"Cruz'en For A Bruisen "
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Third Watch. And any opinions expressed by them in this story are in no way a reflection of the people that do own them.
~Chapter one~
The officers are at roll call. Lieu finishes his briefing with "Ok keep your eyes open out there." And then he adds, "Yokas, hang back."
Bosco leans over to her and asks quietly, "What's this about?"
"I don't know." She answers, getting up from her chair. They both walk over to Lieu and he tells Bosco to go get their gear. Bosco looking baffled, says with a shrug, "ok".
"Is everything all right at home Faith?"
"Yah" she says trying to read his face.
"You and your husband are recovered from your health problems?"
"Yah Lieu. What's..."
"And your kids...your daughter's doing good now"
"What exactly is this all about?"
"I know that you've been under a lot of stress lately".
"Yah, so...what...you're just concerned? Is that why you're asken me all this?" You can hear it in her voice that she is getting agitated.
"I'm asking you this because we've received several complaints about your behavior lately...out on your watch."
"Complaints! What kind of complaints?"
Lieu starts reading from a piece of paper, "Her demeanor was threatening, her attitude was aggressive to the point of violent... I was afraid for my own safety. If it wasn't for her partner stepping in and containing her..." his voice broke off as he glanced at her over the paper. He studied her reaction.
She grabs the paper out of his hand and says, "What the hell is this? Who said these things?"
"They were anonymous calls to the desk. But there were three this week and two last week."
"So some jag off-drug addict calls and bad mouths me and doesn't have the stones to leave his name, and you believe him?"
"Relax Faith, I'm not putting it in your record. We're just talking here. Maybe you need to talk to someone, you know...we have good counseling programs."
"Lieu, this did not happen." Her voice was getting louder. "If anything, this complaint might be about Bosco, but I never did this."
Lieu's voice was patronizing, "Faith, the complaints all specifically say female officer and they mention you by name. I don't put a lot into this but there was more than one call. I'm just telling you to be on your best behavior for a while. If we get any more complaints..."
"And I'm telling you that this never happened." She puts her hands on her hips and looks around the room. She spots Bosco standing in the doorway. "Bosco! Come in here." then turning to Lieu, "Ask him about it." she demands, shoving the paper into Lieu's hands.
Bosco walks in a little sheepishly glancing from Faith to Lieu. "All right" Lou starts, "have you noticed if your partner has been a little on edge lately? Maybe a little short tempered?" and looking down at the paper he reads "a little threatening?"
Bosco says with a smirk "You mean more than she is right now? I don't know Lieu, I guess it depends on what time of the month it is."
She turns abruptly and glares at him.
Bosco says "What is this?" He grabs the paper out of Lieu's hand and starts reading out loud. "She threatened to do me bodily harm. Her partner wrestled her away from me." a big grin comes to his face. "Oh this is rich. And it isn't about me." He reads on chuckling. "Her partner was embarrassed by her actions. He apologized for her several times."
Faith folds her arms and rolls her eyes.
Bosco gets a serious look on his face and says "Look boss, Yokas really has never acted like that." And then he leans towards Lieu and whispers "I don't want you to have to pull her off me." He is grinning from ear to ear until Faith steps towards him, puts her face within inches of his and says in a threatening tone "This isn't helping."
[55 David is on patrol in their RMP]
Bosco is driving. He looks over at Faith who is brooding out the window, and says, "This is gonna be a bad day, isn't it?"
Faith gives him a 'don't get me started look' and then the radio sounds off.
"55David we have a domestic disturbance at 105 at Union."
"Oh great." Faith grabs her radio. "55David responding. 105 at Union." She glares at Bosco.
He looks back and forth from her to the road. "What?"
"Nothing." She answers. "Just Drive."
Shortly, they pull up at the address and go inside the building. As they walk up to the door they can hear yelling from inside. They both pull out their nightsticks and Bosco knocks on the door. "Police. Open up."
From inside they hear a man yell in a drunken slur, "You called the police on me?" And then an equally drunk female voice answer, "I dint call them. Those busy body neighbors." Then she screams loudly "Mind yer own damn business. Go away!"
Faith rolls her eyes and raps on the door harder. "It's the police. Open the door. NOW!"
A plump old woman with graying blonde hair opens the door. She steadies herself with the doorframe, raises a hand to gently smooth back a loose strand of hair and sweetly says, "Yes ossifers. Can I help you?"
Bosco and Faith exchange a glance and then Bosco says, "We got a complaint that there was a disturbance here ma'am."
A skinny old guy in a food stained t-shirt walks up behind the woman, stumbles two steps sideways, then three steps towards the door and says, "Who is at the door sweetie."
Faith says, "We got a report that there was yelling here. Were you two fighting sir?"
"No ma'am. We are in love." He gives the woman a squeeze. "Ain't that right baby?"
"We sure are." She replies squinting her eyes and smiling.
"Then what was that yelling I heard coming from your apartment?" Bosco asks.
"That must have been the neighbors." The old man says swaying.
"From 'Your' apartment." Bosco repeats.
"Ohhh...they fight all the time." the old guy says.
"And what were the neighbors fighting about in 'your' apartment?" Faith asks.
The old woman answers, "Probally her bastard husband drank all the whiskey!"
"Well you hid the vodka!" He barks back.
The woman takes a swipe at the old guy. He covers his head and runs into the other room. The two officers step in and Bosco contains the old woman. Faith follows the old man into the living room. The TV is on, there are two easy chairs propped in front of it and a table between them. On the table is one empty glass, and a second glass full of ice and a clear liquid which the old guy grabs.
"Ha...I got your damn drink." he says as he plops himself down into one of the chairs.
The old lady starts flailing to get away from Bosco. Faith runs over to help him calm her down. After a few minutes of explaining to her that she has to stop arguing and quiet down, they realize that the old man has passed out in his chair.
The old lady runs over to him, grabs the vodka from his hand and slumps into her chair. She grabs the remote off the table and says "Ha...I got the control now." and starts watching TV as though the officers were not there.
Bosco looks at Faith and says "Should we go?"
Faith says "They seem pretty quiet now. Especially him."
[Meanwhile, 55 Charlie is on patrol]
Sully and Davis are in their RMP, and Davis is telling Sully about his latest girlfriend, when the radio interrupts him. 'All units in the 55, in the vicinity of 108 between first and second. Man down. See the woman on the street.' Davis grabs the radio and calls in, "55 Charlie responding. 108 between first and second." He turns on the siren and Sully speeds off in that direction.
They arrive at the scene to a crowd of people, waving at them to hurry. They rush over to an alley where they find a man laying on the ground in a pool of blood. Sully bends over the man, who is non responsive, and radios in for a bus in a rush. The man was wearing a purple turban. He has been beaten severely about the head and torso. His eye is already swollen shut and there is blood coming from his mouth and his ear.
As Sully tends to the man, Davis starts questioning the crowd. The information they give is that a group of young men, all white and wearing brown camouflage clothing, were standing in a group on the street corner. The man in the turban walked out of the store, and as he passed them, the group all turned on him. They dragged him down into the alley and started kicking him, and beating him with baseball bats. No one heard any words exchanged before the attack. It appeared to the witnesses that it was unprovoked.
Within minutes the paramedics arrive and hurry over to the man; Alex carrying two heavy medical bags and Kim carrying a red back board. They both kneel beside the man. Alex starts taking the man's pulse and blood pressure, and Kim listens for breathing sounds and checks the man's pupils and his ears. They exchange medical information with each other, as Kim slips a neck brace on the man. They decide they need to transport him immediately, and as they gently roll the man onto his side, Sully slips the board under his back.
The paramedics, assisted by the two officers, lift the man onto a gurney and slide him into the back of the bus. Sully tells Davis that he will meet him at Mercy as soon as he clears things up at the scene, as Davis and Alex climb into the back with the victim. As Kim climbs into the drivers seat, Sully shuts the door then bangs on the back to signal Kim that it is safe to pull away.
[Later]
It is shortly after 11:00 p.m. and the officers of the third watch are in the locker room changing into their civvies. Their shift has ended and they are discussing the events of their evening. Considering what they do for a living, they all had a fairly uneventful shift.
Faith is standing at the mirror combing her hair after having pulled her sweater on over her head. She casually tells whoever is listening, "So we get called to a robbery in the projects, and this young black girl answers the door holding a baby. I ask her if I can speak to her mother and she gets this attitude. I tell her someone called about a robbery, and she says that she's the one that called us. It seems that she signed her welfare check over to her boyfriend so he could go buy her diapers and groceries and she hasn't seen him in two days. Surprise. And she wants us to go find him and bring him back...with her groceries."
The guys all snicker, and she continues, "Behind her I can see four more babies, all younger than...like six, playing on the floor in all the filth in this apartment. So I ask her how long she's been running this baby sitting business...you know, coz she's collecten welfare...and she tells me she ain't babysitten, all the kids are hers. Is that pathetic or what. She doesn't have a pot to piss in, no job, no husband, a boyfriend who steals the food from her babies mouths, and she just keeps spitten out more babies. Not even smart enough to hold onto her welfare check."
Davis shakes his head and asks, "How old was she?"
Faith says, "I don't know but she was just a kid herself."
"So what did you do?"
Bosco pipes in, "Nothen. It's too late to help her. What she needed was to be spayed at the age of thirteen."
Tucking in his shirt, Sully changes the subject. "We got called to another act of street vengeance today."
"A towel head?" Bosco chirps in.
Sully sighs, and says "He's from Jordan. He's a doctor."
"That's seven attacks now isn't it?" Faith asks.
"Eight." Davis offers. "Two were shop owners. Four were cab drivers. I don't know about the seventh guy, I think he was a student, and now this doctor."
Sully continues, "Witnesses said that a gang of white guys wearing desert camouflage jumped him. Beat him half to death."
"Is he gonna be alright?" Faith asks as she gathers her things.
"I doubt it." Sully says sadly, slamming his locker closed.
"Well you can't really blame them." Bosco says as he pulls on his coat. Then he realizes that everyone stopped what they were doing and is looking at him in disgust, so he adds, "We 'are' at war with them."
"Do you mean with the country of Jordan or with Doctors?" Faith says angrily. "You don't seriously believe that they have a right to just wander the streets beating up anyone they want."
"No...that's Bosco's job." Sully says sarcastically.
"I didn't say they were right." Bosco says trying to explain himself. "I just meant that the country is at war and they probably feel that they are doing their part for homeland security." He sees the looks he is still getting from everyone and adds, "I agree they should be stopped, ok?"
Davis says, "They could do their part by joining up and going over there to fight. We don't need them here on the streets killing doctors and cab drivers."
Faith says good night and heads towards the door. Sully offers to walk out with her. Bosco asks Davis if he'd like to get a drink with him at his mothers bar, and Davis tells him that he has a date. They all walk out of the precinct together, and head off in different directions.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Third Watch. And any opinions expressed by them in this story are in no way a reflection of the people that do own them.
~Chapter one~
The officers are at roll call. Lieu finishes his briefing with "Ok keep your eyes open out there." And then he adds, "Yokas, hang back."
Bosco leans over to her and asks quietly, "What's this about?"
"I don't know." She answers, getting up from her chair. They both walk over to Lieu and he tells Bosco to go get their gear. Bosco looking baffled, says with a shrug, "ok".
"Is everything all right at home Faith?"
"Yah" she says trying to read his face.
"You and your husband are recovered from your health problems?"
"Yah Lieu. What's..."
"And your kids...your daughter's doing good now"
"What exactly is this all about?"
"I know that you've been under a lot of stress lately".
"Yah, so...what...you're just concerned? Is that why you're asken me all this?" You can hear it in her voice that she is getting agitated.
"I'm asking you this because we've received several complaints about your behavior lately...out on your watch."
"Complaints! What kind of complaints?"
Lieu starts reading from a piece of paper, "Her demeanor was threatening, her attitude was aggressive to the point of violent... I was afraid for my own safety. If it wasn't for her partner stepping in and containing her..." his voice broke off as he glanced at her over the paper. He studied her reaction.
She grabs the paper out of his hand and says, "What the hell is this? Who said these things?"
"They were anonymous calls to the desk. But there were three this week and two last week."
"So some jag off-drug addict calls and bad mouths me and doesn't have the stones to leave his name, and you believe him?"
"Relax Faith, I'm not putting it in your record. We're just talking here. Maybe you need to talk to someone, you know...we have good counseling programs."
"Lieu, this did not happen." Her voice was getting louder. "If anything, this complaint might be about Bosco, but I never did this."
Lieu's voice was patronizing, "Faith, the complaints all specifically say female officer and they mention you by name. I don't put a lot into this but there was more than one call. I'm just telling you to be on your best behavior for a while. If we get any more complaints..."
"And I'm telling you that this never happened." She puts her hands on her hips and looks around the room. She spots Bosco standing in the doorway. "Bosco! Come in here." then turning to Lieu, "Ask him about it." she demands, shoving the paper into Lieu's hands.
Bosco walks in a little sheepishly glancing from Faith to Lieu. "All right" Lou starts, "have you noticed if your partner has been a little on edge lately? Maybe a little short tempered?" and looking down at the paper he reads "a little threatening?"
Bosco says with a smirk "You mean more than she is right now? I don't know Lieu, I guess it depends on what time of the month it is."
She turns abruptly and glares at him.
Bosco says "What is this?" He grabs the paper out of Lieu's hand and starts reading out loud. "She threatened to do me bodily harm. Her partner wrestled her away from me." a big grin comes to his face. "Oh this is rich. And it isn't about me." He reads on chuckling. "Her partner was embarrassed by her actions. He apologized for her several times."
Faith folds her arms and rolls her eyes.
Bosco gets a serious look on his face and says "Look boss, Yokas really has never acted like that." And then he leans towards Lieu and whispers "I don't want you to have to pull her off me." He is grinning from ear to ear until Faith steps towards him, puts her face within inches of his and says in a threatening tone "This isn't helping."
[55 David is on patrol in their RMP]
Bosco is driving. He looks over at Faith who is brooding out the window, and says, "This is gonna be a bad day, isn't it?"
Faith gives him a 'don't get me started look' and then the radio sounds off.
"55David we have a domestic disturbance at 105 at Union."
"Oh great." Faith grabs her radio. "55David responding. 105 at Union." She glares at Bosco.
He looks back and forth from her to the road. "What?"
"Nothing." She answers. "Just Drive."
Shortly, they pull up at the address and go inside the building. As they walk up to the door they can hear yelling from inside. They both pull out their nightsticks and Bosco knocks on the door. "Police. Open up."
From inside they hear a man yell in a drunken slur, "You called the police on me?" And then an equally drunk female voice answer, "I dint call them. Those busy body neighbors." Then she screams loudly "Mind yer own damn business. Go away!"
Faith rolls her eyes and raps on the door harder. "It's the police. Open the door. NOW!"
A plump old woman with graying blonde hair opens the door. She steadies herself with the doorframe, raises a hand to gently smooth back a loose strand of hair and sweetly says, "Yes ossifers. Can I help you?"
Bosco and Faith exchange a glance and then Bosco says, "We got a complaint that there was a disturbance here ma'am."
A skinny old guy in a food stained t-shirt walks up behind the woman, stumbles two steps sideways, then three steps towards the door and says, "Who is at the door sweetie."
Faith says, "We got a report that there was yelling here. Were you two fighting sir?"
"No ma'am. We are in love." He gives the woman a squeeze. "Ain't that right baby?"
"We sure are." She replies squinting her eyes and smiling.
"Then what was that yelling I heard coming from your apartment?" Bosco asks.
"That must have been the neighbors." The old man says swaying.
"From 'Your' apartment." Bosco repeats.
"Ohhh...they fight all the time." the old guy says.
"And what were the neighbors fighting about in 'your' apartment?" Faith asks.
The old woman answers, "Probally her bastard husband drank all the whiskey!"
"Well you hid the vodka!" He barks back.
The woman takes a swipe at the old guy. He covers his head and runs into the other room. The two officers step in and Bosco contains the old woman. Faith follows the old man into the living room. The TV is on, there are two easy chairs propped in front of it and a table between them. On the table is one empty glass, and a second glass full of ice and a clear liquid which the old guy grabs.
"Ha...I got your damn drink." he says as he plops himself down into one of the chairs.
The old lady starts flailing to get away from Bosco. Faith runs over to help him calm her down. After a few minutes of explaining to her that she has to stop arguing and quiet down, they realize that the old man has passed out in his chair.
The old lady runs over to him, grabs the vodka from his hand and slumps into her chair. She grabs the remote off the table and says "Ha...I got the control now." and starts watching TV as though the officers were not there.
Bosco looks at Faith and says "Should we go?"
Faith says "They seem pretty quiet now. Especially him."
[Meanwhile, 55 Charlie is on patrol]
Sully and Davis are in their RMP, and Davis is telling Sully about his latest girlfriend, when the radio interrupts him. 'All units in the 55, in the vicinity of 108 between first and second. Man down. See the woman on the street.' Davis grabs the radio and calls in, "55 Charlie responding. 108 between first and second." He turns on the siren and Sully speeds off in that direction.
They arrive at the scene to a crowd of people, waving at them to hurry. They rush over to an alley where they find a man laying on the ground in a pool of blood. Sully bends over the man, who is non responsive, and radios in for a bus in a rush. The man was wearing a purple turban. He has been beaten severely about the head and torso. His eye is already swollen shut and there is blood coming from his mouth and his ear.
As Sully tends to the man, Davis starts questioning the crowd. The information they give is that a group of young men, all white and wearing brown camouflage clothing, were standing in a group on the street corner. The man in the turban walked out of the store, and as he passed them, the group all turned on him. They dragged him down into the alley and started kicking him, and beating him with baseball bats. No one heard any words exchanged before the attack. It appeared to the witnesses that it was unprovoked.
Within minutes the paramedics arrive and hurry over to the man; Alex carrying two heavy medical bags and Kim carrying a red back board. They both kneel beside the man. Alex starts taking the man's pulse and blood pressure, and Kim listens for breathing sounds and checks the man's pupils and his ears. They exchange medical information with each other, as Kim slips a neck brace on the man. They decide they need to transport him immediately, and as they gently roll the man onto his side, Sully slips the board under his back.
The paramedics, assisted by the two officers, lift the man onto a gurney and slide him into the back of the bus. Sully tells Davis that he will meet him at Mercy as soon as he clears things up at the scene, as Davis and Alex climb into the back with the victim. As Kim climbs into the drivers seat, Sully shuts the door then bangs on the back to signal Kim that it is safe to pull away.
[Later]
It is shortly after 11:00 p.m. and the officers of the third watch are in the locker room changing into their civvies. Their shift has ended and they are discussing the events of their evening. Considering what they do for a living, they all had a fairly uneventful shift.
Faith is standing at the mirror combing her hair after having pulled her sweater on over her head. She casually tells whoever is listening, "So we get called to a robbery in the projects, and this young black girl answers the door holding a baby. I ask her if I can speak to her mother and she gets this attitude. I tell her someone called about a robbery, and she says that she's the one that called us. It seems that she signed her welfare check over to her boyfriend so he could go buy her diapers and groceries and she hasn't seen him in two days. Surprise. And she wants us to go find him and bring him back...with her groceries."
The guys all snicker, and she continues, "Behind her I can see four more babies, all younger than...like six, playing on the floor in all the filth in this apartment. So I ask her how long she's been running this baby sitting business...you know, coz she's collecten welfare...and she tells me she ain't babysitten, all the kids are hers. Is that pathetic or what. She doesn't have a pot to piss in, no job, no husband, a boyfriend who steals the food from her babies mouths, and she just keeps spitten out more babies. Not even smart enough to hold onto her welfare check."
Davis shakes his head and asks, "How old was she?"
Faith says, "I don't know but she was just a kid herself."
"So what did you do?"
Bosco pipes in, "Nothen. It's too late to help her. What she needed was to be spayed at the age of thirteen."
Tucking in his shirt, Sully changes the subject. "We got called to another act of street vengeance today."
"A towel head?" Bosco chirps in.
Sully sighs, and says "He's from Jordan. He's a doctor."
"That's seven attacks now isn't it?" Faith asks.
"Eight." Davis offers. "Two were shop owners. Four were cab drivers. I don't know about the seventh guy, I think he was a student, and now this doctor."
Sully continues, "Witnesses said that a gang of white guys wearing desert camouflage jumped him. Beat him half to death."
"Is he gonna be alright?" Faith asks as she gathers her things.
"I doubt it." Sully says sadly, slamming his locker closed.
"Well you can't really blame them." Bosco says as he pulls on his coat. Then he realizes that everyone stopped what they were doing and is looking at him in disgust, so he adds, "We 'are' at war with them."
"Do you mean with the country of Jordan or with Doctors?" Faith says angrily. "You don't seriously believe that they have a right to just wander the streets beating up anyone they want."
"No...that's Bosco's job." Sully says sarcastically.
"I didn't say they were right." Bosco says trying to explain himself. "I just meant that the country is at war and they probably feel that they are doing their part for homeland security." He sees the looks he is still getting from everyone and adds, "I agree they should be stopped, ok?"
Davis says, "They could do their part by joining up and going over there to fight. We don't need them here on the streets killing doctors and cab drivers."
Faith says good night and heads towards the door. Sully offers to walk out with her. Bosco asks Davis if he'd like to get a drink with him at his mothers bar, and Davis tells him that he has a date. They all walk out of the precinct together, and head off in different directions.