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Bosco decided to join Reme in her office. They were all looking over what the Homicide Detectives had found out about their victims. "Well it says here that they were at a club called 'The Cage' that night and they were with friends but decided to leave early because Pamela said she wasn't feeling well" "What about the drugs?" "Well none of the friends flat out admitted that there friends used but they insinuated that the crowds they ran with did it on occasion for fun" "But they got nothing else?" "Nope not yet, but I'm personally going to interview those who where there that night. I know that there not telling us everything." Bosco nodded and his cell phone went off. "Bosco...What! Where? I'll be right there!" "What's the matter?" Reme looked concerned. "It's Faith. Someone tried to kill her tonight!!!" "What! Let's go!!!!" "Yeah." Bosco just got up and Reme followed. "Kev, go home I'll call you later." They both headed to Mercy Hospital.
"Cruz that bitch!" Reme thought to herself. She knew it was Cruz but needed to talk to Faith to be sure. They sat in silence the whole way there except for the fact that Bosco grabbed her hand the moment they got into the car and hasn't let go. She knew that he was glad she was there. She wasn't going anywhere. She liked Faith alot. The woman reminded her of herself sometimes. When they got to Mercy Hospital, Bosco grabbed her hand again and went into the emergency room. He found Fred there along with Faith's kids. Bosco went over to Fred and asked what had happened. Fred really didn't know. The doctors hadn't come out to talk to him yet. Just then Sully and Davis walked. "Bosco what happened?" "We don't know!!" Bosco shot back. Reme went to the nurse at the desk and quietly talked to her and the nurse hurriedly went in to talk to the doctor who was in with Faith. He looked up and came out. The doctor looked at Reme and she nodded. "Mr. Yokas?" "Yes, how is my wife? What happened?" he said with a shaky voice. "Doc, is she going to be okay?" Bosco asked trying to hold back the tears. "Your wife is going to be fine. She suffered from some minor wounds and has dislocated her shoulder from her fall, but other then than that she's fine. She's sleeping right now but you may see her." The doctor showed Fred and the kids to Faith. Bosco stood there and looked at Faith through the glass doors. Reme still stood by the nurse's station, just watching from afar. Sully and Davis went by Bosco's side. "She's going to be fine, man, you heard the doc." Davis said placing his hand around his neck and squeezing softly. "Yeah, I know" Bosco said softly. Sully came by Reme and said, "I saw that, you know" "Saw what?" "What you did?" "Yeah, what did I do?" "Oh come on Reme. I saw you say something to the nurse and she went running and got the doctor and the jerk finally came out to talk to Faith's husband!" "Yeah, so that doesn't mean I did anything!" "Okay, if that's how it's going to be, I can respect that. But you did good." Reme looked at Sully expressionless and turned and left.
She had to get out of there. Hospitals, she couldn't stand them. She had spent 2 months in one recovering from her wounds. She needed some fresh air and Bosco was with friends now, there was no need for her to be there. She would talk to Faith when she was conscious.
"Where's Dakota?" Bosco turned and looked lost as he searched the room for her. "She went outside." Sully said. Bosco went out and found Reme crouched down on the side wall with her head between her knees. "Dakota, hey are you okay?" "Oh yeah, I'm fine. How's Faith?" "The doctor said she's going to be okay!" "So how did you know that someone tried to kill her?" "They have a witness saying that a man in a car shot at her!!" "Oh, so the cops are with the witness I'm assuming since there not here!" "Yeah, the Lt. is on his way!" "Good. So how are you?" "I'm okay it's just that Faith is my best friend and I don't know what I would do if I lost her." With this tears flooded his eyes and Reme shot up and took him into her arms and said, "Faith's a tough woman Maurice. She's going to be fine" "I want to find the jag-off who did this to her. I want to kill them!!!" "I know. I feel the same. I promise I will do everything in my power to find who is responsible for this. I promise you." She held him while he silently cried in her arms for his best friend who lay in a hospital bed. "Bosco", Fred had come out and saw Bosco in the arms of the woman he arrived with. "Yeah, what's up Fred?" Wiping his tears away before turning to meet Fred's gaze. "You can see her, I know she would want you to be there." "Thanks man", Bosco said nodding his head and taking Dakota's hand and leading her in with him. Before he went in to see Faith, Reme let go of Bosco's hand and he turned stunned, "Hey you need to do this alone, I'm not going anywhere" "Yeah, okay. You'll be here when I come right" "I promise." She gently kissed his lips and he hugged her and gently whispered, "Thank you." She smiled and Bosco headed in to see Faith.
Fred stared at the woman that Bosco was with. "I bet she is that Reme woman Faith told me about. I should thank her for what she did." "Hi, I'm Fred Yokas. Are you Deputy Director Reme?" Reme smiled and nodded while shaking Fred's hand. "I wanted to thank you for what you did. I saw you. I don't what you said or care but thank you." Before she could react, Fred embraced Reme. Shocked at what just happened she hugged him back and said, "It was the right thing to do." "I want you to meet our kids. This is Emily and Charlie" "Hello, It's nice to meet." She said to both children. "Are you a police officer too?" The boy asked. "No not exactly." Reme replied. "So what do you do?" Reme starred at the boy and smiled, " Well I work for the FBI" "For real?" He said with bright eyes. "Yeah, for real!!!" "That's so cool!." "Yeah, I guess it is." Dakota said getting a kick at this boy's enthusiasm. "So my mom says your like the boss or something?" The girl asked. "Yeah, I am." She stared at the girl. "That's cool. It's about time there were woman running the show." Now that made Reme laugh. "Oh boy this girl was going to be a handful", Reme thought to herself. "So are you Uncle Bosco's girlfriend?" The boy asked. Reme's eyes shot towards the boy and had no idea had to reply. Just then Bosco came out and found Reme talking to Faith's kids. With a smile on his face came up and, "He guys what's up?" "Uncle Bosco!" Charlie exclaimed and jumped into his arms. "Hey sport!" He smiled at Reme who still stood there dwelling on what the boy asked. "Well?" Emily asked. "Well what?", Bosco asked Emily. "Charlie asked her if she was your girlfriend and well this is the answer we got," pointing to Reme who still stood there motionless not being able to respond to what the boy had asked. Bosco laughed, "Oh really?' he said starring at Reme with a smile. "Well guys let's put it this way, I would like her to my girlfriend but she's not sure if she likes me that much yet." "I'm going to kill him", she thought quietly to herself about what Bosco had just said. And she still couldn't believe that this child had stumped her. She looked at Bosco as he said this and smiled. "How could she not love you, Uncle B. You're the best!!!" "I don't know squirt. I keep trying to tell her that. You know, what if you put in a good word for me." With that the boy leapt out of Bosco's arms and ran over to Reme. "He's a good guy. He's the best. Why don't you want to be his girlfriend?" Reme scowled at Bosco who just laughed at the situation he put her in. "It's not that I don't want to be with your Uncle. I just need to be friends with him a little longer before I can do that, okay" "Yeah, I guess but he really is great. We love him and I know you'll love him too." With that Charlie went over by his father who stood and watched with amusement in his eyes. He was glad that Bosco finally found someone. Faith had mentioned that Bosco was involved with some woman from work who she didn't like but then mentioned a couple of days ago that she felt it was all going to change now that he was falling for Reme. He never really approved of Bosco's and Faith's relationship, it was more that he didn't understand it but he felt relieved to see that there was someone else in his life. He liked Reme, he got this strong vibe from her. Besides the fact that she was a knockout and that she the head of the FBI, he sensed the strength from this woman and knew that this was what Bosco needed. A strong woman to balance out Bosco's own strength.
The doctor came back out and said, "She's awake and is asking for you Deputy Director Reme." Fred and Bosco looked shocked to hear that the first person Faith wanted to see was Dakota. "Okay." Reme left and went to see Faith. She knew why Faith had wanted to see her first. "Hey Faith. How you doing?" 'Never been better. Look I need to talk to you about everything that happened tonight!" "Faith, look I know Cruz lied it was so obvious and you have plenty of time to tell me about it" "No you don't understand. She threatened me tonight. I confronted her about how she lied and she flat out threatened me and then this happens!" "I suspected as much" "You knew?" "Well, I put two and two together. Look you just focus on getting better. There a lot of people who care about you and love you. I'll handle the rest!" "Are you sure cause I want to get this Bitch!" "Oh don't worry. You'll get your satisfaction. You can count on that but until the time is right, don't worry about and just get better!" "Yeah, okay. Thanks Dakota. I'm really glad that you came into our lives. You know you really are an angel!" "Huh, cute. Look relax and I'll get your husband and kids and Bosco, who's a mess ya know, he really cares about you!" "I know. And he really cares about you too. I see you two. They way you look at each other" "Yeah, well stop being so damn observant and get better!" Reme said with a chuckle. "Thanks again Dakota." Reme winked at her and nodded before heading out.
She found Fred, the kids, Bosco, Sully and Davis in the lounge waiting for Dakota's return. "Hey, Fred you can go in now" "Thanks." he said getting the kids and going in. "What was that about. How come she wanted to see you?" "Bosco you know I can't tell you. Look she just needed to talk that's all. She's fine. Don't worry" "Okay look I'm going to go see her. I'll be back." He kissed her and left. She turned to Sully and Davis and said, "We need to talk!" And they did. She had a plan and they needed to be a part of it. She wanted them to protect Faith and her family. She would have agents watching them as well but she knew that it was better to have people on the inside. "Bosco can't know. Do you understand. Under no circumstances must he know about this!" "Yeah we got you. Look your going to find who tried to do this right?" "Just try and stop me!" Reme said with pure conviction.
"Hey Bos," Faith said with a smile as he walked in. "Hey, how ya feelin'?" he asked taking her hand and sitting down next to her. "I've been better." She smiled with a hint of sarcasm. "Can't wait to get out of here though. The doctor said they'll let me go tomorrow just want to keep me here overnight for observation. I hate hospitals so the sooner the better." "Yeah, I know", He said in a whisper. "Bos, Hey I'm okay!" " How could you say that Faith, someone tried to kill you tonight!" "Bosco, but they didn't. I'm here." Tears welled up in his eyes, "Faith if anything happened to you" "Bosco, I'm okay. Please stop. You're going to make me cry!" "It's just you know we haven't been good these last couple of months and I just want you to know that I'm sorry for everything!!!" "Bosco..." "No, Faith here me out please. I should have listened to you about Cruz. I didn't and I almost lost you as a friend. I can't loose you as a friend. I love you Faith!" "Oh Bos, I love you too, and you would never loose me as a friends ever you here me. I will always be here for you. I'm your partner and always will be." She said with tears in her eyes. Bosco got up and they hugged. "Okay, with that mushy shit out of the way" she smirked wiping the tears from her eyes, " What's going on with you and Dakota? "Oh, Faith I'm crazy about her! "I know Bos, I see how your are around her!" "Faith can I tell you somethin' but you have to promise me you wont laugh" "I promise Bosco. I wont laugh" "I think I love her. No! I know I love her. But I'm scared to tell her because it's only been what 2 days and I'm going to tell her I love her. What better way to fuck up somethin'!" "You wanna hear something funny?" "What?" "I knew what you were going to say!" "You did?" "Bosco, I've known you for almost 10 years an I have never seen you like this not even with Nicole. And I know the relationship you have with Cruz is strictly physical" "Had with Cruz!" "Sorry had with Cruz. But honestly Bos, I think you should tell her. I don't think Reme's the type to run away. Even if she doesn't love you right now, I know she will. I mean like you said it's only been 2 days. Hey but you never know she might feel the same, so how will you know if you don't tell her. Look what ever you decide, I know it will be the right choice" "I don't know. I just don't want to loose her, Faith" "Bosco, I know. You'll do the right thing." The doctor came in and said that the Lt. was here to see her with some other officers who wanted to talk to Faith. "Oh shit, so it begins!" Faith smiled at Bosco. "I'll be right outside if you need me. Do you want Reme to sit in on this?" "Yeah could you ask her to come in!" "Sure." Bosco left and said hi to his Lt. and got Reme to sit in on the questioning. Her presence there would definitely intimidate the detectives and Bosco knew that Dakota wouldn't let them push Faith into talking about stuff she wasn't ready to talk about yet.
When the detectives finished questioning Faith, Reme came out and told Bosco that Faith was tired and was going to sleep. "Okay, so what happened?" "Nothing really they questioned her about what she remembers and she told them as much as she did and that pretty much covers it" "What about the witness?." "What about him?" "Did they say anything about what he saw?" "Yeah, a black late model sedan with tinted windows came out of nowhere and a man with sunglasses came out the back window and shot at her. She dove to the ground and that's how she dislocated her shoulder and the bullet hit a glass window and shattered sending glass on top of her, cutting her but that's about it" "We gotta get this SOB, Dakota!" "We will Maurice. Come on let's go." "Can you give me a ride home?" "Yeah, but I was sorta hopin' that I could spend the night with you again. I really don't want to be alone tonight" "Of course you can." She said embracing him. "You don't have to explain." He kissed her. "We'll quickly stop at my place so I can pick up a few things then we'll head by you" "That's fine."
They arrived at Bosco's apartment and Reme waited in the living room while Bosco got what he needed. She flipped her phone open because there was an important call that had to be made for a job that needed to be done and she knew the man who could get it done. "Hello!," a man with a strong Irish accent answered. "Ernie, you Irish fuck, how are you?" "Reme, is that you? How the hell are ya, darlin'?" "It's been a while" "Yes, to damn long. So to what do I owe this pleasure too?" "I need your services, Ernie?" "Sure, Reme anything for you!" "Okay, here's what I need." Reme continued to talk to the ex-IRA affiliate. As the conversation ended, Bosco walked in. "So you have all of it then?" "Yeah, I got it. Consider it done, Reme. I'll be in touch" "Bye!" Reme snapped her phone and looked at Bosco. "You ready?" "Yeah." They headed to her place.
They arrived at her place, realizing just how exhausted they both were. Bosco changed and waited with Wolf for Reme to finish in the shower. Reme came out and got into bed. Bosco wrapped his arms around her and nuzzled her neck. "This has been one hell of a day huh?" "Yeah to say the least!" "Thank you, Dakota, for being here. You have no idea how much you being here means to me" "Maurice, stop thanking me. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. I will stand by you no matter what, okay!" She squeezed his arm more tightly around her waist. "I..I', he was about to say it but something stopped, and it came out as, "I'm glad that your in my life." He kicked himself in the ass. "Me, too", Reme responded. They both fell asleep.
4 a.m., Bosco saw when he opened his eyes and looked at the alarm clock. He felt Dakota squirming. He looked over at her and she was sweating profusely. She was mumbling things. He knew it was some sort of nightmare but about what he had no idea. He tried to figure out what she was saying. All he was able understand was, "You'll never break me...I won't let you win." It began to get more violent because she started to move back and forth like she was trying to fight someone. He tried to wake her up. "Dakota....Baby wake up....Dakota, your havin' a nightmare...Dakota wake up!" He had to shake her in order to wake her that's how overpowering this nightmare was. Her eyes shot open and looked around her like she was making sure that she was actually there. "Oh god!!", she sat up and looked at Bosco who looked frightened at this point. "Shit", she said and jumped out of bed. Bosco just stared at her. He knew that what ever it was had to be bad and he just didn't know what to do. "What happened?" she asked, "What did you hear?" She asked with her back towards him staring blankly out her bedroom window. He sat at the edge of the bed and said, "I don't know. I woke up because you were squirmin' and when I looked at you, you were drippin' with sweat and mumblin' things. I knew you were having a nightmare and then you started to fight with someone or somethin' that wasn't there and that's when I woke you up." "Did you hear anything that I said?" "All I heard was 'You'll never break me and I won't let you win' that's it." Dakota's shoulders slumped when she heard this. How could she let this happen! "Dakota what the hell was that nightmare about. I mean, you scared the shit out of me!" "I'm sorry" "Is that why you were up last night because you have these nightmares?" Dakota shook her head. Bosco got up and went over to her and stood next to her. "Dakota, what's going on?" He looked at her with tears in his eyes. She knew he was probably freaked about what just happened. Kevin had experienced one of her nightmare episodes and it scared the shit out of him as well. She knew she would have to tell him and now was as good of time as any. She turned to him, "We need to talk," she said softly. Bosco nodded.
She led him back to the bed. She sat down resting her back against the wall and brought her knees into her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees and placed her head in her knees. Bosco sat next to her and just starred at her. She needed to find the courage to do this, to tell him, to risk loosing him. But she had to do it. She looked up and Bosco immediately saw the sorrow and pain in her eyes. "They left me there. He left me there for four months to be tortured and..and..raped." She said it. Bosco's eyes widened. "What!", he thought to himself, she was making no sense but he let her continue. "It was in July of 2001, two months before the 9/11 attacks. Mitch and I had received an assignment to kill the leader of an Afghan militia group. It was all a set up. I realized it before he did and compromised myself and let myself get captured so Mitch could save himself." Bosco couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had no idea what to do. He just sat there with his hand in hers. "The things they did to me in there..God you have no idea the torture they put me through. And that bastard raped me repeatedly. He wanted me to break to beg for my life like a coward but I never gave him or any of them that satisfaction. That was the only thing that was keeping me alive was that, my strength not to let them win." She felt this lump in her throat as she looked into Bosco's eyes. "Oh my God!!!" she felt it all, the pain, hurt, anger and fear she had suppressed, all of it coming to a boil. She was going to cry, but she didn't care. Bosco made her feel safe, safer then she's ever felt. It's about time she thought to herself.
He saw tears start to fall from her eyes and he grabbed her and held her. She fell into his arms as the flood gates opened up and it all came out. She cried for several minutes and he just held her tightly, caressing her and kissing her head. As she regained her composure and sat back and wiped her eyes she continued with her story. "The people I worked for abandoned me there for 4 months, Bosco. The years of service I had given meant nothing. And Mitch, well he left me there too. He told me that there was no way he could have gotten me. As soon as he had the okay he came and got me. But it was to late. I died in there and someone else took the place of the person I once was. Someone hard, mean, someone who didn't feel, until now." Bosco looked at her and placed his hand around the back of her head, and sat as close to her as he could. He was going to say it. "Dakota," she looked up at him, "Yeah" she said quietly, "I love you", he said looking into her eyes. She looked stunned, "What?" she gasped. "I love you. I want you to know this. I love you more then I've ever thought possible in such a short amount of time. And I'm here for you. And I swear I will never let anything ever happen to you again. I promise!" He said this with such love and anger at the same time. She starred at him with complete shock. She didn't know how she felt right now and she wasn't going to lie to him and say the same thing he deserved better then that. She just hugged him as hard as she could. And cried, that's all she could do was cry and think to herself , "What the hell am I going to do." Bosco held her a little disappointed she didn't say it back but he knew that right now she probably didn't know what to think so he would wait. He would wait forever for her, if he had too.
Dakota fell asleep in Bosco's arms. He watched her sleep. She looked so drained and tired. He knew that tonight was really hard on her and it took a lot for her to tell him what she did. It still fully hadn't sunk in yet. Everything she said was still mulling over in his head. "God, I can't imagine what she must have felt being there." He closed his eyes and thought to himself. It finally began to sink in, that this woman he had in his arms, the woman he had just declared his love for had been tortured, beaten and raped more times then he probably wanted to know and she survived. Tears started to fall from his eyes. If it was him who had been there, he would have fought tooth and nail to get her out. "That bastard!!", he thought, "He left her there. He didn't love her. This would never have happened if it were me. I would have died before I would have let this happen. I would have died for you.", repeating it over and over again while caressing her cheek, he vowed at that moment, that Mitch, that jag-off, would pay for this.
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Bosco decided to join Reme in her office. They were all looking over what the Homicide Detectives had found out about their victims. "Well it says here that they were at a club called 'The Cage' that night and they were with friends but decided to leave early because Pamela said she wasn't feeling well" "What about the drugs?" "Well none of the friends flat out admitted that there friends used but they insinuated that the crowds they ran with did it on occasion for fun" "But they got nothing else?" "Nope not yet, but I'm personally going to interview those who where there that night. I know that there not telling us everything." Bosco nodded and his cell phone went off. "Bosco...What! Where? I'll be right there!" "What's the matter?" Reme looked concerned. "It's Faith. Someone tried to kill her tonight!!!" "What! Let's go!!!!" "Yeah." Bosco just got up and Reme followed. "Kev, go home I'll call you later." They both headed to Mercy Hospital.
"Cruz that bitch!" Reme thought to herself. She knew it was Cruz but needed to talk to Faith to be sure. They sat in silence the whole way there except for the fact that Bosco grabbed her hand the moment they got into the car and hasn't let go. She knew that he was glad she was there. She wasn't going anywhere. She liked Faith alot. The woman reminded her of herself sometimes. When they got to Mercy Hospital, Bosco grabbed her hand again and went into the emergency room. He found Fred there along with Faith's kids. Bosco went over to Fred and asked what had happened. Fred really didn't know. The doctors hadn't come out to talk to him yet. Just then Sully and Davis walked. "Bosco what happened?" "We don't know!!" Bosco shot back. Reme went to the nurse at the desk and quietly talked to her and the nurse hurriedly went in to talk to the doctor who was in with Faith. He looked up and came out. The doctor looked at Reme and she nodded. "Mr. Yokas?" "Yes, how is my wife? What happened?" he said with a shaky voice. "Doc, is she going to be okay?" Bosco asked trying to hold back the tears. "Your wife is going to be fine. She suffered from some minor wounds and has dislocated her shoulder from her fall, but other then than that she's fine. She's sleeping right now but you may see her." The doctor showed Fred and the kids to Faith. Bosco stood there and looked at Faith through the glass doors. Reme still stood by the nurse's station, just watching from afar. Sully and Davis went by Bosco's side. "She's going to be fine, man, you heard the doc." Davis said placing his hand around his neck and squeezing softly. "Yeah, I know" Bosco said softly. Sully came by Reme and said, "I saw that, you know" "Saw what?" "What you did?" "Yeah, what did I do?" "Oh come on Reme. I saw you say something to the nurse and she went running and got the doctor and the jerk finally came out to talk to Faith's husband!" "Yeah, so that doesn't mean I did anything!" "Okay, if that's how it's going to be, I can respect that. But you did good." Reme looked at Sully expressionless and turned and left.
She had to get out of there. Hospitals, she couldn't stand them. She had spent 2 months in one recovering from her wounds. She needed some fresh air and Bosco was with friends now, there was no need for her to be there. She would talk to Faith when she was conscious.
"Where's Dakota?" Bosco turned and looked lost as he searched the room for her. "She went outside." Sully said. Bosco went out and found Reme crouched down on the side wall with her head between her knees. "Dakota, hey are you okay?" "Oh yeah, I'm fine. How's Faith?" "The doctor said she's going to be okay!" "So how did you know that someone tried to kill her?" "They have a witness saying that a man in a car shot at her!!" "Oh, so the cops are with the witness I'm assuming since there not here!" "Yeah, the Lt. is on his way!" "Good. So how are you?" "I'm okay it's just that Faith is my best friend and I don't know what I would do if I lost her." With this tears flooded his eyes and Reme shot up and took him into her arms and said, "Faith's a tough woman Maurice. She's going to be fine" "I want to find the jag-off who did this to her. I want to kill them!!!" "I know. I feel the same. I promise I will do everything in my power to find who is responsible for this. I promise you." She held him while he silently cried in her arms for his best friend who lay in a hospital bed. "Bosco", Fred had come out and saw Bosco in the arms of the woman he arrived with. "Yeah, what's up Fred?" Wiping his tears away before turning to meet Fred's gaze. "You can see her, I know she would want you to be there." "Thanks man", Bosco said nodding his head and taking Dakota's hand and leading her in with him. Before he went in to see Faith, Reme let go of Bosco's hand and he turned stunned, "Hey you need to do this alone, I'm not going anywhere" "Yeah, okay. You'll be here when I come right" "I promise." She gently kissed his lips and he hugged her and gently whispered, "Thank you." She smiled and Bosco headed in to see Faith.
Fred stared at the woman that Bosco was with. "I bet she is that Reme woman Faith told me about. I should thank her for what she did." "Hi, I'm Fred Yokas. Are you Deputy Director Reme?" Reme smiled and nodded while shaking Fred's hand. "I wanted to thank you for what you did. I saw you. I don't what you said or care but thank you." Before she could react, Fred embraced Reme. Shocked at what just happened she hugged him back and said, "It was the right thing to do." "I want you to meet our kids. This is Emily and Charlie" "Hello, It's nice to meet." She said to both children. "Are you a police officer too?" The boy asked. "No not exactly." Reme replied. "So what do you do?" Reme starred at the boy and smiled, " Well I work for the FBI" "For real?" He said with bright eyes. "Yeah, for real!!!" "That's so cool!." "Yeah, I guess it is." Dakota said getting a kick at this boy's enthusiasm. "So my mom says your like the boss or something?" The girl asked. "Yeah, I am." She stared at the girl. "That's cool. It's about time there were woman running the show." Now that made Reme laugh. "Oh boy this girl was going to be a handful", Reme thought to herself. "So are you Uncle Bosco's girlfriend?" The boy asked. Reme's eyes shot towards the boy and had no idea had to reply. Just then Bosco came out and found Reme talking to Faith's kids. With a smile on his face came up and, "He guys what's up?" "Uncle Bosco!" Charlie exclaimed and jumped into his arms. "Hey sport!" He smiled at Reme who still stood there dwelling on what the boy asked. "Well?" Emily asked. "Well what?", Bosco asked Emily. "Charlie asked her if she was your girlfriend and well this is the answer we got," pointing to Reme who still stood there motionless not being able to respond to what the boy had asked. Bosco laughed, "Oh really?' he said starring at Reme with a smile. "Well guys let's put it this way, I would like her to my girlfriend but she's not sure if she likes me that much yet." "I'm going to kill him", she thought quietly to herself about what Bosco had just said. And she still couldn't believe that this child had stumped her. She looked at Bosco as he said this and smiled. "How could she not love you, Uncle B. You're the best!!!" "I don't know squirt. I keep trying to tell her that. You know, what if you put in a good word for me." With that the boy leapt out of Bosco's arms and ran over to Reme. "He's a good guy. He's the best. Why don't you want to be his girlfriend?" Reme scowled at Bosco who just laughed at the situation he put her in. "It's not that I don't want to be with your Uncle. I just need to be friends with him a little longer before I can do that, okay" "Yeah, I guess but he really is great. We love him and I know you'll love him too." With that Charlie went over by his father who stood and watched with amusement in his eyes. He was glad that Bosco finally found someone. Faith had mentioned that Bosco was involved with some woman from work who she didn't like but then mentioned a couple of days ago that she felt it was all going to change now that he was falling for Reme. He never really approved of Bosco's and Faith's relationship, it was more that he didn't understand it but he felt relieved to see that there was someone else in his life. He liked Reme, he got this strong vibe from her. Besides the fact that she was a knockout and that she the head of the FBI, he sensed the strength from this woman and knew that this was what Bosco needed. A strong woman to balance out Bosco's own strength.
The doctor came back out and said, "She's awake and is asking for you Deputy Director Reme." Fred and Bosco looked shocked to hear that the first person Faith wanted to see was Dakota. "Okay." Reme left and went to see Faith. She knew why Faith had wanted to see her first. "Hey Faith. How you doing?" 'Never been better. Look I need to talk to you about everything that happened tonight!" "Faith, look I know Cruz lied it was so obvious and you have plenty of time to tell me about it" "No you don't understand. She threatened me tonight. I confronted her about how she lied and she flat out threatened me and then this happens!" "I suspected as much" "You knew?" "Well, I put two and two together. Look you just focus on getting better. There a lot of people who care about you and love you. I'll handle the rest!" "Are you sure cause I want to get this Bitch!" "Oh don't worry. You'll get your satisfaction. You can count on that but until the time is right, don't worry about and just get better!" "Yeah, okay. Thanks Dakota. I'm really glad that you came into our lives. You know you really are an angel!" "Huh, cute. Look relax and I'll get your husband and kids and Bosco, who's a mess ya know, he really cares about you!" "I know. And he really cares about you too. I see you two. They way you look at each other" "Yeah, well stop being so damn observant and get better!" Reme said with a chuckle. "Thanks again Dakota." Reme winked at her and nodded before heading out.
She found Fred, the kids, Bosco, Sully and Davis in the lounge waiting for Dakota's return. "Hey, Fred you can go in now" "Thanks." he said getting the kids and going in. "What was that about. How come she wanted to see you?" "Bosco you know I can't tell you. Look she just needed to talk that's all. She's fine. Don't worry" "Okay look I'm going to go see her. I'll be back." He kissed her and left. She turned to Sully and Davis and said, "We need to talk!" And they did. She had a plan and they needed to be a part of it. She wanted them to protect Faith and her family. She would have agents watching them as well but she knew that it was better to have people on the inside. "Bosco can't know. Do you understand. Under no circumstances must he know about this!" "Yeah we got you. Look your going to find who tried to do this right?" "Just try and stop me!" Reme said with pure conviction.
"Hey Bos," Faith said with a smile as he walked in. "Hey, how ya feelin'?" he asked taking her hand and sitting down next to her. "I've been better." She smiled with a hint of sarcasm. "Can't wait to get out of here though. The doctor said they'll let me go tomorrow just want to keep me here overnight for observation. I hate hospitals so the sooner the better." "Yeah, I know", He said in a whisper. "Bos, Hey I'm okay!" " How could you say that Faith, someone tried to kill you tonight!" "Bosco, but they didn't. I'm here." Tears welled up in his eyes, "Faith if anything happened to you" "Bosco, I'm okay. Please stop. You're going to make me cry!" "It's just you know we haven't been good these last couple of months and I just want you to know that I'm sorry for everything!!!" "Bosco..." "No, Faith here me out please. I should have listened to you about Cruz. I didn't and I almost lost you as a friend. I can't loose you as a friend. I love you Faith!" "Oh Bos, I love you too, and you would never loose me as a friends ever you here me. I will always be here for you. I'm your partner and always will be." She said with tears in her eyes. Bosco got up and they hugged. "Okay, with that mushy shit out of the way" she smirked wiping the tears from her eyes, " What's going on with you and Dakota? "Oh, Faith I'm crazy about her! "I know Bos, I see how your are around her!" "Faith can I tell you somethin' but you have to promise me you wont laugh" "I promise Bosco. I wont laugh" "I think I love her. No! I know I love her. But I'm scared to tell her because it's only been what 2 days and I'm going to tell her I love her. What better way to fuck up somethin'!" "You wanna hear something funny?" "What?" "I knew what you were going to say!" "You did?" "Bosco, I've known you for almost 10 years an I have never seen you like this not even with Nicole. And I know the relationship you have with Cruz is strictly physical" "Had with Cruz!" "Sorry had with Cruz. But honestly Bos, I think you should tell her. I don't think Reme's the type to run away. Even if she doesn't love you right now, I know she will. I mean like you said it's only been 2 days. Hey but you never know she might feel the same, so how will you know if you don't tell her. Look what ever you decide, I know it will be the right choice" "I don't know. I just don't want to loose her, Faith" "Bosco, I know. You'll do the right thing." The doctor came in and said that the Lt. was here to see her with some other officers who wanted to talk to Faith. "Oh shit, so it begins!" Faith smiled at Bosco. "I'll be right outside if you need me. Do you want Reme to sit in on this?" "Yeah could you ask her to come in!" "Sure." Bosco left and said hi to his Lt. and got Reme to sit in on the questioning. Her presence there would definitely intimidate the detectives and Bosco knew that Dakota wouldn't let them push Faith into talking about stuff she wasn't ready to talk about yet.
When the detectives finished questioning Faith, Reme came out and told Bosco that Faith was tired and was going to sleep. "Okay, so what happened?" "Nothing really they questioned her about what she remembers and she told them as much as she did and that pretty much covers it" "What about the witness?." "What about him?" "Did they say anything about what he saw?" "Yeah, a black late model sedan with tinted windows came out of nowhere and a man with sunglasses came out the back window and shot at her. She dove to the ground and that's how she dislocated her shoulder and the bullet hit a glass window and shattered sending glass on top of her, cutting her but that's about it" "We gotta get this SOB, Dakota!" "We will Maurice. Come on let's go." "Can you give me a ride home?" "Yeah, but I was sorta hopin' that I could spend the night with you again. I really don't want to be alone tonight" "Of course you can." She said embracing him. "You don't have to explain." He kissed her. "We'll quickly stop at my place so I can pick up a few things then we'll head by you" "That's fine."
They arrived at Bosco's apartment and Reme waited in the living room while Bosco got what he needed. She flipped her phone open because there was an important call that had to be made for a job that needed to be done and she knew the man who could get it done. "Hello!," a man with a strong Irish accent answered. "Ernie, you Irish fuck, how are you?" "Reme, is that you? How the hell are ya, darlin'?" "It's been a while" "Yes, to damn long. So to what do I owe this pleasure too?" "I need your services, Ernie?" "Sure, Reme anything for you!" "Okay, here's what I need." Reme continued to talk to the ex-IRA affiliate. As the conversation ended, Bosco walked in. "So you have all of it then?" "Yeah, I got it. Consider it done, Reme. I'll be in touch" "Bye!" Reme snapped her phone and looked at Bosco. "You ready?" "Yeah." They headed to her place.
They arrived at her place, realizing just how exhausted they both were. Bosco changed and waited with Wolf for Reme to finish in the shower. Reme came out and got into bed. Bosco wrapped his arms around her and nuzzled her neck. "This has been one hell of a day huh?" "Yeah to say the least!" "Thank you, Dakota, for being here. You have no idea how much you being here means to me" "Maurice, stop thanking me. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. I will stand by you no matter what, okay!" She squeezed his arm more tightly around her waist. "I..I', he was about to say it but something stopped, and it came out as, "I'm glad that your in my life." He kicked himself in the ass. "Me, too", Reme responded. They both fell asleep.
4 a.m., Bosco saw when he opened his eyes and looked at the alarm clock. He felt Dakota squirming. He looked over at her and she was sweating profusely. She was mumbling things. He knew it was some sort of nightmare but about what he had no idea. He tried to figure out what she was saying. All he was able understand was, "You'll never break me...I won't let you win." It began to get more violent because she started to move back and forth like she was trying to fight someone. He tried to wake her up. "Dakota....Baby wake up....Dakota, your havin' a nightmare...Dakota wake up!" He had to shake her in order to wake her that's how overpowering this nightmare was. Her eyes shot open and looked around her like she was making sure that she was actually there. "Oh god!!", she sat up and looked at Bosco who looked frightened at this point. "Shit", she said and jumped out of bed. Bosco just stared at her. He knew that what ever it was had to be bad and he just didn't know what to do. "What happened?" she asked, "What did you hear?" She asked with her back towards him staring blankly out her bedroom window. He sat at the edge of the bed and said, "I don't know. I woke up because you were squirmin' and when I looked at you, you were drippin' with sweat and mumblin' things. I knew you were having a nightmare and then you started to fight with someone or somethin' that wasn't there and that's when I woke you up." "Did you hear anything that I said?" "All I heard was 'You'll never break me and I won't let you win' that's it." Dakota's shoulders slumped when she heard this. How could she let this happen! "Dakota what the hell was that nightmare about. I mean, you scared the shit out of me!" "I'm sorry" "Is that why you were up last night because you have these nightmares?" Dakota shook her head. Bosco got up and went over to her and stood next to her. "Dakota, what's going on?" He looked at her with tears in his eyes. She knew he was probably freaked about what just happened. Kevin had experienced one of her nightmare episodes and it scared the shit out of him as well. She knew she would have to tell him and now was as good of time as any. She turned to him, "We need to talk," she said softly. Bosco nodded.
She led him back to the bed. She sat down resting her back against the wall and brought her knees into her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees and placed her head in her knees. Bosco sat next to her and just starred at her. She needed to find the courage to do this, to tell him, to risk loosing him. But she had to do it. She looked up and Bosco immediately saw the sorrow and pain in her eyes. "They left me there. He left me there for four months to be tortured and..and..raped." She said it. Bosco's eyes widened. "What!", he thought to himself, she was making no sense but he let her continue. "It was in July of 2001, two months before the 9/11 attacks. Mitch and I had received an assignment to kill the leader of an Afghan militia group. It was all a set up. I realized it before he did and compromised myself and let myself get captured so Mitch could save himself." Bosco couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had no idea what to do. He just sat there with his hand in hers. "The things they did to me in there..God you have no idea the torture they put me through. And that bastard raped me repeatedly. He wanted me to break to beg for my life like a coward but I never gave him or any of them that satisfaction. That was the only thing that was keeping me alive was that, my strength not to let them win." She felt this lump in her throat as she looked into Bosco's eyes. "Oh my God!!!" she felt it all, the pain, hurt, anger and fear she had suppressed, all of it coming to a boil. She was going to cry, but she didn't care. Bosco made her feel safe, safer then she's ever felt. It's about time she thought to herself.
He saw tears start to fall from her eyes and he grabbed her and held her. She fell into his arms as the flood gates opened up and it all came out. She cried for several minutes and he just held her tightly, caressing her and kissing her head. As she regained her composure and sat back and wiped her eyes she continued with her story. "The people I worked for abandoned me there for 4 months, Bosco. The years of service I had given meant nothing. And Mitch, well he left me there too. He told me that there was no way he could have gotten me. As soon as he had the okay he came and got me. But it was to late. I died in there and someone else took the place of the person I once was. Someone hard, mean, someone who didn't feel, until now." Bosco looked at her and placed his hand around the back of her head, and sat as close to her as he could. He was going to say it. "Dakota," she looked up at him, "Yeah" she said quietly, "I love you", he said looking into her eyes. She looked stunned, "What?" she gasped. "I love you. I want you to know this. I love you more then I've ever thought possible in such a short amount of time. And I'm here for you. And I swear I will never let anything ever happen to you again. I promise!" He said this with such love and anger at the same time. She starred at him with complete shock. She didn't know how she felt right now and she wasn't going to lie to him and say the same thing he deserved better then that. She just hugged him as hard as she could. And cried, that's all she could do was cry and think to herself , "What the hell am I going to do." Bosco held her a little disappointed she didn't say it back but he knew that right now she probably didn't know what to think so he would wait. He would wait forever for her, if he had too.
Dakota fell asleep in Bosco's arms. He watched her sleep. She looked so drained and tired. He knew that tonight was really hard on her and it took a lot for her to tell him what she did. It still fully hadn't sunk in yet. Everything she said was still mulling over in his head. "God, I can't imagine what she must have felt being there." He closed his eyes and thought to himself. It finally began to sink in, that this woman he had in his arms, the woman he had just declared his love for had been tortured, beaten and raped more times then he probably wanted to know and she survived. Tears started to fall from his eyes. If it was him who had been there, he would have fought tooth and nail to get her out. "That bastard!!", he thought, "He left her there. He didn't love her. This would never have happened if it were me. I would have died before I would have let this happen. I would have died for you.", repeating it over and over again while caressing her cheek, he vowed at that moment, that Mitch, that jag-off, would pay for this.