REVELATIONS

Chapter 8

Our Lady of Hope Hospital: Saturday 4 PM

Both ambulances pulled up to the emergency entrance of the hospital. Everyone got out and helped pull the stretchers out. Emergency room personnel had come out to assist by the time they had the stretchers out. Within minutes both women had been taken in and transferred to emergency room beds so that they could more easily work on them. The paramedics quickly pulled out their stretchers. Booth and Hodgins had been forced to stand by on the outside of the rooms.

Booth and the others could hear the attending physicians being given all of the information that the paramedics had gathered on the two women. Booth was able to hear only a few words; the one that stood out the most though was the word "pregnant". He didn't have time to think too much about it though because both Max and Russ came in through the emergency room doors. Booth raised his hand to get their attention.

The first words out of Max Keenan were "How is she?"

"We don't know they haven't come out to tell us anything." Booth said.

A nurse came out to the group of people. "Is there anyone from Dr. Brennan's immediate family here?"

"Yes, I'm her Father. How is she?"

"We're still working on her. Right now I need to know if she was pregnant."

Cam spoke up for the first time. "I'm her supervisor at work. Dr. Brennan was informed just yesterday; by her Doctor that she was 4 weeks pregnant."

"Thank you. She was bleeding too much for it to be caused just by the rape. Do you know who the Father is?"

Cam and everyone else looked at Booth.

"This is Special Agent Seeley Booth; Dr. Brennan had artificial insemination using his sperm." Cam told the nurse.

"Okay then, I am sorry to tell you then that she did lose the baby. At this point though we are not sure if it was directly caused by the rape and beating that she received or if she was already having a miscarriage. One of the Doctors will be out to talk to you as soon as Dr. Brennan is stabilized." The nurse started to return to the emergency room.

"What about my wife, Angela Hodgins?" Hodgins asked.

"I'll have someone come out and talk to you as soon as they can Mr. Hodgins." The nurse quickly went back to the group working on Brennan.

Within another 15 minutes a Doctor, dressed in a white coat, came out to talk to everyone. Hodgins had seen him come out of the room where Angela was so he stepped forward. "How is my wife?"

"I'm Dr. Franklin Mr. Hodgins, your wife is okay. Other than being raped she is doing alright. The heroin has worn off and she is coherent now and able to answer questions. We used a rape kit on her but we don't think that they will be able to use any of it because she had so many different men force themselves on her. Besides cuts to her wrists where we presume she was tied and bruises to her arms and breasts she is alright. Before we take her upstairs she wants to talk to her husband and someone called Booth."

"I'm Booth."

Hodgins and Booth followed Dr. Franklin into the room where Angela was. As soon as she saw Jack she started crying. He went to the side of the bed and pulled her into his arms while they both cried. After a few minutes Angela pulled away and lay back down. She looked to Booth.

"Can you tell me what happened Angela?"

"Brennan had to go to the Capitol Mall for a book signing because it was in her contract. She knew you would put up an argument against her going so she decided not to tell you about it. She knew that it might be dangerous to go there. The book signing was over by 9 and we left with Mr. Randolph, the body guard that her editor hired for her. Within minutes of driving away two white vans pulled up beside us and forced us to stop. The next thing we knew someone shot into the car at Mr. Randolph and grabbed Brennan and I. They put something over our mouths to make us sleep. When we woke up our hands were tied and we were hanging from what looked like meat hooks. Brennan was able to get off of her hook and helped me get off of mine. Before we could escape a group of men came in. Brennan recognized Ortiz. She warned him that you and all of the FBI would be looking for us and you wouldn't give up until you found us." Angela was crying all the time she was telling them what happened. Jack gave her more Kleenex.

"She fought them Booth. You would have been proud of her. She put down 4 men before they were able to hold her. She had 3 men holding onto her before Ortiz had the guts to come close to her. She had one holding each arm and one with his arm around her neck. He started hitting her in her stomach Booth. He must have hit her more than half a dozen times. She never screamed out in pain though. When he punched her in the stomach the last time she must have felt something break because she screamed "My baby". She finally used your sperm last month Booth and she was told just yesterday that she was pregnant. She was going to tell you tonight. Oh Booth, he beat her so bad. It's a miracle that she is still alive."

The nurse approached the bed. "I'm sorry but we need to take Mrs. Hodgins upstairs. She'll be in room 412. You can come with us Mr. Hodgins."

Booth backed away and went to look in the room where Brennan was being worked on. He could see that they were bundling her up to take her upstairs. Dr. Franklin came out to talk to everyone. He addressed himself to Brennan's father, Max Keenan.

"Mr. Keenan we are taking Dr. Brennan upstairs to surgery to repair her internal injuries. We don't know exactly what we will find. We know for sure that her left jaw is broken and a specialist will be taking care of that. Her nose is broken also. She must have been hit many times in the face because both of her eyes are swollen shut and the whole left side of her face is swollen because of the broken jaw. We don't know if she can still see because she hasn't regained consciousness yet. While we have her in surgery will be cleaning her up. I believe, what appeared to be a large loss of blood, was caused by the miscarriage. The surgeon will be checking her uterus to make sure that no tearing took place. If her reproductive organs are okay than there should be no reason why she can't conceive again of course well know more when they go in." The Doctor turned and looked directly at Booth. "I am guessing that your blood type is Rh positive. Is that correct?"

"Yes." Booth answered. "Why are you asking?"

"Dr. Brennan is RH negative and it's possible that the life of the fetus was being compromised by antibodies in Dr. Brennan's blood that was already starting to attack the fetus. The beating that she took must have broken through the barrier between the mother and the baby and the babies blood spilled into the mother's blood stream. Her body was already working overtime, because of what she was going through and it immediately started to attack the fetus. We've already given her an injection with a drug that will prevent her from having another miscarriage because of the Rh factor. You can come up to the waiting room outside of surgery if you want." A nurse came up behind the Doctor. He stepped aside for a few minutes.

"Mr. Booth, she has regained consciousness and is asking for you." The nurse told Booth. Dr Franklin had left to go back into the room.

Booth looked at both Max and Russ. Max just squeezed his arm and said "Go to her. We'll go upstairs and into the waiting room." Booth followed the nurse into the room.

As carefully as he could he picked up Brennan's hand. "Bones, it's me, Booth."

Brennan tried to open her eyes but they were so swollen she couldn't see his face. All she could see was a light. "Booth, I'm sorry." That was all she could get out. Her broken jaw made it hard for her to speak and they had given her something in preparation for her to go into surgery.

Booth was crying as he looked on her swollen face. "Shhhh….. Don't worry about anything but getting better. Your father and brother are here along with everyone else. Angela is okay, they just took her up into a room and Hodgins is with her."

The nurse put her hand on his shoulder and said "We have to take her to surgery now. You can wait for her in the waiting room with the rest.

Booth let her hand go and backed away. He took another elevator up to the 3rd floor where they had surgery and ICU. He followed the signs to the waiting room and sat down in one of the couches. Max came over and sat next to him. He waited until Booth could talk.

"She looks bad Max. When I picked up her hand she couldn't see me. I could just barely tell that her eyes were open. The first thing she said was 'Booth, I'm sorry'." Booth was crying now and he didn't care who saw him. Max put his hand on his back and just sat beside him. Cam had brought over a cup of coffee for Booth. Normally Angela would have been the one to give him comfort but since she couldn't be there Cam thought she would step in.

"Here Booth." Cam said as she handed the coffee to him and sat next to him in the spot that Max had vacated. After a few minutes Booth was able to get control of himself. He pulled out his handkerchief and blew his nose and wiped his tears away. He took the coffee from her and thanked her.

"Bones and I have talked about her putting herself in danger before." To Cam's surprise Booth was smiling. "The last time I gave even a hint that she should stay in the Lab she almost punched my lights out." After a few moments of silence he continued talking. "I don't know what happened last weekend, if she experienced an epiphany, a revelation or what but she finally has allowed herself to love me and to give our shared love a chance. When she came to my bedroom last Saturday night, I asked her if she was having trouble sleeping. Can you believe it that she actually wanted to have what she calls recreational sex so that she could fall asleep? I told her that for me, it wouldn't be just recreational sex, for me it would be making love and I asked her if she was giving herself to me. She sat up and actually said yes that she loved me just as much as I loved her."

"You know Brennan, Booth. If she didn't want to do something you wouldn't be able to make her. She's a strong minded woman and she is very lucky to have finally found someone that will accept her the way she is."

For the next several hours they all waited for any word about Dr. Brennan. Finally at 8:30 a man dressed in scrubs came out to talk to them. Everyone stood up as he came into the waiting room.

"Max Keenan?" The Doctor said to no one in particular.

"I'm Max Keenan." Max said as he walked over to the Doctor.

"Mr. Keenan, I'm Dr. Henderson. I operated on Dr. Brennan."

"How is she?" Booth asked.

"Dr. Brennan is doing okay. We were able to stop the bleeding. We cleaned her uterus out and as far as we could tell she hasn't sustained any permanent damage. All of her reproductive organs looked like they were intact. In cases like hers sometimes the ovaries separate from the fallopian tubes but hers looked okay. Her jaw is now wired shut. It will have to remain like that for a couple of weeks so that it can heal. Her jaw was not broken as we thought. The surgeon setting her jaw said that it was only pushed out of place. It has been reset and she should be okay once the wires are removed. Our biggest worry right now is her sight. Her eyes are still swollen shut. We are going to do some tests on her to see if any damage took place. We really won't know until tomorrow or the day after if she can still see. We just have to be patient and give her time to let the swelling go down. I'd advise you all to go home and get some sleep. Dr. Brennan, most likely, won't wake up until tomorrow." Max thanked him and the Doctor left.

Hodgins had walked in at the same time that Dr. Henderson started telling everyone how Brennan was doing.

"How is Angela Dr. Hodgins?" Cam asked when the surgeon had left.

They could tell that he had been crying. "She is sleeping right now. They gave her something to make her sleep a deep sleep until tomorrow afternoon. They want to keep her here until Monday then they'll release her. I am going home now and get some sleep." Jack went to stand in front of Booth.

"Thank you Booth, thank you for everything. Thank you for saving Angela for me." The two men shook hands then Booth pulled Jack into a hug. Everyone left then to go home. Sweets gave Booth and Hodgins a ride back to the FBI Headquarters where they had left their vehicles.

TBC…..