I'm so sorry I didn't update sooner but I was ill. So the times I felt well enough to do anything was spent on University work. So please forgive me. But I'm all better now and ready with a new chapter named after Nightswimming by R.E.M and Morning Glory by Oasis.

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Chapter 9 Nightswimming/Morning Glory

Nightswimming

Booth awakes with a pain in his neck, looking around he realizes that he must have fallen asleep on the couch. He looks down and notices Brennan is still sleeping peacefully against his chest, Booth realizes they must have fallen asleep, but he doesn't have the heart to wake her. She had been suffering from anaemia due to the amount of blood she lost, so was often very tired. He looks back down at her, 'she looks so peaceful when she sleeps.' he muses. Brennan has a smile playing at her lips, as she unconsciously snuggles closer to him. Booth realizes that they had had a long day and that she should get a good night's sleep. He slowly sits up, taking Brennan into his arms as he stands. He carries her into her bedroom and lays her down gently on her bed. She begins to stir.

"Booth?" she says groggily.

"Shhh...Go back to sleep." He says soothingly while tucking her hair behind her ear and out of her face. He turns to exit the room but she grabs his arm and turns to him.

"Stay. Please."

Booth smiles and lies down next to her wrapping his arms around her waist protectively. Brennan shifts instinctively to get more comfortable, wriggling into his embrace. She sighs heavily.

"Good night Bones" Booth says quietly, kissing her temple, but his response is another sleepy sigh. He smiles to himself and lets sleep claim him, swimming in dreams of his partner, instead of drowning in the horrors of his past, she had saved his life in more ways than one.

Morning Glory

The next morning Booth wakes first. Brennan is still out cold, breathing peacefully. Booth quietly and carefully removes himself from her warm embrace and walks out the room and towards the kitchen. He switches on the coffee machine and quietly begins to prepare breakfast.

A short while later he arranges more food than they could possibly eat on a large tray and then places Brennan's medication next to it along with a glass of water. He carefully picks up the tray and takes it to her bedroom. Smiling, clearly pleased with himself, he places the tray carefully on the bed and leans over to Brennan placing a feather light kiss on her lips. She slowly awakes and smiles when she sees who is waking her.

"Good morning Bones."

"Humm...morning." she says yawning.

"I didn't want to wake you, but I thought you might like some breakfast."

She sits up and sleepily rubs her face. She looks down to see a huge choice of breakfast foods all perfectly arranged on their plates. She smiles at his sweet gesture.

"Thank you." She says while leaning across to kiss him.

"It's no problem Bones."

Brennan grabs a fork and drives it into the huge stake of pancakes which are covered in syrup. Booth smiles as she places the fork in her mouth and manages to get syrup on the corner of her mouth.

"What?" she says smiling back at him.

"Nothing... you just have syrup on your face. Here let me get that." He says while leaning forward and removing the sticky substance from her mouth with his own. They both have flashbacks to the night before and a similar situation with the chocolate syrup, Brennan smiles as she grabs a croissant and holds it to Booths mouth. Just as he moves to take a bite she pulls it away and takes a bite herself. Booth pouts jokingly and she rolls her eyes while smiling, she turns the croissant back to him, allowing him to take a bite. Identical smiles cross their faces as they finish their breakfast. Who knew breakfast could be this much fun?

Fluffy fluffy fluffy I know but ask and ye shall receive. I know this was short but I wanted to get a chapter up sooner. Not many chapters left now, BB confront Angela in the next.