A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews. So I had my friend and twin, Hailey, read it and at first she was going to kill me, but now she's just holding it against me. She says I have to fix it. So that is what I'm doing. I'm fixing it…kinda.
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It had been three days since he had seen her. Booth was afraid. This could be his only chance to be with her. But he couldn't do that to Rebecca or to his kids. It would crush them.
But Temperance was the woman he was in love with. He believed that she was his soul mate. Could he really live without her?
'Yes,' he thought. 'I've been living without her for five years.' But for those five years he had a pain in his heart. And everyday he was without her it grew stronger.
Booth looked out the window and noticed the rain falling down. They reminded him of the teardrops he saw on her face. He made up his mind. He loved her. He missed her. But most of all, he needed her.
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She was sitting on a park bench all alone in the dark. The rain had been falling faster and harder. She was soaking wet when he saw her, but he didn't care. He still thought she looked beautiful.
Booth walked up to her and pulled her off the bench. He hugged her tightly and whispered in her ear, "I can't live without you."
Brennan relished in the hug. She was back in his arms and she felt safe. "Bones I need you here with me. I need," Booth took a deep breath. "I need to be with you somehow." He pulled back from the hug and she immediately missed his warmth. "But I can't leave Rebecca and the kids. They don't deserve to be hurt like that."
Bones took a sharp breath. 'He isn't going to leave her? What about me?' "Maybe, maybe we could just be friends?" She felt her heart break as he nodded.
"I missed you so much Bones." He hugged her again. Bones let herself cry and hoped that he couldn't distinguish her tears from the falling rain.
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Booth walked into his house dripping with rain. "Where were you daddy?" His two-year-old daughter asked from her spot on the couch.
"Hey Echo, shouldn't you be asleep by now?" The little girl gave him a sweet smile.
"That's what mommy thinks I'm doing right now. But mommy's the one who's asleep." She blinked her brown eyes. "Daddy will you tell me a story?"
"Sure. Just let me get changed and I'll tell you a story." He walked out of the living room and into his bedroom where he changed silently. (stop drooling over his body!) As he walked back into the living room he heard his daughter talking.
"My brother tells me 'bout you. He says that daddy loves you but the you went 'way an' daddy was vewry sad." Echo looked up at her dad. "Hi daddy! Bones is nice!" She handed him the cell phone and walked back to the couch.
"Bones, I'm so sorry. I didn't think she would play with my phone." Booth began apologizing.
"It's okay Booth. She was just telling me some stories. She said she was waiting for you to tell her a story."
"Yeah, I guess I should do that." He sighed. "Do you wanna grab breakfast tomorrow?"
"Yeah, I'd like that." She replied.
"I'll call you tomorrow Bones." He hung up the phone and looked at his daughter. She looked up at him innocently.
"Did I do something wrong daddy?"
Booth sighed. His daughter seemed to have a knack for getting into trouble. Just like a certain anthropologist he knew. "No, you didn't."
"Daddy, why do you call her Bones?" Echo asked sweetly.
"It's her nickname I gave her. Just like you have the nickname Echo."
"Can you tell stories of you and Bones? Please?" She pouted.
Booth smiled at his daughter. "Okay." Booth and Echo stayed up late into the night talking about Bones. Occasionally his daughter would giggle when he would tell her things that Bones didn't know. When he finished telling her a story she would ask questions and listen intently to his answers.
"Daddy can I go with you to breakfast tomorrow to meet Bones?"
"I don't know baby girl…I'll think about it okay? But for now, you need to go to sleep."
"But I'm not tired!" The little girl protested. Booth ignored her glare and picked her up. As soon as she was in his arms, she was asleep. 'She is just like Bones.' He thought as he tucked her in.
"I love you." He whispered softly before going back to the living room and fell asleep on the couch.
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So that's chapter two. I thought it would be cute to have a little Booth/Mini-Booth interaction. Isn't she just adorable though? Review and you'll get another update soon!