Chapter 10

The next day Brennan was feeling better. She and Booth went about their daily routine of getting ready and heading to work. Booth was still worried about the effect that this case was having on Brennan but he saw she was coping and pushing forward for now and he knew he needed to do the same, he knew he needed to let her cope for now and just be there when she let her walls fall down. He wrapped his arms around her as she stood at the counter making herself tea. She turned her head to look at him confused as he gave her a silly grin.

"What do you want Booth?" She asked trying to hide her smile.

"Feeling better I see." He smirked as she smiled at him and went back to her tea. "Parker and his school are going to be at the lab today, you ready for that?"

"What do you mean am I ready? I have all of the material ready to show them about bones, Angela has her art worked out and Hodgins has agreed not to do any dangerous experiments. Cam is making sure and also working with the inters and other workers at the lab while I am with the school group."

"Yeah, well you know how Parker gets at the lab. You're going to have him and about 50 other kids doing the same. Let me know if you need anything."

"Parker is good at the lab; he does nothing to warrant your worry."

"I'm not worried, I know you, Cam and Angela will keep the kids in line and I know you will take care of Parker." He smiled and kissed her cheek before letting go as his phone rang. "Booth…. yeah…. Yeah…. I'll be right there."

"What was that about?"

"Jay found something to help find Perry. He's meeting me at the lab."

"Why do you two insist on using my lab to meet and discuss this case? You have an office too you know." She said making him grin.

"Let's just go, he's waiting, and you have little kids to baby sit."

"I am not babysitting, I am teaching them about bones, Angela is going to teach them about her art and how it is used and Hodgins is teaching them about chemicals and particulates." Booth smiled as he helped her into her jacket, he pulled his own on and they were off to the lab.

The two walked in to see Jay talking with Angela by Brennan's office. Jay turned with a smile as they walked over and Brennan shook her head walking past him and into her office.

"She's so happy this morning." Jay said to Booth who just shook his head.

"How's she doing?" Angela asked worried.

"She's fine. Back to the same old Bones." Booth said and saw a look of unbelieving cross Angela's face. "Go talk to her, she's back to her old self, she's fine." Angela sighed and walked into the office letting the two men talk "She's good at hiding things, and right now she has her walls back up so no one can see what she is feeling or thinking." Booth said as he glanced at Brennan talking to Angela worried.

"Her walls?"

"Yeah, she's always hid her feelings and all. Took years for me to get to see the real her and to get her walls down, Angela's the only other person who has seen a glimpse of what I know. She'll be fine as long as her walls are up, she can think clearly and do what she has to when they're in place."

"Then I think we need to get this guy and teach him not to mess with FBI girlfriends. Or is it partners?" Jay asked with a smirk as Booth shook his head.

"We're working. Its partners. So what did you find?"

"I got his personnel report. Your boss gave it to me this morning when I went to see if you were in yet. He said that you would need this and to get it to you." Booth took the file and started flipping through the file before he walked into Brennan's office with Jay.

"Is that what you have on Perry?" Brennan asked as Jay nodded and Booth went to the couch. He sat down and started spreading the papers out. "What is it Booth?" She asked as she saw a look of frustration settle on his face.

"This guy's moved around so much there's tons of papers here and they're all out of order. This is going to take a while." Brennan looked over seeing a tall over weight man walk in with Parker's teacher Janet Karlson. Brennan walked out with Angela meeting Cam as they all walked over to the two.

"Hi, I'm Cam Saroyan. I'm the head of the forensics division." Cam said taking the man's hand and shaking it.

"George McIver, I'm the principal of the school. I believe we spoke on the phone." The overweight man said.

"Yes. I'm glad we could arrange this trip for the kids, we'll do our best to show them around and teach them about what we do here. We are involved in a case at the moment so if we need to move you to another room or to another person, we'll get back to the original plan."

"We understand. We appreciate you letting us visit while you are working on a case." He looked at Angela and Brennan standing to the side of Cam. Brennan held her hand out to shake George's.

"I'm Temperance Brennan."

"Yes, you're partners with Parker's father."

"Yes."

"He has told everyone a lot about you, he seems to love this place." He smiled as Brennan gave a small smile.

"Don't tell Booth that." Angela said making Brennan and Cam smile. "I'm Angela Montenegro. I'm an artist here."

"An artist in a forensic lab?"

"Yeah, I get to play with computers all day and I also put faces to skeletons so we can identify them." She saw the look he gave making her smile and shrug. "I have the best job out of the others. My husband, Jack Hodgins is working on some things right now but you'll meet him at some point today."

"Well why don't we get started with the trip." Cam said with a smile as the two smiled and walked out with the three women. They stopped and looked at the children standing around with their four chaperones looking a bit antsy. They saw Parker making a group of kids laugh as he told them stories about being at the lab before he turned and saw them standing behind him.

"Parker, you shouldn't be telling people that." Brennan said before she bent to talk with him. "Remember we discussed that some things that happen in the lab need to be kept in the lab. There are things that others cannot know about our work."

"Like what dad does. I know." He said with a heavy sigh as the children gathered around amazed that he had been telling the truth that he went to this place often while the adults were amazed that the rambunctious boy actually knew the famous Dr. Temperance Brennan.

"Alright, I know you're all excited to see what we have in the lab but there are a few things we have to go over first." Cam said addressing everyone. "When we go in, you need to stay with the group and only touch what the scientists tell you, you can. There are a lot of things that could hurt you if you don't follow directions." She looked around and smiled. "Alright let's go in." Parker walked between Angela and Brennan as they entered the lab. "This is the lab; the platform is where we do our work most of the time. You need to swipe a badge to get up onto it so we know who is going on and off.

"We have many computers and gear that we have to use while doing our work, but our most important thing to use is gloves." Cam said as she led them to the platform. "We're all going to go onto the platform and we'll get this trip moving." Brennan swiped her badge letting her and parker up while Angela stood to the side swiping her badge to let a group of children up before joining them as Cam finished. "Okay, now, like I said our most important thing we use is gloves, because we don't want anything to get on us and we don't want anything to get on the thing we are looking at. This is the platform that our work really starts on. This is mostly where Dr. Brennan works so I'll let her take over telling you about what we have over here." Brennan nodded as she and Angela pulled gloved from a box beside a table. She took a breath remembering what Booth had told her about talking to children before she started to speak.

"What we have here is a skeleton." Angela said with a smile. "Who knows what a skeleton is?" She saw several hands shoot into the air as Parker started jumping up and down to be called on making her laugh. "Parker, since you're so enthusiastic."

"It's the bones that are inside the body." He said with a bright Booth-like grin.

"Yes." Brennan said with a smile. "There are a total of 206 bones inside of you. Each bone has a name and a place to make you look the way you do. We'll start at the head." Brennan picked up the skull. "This is the skull. It protects your brain and gives your face features such as a wide forehead, or big cheeks." She put it down and picked up one of the vertebrae. "This is called a vertebrae. There are between 31 to 33 of them to make up your spine in your back."

"Why do they look funny?" Asked a girl off to the right.

"They have a hole here in the middle." Brennan said as she put her finger in the hole of the spinal column. "Is to let all your nerves through, the spine protects your nerves that let you feel things. Next are your shoulder blades. They are on your back and work with connective tissue to hold your upper arm to your collar bone." Angela and Cam watched surprised at how well Brennan was doing talking to the children, making sure they were all able to understand. They could see as she paused to find the terms to let them understand.

As Brennan finished explaining, the bones she started explaining what she did with the body and how she was involved with cases. After finally finishing, she took a breath letting Cam take back over as Brennan looked over at her office to see Booth leaning against the doorway with his silly grin. Cam took the group with Angela to Angela's office while Brennan walked off another stairway and over to Booth.

"What are you ginning at?" She asked making him smile at her.

"You've gotten really good at talking to people stupider than you."

"I only remembered what you told me about talking to children. They are here to learn and they do not have the vocabulary skills that I have, as well as the brain functions that I possess being older than they are. And it's more stupid not stupider." She said as she saw him grin at her as a smile crossed her face.

"Told you, you're getting better." She shook her head and glanced at Jay sitting in a chair looking at papers.

"You find anything?"

"Nothing much. Cullen is taking a few agents to toss his house and we're tracking down his car. Jay is working on putting the papers in order." Booth shrugged. "How you feeling? You were standing for a while." Brennan rubbed her belly and shrugged.

"I'm okay still. I should go help Cam and Angela with the children." Booth nodded. "You know Parker is showing off everything he knows." She smirked and saw Booth grin with pride.

"Yeah well that's what happens when you squints take my son and brainwash him." Brennan shook her head before Booth kissed her cheek. "I'll catch up with you guys in a bit, go keep Parker in line for me." He smirked as she smiled and turned to walk down to Angela's office as he went back to help Jay.

Brennan walked into Angela's office and stopped beside Cam as Angela held everyone's attention. Cam glanced at her as she stood rubbing her belly.

"You alright, Dr. Brennan?" Cam asked softly

"Yes, the baby is only kicking."

"Did Booth find anything?"

"He said Cullen is working on looking through his house and the FBI is looking for the car and Jay and Booth are trying to place the papers in Perry's file in order to find out where he's been and how to track him down." They looked back at Angela as smiled hearing Parker making the other kids laugh.

"Parker is something else." Cam smiled as Brennan nodded.

"Yes, he is not like other children I've met. He is just like Booth." Brennan gave a small smile as Angela gained everyone's attention again.

"Center of attention, smart, knows how to use his looks." Cam said looking from Parker to Brennan. "He is exactly like Booth." Brennan gave a little smile as she nodded.

"Bones!" They heard making everyone look at the door as Parker's face lit up knowing his father was there also before Brennan walked out.

"Booth, you don't need to yell through the lab." Brennan scolded as she left Angela's office making Cam and Angela look at each other with smirks before Angela continued.

"Yeah, well I didn't know where you were."

"You could have looked around."

"It was faster this way." Brennan rolled her eyes and looked at him. "We have the papers in order."

"Did you find something?"

"No, figured you'd want to take a look with us." He said giving a little charm smile as she sighed shaking her head walking past him. Jay smirked as he handed her a small stack of papers as she sat on the couch and leaned back with Booth taking a seat on the couch beside her. "Just look for a place he spent a long time at." The three sat reading through all of the papers before they heard a knock making them look up at Cam and the group standing in the lab.

"Hodgins wants you." Booth stood up as Brennan pushed herself to her feet and followed with Jay. As they left her office, Parker ran over making Booth smirk.

"Hey, bud." Booth said wrapping his arm around Parker's shoulders.

"Dad! Angela said she's gonna teach me how to do that cool face paint." Booth looked at Angela quickly who smiled. "Can I practice on you and Bones?"

"You know what, why don't you practice on Angela, then she can tell you if it's good or not." Booth grinned at Angela who just looked at him.

"We're going to see Hodgins. I'm going to show them his beetles." He said proudly as Booth chuckled.

"Yeah, well don't go freaking anyone out okay. You guys wait here for a minute, me, Bones and Jay need to talk with Hodgins real quick." He said as Parker nodded and went back to his group as Cam was talking with the principal and the three walked off to find Hodgins.

"I'm sorry; it will only be a minute. Like I said when you first got here we are still in the middle of a case, and we are working very hard to finish this quickly." Cam explained.

"You all seem very involved." George said looking at Cam and Angela.

"Yeah well we tend to take these cases personally when the murderer goes after Brennan."

"Goes after?"

"Yeah he attacked her, that's why she has the bandage on her head and that bad bruise on her cheek."

"This has happened before?"

"More times than you would realize. Dr. Brennan and Booth have a hard job to do; it can be very dangerous at times." Cam saw Angela look towards Hodgins' office.

"I better go make sure Booth doesn't shoot my husband." She said walking away as George looked at Cam worried.

"It's nothing; Booth has a low tolerance for Hodgins when he started using all scientific terms and doesn't explain what they mean. It's Seeley's way of getting the information he needs."

"And you're so patient Camille." They heard making them look to see Booth, Jay, and Brennan. "Jay, you think you can track the place down with Sweets?" Jay nodded. "Call me when you find it. I'll see what I can come up with in the database."

"I'll go back over the remains and see if I have missed anything in my initial examination." Brennan said as Jay walked away. "Cam let me know if you will need me, I will be in the bone room." Cam nodded as Brennan walked off with Booth, who left her to walk into the bone room while he went to her office.

"Okay, well it looks like we can go in now, so just follow me." Cam led the group into see Hodgins.

Brennan was standing over the table with the remains laid out on it. She sighed as she stood up straight. She had been looking over the bones for the last two hours while Booth did his research and Jay was on a trail. With another sigh, she bent back to continue looking over the remains still not finding anything new.

Booth was in Brennan's office using her computer to access the FBI database to find everything he could to help track down the rouge agent. He sat back in his seat with a heavy sigh, as he couldn't find anything that he didn't already know and he was beginning to become more and more frustrated until he saw Parker run around the corner and into the office.

"Dad." He smiled as he ran over to him with two other boys following behind him.

"Hey, what are you guys doing running around the lab; you know you're supposed to stay with your teachers."

"It's lunch time."

"Oh well then why aren't you eating?"

"Can we go to the dinner? Everyone else is on the platform eating."

"Parker, I have work to do. I have to catch this guy that hurt Bones."

"Can't we go to the diner real fast?" He begged. "We can get Bones her favorite food too." Booth sighed looking at his son beg.

"Alright we can go real fast, but you have to stay with your class after that, me and Bones and the others have a lot of work to do."

"Can Tommy and Gary go too?"

"How about you two tell me what you want and then go back with your teachers and wait?" The boys looked at each other before nodding and giving Booth a list. "Alright, let's go." Booth stood up as the two boys ran over to their group as Booth swiped his badge letting them all onto the platform so he could talk to Cam.

"You find anything?" Cam asked as Booth walked over to her.

"Nah, nothing we didn't already know. I'm waiting to hear from Jay. Parker and I are going to the diner; want me to pick anything up?"

"No, I'm fine, and Angela and Hodgins already left for their lunch." Booth nodded and started leading Parker out of the lab.

"Booth!" They heard making Cam and Booth look at each other before taking off to the bone room. "Booth!" They ran in to see Brennan bent holding onto the table.

"Bones." Booth said as he ran to her side and grabbing her. "Bones, what's wrong?"

"Booth… it… ah." She hissed closing her eyes tightly as she started to breathe in and out slowly.

"Cam, get a chair." Cam nodded and pushed through the large group of people who were gathering at the door as Booth pulled Brennan closer to him as she continued to breathe. "Just breath, we'll get you a chair and then you can sit and relax. The baby is probably mad you've been working so long."

"No…. Booth this is not like the other times." She said as she looked at him making his heart skip a beat.

"Okay, well you still need to remember to breathe and relax, and we'll go to the hospital and get everything worked out." He said trying to keep himself calm.

"Booth, you're acting very restless and the sound of your voice is sounding as you are very nervous." She said as her body relaxed and she leaned on him more.

"Yeah, we'll it tends to happen when your girlfriend goes into labor with your kid."

"We don't know if I'm in labor. We won't know if it is true or not until we get to the hospital." She said before her body tensed and she closed her eyes holding her belly as she went back to her slow breathing as Cam brought the chair in.

"Just relax, and breath." Booth said softly as Cam moved the chair behind her and he helped her sit. After a few seconds, Brennan opened her eyes again and looked at Booth. "Believe me now?" He asked with a smirk as she gave a small nod.

"Okay, I believe you." Cam looked at Booth as he knelt beside Brennan. Booth held Brennan's hand as she squeezed tight and tensed again this time she gave a small whimper. "Breathe." Booth said smoothing back some hair that was falling into her face. "Okay?" Cam walked over to the door and shut it so that she and Booth were the only two with Brennan.

"Booth…" Brennan said as she opened her eyes looking at him. "It… I can't…"

"Cam, call an ambulance." Booth said softly before Cam nodded and took off to call for an ambulance leaving Booth and Brennan alone. "Bones, you'll be fine, just…. Relax, we'll get the paramedics here and we'll go to the hospital."

"No Booth….. The pain, it's not subsiding. It… it only dulls slightly before contracting again…. it's…"

"Alright, alright. Then it's even better we're getting the paramedics. Just hang on until they get here. With some luck we'll be able to see our little princess by tonight." He smiled as he held her hand still and he continued to smooth her hair back.

"How can you be so serene while this happens?" She asked as she closed her eyes again to control herself and the pain.

"You have no idea." Booth smirked. "See I know you. If I get anxious and nervous or scared or whatever, it's only going to piss you off, and that is not what we want right now." He smiled as she looked at him and gave a small smile. "Is the pain easing up?"

"No, it's the same, feeling worse with the contractions. We should track how long the intervals are between each contraction so that when we-"

"Bones, just relax, I know we need to keep track, I've got it all handled, you just relax and focus on controlling your pain like you are so good at doing." He smiled at her as the door opened making both of them look to see Angela run over to Brennan.

"Sweetie, Cam said she thinks you're in labor." She said as she grabbed Brennan's other hand and bent to look at her friend. "How you holding up?" She saw Brennan tense and close her eyes again.

"Cam is calling the ambulance. The pain isn't going away between contractions." Booth told her still forcing himself to talk and act calm and collected hoping Brennan would be able to do the same.

"Booth." Brennan said softly before he pulled her closer to him to lean her head against him. "The pain is…"

"Focus on something else." Angela said trying to help seeing the worry in Booth's eyes. "It helped me when I was in labor."

"Okay." Booth said trying to think about what to get Brennan to focus on.

"I looked over the remains of the most recent victim and found deep grooves in the vertebrae of the neck that do not match that of our original murder weapon." Brennan blurted out as Booth looked at her a minute before nodding.

"Oaky, you know what made it?"

"No, I was about to get the materials to create a cast of the wound when the pain hit."

"One of the interns can make the cast and I'll run it along with our data base. Something should be in our data base to match." Booth's phone rang making both women look at him.

"Booth." He answered. "Yeah, Jay, did you find anything?..." Brennan closed her eyes and tensed up again. "Bones breathe, don't hold your breath. It's only going to make you light headed if you do that." He told her and saw her let the breath out slowly trying to listen to his instructions. "What? Yeah, she's in labor…."

"We don't know that." Brennan said through the contraction.

"Sweetie, just relax and breathe through the contraction." Angela said as the door opened and Cam led the Paramedics into the room.

"Jay, I gotta go, the EMT's are here." Booth said hanging up.

"What's going on?" Asked a woman as she gave a soft smile, obviously knowing but wanting to get Brennan talking to her.

"She was working and the pain hit her. She said the pain only dulls a bit in between the contractions." Booth said as the Paramedics took Angela's spot and started checking her vital signs.

"How far apart are the contractions?"

"They have been about two and a half minutes apart."

"Okay, let's get you on the gurney and well get you over to the hospital." The paramedic said in a very calm voice making Booth look at her worried before helping Brennan back to her feet to lay on the gurney before they strapped her in and started out only to be stopped when Booth stopped the female paramedic.

"What's going on?" The woman looked at him before glancing at Brennan.

"Her blood pressure is dropping. The pain she is feeling could be a seriously dangerous effect of internal bleeding." Booth paused as the EMT's started pushing Brennan out of the room as Angela walked to his side.

"You know she'll be okay, Booth, just stay with her. She's going to need you." Angela whispered.

"Yeah, I know, Ange. Thanks." Booth said before catching up to them as they heard Brennan call for him. "I'm here, Bones. I'm going to get Cam take Parker, I'll be right back." Brennan nodded as Booth turned to find Cam talking with the Principal as everyone was watching worried as Brennan was wheeled from the lab. "Cam."

"Seeley, what's going on?" She asked.

"Her blood pressure's dropping." He said softly seeing the understanding registering. "You take Parker and –"

"Yes, I'll take care of everything. Just go, Seeley."

"Thanks Camille." Booth turned and ran out to catch up to the paramedics, climbing into the back furrowing his brow as he looked at Brennan as she laid on the gurney. "Bones." He said making her look at him before closing her eyes. "What's going on?" He asked worried watching as the contractions became closer together quickly.

"The labor is progressing extremely fast. Her blood pressure is becoming very low." The female said as she moved around injecting medication in the iv that had been started. "Matt, call ahead, we need to begin."

"Begin? Begin what?"

"The labor has progressed too far and her vital signs are turning we need to deliver the baby." She said as she started getting set up as Booth looked at her then back at Brennan as she started to pale. He felt his heart stop as he took in the scene and information. He looked back at the woman as she set up. "She's weak and the only way to get this to start fixing we need to deliver this baby." Booth took a deep breath and nodded before moving closer to Brennan's head seeing her tense again.

"Bones." He said smoothing his hand over her forehead making her look at him. "Bones we need to deliver the baby. You're losing a lot of blood."

"Booth…"

"Just do what the EMT says and we'll see our baby and everything will be okay." He looked at her as he forced his emotions away and focused on Brennan. "Okay?" Brennan nodded.

"Okay, when you feel another hard pain I want you to push as hard as you can." The woman said as Booth shifted closer to Brennan