Angela stood in front of the full length mirror in the master bathroom of her house. Wearing a dark blue bikini that complemented her tan skin, she surveyed herself solemnly. Turning slowly around to get the full effect of her bathing suit she focused in on her stomach and let out a breath.

" who knew pregnancy would make me look so..."

"sexy?" a voice behind her cut in.

she looked up to see Hodgens leaning against the door of the bathroom.

"Hey" she laughed " I was going to go with stretched out, but sexy works too."

" It is sexy. Your carrying my baby, we're going to be parents, and tomorrow the whole world will know it."

"Aww thats so sweet Hodgie!" said angela and ran over hug him.

" is this the hormones talking Ange?" he said jokingly

" yeah, mostly. But I still think its sweet." she replied pecking him on the lips.

Temperence Brennen stood in front of her open wardrobe and contemplated it's contents with an air of annoyance. She picked up her cell phone and pressed speed-dial #4. #1 was Booth, #2 was Max, #3 was Russ, and #4 was Angela. Sighing, she pressed the phone against her ear and waited for Angela to pick up.

" Hey Bren, Whats up? Don't tell me we have another case?" she heard when Angela finally answered the phone.

" no Ange, no case. But I do have a problem."

A few hours after the phone call Angela and Brennen found themselves walking aroung the main shopping street in D.C; Brennen laden down with shopping bags, some hers, some Angela's.

" Thanks Ange."

" No problem, I just can't believe that you don't own a bathing suit." Angela laughed.

" Well, I've never really had any need for one recently. Everything I do near water is somehow related to a homicide victim or a dead body." Brennen answered truthfully.

" Well you know I have no objection to shopping; in fact its given me a chance to get some stuff for the baby." she paused for a minute and then laughed. " Booth is gonna die when he sees you in this bathing suit!"

" Why would it cause Booth harm to see me in a bathing suit?" Brennen asked, not getting the exaggeration.

" Well, Honey... never mind." Angela figured that it wasn't worth explaining this to Brennen for nearly the fifth time.

When Brennen got home, she sat down on her couch and reached into her shopping bag to look at the Bathing suit that she and Angela had bought. It was a simple black halter bikini but Angela had pronounced it " sexy" and insisted that she buy it. It looked like such a innocent piece of clothing laying there on the wood of her coffee table that Temperence wasn't sure that what Angela had said was true. But Angela was never one for modesty so she guessed if Angela thought it was sexy it was.

Hodgens looked up from his book on the secret societies of Russia just in time to see his wife fall into bed next to him.

" Hey" he siad softly " how was the great bathing suit emergency?"

instead of an answer Angela groaned tiredly and tied to get comfortable on the bed.

" Backrub?" he asked and she nodded sleepily in response. Sliding over and sitting behind her, he slowly worked out all of the knots In her back.

" oh dear God that feels good." she said when he had massaged a particuarly sore part of her back.

" God is a little formal, Hodgens is fine." he said with a laugh, remembering last year when he had said that same thing,when they had been in this same position. That was argueably the best day of his life, along with the day that Angela agreed to marry him the first time, and when he was told he was having a baby.

" ugh, thank you!" Angela said as she slipped down to lay on her back with her head in his lap. He leaned down and kissed her silently.

" did you know that the beach is just teaming with plant and sea life that has washed up on the shore?" he asked after he pulled away. " man , i'm just waiting for us to get a case that ends on the beach, 'cause a killer can't run from all of the evicence that he could leave on all of the micro-organisms and plants!"

" Hodgens!" his wife interrupted him. She had that grin that said " I can't believe you're so squinty." plastered on her face and she looked up with amusement in her eyes. " My head is in your lap and all you can do is talk about plant life in the ocean? Hmm, its a wonder I ever got pregnant at all!"

" you know I think you're more interesting than any sea life Angie!" he said kissing her again.

" Even more than that cotton candy thing that eats bones?"

" Oh, definitly more than the cotton candy that eats bones.

Sorry its taken so long to get to the beach! I promise next chapter that they will be there! And it will be full of fluff and romance and awkward review. It makes me feel happy when I sit in physics class and see that I have more alerts from people who review.