I swear I didn’t die! Here’s a new one, fresh from the ol’ noggin!

Title: With
Genre: Friendship/Light Romance
Rating: K+
Timeline: Brennan’s pregnancy
Word Count: 197

He’s there when she finds out. She acts like she doesn’t want him to go, gives him a lecture about imposing, but she still has to suppress a smile when he asks to be there for the test.

Three months pass and Booth asks her why she picked his sperm instead of Fisher’s. “Because,” she replies, “I want my child to be strong and good-hearted, like you.”

At five months, she slips up and calls the baby “our child.” By the sixth, she has permanently adopted the phrase.

Halfway through the seventh month, she takes maternity leave to reduce the chances of exposing her baby to the uglier side of humanity. By the time the eighth month rolls around, she’s begging Booth to work cases with her in his free time and forcing herself to stay away from the Jeffersonian.

Nine months, and she has yet to go into labour. The doctors are worried, and Booth is even more so.

Two weeks later, they induce labour. He’s there for every contraction and push, and is the one to spread the good news of a healthy little boy while she holds her son and rethinks keeping him uninvolved.

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