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A/N: The reviews you guys are sending in are amazing! Thank you so much! That last chapter kept stopping me up a bit but let's move on with the 3rd one.

Chapter 3: So What Are We Going to Do Now?

Brennan felt the rays of the morning sun peaking through the window on her face and tried unsuccessfully to fall back asleep. Immediately a million different thoughts began running through her head. She remembered that Angela had had her baby yesterday and she wanted to get back up to the hospital to see them and then she remembered that last night she had told Booth that in not too long a time they would be in the place as Angela and Hodgins. She still couldn't believe that she was pregnant, with Booth's child none the less. When she thought of her beloved team it was amazing to her how differently all their lives had ended up from the way they had planned them. Well except Booth of course. Brennan was pretty sure that as of this moment his life was headed in the direction he had always hoped it would. Placing her had on her stomach, a habit she just couldn't seem to break, and deeply inhaling the scent of Booth who was still fast asleep beside her, Brennan couldn't help but feel grateful to the universe or whatever it was that Booth thought was responsible for how things turned out that her life was nothing like what she had originally planned.

Brennan looked up at Booth's face and took in all the perfection of it. She gently reached her hand up to touch his face and began tracing his features. She wondered which of these features her child would inherit. She knew based upon her own skull structure and his that it was bound to be an attractive child. Booth stirred under her touch and opened his eyes to look at her. It was then that she realized the feature she hoped the baby would inherit most was his eyes.

"Hi." He said is a husky morning voice smiling at her and running his fingers through her hair.

"Hi." Brennan said back. She still wasn't used to the idea of sleeping in his arms but she liked it. It felt nice to know that there was someone there when she went to sleep at night and when she woke up.

"Mmm it's Saturday. I can lay here and sleep and do nothing and hold you all day long if I want to" he said pulling her even closer to him and placing a kiss on her head.

"Don't you have Parker today?"

"Not today. Rebecca's brother was taking him and his cousins camping for the weekend. Oh wait till I tell him about the baby! He is going to be so excited to have a little brother or sister. He has been asking Rebecca and me for one for years."

"Speaking of telling people about the pregnancy, when do you want to do that? Obviously we're not going to be able to keep it a secret forever." Brennan asked.

"Well um, actually if you don't mind Bones, I would like to just keep the news between us. Just for now of course because you're right that we can't hide this forever but my mom used to say it was best to wait until the first trimester was up before you started telling people. It's bad luck." Booth said.

"Actually Booth, luck has nothing to do with it but your mother did have a valid point. Twenty percent of pregnancies end is miscarriages during the first trimester." Brennan said.

"Exactly, and God forbid that should happen to us," Booth said placing his hand protectively on Brennan's stomach, "I think it would just be easier if a million people didn't know."

"We don't know a million people Booth so that wouldn't be possible and God has no say in whether or not my body accepts this pregnancy but I agree with you. Should this end badly it would be better if we didn't have to explain it to a lot of people." Brennan said placing her hand on top of Booth's.

"Ok, that's settled. We will tell people once you have reached your second trimester so let's not talk about this anymore. Do you have anything you have to do today?" Booth didn't even like having such negative things out in the universe.

"I want to go and see Angela, Hodgins, and Michael but other than that and spending time with you no. I don't have anything to do." Brennan rubbed her nose against Booth's and he kissed her softly on the lips.

"Well let's get dressed and go grab something to eat at the diner and then we can head on over the hospital and see them for a little while and then we can go see them and then we can spend the rest of the day doing whatever we want." Booth said placing kisses down her cheek and neck as he did.

"Mmmm I can think of a few things to do." Brennan said enjoying the feel of his lips on her skin. "That sounds like a great idea but I have to go home first so I can take a shower."

"You can take a shower here." Booth said now kissing down her arm.

"I could but I don't have anything to put on after I get out. If I show up in the same clothes and yesterday or some of yours that could lead to questions that I thought we just decided we didn't want to have to answer right now." Brennan said.

"First of all, we only agreed to not tell them about the baby yet we never came to any sort of agreement on telling people about our…" Booth hesitated. He wanted to say relationship but he didn't want to scare Brennan if she wasn't ready for such a heavy label yet.

"Well, the ice is already cracked there because Angela knows." Brennan said.

"Broken, the ice is broken Bones and I should have known that you would tell Angela."

"She's my best friend Booth. I tell her everything and I don't have a problem with telling our friends we are in a relationship if you don't but I don't want the FBI to split us up. Of course, with the baby coming it's going to be hard for them to not find out and then they won't let us work together anymore and I don't want a new FBI agent…" Brennan started to get worked up.

"Hey hey hey Bones calm down it will be ok. I won't let them split us up don't worry. I promise that won't happen." Booth silently cursed himself for just making a promise to her that he wasn't sure he could keep but he would try his damnedest to make sure that didn't happen. He didn't want a new squint squad as much as she didn't want a new FBI agent. But, hearing her refer to them as being in a relationship had sparked something inside him.

"Thank you Booth." Brennan said tucking her head under his chin. "So we will tell the gang about us. Except maybe Sweets because I just don't feel like dealing with that until we absolutely have to."

"Oh I could not agree with you more."

"What was the second thing?" Brennan asked.

"What are you talking about?" Booth asked her.

"The second thing, before you said 'first of all' and started talking about telling everybody we are in a relationship."

"Oh, I was just going to say that if you wanted it would be ok to leave some of your clothes and stuff here if that would make it easier for you." Booth said softly. Just because she seemed ok about classifying them as being in a relationship didn't mean she would feel the same about moving some of her stuff here.

"Oh, well thank you Booth. That is a very nice offer and it would be logical for me to take you up on it so as to avoid this sort of problem in the future. You are more than welcome to leave some of your things at my house as well."

"I don't want you to do it just because it's logical Bones. I want you to keep some of your stuff here because you want to, because you want to take the next step together."

"I know Booth and I do want to take that next step. I want to take all these steps with you and yes, I would like to have some of my things here. Thank you."

"I know we are doing things a bit out of order," Booth said nodding down to her stomach but I still want to make sure that despite the fact that we are going to be a family in about eight months we get to go through all the steps of a relationship. I know this is a bit soon to think about but, eventually we are probably going to have to pick one of our places and move there so we can both be there for the baby."

"Oh, yea. I forgot about that." Brennan said.

"Oh, well we don't have to if you don't want to Bones, it was just a thought. I can still live here and I can just come by on the weekends to see the baby and…"

"Oh no no no no Booth! That is not what I meant at all! First of all, I didn't have a stable home life for part of my childhood and you didn't either and I don't want my child to ever know what that's like. I want him or her to always know what it's like to have a home and a place he or she feels safe and knows that there is always someone there who loves them. I want this baby to have both a mommy and a daddy at home and… I don't want this to be like it is with you, Rebecca, and Parker. I've seen how that situation has torn you up inside Booth I want you to be able to see your child whenever you want. I don't want you to feel like you have any limitations as far as your right to be in your child's life." Brennan said placing her hand on Booth's cheek.

Booth was speechless. He didn't even know what to say. Brennan rarely spoke freely of her feelings and emotions but when she did it never ceased to leave him speechless. He loved her so much in that moment it took all he had to not tell her so but he felt that they still weren't that ready to take that step yet. He knew right then that whatever happened, if she truly felt that way then they were going to be ok and they would find a way to make this work.

"Thank you Bones." Was the only thing he could think to say. "We have plenty of time to work all this out."

"Well, to start, I have my first doctor's appointment on Tuesday with my OB/GYN if you want to come. I would love it if you were there with me."

"Oh I'll be there Bones. Nothing could keep me away." Said Booth.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed that chapter. There will probably be some time laps now that the basics have all been established. Please review and let me know what you think!