When Shaw pulled up to the hospital, Brennan silently climbed out, opened the back door and grabbed Alyvia. She nodded to Genny and she nodded back. When Brennan started walking towards the hospital, she heard Shaw start to drive away.
She looked down at Alyvia, who was now sleeping, and walked into the ER. She walked up to the front desk.
"Has Seeley Booth been admitted yet?" The woman, who looked lazily up at her, looked back down to her computer screen. Brennan stood there for a few minutes before she realized that the woman was not going to answer her anytime soon.
"Excuse me." She said sharply. The nurse looked up at her again, her gray eyes still looking lazily up at her.
"Has Seeley Booth been admitted yet?" When the nurse failed to answer yet again, Brennan started walking back to the rooms.
"You can't go back there ma'am!" The nurse cried out. Brennan had just reached the door when a doctor came out of the door. He looked down to Brennan as she stood there, fuming.
"Are you here for Seeley Booth?" He asked her. As soon as he said Booth's name, her face cleared up, just a little.
"Yes. What happened? Is he okay? Is-" The doctor held up a hand to stop her.
"We stopped the bleeding from his GSW and are waiting for a OR to clear up so we can take out the bullet. He's unconscious right now, but that's about it. The bullet didn't hit anything major, so after surgery he should be just fine." Brennan visibly relaxed and sighed.
"Would you like to see him before we bring him to surgery?" She nodded and followed the doctor. He led her to a room right across from the nurses station and opened the door for her. She walked in and fought back the tears that filled her eyes.
Booth was on the bed, his shoulder wrapped up in gauze. His eyes were closed and he had a nasal cannula (those oxygen things that go in your nose). Brennan set Alyvia's car seat in the chair that sat in the corner of Booth's room. She took her out of her car seat and settled her into the crook of her left arm. She took her car seat off the chair and set it onto the floor. She dragged the chair as close as she could to Booth's bed and she sat down.
"You know, I hate being the one who sits next to you while you lie here being unconscious. It brings back some bad memories." She paused and grabbed his hand.
"Agent Shaw took me here. She made sure that Alyvia and I got checked out before we left though. We're both fine. Alyvia's asleep now." She paused and took a deep breath as her eyes filled up with tears.
"You need to make it through this Booth. You can't go and dream up another life again on us. I don't think I'd be able to do this without you." She said as she looked down at Alyvia. There was a quiet knock at the door and the doctor that she had seen earlier walked in.
"We're taking him up to the ER now. I'm having one of the nurses show you to the main waiting room and once he's out of recovery, we'll bring him to a different room and you can see him." Brennan nodded and scooted back from Booth's bed. Two other people walked in and pushed Booth out of the room, with Brennan sadly looking on.
It was about two and a half hours later when the same doctor walked into the waiting room.
Brennan stood up, a sleeping Alyvia cradled in her arms, and walked up to him.
"He's just fine. He's in a room and he's awake. You can go see him now." Brennan grabbed Alyvia's car seat and followed the doctor to Booth's room. When he stopped outside room 135, Brennan turned to him.
"Thank you." He nodded and Brennan walked in. Booth looked towards the door as it open and smiled when he saw Brennan.
"Hi Bones." He said, his voice cracking from the tube they had down his throat while he was in surgery.
"Hi." She said. Booth gently patted the left side of his bed and Brennan walked up to it and sat down. She tilted Alyvia towards Booth and he looked at her.
"She's got your nose." He croaked out.
"Yes. That's where the similarities stop though." He opened his mouth to ask her another question when Alyvia started to open her eyes. They both watched her wake up and watched her eyes wander around the room.
"Whoa." Booth said.
"Those eyes are going to be the end of us." Brennan said. Booth looked up at Brennan and smiled. She shook her head and leaned forward and kissed him.
When she pulled back, she looked him in the eye.
"I'm so happy you're okay Booth."
"I'm glad you're both okay." Booth started playing with Alyvia's fingers and she grabbed his index finger, then fell asleep.
"I find that she tends to sleep a lot." Brennan said as she watched Alyvia's eyes close again.
"C'mon. Don't tell me you don't wanna sleep for a whole day after all of this." Booth said. She looked up at him and nodded.
"Well why don't you go home then. It's gonna be too hard for both of you to sleep here. I'll be fine." Brennan looked at him and opened her mouth but Booth put his finger over it.
"Nope. Home." Brennan reluctantly stood up and started to put Alyvia in her car seat.
She grabbed her jacket off the back of the chair and shrugged it on. After she kissed Booth good-bye and grabbed Alyvia, she began to walk out the door.
"Hey Bones!" Booth called out. Brennan turned around near the doorway.
"Wanna do it again?" He asked, looking towards Alyvia. Brennan shook her head and started walking out of the room.
"Good night Booth!" She called back to him.
A/N: Okay, GSW, means gunshot wound. And in case I have some international readers and they don't use the same terms that they use here, OR means operating room. Okay, so this is the last chapter really. The next one is gonna be the epilogue. I should be updating in the next week, so until then, Hasta Luego!