Sorry for the long time in updating, the next chapter will be quicker I promise!!


Temperance Booth is sitting in her hospital bed staring into nothingness. Waking up from the coma only brought her total sadness and she can't help but wish that she is still asleep and blissfully unaware of the loss of her own child. She thinks back to babies bones that she has examined in the past and thinks of the total sadness their families would have had to go through. She's thankful that most of the bones are so old that no family members remain to be told of the horrors and to experience the pain she is feeling now.

"Momma." Chelsea screams a little too loudly for Brennan's ears to handle.

"Hey Sweetie."

She sees her husband appear in the doorway with a coffee in one hand and a bunch of flowers in the other, she looks away from him to avoid any conflict between them. The last thing she wants is for her daughter to pick up on the tense atmosphere. She's struggling to forgive him for burying her son without her there, she knows she's being irrational and that they had no idea when she would wake up or even if she would wake up at all. She also knows that the hospital wouldn't hold a body for that long but her heart is breaking and redirection of anger to Booth seems to numb the pain a little.

"Momma, I missed you this much!" Chelsea states, throwing her arms as far apart as physically possible.

"I missed you too." She manages a weak smile.

"Are you coming home soon? Cause Daddy sure is hard to look after."

Temperance laughs at the horrified look on Seeley's face and feels her anger lessen.

"Seeley, are you going to stand in the doorway all day? Those flowers are going to die without water."

Chelsea giggles and Seeley turns a bright shade of red.

"Right, I'll just get a vase."

Seeley finds a vase and arranges the flowers as his wife and daughter giggle and catch up on everything they've been missing. He smiles and wonders if they can get back what they've lost.

"Come hold my hand."

Booth sits down and nervously reaches for his wife's hand, she entwines her fingers with his and lifts them to her lips, giving the back of his hand a gentle kiss.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for shouting, I said some horrible things to you and I didn't mean any of them. I understand you had to do what you did. You did a good job Seeley, I'm proud of you."

Booth almost chokes on his tears.

"I thought I'd lost you." He cries.

Temperance pulls his head to her chest and kisses his forehead gently. Their argument from several days before comes flooding back to her and she feels like a total bitch.

"Hey gorgeous, I bought you some chocolates. The doctor said you should be able to manage to eat a couple, if not I'm sure Chelsea will finish them off."

"Do you honestly think chocolate is going to fix this?"

Booth was totally taken back by the coldness in his wife's voice. He hoped it was the soreness from the breathing equipment, the doctors had told them that her voice may take a while to return to normal if the vocal chords had become at all damaged. Deep down he knew she was angry and that there was nothing he could say to fix it.

"I…babe please, I don't understand why you are so angry. Do you blame me?"

"No. Of course I don't blame you. Did you ask that maniac to shot me?!"

"No."

"Well then. What I don't understand is how you could do this to me, how you could bury our son without me there. How? What the hell was going through your mind? Did you think I would be ok with it? Or were you simply just hoping that I never woke up? It would have been a hell of a lot easier for you then wouldn't it?!"

"Tempe stop it! You know that isn't true. I couldn't just leave him, he needed to be put to rest. We can have another ceremony together as a family, you can have your chance to say goodbye. I made them keep him around a little longer than they would have liked, I was praying you would wake up that first day to say goodbye to him. It killed me when you didn't and it killed me burying him without you. If I could have done it differently I would have."

She didn't answer him.

"Tempe please you know I love you. I can't live without you. I went crazy the last few months trying to be a Mother and a Father, I don't think I did a great job but I tried so hard to protect them from all this. I just want our family back, back to how it was before. I know it can't be completely the same but as soon as you're healthy, we could try again."

"I don't want to try again. Nothing can replace him."

"I'm not saying we replace him, I'd never say that. I'm just saying we could have another, make our family complete."

"I need you to leave now."

"Temp…"

"Just go." She shouted at him.

"I'm so sorry Seeley."

"Me too."

He lifts his head up and claims his wife's lips for the first time in five months.

"Ewww that's 'gusting!" Chelsea declares at her parents kissing.

They both laugh at their daughter.

"I can't wait to get you home."

Brennan playfully slaps her husband's arm.

"What? You'd rather I hadn't of missed you?"

She grabs the collar of his shirt and pulls his lips back to hers.

"No way."