The Baby in the Bond

A/N: Next chapter! Thanks to my amazing cousin for editing! I apologize in advance for the person I am including in this chapter. I just felt like I had to! Thanks for reading! It means more than the world to me!

Disclaimer: I do not own bones no matter how much I wish I did

Chapter 8:

The next day came and Brennan was on the platform studying the bones once again. She had been looking at the same rib for almost an hour. There was something different about it that she couldn't interpret. Everything seemed different to her these days. She just wished somebody could get her to focus her attention away from her past neighbor. A few minutes had passed and her wish came true, yet this was not the person she would like to be distracted by.

"Hello, Temperance! How are you doing? You look great, as always!" spoken by a familiar deep voice of a man she wished not to be seen with right now.

When would Hacker even learn to stop using those flirty lines on her?

"Hello Andrew, I'm doing ok, are you?"

"Fantastic! I was just wondering if we could have a little talk in your office" he said pointing towards where Brennan's office was located.

"Yes, of course."

They walked to Brennan's office. As they walked off the platform, Hacker put his hand on the small of her back. She tried to free herself. "Only Booth holds me like that. Nobody else." She thought

"What's wrong? Did I do something to upset you?"

"No it's just-" She was just about to tell her partner's boss about their relationship when Booth walked in. Thank god!

"Bones! What are you- Hacker?"

"Hello Booth. I was just having a private word with Temperance."

"Bones, did you tell him anything?"

"Not a word"

"W-what's going on?" Hacker asked worried

"Nothing, can I have a word with you outside please?"

Booth took Hacker outside of Brennan's office and stood by the door telling him what he needed to be told. Brennan saw them talking through the glass but could only see their mouths moving swiftly. Hacker looked disappointed and Booth looked strict.

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"I-I was going to ask my Temperance for a second chance."

"Well my Temperance is carrying my child so I think that will be a little difficult."

"I can't believe this!"

"Can we please continue working together?"

"I don't think I should let you."

"With all due respect sir, it's not your decision. Sweets gets to decide whether we're still suitable partners or not."

"With all due respect Agent, it is my decision. I decide whether to even submit you to therapy. I could terminate this partnership right now if I wanted to!"

"Sir, me and Bones have the highest crime solving rate in D.C. Would you really want to terminate that? What will the FBI think of you then?"

"Fine, I'll think about it, but don't think you're off the hook just yet."

Hacker walked away from the door and out of the high-tech lab while Booth walked back into Brennan's office and was greeting with a slap in the arm.

"Ouch! Hey what was that for?"

"You should've let me tell him! I understand that he's your boss but he doesn't yell at me!"

"True, but would you want me to be the one to tell your boss?"

"No."

"Didn't think so."

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As the time to go home grew closer, Booth was waiting anxiously because he had a little black velvet box waiting for Bones at home. He decided he'd show her what it was tonight. He couldn't wait to get home and relax after a long day of arguing with Hacker.

Everyone said their 'goodbyes' and 'see you on Monday's. This weekend was going to be a good one. He could feel it. As they were walking out, Booth took Brennan's hand into his.

"Booth! Someone will see us!"

"No one's looking Bones. That's why I could do this." He leaned to his left and kissed her temple.

"If someone sees and we get questioned on Monday, I'm blaming you."

"Fine with me Bones." Booth said with a smirk. How he couldn't wait to open that velvet box for her to see.

They walked into Booth's apartment and Brennan raced to relax on the couch, as she always did right after she walked into his place. Booth followed her, picked up her feet to place in his lap and started to talk. He fidgeted with her toes as he started talking about the hidden surprise.

"So you know that little velvet box I told you I was hiding?"

"Yes, I recall you saying something about a box."

"Do you know what it is yet?"

"How am I supposed to know what it is if you haven't yet told me?"

"Come on, A little… velvet… box" he said it very slowly for her to comprehend what he was implying. She replied with the same slow tone.

"I still… have no… idea"

"Well you're sitting on it so if you would like to know what it is, please let me get it."

Brennan gets up to find nothing resting beneath her.

"I don't see anything!"

"That's because it's under the cushion!" said Booth grabbing the box from under the couch.

Bones sat back down in awe. She finally knew what he was holding. All she could think was how someone of her intelligence could not guess that a little velvet box would contain a ring in it. An engagement ring from Booth. What would she say? She wouldn't have to say anything until he opened up the box. "Oh my god, this ring is beautiful!" She thought. Booth was grinning charmingly. He knew how she felt about marriage and yet he still had the confidence to ask her with the possibility of being turned down a third time. But he knew somewhere deep down that this time would be different.

"Well Bones? Do I really need to say anything?"

Brennan just shook her head with her mouth still wide open. She couldn't believe this was happening. Tears started to stream down her face.

"Bones, why are you crying? You're not supposed to be upset. You're supposed to be happy! What's the matter? Did I do something wrong? I-"

"Booth, I don't want to marry you just because I've been impregnated."

"No no no no you've got this all wrong! I don't want to marry you because of the baby! I want to marry you because… well because… because I love you."

He was just full of surprises tonight. He'd never told her he loved her before and she never told him. He thought it, well they both thought it. But neither of them had the courage to say it out loud.

"I love you Bones. Don't you love me?"

"Well, yes I do but-"

"But nothing, you love me?"

"Yes of course I love you Booth. But I just don't think that's a good enough reason for marriage."

"Please don't make this my third rejection. I thought this would be different. I thought you'd be different."

"Booth-"

"And what is your idea for the perfect reason to marry me huh? What's it gonna be?"

"Angela told me when she turned down Hodgins' first proposal, she told him that she had to get that feeling. She didn't know how to explain it but she said she needed to feel something. Something big. I don't feel that right now."

"Come on, are you really gonna listen to Angela? Do you know how many boyfriends she's had? She has a new one every week. Well, before she married Hodgins. And even though she didn't feel it the first time, they still got married right? So I'm going to keep trying until you say yes because I want you." Booth said exceedingly convincing

"You have me Booth."

"Not the way I want to have you."

"Well fine, if you don't have me the way you want me I guess I'll be leaving."

Brennan stood up to leave. What was he supposed to do? Tie her to a chair until she gave in? This was supposed to be a romantic night for the two of them. Now it turned into a big fight. He wanted her so badly and he wouldn't rest until he had her. He wanted marriage, and that's what he was set on achieving.

"Bones wait."

"No, you said it yourself. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome"

Where had he heard that before?

"Well then let's go for a different outcome, hear me out. You talk to older couples. Who say they have been in love for thirty or forty of fifty years, right? It's always the guy who says 'I knew'. I knew. Right from the beginning. I'm that guy."

It was all coming back to him. He had said these exact words that night in front of the Hoover FBI building. The night she had turned him down. The night she had missed out on a chance for lifetime happiness. The night that had changed both of their lives.

"I don't have your kind of open heart." Bones thought wanting to say out loud to continue the reenactment of their past conversation. "One of the most important conversations they've ever had.

"Booth, we've had this conversation before. I know how it goes. I've never been able to forget it."

"Yeah well me neither. And what happened that night during the Lauren Eames case? You told me you made a mistake and you didn't want to have any regrets. You told me you missed your chance! Now you have another one! Why don't you just make it easy for the both of us and take the chance! I promise you won't regret it."

"I don't know Booth. I-"

"Please. That's all I ask of you. I don't just want to be a weekend-to-weekend dad like I am with Parker. I want a family."

"We are a family Booth. We always have been. A family consists of a male and a female working together in order to help raise and protect an infant or child together. That's what we are."

"No. A family is a married couple in love raising a child. We're having a child, we're in love. The only part missing is the marriage part!"

"Booth marriage is a traditional ritual which in the late eighteenth century was-"

"Could you please stop thinking with your head for once and think with your heart?"

"You know I always go with the facts."

"I don't need facts. Anybody could tell me facts. I want to hear what your heart has to say. Something that only you could tell me."

"My heart says that I love you. More than I ever thought possible."

"My heart says that I want to marry you. More than I've ever wanted to marry anyone before."

"My heart says I found that feeling."

They continue their conversation consisting of sentences starting with "my heart" while Booth slips the beautiful 8.5 karat white gold ring onto her finger. It had a slim and shiny band with one big diamond on the front surrounded by two smaller diamonds on either side of it.

"My heart says I want to kiss you."

"My heart says go for it"

With that, Booth grabbed her and pulled her in for one of the most passionate kisses they've ever had. Almost as passionate as their first night together, the day that Vincent had lived and served his last day on earth. They were perfect together. It was as clear as day. Or as Clark had put it, "Even a blind man could see it." That moment was the moment both of them had waited their entire lives for. Now it was time to go to the bedroom and celebrate with each other.

A/N: Let me know what you think! I'll update the next chapter soon!