Faith jogged quickly into the locker room. She was late; Fred was going on
a weekend camping trip with
Charlie's class at school and she had spent the morning trying to decide what they would need to take
with them. Emily was going to be staying with her grandmother so that meant Faith would have the whole
house to herself. She couldn't remember the last time that had happened and wondered if maybe she should tell Emily that she should stay home with her and they could do some mom and daughter things together on Sunday when she was off.
As she pushed the door open, thinking about what to do about this weekend, the first thing she saw was her partner bouncing on his toes with a huge grin on his face. Faith groaned.
"What is it Bosco?"
He smile got even bigger as he took a step side ways and then resumed his bouncing. "Nothing, nothing. Can't a guy just be happy to see his partner?"
She shook her head at him then glanced up at the clock. She had less than ten minutes before role call
and Bosco was already here and dressed. Something was up with him.
First, Bosco was never early--the man did not now the meaning of the word. Second, Faith knew that a beaming Bosco at the beginning of the shift could only mean that today was going to be unbearably long for her. She would be forced to listen to him chatter away about some insane thing while the whole time she would be silently resisting the urge to strangle him.
She rolled her eyes then went over to her locker and opened it. She had come in half-dressed to save time,
so now all she had to do was change her shirt and she would be ready.
Sully and Ty were at their lockers when she sat down on the bench in front of hers. She looked up and
caught Sully's twinkling eyes staring back at her.
"You better get it over with now or you're going to be hearing about it all shift. He was a half-hour
early today. I think he scared the crap out of the Lt. because he was so early," Sully whispered to her.
Ty grinned and turned to Bosco.
"So what's up Bosco?" Davis asked.
Bosco's grin wavered as he looked from Ty to Faith, then back to Ty. Then he shrugged his shoulders
slightly and cleared his throat.
"Nothing really…Umm so did you see that great game last night?"
Sully laughed and grinned at Faith. Ty looked at Bosco with a confused look, then he grinned at him.
"No, I had a date," Ty answered. Bosco pursed his lips and nodded his head at Ty. He looked like he wasn't sure about what he should say next. He bent down quickly and busied himself with tying his already tied shoe. Sully and Ty exchanged looks, then stood there for a moment longer just looking at Bosco.
Faith used the silence to pull her vest over her head and then pull her shirt on, and then she rummaged
through her locker in search of her gloves.
Faith could tell that whatever it was that Bosco was so hyped about, it was something that he wanted to be
kept off the House's gossip grapevine. As Faith ran to the bathroom, she became more interested in her
partner's odd behavior. Bosco was usually a loudmouth when it came to his lady of the week, so if this was something else and he didn't want everyone to know, the prospects of the coming shift where getting
better. Maybe she wouldn't have to endure stories of his love life after all.
When Faith stepped out of the stall, Sully and Ty were pulling on their jackets. Bosco was still fussing over the laces on his shoe. She couldn't help but laugh. He looked up, saw her, and froze.
"You know Charlie could probably teach you how to do that lace thing if you need help."
Faith bit back another laugh as she watched Bosco turn red and quickly pat the lace and stand up. Sully and Ty didn't feel the need to stop their laughter, however as they fled the locker room.
"Thanks for that," he said as he frowned at her.
"Hey, just one of the perks of the job."
She pulled her jacket from her locker and slammed the door. When she turned back around, Bosco was standing in front of her bouncing up and down on his toes again. He was looking at her with this strange look on his face; if she didn't know him better she would say that he was trying to think of something to say.
His nervous motion was driving her crazy; it reminded her of Charlie when he had too much sugar and he
couldn't keep still. She reached toward him and put a hand on his shoulder to force him to stand still.
"What do you need?"
Bosco looked confused, "Huh?"
Faith made a short up and down motion with her other hand then sighed.
"Bosco, I know you want something, so just spill it."
"Well…"
Why was he doing this to her, why was her partner acting like he was four? She could tell that whatever
he wanted to ask was just about killing him but he was playing dumb. She raised her hand off his shoulder and gave him a shove.
"Spill or I'm outta here."
"Okay, okay." Bosco took a step back, just out of range of her reach and then blew a breath out of his mouth. He looked away from her briefly. Then he focused his gaze a little to the left of her face so he could avoid her eyes.
Oh god this is serious. Bosco is nervous. What is it?
"Can I borrow Emily next weekend?" He mumbled.
Faith looked into the serious face of her partner and burst out laughing. Bosco got red again. She noticed
for the first time that even his ears turned a little pink and that just made Faith laugh harder. He had to
be kidding, borrow her daughter. What did he think she was, a library book?
But, Bosco wasn't laughing. In fact, he had retreated a little farther away from her and was again examining his shoe. He was serious. This thought made Faith clamp her mouth shut. Then her motherly
protectiveness took control over her as she took a step toward him.
"What the hell are you talking about Bosco?"
Bosco stepped back a step like he was afraid she was about to deck him and he needed some space to make a run for it. He held up his hand for a second and waved in her direction. She could only assume this was supposed to calm her down. Faith took a deep breath; he coughed then looked at his shoe again.
"Do you remember when I told you about Kristen?" He muttered quietly.
Faith tried to associate the name with the many stories she had listened to about the women in Bosco's
life. Kristen did sound familiar though. When she didn't answer right away, Bosco looked up at her.
"Jeez, Faith, don't you pay attention to me-."
Faith clenched her jaw and muttered, "Do you really want me to answer that Bosco?"
Bosco cleared his throat and shook his head nervously. "No not really." He shuffled his feet and then started again. "Well, Kristen is the girl I met a while back when you forced me to go see about my cough remember?"
Faith remembered Kristen now. She had been the nurse that had called him several times after he claimed he was fine.
"See, Kristen and I have been seeing a lot of each other lately."
Faith didn't remember him mentioning Kristen lately. Did she really tune him out when he wandered into some of his discussions about the women he was seeing?
"You have?" She was a little curious to what his early request had to do with this woman.
Bosco looked away from her. Okay that was weird, what was it with this one? Faith got the wild idea that
maybe this woman was more than just his current lady of the week. Was her partner getting serious about
a woman? This could get down right interesting.
"Well yeah, whenever we can get together, we do. Last night we got a late dinner in and then..." Bosco
stopped suddenly then rushed on quickly. "Anyway, she has a daughter that lives with her ex-husband in
California."
Daughter? Ex-husband? Didn't these terms usually make her partner turn and run in the other direction?
"Well Charity, that's her daughter's name, is coming to visit next weekend and I thought maybe Emily could come with us to the zoo or something?"
He said the sentence so fast that Faith just stared at him for a second to make sure she had actually heard
him say what she thought she had heard him say. He wanted to take her daughter to the zoo, with him and
some strange woman she had never met?
"What?" Was all that she was able to sputter. She had never heard of anything so…crazy.
"Umm…Charity...she is about Emily's age so I thought…"
"Bosco, are you actually asking me to lend you my first born child so you can score points with some
woman? Are you some kind of lunatic?" she yelled.
Bosco retreated from her sudden outburst but she followed him across the room until she had him
cornered near the door to the locker room. What in the world was going on his little head? Did he just think that she was going to turn over her daughter to him? The man that had on more than one occasion acted like a child himself?
"That really isn't what I meant," he mumbled.
"Well, that sure sounded like what you meant. So I'm going to give you thirty-seconds to explain what you did mean." She was staring at him and getting great pleasure watching him squirm under her glare.
Before Bosco could answer her, Sully came through the door. He glanced around the room when he caught sight of them, Faith stepped back from Bosco but continued to glare at him. Bosco cleared his throat and tried unsuccessfully to put his 'screw you' face on. Faith could tell that Sully wasn't fazed at all by his display.
"Don't let me interrupt, but you are both going to be late for roll call in about fifteen seconds," Sully
said quickly with a huge grin on his face. Sully then stepped back out of the room and they could hear his
booming laughter out in the hallway.
"Great, this is all we need," Faith said.
Bosco turned and grabbed the door. "See you in there," he told her as he turned and bolted from the room.
"We aren't done, Boscorelli!" she shouted after him.
****************************************
Bosco rounded the corner of the roll call room and scanned for a seat by himself. He was not ashamed to
admit to himself that he wanted to sit as far away from his partner as he possibly could. Faith on
mother-protect mode was enough to scare anyone. He grabbed a seat near the front and tried to pay attention to Christopher as he went over last shift bulletins and warrants.
Kristen hadn't really been that serious of a thing to Bosco when they had met. They had gone out to a
concert and had a good time. Then she surprised him when she kept calling him back. Most of the woman he dated didn't bother calling back even if Bosco called them first but Kristen had just kept dogging him. At first, this had bugged the hell out of him. Then she had convinced him to give her a chance.
Their dates were very casual and usually on the weekends so she could stay up and they could get
together after his shift. Most of the time they went to a late dinner, sometimes a movie. Recently however
Bosco had been trying to find more and more time for them to get together. He was really having a good time with her.
When the Lieutenant took the podium, Bosco sat up a little straighter in his chair and forced himself to
listen.
"Okay, listen up. Two heads up I want to warn you about. First is a gang of teenagers that are still on
the loose out there. They started a couple of days ago in the 23rd precinct. At first, it was simple things:
reckless driving and yelling out obscenities at people in the neighborhoods. Since then they have progressed and have moved out into other precincts. They have dirt bikes now and were seen throwing rocks into store windows. Then they took bats to police cars. I just got off the phone with a sergeant in the 48 that reported that they were throwing fire crackers in the units last night. Since it seems they have turned from harassing the general public and turned their attention to us, I want everyone to keep a close eye out for these guys and haul them in before they get too out of control."
Great a gang of wild teenagers on the loose, what were they--cops or babysitters?
Bosco glanced back over his shoulder at Faith. She was looking at him with a strange expression on her face. Bosco quickly looked back toward the podium. He could still feel her eyes; they felt like they were boring holes into his head. He was starting to regret ever bringing up his idea with Emily.
"Second, everyone knows that the 'Conference for a Better World' is meeting downtown. We have a request to send two units down to the Four Seasons where some of the European officials are staying. The FBI has received some reports that some of the protestors are going to turn violent when the meetings end tonight."
"Please not us. Please not us," Bosco muttered under his breath.
"55-Charlie and 55-David are the units that have been selected. Don't thank me and no you can't get out of
it."
Crap. The Lieutenant was looking directly at him. Bosco shook his head okay and tried to ignore the
snickering from somewhere behind him.
"Okay, everyone have a safe shift."
Bosco watched Christopher and the Lieutenant leave the room, then he turned to look for Faith. She was
Talking to Sully. Bosco made his way trough the chairs until he was standing behind Sully and looking at Faith. He was trying to tell if she was still mad. She looked okay, but he had learned in the past that sometimes Faith could hide her anger until she had a chance to fight back.
"Christopher told me that we have to check in with an Agent Wilkerson at the Four Seasons. He said it was something about wanting beat cops out front to help persuade them to look somewhere else for trouble."
"That doesn't make much sense, wouldn't FBI agents look more official than a couple of uniforms?" Ty
asked.
Sully and Faith both shrugged their shoulders. Faith looked up at Bosco and Sully turned to Bosco.
"We'll meet you over there," he said, then grabbed Ty's arm and hustled him out of the room.
"Faith, I wanted..." He wanted to explain. He didn't exactly know what he had done that was so terrible,
but he needed to say something.
"In the car," she said shortly, then turned and walked out of the room.
This is going to be a very long day, Bosco thought to himself as he followed his partner out of the
building.
**********************
Faith made it to the car first and pulled open the driver's door. If she was going to have to put up with
him today, by God, she was going to do the driving.
Bosco opened the passenger door and popped his head in for a second before sitting down. Faith started the car and turned toward the Four Seasons without even glancing at him.
"Faith, say something."
It almost came out as a whine and she realized that she really wasn't mad at him anymore, but was enjoying his display too much to tell him. She decided the best choice was to keep quiet and watch him try to dig himself out. Maybe she should have done this sooner for entertainment value alone.
"Faith, look, I just thought that Charity didn't know anyone here and Emily is really nice and maybe they
would get along. I haven't even said anything to Kristen yet, but if this freaks you out so much..."
He stopped and she glanced at him. He was shaking his head and she could tell that he was at his limit.
Faith had learned a long time ago that Bosco could only be pushed around for so long before he lost it,
then he usually reverted to being a jerk and saying something that was just down right mean.
Faith couldn't hold her curiosity about Kristen in any longer, so she decided it was time to let him off the
hook.
"It's okay, Bosco, you can come by tonight before Emily goes to her grandmother's and ask her if she wants to go."
Bosco looked stricken. Children were definitely not his strong suit and he tended to get along better with
Charlie than Emily anyway.
"Bosco, you are going to have to talk to her if you want to take her anywhere. You do realize that two
thirteen year old girls can be quite a handful right?"
"Yeah, sure," he answered her, but the look on his face told her that he hadn't even thought about trying to
control two pre-teens in a public place.
"So Kristen..."
He nodded but stayed quiet.
"Hey, if I'm going to loan you my daughter, the least you can do is tell me all about the new woman you have in your life. So how on earth did you meet someone that isn't frightened at the thought of you freely
meeting her child?" She was grinning at him now.
He shifted in his seat then turned to look at her.
"Why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Ask me that like you think the only way it would be possible for some woman to take me seriously would only happen because I had her chained up in my bedroom and was forcing her to?"
Faith burst out laughing. It took her several seconds and two turns to get herself under control.
"Okay, Okay. I have been seeing Kristen a lot lately. She's great, so when she said her daughter was coming to town and she asked me to meet her I told her sure why not? She doesn't live here but if Kristen wants me to meet her that's fine with me. It's not like I'm signing up to be a step dad or anything so don't worry about it." Bosco shifted back around in his seat, letting Faith know that he was done talking.
Faith looked over at her partner and decided that this was a subject that she definitely needed to drag more details out of him in the near future.
They pulled up near the front of the Four Seasons as Faith was pondering a way to get her partner to fill
her in about Kristen.
"Let's go to work," Bosco said as he opened the car door and stepped out.
Faith rolled her eyes at the back of his head and pulled open the door. She was suddenly hit with a
feeling of dread as she looked up at the beautiful hotel in front of her. She shook it off and followed
Bosco up the sidewalk to meet Sully and Davis at the steps of the front door.
To Be Continued…
Charlie's class at school and she had spent the morning trying to decide what they would need to take
with them. Emily was going to be staying with her grandmother so that meant Faith would have the whole
house to herself. She couldn't remember the last time that had happened and wondered if maybe she should tell Emily that she should stay home with her and they could do some mom and daughter things together on Sunday when she was off.
As she pushed the door open, thinking about what to do about this weekend, the first thing she saw was her partner bouncing on his toes with a huge grin on his face. Faith groaned.
"What is it Bosco?"
He smile got even bigger as he took a step side ways and then resumed his bouncing. "Nothing, nothing. Can't a guy just be happy to see his partner?"
She shook her head at him then glanced up at the clock. She had less than ten minutes before role call
and Bosco was already here and dressed. Something was up with him.
First, Bosco was never early--the man did not now the meaning of the word. Second, Faith knew that a beaming Bosco at the beginning of the shift could only mean that today was going to be unbearably long for her. She would be forced to listen to him chatter away about some insane thing while the whole time she would be silently resisting the urge to strangle him.
She rolled her eyes then went over to her locker and opened it. She had come in half-dressed to save time,
so now all she had to do was change her shirt and she would be ready.
Sully and Ty were at their lockers when she sat down on the bench in front of hers. She looked up and
caught Sully's twinkling eyes staring back at her.
"You better get it over with now or you're going to be hearing about it all shift. He was a half-hour
early today. I think he scared the crap out of the Lt. because he was so early," Sully whispered to her.
Ty grinned and turned to Bosco.
"So what's up Bosco?" Davis asked.
Bosco's grin wavered as he looked from Ty to Faith, then back to Ty. Then he shrugged his shoulders
slightly and cleared his throat.
"Nothing really…Umm so did you see that great game last night?"
Sully laughed and grinned at Faith. Ty looked at Bosco with a confused look, then he grinned at him.
"No, I had a date," Ty answered. Bosco pursed his lips and nodded his head at Ty. He looked like he wasn't sure about what he should say next. He bent down quickly and busied himself with tying his already tied shoe. Sully and Ty exchanged looks, then stood there for a moment longer just looking at Bosco.
Faith used the silence to pull her vest over her head and then pull her shirt on, and then she rummaged
through her locker in search of her gloves.
Faith could tell that whatever it was that Bosco was so hyped about, it was something that he wanted to be
kept off the House's gossip grapevine. As Faith ran to the bathroom, she became more interested in her
partner's odd behavior. Bosco was usually a loudmouth when it came to his lady of the week, so if this was something else and he didn't want everyone to know, the prospects of the coming shift where getting
better. Maybe she wouldn't have to endure stories of his love life after all.
When Faith stepped out of the stall, Sully and Ty were pulling on their jackets. Bosco was still fussing over the laces on his shoe. She couldn't help but laugh. He looked up, saw her, and froze.
"You know Charlie could probably teach you how to do that lace thing if you need help."
Faith bit back another laugh as she watched Bosco turn red and quickly pat the lace and stand up. Sully and Ty didn't feel the need to stop their laughter, however as they fled the locker room.
"Thanks for that," he said as he frowned at her.
"Hey, just one of the perks of the job."
She pulled her jacket from her locker and slammed the door. When she turned back around, Bosco was standing in front of her bouncing up and down on his toes again. He was looking at her with this strange look on his face; if she didn't know him better she would say that he was trying to think of something to say.
His nervous motion was driving her crazy; it reminded her of Charlie when he had too much sugar and he
couldn't keep still. She reached toward him and put a hand on his shoulder to force him to stand still.
"What do you need?"
Bosco looked confused, "Huh?"
Faith made a short up and down motion with her other hand then sighed.
"Bosco, I know you want something, so just spill it."
"Well…"
Why was he doing this to her, why was her partner acting like he was four? She could tell that whatever
he wanted to ask was just about killing him but he was playing dumb. She raised her hand off his shoulder and gave him a shove.
"Spill or I'm outta here."
"Okay, okay." Bosco took a step back, just out of range of her reach and then blew a breath out of his mouth. He looked away from her briefly. Then he focused his gaze a little to the left of her face so he could avoid her eyes.
Oh god this is serious. Bosco is nervous. What is it?
"Can I borrow Emily next weekend?" He mumbled.
Faith looked into the serious face of her partner and burst out laughing. Bosco got red again. She noticed
for the first time that even his ears turned a little pink and that just made Faith laugh harder. He had to
be kidding, borrow her daughter. What did he think she was, a library book?
But, Bosco wasn't laughing. In fact, he had retreated a little farther away from her and was again examining his shoe. He was serious. This thought made Faith clamp her mouth shut. Then her motherly
protectiveness took control over her as she took a step toward him.
"What the hell are you talking about Bosco?"
Bosco stepped back a step like he was afraid she was about to deck him and he needed some space to make a run for it. He held up his hand for a second and waved in her direction. She could only assume this was supposed to calm her down. Faith took a deep breath; he coughed then looked at his shoe again.
"Do you remember when I told you about Kristen?" He muttered quietly.
Faith tried to associate the name with the many stories she had listened to about the women in Bosco's
life. Kristen did sound familiar though. When she didn't answer right away, Bosco looked up at her.
"Jeez, Faith, don't you pay attention to me-."
Faith clenched her jaw and muttered, "Do you really want me to answer that Bosco?"
Bosco cleared his throat and shook his head nervously. "No not really." He shuffled his feet and then started again. "Well, Kristen is the girl I met a while back when you forced me to go see about my cough remember?"
Faith remembered Kristen now. She had been the nurse that had called him several times after he claimed he was fine.
"See, Kristen and I have been seeing a lot of each other lately."
Faith didn't remember him mentioning Kristen lately. Did she really tune him out when he wandered into some of his discussions about the women he was seeing?
"You have?" She was a little curious to what his early request had to do with this woman.
Bosco looked away from her. Okay that was weird, what was it with this one? Faith got the wild idea that
maybe this woman was more than just his current lady of the week. Was her partner getting serious about
a woman? This could get down right interesting.
"Well yeah, whenever we can get together, we do. Last night we got a late dinner in and then..." Bosco
stopped suddenly then rushed on quickly. "Anyway, she has a daughter that lives with her ex-husband in
California."
Daughter? Ex-husband? Didn't these terms usually make her partner turn and run in the other direction?
"Well Charity, that's her daughter's name, is coming to visit next weekend and I thought maybe Emily could come with us to the zoo or something?"
He said the sentence so fast that Faith just stared at him for a second to make sure she had actually heard
him say what she thought she had heard him say. He wanted to take her daughter to the zoo, with him and
some strange woman she had never met?
"What?" Was all that she was able to sputter. She had never heard of anything so…crazy.
"Umm…Charity...she is about Emily's age so I thought…"
"Bosco, are you actually asking me to lend you my first born child so you can score points with some
woman? Are you some kind of lunatic?" she yelled.
Bosco retreated from her sudden outburst but she followed him across the room until she had him
cornered near the door to the locker room. What in the world was going on his little head? Did he just think that she was going to turn over her daughter to him? The man that had on more than one occasion acted like a child himself?
"That really isn't what I meant," he mumbled.
"Well, that sure sounded like what you meant. So I'm going to give you thirty-seconds to explain what you did mean." She was staring at him and getting great pleasure watching him squirm under her glare.
Before Bosco could answer her, Sully came through the door. He glanced around the room when he caught sight of them, Faith stepped back from Bosco but continued to glare at him. Bosco cleared his throat and tried unsuccessfully to put his 'screw you' face on. Faith could tell that Sully wasn't fazed at all by his display.
"Don't let me interrupt, but you are both going to be late for roll call in about fifteen seconds," Sully
said quickly with a huge grin on his face. Sully then stepped back out of the room and they could hear his
booming laughter out in the hallway.
"Great, this is all we need," Faith said.
Bosco turned and grabbed the door. "See you in there," he told her as he turned and bolted from the room.
"We aren't done, Boscorelli!" she shouted after him.
****************************************
Bosco rounded the corner of the roll call room and scanned for a seat by himself. He was not ashamed to
admit to himself that he wanted to sit as far away from his partner as he possibly could. Faith on
mother-protect mode was enough to scare anyone. He grabbed a seat near the front and tried to pay attention to Christopher as he went over last shift bulletins and warrants.
Kristen hadn't really been that serious of a thing to Bosco when they had met. They had gone out to a
concert and had a good time. Then she surprised him when she kept calling him back. Most of the woman he dated didn't bother calling back even if Bosco called them first but Kristen had just kept dogging him. At first, this had bugged the hell out of him. Then she had convinced him to give her a chance.
Their dates were very casual and usually on the weekends so she could stay up and they could get
together after his shift. Most of the time they went to a late dinner, sometimes a movie. Recently however
Bosco had been trying to find more and more time for them to get together. He was really having a good time with her.
When the Lieutenant took the podium, Bosco sat up a little straighter in his chair and forced himself to
listen.
"Okay, listen up. Two heads up I want to warn you about. First is a gang of teenagers that are still on
the loose out there. They started a couple of days ago in the 23rd precinct. At first, it was simple things:
reckless driving and yelling out obscenities at people in the neighborhoods. Since then they have progressed and have moved out into other precincts. They have dirt bikes now and were seen throwing rocks into store windows. Then they took bats to police cars. I just got off the phone with a sergeant in the 48 that reported that they were throwing fire crackers in the units last night. Since it seems they have turned from harassing the general public and turned their attention to us, I want everyone to keep a close eye out for these guys and haul them in before they get too out of control."
Great a gang of wild teenagers on the loose, what were they--cops or babysitters?
Bosco glanced back over his shoulder at Faith. She was looking at him with a strange expression on her face. Bosco quickly looked back toward the podium. He could still feel her eyes; they felt like they were boring holes into his head. He was starting to regret ever bringing up his idea with Emily.
"Second, everyone knows that the 'Conference for a Better World' is meeting downtown. We have a request to send two units down to the Four Seasons where some of the European officials are staying. The FBI has received some reports that some of the protestors are going to turn violent when the meetings end tonight."
"Please not us. Please not us," Bosco muttered under his breath.
"55-Charlie and 55-David are the units that have been selected. Don't thank me and no you can't get out of
it."
Crap. The Lieutenant was looking directly at him. Bosco shook his head okay and tried to ignore the
snickering from somewhere behind him.
"Okay, everyone have a safe shift."
Bosco watched Christopher and the Lieutenant leave the room, then he turned to look for Faith. She was
Talking to Sully. Bosco made his way trough the chairs until he was standing behind Sully and looking at Faith. He was trying to tell if she was still mad. She looked okay, but he had learned in the past that sometimes Faith could hide her anger until she had a chance to fight back.
"Christopher told me that we have to check in with an Agent Wilkerson at the Four Seasons. He said it was something about wanting beat cops out front to help persuade them to look somewhere else for trouble."
"That doesn't make much sense, wouldn't FBI agents look more official than a couple of uniforms?" Ty
asked.
Sully and Faith both shrugged their shoulders. Faith looked up at Bosco and Sully turned to Bosco.
"We'll meet you over there," he said, then grabbed Ty's arm and hustled him out of the room.
"Faith, I wanted..." He wanted to explain. He didn't exactly know what he had done that was so terrible,
but he needed to say something.
"In the car," she said shortly, then turned and walked out of the room.
This is going to be a very long day, Bosco thought to himself as he followed his partner out of the
building.
**********************
Faith made it to the car first and pulled open the driver's door. If she was going to have to put up with
him today, by God, she was going to do the driving.
Bosco opened the passenger door and popped his head in for a second before sitting down. Faith started the car and turned toward the Four Seasons without even glancing at him.
"Faith, say something."
It almost came out as a whine and she realized that she really wasn't mad at him anymore, but was enjoying his display too much to tell him. She decided the best choice was to keep quiet and watch him try to dig himself out. Maybe she should have done this sooner for entertainment value alone.
"Faith, look, I just thought that Charity didn't know anyone here and Emily is really nice and maybe they
would get along. I haven't even said anything to Kristen yet, but if this freaks you out so much..."
He stopped and she glanced at him. He was shaking his head and she could tell that he was at his limit.
Faith had learned a long time ago that Bosco could only be pushed around for so long before he lost it,
then he usually reverted to being a jerk and saying something that was just down right mean.
Faith couldn't hold her curiosity about Kristen in any longer, so she decided it was time to let him off the
hook.
"It's okay, Bosco, you can come by tonight before Emily goes to her grandmother's and ask her if she wants to go."
Bosco looked stricken. Children were definitely not his strong suit and he tended to get along better with
Charlie than Emily anyway.
"Bosco, you are going to have to talk to her if you want to take her anywhere. You do realize that two
thirteen year old girls can be quite a handful right?"
"Yeah, sure," he answered her, but the look on his face told her that he hadn't even thought about trying to
control two pre-teens in a public place.
"So Kristen..."
He nodded but stayed quiet.
"Hey, if I'm going to loan you my daughter, the least you can do is tell me all about the new woman you have in your life. So how on earth did you meet someone that isn't frightened at the thought of you freely
meeting her child?" She was grinning at him now.
He shifted in his seat then turned to look at her.
"Why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Ask me that like you think the only way it would be possible for some woman to take me seriously would only happen because I had her chained up in my bedroom and was forcing her to?"
Faith burst out laughing. It took her several seconds and two turns to get herself under control.
"Okay, Okay. I have been seeing Kristen a lot lately. She's great, so when she said her daughter was coming to town and she asked me to meet her I told her sure why not? She doesn't live here but if Kristen wants me to meet her that's fine with me. It's not like I'm signing up to be a step dad or anything so don't worry about it." Bosco shifted back around in his seat, letting Faith know that he was done talking.
Faith looked over at her partner and decided that this was a subject that she definitely needed to drag more details out of him in the near future.
They pulled up near the front of the Four Seasons as Faith was pondering a way to get her partner to fill
her in about Kristen.
"Let's go to work," Bosco said as he opened the car door and stepped out.
Faith rolled her eyes at the back of his head and pulled open the door. She was suddenly hit with a
feeling of dread as she looked up at the beautiful hotel in front of her. She shook it off and followed
Bosco up the sidewalk to meet Sully and Davis at the steps of the front door.
To Be Continued…