Thanks for the reviews! Here comes chapter twenty six.
Chapter twenty six: Risks
Parker had been with Brennan and Booth for four days. It was 6 o'clock on a Friday morning. Brennan was sitting up in bed. She hadn't been feeling well.
"One…two…three…" Brennan counted in her head before the pain hit her again. She counted when she was in pain to try to calm herself down.
Brennan held her breath through the pain. She felt like she had menstrual cramps to the exponent of ten.
"Probably just gas." Brennan mumbled to herself. She pressed the palm of her hand to the lower left side of her huge bulge to try to ease the pain.
Brennan stood up and walked around the room until the pain died down.
"Bones?!" Brennan turned around to see Booth sitting up staring at her worriedly.
"Good morning." Brennan said trying to smile through another pain jolt.
"Are you okay." He asked worriedly standing up.
"Yeah." Brennan said.
"Are you going into labor?" Booth asked feeling her forehead, "You're sweating."
"It's just gas cramps Booth, I'm fine, really." Brennan said calmly.
"I really should take you to the hospital just to make sure everything is okay." Booth said guiding Brennan back to the bed.
"I fine Booth, I promise. Besides, you're going to a football game today with my dad, Russ, and Jared." Brennan said.
"There are always other football games." Booth said shrugging.
"You're going. If something happens I'll call you." Brennan said.
The bedroom door swung open, "Hey Booth, are you coming?" Russ asked.
Booth looked at Brennan worriedly.
"Go." She said touching his face.
Booth sighed, "I'll be ready in a minute Russ."
"Okay." Russ shut the door.
Booth turned to Brennan, "Call me if anything happens, okay?"
Brennan sighed, "Booth…"
"Okay, I'm going." Booth said kissing her, "Amy's going shopping today too, you're going to have to stay with the kids. Parker is pretty easy going and Amy said the girls are usually quiet. She says if you need anything to just give her a call."
Brennan nodded, "Okay."
"Stay in bed okay?" Booth said grabbing his coat.
"Booth, you're going to make everybody late." Brennan said shaking her head.
"Okay, I'm gone." Booth said giving Brennan one last kiss before he left the bedroom.
Brennan leaned back in bed when another jolt of pain hit her. She gasped,
"Damn it! Not again." Brennan whimpered as the pain started to worsen.
Brennan closed her eyes and tried to sleep through the pain.
Brennan was fast asleep when a shriek woke her up.
"The kids!" she gasped.
Her pains were worse then she had remembered.
Brennan ran to the Emma and Haley's room. The door had been forcefully knocked down. Brennan peeked into the room.
Gomez, Hector, and the leader each had a hand cupped over one of the kids' mouths.
"Now one of you kiddies tell us where Dr. Brennan is or there will be a punishment." Gomez said pulling out a knife.
There were a bunch of muffled screams. Brennan looked around for the closes weapon she could find, which just happened to be a baseball bat.
"Leave them alone!" Brennan growled.
The trio looked at her and smiled.
"Well it's about time you decide to join us." The leader laughed.
"Let them go! It's me you want!" Brennan growled through gritted teeth. The pain was unbearable.
The leader laughed, "You see, you killed our boss. We owe it to Mr. Brooks to kill you. Brooks was like a father to us. Our parents abandoned us when we were ten. Brooks took us in and took care of us. You understand, don't you? It's like if somebody killed Agent Booth, wouldn't you do everything in your power to kill whoever did it?"
"I said let them go!" Brennan growled clutching her bulge.
Gomez took a step closer to Brennan. With the hand he wasn't using to hold Emma against her will he slapped Brennan in the face. Brennan moaned and slide to the floor helpless.
"Look who's the powerful one now Dr. Brennan!" He laughed.
Parker saw his chance. He clamped down on the leader's hand as hard as he could and refused to let go. The leader yelped in pain and released Parker.
The leader reached for Parker but Parker slide under his legs and ran to Haley's side. He kicked Hector in the shin as hard as he could. Hector cursed and released Haley.
"Don't touch my sister you big mean man!" she shrieked jumping onto Gomez. She clawed at his face. Emma soon escaped the clutches of Gomez and ran for the bat Brennan had dropped. Picking it up, she slammed it into the leader's face.
Gomez gasped and doubled over unconscious. Parker and Emma were business fighting off Hector and the leader when Emma ran over to assist them.
"You hurt our Aunt Tempe!" Emma shouted swing the bat side to side.
She hit Hector and knocked him out. This made the leader furious. He grabbed Emma by the collar and dangled her out the window.
"See how you like getting beat up!" He laughed.
"Put me down! Put me down!" Emma shrieked, "Help! Help!"
"Help! Help!" the leader laughed and a mocking tone. "Good bye little girl."
When it seemed like it would be the end of Emma a gunshot filled the air.
The leader had been shot. He looked down a blood stain started to spread quickly all over the front of his shirt. He opened his mouth but all that came out was a trickle of blood. He let go of Emma and fell to the floor dead.
Emma fell on top of Haley and Parker. They look up to see Brennan standing there with a gun in her hand shaking. Sweat dripped off of her face,
"See what happens when people mess with my family?" she said to the dead leader. "They end up dead, just like you, just like you! Nobody messes with my family and gets away with it!"
Brennan crumpled to the floor.
"Aunt Tempe, Bones!" the kids screamed running to the distressed Brennan. "What's wrong?"
Brennan shook her head, "I…I…don't…know…" she gasped clutching her stomach.
"Is it the babies?" Haley asked.
Brennan nodded, "Parker…do you…think you…could call…911?"
Parker ran to the pink phone that was in the girls' room and dialed 911. Parker held the phone to his ear but it only buzzed.
"It's not working!" Parker said.
"They…must've cut the wires…" Brennan cried out in pain.
Gomez and Hector started to stir.
"They're waking up!" Emma said.
"We have to get out of here!" Haley said trying to get Brennan to stand up.
"You guys…go…save…yourselves." Brennan moaned.
"No! We're not leaving unless you leave with us!" Parker said sternly.
"Parker's right! We're going to fight together and were going to die together!" Emma said.
"Three against four!" Haley said crossing here arms, "Family ALWAYS sticks together!"
Brennan laughed weakly, "Guess there's no fighting with you guys."
The kids nodded. Brennan sighed, "Alright, help…me up…"
Brennan grunted in pain as the three kids helped her stand up. They helped her walk down the stairs and out the door before Brennan collapsed again.
"Come on! Get up!" Emma cried worriedly.
Brennan shook her head sadly, "I…c…can't…" she whimpered.
"You have to!" Haley said.
When Brennan refused Parker had an idea.
"You guys stay here! I'll be back with help!" Parker yelled running down the driveway.
He ran out into the main road and started to wave his hands up in the air. A car saw him and swerved nearly hitting Parker.
"Hey son! I could have killed you!" a middle aged man said getting out of the car.
Parker ran over to the man, "Please sir my…" he thought for a moment, "My mommy needs help! She's hurt real bad!" Parker said grabbing the man's arm. "Come on! Come on! We have to go help her!"
"Calm down partner! We're do you and your momma live?" he asked.
Parker pointed down the road, "Down there with my two sisters. Our daddy is out at a football game!"
"Come get in my car so we can go help her."
Parker hesitated remembering what his father said about strangers.
"Come on son! I'm not going to hurt you I promise."
Parker knew that Brennan needed help so he hopped into the man's car.
"I don't think I mentioned this before but my name's Sam Dobson." Sam said as he raced down the dirt road.
"I'm Parker Booth." Parker said.
"Nice name son. I've got a wife and a kid at home, her name's Lydia. She's four, how old are you?"
"I'm six." Parker said.
"That was my favorite age." Sam laughed pulling up into the driveway.
He and Parker got out of the car.
Brennan was lying on the ground panting as Emma and Haley desperately tried to cool her off.
Sam ran over to them.
"Ma'am, my name's Sam Dobson. Your son Parker stopped me on the road and told me you need help. You have a very bright boy. May I carry you to the car?"
Brennan nodded weakly. Sam carefully lifted her up and put her in the back seat of the car. Emma, Parker, and Haley followed.
"The hospital is not too far away from here. Will be there soon Ms…"
" Temperance Brennan." Brennan whispered.
Sam nodded, "What are your names?"
"Emma and Haley." The girls said in unison.
"Cute." Sam smiled pulling in front of the ER.
He picked up Brennan from the back of the car and raced her inside followed by Parker, Emma, and Haley.
"Excuse me sir!" Sam yelled flagging down a doctor. "This lady has gone into labor!"
The doctor ran to the receptionist desk and pushed down a red button.
A flood of nurse rushed in with a stretcher and Sam gently laid Brennan on it.
"Sir, are you the husband?" a nurse asked.
Sam shook his head, "No."
The nurse nodded, "Ma'am do you have a number so we can contact your husband?"
"My fiancé." Brennan gasped quickly scribbling a number down on a postage note.
"Sam! Call…him…" Brennan gasped as the nurses started to wheel Brennan away.
The kids were about to follow when a doctor grabbed them, "Sorry, you can't go back there."
"Hey! Let us go!" they screamed.
Brennan heard them, "Stop!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.
The nurses stopped, "Is something wrong?"
"Let…them…come…" Brennan gasped motioning the three children to come forward.
"Ma'am, I don't think that's a good idea. It's against hospital policy. No one under 17 is allowed in the delivery room."
"They are my responsibility and I will NOT go into the delivery room without them!" Brennan panted.
The nurses sighed and lifted Emma, Parker, and Haley onto the stretcher beside Brennan.
The kids grabbed onto the rails as the stretcher raced down the hallway and into the swinging doors of the corridor labeled DELIVERY ROOM.
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