You know you love me... this may be one of my quickest updates for a fairly lengthy chapter… I promise it's another long one….well short for some people but long for me… I am new at this stuff gimme a break………please
Disclaimer: I am bound to use a ton of stuff I don't own in this chapter also lets make it easy and say I only own : Sandra, Callie, and well I thought there was somebody else but apparently it's just them and the plot.
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The next day Brennan walked on to her office as quickly as she possibly could and shut and locked the door before she was interrogated by her very pregnant and yet still amazingly bubbly best friend. She had seen Sandra and Angela talking already and she knew that she only had a few seconds of peace before she was double team interrogated by her best friends. She took a deep breath and pushed the weekend's events out of her head, she had work and she couldn't look to elated or Angela would automatically assume that she and Booth had slept together. Just as she had managed to get the grin off of her face she heard the knock on her door.
"Sweetie it's us." Angela cooed through the door. Brennan sighed as she stood up and walked over to unlock her door. She had some bodies' form Tibet on the table waiting for her but apparently it would be another half hour before she would get to them.
"Ahh sweetie I am so excited for you!" Angela half cooed half squealed as she waddled at an amazingly fast speed towards Brennan's couch. Brennan had to give it to Hodgins Ever since he and Angela had gotten married last year Angela had been rather toned down. Brennan didn't even want to imagine what this interrogation would be like 2 years ago.
"Tempe you there?" Sandra questioned as she pinched Tempe's arm.
"Um ya sorry I was just thinking about the old Angela" Tempe replied throwing a little wink in Angela's direction.
"Well being pregnant and married and still not knowing where every room in your house is and what they are all used for will do that to you. However back to the topic at hand, was he good in bed?" Angela asked blatantly.
"We didn't have sex." Tempe replied truthfully as she re organized her desk very meticulously: one pile paper work that needed to be finished, A pile for open cases at the Jeffersonian, a pile for open cases with the FBI and files that needed to be returned now that they were finished.
"Whatever you say, but honestly what did you do this weekend?" Sandra pulled her role in as good cop.
"Hung out with our kids, went to Chuck E. Cheese and caught Booth up on all of the newest children's favorites he missed over the past couple of years. Hunh kind of ironic eh? I was teaching him pop culture." Tempe reminisced and recalled for her friends.
"I can't wait for this kid to pop out." Angela suddenly burst in " Well pregnancy calls I have got to go to pee then back to work, today is after all my last Monday until I am officially on Maternity leave for six whole months!" Angela announced as she stood up the waddle walked out of the bath room and right towards the bathroom.
"I have some Tibetan remains that are calling my name." Tempe said as she stood up and pulled on her lab coat.
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Around two o'clock Tempe got a much awaited phone call. She walked into her office as she answered.
"Hey you." She answered.
"Sorry, I can't talk but I promised I would call today and I hadn't so I gave you a quick ring to keep me a man of my word."
"O well that's ok I guess." Tempe said slightly sadder than when she had frost answered Booth's call
"I know I wish I could even come visit you, however I have to meet with Rebecca's lawyer's she still has a bunch of stuff and I still have to take care of a ton of paperwork to go over." Booth said sounding very uneager.
"Oh well I guess you should be going then."
"Your right, I should be going, but I was wondering if maybe Parker and I could come by and visit tonight?"
"Sure, that would be nice. You want to come by for dinner to?"
"Mmmm dinner cooked on a single family stove. That would be nice; we haven't had one of those in nearly two weeks." Booth said sounding very eager at the prospect.
"OK so I will see you around 6:30." Tempe said
"Alright 6:30 sounds good. Bye Bones got to go before I miss this appointment" Booth said leaving Brennan to hear a dial tone.
What had she just agreed to? I can't cook Brennan thought to herself. Well there is one thing I can make. I think it will go over well with Parker and Callie also. I am going to need to grab some stuff from the store first though. Eggs, flour, cooking spray, milk I guess I could really mix it up and throw some chocolate chips in and to make it nutritional I will need some fresh fruit. Just three more hours and Callie and I can leave run to the store. By the time we get home it will be like 5: 30, that should give me enough time to shower quickly and get dinner started before Booth an Parker show up.
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The day had flown by since Brennan had talked to Booth. As she walked towards the Jeffersonian Day care center she couldn't help but smile. Life was good. For the first time forever she was truly happy, completely happy.
"Hello Doctor Brennan." The provider greeted as Brennan walked in the door. She looked at the woman, she knew her name was Mrs. McBride but she didn't know much about the woman, she was usually so distracted with her life she had never taken time to stop and have a conversation with her Brennan decided she looked like a nice woman and was glad that she was caring for her daughter during the day.
"Hello Mrs. McBride, How are you today?" Mrs. McBride looked taken aback, and why shouldn't she the doctor was normally very curt and never had much to say.
"My day was wonderful; I read some more of your new book today, while the children were napping. I like this one a lot it might be one of my favorites."
"You really like it? I wasn't so sure that people would like my new portrayal of Andy." Tempe asked the older woman quite sincerely.
"Oh yes miss. I love this new Andy…… would you mind paying me a favor?" The older woman suddenly became quite excited.
"Sure anything" Tempe said as she leaned against the counter making herself more comfortable.
The provider reached into her bag and dug around for a moment and pulled out Brennan's book "Eureka! Would you mind signing this for me and my husband, we are both huge fans!"
"I would love to. Who should I make it out to Mr. and Mrs. McBride or what?"
"Could you make it out to Emily and Dave, Mrs. Brennan?"
"Please just call me t Tempe, you are after all looking after my daughter all day I feel like I should know you more" Brennan said as she finished the autograph.
"Thank you so much Mrs… er I mean Tempe."
" I would love to stay and talk with you however I am expecting company for dinner and I still have to pick up half of dinner on the way home." Tempe said as she reached into the cubby Labeled with Callie's name and began putting her things in her bag when she spotted a picture Callie had drawn. It was a three year olds idea of a man and a woman. Above in the teachers hand writing it said How I spent my weekend, I played with my mommy and Booth. The teacher had given a sticker to the picture. Tempe smiled and thought that it was going on the fridge when she got home, Booth would even smile at it when he got there that evening.
"Come on Callie! Time to go Parker is coming over for dinner tonight." Brennan called to her daughter as she held out her coat and slipped the bags over her shoulder.
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She had gotten home much later than expected by the time she had her unexpected conversation with the daycare provider and then Callie's game of building blocks with the cereal boxes in the grocery store. It was 5:50 she had just finished mixing up dinner taken off her sweater from the day and was left in a light blue camisole and the sweat pants she had put on before she even started mixing up dinner. She was scrambling some eggs as she heard a knock on the door.
"One moment I will be right there" Brennan called. She rinsed her hands under the water and patted them dry on her pants as she walked to the door and opened it.
"Booth so nice to see you again, don't look to cheery." Tempe said in a sarcastic as she moved past to let Booth in. "Parker! Callie is down the hall in her room. You can go play with her while I talk with your dad and finish dinner." Tempe greeted and directed the young boy as he entered the house. "How was your meeting with the lawyer?" Tempe questioned Booth as she returned to finishing dinner.
" Mmmm dinner smells good… Waffles and scrambled eggs! That is your idea of a good meal Bones?"
"Well they are homemade waffles with chocolate chips and there are eggs for protein and fruit salad so there is fruit in there." Tempe defended her choice of meals as she poured some more batter in to the waffle maker. "Plus it's one of Callie's favorites, cooked on a single family stove and I thought it would go over with Parker.
"Well Parker will love it and I will to, I was just reflecting I never thought I would see you of all people cooking breakfast for dinner." Booth said with a grin on his face how it should be.
"It was one of my favorites growing up. However you never answered my question; how was your Meeting with the lawyer?"
As she said it she realized he was pretty upset at the meeting. The scowl returned to his face and she quickly interrupted before he even got the chance to answer. " let's just call the kids in and we will all eat dinner then we can walk to the park down the street and they can play and we can talk?" Tempe suggested.
"That sounds like a better plan I think. The meeting just… frazzled me." Booth agreed before spooning the eggs out of the pan and onto a plate and carried them over to the table. Booth retrieved the jug of milk and the fruit salad form the fridge as Tempe finished the last waffle and un-plugged the waffle maker. The table was already set as it had been since Tempe and Callie finished unloading the dish washer last night.
All through dinner Callie and Parker talked animatedly about what they each had done with there respective caretakers, between the two of them chatting up a storm Booth or Tempe could only manage to fit a word in edge wise. After dinner booth and Tempe loaded the dishwasher and washed the few non-dishwasher safe items while the kids cleaned up their toy's from earlier. They worked in comfortable silence and were occasionally greeted with the sound of giggling echoing down the hall from Callie's room. As comfortable as the silence was Booth felt the need to break it.
"So Angela finally got her a man for life?" Booth questioned.
"Yup, Hodgins, she used to get so disgusted by him but now just look at the two of them. They started dating about 5 months after you left and have been married for a year. Angela is pregnant, well obviously you couldn't have missed it. I swear she must have 3 kids in there she out grew the maternity stuff a gave to her from when I had Callie , it only took her till about 6 months… just think that stuff was to big on me up until the day Callie was born."
"Does she know?"
"Know what?"
"Know what the sex of the baby or how many of them there are?"
"Well she and Hodgins both know how many there are and what the sex is but they are being incredibly secretive about it. When ever I say any thing about what might be in there she just gives me the same little smile."
"I am going to bet it's twins, a guy and a girl." Booth stated very confidently.
"How in the world would you guess that? You have nothing to go on."
"Well she is rather large so there are at least twins and that is what my gut is telling me."
"Ahh the famous Booth gut? Are you sure you still trust that thing even after it failed you yesterday?"
"Come on let's get the kids it will be to dark soon." Booth quickly changed the subject as he headed down the hall towards Callie's room. Tempe chuckled behind him, she couldn't help but feel a sense of victory.