Title: Catch Me As I Fall 1?
Rating: G (for now)
Pairing: Bosco/Faith
Spoilers: If you haven't seen Season 6
Summary: Bosco is having panic attacks again but the only person that could help him is the only person that Bosco doesn't want to talk to. Will Bosco go over the deep end, or will Faith be able to help him before it's too late?
Disclaimer: I don't own Third Watch or it's characters.
Author's Note: This take place after Welcome Home, but anything after that doesn't happen here in the story. Thanks Jayne for her help! I know I have lot of stories to update, but I had to write this, lol.
Chapter 1
He was having the same nightmare that he has had for the past few months: he was running to catch a suspect but when he got there, his gun wouldn't go off, and is frozen, unable to move.
"Maurice, are you okay?" said a sleepy female voice. Bosco turned around to see the blond woman that he picked up from the bar the night before. He thought that after his shooting and the scar that was left on his face that he would never get a date again. But the women seemed to like the thought of him risking his life for somebody else, as though he seemed to be a hero for that, and for some reason they found that sexy.
"I'm fine, J…" Bosco said, trying to remember the woman's name.
"It's Julia." The woman said, as she looked at Bosco.
He looked at her oddly. "What?"
"I said my name's Julia," she said, with a smile. "You must have been really drunk last night."
Bosco sighed as he grabbed his clothes from the floor.
"You don't need to go now do you?" Julia said as she wrapped her arms around him.
He turned around to face her. "I have to go to work."
She leaned over and kissed his neck. "You told me that you don't have to work for another few hours. Come back to bed, Maurice," Julia said with a smile.
"Thanks for last night," Bosco said, as he quickly got dressed, grabbed his duffle bag and his jacket, and went towards the door. He was walking out of the room when Julia stopped him.
"Are you just going to leave like that?"
Bosco turned around. "Don't you make it out to be any more than it was."
"You know I thought you were a sweet guy, but you turned out to be a jerk. I think you should leave now." Julia said.
Bosco walked out of the apartment. "I'm…" But before he could say anything more, she had slammed the door shut on him.
Bosco walked away, feeling a bit of regret for what he had done. But he knew that in time, Julia wouldn't have wanted to be with him. Especially not when she saw the scars, he thought to himself, as he touched the bandage on his face.
He still remembered the look on Emily's face the day that he checked out of the hospital; it wasn't the look of shock on her face that he remembered, rather it was the look of sadness on her face, that her Uncle B was not the same person that he was months before.
Suddenly his cell phone rang. After taking the phone out his coat pocket, he looked at the caller id and saw that it was Faith. He wasn't in the mood to talk to her right now, as it seemed all they did now whenever they talk was shout at each other. It had been worse since she went to Swersky and told him everything about Bosco asking her to shoot for him, and how she believed that he had cheated.
'At least Swersky believed me when I told him that I didn't cheat. But he still wasn't sure that I was ready to be on the streets, so I have been on desk duty for the past month,' he thought to himself.
Bosco smiled slightly, as he remembered today was the day that he was going to be back on the street. He wondered if Swersky really believed that he was okay to be back on patrolling the street or if he was just getting tired of working on the desk all the time.
Bosco put his cell put his phone back into his pocket and left the apartment.
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Later that day,
Bosco walked into the locker room. "So are you still on desk duty?" Ty asked.
Bosco smiled. "No, the boss is finally letting me get back to doing my real job." Bosco said, as he opened his locker, and started to get changed.
"So, did you have a good time last night?" Ty said, with a grin. "Last I remember you were chatting up this blonde woman. Do you still have the Boscorelli charm?"
"Of course I do, did it ever go away?" Bosco said with a laugh. " I still have the charm, every woman likes me"
"Good to see that you haven't changed, Boz." Faith said, as she walked into the locker room. Ty looked at Bosco. "I see you in the roll call room," Ty said, as he hurried out of the locker room, not wanting to get into a middle of another one of Bosco and Faith's fight.
"I don't have time for this, I need to get to work," Bosco said, as he slammed the door of the locker shut.
Faith grabbed his arm. "We need to talk."
"No, we don't." Bosco said, as he let go of her grip.
"I called you earlier today." Faith replied.
"I know," Bosco said. "I didn't want to talk to you; I still don't." Bosco yelled.
"I know you are mad at me about going to Swersky, but I did it because I was worried about you."
"You were worried about me? Well, you certainly didn't care that I could have lost my job." Bosco yelled. "You told Swersky that you thought I cheated, that could have ruined my career, but you don't care do you?"
"I care more about your life than your career," Faith shouted, as she sat down on the bench.
"I told you that I didn't cheat, but you didn't believe me." Bosco shouted.
"You ask me to shoot for you, Bosco, and then all of sudden you can see all right to requalify. What am I suppose to think?"
"You know me Faith, you know that I wouldn't cheat."
Faith looked at Bosco. "I know you do stupid things when you are desperate, and you were desperate that night."
"Okay, Faith, I was desperate that night. But when you rejected me, I knew that I had to do it myself; you were the only one that I would trust to ask a thing like that, but never again."
Before Faith could say anymore, Ty walked into the room. "Bosco, you better get into the roll call room now, you are late, and Lieu is pissed."
"We aren't finished here, Bos." Faith said.
"Yes, we are." Bosco said, as he looked at Faith with this angry look on his face, as he stormed out of the locker room.
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While chasing after a suspect down an alleyway, Bosco suddenly heard a sound that sounded like a gunshot, and suddenly his world suddenly got darker as his chest got heavy. The suspect looked at Bosco, and started to run away.
Bosco couldn't breath, couldn't think, and could barely move. The noises around him were muffled and loud, hurting his ears. He skidded to a stop, and squeezing his eyes tightly closed as he dropped to his knees.
The world spun and moved around him, the sharp pain in his chest took him all the way to the ground. He could hear Sully's voice as he called out to him, but he couldn't answer.
He felt a hand on his shoulder, and he could hear Sully as he told him to calm down. Bosco gasped as he tried to breathe, as he tried to tell him how much it was hurting.
"Are you shot?" Sully asked. Bosco shook his head.
"Just try to breathe, Bosco," Sully said. Sully didn't know what to do. He remembered this happened to Bosco before, but that time Faith was there to help him, but unfortunately not this time.
"Just breathe," Sully repeated again.
"It hurts." He forced out the words, squeezing his eyes tighter as another sharp pain tore through his chest, "Hurts"
Sully called through his radio. " 55-David to Central. We have an officer down, we need ambulance at this location."
Sully looked at Bosco, as he could see that he was still in pain. "Just try and stay calm, help is on their way."
"Hurts… too much." Bosco said.
Sully placed his hand on his shoulder. "I know, it does."
Bosco tried to get up, but another sharp pain tore through his chest. He wanted to make it stop, but he couldn't. Sully watched as he saw Bosco in pain, he didn't know what he could do to help him. There weren't many times that he saw Bosco helpless like this.
"Central, where is the damn ambulance, we need help here now!" Sully said through this radio.
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Faith and Jelly were driving around when they heard the call about an officer down from 55-David.
"Oh my god, Bosco is working 55-David today." Faith said, as her face looked at Jelly in shock.
"I'm sure that Bosco is fine." Jelly replied.
"Well we need to go check it out." Faith said, as thoughts went through her mind of Bosco bleeding on the ground. She was so afraid of what was going to happen to him and now it was happening. But she wasn't going to lose him, as she had almost lost him once and she wasn't going to let that happen again.
"Faith, we aren't even anywhere near where they are." Jelly said.
"I don't care, Jelly. I'm going to go; you either come with me, or I drop you off right now." Faith shouted. Jelly knew that look on Faith's face that she meant what she said.
"Fine, I'll come with you, but I'm telling you that Bosco is fine, he might not even be the one that is hurt."
"I don't care who is hurt, we still need to check it out." Faith said, as they turned in the opposite direction they were going and went to where Sully and Bosco were. Faith just hoped that she got there in time.
As they were driving, all she could think about was Bosco and all the memories she had, both good and bad. She just hoped that the last conversation they had, was going to be the last thing that they said to every other. 'I can't think that way; he's fine,' she thought to herself.
Ten minutes later, they showed up at the area where Sully and Bosco were. Faith ran out of the car as fast as she could, as Bosco was put into the ambulance.
"Bosco…" she said, as she ran to his side. She didn't see any blood on him, so that was a good sign.
"What happened?" she asked. She looked into his eyes and could see the pain in his eyes. "Where are you hurt?"
"Just leave." Bosco said.
Sully walked up to Bosco and the paramedics. "Isn't there anything you can do to help him? Can't you see that he is in pain?" Sully said, his voice almost on the verge of yelling.
"I didn't know you cared, Sully." Bosco said, with a slight smile.
"I never said I cared about you, but I don't want to lose my partner for today," Sully said, trying to hide how worried he was about Bosco.
"Did you catch the suspect?" Bosco asked.
Sully nodded. "He's in the squad car right now. Don't worry about it; just get yourself better."
Faith looked at Bosco. She knew that he was in pain, but she didn't know why. "Just tell me what happened."
"Like I am going to talk to you, Faith." Bosco said, as he started to tense up.
The paramedic looked at Faith. "You aren't helping my patient here, you need to leave."
"I'll meet you at the hospital," Sully told Bosco.
Bosco nodded. "Thanks, Sul." Bosco said, as the paramedic closed the door to the ambulance and drove off.
Faith glanced at Sully. "What happened to Bosco?" Faith asked, as Sully walked back to the squad car.
He turned around to face Faith. " I don't know, Faith. One minute he was chasing after a suspect; the next minute the suspect was running past me, and I go back to where Bosco is. He looked like he was in pain, but he wasn't shot. I didn't know what was wrong with him at first."
Before Sully could say anymore, Faith stopped him. "He was having a panic attack wasn't he?"
Sully nodded. "Yeah, but I didn't know what to do. I tried to calm him down, but there wasn't much I could do."
"You did the best you could, Sully." Faith spoke softly.
Sully looked at Faith. "I really need to get my suspect to the station, and then I want to go and check up on Bosco."
"Thanks Sully." Faith said, as she watched as Sully got into the squad car and drove off.
Jelly then came up to Faith. "So is Bosco okay?"
"We need to go to the hospital, now." Faith said, as she hurried back to the car.
As they drove to the hospital, she remembered the first time that Bosco had had a panic attack and how she was there for him when he came to her that night and broke down in her arms. But she knew that there was no way that Bosco would let her help him again.
But that wasn't going to stop her from trying to help him this time, if Bosco would allow her to.
To be continued.