Chapter 2- Mistake

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Sully shrugged, "I thought you liked it that way." He mumbled, walking towards the alley, leaving Ty and Faith, to deal with Bosco.

Bosco sighed, "Come on. Cant we just shoot up the windows? That'd be so much easier."

Ty grinned, and patted Bosco on the shoulder, "Be a good little boy, and we'll buy you dinner." He said.

Bosco hissed, "Screw you!" as Faith smiled at him, and followed Ty, to where Sully was.

"Dinner? Hmm, maybe this could work." Bosco took a deep breath, and walked towards the man.

"Sir," The man looked, when Bosco addressed him this way.

"Probe em?" The man slurred, as Bosco cringed.

"Have you been drinking, Sir?" he asked, standing in front of him now.

The man shook his head, almost dropping the box. Bosco hoped there wasn't anything in it, because, this guy was a klutz.

"Sir, put your hands on the car, and spread your legs." He ordered, getting bored with the situation.

The man fell forward, as Bosco frisked him.

Faith and Ty grinned, "Think his day could get any better than this?" Ty whispered, as Faith looked at the ground, "Hopefully. Cause I'm the one who'll have to deal with him, if not."

Ty nodded, "Good point."

Bosco looked around, as the man tried walking in a straight line.

People were gathering around, watching them. Bosco secretly wished that someone would shoot him, right now.

"Sir, I'm gonna ask you again, have you been drinking?"

The man looked up at him, with a confused face, "Whatsmat?"

Bosco puffed, "Are you asking me?" He took out his cuffs, "You're under arrest-"

The man panicked. He slammed Bosco into the car, knocking the wind out of him.

When Bosco went to stand, the man threw himself inside of the car, and sped away.

"Shit!" Bosco screamed, as Ty helped him up. He shook him off.

"See! This is what happens when you give people a chance!" He shot an angry look at Sully, as he cursed, on his way back to the rmp.

Faith shrugged, "We tried, Sull. Maybe what you saw was nothing?" She said, getting into the passenger side. Bosco was beeping the horn repeatedly.

Sully watched them pull away, and looked at Ty. "Something's up with that box. I'm gonna find out what it is."

Ty nodded, "Yeah. Just, um, next time you decide to call Bosco, remind me to shoot you, before you actually do. Ok?" He sighed, and got into their car.

Sully stared for a moment, towards the direction where the man had gone.

"Whatever he's planning, I'm gonna stop him." He got inside the car, looked around for traffic, and, pulled off.

Bosco slammed the door shut, as they got out at an apartment complex.

He saw Jimmy, and the other fire fighters, already there.

"I thought we didn't have to work today." He mumbled, as Faith gave him a strange look.

"Boz, it's a holiday, we especially have to work." Bosco pouted, as they made their way towards some women, who were standing on the sidewalk.

"Ma'am, can you tell us what happened here?" Bosco asked, not really caring, but, he knew he had to at least pretend to.

The one woman had a hand to her mouth, "Some guy. He.." She stopped talking, when a stretcher was brought by.

"My baby!" she screamed, and ran with Kim and Doc, towards the bus.

Bosco sighed, scratched the back of his head, and, looked at the other woman.

"Let's try this again." He said under his breath.

"Ma'am, did you see anything? Anything or anyone, at all?"

this woman, stared at him. Bosco threw his hands up, "I'm trying the men. Maybe I can get something out of them."

Faith looked after him, as he walked away.

"Ok, your friend said she saw a man. Can you give me any more details? What did he look like, what was he wearing.did he say, or scream anything?" She asked, and the woman nodded.

"Something about fireworks." Faith sighed, at her answer.

"Ok, what else.." She took a couple notes down in the note pad.

The woman looked at the notepad, "he was big. Um, bald maybe?" Faith looked up from her writing.

"Are you asking me, ma'am?"

Bosco kicked the sidewalk, as the man he was talking to, tried remembering what he saw.

"Guy, big. Bald. Um.." Bosco groaned, "That's half the precinct."

"Yo, Bosco." Sully and Bosco exchanged looks, as Ty joined them.

"All I'm getting is a big guy. Bald." Sully glanced at Bosco, then back to the witness.

"What kind of car did he have?" Ty asked, and the witness looked at him now.

"Beat up. Oldsmobile." Bosco froze at the answer.

"That guy." Sully and Ty stared at him, strangely.

Bosco smacked his head, "That idiot we tried getting just a bit ago. He had a beat up Oldsmobile." Sully's eyes got big.

"I knew it."

Faith thanked the woman for her help, shook her head, and, rejoined her partner.

"Hey." She greeted Sully and Ty.

"That idiot I tried arresting earlier, is our guy." Bosco informed her.

Faith didn't understand, "How is he the guy?"

Ty sighed, "He was driving the getaway car. Two guys, Bosco's witness, and ours," Ty pointed to a tall black guy over on the other side of the street, "Said they saw an Oldsmobile."

Faith nodded, "All I got is big and bald."

Bosco ran a hand down his face, "Shit!" he knew he had screwed up. Especially since, any other perp that would have sped away, they would have gone after.

Bosco, had let this guy go. Now, there was an apartment complex on fire, and, god only knew, what this man, was planning next.