A.N. I do not own Bones
Brennan was doing very well in recovery that she left the hospital two days earlier than expected. She was spending several hours a day getting her strength back up and learning how to talk. All Brennan wanted to do was be at home on her own bed.
Her father and Russ were there almost daily. Even the girls came up to visit and had get well soon cards. There was no paralysis on one side, just weak all over. She could move and feel but did not have the strength. Also, her coordination was off. One of the occupational therapists ran a yoga group and it was helping even though she had to use props when she didn't before.
Daisy brought in a friend, a guy friend who does hair to consult. The opinion was to shave it all off and start over because it was going to be too awkward to let the hair grow back on the side where the surgery occurred. Something she had thought about was just strictly doing teaching which would give her more chances to go on digs. The stress of it would be minimal compared to what she has faced at the Jeffersonian. Nearly dieing puts a new perspective on life and there is so much she wants to do. There is a digg planned in Alexandria, Egypt that will require scuba diving. She has never been to Egypt surprisingly and this is a new challenge.
A classmate of hers from Northwestern had contacted her about coming out and it was not feasible at the moment but would more than welcome any photos and video footage. The interns would love this, all of them.
Booth, Cam, Hodgins, and Angela began with their plans with burying the hatchets. When word had gotten around the FBI with how Booth and the rest of them treated Brennan, he was not too popular. Even more so when they learned that she nearly died.
Special Agent Richard Potter who had known Booth for a long time and went through the academy together was the voice for everyone else. "What the fuck is wrong with you Booth. I know you said you had to move on but you showed no form of human decency. You have been acting like a jackass since you have gotten back from Afghanistan. You turned her own friends against her. You owe her everything, including your career. Your solve rate was only 89% before you started working with her and now you are perfect. No one has that in the FBI know why she had that aneurysm? It was all of the stress that you, your bitch, and those at the Jeffersonian did."
Perrotta and Shaw were not happy at all. They had gone and visited Brennan their self when she was in the hospital. They met Hannah and could not stand her at all.
Perrotta had overheard Hannah on the phone when Booth was out of the room. Hannah bragged about how many soldiers she had slept with when on assignment and she was responsible for two divorces. There was only one word for Hannah, slut. She wished she had a tape recorder because she would love for agent Booth to hear this. She had done some research into the marriages Hannah destroyed. First one, Sergeant Andrew Naves. He was married for five years with his first child on the way. Second one, Sergeant Major James Norrington. Married for nine years, had one on the way and his other child was just diagnosed with cancer. The men were just as guilty of not keeping their zippers up.
Booth went to Sweets first because if he makes peace with Sweets then it will trickle down into the squinterns. Her squinterns really, really did not like him right now. There again, the only one that he had not mocked for being a squint is Wendell. Arastoo, Daisy, Vinny, and Fisher; he was an ass to sometimes.
"Sweets, I am sorry for acting like a dick but I want to start burying the hatchet with you and the interns. I know it was the stress from the crap that I, along with everyone else put her through."
To Sweets, he was waiting for this for a long time now. He made his own mistake and he owned up to it. He did feel guilty about what happened that night outside of the Hoover and he did apologize and she forgave him. "Sweets, you had no way to predict what Booth was going to do. I made my own when he confessed that he was in love with me."However, Sweets did feel some extra guilt because he set off every event leading to Brennan's aneurysm.
"Agent Booth, you are going to have to take in account that you sprung up your undying love for her. You know she does not adapt well to something like that. I made my mistake by saying you two were in love. If she can forgive you it will take a very long time to regain her trust.
Now that you are willing to admit your mistake, I can bring in Daisy to mediate. I know what she will say to you if I do not get involved. What is going to happen is I am going to have each one of her interns in here alone and you will have to work out your issues with all of them. I know the amounts of time you have been jerks to them, you are going to have to own up to them all. If I have them in all together, it will be a group mentality and nothing will work. I think once you bury the hatchet with the interns then I can work on mediation between Hodgins, Angela, and Cam."
Keeping Bones in his life is the most important thing besides Parker. Her nearly dieing was the biggest wakeup call he had ever had in his life over everything. There is just so much that is left unsaid. He will not let her go without a fight this time. Booth knew he was not going to be welcomed with open arms where she is doing rehabilitation, but he knew Parker would want to see her. It's nearly the weekend and Rebecca has him this weekend anyways.
"How's Bones doing? I know that it would not be wise for me to see her after the last visit I had but Parker does want to see her. Rebecca did promise to take him."
Sweets was practically a walking lie detector and he sensed no deceit from Booth. So it would not hurt to say something. He also knew Parker adores Dr. Brennan. "She is doing better. The staff at Blue Hills have her up doing physical, occupational, and speech therapy for several hours a day. She just feels weak all over and her speech is sounding better. Until we begin mediation; you, Cam, Hodgins, and Angela are banned from seeing her. If you want to fix this, you are going to have to do exactly what I say."
"Yes, Sweets"
For Sweets, this could work. He also would need to talk to Max and Russ and deal with the issues that they have with Booth and the rest of the people in the lab. They are extremely protective of her and with all of the damage that Booth did, they did need to be spoken to as well.
There are four other psychologists besides himself and one psychiatrist for the FBI in DC. One,is on maternity leave so Dr. Greene is not an option. There is Dr. Gerhard but he is the second most hated person at the Hoover believing that a woman's place is in the home. All of the female population of the Hoover cannot stand him. Him and Dr. Brennan could result in world War 3. There is Dr. O'Brien who thinks that everything can be solved with medication. Dr. Strauss has been all for separating Booth and Brennan for years and he will create more problems. Brennan hates psychology as it is. Dr. Strauss is also a notorious skirt chaser. Bringing in someone in from the outside would not work either.
Booth had texted everyone to meet him at the diner for lunch. This is beyond important. Cam, Hodgins, and Angela arrived as quickly as possible because their strategy of how to fix things with Brennan had not been working. No one had known where she was for the past two days either.
"I talked to Sweets and he said that he is going to have to mediate sessions individually with us and her interns. This can not be done as a group on either side. We all betrayed her trust and I see this as the best option because the only people she trusts is her brother, Max, her interns, and surprisingly Sweets. He knows where she is but until the meetings take place, we are all banned from the rehabilitation facility."
It was not exactly the news that they wanted to hear but you can not fix months of pain and hurt with a magic wand. Life does not work like that.
"So where is she Seeley?"
Booth did not think anything of it. "Blue Hills."
Jack whistled. "That is one of the top rehabilitation hospitals in the country. They only see the who's who and the place is not cheap at all but if Dr. B is looking for the best place to recover, it's with them."
That surprised no one, it's Brennan and she would not bat an eye for something like that though Booth did wonder what type of health benefits the Jeffersonian has because it is probably a hell of a lot better than he has as a government employee.
"Sweets said she is doing better but she does several hours of physical, occupational, and speech therapy every day. She just feels weak all over."
Cam did breathe a sigh of relief. "She got to the hospital so quick so no major damage was done but she will be weak for a very long time. This will not fix itself over night and she needs the stint there. Dr. Brennan will most likely be there for a few weeks. She is lucky she is not paralyzed on one side because that could have been a possibility. She is damn lucky she had the seizure where she did, especially because Sibley is right up the road from the Jeffersonian and the paramedics had her there in three minutes."
When Booth got home for the evening, he called Rebecca. "She's at Blue Hills, it's in Arlington. The visiting hours start at ten. Sweets said he would call Bones in advance to let them know that she will be having visitors. I did look on the website and there should be no problem with Parker visiting."
Rebecca had a sense of relief come over her "Good, Parker will be happy to hear it."
The day had gone better than what Booth had expected. He knew how worried Parker was since he had Bones as his iddle. The road to recovery with all of the bridges with relationships are now headed for the right path, repair. This did take a heavy weight off of his chest since learning Bones had an aneurysm.
The next day Brennan was alerted to she was going to have a visitor in the form of Parker Booth. She put on a scarf because she did not want to frighten him with the scar. She had a t-shirt and yoga pants on.
Right at 10, the door was banging "Come in".
Parker ran into the room. He was told what she looked like right now and not to be frightened. He was told recovery from this is going to be very long.
"Dr. Bones, how are you feeling?"
He went to hug Brennan but Rebecca did want to rein him in. She knew he was just excited to see her.
"Parker, gentle."
Brennan knew he was worried about her but could handle it. Parker had gotten a perfect 3rd term report card. "That is very good Parker, I hear you will be in the accelerated program at your school next fall."
Not talking about the drama did put Brennan at ease. "Yes, my teachers told me not to become cocky and the school work next year for me will be challenging than what the rest of my classmates who are not in the accelerated program will be facing. I do have to pick a foreign language that I will start taking next year that I will have to take all the way through my senior year but I am not sure which one, I have until fall to decide."
Brennan speaking several languages and travelling to areas where English is not the primary language did give her a good idea. She did have enough knowledge in those areas to expect for him.
Rebecca listed then off. "Latin, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and German."
Brennan had her own thoughts into each language and how it might serve Parker if he wishes to become an anthropologist. Parker is a hard worker and focuses on his studies but he will face a tougher challange with Arabic and Chinese.
"Latin would be beneficial because it will help in on the SAT, as well as in the sciences that Parker is interested in especially with how he is interested in anthropology. Latin is a gateway language to French, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, and Spanish. Many words in English are based out of Latin words which will benefit him in the study of the English language. Spanish or French would be ideal if he wanted a head start into some of the most common languages spoken around the world. French is not solely reserved for Quebec and France. Arabic would be ideal for several African countries but learning their alphabet would be very difficult. Chinese is spoken in such a limited region. It's up to you."
Rebecca saw all of the benefits of each language and she would lean to Latin because it will help him on the SAT when he gets older and it will take him further. Her second choice is French because she does speak it so she could help him. Arabic, while useful could cause more problems than what it is worth. Knowledge on education has been a great help to her because she admits it, she does not always know what she is doing. There was one night Parker had come home with a word problem sheet that even she could not figure out and it was driving her crazy. Brennan came over and taught Parker how to answer them. She liked that he gets shown how to get to the solution instead of just handing him the solution.
Than something she said would give her fuel to talk to Parker's teacher. "I do not understand why Parker would be given a pre calculus questions when he has not even have studied Algebra 1 yet."
No wonder why she could not help her son, she had to go to summer school for math and math was her enemy even in college. Brennan had left her the proof that it was precalculus so she could have a few words with Mr. Henry. She has a financial advisor to help her with all things financial so having Dr. Brennan as Parker's educational advisor is not a bad thing. She never wanted to impose on her like Brennan did not impose on her but she would pick her brain from time to time if something involving Parker's education does need direction. Once she is given the direction, making the decision would be easier. She would be informing Parker's school that he would take Latin in the fall. She wanted her son to have what would serve him the most in life and Latin would be a benefit to him.
The visit Brennan had with Parker put both into good spirits. Rebecca had learned that Brennan had Skype, she could set up an account for Parker so he could visit with her.
What Brennan did not know was her father and Russ has a very lengthy mediation session between Sweets and Booth which accomplished something. Vengeance diminished and Russ just wanted Booth to take responsibility for how he treated Tempe. Booth made his vows to Brennan if she would let him to make sure she felt loved and treasured and not used. He was left with a threat. "The only tears I ever want to hear that you made her cry are tears of joy. If you ever hurt her like this again, you will be dead. It is not us for Dad and I to forgive you. The forgiveness has to come from Tempe."
For Booth, he completed step one in mediation because Max and Russ needed to be met with first because they are the most protective of her even with their mistakes. It was obvious that they were a support for her as well when everyone acted like asses to her.
Tomorrow, he would have to face Daisy. She would be probably the biggest challenge because she had grown very close to Bones during those months away. Going to confession had helped him as well and Father Mitch had also offered advice in how to heal his relationships with those he hurt. It is an uphill climb for Seeley Booth on the steepest of all mountains.