-Chapter Twelve-

Four months later Booth stood over Rebecca's grave holding a bouquet of flowers. He thought back to the day he'd told Rebecca that Temperance was pregnant.

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"You got another woman pregnant?" She'd snarled at him.

"It wasn't like I was trying to!" He quickly defended.

She stood glaring at him for a long while before finally sighing, her face softening.

"I guess I should congratulate you." She pulled him into a hug. "It was only a matter of time before something like this happened between the two of you." Even though she tried to sound sincere, Booth could still tell that she was still upset.

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A few days after Emma had been born Parker had begged that Rebecca take him to see his new baby sister.

"Daddy!" Parker yelled as he ran into his father's arms.

Booth shushed his son. "Aunt Bones is trying to get Emma to sleep."

"'Trying' is the key word." Brennan said as she entered the sitting room of her apartment carrying the baby.

"Hiya Aunt Bones!" Parker greeted excitedly.

"Hey Parker." She smiled. "Hello Rebecca."

"Dr. Brennan." She greeted.

"Ah, please, call me Temperance."

Rebecca smiled. "Alright."

"Can I get you something to drink?" Temperance asked as she handed Emma off to Booth.

"I, um, I wasn't planning on staying." Parker whipped around and pouted.

"Mommy! I wanted you to meet Emma!" He gave his mother a sad look and she sighed.

"Maybe I can stay for a little while." Parker smiled and turned to his little sister in his father's arms.

"I have coffee?" Brennan offered.

Rebecca glanced at Booth, who raised his eyebrows, and looked at Brennan. "Coffee's fine."

Brennan nodded and left for the kitchen. Rebecca stood there awkwardly until Parker called her over.

"Mommy!"

She glanced at Booth again, he gave her a grin, and she slowly walked over to the couch. Parker took Emma from his dad's arms and made his way over to the couch, sitting next to his mom.

"This is Emma." He said proudly, showing his mother the baby. "I'm her big brother, like Daddy is to Uncle Jared. Do you wanna hold her?" He asked.

"I don't know if that's a good idea sweetie." Rebecca quickly answered, and the little boy pouted.

"It's alright Rebecca." Booth said, as he watched them. Rebecca hesitantly took Emma from Parker's hold and gently rocked the little girl.

"She's adorable." She whispered, and Booth smiled proudly. "This almost makes me want another baby."

"Then I'd have another little brother or sister!" Parker exclaimed, clearly all for the idea, as Booth chuckled.

Brennan chose that moment to reenter the room. She put Rebecca's mug of coffee down next to her on the table. She chuckled slightly. "You got her to go to sleep."

Rebecca looked down at the sleeping baby and smiled slightly. "I guess I did." She carefully handed Emma to Brennan and picked up her coffee mug.

Temperance silently walked out of the room, leaving the family to talk.

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Booth bent down and placed the lily's, Rebecca's favorite flower, on the ground in front of her grave.

"I miss you Becca." He traced her name with his finger. "I think you'd be happy to know that Temperance killed the bastard that did this to you. She took Parker and Emma and left. To keep them safe. I trust her, I just wished that she would have told me so that I could have gone with them." He stood back up and looked around, having the feeling that he was being watched. Not seeing anyone, he turned back to the headstone. "But Bones wouldn't do that. She wouldn't have told me her plan because she wouldn't have wanted to put me in that situation. She knows that I love working for the FBI." Then it hit him. The frustration and confusion as to why his partner hadn't told him what she was planning on doing finally made sense. "She didn't want to make me choose." He whispered. The hairs on the back of Seeley Booth's neck suddenly stood up and he whirled around, his gun pointed.

"Special Agent Booth!" Ramon Ortez greeted a little to cheerful for Booth's liking.

"Ortez!" He growled. "Put your hands above your head." Ortez reluctantly complied. "Ramon Ortez, you are under arrest for the murder of Rebecca Stinson and the attempted murder of Temperance Brennan." Booth quickly cuffed Ortez and roughly led him back to his Charger. He roughly stuffed him inside the car and drove off towards the Hoover building.