Angela woke to find Brennan watching her, and she leapt out of the chair she'd been dozing in, racing over towards her friend with a shriek.

'Shh Ange! He's sleeping!' had been the wide-eyed response.

But Angela didn't really care if Booth was having a nap, because she was going to damn well give her best friend a hug anyways!

'Oh, sweetie, I'm so glad that you're alright!' Angela gushed into Temperance's shoulder as she held her tightly, 'We were so worried!'

'I know,' Brennan replied, patting her friend a little on the back as though unsure of how to respond, 'Booth told me.'

Angela pulled back with a little scoff directed towards herself, wiping tears from her eyes and smiling down at her slightly confused best friend.

They were interrupted by a knock at the door before it opened, the rest of the squints stepping into the room.

'Dr Brennan! It's good to see that you're doing well.' Zack started with a bit of a smile.

Cam gave a hum of agreement, 'It is. And I'd like you to know that the department is willing to give you as much time as you need to take to recover. Though somehow I have my doubts that you'll be away for very long.' She finished this with a knowing smile, and to Temperance's credit she did look the tiniest bit shamefaced.

Hodgins gave Brennan a cursory hello before turning to Angela, 'How's your neck? I figured that you'd have one hell of a crick the way you were bending it in that chair.'

'A little stiff; thanks for the pillow,' she grinned and he returned the gesture.

'You want a coffee or anything?'

Angela shot a look at Brennan, giving her friend a smile, 'That'd be good; you're okay with that, right sweetie?'

Brennan frowned, 'Why wouldn't I be?'

'I know that you don't like hospitals.'

'Booth is here.'

Angela's eyebrows shot up in surprise, followed quickly by Cam's.

A flush spread across Temperance's cheeks, 'I mean that he's asleep; he won't be going anywhere for a while and it would be rude of me to wake him!'

Cam smirked as Angela replied, 'Sure, Sweetie; I'll come back up in a bit to check on you.'

'And we had best be getting back to the lab ourselves,' Cam said, shooting Zack a look.

He missed the significance of her gaze though, 'But Dr Saroyan, we've already-'

'Dr Addie! We have some things to finish up, I assure you,' Cam cut him off, 'We'll come back to visit Dr Brennan again tomorrow when she's a little more rested. And make sure that you do rest, Dr Brennan.'

Zack let this slide without any more argument and followed his boss out of the room, giving Brennan a quiet farewell as they left.

Brennan sat in the silence for a while, just enjoying the sound of Booth's slow breathing. After some time she was beginning to lull off into sleep again when Booth stirred, slowly waking up.

He opened sleepy eyes and gave her a smile, 'Nobody come by yet?'

'Oh, they all left quite a while ago.'

'What? And you didn't wake me up?'

'You needed to catch up on sleep, Booth!'

He bit back a sharp retort, 'Well, at least tell me that I didn't look appalling.'

'You never look appalling.'

This cut off his next response and he just stared at her a moment, mouth slightly ajar.

She just smiled back at him, eyes sparkling.

After a moment she laid back down onto the bed, reaching up to pull him down beside her again, 'Come on, let's get some more sleep.'

He complied, shifting so that his head was beside hers on the pillow.

'I'm glad that you're alright; you really kicked some ass back there, Bones,' he said softly, tucking some of her stray hair behind an ear.

'Thank you for saving me; I wouldn't have made it out of there without you. But if I had had a gun-'

He leaned forward ever so slightly to place a kiss on her lips, effectively stifling the end of her sentence.

'Will you shut up about the gun thing? I'll talk to the Bureau about it on Monday. Now get some sleep.'

And with one last gentle kiss to her forehead he put his head back on the pillow they were sharing.

She stayed in place for a moment, staring down at her partner in surprise.

'Booth?'

'I said sleep, Bones.'

She huffed out a sigh before complying, watching him across their pillow until she drifted into sleep.

The End.

Well, there you have it. I know the wait was long but things have been crazy busy for me over the past little while. I do have another Bones story planned but it's not quite ready to post. Soon I hope! Thank you again for reviews that have been written for this story; they were all brilliant and very much appreciated! And of course, more are always welcome.

Hope that you've enjoyed this,

Moksgmol