Sorry for the short chapter, but I should have more up soon :)

I don't own Third Watch, if I did, I wouldn't have cancelled it.

"I'll see you tomorrow ladies, be ready for another lesson in police work" I smiled glancing over my shoulder as I walked out of the locker room with my gym bag over my shoulder
"Whatever you say, Boscorelli" Stevens called back
"You're just jealous my friend" I said opening the door and not looking back. For the first time leaving work since working at the Five-Five, I wasn't just going home to watch some ESPN and have a few beers, or watch some discovery channel. I wasn't going to a bar to see if I could find myself a girl who'd give it up that night. Faith and I agreed that morning to meet at her apartment after work, I was looking forward to just spending time with her, time where we both weren't crying and apologizing about how we'd messed up in the past.

As I got in my car and drove towards her place my head was filled with thoughts, I kept picturing all the good times we had had together while working in Five-Five David, and how glad I was that we were finally moving on together. I was so lost in my thoughts I almost forgot I told her I'd bring some dinner by, so I went to the Chinese place down the corner from her place. As I reached her apartment my hands were full with my gym bag and the bag from the Chinese place, I knocked on the bottom of the door with my foot which I regretted immediately remembering that Emily probably had class in the morning and would be asleep.

"Hey Bosco!" Emily opened the door with a big smile. Guess she's awake I thought to myself
"Hey Em, how are you?" I smiled, it was the first I'd seen her in a while, I actually had only seen her once since the night I shot that frigged up vampire kid.
"I'm good" she smiled taking the bag of Chinese from my hand "How're you?"
"Can't complain…that Cashew chicken you like is in there, I didn't know if you'd be awake…"
"You remembered?"
I shrugged not wanting to let on, I've never been the type of person to remember things like that, but I knew Faith, Emily and Charlie like the back of my hand. As I put down my gym bag I looked her over head to toe once. Since I hadn't seen her much lately, I had forgotten how grown up she was getting.
"Where's your mom?"
"She just ran to the store quick….should be back any minute"
I nodded "Hope she's not getting dinner"

Emily set the table for the three of us to eat while I laid out the food for us

"Damnit" I rolled my eyes as I pulled my hand back quickly after cutting my finger on the takeout container
"Watch your language in front of my daughter, damnit"

I turned around to see Faith walking into the apartment with a smile on her face "Hey Faith" I smiled back then put my fingertip in my mouth to clean the cut
"You always had trouble with those things, you're like a little kid" she laughed as she helped me finish opening the container for me "I actually just picked up band aids" she emptied the bag onto the table. I glanced at its contents

"Cigarettes?"
She grabbed them quickly as if I hadn't seen them
"You're smoking again?"
"What?" She nervously asked even though I knew she heard the question
" I smelled it yesterday anyway" I said then smiled "See you aren't the only one who can play detective"
She smiled, obviously relieved I didn't give her a hard time. I'd rather she quit but it's not like I wasn't used to it, after all my mom's been smoking forever and although I don't smoke I'm certainly no angel.
"You should quit" Emily said with a mouth full of cashew chicken
"You shouldn't talk with your mouth open" Faith rolled her eyes with a smirk
"So how's BedStuy?" Emily asked ignoring Faith
"Eh, it's alright I guess" I answered honestly "Not the same though"
"Mom says the same thing" She looked at Faith who nodded "Yeah, I miss the Five-Five sometimes….I'm around there a lot lately though…it's depressing"
"Davis said the same thing" I said as she took a drink before she continued
"Yeah…everything we worked for there for all those years, crimes taking over there again"
"If they just let me go in there and decide who lives and who dies I could clean that place up real good…"
"You'll never change, Boz" Faith smiled
"Am I wrong?"
"Well other then the fact that mass murder's wrong, not at all" she laughed
"Technicalities"

Faith, Emily and I had a good time eating and talking with each other, after we cleaned up Emily went to bed, leaving me and Faith alone. Don't get me wrong, I love Emily like my own daughter, but I was glad she was out of our hair.

"You wanna go for a walk?" Faith asked with a smile as she came into the living room where I was flipping thru channels
"Sure….there's never anything on this damn basic cable anyway"
"Yeah well my divorce lawyer sucked me dry" She rolled her eyes
"That's how you paid him?"
She looked confused for a moment then realized what I meant "Grow up, Boz" she slapped my shoulder playfully as she picked up her purse and we headed for the door. We walked a few blocks to the park while talking about our days at work and telling each other about our new coworkers, as well as some of the stories we each had. It was weird to hear her telling me about some jagoff she arrested, since I was so used to being with her at work. We walked through the park and the conversation switched over to family and who we were still in touch with from the Five-Five.

"I promised Sully I'd swing by one day to see his new place, still haven't made it but I like the idea of no people around" she said
"Yeah, it's a nice place, but that no people thing is a big selling point…hey that reminds me, did you hear about this housewarming thing Davis and Monroe are having tomorrow?"
"Yeah….Davis invited me a few weeks ago"
"Are you going?"
"I might stop by, but I don't want to spend too much time in a room with Sasha she might rat me out if I have a cigarette or something"
I cracked a smile, but it quickly faded. I knew what Faith meant when she said it but it took a moment to sink in and for me to realize that Sasha could have landed Faith in jail in for what she did that day on the roof. What she did that day for me. Even though it didn't happen, just the thought of it physically hurt me
"Faith…."
"It's ok Bosco, what's done is done" She gave me a semi convincing look as we continued to walk. I took her hand in mine and squeezed it "I love you, Faith"
She stopped walking and turned to face me, her cheeks turning pink. She hesitated for a moment as if she was going to say something, before suddenly pressing her lips to mine.
"I love you" she said with a smile after she pulled away "I have for a while"
"Same here" I said and kissed her on the cheek "Longer then you can imagine"

We walked for about another half an hour before we went back to her apartment and watched some TV. When she rested her head on my chest I hoped she couldn't feel how much I enjoyed it. She fell asleep after a while and I realized just how crazy about her I was as I fought my own heavy eyes just to stay awake to watch her sleep and hear the sounds of her breathing. Finally I lost the battle and fell asleep.