Title: A Break in Beantown (2/?)
Author: Lynne Facella
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of John Wells and Edward Allen Bernero. I wish they were mine but unfortunately they're not.
Summary: Sully, Ty, Bosco and Faith attend a police conference in Boston.
Notes: Thanks so much for the feedback on part 1. Sorry this has taken me so long to get out :)
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"Oh my God..." Bosco turned to Faith who was seated beside him in the crowded auditorium. "Is it just me or does this guy make you want to stick an ice pick through your brain?"
"Bos, stop." Faith bit her lip to keep from giggling. "It's not that bad."
"Are you kiddin' me?"
"SHHHHH!"
Bosco turned in his seat to try to see who was shushing him. Seated directly behind him was a red-haired woman with a scowl on her face. Bosco couldn't help but notice the striking resemblance she had to Kerry Weaver on ER. He shuddered inwardly as he quickly turned around. "She must not be getting any," he whispered to Faith who quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
The room broke into applause and he realized that the speech had mercifully come to its conclusion. "Thank God that's over." He slowly got to his feet and stretched his arms up over his head. "Want to get out of here?"
"Bosco, we can't." Faith gave him a reproachful look. "Davis is going to be speaking soon. We can't just leave."
"Aww he wouldn't even know. With all the people in here, Davis wouldn't even notice if we're here or not."
"Maybe not, but I'd notice." Sully had been listening to their conversation from a few feet away, and now he approached them. "Bosco, you're staying here if I have to tie you down to your chair and sit on you."
"You're going to sit on me?" Bosco gave Sully an incredulous look. "Good luck explaining my two broken legs to Swersky."
"Shut up."
"You shut up."
Faith noticed that quite a few fellow officers were casting looks in their direction. Some of them seemed amused, but others were obviously annoyed. "Come on you guys...you're making fools out of yourselves. Everyone's staring."
"He can't tell me what to do," Bosco said sulkily, lowering his voice.
"Bos." Faith put her hand on her partner's arm. "Come on. You know you're not going to just walk out of here before Davis speaks." She tried to change the subject. "How's he doing, Sully?"
"More nervous than I've ever seen him," Sully replied with a grin. "I think he'll be glad to get this over with."
"He's not the only one," Bosco grumbled. Once Davis had finished his speech, he figured it would be a lot easier to talk Faith into ditching the conference, at least for a while. He'd sat through some of the more boring speeches known to man that morning. He needed to get out of this place, get some fresh air.
"He's going to be the last speaker before we break for lunch," Sully informed them.
"Yeah, we know how to read the program too," Bosco retorted.
Faith rolled her eyes, not understanding their constant need to go at each other. God, they were worse than Charlie and his friends.
"Can't you just give it a rest?
"I'm gonna go get a cup of coffee," Bosco said. "You want anything, Faith?"
"No, I'm good." She shook her head and watched as he headed off towards the table of coffee and assorted breakfast foods. She sat back down on her chair and turned to Sully. "He doesn't mean anything, you know. He's just really bored with having to sit and listen to these speeches all day. He's not used to it."
Sully sighed to himself as he took a seat beside Faith. She was always defending him, just like he was one of her kids. "Well, it isn't going to kill him to listen to Ty. If he was so opposed to it, he shouldn't have even come to Boston."
Faith shook her head. "He wasn't really serious. Of course he's going to be here for Ty's speech."
"Yeah well it's the least he can do," Sully mumbled. Bosco just had that certain way of getting under his skin.
"God they make this coffee strong," Bosco stated as he returned and took his place beside Faith. "Guess they figure it will help keep everyone awake."
"Be sure to let Davis know you think his speech is boring," Sully said.
"You know, Sullivan, I wasn't even talking about Davis. Just because you love listening to this stuff doesn't mean I have to. You are boring. You're used to it."
"Bosco, just cool it." Faith gave him an exasperated look. "There's only one more speech before Davis and then we'll go get lunch. We'll go somewhere nice, wherever you like, okay?"
"Lunch sounds good," Bosco said, smiling. "I think we should check out Faneuil Hall. We could go to Cheers. I bet that'd be fun."
Faith returned his smile. "That does sound fun. What do you think, Sully?"
Sully shrugged, trying to appear nonchalant. Truth was he was starving. All morning he had been trying to stay away from all the calorie-ridden pastries that were being served at the conference and now he was hungry enough to eat a horse. "Sure, that sounds alright with me, if it's okay with Davis."
"If everyone can please take their seats, we're about ready to start again." The three officers turned their attention back to the front of the room, preparing themselves to listen to the last two speeches before they could go to lunch.
******
Ty desperately tried to focus his attention on the speaker who was currently up behind the podium. It was a losing battle though. All he could hear was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, sort of like when Charlie Brown's teacher used to speak. He couldn't concentrate in the least. This wasn't the first time he had spoken in public. In fact, he'd done it many times before back in college and it had never really fazed him. But for some reason, today he was unbelievably nervous about it. He knew part of it was because Sully was there. He didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of him. Not to mention the fact that Bosco was also going to be watching. He knew he would never hear the end of it if he happened to do something stupid.
Finally it was his turn. His legs felt like rubber as he got to his feet and made his way up to the stage. He licked his lips and stared out into the sea of uniformed officers. 'You can do this...you can do this...' he told himself. For a few long moments, his mind was blank and he was afraid that the words weren't going to come. He managed to get himself together though and began to speak.
******
"Nice job, partner." Sully shook Ty's hand and clapped his shoulder. "You did really well up there."
"Yeah? I was okay?" Ty questioned, looking back at them uncertainly. "I didn't seem too nervous?"
"You were great, Ty. I couldn't tell you were nervous at all," Faith assured him as she nudged Bosco with her elbow.
"Yeah, yeah, really terrific, Davis." Bosco nodded his head emphatically to emphasize the point. "You were the best one up there." That much was true for him anyhow. He'd actually listened to Davis' entire speech and he couldn't claim that about anyone else who had spoken there that morning.
"I'm just glad its over with," Ty said. He felt immensely relieved just to have the speech behind him. Now he would be able to enjoy the rest of the trip without having to think about it anymore. "So, I didn't have any breakfast this morning. You guys up for lunch?"
Faith nodded. "We were thinking of heading over to Cheers. That okay with you?"
"Yeah I'd like to see that," Ty replied. "Let's get going."
Their destination was relatively close by, so with the help of a map, which Faith had the foresight to bring along, the officers set off towards Faneuil Hall. They walked through the downtown shopping area and the men patiently waited for Faith who stopped to browse at the carts of many of the sidewalk venders. Finally they reached Faneuil Hall. "So we're all agreed on Cheers?" Faith asked as she glanced around at all the sights of the marketplace. There were lots of other interesting possibilities as well.
"Yeah, Cheers is good," Sully replied and Bosco and Ty nodded. They happened to be standing right in front of it, which was an added bonus. Sully's stomach was rumbling and he wasn't really in the mood for a long debate on where they should go.
They headed inside and had to wait once again while Faith stopped to look at all the Cheers merchandise.
"60 bucks for t-shirts?" Bosco shook his head as Faith carefully selected three shirts, one for Emily, Charlie and Fred. "I bet you can find something cheaper somewhere else."
"I don't care. I like these," Faith stated as she took out her bankcard to pay for her purchase. She had made a conscious effort to put some money aside for the trip, wanting to be able to buy anything nice that she might see for Fred and the kids.
"It's your money," Bosco shrugged.
"That's right, it is." Faith took her receipt and bag from the cashier and turned back to her companions who she could see were getting impatient. "Okay guys, let's have some lunch."
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"These Boston baked beans sound really good," Ty said as he perused the menu. Actually he was so famished that just about everything on the menu looked good to him. "I think I'll have those to start with."
"I can't decide between the baked beans or the clam chowder," Sully said.
"I think I want to try the chowder," Faith stated. "You can get chowder and sandwich combos."
Not interested in either baked beans or clam chowder, Bosco was already reading through the main course offerings. "I'm going to try the Giant Norm Burger," he announced.
Faith looked at him skeptically. "That thing is humungous. You really think you're going to be able to eat it?"
"I know I'm gonna try."
Sully decided on the sirloin steak, Ty went with the Boston scrod and Faith chose a turkey sandwich. The four officers enjoyed a leisurely lunch and even Bosco and Sully managed to get along quite civilly. Faith though couldn't help smirking when Bosco only got through a little over half of his burger. "I told you, you wouldn't be able to eat it."
"I don't want to stuff myself."
"Guess you won't be getting any dessert then, huh Bos?" Ty chuckled.
"I sort of wanted to try the Boston cream pie," Faith said. She knew she shouldn't, but it really looked good. Besides, this was a vacation. She deserved to treat herself and splurge a little. "Anyone want to split it with me?"
Sully quickly shook his head and Bosco gave a resounding "no."
"I'm up for trying it, Faith," Ty replied. He caught the attention of the waitress and ordered the dessert, then they sat back to wait.
"Boy am I stuffed," Sully said as he contentedly patted his stomach. "That was damn good though."
"So...are we planning on going back to the conference this afternoon?" Ty asked.
Bosco made a face and shook his head. "Nah...I don't really want to...unless you guys really do."
Faith shook her head and smiled. "I can't say I'd mind blowing it off. Some of the talks this afternoon look deadly dull. We could just do some sightseeing. Maybe take a harbor cruise?"
Sully nodded in agreement. "That sounds like a plan."
"So how about tonight?" Bosco asked as he toyed with his glass. "We gotta think of something good."
"I think I might have an idea..." Ty spoke after a few moments of silence. He'd been waiting for just the right time to bring it up. He smiled and reached into his pants pocket, pulling out an envelope.
Bosco didn't even try to hide his curiosity. "Whatcha got there?"
"I don't know if you'd be interested..."
"What is it?" Sully could recognize Ty's 'cat that caught the canary' look and was now just as intrigued as Bosco.
"Just some tickets..."
"Tickets to what? A concert? A play?" Faith couldn't understand men sometimes. Why couldn't he just say it already?
"Four tickets to tonight's Red Sox/Yankees game!" Ty pulled them out of the envelope triumphantly as Sully and Bosco gave enthusiastic whoops.
Faith sighed softly, unable to help feeling a little disappointed. A baseball game was okay, but she would have loved to have had gone to a play. She had been reading some tourism material in her room the night before and had seen that both "The Producers" and "Miss Saigon" were in town.
"Davis! I could kiss you! How the hell did you score those?" Bosco asked, unable to wipe the smile off his face.
"You want to kiss me? Bos, I had no idea," Ty replied with a grin. "They gave tickets to all the speakers. I thought you'd like it."
"Like it? I love it!" The Yankees versus the Red Sox in Fenway Park...Bosco was hardly able to contain his excitement. This was going to be great.
Author: Lynne Facella
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of John Wells and Edward Allen Bernero. I wish they were mine but unfortunately they're not.
Summary: Sully, Ty, Bosco and Faith attend a police conference in Boston.
Notes: Thanks so much for the feedback on part 1. Sorry this has taken me so long to get out :)
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"Oh my God..." Bosco turned to Faith who was seated beside him in the crowded auditorium. "Is it just me or does this guy make you want to stick an ice pick through your brain?"
"Bos, stop." Faith bit her lip to keep from giggling. "It's not that bad."
"Are you kiddin' me?"
"SHHHHH!"
Bosco turned in his seat to try to see who was shushing him. Seated directly behind him was a red-haired woman with a scowl on her face. Bosco couldn't help but notice the striking resemblance she had to Kerry Weaver on ER. He shuddered inwardly as he quickly turned around. "She must not be getting any," he whispered to Faith who quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
The room broke into applause and he realized that the speech had mercifully come to its conclusion. "Thank God that's over." He slowly got to his feet and stretched his arms up over his head. "Want to get out of here?"
"Bosco, we can't." Faith gave him a reproachful look. "Davis is going to be speaking soon. We can't just leave."
"Aww he wouldn't even know. With all the people in here, Davis wouldn't even notice if we're here or not."
"Maybe not, but I'd notice." Sully had been listening to their conversation from a few feet away, and now he approached them. "Bosco, you're staying here if I have to tie you down to your chair and sit on you."
"You're going to sit on me?" Bosco gave Sully an incredulous look. "Good luck explaining my two broken legs to Swersky."
"Shut up."
"You shut up."
Faith noticed that quite a few fellow officers were casting looks in their direction. Some of them seemed amused, but others were obviously annoyed. "Come on you guys...you're making fools out of yourselves. Everyone's staring."
"He can't tell me what to do," Bosco said sulkily, lowering his voice.
"Bos." Faith put her hand on her partner's arm. "Come on. You know you're not going to just walk out of here before Davis speaks." She tried to change the subject. "How's he doing, Sully?"
"More nervous than I've ever seen him," Sully replied with a grin. "I think he'll be glad to get this over with."
"He's not the only one," Bosco grumbled. Once Davis had finished his speech, he figured it would be a lot easier to talk Faith into ditching the conference, at least for a while. He'd sat through some of the more boring speeches known to man that morning. He needed to get out of this place, get some fresh air.
"He's going to be the last speaker before we break for lunch," Sully informed them.
"Yeah, we know how to read the program too," Bosco retorted.
Faith rolled her eyes, not understanding their constant need to go at each other. God, they were worse than Charlie and his friends.
"Can't you just give it a rest?
"I'm gonna go get a cup of coffee," Bosco said. "You want anything, Faith?"
"No, I'm good." She shook her head and watched as he headed off towards the table of coffee and assorted breakfast foods. She sat back down on her chair and turned to Sully. "He doesn't mean anything, you know. He's just really bored with having to sit and listen to these speeches all day. He's not used to it."
Sully sighed to himself as he took a seat beside Faith. She was always defending him, just like he was one of her kids. "Well, it isn't going to kill him to listen to Ty. If he was so opposed to it, he shouldn't have even come to Boston."
Faith shook her head. "He wasn't really serious. Of course he's going to be here for Ty's speech."
"Yeah well it's the least he can do," Sully mumbled. Bosco just had that certain way of getting under his skin.
"God they make this coffee strong," Bosco stated as he returned and took his place beside Faith. "Guess they figure it will help keep everyone awake."
"Be sure to let Davis know you think his speech is boring," Sully said.
"You know, Sullivan, I wasn't even talking about Davis. Just because you love listening to this stuff doesn't mean I have to. You are boring. You're used to it."
"Bosco, just cool it." Faith gave him an exasperated look. "There's only one more speech before Davis and then we'll go get lunch. We'll go somewhere nice, wherever you like, okay?"
"Lunch sounds good," Bosco said, smiling. "I think we should check out Faneuil Hall. We could go to Cheers. I bet that'd be fun."
Faith returned his smile. "That does sound fun. What do you think, Sully?"
Sully shrugged, trying to appear nonchalant. Truth was he was starving. All morning he had been trying to stay away from all the calorie-ridden pastries that were being served at the conference and now he was hungry enough to eat a horse. "Sure, that sounds alright with me, if it's okay with Davis."
"If everyone can please take their seats, we're about ready to start again." The three officers turned their attention back to the front of the room, preparing themselves to listen to the last two speeches before they could go to lunch.
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Ty desperately tried to focus his attention on the speaker who was currently up behind the podium. It was a losing battle though. All he could hear was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, sort of like when Charlie Brown's teacher used to speak. He couldn't concentrate in the least. This wasn't the first time he had spoken in public. In fact, he'd done it many times before back in college and it had never really fazed him. But for some reason, today he was unbelievably nervous about it. He knew part of it was because Sully was there. He didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of him. Not to mention the fact that Bosco was also going to be watching. He knew he would never hear the end of it if he happened to do something stupid.
Finally it was his turn. His legs felt like rubber as he got to his feet and made his way up to the stage. He licked his lips and stared out into the sea of uniformed officers. 'You can do this...you can do this...' he told himself. For a few long moments, his mind was blank and he was afraid that the words weren't going to come. He managed to get himself together though and began to speak.
******
"Nice job, partner." Sully shook Ty's hand and clapped his shoulder. "You did really well up there."
"Yeah? I was okay?" Ty questioned, looking back at them uncertainly. "I didn't seem too nervous?"
"You were great, Ty. I couldn't tell you were nervous at all," Faith assured him as she nudged Bosco with her elbow.
"Yeah, yeah, really terrific, Davis." Bosco nodded his head emphatically to emphasize the point. "You were the best one up there." That much was true for him anyhow. He'd actually listened to Davis' entire speech and he couldn't claim that about anyone else who had spoken there that morning.
"I'm just glad its over with," Ty said. He felt immensely relieved just to have the speech behind him. Now he would be able to enjoy the rest of the trip without having to think about it anymore. "So, I didn't have any breakfast this morning. You guys up for lunch?"
Faith nodded. "We were thinking of heading over to Cheers. That okay with you?"
"Yeah I'd like to see that," Ty replied. "Let's get going."
Their destination was relatively close by, so with the help of a map, which Faith had the foresight to bring along, the officers set off towards Faneuil Hall. They walked through the downtown shopping area and the men patiently waited for Faith who stopped to browse at the carts of many of the sidewalk venders. Finally they reached Faneuil Hall. "So we're all agreed on Cheers?" Faith asked as she glanced around at all the sights of the marketplace. There were lots of other interesting possibilities as well.
"Yeah, Cheers is good," Sully replied and Bosco and Ty nodded. They happened to be standing right in front of it, which was an added bonus. Sully's stomach was rumbling and he wasn't really in the mood for a long debate on where they should go.
They headed inside and had to wait once again while Faith stopped to look at all the Cheers merchandise.
"60 bucks for t-shirts?" Bosco shook his head as Faith carefully selected three shirts, one for Emily, Charlie and Fred. "I bet you can find something cheaper somewhere else."
"I don't care. I like these," Faith stated as she took out her bankcard to pay for her purchase. She had made a conscious effort to put some money aside for the trip, wanting to be able to buy anything nice that she might see for Fred and the kids.
"It's your money," Bosco shrugged.
"That's right, it is." Faith took her receipt and bag from the cashier and turned back to her companions who she could see were getting impatient. "Okay guys, let's have some lunch."
******
"These Boston baked beans sound really good," Ty said as he perused the menu. Actually he was so famished that just about everything on the menu looked good to him. "I think I'll have those to start with."
"I can't decide between the baked beans or the clam chowder," Sully said.
"I think I want to try the chowder," Faith stated. "You can get chowder and sandwich combos."
Not interested in either baked beans or clam chowder, Bosco was already reading through the main course offerings. "I'm going to try the Giant Norm Burger," he announced.
Faith looked at him skeptically. "That thing is humungous. You really think you're going to be able to eat it?"
"I know I'm gonna try."
Sully decided on the sirloin steak, Ty went with the Boston scrod and Faith chose a turkey sandwich. The four officers enjoyed a leisurely lunch and even Bosco and Sully managed to get along quite civilly. Faith though couldn't help smirking when Bosco only got through a little over half of his burger. "I told you, you wouldn't be able to eat it."
"I don't want to stuff myself."
"Guess you won't be getting any dessert then, huh Bos?" Ty chuckled.
"I sort of wanted to try the Boston cream pie," Faith said. She knew she shouldn't, but it really looked good. Besides, this was a vacation. She deserved to treat herself and splurge a little. "Anyone want to split it with me?"
Sully quickly shook his head and Bosco gave a resounding "no."
"I'm up for trying it, Faith," Ty replied. He caught the attention of the waitress and ordered the dessert, then they sat back to wait.
"Boy am I stuffed," Sully said as he contentedly patted his stomach. "That was damn good though."
"So...are we planning on going back to the conference this afternoon?" Ty asked.
Bosco made a face and shook his head. "Nah...I don't really want to...unless you guys really do."
Faith shook her head and smiled. "I can't say I'd mind blowing it off. Some of the talks this afternoon look deadly dull. We could just do some sightseeing. Maybe take a harbor cruise?"
Sully nodded in agreement. "That sounds like a plan."
"So how about tonight?" Bosco asked as he toyed with his glass. "We gotta think of something good."
"I think I might have an idea..." Ty spoke after a few moments of silence. He'd been waiting for just the right time to bring it up. He smiled and reached into his pants pocket, pulling out an envelope.
Bosco didn't even try to hide his curiosity. "Whatcha got there?"
"I don't know if you'd be interested..."
"What is it?" Sully could recognize Ty's 'cat that caught the canary' look and was now just as intrigued as Bosco.
"Just some tickets..."
"Tickets to what? A concert? A play?" Faith couldn't understand men sometimes. Why couldn't he just say it already?
"Four tickets to tonight's Red Sox/Yankees game!" Ty pulled them out of the envelope triumphantly as Sully and Bosco gave enthusiastic whoops.
Faith sighed softly, unable to help feeling a little disappointed. A baseball game was okay, but she would have loved to have had gone to a play. She had been reading some tourism material in her room the night before and had seen that both "The Producers" and "Miss Saigon" were in town.
"Davis! I could kiss you! How the hell did you score those?" Bosco asked, unable to wipe the smile off his face.
"You want to kiss me? Bos, I had no idea," Ty replied with a grin. "They gave tickets to all the speakers. I thought you'd like it."
"Like it? I love it!" The Yankees versus the Red Sox in Fenway Park...Bosco was hardly able to contain his excitement. This was going to be great.