Chapter 11 has begun, are you here to read it. I hope you are, it's going to be interesting. Actually, I'm writing this before I even write the chapter, but you guys think it's going to be good, so keep reading. And review afterwards, I know you want to.

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Maxine and Brennan were watching TV just as Booth walked in with their food and Maxine tried to sit up, but failed. She didn't move, but stayed laying back as Brennan slowly moved the seat up. "Thanks." She said shyly.

"I've had to do that for Booth once. He had a couple broken ribs from one of the cases we were working on. It could have been me, but Booth is stubborn and over protective at times." Brennan said dryly.

"Bones, you would have died if I wasn't so over protective, need I remind you, if you kept insisting on going into the field, you're gonna get hurt." Booth said putting the food on the table in front of Maxine.

"Are you saying you're not going to take me into the field anymore?" She asked.

He stopped moving and looked at her for a moment. "You know I can't go into the field without you." He smiled. "We're a team, right? We're partners, we're the best, just try not getting yourself hurt, or shooting a gun when I tell you not to." He finished putting the food out.

Brennan was just looking at him smiling until he looked at her, noticing the whole time. "What?"

"Nothing." She said, then grabbed one of the cartons and chop sticks.

Booth smiled until he realized Maxine was smiling childishly at him. He coughed and changed the subject as he grabbed his carton and chop sticks. "Hannah wants to stop by for a little bit before I leave, if you want, she can stay here with Maxine for a bit and I can drive you back to the Jeffersonian so you can get your car."

"Yeah, that'll be fine."

"Okay, good."

They were looking at each other longer than they should have and Booth noticed the smile on Maxine's face once again. "Maxine, eat, please." He picked up a carton and handed it to her with the chopsticks.

"It's about time, I was trying to get you to hand me that for a while now." Maxine opened it and started eating.


It was about forty minutes later when there was a knock at the door. "Hey, Maxine, how are you feeling?" Angela and Hodgins walked in.

Maxine smiled. "I feeling a bit better."

Hodgins was looking around the room. "No pudding. You're supposed to get pudding when you're in the hospital."

"You're two hours too late, Hodgins." Maxine said.

Hodgins sighed and sat down as Angela handed Maxine a present. "Here's your get well gift." Maxine opened it and pulled out a picture frame with a drawing Angela made for her. It was a little sketch of Maxine holding up her fist in the air with the words 'Get Well' written in the bottom right corner. "Do you like it?"

Maxine was smiling big and she looked up at Angela. "Angela, this is amazing, thank you so much." She turned it around to show everyone else in the room and everyone started smiling and Brennan pulled Angela in for a hug. That was when there was another knock on the door.

Maxine looked along with everyone else and noticed a blonde standing outside the glass then walking in. She noticed the way Booth stood up, that was his girlfriend, Hannah, and she also noticed the way he looked at her. It wasn't the way he looked at Brennan. The way he looks at his partner was pure, but at Hannah, it wasn't much to say. He just looked at her in the pure way, but you couldn't see the love show through his entire body the way it did with Brennan. That's when Maxine knew he was just telling himself he was in love with her and trying to fight the urge of being with Brennan.

"Seeley." She smiled and kissed Booth on the lips for a moment. "And Temperance, I haven't seen you in a while." She came over and gave her friend a hug. "I see there's a new addition to the group." She smiled at Maxine.

"This is Maxine, my little sister." Brennan said.

Booth smiled when he heard her say those words and was curious about others he hasn't head before. He's never heard her call someone her boyfriend. He's heard other terms, but never that.

"It's nice to meet you, Maxine, I'm Hannah." She smiled and pulled a card out of her bag. "I picked this up on the way here for you." She handed her the card and smiled when Maxine laughed at the cartoon on the card.

"Thank you." Maxine said.

"We better get going, Ange, likes to fall asleep before she even knows she's tired. I don't want to carry her from the car again." Hodgins had already grabbed her purse and everything and was helping his wife stand up.

Angela smacked him. "Don't you dare call me fat, Jack."

"I didn't... I didn't mean to..."I'm..."

"Shut up, let's just go. I hope you get well, Maxine." They walked out the door and Booth was still laughing about the hormonal Angela outburst.

Maxine stopped laughing and made sure Hodgins was gone. "Hey, Booth." When he looked, she tossed him a pudding cup then held out a spoon.

"You said you didn't have any left." He took the spoon and opened the pudding cup like a happy little child and looked up to find Brennan and Hannah staring at him. "I love these things."

"Why don't you buy some at the store?" Hannah asked.

"It's not the same." Maxine and Booth said in unison.

"Oh, Hannah, would you mind staying with Maxine for a bit? I have to drive Bones back to the Jeffersonian so she can get her car, then I'll head back to the apartment." Booth asked as he took another bite of the pudding.

"Yeah, that's no problem. I'll stay here and wait for Temperance to get back then I'll go home." She smiled.

Booth stood up, smiled, and gave Hannah a kiss. "Thanks, I love you." He walked over to Maxine while Brennan was getting her stuff. "Don't do anything that'll keep you in here longer, okay?" He gave her a quick kiss on her forehead and started walking out. "Let's head out, Bones."

"I'll be right back." She said to Maxine and followed Booth out the door.


As Booth and Brennan were drinking, things were comfortably silent for a bit of the time until Booth noticed Brennan was acting a bit different. "Something wrong, Bones?"

"I'm fine." She said.

"Hey, Maxine's gonna be just fine. She'll be out of the hospital in a few days." He said sweetly trying to reassure her.

"It's not that." She shook her head.

"But it is something, right?" He reached his arm out and placed his hand on her shoulder. "C'mon, tell me what's going on."

"I'm regretting not giving you a chance." She said.

His face completely changed, and he was speechless, he took his arm back and continued driving in silence for a few moments thinking he needed time to figure out what to say.

"Please, say something."

"I can't." He said. "I'm with someone, Bones. She's not a consolation prize, I love her." He glanced at her.

She nodded. "It's okay, I understand. Just forget I said anything." She looked out the window and tried to hold back the tears, but they were already falling.

"Bones, you know I wouldn't do anything to hurt you, I'm just giving you the facts."

She wiped the tears from her face. "Booth, I'll be fine, okay. Just take me to my car and you can go home."

"I'm sorry, Bones. I really am." He tried saying.

"It's okay. I'm fine. You moved on, so can I." She simply said. That was when the conversation ended. He drove her to her car, and went home afterwards. She drove back to the hospital and waited for Hannah to leave and Maxine to fall asleep before she let the tears fall once again. When Maxine woke up and saw what was happening, she ended up holding Brennan and comforting her.

Maxine knew what had happened and didn't understand why it happened that way, but she was hoping something would make those two come together, she just had to wait for it to happen.