A/N: I know you all wanna kill me now, lol, but you know if you did you'd never get a happy ending to this story, and why would you want that, when you don't even know who SHE is… okay, I'll tell you now, no more teasing!
The words hung in the air like thick house smoke.
Seeley watched for her reaction, his eyes not moving from hers, waiting for a response. But she only stared at him, blankly, her eyes barely able to focus on his.
"Bones…" he didn't like the silence hanging in the air. "Say something."
"What do you want me to say?" she challenged. Her back straightened and he instantly knew that she was going to run. She wanted an escape; her eyes frantically searched the room as if she expected an easy exit.
"I don't know…" he shrugged uneasily. "Something! Do you want to know about her?"
An expression Seeley never seen cross her face, flashed in her eyes, and he pulled back almost stinging with the pain that he might have hurt her.
"I'm happy for you," she seemed to choke out the words.
"Bones…" he tried to explain it. It was so complicated, it wasn't at all like a normal situation, he wished it had been that easy, but he wasn't naïve, he knew he had done wrong. He knew he had sinned in the eyes of the law. He had stolen her, and crossed the border. People were jailed for that. FBI or not, without good reason, he didn't have a leg to stand on… metaphorically speaking.
"It's alright Booth… you deserve happiness. I am happy for you," she insisted.
"Bones," he laughed. "It's NOT a girl… well, I mean it is!"
Bones frowned.
"I brought back a child, Bones. A girl… her name is Kali," he explained.
Her eyes widened in surprise. "A child… Booth, how did you-"
He ran a hand through his hair. "I messed up. I did something stupid. The authorities are gonna lock me up when they find out," he said. "The law will be all over me like a ton of bricks and God… God surely hates me. I sinned, Bones, in his eyes… it doesn't matter if I stole a loaf of bread to feed my family, I'm still stealing."
Bones didn't seem to understand the situation, the look on her face was evident of that, and he didn't know how to explain it well enough.
"Booth," she settled her hand over his in comfort.
He smiled, and then instantly adopted a serious tone again. "I stole her, Bones. I had to. I couldn't let her stay there and get killed. No one wanted her; it's a war zone there and… I couldn't let her die Bones, I couldn't…"
She stared at him, dumbfounded.
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