"Booth? Booth!"
"Who's Booth? Is that… me?"
A young man lay in a hospital bed with a bandage around his head. In a chair next to him, a young forensic anthropologist named Temperance Brennan was trying not to let her emotions take control of her, something she was not used to having to do. Her partner, the man, Seely Booth, had just come out of brain surgery and had been in a coma for days. He couldn't remember a thing, hence the questions.
"Yes, that's you. Your name is Seely Booth, and you're an FBI agent. I'm your partner, Bones. Hold on a second, Booth." She calmly stood up, left the room, and started yelling for a doctor, startling even herself. A woman in a white lab coat quickly came to her aid, and together they went back to the confused man in the bed.
Booth was lost. Who was he? Where was he? And who were these people that were saying he was this man named Booth? The named seemed slightly familiar…
"Mr. Booth, I'm Doctor Maya Wilson. You were in surgery a while ago and have been in a coma. It's nice to see you awake, but I hear from your partner here that you can't remember anything. Is that true?" The doctor was older than the partners by about ten years, and had black thick hair that went all the way to her waist. Under the coat, she wore a red blouse and a black knee length skirt.
"He doesn't even remember his own name, or me. And we've been partners forever." The FBI agent grinned his charming smile and responded like he would normally.
"Bones, I can talk for myself, all right? Thank you very much." Bones gaped at his words that sounded so much like his regular tone, and he even gaped at himself. "Well, where did that come from."
"It seems you are already getting some subconscious memories from before the surgery. What you have is amnesia, and it's not too uncommon in people out of brain surgery. Now, it's temporary, but we don't know how temporary. Each case is different. It could last a day, a week, a month. You can go home in a week or two to see of you can remember anything in your own surroundings, but until then your friends are just going to have to see if they can get back your memories on their own."
Booth looked confused – again.
"Friends? There's more than one? Can I see them? Maybe they really can help me remember stuff." Booth looked so excited that the doctor just couldn't say no, even though it was against regulations to have so many people visit at once. She left the room to go get Booth and Bones' colleagues and in they spilled. Hodgins, Angela, Zach, Cam and Sweets all filed in with grins on their faces, even though they already knew that Booth couldn't remember them. Then in came someone that Booth knew, and instantly cheered up at seeing.
"Hey, big bro," Jared Booth said as his walked casually through the door, all emotion hidden. "What's shakin'?"