Chapter 4: Found
She didn't want to leave the dark and the quiet. An insistent voice was calling her. A voice she knew she needed to answer. But whenever she tried to push the black curtain away, she felt the pain. Everywhere the pain and she wanted to just sink back into the darkness again.
"Bones, please! God Bones, please wake up! Bones, you...you...have to wake up. I feel your pulse. You are still with us. Please, wake up. So much blood..." The voice choked off. She could almost feel the agony in each word. It was Booth. She had to open her eyes and tell him.
Brennan pushed through the pain and struggled to open her eyes. "Booth." She tried to form the word, but she could tell from the anguished look on his face that it hadn't come out correctly. She tried again, but her tongue was so thick and the pain so intense, she heard only a sort of moaning sound above the roaring in her ears.
"Bones! Can you hear me Bones! Stay with me now! I'm here. I'm with you. I'll take care of you now. I'm so sorry."
"Booth...nails...evidence...Parker." She had to make him understand. She moved and a blinding arrow shot through her head making her gasp. She was loosing focus, darkness closing in from the corners of her vision. She welcomed the numbness, but needed to try, just one more time before it overtook her. "Evidence, Booth!" She wheezed. It was so hard to breath now. "Parker!" She couldn't do it anymore, she closed her eyes.
Before loosing consciousness completely, she heard the words as if from very far away. "Please don't leave me Bones. I love you. It has always been you, Bones. Stay with me please, Stay with me Bones."
The pain receded and for a moment she felt an odd sense of joy and then nothing at all.