Forgotten Memories

Chapter 1

Booth woke up feeling groggier than before, he could feel that something was over his mouth, but he couldn't work what it was. There was a persistent beeping noise over on the side. He eyes were blurry, as he glanced around the room. All he could make out were the white walls. Over in the corner he could see someone sitting on a chair, to get a closer look to see who was.

Booth tried to sit up, groaning slightly. Hearing him groan, the person in the chair sat up and looked over at him. He could now see this was a woman with blond hair and he couldn't make her features. While he was trying to work out who this woman was, he hadn't noticed that the woman had walked over and she reached up to press a button. He looked up and realised this woman was someone he knew, as tried to work out her name. She held his hand and said "You need to rest; we can talk later". Slowly a haze of drowsiness hit him and Booth fell back to sleep.

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The next time Booth woke up he realised that he was on in a hospital room, looking around he saw that he was alone this time. He slowly felt around, looking for the button to call for the nurse, his right hand finally found the remote and pressed the button.

"It's good see you awake Mr Booth, I am Nurse Jackie Williams" a perky, red headed, nurse walked in, "You had us a little worried" as she checked his pulse on his left wrist. "Your girlfriend just left to get a coffee; she will be back soon. She has barely left your side"

"What happened? Is the tumour gone?"

"The doctor was able to remove the entire tumour without lot of complications, however you fell into a coma while not unusual you took a while to wake up. Don't worry the doctor will be making rounds soon" the nurse started to write notes within his chart.

All Booth could do was stare at the nurse Jackie in shock and blurted out "Girlfriend? What girlfriend?" before she could respond Booth said, "Oh I get it you mean Bones; I assure you she is not my girlfriend, we just work together"

"Oh, I see, I honestly thought she introduced herself as your girlfriend. My mistake"

Before Booth could reassure that Bones would never introduce herself as his girlfriend, another woman entered his room, she was wearing a doctor's coat and a stethoscope. "Ah agent Booth, it's good to see you are awake, I am Dr Green, how are you feeling?"

"My head is killing me"

"Well unfortunately that it is to be expected, hopefully we should be able to manage your pain with the painkillers" Nurse Jackie handed her the chart, as she read that over she said "Looking at your readings, you are healing up".

As the Doctor was talking, Booth could see there was another woman standing behind the door, shaking his head, he focused on what the Doctor was saying. After checking a few more things, the doctor and nurse Jackie, headed to the door, where the woman was standing. Seeley still couldn't see her face as she was speaking to the doctor.

Slowly the door opened and Seeley looked at the woman standing at the door, in pure shock he asked, "Buffy?" as if suddenly saying her name lifted the fog from his mind and all the forgotten memories of his past slammed into the forefront of his mind. Seeing her reminded him of who he was and what he was.

"Hey Angel" Buffy gave him a small smile as she walked over to him and sat down on the chair next his hospital bed.

"Angel" Seeley whispered to himself, as he stared at his hand in wonder, looking intently at the patch of skin where the last of the sunlight filtered in from the window, was touching him.

Buffy looked at the man in front of her, noticing the slightly differences in is appearance, she could see the wonder on his face and she could understand the confusion he was feeling. "Yes, you are still Angel just as much as you are Seeley Booth"

Seeley looked up from his hand and looked at her in confusion, "Do you understand what is going on? I have these memories, where I was raised by my grandfather, I was in the army. But I also have memories of … I can't even begin to understand, where I am a vampire"

Buffy sighed wearily and said, "We have a lot to talk about, there is so much to explain. But this is not the right time to talk about it"

"How are you here? Who called you? How did you know to come? Is Conner ok?"

Buffy seemed almost amused, "You never did check who was put down as your emergency contact did you? Once you went into a coma there was no one here to make decisions for you, so the hospital called me. I nearly had a heart attack when I got the call" Buffy punched him slightly on his arm, "I rushed down once I got the call, I explained that I was your girlfriend and I had been away on business and you don't need to worry about Conner he is ok, he's with Bea and I am staying at your place. So that I can stay with Conner in the evenings".

Before Seeley could say anything or ask more questions, nurse Jackie came in the room, "Right Mr Booth, the doctor has just signed off for you to be given another dose of pain meds, this should hopefully help with the pain and help you get some rest" as she went about, preparing an injection.

"I was just in a coma how can I possibly need more rest?"

"Believe me Mr Booth, some sleep will do you a world of good, you need more rest as this will helps speed you your recovery" Nurse Jackie responded as she injected the medication. The medication slowly pulled Seeley into a deep slumber, the nurse looked at Buffy and said, "Why don't you go home and get some rest, come back fresh tomorrow morning. Hopefully the doctor will be discharging him later this week"

Buffy nodded, "That's a good plan, but you will call if anything changes?"

"Yes of course we will, well I will let you say goodnight" the nurse walked out of the room thinking how lucky Mr Booth was to have someone at his side.

Buffy looked at Angel, he was in a deep sleep, and she knew that he needed it next few days were going to so many surprises, all she could do was hope that he took the surprises well. She gathered her things, and put on her coat. She pecked him on the lips before she left.

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Buffy unlocked the door to Angel's flat, she could hear the muted sounds of music playing in the kitchen and knew that it was Conner's dinner time, so she dropped her bag and jacket on the top of the cabinet and headed to the kitchen. As she headed to the kitchen, she found Conner sitting at table having his dinner, she dropped a kiss on the crown of his head. Conner glanced up and grinned at her with mouth stuffed with food. "finish up and then you can play for a bit before having a bath". Conner smiled at the thought of playing before bed and quickly took a bite of his while nodding in agreement. Buffy shook her head in amusement and headed to the kitchen to find Bea, Conner's babysitter.

"How is Booth?"

"He woke up, he is was very disorientated, but it slowly cleared up and the doctor is saying that he might be discharged later this week if he continues to heal at this rate"

"So quickly? That's good right?"

"I hope so, it will be good for him to be home" Buffy said as she took the plate of food Bea handed to her. "Have you eaten?" Buffy started to walk back to the table to sit with Conner. Bea walked behind and said "No, I have a date. So, if you are ok, I am going to head out"

"Oh yes, we will be fine. You head out and enjoy your night. Thank you so much for staying with Conner, I hope he behaved?"

"Oh, he's been great, thank you Buffy, I will see you on Monday, Right? You don't need me to watch him tomorrow?" Bea answered distracted as she scrolled through her messages, before grabbing her bag. Buffy watched Bea, reminded of a young Dawn, "No worries, no you can chill tomorrow, I am planning on taking Conner to go see Angel"

"Why do you call Booth, Angel?"

"Why do you call him Booth?"

Bea shrugged, "He's always been Booth, everyone calls him that"

Buffy nodded and said "He's always been Angel to me".

Bea smiled and hugged Conner, whispering bye to him and headed to the door calling out bye to Buffy before leaving. Buffy shook her head in amusement and continued to eat.

"Buffy, can I go play now?" Conner asked, holding up his empty plate.

"Go on, put your plate away and then you can go play" Conner jumped down and ran to the kitchen to put plate in the sink. She watched as he zoomed into the living room to go play with his toys.

Shortly after, Buffy finished cleaning up in the kitchen and she went to find Conner, she found him playing in the living room distracted making a car using the K'nex building sets that she had brought for him. Buffy watched him for awhile letting him carry on.

"Buffy, is my dad really awake?" Conner didn't look at her when he asked, he seemed to more interested in one the wheels. Buffy knew how hard it had been for him, while his dad was in the hospital and all of sudden there was this strange woman looking after him. "Yeah buddy you dad is awake. I thought maybe you and I could go see him tomorrow?"

"Really? I've miss him" Conner turned to look at her, smiling at the thought of seeing his dad.

"I know you have. Now, why don't you clean up and take a shower?"

"Ok" Conner quickly placed all the pieces back in the box, before he headed to the bathroom to take a shower. Buffy smiled as she sat down and turned on the tv, waiting for Conner to finish up and then she would go in so he could do some reading.

A couple of minutes later, "Buffy, I am ready, I want to read a new story to you today". Buffy headed in to Conner's room and found him sitting on his bed with a book on his lap.

"Hey honey, what are we reading today?" Buffy sat down on Conner's bed next to him.

"Bea took me to the book shop and I got a new book" he held out the book to show to Buffy, "look it's called Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, I watched the movie with my dad and it was so funny"

"I bet it was" Buffy said as she leaned back and Conner curled up to her side, he opened the book to start reading.

"First of all, let me get something straight…"

After reading a couple of pages, Buffy encouraged Conner to put the book away, and that they would carry on the next evening. As Conner lay down in his bed, Buffy straightened his duvet and pressed a kiss to his forehead and whispered a quiet "good night".

"you promise, I will see my dad tomorrow?"

"I promise, buddy"

"Thank you, Buffy. Good night"

Buffy switched off his light and half closed the door, incase he needed anything in the night. She slowly walked over to Angel's room and changed into her Pjs before heading back to living room to watch a bit of trashy tv, before she headed to bed.