OK, here's a little clearance about the time stages of this fan fic. Now I know that Zack was Gormogon's apprentice, but in this universe he wasn't. He did get blown up under the same circumstances though. This is set around the third to fourth seasons, before all the new characters came in, but after Booth was shot by Pam Nunan (screw her).
Disclaimer: I don't own Bones. I would marry Zack Addy if I did.
"Angela, what are you doing? Are they in there or not?"
"Shut up Hodgins, look for yourself!"
"What's there to see, there's no- oh my god that's cute."
Hodgins and Angela peered through the window on the door, and saw that Brennan had fallen asleep with her head on Booth's bed, and her hand touching his.
"She looks really uncomfortable, but I don't have the heart to wake her" Angela said as she beamed in at the two.
As they watched, they saw Booth stir. He opened his eyes and saw Brennan at his bedside. He showed visual strain as he lifted his hand to brush some hair gently out of her face.
Angela could take no more. She dashed away from the door and squealed as she bounced up and down with the cuteness of it all.
Hodgins laughed at her, but couldn't deny that doctor Brennan and agent Booth were a match made in heaven.
Zach arrived at that moment, carrying several pudding cups. He handed one to each of them. "Are they awake yet?" he asked as he handed out utensils.
"Look at them" Angela managed before the grin over whelmed her face once more and she began bouncing around them. Zack peered into the hospital dorm and raised an eyebrow.
"Doctor Brennan looks uncomfortable. We should go in there and wake her up." Angela sighed and grudgingly agreed.
"Fine, but not before this." And she took out her mobile and snapped several pictures of her best friend sleeping. "I'm going to print these and put them on my wall." She laughed gleefully.
Once Angela had finished her photo shoot, they entered the room. She walked over to Her best friend and gently touched her shoulder. "Hey, Bren? Wake up sweetie."
Brennan stirred, and rose her head from the mattress slowly. She ran her fingers through her messy hair, and groaned, feeling her neck strain after being in such a strange position all night.
"I brought you a coffee" Angela said, handing Brennan the beverage. She nodded gratefully and took a sip. Booth scratched his head, as a sign of awakening.
"Booth, how are you feeling?" Brennan asked, her voice sleepy but concerned.
"I'm great Bones, never felt better." He said through a yawn. He looked around at the group of people that had come to see him.
"Hey buddy, we came to see how you were." Hodgins explained as he saw the extent of Booth's injuries.
Angela nodded. "Yeah, we wanted to bring you some stuff. I got this water bottle. Now I know the contents may smell like beer, but if the nurses ask, it's medicine that you brought from home."
Booth smiled and nodded – this would probably have a better effect than most medicine at this hospital ever could.
"I brought you some pudding cups – I recall how delicious they were from when I stayed here after the monomer explosion." Zack explained as he presented Booth with the various pudding cups.
"Thanks Zack my man" Booth smiled as he removed the top from a pudding cup.
"I brought you the latest issue of Green Lantern. I know how much you like to read them from when Doctor Brennan saw you in the bathtub…" Hodgins trailed off, as he presented Booth with a comic book. He smiled and nodded, although embarrassed by the memory.
"So when are they letting you go" Asked Angela as she popped Booth's drink bottle and took a swig.
"The doctors said he could go in a couple of days, so long as he stayed with me. And Angela you really shouldn't be getting drunk before nine in the morning."
Angela nodded and tapped the bottle shut. "Wait, you're going to let Booth stay with you? At your apartment?"
"Well, mine or his, it could vary on the convenience of each location at the time." Brennan explained simply and calmly as ever.
"Alright, we have a lot of work to do down at the Jeffersonian what with the explosion and all, so you two… you two have fun ok." Angela said, stifling the ensuing squeal into a squeak. She hugged Brennan, then after taking another two swigs of Booth's beer bottle, she hugged him too and placed it down beside him.
Hodgins' goodbye was a little less extreme. "See you soon Doctor Brennan." Then he gave her a short hug. "Get well soon buddy" He said to Booth as he shook his hand.
Zack was a little overwhelmed by all the social interaction, but in an attempt to follow suit, he hugged Brennan awkwardly. After about five seconds of standing there with his arms around her, not quite knowing what to do, Hodgins sighed and pulled him off by grabbing his collar.
"Goodbye Doctor Brennan, Get well Agent Booth" Was all he said, before leaving the remaining pudding cups on a chair and running out.
"So much for me getting a hug." Booth muttered in mock annoyance.
Hodgins sighed. "I guess our little discussions about what is socially appropriate have been lost in the ocean of mixed up logic that is Zack Addy."
Angela nodded and took him by the elbow. "Well between you and me, I think his teacher has some problems of his own." He frowned and as they both waved goodbye and left the room, Booth and Brennan heard him mumble something, then heard Angela reply with something like "Calling me hotter than your mum's cooking is not considered as socially appropriate."
"Well… that was creepy and weird." Booth said brightly as he went for another pudding cup. Brennan lifted it out of his reach, which wasn't hard to do as he could barely lift his arm.
"You don't get another pudding cup until you have eaten something decent." Brennan declared as she put the pudding cup on her chair.
"Bones, come on, have you tasted those pudding cups? They are the most decent thing on God's green earth" He argued.
Brennan rolled her eyes. "While I highly doubt that statement, I am going to go and get you breakfast from the cafeteria, and you will not eat another pudding cup until you have finished every bite."
What are you going to do to keep me away from my pudding cups? I am a grown man; you can't force me away from them!"
"I'll hide them. Now sit still and I'll be back in a minute." She left the room.
She selected a relatively healthy breakfast from the cafeteria's provided cuisine, if it could so be called. She got two eggs, some toast and bacon, and a glass of orange juice. He couldn't possibly complain about this breakfast.
She got herself the cleanest looking salad on the trays, and headed back to Booth's room.
He was attempting to get out of bed and hobble to the bathroom.
"Booth, what are you doing?" Brennan put down the tray of food and went to help him.
"I really needed to go to the bathroom. I think I could use a shower too." Brennan rolled her eyes and put him back in bed.
"You can hold it until after breakfast, and then you can take a shower if the nurse says so." She went back to where she had placed down the tray and returned to her chair.
"Thanks Bones, this looks nice." Then he mumbled "not as nice as a pudding cup though."
Bones groaned and jabbed him with her salad fork, before quietly, yet contentedly, eating her breakfast salad.
Once Booth had consumed every morsel of food on his plate, Brennan went to see the nurse about a shower. She returned to find him shifting uncomfortably in his bed.
"She said you are allowed to use the bathroom amenities, so long as you use the chair in the shower and sit down to urinate."
"Hey, at this point, I'd cartwheel through the experience."
Brennan assisted him in getting to the bathroom, and once she found him comfortable in the toilet, she left the room. She heard the shower start and breathed a sigh of relaxation.
She was almost relaxed when she spied something on the shelf. Two bathroom towels. She smacked herself on the forehead. She had neglected to give Booth towels.
She picked up the necessary equipment and marched into the bathroom, dumped the towels on the nearest surface and left, to Booth's sounds of confusion.
She sprawled out on his now empty bed and sighed. A few minutes later, Booth emerged to find her asleep there. He smiled at her. She deserved some time to sleep. And he needed some time to search for the hidden pudding cups.
Once he had found them and opened one, he sat in the chair beside the bed, he looked at Bones. Beautiful Bones. He was grateful that it was he lying in that hospital bed, covered in injuries, and not her. Well, at that moment, it was she who was in the bed and… well, never mind.
He was just happy she was safe, and he would sacrifice his life to keep it that way.