Hello readers. This story came to me the other night when I was contemplating some events in my life. Most of the events that are happening/happened in this story are real, as were the conversations. Up to hhmmmm around almost half way, was what my Grandma told me what happened with Grandad, after that, is all what I had witnessed and did. I replaced myself with Brennan and came up with this. I hope you enjoy it and reviews are much appreciated. Please do not read if you are sensitive to brain tumours and stuff.

Every single day Booth worried it would come back. He worried that one day, he would wake up in a hospital bed. Booth was in the clear now. It had been more than 5 years after his brain tumour had been removed, meaning there was only a slight chance it would come back. He had read on the internet that there was under a 1% chance that it would come back. Life was good.

~*~

The doorbell rang in Brennan's apartment. She walked over to the door and looked through the peep hole. She jumped back when she saw an eye staring back at her. After regaining her composure Brennan looked again to see Booth smiling and holding a box of Thai food in his hands. Brennan grabbed her keys, unlocked the door and opened it.

"I got Thai" Booth wiggled his eyebrows. Brennan stood away from the door and waved Booth inside.

"What are you doing here Booth?" Brennan asked as Booth sat down on her couch.

"Not happy to see me Bones?" Booth raised his hands in the air with a hurt look on his face.

"I am…it's just that you usually call before you bring over Thai." She replied, sitting down next to him.

"Yeah I know. I just felt giving you a surprise." Booth leant back into the couch and closed his eyes…yeah all was well.

~*~

Brennan glanced over at Booth, he looked relaxed, almost like a massive weight had been lifted off his shoulders. She smiled inwardly, Booth's eyes were closed and his breathing shallow. She assumed he was just resting his eyes like he usually did so she started talking.

"You know with that case we were-" Brennan stopped when she noticed something was wrong. "Booth?" she shook his shoulder gently. Booth's head lolled to the side. Brennan lifted up his eyelid and was greeted by the whites of his eyes. Brennan knew the signs, she had read all about them…Booth was having a brain seizure. "Oh god!" Brennan grabbed her phone out of her pocket and dialled 991.

"991, state your emergency."

"Ambulance." Brennan replied to the automatic voice. While she was waiting to be put through to an operator, Brennan ran to her door and unlocked it. Even though it only took a few seconds to be hooked up to a operator it felt like it took forever.

"Ambulance what's the problem?"

"My- my partner, he's having a brain seizure." Brennan stammered.

"What's you're address please?" Brennan gave her address "an ambulance is on the way. Is you're door unlocked?"

"Yes" Brennan nodded.

"Is you're partner conscious?"

"No" She answered simply.

"Is he responsive?"

"Uuum just hold on." Brennan held onto Booth's hands "Booth squeeze my hands if you can hear me." Brennan swore under her breath when she felt nothing "wiggle you're toes Booth" nothing "open your eyes" Brennan was losing hope "come on Booth…say you're name anything." No response. "He's not responding."

"Is he breathing?" Brennan bent down and listened for breathing.

"Yes but it's very shallow." Brennan fought back the tears that were threatening to fall.

"I'm going to keep you on the line ma'am. I just want you to stay calm ok, the ambulance is on it's way."

"Ok." Brennan replied weakly. She kept checking Booth's breathing. "Oh god! Tell them to hurry please…he's stopped breathing."

~*~

"Ma'am do you know CPR?"

"Yes…but I seem to be having what Booth would call a mental blank." Brennan rushed out, moving Booth so he was lying on the floor.

"Can you put the phone on speaker?"

"Yeah." Brennan pressed a button on the phone and placed it on the floor.

"I'm going to talk you through this ok? Check his airways." Brennan opened Booth's mouth and checked for any foreign objects "check his pulse." She put her fingers on the side of Booth's neck.

"He's got no pulse." Brennan whimpered.

"Ok start with two breaths. Block his nose and blow 2 breaths into his mouth." Brenna complied and watched Booth's chest rise. "Now 30 chest compressions." Brennan once again followed her instructions and winced at the cracking noise that was emitted from his chest. "Breaking ribs is completely normal." The operator assured her "now 2 more breaths." Booth's chest rose with each breath she administered. Brennan began doing compressions again when she heard her door open.

"The EMTs are here." Brennan told the operator.

"Ok. I'm going to hang up now. Everything will be fine."

"Thankyou so much." Brennan said before she heard the dial tone. A female EMT took Brennan away from Booth as two other males worked on him. She sat her down and introduced herself as Von. When Brennan sat down, she realised she was shaking violently.

"Just relax ok." Von said slowly "breathe with me…in" she took a deep breath in "out" and breathed out. "I think it would be wise for you to call someone." Brennan looked at the clock on her wall- 8:24. Angela would be home.

"Ok." Brennan nodded and took her home phones off the hook. With shaky hands she dialled her best friend.

"Hey Sweetie" Angela answered after 3 rings.

"Booth had a brain seizure" Brennan said straight to the point, tears starting to run down her cheeks.

"What! Have you called an ambulance?!" Angela screamed.

"Yes I have, they're hear now."

"Oh my god! Oh my god! HODGINS!!!!!!!" Angela called out.

"Yeah?" Brennan heard Hodgins reply.

"We're going to the hospital."

"What? Why?"

"Booth had a seizure." Brennan heard a crash on the other end of the line.

"What hospital Ange?" Hodgins called out, rushing to throw on a coat and shoes.

"What hospital Bren?" Angela asked. Brennan put her hand on the mouthpiece.

"Excuse but what hospital are you taking him to?" Brennan asked Von.

"George Washington University Hospital" she answered automatically. Brennan told Angela where they were going then hung up. She looked over at Booth and saw him being lifted onto a stretcher and wheeled out of her door.

"Can I come please?" Brennan asked in a small voice.

"Of course." Von walked Brennan out of the apartment and into the awaiting ambulance outside.

~*~

Brennan sat in the waiting room wringing her hands. She had been waiting for over 8 hours. Angela and Hodgins had reluctantly left hours ago. When Booth was taken into the hospital, a receptionist was going to ring Rebecca to tell her about Booth's condition. Brennan convince the young woman to let her do it.

"Hello?" Rebecca answered groggily after 6 rings.

"Hello Rebecca, it's Dr. Temperance Brennan." Brennan identified herself. "I'm so sorry to be calling this late, but I need to tell you something."

"Mhhm" Brennan took a deep breath.

"You might want to sit down for this if you aren't already."

"What happened?" Rebecca was suddenly alert.

"It's Booth, he- he was over at my place and we were eating Thai and I don't know what happened or what triggered it but-" Brennan rubbed her temples "Booth had a brain seizure. He was unconscious and also unresponsive. He stopped breathing and didn't have a pulse. I performed CPR while waiting for the ambulance who then took over. The EMTs were able to resuscitate and stabilize him. He's currently in intensive care and is not allowed and visitors."

"Oh my god"

"Rebecca…they're not sure if he's going to make it through the night." Brennan fought back her tears.

"I'll- I'll be right there."

Brennan's head dropped into her hands. She was exhausted physically and emotionally. She was running on pure adrenalin and at least 15 cups of hospital coffee. Brennan's talk with Rebecca was one of the hardest things she'd had to do. Seeing the crushed look on her face when she told her that it was a sheer miracle Booth wasn't dead. After doing CT and MRI scans, the oncologist, Dr. O'Brien, informed them that Booth had a brain tumour the size of an orange on his left frontal lobe. It was larger and looked more dangerous than his first tumour. Brennan looked over at Rebecca who was sitting on the other side of the waiting room. She was holding Parker on her lap, stroking the boy's hair. She slowly looked up at Brennan and smiled sadly at her, she nodded back. It was going to be a long 4 hours wait.

4 hours later…

"Temperance and Rebecca, you may see Seeley now." Brennan and Rebecca stood up. Rebecca squeezed Parker's hand. The trio walked into Booth's ward and sat on the chairs next to his bed. Brennan felt the tears starting to well up, she looked over at Rebecca and Parker who were both crying. She took several deep breaths and controlled the tears, she had to be the strong one. Booth was hooked up to an IV, had an oxygen mask on and a heart monitor, also patches on his head monitoring his brain function. Out of the blue, Booth's body went ridged and his monitors made loud beeping noises.

"What's going on?" Rebecca stood up panicked.

"Mum?" Parker looked confused. Nurses came rushing into the ward and surrounded Booth.

"Rebecca come with me." Brennan grabbed Rebecca's and Parker's hand and practically dragged them out of the ward, not wanting them to see what she did. She took them into a small room adjoining the ward and closed the door behind her. Rebecca sat down on a chair and wailed. "Rebecca" Brennan crouched down in front of her "Rebecca look at me" she said sternly. She looked up and into Brennan's serious eyes. "I know this is hard, but you need to keep calm. For Booth's sake and Parker's" Brennan whispered and for mine, Rebecca nodded slowly. "I'm not very good at being a people person, but if you ever want to talk to me about anything, I'm a good listener." Rebecca sniffled, Brennan grabbed her hands and squeezed them "Booth will be fine…I swear."

Brennan, for the first time in her life, prayed for Booth.

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