The next morning Brennan got up a little earlier than normal she had to get things for Amanda to take to Angela's to stay with JJ rather than daycare; Brennan knew she'd be to hyper for that. Plus she wanted to get some photo albums and things together to take to Booth to help fill in the gaps in his memories if he felt up to it. Once Brennan had all the stuff packed up she went to get Amanda up. Brennan stood and watched the little girl sleep, last night was the first night she slept through the night and in her own bed since Booth got sick. Brennan rubbed Amanda's back, "time to get up sweetie; you've got a big day ahead. You're going to play with JJ today at Angela's house and then I'm going to pick you up after lunch and we'll get daddy a surprise then go see him."
Amanda turned over and let Brennan lift her out of her crib. "Daddy?"
Brennan smiled and kissed Amanda's cheek."We'll see daddy in a little bit, but first you need to eat breakfast and get ready and go play with JJ for a while."
"K." Brennan carried Amanda downstairs to the kitchen and sat her in her seat before going to the cabinet and filling her pink princess bowl with dry cereal and putting half of a sliced banana on top. Carrying it over to Amanda she said, "Please try to use your spoon, I don't have time to get mashed banana out of your hair today," Brennan poured milk in to the matching spill proof cup and sat it on the table
"K."
Brennan kissed the top of Amanda's head and went to get her toast from the toaster and the rest of Amanda's banana and sat down for breakfast. An hour later Brennan kissed Amanda good bye and sent her with Angela and grabbed the bag of photo albums and headed to the care facility. Brennan got to Booth's room in time to see him drop a forkful of breakfast on himself. She strode to the bed, dropping the bags at her feet. "Booth let me help you while it's hot. You can try with the toast." Booth nodded and let Brennan gently take the fork from his hand and get another forkful of the scrambled egg and fed it to him.
Booth chewed the bite. "The eggs are gross Bones."
"I know but you need bland foods for awhile, your stomach has to get used to food. Being on liquids so long made your stomach shrink down."
Booth nodded and took another bite of his eggs. "Do you want to try the toast? They gave you jelly, mixed berry."
"Yeah…" Brennan slathered the little packet of jelly on the toast, leaving one corner dry so Booth could hold on to it without getting in a mess. Brennan handed Booth the toast and waited for him to eat a bite or two.
Brennan smiled as Booth took a bit of the toast, chewed and swallowed."This is the best toast ever, Bones!"
Brennan smiled, "eat three more bites of your eggs then I'll let you enjoy your toast." Booth nodded and let Brennan put the toast on the tray and picked up the fork and loaded it with eggs.
"How was Amanda last night?"
"She was good. She didn't want to go home last night, but after two cookies, a bath and two books she went down and slept for the whole night in her bed. She hasn't really done that since you've been here."Booth nodded and let Brenan give him another forkful of eggs.
"What's in the bag?"
"Picture albums, I thought they'd help with your memories." Booth nodded and ate the remaining bites of egg that Brennan fed to him. Once he was done Brennan handed him the toast and waited for him to finish it himself.
"Bones that was more than three bites of egg."
"I know you ate the entire thing. I did the same thing to Amanda a few days ago to get her to finish her dinner." Booth smiled and accepted f the straw in the carton of milk Brennan held for him.
"You seem better than you did yesterday Booth. You're not slurring your words today."
"I feel better. I'd feel really good if the nurses would have left me to sleep all night rather than flip me over like a piece of meat every couple hours."
"Booth, they have to do that so hopefully you won't get pneumonia again. You got a moth after you came here and you almost died. Once you get more mobile and can sit up in a chair they won't need to flip you over all the time."
"I slept through it until shift change but the night nurse kept waking me up, just when I'd get sleeping good she'd come in again!"
"I'll talk to Katie."
"Thanks Bones"
"You're welcome Booth. Booth are we married?"
"Yeah, but I don't remember when or how long?"
"It was four years on March 12."
"And you got a cold the day of so instead of going to the Bahamas we stayed home and I made you soup and made you tale medicine you didn't want."
"Yeah, but I will admit it was fun except for the congestion."
Booth chuckled and tried to grab Brennan's hand and ran his fingers over her knuckles, stopping at her wedding ring. "What happened to my ring Bones?"
Brennan smiled and bulled a chain out from her shirt. "You gave it to me when they took you for surgery and when we realized you weren't going to wake up I put on a chain and started wearing it. I'll give it back when you start doing a little better."
"Okay."
"Do you want to look at the pictures?"
"Yeah." Brennan pulled an album out and laid it across Booth's lap and they began looking at the photos. An hour later Booth's therapist Nicole entered the room. "Seeley, I'm Nicole, your physical therapist. I've been doing exercises with you since you've been here. It's nice to see you awake. We're going to do some stretches and range of motion exercises then we're going to get you sitting up on the side of the bed."
Booth nodded as Nicole began the exercises. "A little pain is to be expected because you haven't used your muscles in so long, but if it really starts hurting tell me and I'll stop."
"Okay." for the next thirty minutes Booth lay still while Nicole manipulated his stiff limbs."Booth are you in pain?"
"No, it just feels like it does when I fall asleep on the couch and you leave me there all night and I try to get up the next morning." Brennan smiled and kissed Booth's forehead.
"Okay Seeley I'm going to try and get you sitting up. I'm going to go really slowly, if you start to get dizzy tell me so I can lay you down."
"Okay."
Nicole gently moved Booth's legs over the side of the bed and gently lifted him up. "How does it feel to be sitting up Seeley?" Brennan gasped at how thin Booth was now and how thin his hair was in the back.
"Weird, but okay. Bones?" Brennan want around to Booth's other side and took his hand. "I'm here Booth." Booth smiled a little and noticed the tears in Brennan's eyes. "What's wrong Bones?"
"Nothing I just didn't think I'd ever see you sitting up."
Booth started to reach for Brennan, but stopped half way unsure of his balance.
"Go ahead Seeley, I've got you; you're not going to fall." Nicole moved off to the side and placed her hands to hold on to Booth's shoulder's more. Booth pulled Brennan into a side hug and kissed her cheek. "Bones, I'm gonna be okay, it's gonna take a while, but I'll be okay."
"I know." Brennan kissed him back. Nicole gave them a minute and said, "Seeley, I think we've done enough for this morning I'm going to lay you back now."
"Okay Brennan gave Booth one last kiss and moved to the side s o Nichole could lay Booth back in the bed. Once he was lying down Nicole scooted him up in the bed. "That should be more comfortable and make it easier for you to sit up."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome; I'll be back this afternoon to do everything again. In a week or two you should be able to sit in a chair and then we'll get you down to the therapy room and really start working you out."
"Sounds good." Nicole nodded and left. A few minutes later Katie came in and got Booth cleaned up for the day and into a clean hospital gown. "Once we get you up in a chair you can start wearing normal clothes; sweatpants and the like."
"Bones you're gonna have to get me smaller ones I think."
"I will, I'll take Amanda this weekend."
"Okay is Parker coming today?"
"No, Booth, he's at science camp for another week and a half."
"Oh right…"
"Booth why don't you get some rest? You've had a long morning. I'll be leaving to get Amanda soon; we have a stop to make before we come back so we'll be a little later than yesterday."
"Okay." Booth relaxed into the bed and closed his eyes a few minutes later he was asleep and Brennan left to get Amanda. Forty five minutes later Brennan was let into the Hodgins' estate by Angela.
"Hey Sweetie. How's Booth?"
"Hi Ange. Booth's doing good he's not slurring his words today; he's still having problems with his memory though. The therapist got him up and sitting on the side of the bed for five or so minutes this morning. She said in a week or two he should be able to sit in a chair and then they could really start his rehab workout."
"That's great Bren!"
"Yeah, how was Amanda?"
"She was a perfect little angel like always except she didn't want to nap after lunch with JJ; she's waiting for you on the couch."
"She wants Booth; she'll fall asleep on him for a few hours."
"Aw take pictures."
"I do."
The two went in to the living room and Amanda launched herself into Brennan's arms. "Hey Sweetheart did you have fun with JJ?"
"Uh huh. Daddy?"
Brennan laughed, "Okay say bye to Angela and give her a hug then we'll go get a surprise for daddy then go see him." Amends reached for Angela and gave her a hug. "Bye,"
"Bye munchkin."
"Bye Ange, thanks for babysitting."
"Bye Bren, you're welcome! Tell Booth hi."
"I will."
Twenty minutes later Brennan was holding Amanda in the isle of stuffed get well animals at the drugstore."Which one do you want to get for daddy?"
"That one." Amanda pointed in the general area of several stuffed animals and Brennan wasn't too sure which one she wanted so she steeped closer to the shelf. "Pick it up." Amanda grabbed a pink and purple striped cat.
Brennan smiled, "Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Okay let's go get a balloon and a few other things then we'll go see daddy."
"K."
"Do you want to hold the cat or put it in the basket?" Amanda dropped the cat in the basket on Brennan's arm as she headed for the greeting cards and picked out a get well card she knew Booth would like and picked up one of the two get well balloons they had and added the latest editions of ESPN magazine and sports illustrated and a few graphic novels and a gift bag then headed to the checkout. Once they got to the car Brennan sat Amanda in the floor and wrote get well soon daddy in the card then gave Amanda the pen and guided her hand so she could write her name.
"Good job sweetie, let's get you in your car seat and go."
"K."
Brennan picked up Amanda strapped her in the seat and noticed how sleepy she was. "Are you going to go to sleep on daddy again?"
"Uh-huh." Brennan smiled and kissed Amanda's forehead before putting all the items in the gift bag.
Close to an hour later Brennan pulled into the rehab center parking lot and got an almost asleep Amanda out of the car and grabbed the gift bag. "Just a few more minutes' sweetie then you can take a nap.
"K."
Brennan quickly walked to Booth's room. Brennan noticed Booth looked a little more rested, but still tired and he was sitting up a little more. "Hi baby girl." Amanda held her arms out; Brennan started taking her shoes off as she walked over to the bed. "She's tired she wouldn't nap when JJ did, she wants you."
Booth smiled as Brennan laid Amanda face down on his chest and she snuggled in."We got you a surprise, but I think you need to wait until Amanda is awake."
"Yeah, actually a nap sounds good. Nicole came in after you left and sat ne up again for a while then Katie came in with lunch. I think it was a roast beef sandwich, not too sure didn't resemble beef much."
"When you get more mobile I'll see if I can't get you something from the diner once and a while. There's a diner not far from here that isn't bad."
"Thanks Bones."
"You're welcome Booth. Go to sleep I'll be here when you wake up." Brennan grabbed Amanda's blanket and covered her up, kissing both their foreheads and whispering 'I love you'
Two hours later Booth woke up and Brennan woke Amanda
"Amanda you need to give daddy his surprise now."
"K."
Brennan held the bag as Booth got each thing out himself with a little help.
"A pink and purple striped get well cat! I'll fell well in no time now! Thanks Amanda." Booth kissed Amanda's cheek as Brennan handed him the card and magazines.
"I loved my surprise guys, I think we should have mommy put the cat, card, and balloon by the pictures in the corner. Leave the magazines on the table I'll look at them tonight before bed."
"Okay." Brennan put the items where Booth wanted and sat with them and watched TV until dinner was brought in and after she took Amanda home for a bath and bed.
A/N: Next chapter we skip to Parker visiting…. will be a while as I am posting this from vacation...
