Chapter 2

"Booth, what's going on with Dr. Brennan?" Sweets asked as he walked into Booth's office as he sat working on paperwork. "I could tell you knew why she was reacting the way she was. She may be your partner but you need to help her when she's feeling such anger." Booth looked up at him with a smirk shaking his head. "Agent Booth."

"You know what Sweets, why couldn't she just be mad at pictures of some creep following her around?"

"You're okay with this?" Sweets looked at Booth completely confused as to what was going on. "It makes no sense."

"What makes no sense, Sweets?" He heard making him jump and yelp. Booth started to chuckle as Brennan smiled as she walked in to Booth's desk. "What are you two talking about?"

"Something that makes no sense." Booth smiled.

"Okay, that's it." He said closing the door before walking closer to them. "What is going on? The last month has been really strange, even Cam and Angela have been acting different."

"It obviously has nothing to do with you butting into our lab to interrogate us right?" Brennan said looking at Sweets upset as Booth smirked.

"It's not like I had a choice."

"You see there Sweets. You really need to learn how to talk with out pissing them off." Sweets looked at Booth as he looked up with a smile.

"Why won't you tell me? I am your therapist after all."

"Did you think it could have anything to do with you working for the FBI and you trying to read us and interrogate us on that little search?" Brennan said looking at him before she looked at her watch. "Come on Booth." She said making him smile as he finished his last paperwork.

"Okay, let's go." He said with a smile as they walked over to Sweets. "You really want to know you'll find out when you need to." He said slapping his shoulder before the two walked out of the office. Sweets watched them leave and decided he wanted to know what was going on so he followed them. They got into Booth's car and drove to the hospital where they walked through to the outpatient.

"What is going on?" He thought aloud as he watched Brennan sit waiting while Booth's leg started jumping.

"Booth, relax. You're driving me crazy." She said after ten minutes and putting her hands on his knees to stop him. "Are you going to act so nervous for no reason every time?"

"I can't help it, Bones." She smiled shaking her head, as she looked him in the eyes.

"Booth, there's nothing wrong, so calm down."

"Ms. Brennan?" Asked a nurse before she led them to another room making Sweets look around walking down to where he could hear their voices from the room when the doctor left the door cracked.

"Alright, let's see here." Sweets moved a chair out to sit by the door to hear. "Your first time?"

"Yes."

"Alright let's see what we have for the first time." There was a pause as Sweets tried to figure out what was going on. "Well, it looks like it's not just one. Looks like two."

"What?" Booth asked with shock in his voice.

'What is going on in there? Is Brennan dying?' He thought to himself.

"Two?" He heard Brennan. "Twins?" Sweets eyes went wide as things started falling into place quickly.

"Yup, you're having twins….. Would you like to hear the heart beats?"

"Yes." Booth said making Sweets want to look to see what was going on as Booth's voice went from his shocked sound to the excited but afraid voice. Suddenly he started hearing two distinct heartbeats. "Something doesn't sound right." He said listening.

"You're right, I'm trying to find out why." The nurse said. Sweets looked up listening to the rhythms that were slightly off making the Nurse sigh. "Okay, I found what's causing the sound. It looks like the heart isn't pumping the blood correctly and it's nearly missing the lungs all together. One twin has it less than the other. We should keep a close eye on them to make sure that as they grow their hearts mature enough by birth. I want you to come in once a month to make sure we keep track of it."

"What happens if they're not mature by then?" Booth asked

"They'll need some surgery, I'm afraid."

'What's going on?' Sweets thought as he heard dead silence.

"Here you go your fist pictures of your twins." He heard before the doctor left and the room when silent.

'They're actually….. Together…. But…' Sweets sat thinking about how he could have missed the signs. 'The others have to know….'

"Come here." He heard Booth whisper before he heard the soft sobs. "It's alright. I'm here, Temperance, I'm here." Sweets eyes went wide as he heard Booth refer to Brennan by her first name. "It's okay." He said as emotion slipped into his voice. "They'll be fine."

"The probabilities of them being able to mature to the point of being able to live outside of my womb are slim. The statistics of the probability of them-"

"Shh. Calm down, you know I can't understand a word you're saying." He said with a small laugh in his voice making Brennan chuckle through her tears.

"I can't help it, I…..." She trailed off into soft sobs. Sweets stood up and went back to his car.

(At the lab)

"Sweets?" Angela asked as she and Hodgins were walking out of the building with their son and things. "Sweets, why do you look so shaken up?"

"Booth and Brennan….. They…. They lied and I couldn't see it." Angela smiled and shook her head.

"Sweets go home, and get some sleep."

"You… you knew. Didn't you?" Angela smiled as she looked at him.

"You work for the FBI, you know-."

"Angela, I followed them to a doctor's appointment."

"What is going on?" Hodgins asked confused.

"It's nothing anyone needs to be spreading around. There's enough being said." Cam said walking over to see them sitting there talking. "You know Dr. Brennan well enough and I know Seeley enough to know that if it's something they want us to know, they will tell us." Angela nodded and stood up holding Michael in her arms.

"Sweets go home and forget whatever it is you spied on." Angela said with a smile. "Bye everyone." She said waving Michael's hand at everyone.

Brennan was walking down the hall to speak with Angela when she was stopped by an employee from the archaeology department. Brennan laid her hand on her eight month swollen stomach as she spoke before her cell phone rang.

"Brennan."

"Hey, Bones. How're you feeling?"

"I'm fine." She smiled as she walked back into her office. "What do you need?"

"Feel like a field trip? I just got a call. There were two bodies found in the memorial park in Virginia."

"Alright, let me grab my things."

"I'm on my way." The two hung up as Brennan grabbed her bag before going up onto the platform to gather extra items she may need.

(At crime scene)

"We have both crime scenes marked off. The first on is here" An agent pointed to the people not far away and the other is all the way at the other end of this park. The spots were picked to try to keep the bodies hidden. Over here." He said as he started leading the way to the steep little drop to large loos rocks. Booth jumped down first before helping Brennan down so she wouldn't fall. She started walking across the rocks wobbling until she had to stop and take a deep breath.

"Bones." Booth said as he turned seeing she stopped. "Bones, you okay?" He asked as he started walking closer seeing her nod as she took another breath.

"Yes. It was merely the Braxton hicks." Booth nodded as he helped her the rest of the way to the body. Even at eight months pregnant she could still move around almost like she always had. "It's a male, approximately one to three months old. Based on decomposition and place I would estimate time of death to be about two to four months ago." She stopped and looked at the bones as Booth kept an eye on her. "Okay, I want everything back to the Jeffersonian. Ready to take me to the other one?" He smirked reaching out to help her stand up and walk back to the car.

"You sure you're okay?"

"Yes, Booth, I'm fine." She said shaking her head as she glanced out the window before looking back at Booth who was looking at her before he turned his eyes back to the road quickly. "You really should watch the road." She said making him glance back at her. "What?"

"It's nothing." He said shaking his head. "Here's the second one. My guys said it looks just like the first." She nodded as they got out of the car and started walking over to the edge of the swamp.

"A couple of science students found the body. It is set up the same what the other one was. It's over here." He said as he led the way to the body. Brennan looked as she bent down to look at the bones covered in only a little flesh.

"What do you think Bones?"

"Male, one to three months. Based on decomposition and where the body was found I would put time of death between two to four months. There's not much more I can see here, I'll look more closely when we get back to the lab."

"Right." He said helping her stand up again as they went back to the car.

(At the Lab)

"There's damage to C2 and C3 vertebra and there's fractures across all of the ribs." Brennan said as she looked at the remains.

"I also found staining on the anterior of the occipital bone." Wendell said pointing to the tiny skull as Brennan picked it up and started looking at it.

"Who could do such a cruel thing?" Angela said as she walked onto the platform. She looked at the two tiny skeletons before she took a deep breath. "I finished the facial reconstructions." She handed Brennan her sketch.

"They look Identical." Wendell said looking at the sketch.

"That's because they're twins." They head Booth say as he walked onto the Platform and over to them. "Aden and Adam Davis, five month old twins, went missing four months ago."

"Five months?" Wendell asked before looking at the bones. "These bones are only developed enough for three months at the most." Brennan's phone started ringing.

"Go back over them and look at the x-rays, see if you can find anything that would result in stunted growth." She pulled her gloves off and answered her phone as she walked away. "Brennan… what happened?... I'll be right there." She hung up walking off the platform.

(In her office)

"What's going on?" Booth asked as he walked in seeing her packing up a few things.

"That was Rus. Hayley's back in the hospital. He said she's not doing well." She looked up at him slightly worried. Her brother Rus had Married Amy six months ago and adopted both girls making them all family. She grabbed her bag and pulled it over her shoulder as she walked over to him.

"She'll be fine." He said softly looking down at her as she nodded. He knew she was worried about the girl. Since Amy had gone to her the first time she had taken an interest in the girl's medical condition, helping to find doctors and treatments for her, in which she became close with her. "Come on, I'll dive." He said with a smirk as the two left."

"Rus." Brennan said as she stopped at the doorway seeing the little girl sleeping. He got up quickly and walked over to her and Booth. "How is she now?"

"The same, she just fell asleep." He looked at the little girl sleeping as Amy was laying back in the chair napping. "We can talk out here." The three walked right outside the door. "Tempe, they said that they won't do anything else. They refuse to give her any more treatments because nothing has worked so far."

"What do you want me to do?"

"You found a good doctor who was able to stabilize her. Can't you talk to him or something to try to fix this?" Brennan looked at Hayley for a moment before nodding.

"I'll look at her file and talk to Dr. Getts." She turned walking off to talk with the nurses leaving Booth and Rus standing at the doorway.

"How is she doing?" Rus asked looking at Booth. "My sister." Booth looked over at Brennan as she spoke to the nurse. "You know as well as I do she wouldn't tell the truth." Booth smirked looking back at Rus.

"She's hold in there. But like you said, she doesn't tell the truth." He said shaking his head.

"Dad was right." Booth looked at him confused as Rus smirked. "You're hiding something. Dad and I were talking yesterday and he told me there was something you were hiding from everyone. Said he's noticed it for a while now. So what's really going on?" Booth looked at him glancing over at Brennan as she stood waiting for the file with her hand on her swollen stomach.

"Nah, there's nothing. You know Bones…" He stopped as Rus just stared at him waiting. "It's nothing, really."

"You've been spending too much time with my sister." He chuckled. "What's going on?" Booth looked at Brennan before taking a deep breath.

"Alright, alright. We didn't want to worry anyone, but months ago we found out the twins had heart defects. They seem to be growing out it but we can't be completely sure until after they're born." He said low.

"That's not nothing. That's serious." Rus said looking at Booth before they both glanced at Brennan.

"Bones doesn't want to tell anyone until we know for sure, so you say anything to anyone…"

"I know." He started to chuckle. "I say a word and you torture me and I don't want to even think about what Tempe would do to me." Booth smirked knowing all about Brennan. She turned walking back over to them as she smiled.

"Alright, I have it set. He's going to delve farther into the studies and try to branch in ones that are for similar problems."

"Thanks, Tempe." Rus said with a smile before he looked down at her swollen stomach. "How are my nieces or nephews or… any combination?" He said making Brennan smirk as she ran a hand over the large bump.

"They're doing well. Still have eight weeks to go." She said making him smile as Booth's phone rang.

"Booth… Okay." He said before he hung the phone up. "Looks like we have to head to the office. They dug up the paper work I asked for."

"Let me know if anything changes." Brennan said hugging her brother before she turned and started walking away.

"You know you really should talk to my sister about marriage." Rus smirked making Booth raise an eyebrow.

"Bones? Marriage? Yeah forget that. The last time we talked about marriage she had a whole case full of reasons never to get married. I know exactly where she stands with marriage." Rus shook his head with a chuckle.

"Sure you do." Rus went back into the room leaving Booth to wonder before joining up with Brennan to leave and head to the office.

"What did my brother say?" She asked walking into his office, curious as to why the two had whispered and Booth stood thinking for a minute.

"It was nothing. Just something, that made me think for a second. Don't worry about it Bones." He said as he looked at her. They were cautious about going to the office as her swollen stomach grew bigger since they didn't want to let anyone in the FBI know they were together, even though everyone at Brennan's lab already knew.

"Booth, I know you well enough to know that you're trying to hide something." She smiled making him smirk and shake his head as Sweets walked in making both of them stop and look at him.

"Alright, look I need to talk to you two." He said making them look at each other. Sweets opened his mouth to continue when Brennan's phone rang.

"Hey Parker….. Yes, I'll be there soon." She smiled and hung up. "I'm going to go get Parker." She said grabbing her bag from the floor leaving Sweets confused as she walked out leaving Booth in his chair looking at Sweets.

"Sweets you've been trying to pin us in the same room for months to talk about something. Just spit it out." Booth told him.

"Dr. Brennan is going to… pick up…. Parker? Your son?" Booth nodded as Sweets took a deep breath. "I wanted to tell you and Dr. Brennan, but… I know about you and her." He said quickly making Booth sit up in his chair and look at the younger man hard.

"Are you suggesting this as an FBI shrink or are you telling me as a friend?" Booth asked.

"Both." Booth furrowed his eyebrows at him. "Okay, I'm telling you I know all about it as your shrink, but as your friend I will keep it quiet until you and Dr. Brennan tell others or it interferes with how you work together and solve murders."

"So you're not going to tell Hacker?"

"No, unless you and she cannot deal with it and your work together, I will keep this only between us."

"How did you figure it out?"

"Well the closeness you both shared shifted slightly in the past few months; you sit closer to her and seem to stay with each other more often. Besides the fact that I followed you that night after the investigation was started." Booth looked at him with a soft glare. "I was confused as to what was going on; I knew you were both stubborn enough to keep it hidden so I found out on my own."

"How exactly did you find out?" Booth asked standing up to look at him.

"I, uh…. I went to the door and heard the conversation. I know its twins and I know they have a heart defect." Booth looked at Sweets as he stuttered through.

"So you stalked us and eavesdropped on a conversation with a doctor?" Booth summarized. "I thought you weren't allowed to do that."

"Well it was strictly as your friend." He paused and watched Booth sigh. "You're taking this….. well."

"Because it was bound to come out sooner or later. Especially when their born. So might as well start figuring a way to save my job now." Sweets nodded as he watched Booth sit back in his chair.

"There could be a way to get this smoothed over." Booth looked at him curious. "Since I am still shadowing you and Dr. Brennan, I am the one they would refer to as to whether or not to keep you as a team. I've seen you both work under pressure and with problems, and there's always been that relationship you share as close partners. There should be no reason not to keep you together. All they really have to do is look at your case files and see how good your work is."