A/N: Sorry I'm only updating now...my laptop crashed and all that I've written was gone, so I had to type it all in again. I hope you'll still like me when you find out, that is chapter is set 2 years after the first one. You'll find out what happens though from what the characters tell. There'll always be several years between chapters but I promise it'll all end well...though maybe a little later than we'd all like.

Now...enjoy and let me know what you think!

Chapter 2

Angela:

She is such an awesome mother! Not that I ever had any doubt about that…the way she was with Amelia from the beginning made that very clear…but it's still kind of amazing to see, how good she really is with her own kid.

I smile as I lean back in the lawn chair I'm sitting in…Brennan has really come a long way since we first met each other. Gone is the awkward woman that didn't know how to communicate with other people…replaced by the most loving mother a child could think of. I know she doesn't believe me when I tell her this…but sometimes I really wish I could be as good as her. If only she could see what everybody else sees…

I can still remember the day she told me she was pregnant like it was yesterday. Probably because I almost fell off my chair from the shock she gave me. I chuckle…I had been expecting a lot from Brennan when she asked me and Amelia to have breakfast with her that day…but not that.

Yes, I had thought for a few months that she had seemed different…happier…than she had been ever since we all got back from our sabbatical. I of course didn't know why but was glad she seemed to get back to her old self after the way Booth had played with her heart.

The way she told me was a typical Brennan…we were talking about Amelia's latest tries of crawling when she simply said: "Give her time Ange, she'll learn it eventually. I hope I can be a bit more patient with my child than you are with her sometimes…"

There I had it. It took me a couple seconds to realize what exactly she'd just told me and about half a minute of serious thinking until it finally hit me that I must have missed something along the way. Of course, all this time my brain was working overtime, Brennan had gone on about something as if nothing had happened. So she didn't really seem pleased when I interrupted her to ask her "Did you just tell me that you're pregnant?"

She'd smiled at me then…one of the biggest smiles I'd ever seen on her face and simply nodded.

At first I was speechless. I know, hard to imagine but I swear it's true. Then I asked her a thousand questions like when? Who? How? How far along? Who again?

She answered all of them calmly and without hesitation…and she must have seen my disappointed look when she told me she'd had an insemination because it was only then she told me the full extend of what had happened between her and Booth…I'd only known bits and pieces till then and spun myself a lovely little story.

By the time she was done telling her story, I had a new godchild and appointed myself Brennan's pregnancy buddy against her protests she didn't need anybody. But I knew from my own experience that I'd more than once been glad to have Jack around while I was expecting Amelia and that day in the diner I'd sworn myself to never let Brennan have to be on her own if she really didn't want to.

So I went to all the doctor's appointments with her, helped her pick out her new house when she decided the area and apartment she lived in were not suitable to bring up a child. We even went to Lamaze class together and had a lot of fun pretending to be a lesbian couple expecting their second child within a year.

Those 6 months that Bren let me be part of her pregnancy, our friendship grew even deeper than it had been before. So there was no doubt at all where Brennan would stay when she started having contractions at only 30 weeks and was put on bed rest for the next 6 weeks.

After that episode, everybody including her doctor had thought, Brennan's baby would surely come early. So when she was allowed to get up again at 36 weeks, we were all waiting for her to go into labor again any day.

But…that little baby inside my best friend's belly…that we didn't know the sex of until it was born…had a different idea…

Brennan's due date had been calculated for a week before Amelia's first birthday. Since we were all expecting the baby to come earlier, we'd never thought it possible that Bren would still be pregnant at her godchild's birthday. But…she was…until about half way through unpacking my daughter's presents when Brennan came up to me and asked me quietly, if now was a good time to interrupt the birthday party…because her contractions were already only 5 minutes apart and she wasn't sure if she could be quiet about them any longer…

So…I got to spend the last part of my daughter's first birthday in the delivery room having my hand crushed…and cutting my godson's umbilical chord after he'd been born into my arms.

Ii was such an amazing experience that I can even forgive Brennan that she couldn't let Matt have his own birthday.

And so here we are today…celebrating Matt's first birthday and Amelia's second. We are at Brennan's new house in the back yard since I've decided to work on my million kids and am expecting another one in about a month. So Bren offered to throw both birthday parties at her place…of course I didn't turn her down.

"You okay?" Jack asks me as he gets down beside me and rubs my belly as I nod. "You sure?" he asks again "You seemed a million miles away just now…"

"I'm fine." I tell him and smile. "Just been thinking about how good life is…"

And it really is…life is good. I have Jack and Amelia and the little one soon to come…Brennan has little Matt…and all of our friends are happy as well…

Yes, life is good…

Booth:

I'm not really sure I belong here. Bones and I have had so little contact this past year and there are so many people here I don't know…I feel kind of out of place. Thank God I brought Parker and Hannah with me because it's very clear to me now that "my squints" are not mine anymore…

Nobody really notices me as I sit on the steps of Bones' veranda that lead down into the backyard where there seem to be a million Moms and kids running around…one of them the little man of the day Matthew Brennan.

I search for the boy in the crowd and smile when I find him…he must have just started walking a few days ago because toddling around seems to be all he's really interested in. I can still remember that time from when Parker was his age…and now he's almost a teenager.

Matt looks so much like Bones with his long legs and already auburn hair…it's unbelievable and I feel a sting in my heart as I think about the boys dark brown eyes…the eyes of a complete stranger…not mine.

When Bones told me she was pregnant and that it had been done by insemination, my initial thought had been, that she'd used my donation to get inseminated. I can still remember the mixed feelings I had about this…on the one hand I was shocked that she'd go that far and fearful for what it meant for my relationship with Hannah. On the other hand though, there was this underlying feeling of pride and joy…pride that Bones had become pregnant through me and joy because I was going to be a father again and Bones was the mother…

Those mixed feelings only lasted for about half a minute…until Bones set straight that she of course hadn't used my stuff and that the sperm had come from a sperm bank.

After that, I only felt crushed…and have ever since…

I search for Parker in the crowd and find him playing ball with Amelia and Hannah…all three of them seemingly having a lot of fun. Hannah's really a lot better with kids than she says she is…and that's good, because we just decided we'll keep the baby she's carrying.

It's not a planned pregnancy…before we got married half a year ago we had a huge fight about whether we wanted more kids or not. In fact we almost separated. It finally ended when I told her that I'd respect her wish to never have kids of her own but if it happened we'd talk again. She agreed and we got married…but every time I saw Bones with little Matt I felt even more crushed and cheated in a way…knowing that if I'd waited for her, I'd have what I'd been longing for for a while…

It helped though that Bones hasn't been back to work yet and I only get to see her and her boy every other month. I never thought that she could stay away from the Jeffersonian for so long but she did. Her first day back at work will be next Monday…and it'll only be half days then. This woman still amazes me to no end. Then again…I don't really know her anymore so I'm probably in for a few more surprises in the upcoming weeks and months when we'll be working together again…

Back to Hannah…when she found out about the baby 5 weeks ago, she didn't tell me at first, later claiming she had to make up her own mind before she talked to me. It still hurts deeply that she'd just get rid of a child we've both created…although not planned…without telling me. Thankfully though Hannah is an honest person and did eventually inform me of her pregnancy. So we've spent the last few weeks, discussing what to do…and only decided 2 days ago to keep the baby.

But…it comes with a compromise. The main reason Hannah didn't want this baby was the huge job offer she got just a few days before she found out. She'd have her own section in a huge newspaper in California…nobody telling her what to write, free to do whatever she liked…an offer you just don't turn down as a journalist she told me. And I could see it in her eyes that she meant it.

So…we made a compromise. Take the job and move to L.A., I take a desk job at the local FBI office there and take care of the baby once it's born so Hannah's free to do on her job whatever she wants.

I look at Parker again…it'll be hard leaving him here. The little time we have together now will be cut even shorter…I hope he'll forgive me one day that I really chose his sibling over him…

Bones' and Angela's loud laughter reaches my ears and I turn my head to see what they're laughing about...and laugh as well as I see Matt with his face covered in cream from trying to eat his birthday cake.

I'll miss my squints as well…and especially Bones and her son and watching him grow up and her becoming an even better mother than she is now. Because even though he's not mine, I still feel more connected to him than I do to Amelia or any other kid besides Parker…simply because he's the son of the woman I'll always regret I didn't wait for…

Yes…I'll miss this life…