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Temperance Brennan first noticed the distant humming getting louder and louder in her mind. Eventually, she was able to pick out that the humming was actually voices; voices that kept growing louder to the point where it gave her a headache. Once she felt the pain in her head, the rest of her body soon followed in suit. She felt the rest of her body begin to throb with a dull ache. What had happened? She willed herself to think back to her latest memories. She faintly remembers talking to Miss Wick over breakfast and then leaving the base camp for a dig site. She remembers reaching the dig site, but after that, everything goes hazy. What the hell happened to her?
Giving up on trying to remember what had happened, Brennan willed herself to open her eyes. The seemingly mindless task proved itself to be more difficult than she ever imagined- only adding to her suspicion that something weird was definitely going on. She let out a helpless moan and allowed her eyes to remain glued shut.
However, the moan must have not went unheard, for almost immediately she felt a soft touch on her arm and heard the unidentifiable voice begin to say something. Brennan put all her focus into concentrating what the mystery person was saying to her and eventually she was able to pick out the phrases, 'wake up, sweetie, too long, dead, scared, and come on. Deep in her subconscious mind she knew she should be able to recognize the voice that was talking to her, but she found she did not have the strength nor willpower to try and figure it out. Instead she let the pain and drowsiness carry her off back into the darkness.
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Angela was pacing back and forth in her best friends hospital room. She never expected to get a call from somebody from whatever the project was that Bren was working on telling her that Brennan had been in a serious accident due to an earthquake and she was being transported to a hospital in Australia. She and Hodgins dropped everything and caught the next plane to Australia to be with her. She was just thankful she was on her extended honeymoon in Paris and did not have to worry about work or anything else conflicting with her just packing up and leaving. Now, all she could do was pray that her friend would wake up soon.
Angela continued to pace the floor of the hospital room, back and forth, when she was finally stopped by a pair of arms wrapping around her body. "Angie, I know it is difficult to see her like this; it kills me too, but wearing a hole in the floor is not going to help Dr. Brennan wake up any sooner. You can do us all a favor and sit down and hold still."
Angela shot a glare at her husband and he immediately took back his last suggestion saying, "never mind. Continue as you were."
Angela sighed, realizing Hodgins was right, pacing was not going to wake Bren up any sooner. She went over and plopped herself into the chair next to Hodgins and leaned her head on his shoulder. "I'm just really worried about her," Angela admitted.
Hodgins nodded his head in agreement, "I know," he said to her, "I am too. We just have to remember that Dr. B is a really strong woman, and she will fight to get through this. She will get through this," Hodgins reassured his wife.
Angela nodded and snuggled closer against her husband, "you're right," she agreed, and then let herself drift off to sleep. Hodgins soon found himself doing the same.
Some time later, they were awoke by a frantic Cam rushing in the room demanding, "how is she? Is she ok? What do you know?"
The sound started Angela, and she jumped at the sudden sound that suddenly took over the previously quiet room.
"Cam?" Hodgins asked in a sleepy voice, trying, and failing, to suppress a yawn, "what are you doing here?"
"I assume I'm here for the same reason you are," Cam responded, "how is she doing?"
Hodgins shrugged, "she still hasn't woke up yet. The doctors say she is in stable condition, but she has suffered a lot of trauma to the head, and back. They won't know anything definite until she wakes up."
Cam nodded, relieved to know that Dr. Brennan was in stable condition. She let out a sigh of relief and slumped into the chairs next to Angela and Hodgins.
"I have to admit," Angela told Cam, "I'm sort of surprised you got here this quickly. What about the Jeffersonian."
Cam shrugged, "being the boss has its perks. Besides, not very often do I get a call informing me that one of my friends has been seriously injured in an earthquake."
"I know what you mean," Angela replied.
Cam nodded and looked around the room to take in her surroundings. She was surprised by what she saw… or what she didn't see to be more precise. "Where's…"
"I don't know," Angela responded with a shrug.
"He does know, right?" Cam asked, a worried expression slipping onto her face.
"The doctors said that the called to inform him at the same time they called us," Hodgins answered.
Cam raised her eyebrows in interest, "I was certain he would do whatever it took to get over here if he heard that something happened to Dr. Brennan."
"Well," Hodgins replied, "he is in a war zone. Sometimes it is impossible to just get up and leave."
Cam nodded her agreement. "As long as he knows," she stated, "I would hate to be the poor bastard who did not tell him that his 'Bones' was injured."
Despite the situation, Angela let out a laugh. "She is going to be ok, isn't she!" The question was more of a statement, and Cam nodded her head in agreement.
The three of them were pulled out of their conversation by the sound of a moan coming from their friend. Angela immediately raced over to her side and placed her hands on Brennan's arms. "Oh my god, you have to wake up. Oh Sweetie you have been in a coma for too long, you need to wake up Sweetie. I thought for a moment that you were dead, and you don't even know how hard that was to hear. You had us all really scared there for a minute Bren. Come on Sweetie you have to wake up."
However, no more sound, or movement came from their sleeping friend. Hodgins walked over to her and said, "just give her some time. She is starting to wake up. She just needs some time.
It's been a little less than a month since I updated this story. In my defense, I have been really busy. I do promise I won't wait that long again. I currently am writing 3 stories, and I have found that it is very difficult. So I am considering putting one story on hiatus until my other two stories are done. Make sure to review if you want this story to continue in the near future. (Also, I have no idea where the title for this fic cam from… I probably should change it…