So say there is about six weeks between The Hold in the Heart and The Change in the Game, this chapter will fill in most of that gap. Thank you for your reviews.

Chapter Three || Start of something new

It took them approximately 9 days before they had their first fight as a couple. 9 full days of happiness and sex before it all came coming down around them.

"You're being dramatic." He stated from the bathroom as he shaved watching her huff as she got dressed for the day through his mirror. He wasn't exactly sure why they were fighting but she was angry and he had to take that seriously if he wanted to live or more important have sex ever again. It was a threat that had already been thrown at him and it was only 7am.

"I'm not being dramatic, Booth! I asked a very serious question and you laughed at me. You laughed at me! I feel as if I have every right to be angry with you." Okay so she had a point, he thought to himself but still chose to keep his mouth shut until he didn't have a razer near his jugular that she could very much come near at any moment.

Finishing up his shave he wiped off and cautiously entered the bedroom and sat on the bed next to her. "I'm sorry, I just wasn't expecting you to ask such a question and was surprised. I shouldn't have laughed, but seriously Bones it was a little ridiculous of you to ask."

She glared at him. "I asked you if we were going to keep this a secret from your son and you think that's a ridiculous question? We're keeping it a secret from everyone else, which we agreed to, but this is Parker. Parker! It's a serious question and if you laugh one more time I'm going to work and I am not coming home to you later."

Home. This wasn't the first time in the little over a week they had been together she had referred to them going home. It was honestly just word choices and the fact that they hadn't stayed a night away from each other since they had gotten together, but still he liked it.

"I'm sorry, you're right I shouldn't have laughed or called it ridiculous. Of course I want to tell Parker, I think he's going to be thrilled that we're together." Turning towards her, he took her hands so that she wouldn't try and storm off from him.

"I guess I laughed because to me telling Parker seems logical and simple. He already knows you and loves you. There is no reason for him or really anyone to act badly to us being together." Booth smiled at her trying to get the daggers to stop flying from her eyes. "Bones, this is silly. Seriously, we're arguing over keeping our relationship a secret when it's not necessary. What happens in our personal life is ours, not anyone else's. Parker is our personal life though, we'll tell him when I have him next."

He braced himself for impact because he was still confused by the entire interaction and was quickly learning that the Bones he knew personally before without romantic involvement and the one he knew now were very different. He also respected that she put her entire being into their relationship and took things so seriously like telling Parker and wanting to respect him wanting to keep everyone else out of it. However he was also learning that despite her hard outershell she was even more of an emotional rollercoaster when it was just the two of them and there was sex involved.

"Okay." She finally said as she squeezed his hands and leaned in for a quick kiss before moving from the bed. "That's all I needed to hear. Now I need to go, meet you for lunch?" Bones asked before kissing him again and heading out without another word.

"What the hell are you getting yourself into, Seeley?" He whispered to himself before getting ready to leave for the day himself.

Their lunch date ended up being postponed by a body found on a park bench. It was the first case since getting together and he knew it was their first test of being professional at work and not letting their personal life show. Booth had been nervous about it, his stomach turning to butterflies the second he saw his beautiful girlfriend but it seemed that she wasn't going to have that problem.

"Approximately 20 to 30 years old, appears to have had a child in the last couple years." Bones stated only looking at her partner to relay information. She knew that they had to remain professional and she couldn't give off any clues outside of what Angela already knew about them. She hadn't mentioned anything more to her expecting best friend and was choosing to stay tight lipped. Thankfully Angela was due any minute that most conversations were revolved around Baby Hodgins and not her personal life with her partner.

The case ended up being fairly simple to solve and a week later she and Booth were sitting in his living room with Parker, the young blonde looking at them quizzically. "So you're like boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"Well, in a grownup way I guess that is how you would put it." She didn't like the words boyfriend and girlfriend but she supposed it was accurate information. While she preferred partner or even lover she knew that the simple terms of endearment were easier. There was a sense of nervousness inside her that she knew she shouldn't feel for a young adolescent but there she was in a stare down with the boy she had known since he was four waiting for his acceptance or denial of his father's relationship.

"Okay, cool." Parker finally said before jumping off the couch and heading to his bedroom causing Booth and Brennan to just looked at each other.

"That was good, right?" She asked and felt relief as he chuckled, nodded, and leaned over to kiss her. "Okay good."

"You can be my girlfriend." Booth asked as they talked about joining the bowling league undercover and Temperance swore she saw her father's eyes light up across the table at the idea. Max had always wondered about the relationship between the partners and he was really the last person she wanted to know that they were actually together.

She had been hiding a lot of secrets recently, she and Booth were still under tight wraps and she absolutely adored that it was just them and no one else knew to give their opinion. It wasn't that she thought anyone would be negative, but she knew that the more solid they were when they told the less impact being out in the open there would be.

Leaving Booth and her dad at the diner she made her way to her apartment before going back to the lab and found the paper bag she had hid in the bathroom the day before but was too scared to do anything with.

She carefully read over the instructions though extremely self-explanatory and took not one but three tests. When the first came out positive the scientist knew it was nonsense to take the other two but this was the biggest thing to happen to her in her life, she had to be 300% sure even if that didn't exist.

Pregnant. Yes. 3 times.

Her thoughts were scrambled as she quickly stashed the tests under the sink and tried to think of a way to tell Booth, but no idea seemed satisfactory for such a big announcement. They hadn't been together very long yet it seemed science and lack of birth control had bigger plans for the than she ever could have imagined.

Throughout the undercover opt her focus was torn between Angela in the hospital, the actual case and her dad getting on to her about them not even acting like a couple. "Give me a kiss, Buck." She said as she wrapped her arms around his neck as he kissed her cheek. Raising her eyebrows at her father she laughed as Booth whispered in her ear. "There will be a lot more than that later, Wanda."

The second the case was solved they made their way to the hospital, a stuffed bunny in hand, as they waited impatiently for Michael Vincent to be born. The tiny boy in her coworker and friend's arms made her heart soar and the happiness on Booth's face was better than she could imagine.

"Oh, come on Bones. Look the baby... the baby's fine, it's healthy. They had a healthy baby. Alright? They love each other. This is the happiest day of their lives. Okay?" Booth said and she sucked her bottom lip into her teeth. "What?"

"I'm -" She started her breath hitched as she let out a small laugh. "I'm pregnant." She paused. "You're the father."