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Booth's alarm went off at 6:00am, which caused everybody in the bed to stir. Booth turned it off quickly and managed to untangle himself from Christine and Brennan enough that he could get out of bed. He changed into his workout clothes and jogged down the stairs. The alarm had caused Christine to roll over, still deep in her slumber, and had woken Brennan, even though she was more than used to her partner's early morning work-out alarms. Brennan never got up until Booth had left, she usually didn't even open her eyes. He knew that he didn't like waking her. After Brennan had heard the front door shut, she opened her eyes to see Christine, tangled in her arms and the blankets. She couldn't quite remember Christine getting into their bed, but assumed she had woken Booth in the night. Brennan gently planted a kiss on the top of her daughter's head as she attempted to get out of bed without waking her. As Brennan sat on the side of the bed, she felt a little queazy. "Morning sickness..." Brennan thought aloud. She looked over at her sleeping daughter. Brennan knew the one thing that scared Christine most was when her mommy or daddy were sick or injured. Feeling worse by the minute, Brennan picked up her phone and walked out of the room and down the stairs, heading for the downstairs bathroom. Sitting on the side of the bath, awaiting her morning-sickness fate, she bought out her phone and pressed 1, speed-dialing Booth. After one two rings, Booth answered his phone.
"Bones, what's wrong?" Booth asked, out of breath from his morning run.
"Christine and I are fine Booth." Brennan assured him, "I am just experiencing morning sickness..." Brennan explained.
"Oh crap." Booth said, he knew why Brennan called him, Christine freaked out when people were sick.
"Christine is still asleep, but I predict she'll be waking up soon..." her sentence was cut off by the sound of her vomiting.
"I'm on my way home Bones, I'm coming." Booth said into the phone, Brennan could tell by the sound of his panting that he had picked up pace.
"Mommy? Daddy?" Brennan heard Christine calling out.
"I'm down here baby. You stay up there, okay?." Brennan yelled in-between throwing up, trying not to cause alarm 'Hurry Booth' was all she could think.
"Mommy? Where are you? What's wrong?" Brennan heard Christine's footsteps descending the steps. Brennan opened her mouth, trying to respond, but she couldn't manage any words, she threw up again.
"Mommy!" Christine's panicked voice came through the bathroom door. "Mommy are you sick!?" Brennan could hear Christine starting to cry against the door. Doing all she could to delay throwing up again, she tried to console her daughter.
"I'm okay baby. Go back up stairs." Brennan managed to say, but the sentenced ended with another round of throw up.
"MOMMY!" Christine screamed hysterically, now in full blown tears. The sound of her daughter's crying made Brennan's heart break, as her own tears rolled down her cheek. Brennan heard the front door slam open and Booth's calming voice talking to Christine. 'Thank you Booth. Thank-you.' Brennan thought as she felt another wave of morning sickness coming on. Brennan could hear Booth's footsteps ascending the steps, and then a few moments later descending them with much greater speed. The door to the bathroom opened just as Brennan threw up yet again. Booth knelt down next to Brennan and gathered her hair, holding it back.
"It's okay, baby." Booth said consolingly, "It's alright. I'm here, Christine's okay." Booth reached over and tore some toilet paper from it's roll and wiped Brennan's mouth. Using his fingers he wiped away the tears from her face as she fell into him, leaning her head on his chest. Kissing her hair and rubbing her back, Booth whispered calming words into her ear.
"Christine? You should be with Christine." Brennan spoke into his chest.
"She's okay. I told her it was just the new baby making sure we didn't forget about it. She's playing on your I-pad. She told me she would have to have a word with the baby later on. She's not impressed." Booth laughed, making Brennan laugh too.
"I think it's over for now." Brennan said, placing a hand on her stomach. "That was worse than I ever had with Christine." She said, still leaning into Booth.
"How about we get you into the shower, make you feel better?" He said into her ear.
"That sounds good, Booth." Brennan smiled. "I want to brush my teeth first though." She said as he helped her get up. "I can get up by myself, Booth." Brennan said.
"I know you can, baby. Just pretend you need me." He laughed.
"I don't need to pretend, Booth." Brennan smiled back.