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Chapter 12

Angela took a moment to compose herself before entering her best friend's room. She didn't want to give her friend the additional stress she doesn't need. She took a deep breath to make sure that she was really calm before knocking on the door. She opened the door and entered when she heard Cam call out that it was okay for her to come in. As she stepped in to the room, her eye immediately searched out Brennan to make sure that her friend was really okay.

"Sweetie, how are you feeling?" Angela found Brennan and Parker sitting close together on the bed and Cam sitting on one of the chairs the hospital provided for them. The three were obviously telling each other stories and were having fun.

"I feel fine, Ange. Did the doctors tell you when I can go home? Because they weren't very specific when I asked them earlier."

"Sarah and I were talking earlier and she told me that they have to keep you here for a few more days for observation. She also told me that you have to take extra precautions and make sure that you don't get too stressed or too tired."

"That was what they told me. I can rest at home too, Ange,"

"I know that, Sweetie, but the doctors want to make sure that this won't happen again so that you and your daughter will be alright. Please, Sweetie, just let us take care of you." Angela pleaded to her friend.

"Please, Maman. I don't want anything to happen to you or my baby sister." Parker also pleaded with Brennan.

"I don't want to cause the baby harm anyway. I'll do what the doctors tell me even if I have to be in bed rest for the next few months. I will not lose my baby and I will not leave her either. I don't want to leave you, too, Parker."

"I don't want you to leave, Maman." With that, the two hugged each other as hard as they could given the wires attached to Brennan's body.

Angela didn't want to ruin the mood but she wanted to get this over and done with. "Bren, I'm sorry to interrupt this but Booth apparently found out about you being here and is in the lobby. He wants to see you. I told him that I will only let him see you if you agree."

Both Parker and Brennan looked at Angela the moment she mentioned Booth's name. Parker felt Brennan stiffen beside him.

"It's alright, Maman. You don't have to see him if you don't want to."

"I don't know, Ange. I'm not sure if I'm ready to face him yet. I'm sorry."

"We can understand that, Brennan. You don't have anything to be sorry for," Cam told her when she noticed the anthropologist becoming distressed and agitated over that bit of information.

Angela also noticed her friend's distress and rushed to reassure her. "Cam's right, Sweetie. We'll hold him off until you're ready, okay? You don't have anything to worry about. Just make sure that you and my niece/goddaughter are fine."

"I will, Ange. Thank you."

Meanwhile, the subject of their conversation was sitting outside when he noticed Rebecca enter the hospital. He noticed that she didn't even stop by the front desk before she made her way to the double doors that Angela entered a while ago. Angela. He wondered if she told Bones that he was here. He hoped that she wouldn't just conveniently forget to tell Bones because he really needed to talk to her soon.

Rebecca noticed Booth sitting there just before she reached the doors. "Seeley, what are you doing here?" she asked.

"Why are people so surprised that I'm here waiting to hear news about how Bones is doing?" Booth asked her. "She my wife. I'm suppose to be the one to know first."

"You didn't seem to care enough two months ago when she was first rushed here. I know that Angela sent you a message but you didn't even take time to call and ask after her."

"I was angry then. I thought she was admitted because she had the pregnancy terminated." Booth knew that that was no excuse for what he did but that was the truth.

"But why would you believe that she would do something like that?" Rebecca asked the question that had baffled her when she heard the story behind why Seeley suddenly left town from her son. She asked her son where he had gotten that story because she didn't believe that Seeley would do that to Brennan. Parker admitted that he overheard Angela, Cam, Sarah, and Brennan talking before he entered her room that day.

"I don't know." Booth truly didn't know what came over him that night two months ago when he walked out on his wife. All he knew is that his brain seemed to have shut down when he heard Bones mention the words "terminate the pregnancy" and he didn't hear her explanation why the doctor suggested that or hear her tell him that she had already decided to continue the pregnancy. "I just want to talk to her now, to make things right but they won't tell me where she is. Perhaps you can bring me there?"

"I'm sorry, Seeley. I can't do that. Brennan became my friend these past two months and I don't want to hurt her." With that, Rebecca turned and entered the hallway leading to Brennan's room.

Thirty minutes after Rebecca arrived, she, Parker and Cam left Brennan's room with promises to come back and keep her company. Brennan told them that it wasn't necessary and that they could use their time doing other things.

"What better way to spend our time than to spend it with our family?" Rebecca asked her as she hugged her friend goodbye. "Take care and get well soon."

When the three of them reached the lobby, they saw Booth still sitting there, head on his hands.

"Booth," Cam called out.

Booth lifted his head and saw them. He stood up and approached them.

"Did Angela…" he wanted to know if Angela told Bones but Cam cut him off before he could finish his sentence.

"Go home, Booth. She's not ready to see you yet. And, frankly, I don't blame her."

"I know I messed up, Cam. I just want to see her, to see if she's alright."

"Just go home for now, Booth. Focus on the case. We'll call you when she's ready. You're not doing her any good if you keep insisting on seeing her before she's ready."

Booth looked down at his son when he noticed that the boy didn't say a word to him. "How about it, buddy? Do you want to eat dinner with me tonight? We could go to the diner for burger and milkshakes."

"Maybe next time. It's a school night and I still have homework to do."

"Oh. Right. Next time." Booth couldn't hide the disappointment in his voice. It's beginning to look as if his action two months ago is making his family distance themselves from him and he doesn't know what else to do to fix it since he couldn't talk to his wife.

They will talk soon, I promise.

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