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So last chapter, Booth said something, which means...? Well you'll have to read and find out! ;)

"Bones?" he mumbled once again. "Bones."

Over and over again he said that one word. Minutes later, Brennan walked back into the room while Max was outside answering the phone call he just received.

"I can't believe I forgot to close my laptop, I don't want anyone being able to access my files or anything." she said to herself.

"Bones?" Booth said again, but this time, it was a question.

Brennan heard it and looked over, but his eyes were still closed. Max wasn't in the room so he couldn't have heard anything.

"Must be my imagination." she whispered, as a tear formed in her eye.

"It sounded so real." she thought. She began to walk out when she heard it again.

"Bones." this time, it was a little louder and she knew it definitely wasn't her imagination.

She turned around.

"Booth?" she asked as she walked towards his bed, grabbing his hand and squeezing.

Max walked back in. "Ready sweetie?" he asked.

"No dad, I heard him! He said my name."

"Temperance, his eyes are closed, he's not awake, he couldn't have said your name."

"But I heard him! I know what I heard!" she shouted.

"Sweetheart, I know this is hard and you want him to wake up but…."

"Bones." he whispered again, and Max stopped in the middle of his sentence.

"See?" Brennan shouted. "Booth, I'm here. Wake up, please wake up." she squeezed his hand again. "Please, squeeze my hand if you can hear me."

She waited a couple seconds, but nothing. "Come on Booth! squeeze my hand!" she shouted.

"Tempe, calm down."

"No! He said my name! You heard him say my name!" she was now crying profusely.

"Tempe, please, don't do this to yourself."

"Dad. He…he said my…my name. I'm not leaving him."

"You need to eat. It isn't healthy to just sit here for days on end and not eat."

"I have eaten, Angela brought me Thai food last night."

"That was the last time you ate?"

She nodded.

"Come on." He said, grabbing her.

"Dad, let go. I'm not leaving. What if he wakes up? I can't miss that!"

"But what if he doesn't? What if you just sit here and nothing happens?"

"Booth would say you shouldn't base your life on what if's."

"Exactly, so please sweetie, let's go eat. 10 minutes, I promise."

She sighed and looked at Booth who didn't look any different. She kissed his hand.

"Please, don't wake up while I'm gone. And please don't hate me if you do." She whispered.

Max wrapped his arm protectively around her shoulder and guided her out of the room.

"Bones?" he asked again, moments later. His eyes began to open as his head started pounding.

"Bones?" he said as he eyes fully opened and he blinked multiple times to get used to the light.

He looked around, seeing a laptop setting on the counter and flowers.

"Where am I?" he asked himself.

It took him a second to hear the beeping of machines and the scenery outside his room.

"A hospital?" he asked himself once again.

"What happened?" he closed his eyes again and tried to remember, but couldn't.

Minutes later, he drifted back to sleep.

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Brennan walked back into the room with a coffee in hand. She looked at Booth who was obviously still comatose. She sat down beside him once again, and grabbed his hand.

"For a minute there I thought you were actually going to wake up." she said. She took a deep breath and continued. "I prayed today. I pray every night now, to be honest. I don't exactly believe in it, but you do. I was hoping that it would maybe make you better, which obviously didn't work. Booth, if you can hear me, I want you to know that I love you. I honestly, truly do. And I'm sorry I didn't tell you that when you offered a relationship to me but I was….I was scared. And now, I finally learned what the true feeling of regret feels like, and I don't like it at all. But Booth, I think that….I should listen to the doctors. This is going to be the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but…I…."

"Bones." he whispered.

"Booth." she sighed and looked down, thinking it was only her imagination again.

"I love you too." He said, as she looked up in astonishment as his eyes were open and he had a huge smile on his face.

"Booth? Oh my god! You're awake!" she exclaimed, jumping up and wrapping her arms around him.

"Why the hell am I here?" he asked.

"You don't remember?" she asked, nervously as she sat back down.

"The last thing I remember is you were thinking about how you didn't want to be surrounded by murder and death anymore."

She stopped. That means he didn't remember him going to Afghanistan, her going to Maluku, and him falling in love with Hannah.

"That's really the last thing you remember?" she asked nervously.

"Yeah. What day is it?"

"It's um…May 27th." she said half truthfully.

"Oh, so I've only been in a coma for a couple weeks?"

"Well, you were only comatose for a week but….it's May 27th, 2011."

"What? What happened to the rest of the year? What…."

Brennan put her head down. He reached with his good arm over to her face, pulling her chin up with his index finger.

"Bones, what has happened?"

"In May of last year, after the Gravedigger trial, I accepted an offer to head a dig on the Maluku Islands in Indonesia and you…you went back to Afghanistan to train snipers."

Booth laughed. "Nice one Bones. It's good to see you're getting better at making jokes."

Her face became serious as she put her head down, and he could instantly tell she wasn't lying.

"You're serious?"

She nodded. "We promised to meet each at the coffee cart on the mall beside the reflecting pool a year later and….we went off on our respective trips. But 5 months ago, us only in our 7th month away, Cam needed our help on our case and we came back. You…you had a girlfriend, a war correspondent named Hannah Burley and you…you said you had moved on. You said you two were serious as a heart attack and you were so in love with her and…." She began crying.

"Bones. And what?"

"And we grew apart. This is the first time I have talked to you about something un-work related in almost 5 months."

"Bones, I'm so sorry. I truly am. Even though I don't remember everything you just told me, I am sorry. I can't believe everything has happened. It feels like a...a dream."

There was a pregnant pause before he continued.

"I uh...I know I shouldn't care but….where is my girlfriend?"

"You broke up. The day before your accident, she broke up with you because she overheard me talking to Angela about how I miss you and everything and she broke up with you. The day of your wreck was the day we were supposed to meet up at the coffee cart. I went and waited for you all day. Cam said that you were going to come and tell me how you felt, but you decided to take a ride to clear your mind. That's when a drunk driver collided head on with you and…now you're here. They wanted to pull the plug, they didn't think you were strong enough to pull through I….I…"

"Bones. It's fine. I'm fine. I'm not going anywhere. I promised you 30, 40, or 50 years right?"

She nodded.

"Well then, do you still decline my offer?"

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