A/N: And here was have Day four! Jack and Angela have never had it easy. This is another mark in their journey.
'On the fourth day of Bonesmas, my writer friend gave to me four weeks of waiting'
When Angela wakes him up in the middle of the night screaming and slapping at his shoulder, Jack instantly knows something is wrong. He jumps out of bed and goes to his wife who is sitting in a pool of blood.
"Get in the car," He directs, trying to stay calm, not only for Angela's sake but for his as well. He wakes up Michael Vincent and tells the sleepy boy to follow his mom outside, explaining something might be wrong with the baby and they have to go to the hospital. Before leaving himself, Jack remembers to grab the file of Angela's medical information, including recordings of her current and past pregnancies.
The drive to the emergency room feels like it takes much longer than it actually does. Jack parks right in front of the door,s vowing to move the car as soon as Angela is settled inside. He walks behind Angela and Michael, who is holding his mom's hand like he did as a toddler, and he suddenly gets very emotional. What if they don't get to see the new baby hold his mom's hand?
The nurse at the check-in desk buzzes them in lightning fast after Angela says "Pregnant. Second trimester. Bleeding." While she's taking Angela's vitals, Hodgins does go back out and moves the car, and is back just as she's being taken into a room.
Once they're alone, Angela lets her guard down and starts to cry. He tries to calm her down and quell her fears that it was all her fault, but he knows he just has to wait her out; let the tears end on their own.
Doctors and nurses come in and out, though there were long periods of silent waiting, and Angela was put through a battery of tests. They took blood and hooked her and the baby up to monitors, and wheeled in an ultrasound machine. Thankfully, the baby seems to be doing perfectly fine; whatever was causing Angela's bleeding didn't seem to be affecting him much, if at all. The ER resident who was conducting the ultrasound didn't seem confident in his diagnosis, and Jack demanded someone from Obstetrics come and look Angela over.
After a few hours, the nurses graciously offer to take Michael somewhere quiet to sleep, but Angela declines all their offers. Having him close makes her feel better.
Finally, morning arrives as does the resident from the OB floor. She reviews the first ultrasound images and conducts another before making her official diagnosis.
Placenta Previa. The placenta, which gives the baby oxygen and nutrients, had decided to implant itself over Angela's cervix, where the baby comes out, instead of into the top of her uterus, where it is supposed to. Not as bad as it could be; not as good as it could be either. Angela's bleeding was under control, and the baby was fine. The doctor saw no need to keep her for more than a day, and they were allowed to go home the next morning with instructions for Angela to go on strict bedrest as a precaution. She would not be allowed to go further than her couch for the next month.
A long month later, Jack brought his extremely stir-crazy wife back into the doctor's office where she was checked out once more. Everything looked as well as it could be, and the baby was still growing wonderfully. So, with much excitement from Angela, the doctor upgraded Angela from full to partial bedrest, meaning she can leave the house for short periods at a time. And she was allowed to go back to work with very limited hours.
And that is just where Angela demand they go once they left the appointment; the artist was desperate to do something besides sit in bed and watch daytime TV. Even the creepy bugs in Hodgins' office seemed like such a wonderful treat.