B/N: Brennan meets up with an old friend. She still tells no one who the father is.
The Jeffersonian team departed three days later and everyone else had to stay. The excavation was still on hold due to the monsoon and it didn't look like it was letting up.
Deciding to get some fresh air, Brennan took a walk down at the marina, watching the boats go in and out of the harbor. She sat on a bench and watched the sunset play upon the waters. Pulling out her camera, she took a picture knowing Angela would paint the scene for her…she'd want to give her daughter a piece of her life…of the place where she was born.
"Tempe?" She looked up to see a face of the past…Sully. She stood and looked at him, "wow…what are you doing in Australia?"
"My excavation was cancelled till the Monsoon ends." She looked at him and he nodded, smiling and kissed her cheek.
"You look good, beautiful…girl or boy?"
She placed a hand on her belly and smiled, "girl, Elizabeth Christine, I'm thirty-three weeks."
He chuckled, "and you're on excavation pregnant, isn't that dangerous?"
She shook her head and eyed him, "actually my chances of getting hurt are much lower then getting bitten by a shark."
Sully chuckled and eyed her, "so is your boyfriend with you, I bet he's worried sick about you being pregnant and on an excavation."
"No, he's currently deployed in Afghanistan, I felt it best to occupy my mind while he is away and the dig is doing so."
Sully looked at his watch, "why don't I buy you two lunch, my treat as a friend. We can catch up on everything while we eat."
"I'd like that."
They found a seafood shack not far from the marina and began talking, "So you're serious…Zack helped the Gormogon, that's strange."
"We were all very shocked to discover it but he understood the consequences despite what he did." She took a sip of her tea, "how is the Temperance, is it doing well?"
"Yeah, she's fairing well and is a great sea companion despite being stubborn, reminds me of you in a way."
Brennan shook her head, "your brain connects the boat's unwillingness to cooperate with the fact it bares my name. In now way does it show an emotional value."
Sully laughed and eyed her, "you never stop and take a moment do you, since I left have you taken a moment to think of something other then science?"
"If you mean emotionally then yes, I have come to fall in love with someone despite our current situation. If you are implying a hobby then no." She looked at him and he nodded.
"Where's Booth, he's got to be pissed that you ran off."
"Booth is not a subject I wish to talk about." She moved the straw in her tea around.
Her cell phone rang and she looked at it to see it was an unrecognizable number, she answered it.
"Brennan."
"Bones, its Booth. I managed to get time off base so I bought a calling card. How are you doing baby?"
"I'm great, I was down at the marina and I ran into a friend, we're having lunch." She looked at Sully and smiled, he watched her. "Is the desert still killing you and the stand storms whipping your ass?"
She smiled at Booth's laugh, "yeah, it is baby…it's good to see your voice. I got to go, someone else has to make a call. I love you baby, you and Elizabeth."
"I love you too, I'll wait for your letters. Bye." She hung up and put her phone away, "sorry, he only gets to make phone calls with a calling card and everyone wants to make calls."
"Got to be tough, not knowing if he'll get killed or hurt."
She nodded, "I try not to thank about, I should head back since its getting dark."
He walked her back to her hotel and she smiled, waving.
"Hope to see you again sometime Tempe."
"It was good to see you again Sully."
A/N: Month nine hits and so does the labor, soon everyone will find out who the father is...as no one actually knows.