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Summary: One moment can change everything! Booth and Hannah are engaged to be married, Bones is pregnant with Booth's child but doesn't even know it. And with the revelation of loving Booth hitting Brennan hard, her logical side is losing to the emotional new Brenna who refuses to interfere in Booth and Hannah's relationship. But when the gravedigger strikes again, this time taking Brennan alone how will things turn out? Will Booth be able to figure out the truth before it's too late?

Yeah I know the summary sucks but the story is good.

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"Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die." The thick and annoyingly quirky sound of the British accent that was heard caused a few heads to turn in the direction of the voice's owner. "So this is just one of 140,000 people that died today." The man's smile was rather lope sided, if not a little insecure.

"Thank you Mr. Nigel-Murray…for that uh….fun fact." The woman that spoke was trying very hard not to say anything insulting seeing as far as she was concerned Mr. Nigel-Murray's fun facts actually helped him think and as the boss whatever floated whoever's boat worked for her.

"That wasn't relevant to the case." Of course the next person that spoke wasn't in the least bit interested in being delicate especially if she was more interested in getting answers rather than silly trivia responses. "It looks like the victim has a hairline fracture on the mandible; it's relatively new suggesting the victim came in contact with a strong force within the last six weeks…" this woman carried a rather no nonsense atmosphere that caused anyone around her to instantly stop what they were doing and pay attention.

"Well that fits Booth's theory of a fight recently" The woman who had spoken earlier spoke again, she would later be identified as Camille Saroyan, the Head of the Forensic Division at Jeffersonian Institute and a Pathologist.

"Yes I agree, although some of the fractures on the ribs and humerus, have me a bit unsettled" Her green orbs darted to the clock before she spoke again "….Mr. Nigel-Murray will you get me a copy of the x-rays" The no nonsense woman said to the poor intern who quickly scurried off to do as the forensic anthropologist asked of him. Camille arched an eyebrow and stared at her renowned and brilliant friend.

"Dr. Brennan do you have something on your mind?" she asked as she crossed her arms and stared at the woman who was quickly packing something's into her bag. Her green eyes stared into Camille's for a brief second before she resumed her packing.

"There is only one other person who is as smart as I am…well he's not as smart as me but he comes relatively close." She said as she turned away from Camille who made a face of understanding…she was going to see Zach who was still in prison. "I wish for him to see the X-rays so that I might get another opinion." She explained as she turned back to face Camille.

"I see." It was more than obvious that even after three years after his incarceration Dr. Temperance Brennan still missed her most beloved forensic assistant…Zach Addy. "Make sure to say hello to Dr. Addy for me" She said softly, Temperance smiled at her just as Mr. Nigel-Murray returned with the copies she had asked of him.

"Thank you Mr. Nigel-Murray" She said as she took the copies and hurried out of the Jeffersonian. Angela Hodgins, who happened to not only be the Jeffersonian's Forensic artist but Temperance Brennan's best friend, had been sitting around behind them the whole time. She spoke as she watched her friend scurry off.

"Is it me or has she been acting strange lately?" She asked looking at Camille who nodded. "If you ask me I think she's Pregnant." Camille laughed softly at Angela's joke, Mr. Nigel-Murray too busy with the bones in front of him to really listen.

"I highly doubt it though." Camille said shortly after. "The last time she planned on even remotely getting pregnant the whole Jeffersonian was aware of it and her primary sperm donor choice is very much engaged" Angela crossed her arms at the last comment.

"I am still pretty much against that." Her eyebrows furrowed upset and Camille had to smile….Speaking of pregnant women Angie was just about seven months along now, Hodgins obviously the picture of a proud husband whenever you saw him, all he did was gloat about his beautiful wife and their soon to be son, because Angela was expecting a baby boy. "Clearly we need to change the writer's" Camille laughed softly at that.

"Angie life this isn't a book or a script…this is reality and life can't always be the way we want it to be." Camille said softly to her friend.

"See you wanted them together too!" Angela exclaimed as one of the two people they were talking about swiped his security card and entered the lab.

"Who do we want together?" the smooth voice of the lovely FBI agent was heard as he made his way over to the two women, Mr. Nigel-Murray still lost in the bones. Angela and Camille stared at him; Angela narrowed her eyes at him, currently in the middle of a pregnancy mood swing.

"Mom and Dad!" she shot out before stomping away upset. Booth stared after her and then turned to Camille a little confused.

"Did I do something?" He asked, Camille shook her head though she should have been nodding.

"No Seeley you are just the victim today of her mood swing." Seeley made a face of understanding before smiling again, his eyes looked around for the missing Forensic Anthropologist and Camille answered before he even asked."She's not here." She said softly. "She had to go somewhere; on the other hand you were right about the victim here getting into a fight." The conversation after that continued to relate to the case and after some time Seeley Booth left to conduct some of the investigation without the help from his partner.

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Temperance sighed as she looked at herself through the rearview mirror, she had left the Jeffersonian a little over an hour ago but it was only just now that she had arrived at the psychiatric institution that incarcerated Zach, truth was she had left in such a hurry because she had another appointment, one she wasn't about to let anyone know about. Rubbing her face she closed her eyes for a second, she was tired but she figured that was part of the experience.

Turning the car off she finally stepped out and made her way into the Psychiatric Institution, the guards greeted her, seeing as this was not the first time nor would it be the last time Temperance Brennan would step foot inside it, as a matter of fact recently she had been frequenting the Institute several days a week. A guard guided her to Zach's room and when she arrived to his room she was allowed entrance and on her request she was left alone with him, without any security because no matter how she looked at it Zach Addy was no danger to her.

"Hello Zach" She said softly as she took a seat in one of the chairs of his room. Zach looked at her with a small smile; they had always been like siblings in some odd way, their relationship much deeper than any normal Scientist and Assistant relationship.

"Hello Dr. Brennan." She immediately handed the X-rays to him and he began to look through them, Temperance filled him in on the murder case and what was known so far as he looked through them. From the investigation so far, the victim was a Male between the ages of 18-26 named Aaron White, however Aaron was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage and after he left the Orphanage not much was known of him, No one has reported him missing indicating He lived alone and had no one….for now, however the way his body was found suggest murder but Temperance wasn't about to assume murder without all of the facts in place.

"You see what I mean by the Ribs and the Humerus" Zach nodded as he looked at the X-rays. Silence followed them for a few minutes before Zach spoke again.

"I believe you had a doctor's appointment today Dr. Brennan" He said not looking up from the X-rays, Temperance smiled to herself and looked away. Her eyes starring off into space, Zach spoke again. "So…how are we…" he trailed off, his choice of words had her smiling softly, and he waited for her to respond. Zach stared at the silent woman before him, five months ago, due to an unusual case, Temperance Brennan's life changed dramatically. Temperance was forced to come face to face with so many emotions that it just changed her so much, where she was still the same calculating Forensic genius in the field…personally she had begun to change dramatically.

The logical woman had turned into someone who was lost in her own thoughts more than once. When she came to Zach five months ago after her startling and life altering realization, Zach had started to notice how she had begun to change, it was subtle at first, but over the months it became more and more pronounced and then after a small incident a few months ago it just got worse. She sighed softly and looked at her favorite student.

"Thankfully we are Okay." She spoke with such a new emotion that it sounded foreign even to her, Love, tenderness, vulnerability…those weren't things that were very easily heard out of her but lately Zach was hearing those emotions all of the time. He had noticed the we in Dr. Brennan almost immediately. He noticed it when her pelvis seemed to have shifted a few inches out, her body had begun its preparations months before the we would come into term. He had noticed it a few days after she had realized it, before she even dared to admit what was wrong with her….that day….was something to remember….

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"The bones suggest female in her late thirties" Temperance voice resonated throughout the small and plain room that belonged to Zach, for a while now he had been watching her, watching as she paced back and forth, watching as her body language screamed for help. Now Zach wasn't one to claim to be an expert in body language, he in fact had to read books on body language to even remotely understand that time of human communication, but when it came to Dr. Brennan it was quite easy to tell. She suddenly sat down, sighing as she ran a hand through her hair.

Zach stared at her, looking her up and down, but he wasn't looking at the woman no…he was looking at the bones…Her cranium, her sternum, her pelvis…he stopped and cocked his head to the side….her pelvis was different. His eyes looked up at her, wide in wonder. When a woman's pelvis shifts it means she's in state. Temperance had been talking away, talking about the case, unaware of Zach's examination.

"Dr. Brennan." he said stopping her mid sentence. Her eyes stared right into his. "Congratulations…" He said softly, Temperance's mouth opened silently as if to ask how but she knew her brilliant student was smarter than most people…he would know…it was probably why she had come to him because she would not have needed to tell him.

She just smiled at him and looked down, shortly after she told him how it had happened. How one night both her and Seeley had drank too much at the Founding Father's…Hannah was away on a trip. Brennan had explained how she had realized she loved Seeley after finishing a case a month prior, one thing led to another and they ended up in bed. The following morning Temperance had left Seeley's apartment before he could wake up and it seemed like he remembered nothing about it….a month later though Temperance was left with a gift.

"What am I going to do?" she asked softly, Zach reached out and grabbed her hand; she looked into the young man's eyes.

"Do you want it?" he asked her softly. Temperance sighed a troubled look crossed her face.

"I can…I can't get in the way of Booth and Hannah's happiness, I can't jus-" but she didn't finish Zach cut her off.

"Dr. Brennan I'm not asking about Agent Booth or Ms. Hannah….I'm talking about you…do you want it?" Temperance stared at him, for a moment that question frightened her half to death, for a moment she wanted to say no that she had no right what so ever to have something so precious inside of her, that she would not even begin to know how to take care of it, that she was tainted….but then she remembered how it came about…who it was a part of….and she nodded. "Then we'll figure it out together." Temperance smiled at him…Zach knew she had come to him for help and he was willing to help.

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Zach had originally suggested that Temperance tell Seeley but on the day Temperance wanted to tell him she was given the surprise that both Hannah and Seeley were now engaged to be married and she was not about to get in the way of either one of them, after that Zach had somehow taken on the role Booth would have taken if he had known of Temperance's pregnancy. Although he could not physically be there for her doctor's appointments, he kept track of them and was filled in. He knew all about the child and was very well informed on the progress. He became Temperance's support, her pillar.

No one knew, not her father nor her brother, no one but Zach knew of her pregnancy though she knew it would not be long before she would start to show but by then she'd think of something or more like she was still thinking about what she would say when the time came to reveal the truth.

"And so…what are we?" He asked her gently, she smiled and made a cute almost proud face.

"We are female." Zach smiled at her as she reached into her bag, looking for something. "I have the sonogram here so you can see it…Viola!" She said taking out the small picture and handing it to Zach. He looked at the picture of the small child that was currently growing inside of her…He felt a bit guilty knowing that a child for Agent Booth was a big deal, knowing he would probably like to be a part of the process…but to make up for that Zach took note of everything Temperance told him, so that when the day came that Agent Booth confronted him, if that day came, he would confidently be able to show Booth what he had missed.

"She's healthy right, nothing is wrong?" Zach asked softly. Temperance nodded. "Well then what will you name her?" Temperance took the picture from Zach as he handed it back to her. "Will it be something American or something exotic?" Temperance thought a moment.

"I do not know" If it were really up to her she'd name it something exotic and foreign but her father was such an American that he'd probably want an American English name so honestly she didn't know. "I think I'll know when I see her." She said placing her hand over her stomach. Already she could feel the small bump that was her child, thankfully she had transitioned her fashion attire into a more chic but baggy feel so for now the bump would go unnoticed. "The name will hit me as hard as if I had fallen from a high place." She stopped to think…did that even make sense?

"Ah!" Zach's sudden sound startled Temperance a bit, he quickly looked through the X-ray's Temperance had given him earlier. "Look…the fracture on the ribs and humerus." He said showing her the x-rays "They are congruent with fractures that would have occurred from a fall" Temperance stared at the the x-rays.

"But a fall would not cause fracture's this severe….unless the victim fell from somewhere really high."

"Maybe he was pushed?" Zach said, Temperance took the x-rays wanting to look them over at the lab.

"I'll find out…thank you Zach." She said, leaning over to give him a hug. She took the X-rays and placed them together with the sonogram before she hurried off. Wanting to know what happened to the victim.

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"According to Locals he was last seen two months ago after getting into a fight with this guy." Booth said as he handed a picture of the man who Aaron White fought two months prior, Angela and Jack Hodgins, Camille and Mr. Nigel-Murray where all in the Lab, going over the murder and Booth's current findings.

"So did this guy kill him?" Angela asked as she returned the photo to Booth, he shook his head.

"Uh no…after that fight no one saw Aaron and apparently Alex Creed here and Aaron were disputing over something silly like baseball…the two were buddies and were always fighting over stupid things, no one reported him missing because apparently Aaron liked to just take off for months at a time, he was the adventurous type, traveling, bungee jumping, skydiving, you name it."

"Ah the good old days." Angela said while thinking back to the time when she wasn't married or Pregnant.

"Are you saying you miss those days?" Jack said turning to look at his wife who simply smiled at him.

"No, but they were the good old days." She said placing a small kiss on his cheek; Camille rolled her eyes though she did think their interaction was ridiculously adorable.

"Well the bones have to tell us something, Dr. Brennan said that she found something strange in their fractures earlier." Camille said as she took the picture from Booth to get a better look at it.

"Speaking of Bones, where is she?" Booth asked a little annoyed, he had not been able to reach her for almost two hours and he was a little concerned about that, Camille said she just took off but no one told him where. The sound of the Lab being accessed caused the group to turn their heads. As if on cue Temperance Brennan made her way in, buttoning her white lab coat as she did. "Where have you been?" He asked her a bit frantically she gave him a rather bored look before speaking.

"I went to see Zach." She said as she made her way over to the bones. "No offense to Mr. Nigel-Murray, but I needed another Anthropologist's point of view" Vincent sighed heavily, clearly his internship was getting him nowhere but he was hopeful.

"Did he help?" Booth asked, following Temperance he was almost literally right on top of her, she turned her head to respond and found him awfully close, she moved away a bit feeling a bit uncomfortable.

"Uh…yes." Ignoring the fact that he was seriously close, she turned to the bones. "See the fractures to the ribs and humerus here…and here." She said pointing out the two fractures "these fractures are consistent with fall injuries. The victim had to have fallen from a very high place, very fast for these fracture's to occur."

"And He skydives and Bungee jumps!" Angela said, suddenly Aaron White's death was beginning to look more and more like an accident than a murder.

"Yes Skydiving would more likely fit the fractures…something must of malfunctioned or he must have had a hard landing…this was an accident Booth." Temperance turned to Seeley who was still very close, the musky male scent he produced strangely enough relaxed her and made her feel safe, it made her think about how some of the baby books she had been reading said that when the father of the child a woman is expecting is close, they feel calmer, safer. She also remembered reading that pregnant women tended to want the father's closer, that they would need them…but she would have to deal with not having any help from Booth at all.

A sudden wave of nausea hit her rocking her entire body, making her feel exhausted. She turned away from the remains and from Booth in case she did throw up, using her hand to cover her mouth. The five people that surrounded her instantly worried at her sudden and random reaction.

"Whoa sweetie, are you sick?" Angela asked first as it seemed that the nausea left, though in its wake it left a very light headed Temperance. Instinctively Temperance's hand went over her stomach; she nodded at Angela's question. Angela smiled softly. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you're pregnant" She joked, earning soft laughter from the group of people, yet Temperance said nothing and that reaction did not go unnoticed.

"I'm going to go lay down in my office for a bit." She said softly as she quickly made her way out of the lab and to her office. However her lack of response to Angela's joke left everyone else a bit unsettled. Angela was the first to speak once Temperance was out of ear shot.

"She didn't fight me; she didn't say something rational to disprove my reasoning." Angela's voice was soft with a hint of disbelief. "You don't think…"

"No" Seeley said though he sounded more like he was reassuring himself. "No, we would know…Bones isn't the type that can keep a big secret, at least not one like that." He said the other's nodded; silence followed their brief conversation, each person lost in their own thought. Just then a woman named Claire who worked in the Jeffersonian entered the Lab.

"Angie you must have dropped this, I found it at the entrance of the Lab." She said handing over a picture to Angela. "By the way I thought you were having a baby boy." She said, Angela gave Claire a weird look.

"I am…Why do you ask?"

"Well the picture in the sonogram is of a little girl." Claire said as she began to walk away. "Unless you know someone else in the Jeffersonian who is pregnant" She laughed as she walked out of the Lab and on her way. Her comment made everyone freeze, Angela looked down at the sonogram and sure enough the picture showed a girl, her eyes darted quickly to the upper left corner where the information of the mother would be found.

The name on the top left hand corner read Brennan, Temperance; judging from the fact that the sex of the baby could be determined Angela guess that Temperance was 13 to 17 weeks along, since you can't really determine the sex up until the thirteenth week of pregnancy. "Oh my god." She whispered. "It's Brennan…"She said everyone seemed to have stopped breathing. "That's why she didn't fight me back….Temperance is going to have a baby." Angela said turning the picture over so that everyone could see. Her finger pointing at the name printed on the picture.

"That would explain why she's been acting so strange lately." Camille added as she remembered Angela's previous comment earlier that day.

"But why would she hide it? She didn't hide it the last time." Jack said as he took the picture from Angela to look it over, wanting to make sure with his own eyes that it really said Dr. Brennan's name and that it was really a baby and not that his wife and Claire were hallucinating.

"Maybe it's because of the baby's father." Mr. Nigel-Murray said no fun fact following his thoughts, apparently he was too shocked to come up with trivia facts. Booth shook his head, that didn't sound like Bones. "It could also be because it's someone we know." He added all eyes automatically landed on Booth.

"What?" He said defensively. "Why do you all automatically assume its me?" He exclaimed earning a look from Angela.

"No he's right, if he had slept with her we would have noticed because that meant cheating on Hannah…and you probably would have also reacted differently upon hearing the news." Angela said as she thought about it a bit longer.

"Oh my god, Dr. Addy!" Camille said having all eyes weirdly stare at her. "No listen. Dr. Brennan has been strangely frequenting the psychiatric institution where Dr. Addy is imprisoned." Jack laughed at Camille's suggestions.

"So you're saying Dr. Brennan slept with Zach?" he laughed again. "Yeah I don't see that at all…"

"But it fits." She said. "Look… in the last five months Dr. Brennan has gone to see Dr. Addy at least four times a week, the Institute sends a report every month when someone of the Jeffersonian goes there. For five months Dr. Brennan has gone to see Dr. Addy and she's stayed late."

"Wait whoa, are you seriously implying that Zach and Brennan are getting their jiggy on?" Jack exclaimed. "No that doesn't make sense! Why would it happen now? Why didn't it happen before? Besides we all know that Brennan kind of sees Zach as like her son or little brother. I don't buy it." He said crossing his arms.

"Well Zach knows something." Angela said the group nodded in agreement.

"Either way, Bones wanted this kept quiet, I think it's fair we don't mention it until she feels comfortable enough to speak about it." Booth said the other reluctantly agreed as Angela stuffed the sonogram between the pages of the copied x-rays.

Two hours later Temperance awoke. What originally was supposed to be lying down to stop the dizziness turned into a two hour nap on the couch of her office. Getting up she groaned softly, the footsteps that entered her office had her turning her head slowly. Her green orbs looked into the coffee colored eyes that belonged to none other than Seeley Booth. She stared at him…wondering if their baby would have his eyes.

"Hey…" He whispered softly he walked over to where she was and knelt down. She rubbed her face as she leaned back against the couch. "How are you feeling?" he asked let her head fall forward so that her eyes stared into his.

"Better….I didn't mean to fall asleep." She said softly, he shook his head and smiled completely understand her.

"It happens in your condition." His words sent alarms blaring inside of Temperance.

"Excuse me?"

"Well you do work all night." Understanding swept through her as did relief; by condition he meant her lack of sleep because of the all nighters.

"Right…" Booth stared at her a moment, silence filling the room but it was a rather comfortable and warm silence.

"I told the Bureau about Aaron White. His body is being given to his friend Mr. Creed for burial." His words made her smile, Aaron White might have been an Orphan but he had someone in the very end. And for someone who had been alone for a big part of her life…that was something wonderful to hear.

"This case is over, hopefully it'll be a while before another big case comes in…I can concentrate on identifying the John and Jane Doe's." She said, as she stood from the couch stretching slightly to loosen the kinks in her body. Booth followed her as she walked to her desk, Temperance's eyes darted to the clock on her desk it read 6:25 pm was it her or did the day just seem to fly on by today. She took a seat at her desk and Booth took the seat across from her. "So have you and Hannah set a wedding date?" her question sort of caught Booth of guard but he eventually answered it.

"Uh no…not really." A sigh left him as he spoke, he seemed a bit strained when it came to the subject and that in itself was odd.

"Are you two experiencing trouble?" She asked noticing his lack of effort to talk about the matter. Seeley was silent for a few seconds before leaning forward and rubbing his face.

"I don't know Bones…things just feel different."

"Different how? Have you lost sexual interest in Hannah?"

"Whoa Bones easy there…." Booth said chuckling. "It's not always about the sex you know." His comment made her look away. Yeah now she knew that but he didn't know that she knew that.

"Well anthropologically speaking when a male looses interest in a female or has trouble in a relationship usually they are no longer sexually attracted to the female." She went straight into her safety zone, hiding behind her brain and facts not wanting to let him see just how vulnerable she had become.

"No my sex life with Hannah is just fine." He said a bit uncomfortably trying to not touch that subject with Temperance.

"Then what's the problem?" Booth sat silently for a moment, looking at her. He didn't quite know what to say what he wanted to say so he chose his words very, very carefully.

"A few months ago…uh something happened." He said, watching as all her attention focused on him. "Something happened to me personally…that really got me to thinking about a lot of things." His voice got softer. "About a lot decisions I've been making and recently I've been given a sign…but I'm not sure what it means."

"A sign?"

"Yeah like I asked God to give me a sign, tell me what he wants me to do and stuff." Temperance nodded her head in understanding; Booth was after all a religious man he would be prone to believe that God would send him spiritual signs.

"Was the sign what you were hoping for?" She asked softly as she leaned into her chair.

"Maybe…I'm not sure yet. But I will tell you this…" He leaned in further "I'm very, very happy with the sign he gave me." He smiled at her before standing up. "I gotta go, I'll see you tomorrow Bones." He said as he waved good-bye to her and walked out of her office leaving her alone. Temperance watched him leave and once he was gone she rested her hand over her growing belly her thoughts drifting to the man who just left her office.

"We need to talk!" Angela's voice sounded urgent, she closed the door to Temperance office alarming the poor woman a bit.

"Angela, what's wrong?" Temperance sat up in her chair worried at first but the state of Angela's body language let Temperance know it was nothing too bad or serious. Angela crossed her arms and took a seat across Temperance.

"Let's talk about you being pregnant." The words that left her mouth sent shock throughout Temperance's body as she stared at her friend with wide eyes. She opened her mouth to speak but Angela cut her off. "Honey a pregnant woman knows a pregnant woman when she sees one." Temperance chuckled at her comment and smiled…somehow she felt relieved. It was a few minutes before she spoke about her pregnancy telling Angela everything except the name of the father of her baby, and that Angela thought, was her new mission in life for now…figuring out the Identity of her best friends baby's father.

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Hi. Yeah I've planned it out and this story will only last five chapters, six at the most! As you guys can see I've based the time line in this story after the unaired (will be aired obviously after I post this fic) Episode of Bones the Doctor in the Photo. I've decided to munch off Hart's ideas and use the Gravedigger seeing as she will be returning to Bones this Season. Obviously I don't really know what will happen after the Brennan-centric epi but this is my AU, by the way I am super excited about that episode.

Tell me what you think, leave a review.

Jme