Chapter 18

Special Agent Booth parked in front of the Diner that they all frequented. He could easily see Sweets sitting at Bones and his usual table. He walked in and went directly to what he thought of as their table. Except for greeting each other Sweets didn't say anything. From experience, Sweets knew that Booth would talk when he was ready.

A waitress came over and took his order for coffee and a slice of apple pie. Booth finally looked at Sweets. He began to tell him what happened at the crime scene. When he was done he just looked at Sweets and waited for him to say something.

"I think that the compartment that Dr. Brennan has pushed her memories of the rape into is getting ready to split at the seams. If we don't find a way for her to let those memories out and deal with them in some way she is going to break."

"What can we possibly do? I can't get her to talk to me about it for more than a few minutes and she refuses to talk to you or a specialist in rape." Booth said as he ran his hands over his face.

Sweets could see that Booth was starting to get frustrated with Dr. Brennan. "What about Angela? Have you spoken to her about this problem?"

The waitress brought over Booth's coffee and pie, left the check then left.

"That is kind of hard to do since her and Hodgins are still living with Bones."

"Call Dr. Hodgins and tell him that you need to talk to Angela without Dr. Brennan around. He can tell her that they are going to check on the progress of the work on the mansion in the morning. We can meet them there tomorrow morning."

"I hate keeping secrets from her but I know that we have to resolve this problem before she is completely lost to us. I need for you to call Cam and let her know what is happening so that she doesn't start asking too many questions in front of Bones. Thanks Sweets." Booth quickly ate his pie then got up and left after paying his bill.

Sweets made the call to Cam before he left the diner and let her know what they were going to be doing.

"I've noticed how Brennan starts getting nervous when too many people are around her, especially if it's mostly men." Cam said. She was quiet for a minute. "I hope we can all help her get over this, Sweets. I wouldn't want her to slowly be destroyed by this. Goodnight." Cam hung up and went to bed. Sweets went home also except he didn't go to sleep right away. His mind was busy working on how to help Dr. Brennan.

Booth quietly let himself into Brennan's apartment. He went into the bedroom that he now shared with Brennan. He opened the door as quietly as he could and looked in. The bed was empty so he stepped into the bedroom further. The door to the bathroom was closed and he could hear her vomiting over and over again. He knocked on the door when she finally seemed to be finished.

"Bones, are you alright?"

It took her a minute but she finally answered. "Yes, I'll be out in a few minutes."

"Do you want me to get you anything?"

"No, I'll be out in a few minutes."

Booth went out of the room and went to Jack's and Angela's room and knocked on the door lightly. Angela opened the door.

"Can you go to her Angela? I think she needs to talk to you about what happened this afternoon, because she won't talk to me." Angela could see the sadness in his eyes. She didn't say anything, she just pulled her robe around herself and walked over to Brennan's door and went in. Booth went in and sat down on the bed next to Jack.

"I don't know what to do Jack. She won't talk to me about what happened." He turned and looked at Jack.

"I didn't go to the office like I told her. While we were still at the crime scene I called Sweets and asked him to meet me at the diner at 9. I told him what had happened to Bones. He said that we have to do something to make her confront her rape, the beating that she took and the loss of our baby. He said that the box where she has compartmentalized into what happened is slowly getting to the point of bursting at the seams and I and everyone else that loves her would lose her forever."

"Has Sweets suggested anything?" Jack asked as he got up and pulled his robe on.

"He wants me, you and Angela to meet with him tomorrow morning at your home so that we can talk about it. He suggested that you tell Bones that you and Angela are going to check the progress of the work on your home and that you'll be in by 10 o'clock. Sweets and I will meet you there at 8 tomorrow morning." Angela came back into the bedroom after almost 30 minutes of being with Brennan. She sat down next to Booth.

"How is she doing now?" Booth asked.

"Better, we talked for awhile and she told me what happened at the crime scene today. I suggested that she go and see the special psychiatrist that Sweets had originally wanted her to see."

"What did she say?" Booth asked.

"She said that she would think about it and you know what that means."

"Yeah, most likely she won't go." Booth said. He got up and left to return to Brennan's room.

Both Jack and Angela got back into bed. "Booth told me that Sweets wants us to meet with Booth and him at the mansion tomorrow morning. Booth met with Sweets instead of going to FBI headquarters and told him about what happened at the crime scene today."

"What are we going to tell Cam?" Angela asked.

"Booth said that Sweets will talk to Cam. Let's go back to sleep, Booth will take care of Dr. Brennan now." Jack said as he lay down and pulled the covers over them.

It was 4:30 in the morning when Brennan woke up. She had only had a few hours of sleep. She lay next to Booth quietly. Usually having him in bed with her would help to sleep but for some reason she couldn't shut off her brain. It would constantly go over what happened yesterday. After 30 minutes she just got up, got dressed and snuck out of the apartment before anyone else could get up.

At 9 o'clock Sweets, Booth, Jack and Angela were at the Hodgins mansion. Hodgins and Angela got there first. Booth and Sweets came in at the same time and found them looking over some of the work.

"How's it looking?" Booth asked as they came up to them.

"Good, they are coming along pretty fast. The servants' quarters have already been completed and they are working on the master suite and kitchen now." Jack told them.

"Let's go somewhere where we can have some privacy." Sweets said.

Jack took them over to his office which was further away from the noise and the current renovation activities. Contrary to what Booth thought it would look like, it was nicely decorated with only one PC in it.

"I'm surprised it how it's decorated Jack. I thought your home office would be full of cages of bugs, and pictures of bugs." Booth said.

"No, I try to keep that kind of stuff at the Lab. Besides that, the first time Angela slept here she woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare where she thought there were bugs crawling all over her."

"You better believe it buddy. I told him I wouldn't be spending the night here again until he got rid of them or at least put them in another building. The next day he had everything taken to Zacks' old apartment over the garage. One night in dry dock and you guys will agree to anything." Angela said as she started to scratch her arm just thinking about it.

Everyone took seats around the office. "Have you come up with any ideas as to how we can get Dr. Brennan to open up to someone Booth?" Sweets asked.

"No, but we have to come up with something soon because she became very ill last night just thinking about it. When I woke up this morning she was already gone. I called the guard in the Lab and he said she came in at 6."

"Well I and my colleagues came up with an idea." Sweets said.

TBC…..

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