TITLE: One heart beat for every lost day...
AUTHOR: faith_in_Faith
E-MAIL: faith_in_Faith@hotmail.com
DISCLAIMER: I don't owe these characters, just using them for inspiration (
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Up to and including season four, but this one starts BEFORE "He said, She said"
AUTHORS NOTE: Here you are, a new chapter! Thanks for the reviews. They made me SMILE, and thanks again Carina and Wine_into_Water for encourage me all the time. I couldn't do it without you ( R&R PLEASE!!!
CHAPTER THREE
The first thing Anna was aware of was the pain. It wasn't like anything she had ever felt before. She hurt everywhere and the pain was so severe that it was like it intoxicated her. She felt sick and it was hard to breathe, it felt like she was drowning. As she struggled to open her eyes, she heard someone pounding at the door and shouting something, but she couldn't figure out what it was. What has happen to me? she thought, giving up the try to open her eyes. It hurt too much and she was too tired.
Suddenly there was a loud bang from the hallway and in that moment she remembered it all and fear flooded throw her. Oh, please God don't let it be him, she begged desperately, and this time God did hear her, because it wasn't him.
Anna could hear steps coming closer and closer to her and then someone drop down beside her. She felt warm, gentle fingers against her neck, and the person beside her shouted:
" In here, Faith!" and then more quiet: "55 David to central, we need a bus on the rush at this location"
Relief flowed through her; someone had found her, someone was going to help her. . There was something familiar about the voice and once again Anna struggled to open her eyes. She could hear light footsteps approaches and a female voice said:
"Oh my God!"
"I called for a bus," the other voice said.
Anna was sure now, she knew that voice, but she couldn't place it, she just HAD to open her eyes so that she could see the person who sat beside her, she just had to! She tried to open her eyes again and this time she succeeded.
At first everything was blurry, but when her vision cleared she saw that the person sitting beside her was a man dressed like a cop. She looked at his face and got scared of herself, because the face she saw was Bosco's face. The pain really has intoxicated me she thought, because now I'm seeing things. She tried to sit up to get a better vision, but the man who looked like Bosco carefully put a hand on her chest to hold her still, smiled Bosco's smile and said:
"Don't you worry everything gonna be just fine, I know you are in a lot of pain right now, but I have had called for the paramedics and they'll be her soon. They'll take care of you."
Suddenly their eyes locked and she found herself looking into a pair of beautiful, dark blue eyes, Bosco's eyes. Her heart skipped a beat. It was Bosco. It really was! She could hardly believe her eyes, but now she was sure, it was him. She could see in his eyes that he had recognized her too and then he whispered her name. Calm floated through her body and for the first time in teen years she felt safe. He had finally come back to her, to rescue her, and now she was safe. Noting could harm her when he was around, that she'd learn from experience. She tried to say something, but she couldn't move her jaw, there was something wrong with it. She wanted to talk to him so badly, to ask him if it really was him, if he had found her boys, why it took him so long to came back and a thousand of other questions that crossed her mind. Suddenly he began to speak again and then she knew for sure it was him, not only because he said so, but because he still could read her mind.
"Yes Anna, it's me, it's Bosco"
"Don't you worry about a thing, OK? The boys are all right and everything gonna be just fine, I promise."
She felt him gently squeeze her hand and manage to squeeze it back.
"It's gonna be OK," he said once more and smiled the smile she loved so much, against her.
She could hear all the emotions in his voice and suddenly she felt sorry for him. He had never been good at these things and finding her like this after all these years, was probably killing him inside, and still he smiled at her and promised her that everything was going to be okay, like he always did.
"I make this hell go away, you just stay alive, OK?"
She believed him, if anyone could make this right, it was him. He could do anything.
"Let's make a deal; I make this hell go away, you just stay alive, OK?"
She felt him squeeze her hand again. She tried to squeeze back but wasn't sure she really was, because she was getting dizzy again and it was hard to get her body to obey her wishes. Of course I'll stay alive, you silly, she thought, smiling inside, there was not a chance in hell that she would die now when he had finally come back to her! She just had to rest for a while because she was so tired. She started to close her eyes treasuring the sight of his face above her. He came back, she thought once again; maybe this was a day of mercy after all.
The last thing she heard before losing consciousness again was him calling her name.
"Bosco?" Faith said her voice mixed with confusion and worry. " Do you know her?"
"Yeah, I know her he said sadly.
"How?" she asked.
He signed. "It's along story, but once she was my best friend" he said tiredly.
Faith opened her mouth to ask some more but thought better of it. This was neither the time nor the place for that kind of questions, and actually she couldn't think of any time or any place that would be good for all the questions she had. All she could hope for was for Bosco to tell her voluntary because it was more to this than he wanted to admit. She knew it.
In that moment the paramedics arrived at the scene, it was Doc and Carlos.
"What the hell is this?" Carlos said
"What does it look like?" Bosco said angrily, glaring at Carlos. Doc just sighed and shook his head.
"Come on Bosco" Faith said, tugging his arm "Give them space to work, we gotta tell the boys and take the neighbours statement."
He stood up recurrently; still looking at the women he loved more than he wanted to think of and turned to face Faith. She looked him in the eyes and said quietly:
" Bos, she's in good hands now, they'll take good care of her, and you know it."
He nodded his head and turned to leave.
"Bosco, do you know the boys too?" Faith asked.
He turned and looked at her again. "No I don't" he replied
"Do you want to tell them or should I?"
"No I tell them, I owe her that much" he said, looking down at the floor.
"Okay, I talk to the neighbour then. " She started to get a little bit worried about him, whatever this was about, it was hard on him and she was the one who had to deal with him afterwards and she wasn't looking forward to it.
Bosco stepped out in the hallway and walked up to Mr Hanson's door and knocked on it. Faith was right behind him. The door swung open and Mr Hanson appeared in the doorway.
"Sir", Faith said, "I want to take your statement, my partner will talk to the boys in the mean time "
"OK," Mr Hanson said and he and Faith stepped further down the hall.
Bosco crunched down in the doorway, facing Samuel and Adam. Two pair of frightened blue eyes, Anna's eyes, looked at him and his heart broke, he wanted to be able to take their pain away and he whished there was someway he could take back the time so noting of this ever had happened, but he knew it was impossible so he just smiled weakly against them and said:
"The paramedics are with you mother now. She's hurt pretty bad so she has to go to the hospital."
"He bet her with the baseball bat, didn't he?" Adam said.
"Yeah, he did." Bosco replied, and hated the thought of these children, any children, had to know things like that.
"Is she going to die?" Samuel asked fear in his voice as his bottom lip trembled.
"I don't know Champ, I don't know." Bosco said
Oh Anna, he thought, you better hold your part of the deal, because I really don't know how to fix this otherwise.
In that moment Doc and Carlos brought the stretcher with Anna on it out in the hallway and Bosco quickly took hold of the boys and hold them tight, turning their faces into his chest. He didn't want them to see how badly beaten she was, this was hard on them enough as it was. They didn't move, they just stayed there in his embrace but he could feel them starting to cry.
"We'll take her to Mercy," Doc said.
Bosco nodded, wishing he could go with her, but for now there were other things he had to do, taking care of her boys was one of them, killing that son of a bitch husband of hers was another.
"What will happen to us now?" Samuel said between the sobs as they both pulled away from him. Adam just looked at him in silence, tears running down his cheeks.
"You're going to ride in the police car with Faith and me. We are going to the police station and you have to talk to some nice person about what happened to your Ma, OK?"
"You be there to?" Samuel asked
"Yes I'll be there to."
"All the time?"
"All the time" Bosco said looking the boy straight in the eyes. Then he wiped away both their tears and said:
"Come on, let's go for that ride, OK?
The boys nodded and Bosco held out his hands and took one boy in each hand. They started to walk towards Faith, who closed her note pad; she hade finished taking the neighbours statement and was now ready to leave.
"So are you ready to go for a ride," she asked the boys as she was smiling down at them. They both nodded and they all headed for the stairs.
When they were in the car Faith looked at Bosco who was driving and said;
"The neighbours didn't know anything about any next of kin, but I went back to the apartment and found her address book, do you know anything about it?"
"Her parents are dead but she has a brother, at least she had one twelve years ago."
Twelve years, Faith thought to her self, that's an eternity. I wonder what happened to them.
"Do you remember his name?"
"Of course I do!" he snapped, "I'm not senile "
She sighed "Bos" she said tiredly, " you lost me on this one, you know that right? How am I supposed to know how close you were to her or how long you two were together? For all I know she could be one of your one night stands."
"Well she isn't!" he said angrily " I told you she was my friend!
"Sorry," she sighed again" so what's his name?"
"Steven Brown."
"OK; if he is in the book maybe you can call him when we get to the station."
He sighed heavily "I guess, but I'm not on his "the person I like the best list " that's for sure!"
Faith looked in the review mirror at the two boys sitting there looking lost and lonely.
"This isn't about you Bosco" she said in a very serious voice, eyeing him carefully.
He sighed again " I know Faith, I know" he said as the car came to stop outside the precinct.
AUTHOR: faith_in_Faith
E-MAIL: faith_in_Faith@hotmail.com
DISCLAIMER: I don't owe these characters, just using them for inspiration (
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Up to and including season four, but this one starts BEFORE "He said, She said"
AUTHORS NOTE: Here you are, a new chapter! Thanks for the reviews. They made me SMILE, and thanks again Carina and Wine_into_Water for encourage me all the time. I couldn't do it without you ( R&R PLEASE!!!
CHAPTER THREE
The first thing Anna was aware of was the pain. It wasn't like anything she had ever felt before. She hurt everywhere and the pain was so severe that it was like it intoxicated her. She felt sick and it was hard to breathe, it felt like she was drowning. As she struggled to open her eyes, she heard someone pounding at the door and shouting something, but she couldn't figure out what it was. What has happen to me? she thought, giving up the try to open her eyes. It hurt too much and she was too tired.
Suddenly there was a loud bang from the hallway and in that moment she remembered it all and fear flooded throw her. Oh, please God don't let it be him, she begged desperately, and this time God did hear her, because it wasn't him.
Anna could hear steps coming closer and closer to her and then someone drop down beside her. She felt warm, gentle fingers against her neck, and the person beside her shouted:
" In here, Faith!" and then more quiet: "55 David to central, we need a bus on the rush at this location"
Relief flowed through her; someone had found her, someone was going to help her. . There was something familiar about the voice and once again Anna struggled to open her eyes. She could hear light footsteps approaches and a female voice said:
"Oh my God!"
"I called for a bus," the other voice said.
Anna was sure now, she knew that voice, but she couldn't place it, she just HAD to open her eyes so that she could see the person who sat beside her, she just had to! She tried to open her eyes again and this time she succeeded.
At first everything was blurry, but when her vision cleared she saw that the person sitting beside her was a man dressed like a cop. She looked at his face and got scared of herself, because the face she saw was Bosco's face. The pain really has intoxicated me she thought, because now I'm seeing things. She tried to sit up to get a better vision, but the man who looked like Bosco carefully put a hand on her chest to hold her still, smiled Bosco's smile and said:
"Don't you worry everything gonna be just fine, I know you are in a lot of pain right now, but I have had called for the paramedics and they'll be her soon. They'll take care of you."
Suddenly their eyes locked and she found herself looking into a pair of beautiful, dark blue eyes, Bosco's eyes. Her heart skipped a beat. It was Bosco. It really was! She could hardly believe her eyes, but now she was sure, it was him. She could see in his eyes that he had recognized her too and then he whispered her name. Calm floated through her body and for the first time in teen years she felt safe. He had finally come back to her, to rescue her, and now she was safe. Noting could harm her when he was around, that she'd learn from experience. She tried to say something, but she couldn't move her jaw, there was something wrong with it. She wanted to talk to him so badly, to ask him if it really was him, if he had found her boys, why it took him so long to came back and a thousand of other questions that crossed her mind. Suddenly he began to speak again and then she knew for sure it was him, not only because he said so, but because he still could read her mind.
"Yes Anna, it's me, it's Bosco"
"Don't you worry about a thing, OK? The boys are all right and everything gonna be just fine, I promise."
She felt him gently squeeze her hand and manage to squeeze it back.
"It's gonna be OK," he said once more and smiled the smile she loved so much, against her.
She could hear all the emotions in his voice and suddenly she felt sorry for him. He had never been good at these things and finding her like this after all these years, was probably killing him inside, and still he smiled at her and promised her that everything was going to be okay, like he always did.
"I make this hell go away, you just stay alive, OK?"
She believed him, if anyone could make this right, it was him. He could do anything.
"Let's make a deal; I make this hell go away, you just stay alive, OK?"
She felt him squeeze her hand again. She tried to squeeze back but wasn't sure she really was, because she was getting dizzy again and it was hard to get her body to obey her wishes. Of course I'll stay alive, you silly, she thought, smiling inside, there was not a chance in hell that she would die now when he had finally come back to her! She just had to rest for a while because she was so tired. She started to close her eyes treasuring the sight of his face above her. He came back, she thought once again; maybe this was a day of mercy after all.
The last thing she heard before losing consciousness again was him calling her name.
"Bosco?" Faith said her voice mixed with confusion and worry. " Do you know her?"
"Yeah, I know her he said sadly.
"How?" she asked.
He signed. "It's along story, but once she was my best friend" he said tiredly.
Faith opened her mouth to ask some more but thought better of it. This was neither the time nor the place for that kind of questions, and actually she couldn't think of any time or any place that would be good for all the questions she had. All she could hope for was for Bosco to tell her voluntary because it was more to this than he wanted to admit. She knew it.
In that moment the paramedics arrived at the scene, it was Doc and Carlos.
"What the hell is this?" Carlos said
"What does it look like?" Bosco said angrily, glaring at Carlos. Doc just sighed and shook his head.
"Come on Bosco" Faith said, tugging his arm "Give them space to work, we gotta tell the boys and take the neighbours statement."
He stood up recurrently; still looking at the women he loved more than he wanted to think of and turned to face Faith. She looked him in the eyes and said quietly:
" Bos, she's in good hands now, they'll take good care of her, and you know it."
He nodded his head and turned to leave.
"Bosco, do you know the boys too?" Faith asked.
He turned and looked at her again. "No I don't" he replied
"Do you want to tell them or should I?"
"No I tell them, I owe her that much" he said, looking down at the floor.
"Okay, I talk to the neighbour then. " She started to get a little bit worried about him, whatever this was about, it was hard on him and she was the one who had to deal with him afterwards and she wasn't looking forward to it.
Bosco stepped out in the hallway and walked up to Mr Hanson's door and knocked on it. Faith was right behind him. The door swung open and Mr Hanson appeared in the doorway.
"Sir", Faith said, "I want to take your statement, my partner will talk to the boys in the mean time "
"OK," Mr Hanson said and he and Faith stepped further down the hall.
Bosco crunched down in the doorway, facing Samuel and Adam. Two pair of frightened blue eyes, Anna's eyes, looked at him and his heart broke, he wanted to be able to take their pain away and he whished there was someway he could take back the time so noting of this ever had happened, but he knew it was impossible so he just smiled weakly against them and said:
"The paramedics are with you mother now. She's hurt pretty bad so she has to go to the hospital."
"He bet her with the baseball bat, didn't he?" Adam said.
"Yeah, he did." Bosco replied, and hated the thought of these children, any children, had to know things like that.
"Is she going to die?" Samuel asked fear in his voice as his bottom lip trembled.
"I don't know Champ, I don't know." Bosco said
Oh Anna, he thought, you better hold your part of the deal, because I really don't know how to fix this otherwise.
In that moment Doc and Carlos brought the stretcher with Anna on it out in the hallway and Bosco quickly took hold of the boys and hold them tight, turning their faces into his chest. He didn't want them to see how badly beaten she was, this was hard on them enough as it was. They didn't move, they just stayed there in his embrace but he could feel them starting to cry.
"We'll take her to Mercy," Doc said.
Bosco nodded, wishing he could go with her, but for now there were other things he had to do, taking care of her boys was one of them, killing that son of a bitch husband of hers was another.
"What will happen to us now?" Samuel said between the sobs as they both pulled away from him. Adam just looked at him in silence, tears running down his cheeks.
"You're going to ride in the police car with Faith and me. We are going to the police station and you have to talk to some nice person about what happened to your Ma, OK?"
"You be there to?" Samuel asked
"Yes I'll be there to."
"All the time?"
"All the time" Bosco said looking the boy straight in the eyes. Then he wiped away both their tears and said:
"Come on, let's go for that ride, OK?
The boys nodded and Bosco held out his hands and took one boy in each hand. They started to walk towards Faith, who closed her note pad; she hade finished taking the neighbours statement and was now ready to leave.
"So are you ready to go for a ride," she asked the boys as she was smiling down at them. They both nodded and they all headed for the stairs.
When they were in the car Faith looked at Bosco who was driving and said;
"The neighbours didn't know anything about any next of kin, but I went back to the apartment and found her address book, do you know anything about it?"
"Her parents are dead but she has a brother, at least she had one twelve years ago."
Twelve years, Faith thought to her self, that's an eternity. I wonder what happened to them.
"Do you remember his name?"
"Of course I do!" he snapped, "I'm not senile "
She sighed "Bos" she said tiredly, " you lost me on this one, you know that right? How am I supposed to know how close you were to her or how long you two were together? For all I know she could be one of your one night stands."
"Well she isn't!" he said angrily " I told you she was my friend!
"Sorry," she sighed again" so what's his name?"
"Steven Brown."
"OK; if he is in the book maybe you can call him when we get to the station."
He sighed heavily "I guess, but I'm not on his "the person I like the best list " that's for sure!"
Faith looked in the review mirror at the two boys sitting there looking lost and lonely.
"This isn't about you Bosco" she said in a very serious voice, eyeing him carefully.
He sighed again " I know Faith, I know" he said as the car came to stop outside the precinct.