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Nightmares
"Don't die," Temperance begged to Booth.
"Love you," Booth whispered before closing his eyes for the final time.
"Don't leave me," Bones begged, but it was too late.
She woke up screaming. Max, Russ, and Angela rushed into the bedroom. Booth still had a few days left in the hospital, and he had asked their friends to stay with her. They were now in shifts. Cam, Zack, and Sweets were going to start in a half hour. Hodgins, Caroline, and Amy were on the third shift. Cam had granted Hodgins, Jack, Angela, Temperance, and herself a two week vacation, although Temperance could take more time off.
"What's wrong?" Max asked.
"He died and left me alone, Daddy," Temperance sobbed.
"You're okay, Baby. Booth's fine. Daddy wouldn't lie to you," Max soothed.
Temperance calmed down a few minutes later.
"Sorry," she apologized.
"You don't have to be sorry," Russ said.
Temperance fell asleep as the second shift started.
She woke up from another nightmare an hour later, but was on the verge of a panic attack.
"Breathe in and out," Sweets instructed as Cam rubbed the sobbing forensic anthropologist's back.
"Are you?" Cam asked as Temperance finally calmed down.
Temperance nodded. "Don't lie, Dr. Brennan," Zack said.
"I'm not lying," she lied, but the three left her alone anyway.
When she woke up at 4:30AM, Hodgins, Caroline, and Amy had taken over.
Temperance started baking chocolate chip cookies to keep her busy until she could go to the hospital.
After finishing with her baking, Temperance cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom.
She got a shower afterwards, and cleaned the bathroom really well. Against her better wishes, Hodgins drove Temperance to the hospital.
"Hi, Babe," Booth said when he saw his girlfriend. The two had admitted their feelings for each other three days earlier, after the shooting.
"Hi, Booth," Temperance asked. She leaned over and the two began to make out.
"This is uncomfortable," Hodgins said as he walked in. The two pulled apart.
"Why don't you go eat with Amy?" Caroline asked her.
"I'm not hungry," Temperance lied.
"Go eat," Booth told her.
Temperance sighed. "I'll be right back," she promised Booth.
"I know you will, Bones." As soon as she entered the elevator, Caroline turned to Booth.
"What?" he asked, noticing her stare.
"She's having nightmares, baking, and cleaning the entire apartment," she informed him.
"She's trying to avoid the issue," Hodgins said.
When Caroline and Booth stared at him, he explained that Sweets had told him that.
As Temperance returned, Booth began formulating a plan to get Bones to confront her issues about the shooting.
TBC
This originally started out a one-shot. Halfway through, I decided to make it longer.