A.N. I do not own Bones

Brennan was being rushed out of the Jeffersonian. Daisy was on the phone with Lance to give him the heads up but not to tell Booth. "Dr. Brennan is going to be in the fight of her life and she is the one who we should be worried about, not Booth."Daisy called Wendell and told him to call Arastoo, Vinny, and Fisher.

Sweets had gone out to lunch with Caroline and she wanted in on the wake up call to Booth. He also knew Caroline could not stand Hannah.

Cam had gotten a hold of Max and he said he would call Russ before coming over to the hospital.

Booth had learned second hand that Bones was taken to the hospital over a suspected aneurysm and it did not look good. When he arrived there he was greeted with looks of death from her interns, Max, and Russ. Cam, Angela, and Hodgins were in the same boat as him. He just wanted Hannah to feel welcomed and he was so angry at Brennan that he played a huge role in her being alienated. Wendell's last words before he quit the team were "Go to hell Booth."He knew Wendell was playing in a much more challenging league that plays in tournaments and so much more.

He thought he was Bones' Health Care proxy but he was mistaken when he heard Max say "It's me". The tests showed it is an aneurysm and its massive, Bones' best chances for survival were to have a surgery. Max signed the papers and Russ put his head in his hands. That was when a nurse asked "Who do you want to have visit your daughter if any?"Booth, Angela, Hodgins, and Cam were in deep shit. He knew he was not going to be allowed in.

"Daisy Wick, Wendell Bray, Lance Sweets, Arastoo Vaziri, Vincent Nigel Murray, Colin Fisher, and Russ Brennan. No one else and especially no chaplains."

Booth knew he was going to have to get his information second hand. What had he done? Bones just might die. The center must hold and the center has been coming apart slowly. The center is Bones. He went to the chapel to pray. Pray for her to live and pray for her to forgive him.

He went home and that is when he told Hannah that Bones has had an aneurysm and is fighting for her life, he heard something he did not want to hear nor should say. "Well, she will be out of the way and you can truly move on. Honestly Seely, she has been holding you back mentally. She most likely won't make it and it will give you more time to put your work into the relationship. You are right, she is not capable of human emotion as Angela has been saying. I had been encouraging Angela to ditch Temperance because she just weighs you down. The only reason why you should even keep her or even associate with her is to make sure your career advances."

Booth had never been so angry at himself nor at another human being. "Hannah, Bones is also human and you are beyond selfish in the hopes that she will die. She saved your life and I know about the sunglasses so give them back. Now, I want you out of my life and get the hell out of my apartment. Go to a hotel or whatever you have to do but I see a part of you that I will not stand and that is being a selfish bitch. I made my mistakes that will haunt me for the rest of my life but I will start by getting rid of you."

Hannah took one last look "Seeley, I am sorry about Temperance but we can fix this together..."

"No Hannah, I do not want a conceited bitch running my life and the relationships around me. That is disgusting how you turned Angela against her own friend."

Hodgins was comforting Angela "What have we done. I was pissed at her for what she did to Booth but we have beyond cruel to her. Every last one of us have played a role. Bren uses her brain, it's her. It is not her heart that broke but her brain and she just might die. She will never forgive any of us. She has been screwed over so many times by people in her life that I will not be surprised if she tells us to go to hell when she wakes up."

Hodgins knew there was not much he could say "We were all so blind to what was happening to Dr. B. We made our beds and now we must lay in it no matter how painful it is."

Cam was at home with tears flowing down her face doing any research she could on the aneurysm treatments that might save Dr. Brennan's life. She might just die and there is so much left unsaid.

Wendell had called Elizabeth. Elizabeth gave him the best words of advice "Help her recover, motivate her like she has been motivating you."

Daisy was just inconsolable and all Sweets could do is be lost in thought. He should have never have opened his mouth about the two of them being in love. He felt guilt like there is no tomorrow and it lead to this. When she recovers he would not be surprised if she ups and quits the Jeffersonian.

Fisher, Arastoo, and Vincent were all pulling for her but they all knew that things would not be the same and would there be any brain damage which is a real possibility. It was making Arastoo question why would Allah be this cruel.

Russ and Max just wanted Tempe to pull through. Russ had known how bad things were at the Jeffersonian and he had told her to quit. Russ found out what life was like in foster care for his sister and he felt guilt like you would not believe. He abandoned his sister only for her to be abused.

Several hours later, a neurosurgeon came out. "The aneurysm has been clipped. The bleeding has been stopped. She is critical but stable. I am leaving her in a coma for the next 72 hours to help her heal. The nurse will let you know when you can see her."

"Thank you"

Twenty minutes later, Russ and Max were able to see her and the sight was enough to break your heart. There were tubes, wires, monitors surrounding her. Brennan's head was wrapped up in a bandage. She looked so small in that bed. Russ kissed his little sister on the cheek.

"Tempe, come back. I am not going to let you go without a fight and despite what you may think there are plenty of people that love you and want to see you get better."

Max had tears in his eyes. He lost his wife and now he could lose his daughter. He had so much to answer for.

Brennan woke up in the living room in the house she had long forgotten, the last room she saw her parents in before they left her and the last time she saw her mother alive.

"This is not real".

Christine Brennan came out of the kitchen in the next room and looked her daughter in the eye "Yes Sweetie, it is. You are stuck between life and death. You are very sick right now. You had an aneurysm.

I know your friends have hurt you and have made you feel unimaginable pain but this time you need to live for you and not fit into their ideals for you. Be yourself, if they are true then they accept you for being you. Your heart is your brain and it has always been like that.

You need to forgive them but not forget. I do not expect you to do it immediately and it will take a long time but it is the only way to for you to heal. That being said, they took you for granted and will most likely be feeling guilty but let them. It is your choice if you want to have a relationship with them or not.

You have so many people that care, your interns for example. You have been helping them but they have been helping you all along. It will break all of their hearts if you choose death. Those children who you help, they will be devastated. They look forward to you coming in. Your father and brother will be heartbroken."

Brennan in the first time in along time had allowed herself to truly cry and her mother was comforting her.

The interns had been coming in one by one and leaving flowers or reading her the latest anthropology article. Max got a chuckle but he knew she could hear them.

Her agent tried to talk to him about letting the public know but he let it be known. "This is a private and family matter. The public does not need to know."

Russ was with his sister and just praying for her to hold on. The people who she works with at the Jeffersonian tried to visit but he told them to fuck off. The only ones he wanted near her were her interns who she had grown close to. Dr. Sweets had been so helpful with the neurological aspect of this all.

Booth, Cam, Angela, and Hodgins were not getting any information about Brennan's condition. The interns were not talking either even though they had been over at the hospital and reading to her anthropology articles.

Booth had tried to go to Sweets to see if Daisy had told him anything, the lack of information was tearing him apart. Sweets denied him and he tried to apologize to Sweets.

"It's not me who you should be sorry to, it's Doctor Brennan you need to apologize to."

Three days would pass and while Sweets and Daisy were visiting, Brennan woke up. Sweets saw it. "I will go get a nurse".

Dr. Shrewsbury came in and began examining her. Sweets had Max's and Russ ' s cell phone numbers and called them. Daisy called Wendell and told him to tell everyone else.

Within twenty minutes, Max and Russ were there. "Have you heard anything on Tempe."

Sweets had gone with her to go get a brain scan. "Brennan is being evaluated for cognitive function and to see if the aneurysm caused any brain damage if any. They have her on an oxygen mask but she will have trouble talking for a few days. From what I see, there does not seem to be any damage but most likely she will be evaluated by physical, occupational, and speech."

Russ and Max knew Sweets is a psychologist and he knows plenty about the brain and had been explaining plenty to them over the past few days. Russ had been looking up aneurysms and everything about it. Tempe ' s doctor had asked about family history, diet. None of this should have played a role. Russ had one idea and it all had to do with the Jeffersonian and one FBI agent. He knew Tempe ' s heart is her brain. It has always been like that. They say you can die from a broken heart but she nearly died due to a broken brain.

Dr. Shrewsbury came in. "Her brain scans look promising but I will have to keep the shunt in for another day. I also would like to have her finish her recovery at a rehabilitation hospital."

Max nodded "Whatever is needed."

Russ walked in and saw his sister propped up in bed but awake "Will you stop scaring us like that."

Brennan had been given a pad of paper to write with because it will be uncomfortable to talk for the next few days.

"What happened? Where am I?"

Russ saw how shaky she was in writing and from his research he was not surprised.

"You are in the hospital. You had a massive aneurysm and you needed emergency surgery. You have been in a coma for three days."

Max came in and gave his daughter a light squeeze. "Stop scaring us like that."

Temperance wrote a note to her father. "What did I do, throw you for a loop?"

There was a small crack of a smile "You are your mother's daughter. Now I know you will be ok. You have a Dr. Sweets and one of your interns here. I believe I will let them come in. Your nurse said you can start in with some cold fluids. I am going to see if I can find you something better than this hospital crap."

While Russ and Max were in with Brennan, Daisy and Sweets had been on their phones. Caroline wanted to be in the know and Sweets called her office. She was relieved that she was awake. During the past few days Caroline had made it her personal mission to ring everyone out that was involved with alienating her.

Caroline had found out what else she had been doing with her time besides helping her interns and that is help teens get out of the foster system, help them succeed in getting their independence early, successfully. The interns and Sweets knew about it and kept it quiet. Helping others seemed to help her through the hard times and Caroline was not going to stop it. She knew the interns also volunteered to help tutor those kids.

She knew Dr. Brennan was going to have a long road ahead for recovery and she had one thought in mind when it comes to the next book, revenge. She had been reading all of the books and knew the book would probably be an outlet for all of the heartbreak she has had.

Daisy went in and gently hugged her mentor. "How are you feeling? I have good news, your article on reconstruction of skulls after disease has been published. I have it right here."

Sweets knew something like that would brighten her day.

"I am glad to have the tube out."

Sweets had agreed to help Max and Russ find a rehab hospital that specializes in neurological cases and he found one that was close by. He was fixing his mistake that night by making sure Dr. Brennan recovers. Now as far as the partnership between Brennan and Booth, the FBI decided to leave Booth's fate in Brennan's hands. He was in favor of severing it but sometimes the most important lessons you learn in life are the most painful.

The rest of the interns were going to be in the next day. Fisher had called Clark to tell him the news and he had sent flowers and a get well card along with a copy of the newest Anthropology journal to come into existence "The New England Journal Of Medical Anthropology Quarterly."He did want updates.

When Daisy called Wendell and he telling Arastoo, Fisher, and Vinny; they wanted to see Dr. Brennan immediately but they were to hold off for twenty four hours. The good news is there seems to be no long term damage.

During the last few days all of the interns had been interrogated for information on Dr. Brennan. Cam had threatened to fire them all when Arastoo fired back. "On what grounds? There was no unprofessional behavior on our part. Dr. Brennan's father and brother had asked us to keep quiet and they did not want her to have any more stress needed in her recovery. There has been no behavior that affects cases."

Arastoo was prepared to go over Cam's head if she did fire any of the interns or himself.

Angela and Hodgins were not getting answers either and they were not welcome at the hospital. There was nothing Booth could only thing they found out was she was awake three days later but it was second hand.

Angela wanted to shoot herself over what Hannah said because she made her own mistakes but Hannah was beyond selfish and had no regards for another human being. Her only concern was keeping Brennan away from Booth but using her to help Booth's career. She had never felt more disgusted with herself and she will be paying for it the rest of her life.

Booth had tried to go visit Bones but did not get very far with Russ coming out of the room and Russ was threatening to call security. He was so upset with himself. It had taken him a long time to learn this but Bones uses her brain and her heart is her brain. She almost died because of a broken brain.

Parker wanted to go see Bones and show her his science project and Rebecca had been on to him that she knew what was going on and did not like what Hannah had done to him. "Hannah has turned you into a self absorbed prick Seeley."What he did not know is Rebecca had been taking Parker to see Bones behind his back.

Then he learned Parker's science fair project of the life sized skeleton of him and him showing how to tell male and female skeletons apart was all due to Bones. She had been helping him so much that she helped Parker to get into the accelerated program at his school since Parker would be starting the sixth grade next year. If Parker did well, Parker would be a candidate for Junior National Honors Society.

It was decided he had to tell Rebecca first. "Brennan is in the hospital. She has had a massive aneurysm. They have her in a coma for the next few days. What do you want me to say to Parker because I can not lie to him."

Rebecca did not want to see the Dr. Brennan like that nor did she deserve it, no one deserves that. Parker is going to be heart broken. "Seeley, you are going to have to explain what an aneurysm is but tell him that she is only allowed visitors from direct family members and that is why you can't see her. I know she had been on the outs with the people at the lab and you.

If you try to use Parker as a way to see her, she may refuse because you are there Seeley. You screwed up Seeley and this is your ultimate mistake and your only chance to even remotely try to improve things. I do not want Parker seeing her with the wires and monitors everywhere. She may have problems speaking. I also do not think the hospital allows kids to visit. I will get Parker a card to give her."

Booth saw his son walk in from getting off the bus. "Parker, can you come here for a second and no you are not in trouble and no I am not going back to Afghanistan."

"What's going on dad?"

This was going to be tough "Bones had an aneurysm. They had to take her to the hospital. She is very sick Parks."

"What's an aneurysm.?"

Rebecca had an idea of how to explain this to him. "You know how you have veins and blood vessels in your arm. You have the same in your brain. A blood vessel in Dr. Brennan's brain and she has been bleeding from inside of her head."

Now Parker had another question "Why did Dr. Bones get one?"

Booth sighed "I don't know Parker."

"Can I see her?"

"I am sorry bub but the hospital is only allowing immediate family members, I am not even allowed in."

Parker was in tears and Rebecca was helpless. There was nothing Booth could do.

The day after Brennan woke up, Daisy and Lance were at the hospital and Brennan was up and walking or at least struggling to walk. She was holding on to the side rail while a physical therapist was stabilizing her. "OK Temperance, you did well for your first time. Let's call it day."

Brennan slurred "I find myself exhausted."

Daisy was confused "Lance, is that normal?"

"Unfortunately it is, the aneurysm has caused her weakness in her limbs and she is having problems with speech. It could be worse."

While Daisy and Sweets were there; Arastoo, Vinny, and Fisher arived. The fact that they saw Brennan awake was beyond good. Arastoo had told her about her article being published and brought in a copy. What none of them noticed was Booth just outside of the room.

"Bones, you are awake."

Daisy was beyond pissed with Booth and she was going to let him have it. There will be no threatening of a federal agent make him face the truth.

Booth was greeted with looks of feury including Bones. Daisy snapped "Why the hell are you even here, looking for another way to kick her while she is down."

"Come on Bones, can't we talk"

Brennan slurred "Don't call me Bones and get out of here and leave me in peace."

Sweets decided to step I "Agent Booth, the last thing Dr. Brennan needs to be dealing with is more drama. Go, I think it would be best to hold off talking to her until she is further along in recovery. Now is not the time. Please leave and tell Doctors Saroyan and Hodgins as well as Angela to stay away right now. Now is not the time for mediation but to make sure she can regain her independence and move back into her house, back to being a writer, and back to being an anthropologist."

Booth looked shocked, shows how much he had known her. He would find about where her house is. He had walked in on a debate of what the best chemicals are to degrade bone. It was a little alarming since he was on everyone's shit list. Something that Booth over heard on his way out is Arastoo and Daisy had manuscripts for books and Bones genuinely wanted to see them. He heard her slur "Gives me something to read."

He saw joy in the eyes of Daisy and Arastoo but there again they knew their manuscripts being critiqued by a best selling author . She was giving to them as much as they were giving to her.

He stayed out of sight but still listened. Wendell laughed "Dr. B, they are both excellent."

"Quiet Mr. Bray, I need to keep by objectivity. They had to leave for the night and Booth left before he was seen. He did not want Parker to see her so weak and having trouble speaking. He did give Rebecca a quick update so she can tell Parker.

"Rebecca, Brennan is awake but I do not want Parker to see her in the state she is in. She is having some problems with speaking and she is weak all over."

Rebecca sighed "I will tell Parker but I will go see her myself to give her Parker's card. It sounds like she will have to go to a rehab hospital once she is discharged. They might have a more lax policy of letting children visit or at least an area that Dr. Brennan can visit."

Now the tough part; telling Cam, Angela and Hodgins that visiting will be a very bad idea with what happened today. He knew Bones would be having constant visitors in the form of Sweets, Max, Russ, and the Squinterns.

Sweets was right, she did need to recover physically before they even went near their personal issues. After the reaming that he received from Caroline, she was right. He took her for granted and trying to ensure Hannah was welcomed and showing Brennan that was furious with her, he played a role of her being alienated her against Angela, Hodgins and Cam. They were also in trouble with Caroline.

Only time will if the center can be brought back together.