Title: Just fine
Rating: K+
Summary: He was going to be just fine.
Spoilers: Yes, definitely for CitC 4.25. So don't read if you don't want to know!
Just something cute. I wrote this while taking a break from revision for my finals.
Just fine.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
My ears slowly start to pick up on the steady beeping that echoes through the room quietly.
Beep.
Beep.
Then, slowly but surely, my brain starts to catch up. Where am I? The hospital. Brain tumor. Surgery. Everything comes rushing back to me and I try to open my eyes, but my body does not respond immediately. I hear something move beside me. Bones? I try to open my eyes again and this time they obey, carefully. The light in the room is blinding and I have to close them again quickly before it gives me a headache. A minute later I try again. Third time is the charm.
The room slowly starts to take form in front of me, but all I can see is the ceiling and the top of the IV that is supposedly dripping fluids into my body.
"Booth?" I look to my side upon hearing my name and see my partner curled up in a chair uncomfortably. She sees that I'm awake and sits up instantly, pushing her long legs off the chair. Next to her, in another chair, I see of very familiar head full of blonde curls.
"Parker's here." I say and my voice is scratchy, my tongue feels like leather and my lips are dry. But I'm okay.
"Yes, Rebecca was here but she had to leave. I offered to look after Parker - " She took a deep breath.
"How are you feeling?"
"Thirsty." In response she smiled and picked up a glass from the cabinet next to me.
"I figured you'd be. Here, drink some." She held a straw to my mouth and I took it between my lips, drinking eagerly. It helped a little. She continued to talk as I drank.
"The surgery went really well. They were able to remove the tumor without any complications. You're gonna be fine, Booth." She set the glass back down when I was done and took another deep breath. Next to her my little boy moved in his seat, but he never opened his eyes and continued to sleep peacefully.
"Booth?" I turned my eyes back to my partner and noticed that hers had filled with tears. She attempted to blink them away quickly, but one of them escaped and ran down her cheek slowly. I tried to reach up and wipe it away, but she was too far away.
"Bones, don't cry." She leant closer to me and this time I was able to touch her cheek, wiping at her tears softly with the pad of my thumb. She closed her eyes when I touched her. It must've felt comforting.
"I want you to be involved when I have your baby." I smiled slightly when she opened her eyes and held my gaze.
"Really?" I thought I saw a flicker of doubt behind all that blue in her eyes, before she took another deep breath and spoke again.
"And I don't want to be inseminated. I want to do it the proper way. I want you to help me break the laws of physics." At that comment I suddenly felt very hot and I was sure that a certain blush was making it's appearance known on my cheeks.
This. I had definitely not seen this coming.
Apparently my silence was starting to make her nervous.
"I mean not now obviously. Not right now. And we can wait for a while, if you want. But when you're ready. And if you're not then I'll just find a donor, because -" I looked for her hand and squeezed it tightly once I found it. She trailed off and looked at me.
"Just give me some time to recover, okay? If we're gonna break the laws of physics then I want to break them good." Had I just really said that? A little sexy smile pulled at her lips and I couldn't help but smile back. We were really going to do this. And I couldn't wait to tell Parker that he was going to have a little brother or sister.
I felt something brush my forehead and realised it were her lips. Then, she sat back down and leant over Parker carefully, waking him up to tell him I was going to be just fine.
And I would be.
I would be just fine.