The Moment
Part Two
Booth opened his mouth to tell her what he'd meant by those three little words. "I mean...who are you to me? Are we just partners and friends?" He asked as he reached out for her hand,taking it in his own.
She furrowed her brow and tipped her head gently to the side. "I still don't know what you mean. Does this have something to do with your dream?" She asked feeling uncomfortable by how unsure she was.
He stared into her eyes as he squeezed her hand,a small fleeting smile upon his lips as he did so. "Kind of. The dream seemed so real. "We were married and you were pregnant with my child. His hand went to her flat stomach and lingered there. "And the Jeffersonian was a nightclub called "The Lab." We owned it. Everyone we know was in there. Sweets was a bartender,Angela was the hostess,Hodgins was some sort of writer,Cam and Jared were cops and they worked together. Your father was a corrupt politician. Zack was your assistant. Daisy just sort of--hung around there and fell for Sweets when she saw he had a band."
Brennan's eyes widened at her friend's words and she swallowed hard. That was the story she'd been typing on her laptop for the past four days. The one she had deleted mere seconds before he'd awakened. The Alternate Universe of their lives and their friends' and families' lives. Her eyes flitted away from him to a far wall. "It was just a dream Booth." She whispered,not looking at him as she laced her fingers in his hair. 'How is it possible that he had a dream about the story I was writing?' She asked herself silently,in her head. Well she had been reading it aloud as she wrote it. He probably had imagined Hodgins as the narrator. She had to admit that the parts did fit well. Hodgins a writer--what with all his conspiracy theories,Angela a hostess with all the people skills that she had,Cam had used to be a cop and she'd known Jared and Booth for fifteen years. Zack had been her assistant and Sweets as a bartender definitly fit considering if drunk enough,people seem to admit their problems to them. Her musings ended when her friend spoke again.
Booth shook his head in denial. "Dreams mean something,Bones."
"But Booth...none of that stuff in your dream was real." She said to him as she finally looked at him again.
"We made love once." He commented softly. "And you wanted a baby. You asked me for my---stuff." Pink colored his cheeks as he became flustered.
"Once Booth. It happened once. I thought we'd forgotten about that." Brennan told him in despair.
Booth let his hand fall to the blankets,feeling hurt by the fact that she wanted to forget about that night. Sure that night had been full of heartache and wounds of the past being opened up but he didn't regret what had happened between them like Bones so obviously did. "I didn't. I've told you before that there are people that you can't have "just sex" with." His voice was hard and stressed. Why did she have to be so frustrating?
"You need to calm down Booth. You just woke up from a coma and you had brain surgery just a few days ago." She ordered,trying so obviously to control her emotions.
"I care about you, Bones! Why don't you get that?" He got that she'd been betrayed alot in her life. When her parents left her when she was fifteen,when Russ abandoned her,when Russ and her father left her again,when Sully left. Her father was back now and her brother visited when he could and wrote her and talked to her on the phone almost every day but he knew that she still wasn't over it. He had hoped though,that she knew that he couldn't just leave her like everyone else.
Suddenly,the door opened revealing a older nurse who stopped in the doorway,staring in shock as she noticed that Booth was awake. She bustled into the room with a cart that held medicine and a tray of food. "Good. Glad to see you're awake Mr Booth." The nurse said cheerfully as she walked over to his bed. "You'll need to take your medication of course and I am sure your hungry." She walked around,checking his stats and writing things down. "After you eat,I'll have the doctor come in and take a look at you."
When the nurse finally left the room after checking on Booth's vitals,giving him his pain medicine and a tray of room,things were silent. Only the sound of silverware against of tray. Not feeling at all hungry,despite the fact that there was a cup of chocolate pudding right infront of him,he pushed the tray away. "I hate being stuck here." He grumbled,crossing his arms over his masculine chest as his lips turned down in the corners,persing together in a pout.
Brennan had to smile at his words. That was just like Booth. He had always hated hospitals. "I know you do,Booth." She said with a chuckle. "And I don't blame you. The food here looks---" She studied it closely,head tilted to the side and nose wrinkled in disgust. "Unappealing."
"You know Bones,that night meant alot to me." He finally said,speaking up about that night,all those months ago once more. She needed to know. Needed to know that he wasn't just going to give up on her,that he wasn't going to forget the night they shared.
"Booth..." She started to reply with a shake of her head,causing her auburn hair to gently move shoulder to shoulder. It was desperately in need of washing. She hadn't left Booth's side for much of anything. She knew that she must look quite the mess.
His fingers curled around her's as he tugged her close until she sat on the bed next to him. His other hand went to touch her hair. He frowned. "Have you even gone home, Bones?" He asked of her.
Brennan smiled waterly at his concern. "Not really. I've been really worried about you."
"You still should've gone home to get a little bit of rest. Eaten something." He admonished,touching her cheek.
"I wasn't going to leave your side. Not after what happened---last year at the Checkerbox. Not after I thought you were dead for two weeks." She admitted. "I can't....I can't go through that again." Rationality was thrown aside as her emotions took over her completely. She leaned in to gently hug him---though he couldn't hug her back. She let her tears soak through the hospital gown that he wore.
Booth was startled at first. Brennan tried to not let her emotions show openly,though he'd always been able to tell how she was feeling by her blue eyes and how she held her body. Her behaviour now reminded him of how she'd behaved after Sweets and Wyatt left,the night that she'd told Booth and the psychologist what her foster parents had done to her all those years ago.
"I should...I should probably call the others and tell them that your awake." She said,disentangling herself from him and wiping discreetly at her eyes.
He held onto her hand and looked at her with his warm and reassuring brown eyes. "Stay. We can worry about the others later. For now,all the company I need is you. And then later,you can call and tell Rebecca to bring Parker by to see me."
Brennan let out a soft laugh and sat down once more. Biting her lip,she thought for a moment before finally speaking. "Hey Booth? That night meant alot to me as well."
Booth gave her the charm smile and gently stroked her palm.
They would discuss their changing relationship more once he was out of the hospital. For now,they just took comfort in one another's company.
The End.
