He was thinking about her. More like, he was thinking about how to tell her he loved her. They were sitting on her couch, just having finished eating Chinese food. "I love you Bones." He blurted out.
"Booth…" Why me? Why now? She questioned herself. "I don't love you as anything more than a partner."
"Oh…" he shrunk back. There was a reason he never told her how he felt. There was a reason he avoided being vulnerable in her presence. "Well, I'm gunna leave." He said as he walked out the door, hiding the tears that were running down his cheeks. He got in his car and started speeding home. He was driving too fast and ran a red light. Another car t-boned his Tahoe, and severely injured him. He passed out almost immediately as the speeding car hit him.
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Angela heard the phone ring. "Hello?" she answered.
She and Hodgins preceded to hear somebody from the hospital telling them they'd contacted Cam and that Booth was in the hospital after a car collision. They went out to Hodgins car and drove quickly to the hospital.
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Brennan answered her phone. "Hel-"
"Listen to me sweetie. Booth got in a car crash. He's in the hospital."
"This is all my fault…" she whispered as she hung up the phone, grabbed her purse, and ran out to her car.
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She was driving like a maniac. She didn't care. All she could think about was her partner in the hospital. She arrived there and parked next to Hodgins's and Angela's car. She ran inside. "Where is Special Agent Seeley Booth?" She demanded of the person sitting behind the front desk.
"He's in surgery." Angela explained to her.
Brennan walked away from the desk and sat down in a chair. After sitting for five minutes, she got up and paced having nothing else to do. Her conscience was eating her alive. She finally sat down next to Angela. "What's wrong?" Angela asked her, when Hodgins went to the food court to get them food.
"This is my fault." She whispered fighting tears.
"How? How is this your fault?""Booth told me he loved me. I'm afraid of him leaving me like everyone else that loved me has. I told him I only loved him as a partner. He stormed off with tears in his eyes. He was probably speeding home, so he could be alone to think when that car hit him."
"He'll be okay sweetie."
"What if I really lost him this time?" She asked Angela, tears falling down her cheeks.
"Seeley Booth is asking for somebody called Bones." The doctor said, standing in the doorway.
"That's me." Brennan jumped up and followed the doctor down the hall to his room. When she saw his brown eyes staring up at her, a few more tears escaped from her eyes. She sat down by his bed and unconsciously took his hand. "I am so sorry Booth."
His right arm was free from anything that would restrain him, except for her hand, so he freed himself and cupped her cheek in his hand and wiped away the tears. "Stop crying Bones. I overreacted. It's my fault. I should've expected that you wouldn't love me.""I'm so glad you're okay, Booth."
"Lay down with me." She obeyed his order and laid down with him. She rested her head on his chest, and she soon fell asleep, his right arm wrapped tightly around her, making sure she didn't fall.
He didn't sleep. He looked at her beautiful face. He couldn't take his eyes off of her. What didn't she see in him? What was wrong with him? Why couldn't she find it in her heart to love him? He'd done everything for her. Taken a bullet, shot a man, abandoned a murder suspect, and broken protocol. He'd done everything to show her that he really did care for her. Midnight trips to her apartment when she found out her mother was dead, hugging her when she was afraid and crying, guy hugs, Thai food, holding her when she was afraid the Gravedigger would take her away in the night, brining her coffee almost every morning, driving her to work, and even kissing her when it was the only way her family would get a good Christmas. What did he have to do, steal the sun for her?
