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Brennan finally slowed herself a few feet from his room, she stopped outside the door to catch her breath a little. Jared was still right behind her. Once she calmed her breathing enough to enter without causing him any alarm she turned the doors handle and took a few steps into the room. All the wires that had previously been attached to him, had been monitoring him, were gone. He had been standing looking out the window until he heard her approaching and turned to look at her.

"Hey Bones, guess what?"

She was slightly taken aback at hearing him call her 'Bones' again, but she forced a smile on her face as he continued.

"The doc says I can go home, he wants someone there with me, but you know, I can leave the hospital, just as soon as I find someone who's willing to put up with me." He grinned and then noticed Jared standing behind her. "Jared?" He asked questioningly.

His brother had a huge grin splayed across his face, "What you want me to stay with you?" He chuckled.

"Well, I'm told you're my brother," He said sarcastically, but then noticed that Brennan's eyes were saying something very different than the smile she had on her lips. He saw the hurt and the pain in her eyes, "I figured maybe you could give Bones here a break for a bit, I'm sure she's getting tired of me by now."

"I'm not tired of you, but I do think it's a good idea Jared stay with you, he's been living in a hotel since he got back from India, so it's kinda killing two aves with one rock."

Booth and Jared looked at each other had stifled a laugh, "It's birds and stone, Bones, Two birds one stone."

"oh…" She looked down briefly as Booth walked over to her.

"Hey, don't look so down, you know you would always be welcome too. I'm sure Jared would welcome any help you were willing to give." Her gaze came up to meet his, there they stood for a moment, locking eyes almost as through everything was normal. His gaze staring straight into her made her feel as if nothing had changed, he was still Booth and remembered everything. She knew it wasn't the truth, but he was looking at her in the same way he had before whenever they had shared these glances in the past. However her reverie was broken by the sound of Angela's voice as she came through the door and they both turned to look at her.

"Hey Sweetie how are you feel.." Her voice broke off, but she relised she was too late as there eyes both fixed on her, she damned herself silently for breaking there moment, then covered for herself quickly as she realized she had stopped mid sentence "Oh, you must be feeling better, you're out of bed and without moniters." She smiled brightly.

"Hey Ange, Yeah, feeling much better," He glanced to Brennan briefly and then took a few steps toward the bag Angela had brought from his apartment a few days before, pulling out some clothes he headed to the bathroom to change.

"Hey Jared." Angela smiled at him.

"Hi Angela, how've you been?"

"Good, so what's going on with the moniters gone and him up and getting dressed? He busting out or something?" Her gaze shifted from Jared to Brennan as she asked.

"He's been cleared to leave, provided someone stay with him. He's asked Jared to come stay with him for a bit, to help get him back on his feet." She heard just a tiny bit of sadness in her friends voice as she spoke, obviously trying to hide it.

"Oh sweetie, that's great that he's getting out. Can't imagine Jared having to stay though, since I know you won't leave his side, I mean you literally living at the hospital for the last week or so kinda proves that." She chuckled softly, meeting her friends gaze, imploring her to seize the moment and just go with it.

"I'm not going to but in anymore Ange, if he wanted me to stay with him he would have asked. Being released from the hospital means the doctors no longer think he is in danger and, as Sweets said, I should probably think about going back to work soon. "

"Sweets said what?" Angela gasped, "I'm going to have a talk with that boy! Besides Bren, Cam already said you had no business coming back for at least two weeks. She knows you'll only be distracted if you do." He friend pushed. Jared stepped back and tried to blend into the background as the friends conversed.

"Fine Ange, I won't go back to work then" She conceded. Of course I'll be distracted, she thought, my partner doesn't know who the hell I am, everyone would ask me how he was, how I was all day and I would get nothing done. If they would all just leave me alone I would be fine.

Booth chose that moment to come out of the bathroom, He had heard her statement about not going back to work and he realized he had grinned at her statement. "So did I hear you right? The work-a-holic isn't going back to work?"

She tensed at his statement, it sounded so much like something he would have said before, and who had told him she was a work-a-holic? "Cam has decided I need two weeks off." She stated, his grin slowly easing her tense state.

"Well, you know you're always welcome to come over. I mean, " he paused, "I would really like it if you did. Jared may be my brother, but you're company is, well, very nice too."

"Thanks Booth," She smiled at him, "So when are they letting you out? I'm sure there is paperwork that you need to complete first."

He walked over putting an arm around her and leading her towards the door, "Done already, I can leave now."

She had tensed under his grip briefly, but now she was almost leaning into it. Jared glanced at the two of them before grabbing his brother's bag as he and Angela followed them out the door.

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