WHAT IF.......
WHAT IF...The only man you ever loved left for work and never came home?
WHAT IF...Even your closest friends didn't believer he was ever coming home?
WHAT IF...He came back and everyting you had been though in the past five years was erased from his mind?
WHAT IF...All he remebered was the man he used to be. Before you loved him. Before he loved you?
WHAT IF...He came back into your life and couldn't fathom loving you or the children you have together?
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO YOU? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM. IF HE NEVER REMEBERED YOU AT ALL?
Would you give up? Call it quits? Would you say good-bye to the only good thing you ever had in your life? Or would you make him see that love is worth the pain and the heartache. That after five years of tears of happiness and pain you won't give up on him. That love is worth a second chance. Especially yours and his.
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HOMECOMING
Seajae sat on the couch and drank the ice tea she had poured over four hours ago. Jimmy was her baby sitter tonight. It was terrible a thirty- two year old woman needed a baby sitter. She drank down the rest of her tea and got up. It was ten o'clock and Kim would be getting off soon.
"Go home Jimmy. I'm a big girl now. Go be with your family."
"You are my family Seajae. This is where I want to be."
"No it's not. Please. I just need some time alone." Seajae poured some more tea. "Please Jimmy. I haven't had any time to grieve or what ever I'm suppose to be doing. I don't want to sound like a bitch but get the hell out of my house and let me cry in peace."
"We just...."
"I know. You don't want the emotional reck of a freind to go off the deep end. I won't. Jimmy I know the chances of finding Bosco alive are slim to none even if y'all don't want to tell me. I'm the Zena Worrier Princess of Law Enforcement. Remember. I know when all the routes are exhausted." She hugged Jimmy and looked him in his intence blue eyes. "I promise I will not harm myself or anyone around me. I just want to be alone with my children and to grieve for thier father."
"Do you feel him?"
"What?"
"Do you feel him. Here with you?"
"Always."
"Then there's still hope. I trust this." Jimmy pointed to her heart. "So stop thinking with that right sided, pig headed, cop thinking head of yours."
"Maybe your right but please go home Jimmy. Maybe I want to run around naked and howl at the moon." He smile didn't quite make it to her eyes. "Go home and see your wife and kids. I'll be fine. Faith and Caleb are right next door if I need them."
"If your sure?"
"I'm positive. Now go." Jimmy did as he was told and Seajae locked the door and the whole would out behind him.
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Seajae sat staring at her wedding ring. Sully had picked it up from the jewlers a week ago. She couldn't bear to see the stones but tonight she needed their comfort. The four stones glistened in the light of the dimly lit room. She ran her finger over them. He was alive. She knew that in her heart but she wasn't sure what she expected if he ever came home. She knew he wasn't gone on purpose. She knew he'd be home if he had any say in the matter. Seajae closed her eyes and dreamed of the day he would come back to them.
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He stumbled up the steps. He was beat. It had been a long, hard day and all he wanted was a shower and about a week of sleep. He took the keys out of his pocket and opened the door. The stove light was a welcom sight. Throwing his keys on the counter he took off his jacket and hung it over the chair. The movement on the couch startled him and he reached for his off duty weapon and remembered he had left it...home? He wasn't sure. His mind was foggy and things wern't to clear. The figure on the couch stood up and stared at him.
"Bosco?" The woman was about 5'6, sandy blond hiar and a body that wasn't too bad. "Bosco!" She ran to him and dearly knocked him over. Hugging him tightly. "Oh god Bosco where have been?" He pushed her away.
"Who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing in my apartment?" His tone scared the woman he could tell. She stepped back.
"Bosco your so not funny." She looked at him. "Don't fool around. Not now."
"Who's fooling. I'll ask you again. Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?" He was seroius.
"I'm your wife."
"I don't have a wife." The woman reached to a jacked hung on a chair. "Keep your hands where I can see them." He reached into the jacket and pulled out a leather case. He flipped it open to reveal a detectives badge. Bosco looked at the ID. Seajae Boscorelli, detective, Special Victims NYPD 55 th precient. "Where the hell did you get this?"
"They gave it to me when I made Detective." She couldn't keep her hands from shaking. "I can call Faith. She can confirm everythig."
"You do that." She reached on the counter and picked up the phone and hit one botton. "No funny stuff."
"Yeah it's me. Can you guys come over here now?" Seajae watched Bosco. "Just get your ass's here now." She hung up the phone and headed to the door.
"Where are you going."
"To open the door. Faith will be here in like a second.:"
"She lives fifteen blocks away."
"No she doesn't she lives next door." A soft knock made him jump as the woman made her way to the door. She opened it and Faith and a man he didn't know came in.
"Bosco!" Faith hugged him. "Oh God Bosco. What the heck happened?" Faith's arms felt so good. It had been a lifetime since he had felt his best friends arms around him.
"Tell this woman to get the hell out of my house." He wispered seeing the man for the first time. "Who the hell is he?"
"My husband, Caleb." Bosco pushed away from her.
"Where's Fred?"
"Dead. God Bosco what happened." She looked into his eyes. They were void of all emotion. "This woman is your wife. The mother of your children."
"Kids. Fiath I saw you five hours ago. What the hell."
"What's the date?"
"September twenty third."
"The year Bos."
"2002."
"Bosco it's September 23, 2007."
"Five years from the day we met." Seajae had tears in her eyes. "We met five years ago today." She looked at Faith. "I need to get some air." She walked out the door to the patio leaving Bosco and Faith to watch her go and Caleb to follow.
"I'll check on her." Caleb followed her outside.
"This is nuts. I go for a walk and come back a couple of hours later and I have a wife and kids."
"Bosco you've been gone for a month. We gave up hope of ever finding you." She looked at her friend , He didn't seem like he starved or anything over the last month, He'd definatley had been taking care of himself.
"Faith this is isn't happening." He looked around the apartment for the first time. It seemed bigger and sings of Seajae and the children.
"She's your world Bosco. Seajae is like no woman you ever know. She brought you back from the edge you were tetering on five years ago. She made you the man you are now. Or were," Faith stroked his cheek and smiled. "We'll get you some help to remember." A door opened and a little girl with shiny black curly hiar and beautiful eyes stepped into the room. She rubbed the sleep out of them and they got wide.
"Daddy!" She squeeled hurling herself across the room. "Oh daddy." Flinging herself in his arms Bosco barley cought the bundle of energy. She showered his face with kisses. "I missed you daddy." Not kowing what else to to he hugged the baby. Tears threatened to fall as he smelled the freshly washed little girls sweet scent. Why couldn't he remember something the could melt his heart like the child in his arms? Or the woman who saved him from the brink. What had happened to him to make him forget?
WHAT IF...The only man you ever loved left for work and never came home?
WHAT IF...Even your closest friends didn't believer he was ever coming home?
WHAT IF...He came back and everyting you had been though in the past five years was erased from his mind?
WHAT IF...All he remebered was the man he used to be. Before you loved him. Before he loved you?
WHAT IF...He came back into your life and couldn't fathom loving you or the children you have together?
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO YOU? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM. IF HE NEVER REMEBERED YOU AT ALL?
Would you give up? Call it quits? Would you say good-bye to the only good thing you ever had in your life? Or would you make him see that love is worth the pain and the heartache. That after five years of tears of happiness and pain you won't give up on him. That love is worth a second chance. Especially yours and his.
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HOMECOMING
Seajae sat on the couch and drank the ice tea she had poured over four hours ago. Jimmy was her baby sitter tonight. It was terrible a thirty- two year old woman needed a baby sitter. She drank down the rest of her tea and got up. It was ten o'clock and Kim would be getting off soon.
"Go home Jimmy. I'm a big girl now. Go be with your family."
"You are my family Seajae. This is where I want to be."
"No it's not. Please. I just need some time alone." Seajae poured some more tea. "Please Jimmy. I haven't had any time to grieve or what ever I'm suppose to be doing. I don't want to sound like a bitch but get the hell out of my house and let me cry in peace."
"We just...."
"I know. You don't want the emotional reck of a freind to go off the deep end. I won't. Jimmy I know the chances of finding Bosco alive are slim to none even if y'all don't want to tell me. I'm the Zena Worrier Princess of Law Enforcement. Remember. I know when all the routes are exhausted." She hugged Jimmy and looked him in his intence blue eyes. "I promise I will not harm myself or anyone around me. I just want to be alone with my children and to grieve for thier father."
"Do you feel him?"
"What?"
"Do you feel him. Here with you?"
"Always."
"Then there's still hope. I trust this." Jimmy pointed to her heart. "So stop thinking with that right sided, pig headed, cop thinking head of yours."
"Maybe your right but please go home Jimmy. Maybe I want to run around naked and howl at the moon." He smile didn't quite make it to her eyes. "Go home and see your wife and kids. I'll be fine. Faith and Caleb are right next door if I need them."
"If your sure?"
"I'm positive. Now go." Jimmy did as he was told and Seajae locked the door and the whole would out behind him.
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Seajae sat staring at her wedding ring. Sully had picked it up from the jewlers a week ago. She couldn't bear to see the stones but tonight she needed their comfort. The four stones glistened in the light of the dimly lit room. She ran her finger over them. He was alive. She knew that in her heart but she wasn't sure what she expected if he ever came home. She knew he wasn't gone on purpose. She knew he'd be home if he had any say in the matter. Seajae closed her eyes and dreamed of the day he would come back to them.
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He stumbled up the steps. He was beat. It had been a long, hard day and all he wanted was a shower and about a week of sleep. He took the keys out of his pocket and opened the door. The stove light was a welcom sight. Throwing his keys on the counter he took off his jacket and hung it over the chair. The movement on the couch startled him and he reached for his off duty weapon and remembered he had left it...home? He wasn't sure. His mind was foggy and things wern't to clear. The figure on the couch stood up and stared at him.
"Bosco?" The woman was about 5'6, sandy blond hiar and a body that wasn't too bad. "Bosco!" She ran to him and dearly knocked him over. Hugging him tightly. "Oh god Bosco where have been?" He pushed her away.
"Who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing in my apartment?" His tone scared the woman he could tell. She stepped back.
"Bosco your so not funny." She looked at him. "Don't fool around. Not now."
"Who's fooling. I'll ask you again. Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?" He was seroius.
"I'm your wife."
"I don't have a wife." The woman reached to a jacked hung on a chair. "Keep your hands where I can see them." He reached into the jacket and pulled out a leather case. He flipped it open to reveal a detectives badge. Bosco looked at the ID. Seajae Boscorelli, detective, Special Victims NYPD 55 th precient. "Where the hell did you get this?"
"They gave it to me when I made Detective." She couldn't keep her hands from shaking. "I can call Faith. She can confirm everythig."
"You do that." She reached on the counter and picked up the phone and hit one botton. "No funny stuff."
"Yeah it's me. Can you guys come over here now?" Seajae watched Bosco. "Just get your ass's here now." She hung up the phone and headed to the door.
"Where are you going."
"To open the door. Faith will be here in like a second.:"
"She lives fifteen blocks away."
"No she doesn't she lives next door." A soft knock made him jump as the woman made her way to the door. She opened it and Faith and a man he didn't know came in.
"Bosco!" Faith hugged him. "Oh God Bosco. What the heck happened?" Faith's arms felt so good. It had been a lifetime since he had felt his best friends arms around him.
"Tell this woman to get the hell out of my house." He wispered seeing the man for the first time. "Who the hell is he?"
"My husband, Caleb." Bosco pushed away from her.
"Where's Fred?"
"Dead. God Bosco what happened." She looked into his eyes. They were void of all emotion. "This woman is your wife. The mother of your children."
"Kids. Fiath I saw you five hours ago. What the hell."
"What's the date?"
"September twenty third."
"The year Bos."
"2002."
"Bosco it's September 23, 2007."
"Five years from the day we met." Seajae had tears in her eyes. "We met five years ago today." She looked at Faith. "I need to get some air." She walked out the door to the patio leaving Bosco and Faith to watch her go and Caleb to follow.
"I'll check on her." Caleb followed her outside.
"This is nuts. I go for a walk and come back a couple of hours later and I have a wife and kids."
"Bosco you've been gone for a month. We gave up hope of ever finding you." She looked at her friend , He didn't seem like he starved or anything over the last month, He'd definatley had been taking care of himself.
"Faith this is isn't happening." He looked around the apartment for the first time. It seemed bigger and sings of Seajae and the children.
"She's your world Bosco. Seajae is like no woman you ever know. She brought you back from the edge you were tetering on five years ago. She made you the man you are now. Or were," Faith stroked his cheek and smiled. "We'll get you some help to remember." A door opened and a little girl with shiny black curly hiar and beautiful eyes stepped into the room. She rubbed the sleep out of them and they got wide.
"Daddy!" She squeeled hurling herself across the room. "Oh daddy." Flinging herself in his arms Bosco barley cought the bundle of energy. She showered his face with kisses. "I missed you daddy." Not kowing what else to to he hugged the baby. Tears threatened to fall as he smelled the freshly washed little girls sweet scent. Why couldn't he remember something the could melt his heart like the child in his arms? Or the woman who saved him from the brink. What had happened to him to make him forget?