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Don't run away

She had never been this terrified in her entire life, except the moment she'd realized that her parents had left her.
She had never felt this lonely, vulnerable than in this moment. How could that happen? He had promised to never leave her. But how could he keep his promise if he not even remembered her?

She was back in her office, grabbing her most important things, when she heard a familiar voice.

"Sweetie, what are you doing?"

Her face was drowned in tears and her voice was breaking. "I…Ange, I have to…get away…"

"What happened?" Angela took a few steps until she stood right in front of her.

"He…!" Brennan tried to wipe the tears off, "he woke up again. He…he has to recover now, needs rest. I'm just…Guatemala. I have to…."

"Brennan, what happened? Is he alright?"

Brennan shook slightly, trying to get herself together. "Yeah, he seemed to be alright, but…"

"But what? Brennan, talk to me!"

"He…has lost his memory!" She was now crying again, staring in Angela's eyes, who seemed to understand in an instant.

"Oh, sweetie!" She pulled her best friend into a tight embrace, trying to calm her.

Brennan wrapped her arms around her. "He didn't remember me. He didn't know who I was. How could he…" She wasn't even able to finish the sentence.

*

He really felt terrible for upsetting her like this. Obviously she had jut expected him to wake up and go on like before. But…how should he go on if he didn't know what was going on? A few hours ago he had been sitting with her in their office, cheering because of her pregnancy. A moment later…the whole picture had blurred and…he had woken up in a hospital room. It seemed that his whole life, their marriage, her pregnancy, had all been a dream. But what was the reality then?

He was taken out of his thoughts when the door opened.

"Agent Saroyan!"

The black-haired woman looked confused. "Um….Booth?! I'm not an agent. I'm a pathologist."

"Oh…." He sighed frustrated.

"Booth, what's this all about? Your partner wants to kind of escape to Guatemala, you think I'm an agent…"

"I…seem to have to lose my memory. You know, not totally. It's… if I kind of was in another world. Bren and I…we had a club, a night club. She was pregnant. One day you and your partner Jared came to our house and told us that there's a dead body in our club. In the end, the bad guy was your partner."

The not-agent in front of him looked confused, then sight. "Ok, Booth, listen. During a interrogation, you showed…symptoms and Dr. Brennan took you to hospital and they found out that you had a brain tumor. So you had a surgery. They successfully removed it, but there were some complications and you took four days to wake up again.

Your name is Seeley Booth, you are a Special agent of the FBI and partnered with Dr. Temperance Brennan. You have a six-year-old son, Parker, who lives with your ex-girlfriend, Rebecca and her boyfriend Drew.

Listen, the doctors told me, you'd remember everything when the time is right. All memories are somewhere in your head, but your body is too busy recovering the damages of your tumor and the surgery. So your memory is blocked, not lost.
You will remember everything. I promise."

He nodded and closed his eyes tiredly. "Camille? Can you make Bren come back here? I don't want her to go to Guatemala. She's the only one I remember trusting."

"Sure, Seeley."

He wrinkled his nose. "Oh, and please don't call me Seeley. Even if you've done it all the time before, I don't like it. What were my parents thinking?"

She laughed quietly and left the room. Of course, she didn't like the idea of Booth and Brennan being romantically involved, but it seemed to be inevitable and he wanted her to be with him.
And the most important thing to her was, that he, her ex-boyfriend, she still had feelings for, was alright, even if it meant to accept Brennan in a way, she didn't really wanted to.

*

"Sweetie, listen. Booth is your friend. He means something to you and even if he can't remember anything, you still know him. And that's important, because so you can help him to get his memory back. You understand this? Bren, you can't run away again, because if you run, nobody will let you down, but you will Booth down." Angela was carefully stroking Brennan's hand, who had cried quite more the last three hours than in her entire life.

A knock on the door interrupted them.

"Dr. Brennan?! Booth wants you to stay with him."

"What?" An indefinable emotion crossed Brennan's face. "Why? Can he…I mean…is he alright?" There was a hint of fear in her voice and she squeezed Angela's hand a little harder.

"Well, he's as alright as he can with a lost memory, but he wants you to be there." Cam sighed. "Dr. Brennan, there is something you have to know about him. The doctors said that he'd recover completely, but it'll take time. Some memories will come back quicker some slower. We can't rush things. While Booth was in coma, he thought he was a club owner and married to you. You were pregnant and all the people who mean something to him were involved somehow. You were his wife, I and Jared were cops, Hodgins was an author who told the whole story and-"

"That's what my book was about!", Brennan interrupted her. "Dr. Saroyan, I wrote my newest book while Booth was in coma and because the doctors told me to talk to him, I read while I wrote. Probably….he…somehow projected onto our life."

"Obviously. So when he woke up it was a big shock for him because he thought he was someone totally different than he is in reality and all his memories are somewhere in his head, but his body is too busy recovering the damages of his tumor and the surgery. So his memory is blocked, not lost.

He said that you are the only one he remembers trusting, so he badly wants you to be there. You shouldn't run away. He needs you, more than both of you can imagine."

So, chapter two. What do you guys think ? I know, it's a little overdramatic yet, but I promise it'll get better ;) As soon as possible :D

Xoxo,

Michi