Well, here is another chapter :) It's a little short, but I wasn't really feeling this chapter, I just needed a good inbetweener. The next major...ish event will be taking place in the next chapter, which will most likely be up tomorrow, it just depends on how long my basketball training is tomorrow.
Anyways, enough of this, enjoy!
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"Mitch could you give us a minute?" Angela asked, several minutes after entering Brennan's room. Mitch nodded, exiting the room.
"Now honey..."
"If this is about Booth, I don't want to talk about it Angela."
"Brennan, I get that you're upset with him..."
"Upset? Try infuriated."
"Feeling anger towards him isn't a bad thing, Sweetie. It tells you something about the situation that you're in, you're uncomfortable with it."
"I'm not uncomfortable, I'm just angry."
"Angry at what, Sweetie? How are you angry with him? Are you just angry to be angry, or is there a reason? I know that you have so much pent-up anger about him being with Hannah that you pushed down for so long, but now, I think because of the situation you're in with him, those emotions are coming out. The emotions you don't like to deal with."
"Now you're starting to sound like Sweets." Brennan muttered.
"Honey I'm not trying to go against you, I'm behind you one hundred percent. I just want to help you figure this out, everyone knows how you don't like dealing with your emotions. But I think you're a little confused right now."
"I'm not confused Angela, or uncomfortable. I'm just angry."
"Why are you angry Bren? What, over the past nine or so months, has made you this angry? To the point where you did something you said you would never do?"
"You already know the fully story Angela, you can figure it out."
"Is it because he told you he loved you that night, then the next day he got back with Hannah? Or is it because he found out about Mimi and confronted you about it? Is it because he ruined your plan moving on with your life? What part of this situation is causing you to feel this way?"
"I don't want to talk about this anymore." Brennan said.
Angela sighed, "Okay, if you don't want to, we won't. Just know that this would be the end of this discussion." she said, "How are you feeling?"
"Sore, and tired. I just want to go home." Brennan admitted.
"Honey, if you're tired I can leave..."
"No Angela, you don't have to leave. You flew all the way out here to see me, I don't want to be rude."
"Honey, you gave birth to a tiny human not even twelve hours ago. Sleep, I'll be back in the morning." Angela said, standing up from the chair next to Brennan's bed.
"Angela? Will you do me a favor and tell Booth to go home? I don't want him burdening himself with this, he needs to go home to Hannah."
"I mean, I'll do my best Sweetie, with a man like Booth, I'm not sure how much of an effect my psycho best friend attitude will have." Angela said with a small laugh, "I'll see you tomorrow, goodnight Sweetie."
"Goodnight Ange." Brennan said.
Soon after Angela left, Brennan had drifted off into a dreamland, a dreamland that allowed her to escape from the world for a few hours, and get some well needed rest.
Three miles away, however, it was a different story. Booth was tossing and turning, unable to turn off his mind. He didn't know how to describe his emotions, I guess you could say he was a little bit of everything. Happy, mad, sad, frustrated, confused...the list could continue on. He just couldn't get the precious being he'd held only two hours ago out of his head. He kept rolling over to grab his phone off the bedside table, and would press the home button just so he could see her tiny face light up in front of him. She looked like Brennan, he could already see numerous similarities between the two, though he could also see a few similarities between her and himself. Like the small reflex smile she gave him while he was holding her, totally his, small dimple and all.
Every time he looked at his pictures of her, his heart broke. Over and over again. She was so beautiful, perfect even. And the fact that he had played a part in creating something so precious, blew his mind.
Placing his phone back on the table, he sighed. He wanted to make this situation work as well as he could, even if it was just a monthly visit, at least he'd get to see her. When it comes down to it, he's going to take whatever he can get from the small bone Brennan may throw him.
Then Hannah came back into his mind. She would, in no way, approve of this. She would say that he needed to be a free spirit and just let it go, or some bullshit like that. But if she knew him, she would know that he wasn't capable of doing that. He's not going to be that mysterious man who's daughter has only heard of him once or twice, and has never seen a photograph of him, or seen him in person. He wants to be there. If it meant moving closer to Chicago, so be it. He could fly home for his visits with Parker, maybe get a job in the Chicago field office...
Booth was beginning to develop an obsession over making this situation work, while benefiting all of them. Him leaving, was not going to benefit him or Amelia. Though it may satisfy Brennan, it just isn't the type of thing Booth would do, and a little girl needs her father. Him staying, though it may irk Brennan, will benefit all of them in the long run. Amelia is going to need her father, not just a father figure, but her actual 'I created you' father. Someone she can have that special father/daughter relationship with. Booth was planning on being that person. There was no way in hell that he was going to let Mitch or any other of Brennan's new friends he hadn't met yet, be that person. Shit, he didn't even want Hodgins to be that person. Booth wanted to be that person she sees as her father, and he is going to do everything in his power to ensure that he is that person.
After hours of debating with himself, Booth's eyes were finally beginning to give in to the exhaustion that had taken over his body hours before. He needed to be somewhat well rested for lunch with Angela tomorrow, if it even happens. For all he knows, Brennan could have begged her to completely avoid him, which would make it even harder, if not impossible, to get into contact with Brennan. And then this situation would never be resolved. He and Brennan needed to have a civilized conversation about this, he doesn't want to fight with her, because he knows what will most likely happen if he does. He wants to work this out as peacefully as possibly, but by judging what happened at the hospital earlier that day, he wasn't so sure if that peace would be a possibility at this point.
'Goddamn it Seeley. Just shut your brain off and go to sleep.' he cursed himself, his attempt being unsuccessful.
He hated to do it, but on nights like these, he had to. He popped a few sleeping pills he'd packed with him, he had figured there may be a night or two he would need them.
His mind finally unplugged, and his body gave in. He closed his eyes with a sigh, and soon, he to was able to escape from reality.
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