Bewautiful Boy Chapter 40/?
Paring: Booth/Brennan/Parker/Introducing New Major Character Laura in later chapters
Rating: M - WARNING: There is mention of child abuse and mental health issues
Genre: Romance/Family/Angst
Summary: Please Read Summary: Parker has been returned after being abducted and months of sexual abuse. Booth and Brennan deal with his issues while learning to deal with their burgeoning relationship and a family they thought they’d never have. There will be issues of resolving child abuse trauma and mental health for all..
You been so patient at waiting here are two extra chapters.
Chapter 40
After eating her burger and fries Bones felt quite good for about half an hour after going to bed, then her nausea began. "Oh" she complained sitting up on the side of the bed holding her stomach trying to decide if vomiting was going to be the next coming attraction.
Booth rolled over in bed and looked at her. "You okay?" he asked in a sleepy voice since he had just about fallen asleep when he felt her begin twisting and turning.
All of a sudden she knew what was coming "No" was all she got out before she was running to the bathroom and beginning to violently vomit. Sinking down to the cool tile floor she continued to alternate between extreme bouts of nausea and vomiting.
Booth quickly got up and went after her. As she got sick he held her hair back and rubbed her back. "I'm sorry baby." he whispered kissing the top of her head. "Maybe it was too busy of a day and you caught a bug."
"Maybe it more like a remainder that I should only eat vegetarian foods" she smiled up at him weakly as soon as all her vomiting stopped. She allowed him to help her up and brushed her teeth returning to bed. As she snuggled into his warmth again she whispered "sorry I woke you, you had a hard day too."
"Don't be sorry," Booth said as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her forehead. Let’s try and get some sleep we got a kiddo to try and get to school in the morning."
She settled into his arms for the next two hours when suddenly she awoke with an all consuming need for pistachio mint ice cream and fudge sauce. She thought about waking Booth and having him go and get it, but he had reminded her they still had to get Parker to school in the morning so it really made no sense for both of them to lose sleep. she would just get up and go and get the ice cream at the all night deli she had gone to in the past and be home before he would know she was gone. Sliding out of bed she dressed and grabbed her shoes to put on in the living room.
Booth was sure he could feel Bones moving around next to him but in his sleep he wasn't completely sure what was going on. After a minute and the moving stopped he reached over and found she wasn't there. He quickly opened his eyes and realized she was not in the room or the bathroom. He got up and padded his way into the living room where he found her grabbing her car keys. "Where are you going?"
"Oh Booth!" she jumped "you scared me half to death. I'm sorry I didn’t mean to wake you. I just wanted some ice cream so I am going to the deli down the street to get some" she replied matter-of-factly.
"You're leaving at..." He glanced at the clock and continued "... 2 o'clock in the morning to get ice cream."
"Well now is when I want it and we don't have any here so yes I guess I am." Again she spoke in her calm squint voice like she was talking to Parker and not to another adult.
Booth shook his head as if trying to clear it. "You were puking your guts out 2 hours ago and now you want ice cream." he then went to the cabinet and got out a package of crackers. "if you're hungry eat these."
She stomped her foot and snapped at him "I do not want crackers I WANT pistachio mint ice cream and fudge sauce I want it now and I am going to get it."
"Whoa... okay PARKER... it's the middle of the night” Booth said looking at her like she had totally lost her mind. "I'm not letting you go out to some creepy little shop to get ice cream at 2 in the fucking morning."
Well she could see reason wouldn’t work so "but Booth I'm hungry for my ice cream now. I vomited a big hungry hole right here." She pulled up her t-shirt showing him her abdomen drawing circles. She walked closer and took a finger and started drawing circles on her abdomen with his finger. "See I'm hungry for pistachio mint with fudge sauce right here." Stopping his finger she kissed his jaw in an effort to seal the deal.
"Since when do you like pistachios? You always say that green nuts don't belong in ice cream." Booth said but now it was with more of a whine to his voice because of her actions mellowing him out.
"Boothy please I'll go get the ice and be right back. It's less than 5 minutes away. I'll be gone 10 minutes at most. They know me there. Please Booth I need that ice cream now."
"I'll go get it." he said turning to go get on some pants and a shirt.
"No Booth I'm already dressed I'll go honest I don't mind it's my ice cream after all."
"I don't want you going down there at this time of night." Booth said already hopping into his jeans and finding a shirt. "It's no big deal... now where is my other shoe..."
She looked at him noting he was still a little mad "Booth I'll make it up to you" she smiled.
Booth kissed her quickly on the lips before heading out to the car. As he was driving towards the little restaurant he passed by a little 24 hour drug store and something completely snapped. "Holy crap!" he exclaimed out loud to himself. He just realized why western burgers and pistachio ice cream seemed so familiar, it was the same thing Rebecca craved in the middle of the night when she was pregnant with Parker. With a big grin on his face and a bit of anxiety he quickly got the ice cream and then stopped into the drug story for a pregnancy test before returning home. He walked through the door and smiled when he saw her sitting in the living room. "I got a whole carton of ice cream" he said going into the kitchen to dish it up. He kept the bag from the drug store on the counter, waiting to see if she found it.
"Did you get the fudge sauce too?" she asked coming into the kitchen.
"Right here," he said taking it out of the bag and then putting the bag into a drawer where they kept them to use later.
"Oh and cherries." she hadn’t mentioned wanting them but if his gut was right she would.
"Oh yummy" she smiled watching him make her sunday. She took several bites before her eyes fell on the box he had left on the counter and the ice cream in her stomach turned sour. "Booth what is this?"
"What's what?" he asked playing dumb.
She picked up the box "this, why did you purchase this?"
Booth looked up at her and bit his lower lip praying she wasn't mad. "I just... was noticing stuff."
"What stuff?" She was completely confused "what does my wanting ice cream have to do with you buying a pregnancy test?"
"Bones think about it...you were craving red meat...and ice cream at odd times...you've been beyond moody and heck those are the exact same things that Rebecca craved with Parker."
She was still in the dark "why did she crave them with Parker? He has been here for awhile and I am just now having these desires, desires not cravings Booth."
Booth was getting frustrated now. "I think you're pregnant so i got you the test!"
"You think I'm WHAT!" she shirked.
"Shhhh quiet you're going to wake Parker." Booth said in a shushing tone.
"Oh sorry, do you really think I could be pregnant? Really" she asked with just a little bit of hope tinged with fear in her voice."
"See I read some place that it's the guy's... well... stuff... that brings about cravings and nausea and stuff.... well Rebecca craved western burgers and pistachio mint ice cream with chocolate fudge and cherries."
Booth then nodded and looked down at what she was eating.
"Oh well, I guess I could be then if you think so." She thought for a minute she had always been acutely aware of her monthly cycles but nursing Parker and all the hormones it involved had caused her to lose track. "Booth I'm afraid to take the test. What is the test is negative? I don't want another negative test.
Booth walked over and wrapped his arms around her from behind. "Then we'll just keep trying and enjoy every minute of it." he whispered in her ear as he pulled her back against him.
"Ok I'll take it, but I think you are wrong" she said walking off to the bathroom to get the sample. As soon as she got to the door she turned around "Booth are you coming with me?"
"What... oh yeah sure." Booth said shaking out of a daze and walking after her to their bedroom and then into the bathroom. He hadn't been in the room when Rebecca had done this so this was all knew to him.
They read and followed the directions then sat down to wait. "Was it this hard waiting to learn if you and Rebecca were pregnant with Parker" she asked nervously?
"I didn't have to wait because I didn't know." Booth said as he sat on the counter while she sat on the closed toilet seat. "She told me after she had already done the home test and saw the doctor.'
"Oh, Booth what was your reaction when you first found out about Parker? I have always wanted to know. Do you love him from the very first minutes you knew?
Booth thought about that for a second before responding. "I was scared for a lot of reasons. I was scared because the religion I grew up in... and still believe in says you don't have children out of wedlock. I was scared because I had not planned on being a father and didn't know if I would be good at it. And I was scared because of my job. I work odd hours with bad people...." he let that thought trail off as he realized that one of his fears had come true. It was because of his job that Parker had been kidnapped, just like he had thought about years ago.
She looked at him and asked him her biggest fear “so what would make any of that different now. We have talked about having a baby but not any of this other stuff. Maybe we should have. I'm sorry." With that she looked down at her feet thinking of all the things this could ruin. She wanted a baby, she wanted one with Booth but at the cost of their partnership, friendship? She wasn't sure she could handle that, and her tears started to fill her eyes.
Booth got off the counter and crouched in front of her. "Tempe..." he said taking her face in his hands so she was looking at him. "Nothing is more important to me then my family. That family is you and Parker." he then put a hand on her stomach "and if there is a baby now... or five years from now I will love all of you. Life is too short to worry all the time."
"But Booth this is really bad timing. I have been thinking about what I want, what I need and not really about Parker or you. You are both my family too. Booth I have nursed Parker through hell how could I not think of him first? How could I have not been reasonable about this? Now her tears came harder and she fell against Booth's shoulder.
Boot hugged her tightly and placed kisses to her head. "We planned this baby... it might not be the best timing but we'll get through this like we have everything else." He then added "Parker will be okay he has been bugging me for a baby brother for years."
She smiled at this "what if it’s a girl? Will he hate me"
"Well technically he should hate me since I believe it is the guy who determines the sex." Booth chuckled.
"Oh good you get to explain it. There is one thing I think you will like though if I am pregnant. Pregnancy increases the woman’s sex drive so you will have plenty of sex while you are home."
Booth smirked at that, "That IS the fun part of being with a pregnant women." he then noticed the time and grabbed the pregnancy test without looking at it. "Ready?" he asked handing it to her. Booth chuckled at that and smirked. "I seem to remember those days of Rebecca's pregnancy. I remember taking a whole day off of work simply because she wouldn't let me out of bed." he didn't realize saying this to his current girlfriend would be a bit odd.
"Well that won't be an issue now will it?” she said rather formally not really wanting to hear about Booth day long sexcapades with Rebecca.
"Yeah no work and Parker back in school." Booth smirked again and then noticed the time. "Oh I guess it's time to check the stick"
She began to pull back into herself again. "Booth I can't look. You do it."
"Okay," Booth picked up up the pregnancy test and flipped it over to look at it. It took him a second to really realize what he was reading and then a huge smile came over his face. "It's positive!" he exclaimed automatically pulling her into his arms and hugging her tightly.
She immediately stiffened and pulled back going into her scientific mode. "Well that answers that question. I will need to make an appointment with Melinda as soon as I can get in preferably tomorrow and get the results verified. We will need to talk to Colin about how to tell Parker and then we will need to tackle how to tell everyone else" she stopped and looked at Booth "What?"
"Bones...this isn't some scientific finding, this is a life that we both created." he said reaching to touch her belly, trying to bring her to the land of normal people.
"I know that Booth, it's just..." she looked down to where his hand was resting, ... "it's just that I am scared. What if I turn out to be a really terrible Mother? What if I can't do this?"
"You've been great with Parker and he's far from your average child." Booth pointed out. "You've got the same maternal instincts as any other woman." he smiled. "I remember when you blurted out in Sweet's office that you wanted to have a baby last year."
"That was different Booth I didn't really understand then. Having Parker has given me the look I needed to see what parenting is about." She looked up at him with a small smile on her face. I remember your reaction though, who would have thought one year from then we would actually be parents of one child and expecting another? Oh shit Booth what of my promise to Parker? What if I can't continue to breastfeed him because I am pregnant? He will see this as breaking a promise and might think he can't trust me anymore? You remember what Colin said about how important gaining his trust would be. What if I have broken it?"
"I think we will worry about that when we come to it." Booth said before leaning in and pressing a loving and passionate kiss to her lips.
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