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Chapter #6: Heart Conversations

He opened his eyes slowly the next morning looking at his surrounding. Loneliness filled his heart as he overlooked his empty room. The only sound that surrounds him was the constant beep of the machines to which he was attached too and the few nurses that come an go to see him. With big effort, he tried in vain to move into the bed to a more comfortable position. Today is not going to be a nice day. He told to himself closing his eyes after not be able to move more that a few inches.

The nurse had taken his untouched breakfast from the table in front of him a few minutes ago, and now he was alone. He was looking at the ceiling remembering the last words that he heard before the painkiller completed his mission into his body. Maybe she was right, he need help. The other treatments just don't let him so weak, and he wants to be at his home, he does not want to stay in the hospital unless it was completely necessary. This round, the doctors had set those 3 for week, for 4 weeks. But he does not like to be a burden for others. He always liked to be completely independent. The nurse looked at him with affection as she entered and see that he was awake. She offers him breakfast but he refused it kindly. He does not want to eat anything. When the nurse was getting out from his room, he calls her and asks for his cell phone. After a few minutes, she gave him the phone. The nurse let him alone in his room, while he talks.

"Brennan" She answered without looking who was calling her.

"Hi Dr. Brennan!" Booth said with a tired voice that almost don't sound like him.

"Booth?" Ask her in complete shock. She knew that it was him, but she was not waiting for his call.

"Yeah. I'm sorry to interruot you, but did you have time to see me today?" He ask her in a low tired voice, but with a little smile in his lips.

A few seconds had passed and Booth began to panic at her silent. Unable to wait more for what he was sure to be her negative answer he decide to end the call.

"Sorry for bother you, you must be occupied." He said as the smile disappeared from his face. This was a mistake. "Have a nice day." A sad grim appeared in his face and he was going to end the call when she spoke again.

"No. Is that I was not waiting for your call. But did you mean right now?" She was happy that he called.

"I think it will be better in the afternoon. I guess you have a lot of work to do." He said while a little sparkle appeared in his eyes.

"It will be no problem for me to go now!" She can't hide her happiness as she can see a smile in his voice.

"I know. But right now, I have a appointment for a procedure." His voice was almost a whisper.

"Oh! Well I see you in the afternoon." She said in a calm sad voice.

Booth hangs the phone after saying goodbye to her and gives to the nurses that have already returned. The cell phones are prohibited in the hospitals, but the nurse let him used as a special treat.

"You are going to get us in trouble you know?" The nurse told him with a smile.

"Thanks… I know." He smiles to her, and close his eyes.

"The doctor will come in a few moments to speak to you." The nurse informed him as she change the IV bag.

"About?" He asked in a worried tone as he try to sit in the bed.

"I really don't know." The nurse pushed him gently toward the pillows as she start to remove the bandage over his chest.

The nurses complete the connection of the medicine to his chest, and then exit his room. He put on his earphones and closed his eyes again, this time he felt as the medicine enters into his body.

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Booth felt a cold wet towel whipping his face with caution. He was shivering uncontrollably, an effect of the chemotherapy. He believed it was a nurse as always, but when he opens his eyes, Bones were looking at him with a towel in her hands.

"Hi Dr. Brennan!" Booth said in a low voice.

"How are you?"

"Tired and cold." He said as he pulled the covers a little up toward his neck.

"Hey, just take it easy ok. Everything is going to be fine." She said to him, while she whipped again his forehead.

"I know. You want to talk with me?"

"Yes. I want to apologize for my behavior. I must understand that you just were doing your work. After you left, I spoke with Cullen, Caroline and Sweets. They all explained the same thing about that mission, but I was just hurt that you don't call me. I knew you can't call me, but I felt bad. I always told you not to leave me and look at this; I was the one that left you. I push you away when you need me the most, I was so hurt, that I don't think that you were telling the truth, but when I heard the message after you left the Lab that day, I felt the sadness in your voice and then I understand that you need me. I tried to find you, but you just disappeared. No one tell me anything about you. I also ask Parker and Rebecca for you." Brennan keep silences for a few minutes, Booth knew this was his turn to talk.

"I really wanted to call you, but they told me that everyone of the list was informed, so I take it for done. If I knew that you were not informed, believe me, I would call you." Booth said looking directly into her eyes.

"I'm so sorry for this entire situation Booth!" Brennan lowered her head and let escape a few tears from her eyes.

"Don't worry… it's over now." Booth said to her.

"Are you sure?" She did not believe her ears.

"Yes Dr. Brennan" He starts to smile at her.

"Please, don't call me that anymore… it just felt strange"

"Ok… Temperance" He was teasing her.

"No Booth… just call me as you always do, please" She had waited a long time for listen to his nickname for her.

"Ok… Bones" He smile as she displayed in her face the most beautiful smile she can gave him.

"That's better… I miss you" She said honestly to him as she takes his hands on hers.

"Really?" Booth asks playfully to her.

"Yes… the breakfast, the take outs, the dinner, even the pie." She informed him.

"Please, don't talk about food right now." She pads his head as he makes a grim of pain and closed his eyes tightly.

"Ok, I'm sorry."

"Everything is going to be fine… Relax."

Booth rolled to his left side so Brennan only see his back, putting press into his stomach, as a pain attack take him. He does not want painkillers, because he wants to talk with her, so, he wait until the pain cease. It was 10 painful minutes for both of them. He was filling the pain, and she was not able to soothe it. During that time, she stay at his side, rubbing circles in his back and telling him smooth words into his ears.

"Are you all right? I can call the nurse." She asked worried to him, as she felt how his body began to relax again.

"No I'm better now. If you call her, she just goes to put me to sleep." He told her as he move into the bed.

She stays looking at him for a few minutes.

"Ask" He said to her. He just knew she want to know.

"Are you sure?" He knotted. "What happen to you?"

"A tumor on the back." He sight as he told her. She was the first person to whom he was telling the entire story about his sickness.

"What??" She was really scared.

"I told you that I resign to my Ranger duty, but I never told you the reason. Well in my last mission, when we are leaving, we get caught in an ambush. All the boys get out, all of us hurt, but alive." She held his hand on hers, as he spoke. He remained with his eyes closed.

"That was the mission in which your friend… the judge"

"Yes Tempe…" Smiling to her. "Bones that was the mission. Well, I get out with three gun shoot, one passes my shoulder, other to my left knee, and other hit me in the back. The doctors told me that the bullet was located between the T12 and the L1, so they decide to not remove the bullet since there was major risk of complications by removing the bullet compare to let there. So, I had to leave with a bullet in my back for quite some time now"

Booth looked at Brennan as she can't believe the story he was telling him.

"That was the cause of some of my back pains. Well, a month before I get shot by Pam, my right leg begins to bother me. As you know Cullen has complete accesses to my military history, so he knew. Also, he was a military too, so we knew each other back them. Cullen ask me about my leg, but I told him that is my knee, that I hurt it in a basketball game. But since my back was also giving me signals of pain, I knew it was not my leg. I have planned to go to the neurosurgeon the day after the shooting, but I never did. When the paramedic takes me to the ER that night, they performed a MRI and a CT scan to see the damage of the gun shoot, but they find a lot more; they learned that I have a tumor in my back. So they operate me for the gunshot in the chest, and then referred me to my neurosurgeon and an oncologist. He takes a look at the test results, and orders me to remove the bullet from my back immediately. The bullet had been covered with tissue, and became part of my body. So I have to get an emergency surgery and then, when the results were available, I undergo treatments to stop the cells in my back to continue growing. I really was in pain. The first week after the surgery, I can even sit in the hospital bed, because the pain was so bad that I ended staying in bed all day with a high dose of morphine. Also, the doctors order therapy so I can return to walk as soon as possible, because when they remove the tumor, it was attached to some parts of my spinal cord. Thank god that the only part affected was my legs"

"I'm so sorry Booth. If I just knew" She felt bad about the entire situation.

"I know Bones, but since you told me that you don't want to see me again, well… I believe that I was making the best decision. And I don't want Parker to know either. That would make him suffer, so I told Cullen. I give the medical order to have the surgery the same day that I resign as the Jeffersonian liaison"

Booth can't end the remaining history as he just starts vomiting. Brennan held his head still. When he finish she dried his face.

"Are you better?"

"Yeah… I'm on vacation in the…Caribbean… you can see the sun… and smell the salty water." He answered her taking long breath pauses to calm his increasing pain.

"You are such a jerk. You know that?" She asked him while hitting in his arm.

"Yes, but I need to be this way to have the strength to end this… or it will end with me." For the first time, she can see the preoccupation on his voice and felt bad for him.

"You don't have to be alone you know. I will stay with you… if you want" Booth smile. How she miss that smile. "I think it will be fun. I talk with your doctor when I arrive"

"You did?" He asked amazed.

"I hope you don't mind." She lowered again her head.

"No Dr… ok… Bones… it's all right."

"I ask him, why you have to be in the hospital since this was not your first treatment, and he told me, that you can get it as an outward patient, but you decide to stay here. Is that right?"

"Yes."

"Why Booth? You can stay in you home, in you bed… I knew you hate hospitals."

"The problem is simple Bones, I live alone and since the treatment make me really weak, I don't think that is a good idea. The first time I try it, I end with seven stitches in my head" He said to her as she see a fine line in his head.

"You can't just wait until the afternoon to come did you?"

"Well no… I don't want you to change your mind."

"It's ok. I'm glad you did it." He tell her with a shy smile.

"Sorry Mr. Booth, I believe you were alone." The doctor was entering the room, as he spot Bones.

"Don't worry. I take my leave." Say bones as she understand that the doctor want to speak with Booth. "I will be in the hallway." She said to Booth.

Brennan felt as Booth grip her hand. "Will you stay… please?" He said in a kid pledging tone.

"If you want me to." Smiling.

"When can I resume the treatment?" Ask Booth directly to the doctor. One of the nurses in the morning tell him that the doctors order a stop to the treatment until further notice when she was taking the bags of the morning treatment.

"You still are anemic, dehydrate, and you breathing is unstable. And since you are becoming quite ill during the first treatment, we are going to left you rest a little before attempting it again." Said the doctor while he sit in the bed.

"But I want to finish it." Exclaim Booth in desperation.

"Mr. Booth you need to understand. You are too weak to resist all the treatments."

"I knew that, but I wish to continue with the treatment schedule as we have it."

"I can't continue with the treatment schedule as is. If we agree to continue it, there are going to be some change in it."

Brennan squeezes Booth hand before he continues arguing with the doctor.

"Such as?" Booth asked.

"We can give you the therapy's but one or two per week. So we can let you body regain some strength, and it will be on Mondays and Thursday."

"Ok… so I can continue with them?"

"Only if you want. The other option is to wait for a month so you can be stronger."

"No… that's fine, I will continue with the new treatment schedule." Booth said.

"If you want, you can go home tomorrow, as you already receive the first two treatments. If you don't have anyone with you, you could stay here." Said the doctor.

"I think I will stay a few days more"

"Ok then. I will order the nurse to bring you some food."

"Don't, I really…" Booth was going to complain but the doctor stop his argument.

"You need to eat Mr. Booth." By saying it, the doctor excuse himself and goes directly to the nurse des

"Did you hear me saying that you will be alone?" She ask him in a happy tone.

"No… but I don't…"

"Let me manage ok. Take it as an early Christmas present for you or better as a forgive me present" Booth smiles as she steps out of the room smiling without giving him time for ask her what she was planning.

Brennan look directly at his face, he can tell that she was making something in her mind.

"If I make some arrangements, would you go home?"

"I don't think that's a good idea. I already told you what happen…" She stop his arguments.