, Zoey

Take your pick. The names with the most votes win, obviously. And I accept anonymous reviews so everybody can review, even those who read and think they can't review because they don't have an account on this site.