Help? I don't know why this is doing this, but it is..if you know what I can do to fix this please tell me, I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

Carlie, and Harlie decided to catch a ride together and let James, and Alexander go with Bosco, Michael, McKenzie, Luke, and Rachel. Walking down the stairs to leave they noticed Faith sitting next to the fireplace looking over paper work, and the notes Harlie had typed up from the meeting.

"Faith? Why aren't you going?"

"I need to get this done."

"Fun, remember? It was your idea." Carlie said as Harlie shook her head making a silly face trying to make Faith laugh.

"You two go have fun, I'll be all right."

"Faith Yokas, I'm not leaving this house until your walking out that door with me, and if I have to call the others back to get your butt to that club, so be it. Of course I'm quite sure Harlie, and myself could get you there. I don't suggest going in your night clothes though, you won't fit in."

Faith was aware that she couldn't talk her way out of this. Carlie would not budge from where she stood if Faith didn't go. Not wanting to ruin everyone else's evening she went to her room to get ready.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The music vibrated the ground as they walked across the street to the building with the words "Star Dust" written in neon purple. Reaching the door each was asked for ID, but when the bouncer was going to give Carlie a hard time due to the fact that she wasn't twenty one yet Faith once again stepped up and talked with the man blocking the door way. Without speaking another word he smiled and let them pass without protest.

"What did you say to him Faith?"

"Nothing, I showed him my badge and told him it was police business, and our partners were already inside."

"Isn't that lying?"

"Not technically, we are police officers, and our partners are in here, somewhere." She replied with a laugh.

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"Isn't that them now?" Alexander asked James.

Looking in the direction Alexander was pointing his attention caught sight of a side of Carlie he had yet been introduced to. She sauntered towards the table in a silk spaghetti strap dress that faded from purple into black and stopped inches above her knees. Her hair was fixed in a twist and a few strands fell around her face accenting her crystal blue eyes. His thoughts drifted back to early morning and the argument they had had about her being young. That she was being all of nineteen, yet she was also far beyond her years, more so than he had thought. He wasn't sure if it was the guilt building in his stomach or the fact that she was walking in a straight line with him. He hated feeling vulnerable and that is something she was making well sure of with every step.

"That is definitely them." He replied after a moment of silence.

"Where's Bosco?" faith questioned after sitting down at the table next to McKenzie who was waiting for her drink. "He's on the dance floor with a pretty blonde." Michael replied, speaking loudly to be heard over the music. "Does he do that often?" McKenzie asked.

"He has always been a sucker for blondes."

"Is that why you've been his partner for so long?" Luke asked

"He could care less of me in the dating pool, I was married the years we were on patrol." She replied looking over at the young man who sat across from her.

"Why are you all sitting here? Didn't we come to dance? In the past twenty four hours we did enough sitting, get goin'." Faith said standing to let the others out of the booth they were occupying. Harlie walked over and sat across from Faith after she sat down and slid a napkin in her direction.

'Why are you not taking your own advice?'

Faith looked at the young woman across from her and smiled weakly.

'I'm sure if you asked Maurice to dance he would.'

"I'm gonna get a drink, and then maybe I'll go bother him."

Harlie looked at her and mouthed, "you better, or I'll have to dance with ya." The young woman stood with a smile before turning and walking over to Alexander.

Faiths attention drifted to the dance floor where she could see Bosco now dancing with two blondes. Just by the way he held on to them she knew it was intentional. He was aware she would be there, and would see him. It was in a way how Bosco was, always had been. He knew though that she would deal with his attitude like she always did. At the moment he didn't care, but knew he would regret it later on.

He was being the Bosco that was her partner for all those years. The years when he couldn't get to her because she had Fred, and her kids. He was just her partner and nothing more, than the man she would work with every day from three to eleven.

He looked over at her sitting at the table by herself and her eyes didn't shy away, they just seemed to lock with his. He seemed almost sad, alone, even with being surrounded by people. Faith knew the man dancing with the two blondes wasn't the same man who she saw in the hotel in Hampton only days before. The man who got the blonde she was sure he was going to take to his room, a room of her own out of respect do to the fact that she could barely walk without holding on to him. He was trying his best to be the arrogant cop she had met years ago in the academy, but that Bosco had disappeared the same day she had, in Nobles hotel room.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

James leaned against the bar next to Carlie and stood in silence for a while as he watched the people on the dance floor. When the music faded into a slower song he leaned closer to her. "Would this beautiful young lady like to dance?"

"This little girl would like to drink her root beer alone on this bench. Thank you very much Mr. Gadget." She retorted. "May I please have this dance, Ms. Hope?" She figured he would ask until the song ended so she looked up into he chocolate brown eyes and with a smirk replied. "Humor me Mr. Syler." As she placed her small hand in his out reached palm.

They danced for a while in silence and at arms length until Carlie got bumped into unexpectedly and pushed up against James. "I'm sorry," he whispered into her ear. Looking up at him she smiled. "It's all right, I wasn't very kind either, and so I should be apologizing too. I just don't like being considered a little kid, especially since I've been working for the FBI since I was all of thirteen."

"Thirteen? You really did start out young." He said sounding shocked. He hadn't realized he had said something that bad, but after hearing when she started in the 'business' he wanted to kick himself just for bringing something like that up.

"I really had no idea Carlie…" He started, but his voice was hushed when her fingers brushed his lips and she rested her head on his shoulder. They danced in a comfortable silence for the rest of the song.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Star Dust"

"Excuse me?"

"The night club Star Dust, David called in and reported three women police officers entering the club to meet with their partners."

"Not very smart of them, I'd say. However I think we should pay them a visit, don't you?"

"Well, Stephan if you wish to dance I would suggest no better place than Star." The dark haired butler said as he held out the car keys, and gun to his young master.

"I suppose you wanted to take then BMW, it is waiting out front for its driver."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Finishing her drink Faith turned to leave, stopping abruptly at an out stretched hand and Bosco looking at her. "Dance with me Faith." His words echoing through her mind, an all too familiar sadness now evident in his voice. Faith placed her own hand in his out stretched hand and let him lead her onto the crowded dance floor. The techno song that had been playing faded into a more soothing instrumental flow of a slow dance. Turning her in a slow spin he slipped his hands around her waits and pulled her closer to him.

"You give up the pretty blondes that easily. Not something the Bosco I know would do, are you feeling all right?"

"I can't dance with my partner?"

Faiths eyes locked on Bosco's abruptly, her face seeming almost expressionless as she stopped dancing. "I suppose it would be quiet rude of me to say you chose your partner… three years ago." Turning she walked away slipping through the crowd and out the door.

"Do you really think that I don't know my mistakes? You think I wanted what happened that night to have happened at all? If I could take that burden away from you Faith, I would. I would take the memory, the pain, the nightmare and scares. I would make them mine, because it was me who deserved them… not you. I would love to go back and change the whole situation, but I can't. I replay that moment in my mind every time I close my eyes, as I'm sure you do the same. I hear Cruz in Nobles room, your mumbled cries, the doctors voice as he tells Fred you'll be all right, then I hear Fred as he tells me to leave and never come back.

You deserved so much better, so much more. Fred was right I had let that happen to you. I didn't listen to you, and then I got you tangled up in my mess." His voice had started out strong but became quiet, shaky and weak as he continued. He did his best to hold back tears that wanted nothing more than to drift freely down his face. He was struggling to hold back his emotions, but he was failing by his last sentence.

Faith had kept her back to him, her hand gripping the car handle, and her eyes shut tightly as she listened even for the last whisper that escaped his lips. They stood frozen in silence both trembling as silent tears slipped unforgivingly down their faces and unspoken words tumbled through their thoughts.

Bosco turned to walk away but paused for a moment to look at her as she still stood with her back to him holding onto the car, and not saying a word.

"The hardest thing I ever had to do was walk away from you, and I'm sorry.. sorry for everything Faith."

She listened to his footsteps fade as he walked down the street and with every step she cried a little harder, and her crumbling heart broke a little more. She wanted so much to run after him, to tell him it was all right, and hold onto him and never let go. She stood there falling apart, and watching her world walk away for the second time. The only difference was now she was totally alone, and wished she was unconscious like before.