Everything I Touch

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After watching the show tonight and realizing it's going to be a long time before I see another new episode I just needed to write this. I'll continue it later…I think.

Thoughts after Superheroes Pt. 2

Bosco's Point of View

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"You wanted to see me Boss?"

"This doesn't add up."

"What doesn't?"

"I'm trying to get this straight for the CO," Lieu points at the blackboard. "This is you. Right? This is Yokas. These are the guys shooting at you. This is Ross."

"Yeah, I think that's right."

"If the guys are shooting this way at you. Who shot Ross?"

I look from the blackboard to Lieu, and back to the blackboard. It can't be. I draw a line with my eyes from the position of Faith's RMP to mine and Ross's. I quickly glance at Faith's line of flight from her squad to where she met me behind the SUV. No way. It couldn't have been Faith. But there's no other explanation. At least not right now.

Without a word to Lieu I walk back into the locker room to get my jacket. I gotta get outta this place. I need to get as far away from here as possible. I'm on my way out. I'm walking past the command office. The lights are off except for one; the one just above the blackboard. I didn't want to go back in there, but something drew me to it.

I'm standing here alone in the semi-darkness of the command office with my arms crossed staring at this diagram. I retrace my steps. It's still so fresh in my mind it's like I'm back there on that street with the bullets flying past me. My heart's pounding as I think about it.

Faith saw me run. She covered me, so did Ross. I know Faith ran from her RMP to the SUV because she got there just after I did. She had her gun drawn, and she reloaded with a new clip. So, she had fired her gun. Of course she did. She was covering my ass.

There were three perps in front of the restaurant. I see them marked clearly on the blackboard. I don't know who shot which one. I just know they were shot. I was too busy running through the hail of bullets to look and see what was going on.

According to the diagram Ross shot this one. I point at the board as I run the situation through my head. Faith shot this guy. I point at another x on the board. Once again I retrace Faith's path from her squad.

She was running, and shooting toward the perps at the same time. They were shooting at me; she was covering me. Ross was on the other side, but was he in the line of Faith's fire? If she missed or shot wide would it have hit Ross? Wouldn't he have been behind the squad?

God. Did Faith kill Ross? I'm still staring at the board. None of this makes sense to me. I can see it. I can see how it could happen, but did it? Did Faith accidentally shoot Ross?

The more I think about it the more I try to figure out a way that it was someone else. Maybe one of the perps turned and got a shot off at Ross. Maybe it came from inside the restaurant. Hell, maybe Ross shot himself. He was pretty freaked out. I was pretty freaked out.

Could he have shot himself? Was it suicide? He said he'd been to counseling before and told them what they wanted to hear so they would clear him. Maybe he was so messed up that he thought it was the only way he was going to get out of it. God I don't know.

But what happens if it was Faith? She was only doing her job. She was covering me. Her glory-hog partner. Well, we weren't partners today, but once my partner always my partner. Could Faith have been wrong in her actions? Why did she protect me? I was such a jerk to her. I don't deserve her. I thanked her for being there today. I seriously think she has a lot to do with me still being alive.

God, everything I touch lately…