Around noon, Bones had started to move around the apartment as the contractions started to get closer and closer together. They started at about five minutes apart and now they were at two minutes apart.

"I don't understand how some women can do this more than once." she said to no one, breathing heavily through another contraction as she stood over the kitchen table.

Her cell phone started to ring. She expected it to be Booth checking up on her, but the caller ID said Angela. She decided to answer it as the contraction finally stopped for now.

"Hey, Angela." she said, still breathing heavily.

"You okay there, Sweetie?" Angela questioned.

"Oh yeah, I'm just having contractions, that's all."

"Oh my God, Bren! Do you need me to call Booth? Do you need me to come over?"

"No!" Bones exclaimed. "Please don't call Booth, I don't want him worrying, at least not yet. The contractions are only two minutes apart, so I still have some time and I'd rather spend it at home. Booth would have me go to the hospital right away if he knew."

"Bren, you're in labor, you shouldn't be alone." Angela said, growing very concerned. "I'm going to come over there right now. You need someone with you."

"No, you don't have to…" Bones began.

"I am coming anyway." Angela interrupted.

Within twenty minutes, Angela was on Bones' doorstep knocking on the door. "Bren, it's me!" she called.

Bones trudged to the door and opened it and let Angela in. "I'm fine." Bones said before Angela said anything.

"Are you sure, you look really tired."

"Of course I'm tired, I have been having contractions since before 3am!" Bones snapped. "I'm sorry if that came out harsh. I am just exhausted from the constant pain."

"Not a problem." Angela said. "You should go try to sleep since you're tired."

"Walking helps labor come, so I'd rather walk around to speed this up. I want this over and done with."

Bones' contractions started coming more suddenly around 2pm at 50 second intervals. Angela finally convinced her to call Booth.

"Booth."

"Booth?" Bones struggled to say as a contraction started.

"Hey, honey, how are you doing today?"

"I could be better. I'm in labor, Booth."

"What? Bones, you have to get to a hospital! How long have you been having contractions?"

"Eleven hours." she responded sheepishly, knowing the reaction she would get out of him.

"Bones! You have been in labor for eleven hours and you never told me?" Booth exclaimed. "I'm coming home right now." he said, hanging up immediately.

Booth drove like a maniac to the apartment, not knowing if he was going to have to deliver the baby at home or even worse, in the car. He raced up the flight of stairs and threw open the door to find Bones leaning against the back of the couch, with Angela nearby, talking her through another contraction.

"How far apart are they?" Booth asked.

"45 seconds." Angela said.

"Bones, come on, we are going to the hospital right now." Booth demanded, putting her arm around his neck and his arm around her waist. Angela ran to the bedroom and grabbed the suitcase Bones had thankfully already packed during her day of labor. They all headed down to the cars. Booth helped Bones into the SUV and Angela got into her sedan after putting the suitcase in the back seat.

"I'll meet you guys there!" she called, as they all started toward the hospital.

"My God, Bones, why didn't you call me sooner?"

"I didn't…want to…worry you." she said in between rhythmic breaths.

"Bones, if you weren't in labor right now, I would be so mad."

Finally arriving at the hospital, thankfully still with only two people, Bones and Booth, rushed into the ER entrance.

"She's in labor!" Booth called out to no one in particular, as a nurse wheeled a chair over to them and had Bones sit in it. They quickly brought her up to Labor and Delivery. Angela barely missed them leaving when she arrived, but she caught them, carrying the suitcase from her car.

After filling out some paperwork, Booth met up with Bones and Angela in her delivery room. She was already hooked up to a fetal monitor. The doctor came in a little while later.

"So, I hear someone in here is looking to have a baby today. I'm Dr. Leonard, by the way. You must be the father" he said, holding out his hand to Booth.

"Yeah, I'm Seeley Booth and this is Temperance Brennan…"

"Dr. Temperance Brennan." Bones corrected. "This is my friend Angela." Bones said pointing to Angela sitting in the chair beside the bed.

"Alright, now that the introductions have been made, let's see how far along you are. If you wouldn't mind putting your feet in this stirrups, I'll take a look." Bones, winced a little at the uneasiness of having Booth in the room while a doctor looked at her. "You certainly waited until the last minute to get here. You are 100% effaced and almost nine centimeters. Just one more and then we can get you to start pushing." Dr. Leonard said, pulling his gloves off. "I'll be back in thirty minutes to see where you're at then."

Thirty minutes later, the Dr. Leonard came back and rechecked Bones. "Just as I suspected, you are now at ten centimeters. We will have you start pushing in just a minute. We all just need to get situated here." he said of his support staff.

Booth was standing over Bones, getting even more nervous by the minute. "Bones, I love you, you can do this." he whispered in her ear, kissing her on the cheek.

"I'm scared, Booth." she admitted. "I'm not ready to be a mother. I'm not ready for someone to rely on me as much as she will."

"It'll be fine, Bones, I have done this once before, we will get through the hard times together, I promise you that."

"Okay, Temperance, I'll have you sit up a bit and I want you to take a deep breath and give me a really good push for ten seconds on the count of three." Dr. Leonard said. "You ready? One, two and three!"

Bones pushed with all her might as Booth held her hand. She squeezed it tight.

"That's good, Temperance, are you ready to do that again?"

Bones nodded as she attempted to catch her breath. She gave another big push.

"That's great, I can see the head now. Let's do another big push to get the head out."

Four more pushes and a lot of sweat later, out popped the baby girl. Bones slumped back in the bed thankful that it was finally over, but anxious to hold her daughter. Booth cut the umbilical cord and then returned his attention to Bones. He leaned over her and kissed her sweaty cheek and said, "Oh, Bones, thank you for giving me a daughter. I love you so much!"

She looked up at him weakly and smiled and brought his lips to hers and kissed him. "I love you too."

"Here's your baby girl!" Dr. Leonard announced, putting the pink baby, wrapped in a baby blanket, on Bones' chest.

Bones couldn't control her emotions and longer as she stared at her newborn daughter. Tears rolled down her cheeks. "Booth, she's perfect. She's perfect in every way." She wiped away the tears with her free hand.

"Yes, she is." Booth said with pride. "Hello, Lucy Christine Booth." he cooed.

"Booth, I've been thinking about the name. I don't think she looks like a Lucy. What do you think of the name Lila? Lila Christine Booth?"

Booth smiled. "I think it's perfect."