Disclamer- I don't own Bones
It had been a three years. Three years of wondering. Three years of yearning. And three years of new beginnings. Booth had been missing for three years. She had gotten the call that they had found his car, abandoned, in the middle of a street after it had caused a backup in traffic. They had no idea where he had gone, or why his car had been abandoned.
Since Booth had been gone, Brennan had given birth to their daughter, Mollie. Mollie was going to turn three in a month. Mollie looked so much like her father it was uncanny. She had Brennan's nose but that was about it, the rest of her was Booth. She had Booth's eyes, mouth and his personality.
Whenever they were at the park, Mollie would walk over to a older child and ask them to play with her. Mollie was an exceptionally bright child, she could read a small book by herself and remembered everyone at the lab. She knew though that her father was not here.
Brennan had never told Mollie that her father had been missing, Mollie just knew.
Today, Brennan had taken Mollie over to Angela and Hodgins so her and Michael could play together.
"How you doing sweetie?" asked Angela.
"I'm fine. Mollie knows that somethings coming up, though she has no idea what." Brennan looked at her daughter.
"Sweetie you know he's probably not coming home. He's been gone for three years. There is a great chance he's probably dead." Angela whispered.
"Ang, you don't think I know this? But I feel like he's still out there and that's he's trying for our daughter. That he's trying for me."
"Sorry. I know that this is a touchy subject with you sweetie but I know no one else would've been brave enough to say anything."
"I know Ang. I know."
He was getting annoyed now. He had been here for God knows how long and had a feeling no one was closer to finding him than they had been a few years ago. He had never seen his captor. The last thing he remembered before waking up in this hell hole of a room had been getting hit by a car after realizing he was late to Bones' OB/GYN appointment.
He sighed. He was missing his Bones and his child. For all he knew, Bones had moved on and was raising their child with another man. When Booth thought about that, it just made him more pissed off. He had no idea why he had been held here for the past few years. He was well-fed, allowed to take a shower, and was only locked in a room and was allowed to wander that room.
There was a window which he would stare out for hours at a time, just waiting for someone to walk by the house. The window was able to open, but the drop would kill him.
He paced the room for ten more minutes and then dragged his stool over to the window.
All of a sudden he saw someone walking. He wrenched open the window and yelled out it.
"HEY! HEY YOU!" The person looked up at him.
"COME OVER HERE! I'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED AND I NEED YOUR HELP!" He thought that would have made the person start running away, but instead they walked over to him.
"Do you have a cell phone?" he yelled down to him.
"Yeah. Why?"
"I need you to call the number I'm about to give you and tell them that you found Agent Seeley Booth at whatever this address is."
The man pulled out his phone and dialed the number Booth yelled at him.
"They said for me to stay here and to tell you that they're on their way."
Booth sighed. He was going home. He was finally going home.
Brennan and Angela had been sitting on Angela's couch watching Mollie and Michael play when her phone started ringing.
"Brennan."
"Temperance." said Cullen.
"What is it Cullen?"
"We've found him." Brennan's mouth fell open.
"What is it sweetie?" Angela asked her. Brennan held up a finger and listened for more information.
"Where is he?" Cullen recited the address and Brennan stood up to grab her coat.
"Don't you there go out there by yourself Temperance, I'm coming to get you. Where are you?"
"At Angela and Hodgins."
"Is there somebody there that'll watch Mollie."
"Yes, Angela."
"I'll be there in five. Be ready." He hung up.
"Sweetie what's going on?"
"They found him." Brennan grabbed her coat and started to walk to the door, kissing Mollie on the head as she headed towards the door.
"I'll be back later Ang. If you could bring Mollie to the apartment that would be wonderful. Text me if you do." She grabbed the doorknob.
"Sweetie."
Brennan turned her head.
"Bring him home so he can meet his daughter." Brennan smiled at her and shut the door.
Booth could hear the sirens coming in the distance. He had learned that the man that had pretty much saved him had a wife and three kids. His name was Dylan Miller and he lived down the road.
"I can't thank you enough for this man."
"No problem. You sound like you had a nice life before you got stuck there. Hope you get to meet your kid."
"Man you have no idea."
The cars pulled up and Booth stood up from his stool looking to see who had came to rescue him. He saw them all run towards the door so Booth walked up to his door and started pounding on it.
"I'M IN HERE! COME ON GUYS IT'LL BE NICE TO SEE SOME FAMILIAR FACES!"
Booth heard the lock being picked and stood back. The door opened and there stood Bones.
"Bones." He sighed. She ran up to him and hugged him. Booth wrapped his arms around her as tight as he could.
"I missed you." She whispered in his ear.
"I missed you too Bones. I missed you too."
Booth could tell that other people had came up the stairs, but they knew better than to interrupt.
Brennan pulled back.
"Let's get you home so you can meet our two-year-old."
Brennan wrapped an arm around his waist and he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"I agree." He whispered in her hair.
Cullen led them downstairs to the car Brennan and him had ridden here in and opened the back door for them.
"So Bones, you gonna tell me about our kid." he asked as they drove down a rural road.
"No. You're going to meet them for yourself when we get to our apartment." Brennan curled up into Booth side and hugged him tighter.
"I don't even get a hint on what their name is or if their a boy or girl."
"It's not my problem you're the one who didn't want to know whether or not it was a boy or girl."
"Well had I known I wouldn't have found out until almost three years later I would've found out."
The rest of the car ride was spent in silence but it was not an awkward one. It was a comfortable one. One that Brennan had not experience in a long time.
"Where am I bringing you? Apartment or Angela's?"
"Apartment. Angela brought M-" Brennan caught herself before she said Mollie's name. She heard Booth swear under his breathe and she smiled.
"It'll only be five more minutes. You've waited almost three years, a few minutes won't hurt."
They pulled up to the apartment and Booth and Brennan got out of the car.