It's almost 8 AM. I've been sitting here for hours doing absolutely nothing. The nurses keep telling me to go and get some rest. How do they thing I can rest with all that's been happening. I have no idea.
I hear someone walk in and sit across from me. Figuring its Lieu, I close my eyes and hope he thinks I'm asleep. I don't want to talk to anyone, or hear what's going to happen.
"Sarge is awake, Faith's out of surgery but she's still out." I didn't want to know that. I guess the sleeping thing didn't work. I open my eyes as he leans forward towards me, his gaze on Sully and Davis. "You mind? We need to have a little talk." Lieutenant Dave tells them. Fatty and Baldy look at each other before disappearing behind the closed
doors.
I look at him. I must look like hell since I haven't moved from my spot since I entered the hospital. That's probably why everyone tells me to go home though they know I won't.
"What?" I question him sitting back in my chair.
"Did Captain Ray and Chief Adam's speak to you yet?" He asks me, his dark eyes narrowed inspecting my every mood.
I stare at him with a stupid look on my face. "If they are those two phony guys in suits, yah." I snapped at him.
Lieu Dave sat back in his seat with a satisfied expression. "How much do you know?"
"Just that they were using Noble to get through to Beuford and that Cruz was along in the plan. And how I ruined years of the plan, blah, and blah, blah. It's my entire fault. Sue me." I muttered.
Dave nodded slightly, "And you know to keep your trap shut?"
"Yah, and I told them not to tell me what the fuck to do. I'll say whatever I want to." I snapped crossing my arms along me.
Dave's expression turned dark and angry, "You do know what can happen if this spills out?"
"Yeah, big guys will come and kick my white ass." I continued with sarcasm and an amusing grin. Dave thought it was funny and laughed slightly before becoming serious once again.
Noticing the ACU badge a few feet away, he picked it up and examined it, turning it around in his fingers. It made me nervous watching him, unsure as to what he was going to do. I leaned forward and grabbed it away from him. He looked at me with a smirk.
"We have to go make some statements about what happened later on today. Cruz is leaving in a few hours and I advise you show." He informed me before standing up.
"Already?" I asked watching him.
Lieu Dave nodded, "Yeah, the only thing that saved her was a bad shot…huh." He scoffed slightly. I was still pretty much in shock that Faith aimed for Cruz's head. I mean, that's kind of harsh. "Officer Yokas is going to be in a big amount of shit once she wakes up. The FBI's going to want to talk to her, make sure we're all on the same page."
"It was my fault." I added in quickly, "Not hers."
Dave watched me for a moment with a small laugh. "I know you didn't shoot Cruz. We checked your gun slots. You killed Noble. Only one bullet was fired from your weapon. Faith's bullet hit Cruz, Cruz's hit Faith." He paused as he watched me grimace. Shit.
"She shot a superior Officer. The penalty is on her. And if you ask me, Srgt. Cruz isn't too happy about that. You may want to talk to her before you come into the precient, she's across the hall." He told me with a haunting chuckle before heading out, slamming the door in his place.
As much as I didn't want to see her, or hear her, or come in any contact with her what so ever, I knew I had to. Leaving the room that I had been sitting in for hours, I knew it was time to face the music. Standing in the doorway of her open room, I peered in at the doctor who was tending to the stitches along her upper forehead.
Taking a deep breath I knocked on the door as both of them focused there attention on me. Cruz's eyes narrowed in fury and the doctor looked to me, "Can I help you?"
"You son of a bitch." She cursed loudly towards me before making an attempt to stand, which failed by the restrains of the doctor.
"Sit down Srgt." He told her grabbing her wrists as she fought to break loose.
"Get the fuck out Boscorelli!" She hissed at me trying to push her way around him but the doctor was large and easy to over take her.
I remained silent, staring at her with a slightly amused mocking expression; it was kind of funny to see her this way.
"Carabon! I said get out!" Cruz beckoned, her face twisted in a pattern of anger and humiliation.
"Maritza, I need to finish your stitches, unless you feel like having serious scarring, I'd advise you take a deep breath and relax. We don't want to use sedatives now do we?" He taunted her like a child. I was surprised she didn't spit in his face, which was accustomed to her 'ways', but slowly sat down, her eyes still glued to me.
She looked a lot like Lettie now, the irritation and rage in her eyes and her pale moist skin, drenched from fever of the bullet.
"I just need to talk to you. That's all." I told her in a soft tone.
She flinched in pain by the needles being strung into her flesh, in and out, as she went to crack back a comment.
"Officer, can you come back in a few minutes? I'd like to finish this is peace." The doctor snapped towards me.
Cruz remained silent as I nodded. "Yeah, I'll be outside…" I told them before exiting the room. No loosing there.
This was not going to be as easy as I thought. God knows what Cruz had up her sleeve and may speak about what happened. After about five minutes of waiting, I really didn't feel like waiting much longer so I just started to leave, in effort to find some news about Faith, when a voice stopped me.
"All done, you can go ahead in." I turned around to face the doctor who was already heading down the hall. Damnit.
Sighing, I reluctantly headed back into the room with caution, really not too sure how she was going to react with no restrains. Surprisingly, Cruz sat up on the side of her bed, her eyes skimming me over. She made no attempt to neither get up nor move. Closing the door behind me, I sunk my hands in my pockets and remained several feet away.
"You know, waking up to being handcuffed to a hospital bed doesn't speak to well of yah." She hissed at me, her eyes locked with mine for a brief moment.
Breaking my stare from her, my eyes went to the ground. "Yeah well, I wasn't about to create any more lies."
She stared at me searching for words to say, "Lieu told me you got a visit. You do understand what you screwed up don't you?"
"I wouldn't have if you told me about it." I spoke after a moment quietly.
"I couldn't. It didn't work out that way or I would told yah a long time ago. You think I wanted to threaten this entire case?" She yelled fiercely at me.
My muscles tensed at the abrupt sound before grinding my teeth. "You went too far though."
"You had to go get you 'Madre' into this didn't you? Huh? It's your fault! All of this!" She continued to yell at me.
"She's not my mother! She's my partner. My ONLY partner!" I shouted back towards her, my volume rising, not able to control what spun out of my mouth.
"Fuck you." She hissed at me under her breath, barely audible to me.
"I told the truth. I told Swersky everything that happened. You're over Cruz. That's it." I told her, clear out the facts. Hard, cold, and simple. "we are over."
"Where have you been 'Papi?' We have been over!" She yelled brutally. "No. I'm not. And either is this case Boscorelli. I have everything in line for me; nada is going to keep me away from getting this son of a bitch, after being so god damn close! This time," She paused with a chilling smirk, "This time I will get him. You just won't be part of it."
"You're sick." I chuckled at her, only I wasn't kidding. "Do you not hear yourself? You shot an Officer! You god damn shot her! I'll be god damned if you aren't put away for that too. I'd drop dead if you were still assigned to this. I'd just drop dead." I was finding this quite amusing.
"I shot her as in 'self-defense', chico. I reported everything to Ray and Adams. They knew I had kept Noble clean. They knew about it all. You were just my backup Bosco. That's all you ever were. I used you and swept you away like a piece of shit. You thought you knew what was going on, when you really hadn't a clue. You may have screwed up this time, but you wont, ever again. I'll make sure of that." Cruz continued ranting to me, her eye brows rose slightly with a disgusting smirk on her pale lips.
"But you went too far this time. Way too far. You aren't getting away with that. You shot her…" I continued dumbfounded by what she was saying. A part of me, in the back of my soul, was bleeding from this.
"Did you not hear me? It was self defense! You were there; you saw her flip the gun around! She fired first."
"You were pounding the god damn thing on your chest Cruz!" I yelled not realizing how loud I was. I toned down my volume, "You would have shot her if she didn't give you the gun."
"No, I wouldn't have. I would have simply called Ray and tell him what the two of you were doing to my case. No-one would have ended up shot." She lied. I knew it was a lie, I knew her too well.
"Yeah," I laughed giving her the satisfactory of the doubt. "No-one."
"Where's Noble anyway?" She spoke after a moment of silence. I broke my stare from the floor and looked up to her in shock that she didn't know.
"What?" I choked in disbelief. She was dead serious.
"Where's Noble? You remember him? Aaron Noble?" She mocked me with a small hint of sarcasm.
I stared at her for a few seconds, not sure how to tell her, her Criminal Informant was dead. "He's dead."
Maritza's face dropped almost like her mind didn't comprehend what I was saying. "Dead? What?! He can't be dead!" She scowled at me in disbelief. I looked away from her. "You killed him?!"
"He pulled a gun out behind you. He was going to shoot one of us. I had no choice." I spoke lowly.
"Oh dios. You're in big shit now Boscorelli. Not did you just spoil years of work, you killed out CI!" Her voice cracked as she spoke, staring at her hands saying in her mind, 'now what am I going to do?'
"Tell me something I don't know." I muttered as I glared around her room.
"Is Yokas alright?" I heard her speak as I brought myself back to reality and looked at her with revulsion. She stared at the ground with a solemn expression.
"You don't have the right to ask me that." I told her before heading out on heel. "I'll see you at the precient."
"Bosco," She started but I didn't take the time to acknowledge her, as I walked out, slamming the door in place.
I felt nauseas when I find out that Lieutenant Johnson and Alex Taylor are dead. I mean, after all, wasn't it Cruz's and my fault? Two people lost there lives today because of Beuford. I've never wanted to catch him more then I do right now, although I know, I won't be looking back on to that case anytime soon. That's for sure.
Faith's still unconscious from surgery. I visited her after my talk with Cruz, once I made sure the coast was clear of any vicious husbands who may just put a fist though my head, or throw me out the window.
She looked so serene, so vague in another dream world. As much as I wanted to wake her up and tell her how sorry I was, I remained in the doorway, staring at her motionless face. Her face that seemed so lost in itself.
I couldn't seem to bring myself to say anything, or go to her bedside. The sense of guilt that I held on my back was too empowering. This was something I knew she'd never forgive me for, and I didn't expect her to either. She didn't deserve what I had gotten her into. She didn't deserve me.
That's about when I left. I hadn't stayed long, just several minutes to make sure she was alright. I had to just see her, to make sure she wasn't dead, to make sure my conscious was wrong. That's all that counts anyway. That Faith's alright. Now it was my job to get her ass out of this mess. I was already going down the drain. It was time to pull myself out, and take Faith with me. It wasn't going to be an easy task, but I was going to have to try.
I sat in a fairly large office in the precient, rolling a pen along the table, from one hand to the other, back and forth. Lieutenant Dave looked at me, from my left, annoyed, but remained silent. Cruz sat across me with her head in her hands, her eyes closed, and Swersky sat on one of the ends tapping his fingers in a quick pattern.
"Where the hell are these guys?" Cruz broke the silence looking up at us. "Sincerely Lieu, I'd like to get home as soon as possible, speaking that my head fells like it's going to spin off my shoulders." She complained.
"We are waiting as long as this takes to settle this out." Swersky spoke sternly. "Chief Adams and Captain Ray should be here soon."
Lieutenant Dave shifted in his seat next to me, "Want me to call them?" He asked but the question was ignored as the door swung open.
"Nice of you to have joined us." Swersky noted in a sarcastic tone. All of a sudden, a crash of amusement fell over to me, just looking at everyone and there faces. I bit my tongue.
"Something came up and Chief Adams could not make it. He sends his regards." Captain Ray replied in a tranquil tone before taking his seat at the other end, across from Swersky who looked quite impatient to get this over with.
"Alright let's get started then." Lieu Dave said after a moment of silence.
"First, Officer Boscorelli, would you like to inform us what you were doing at Noble's hotel room last evening." Captain Ray asked me, his eye brows rose in a cocky manner.
I groaned. Again. I was going to have to tell the god damn thing again.
"I think it's in order for Srgt. Cruz to explain what she was doing as well." Swersky butted in before I got a chance to explain once again. It was clear everyone knew what happened. I noticed Cruz grimace slightly across from me out of the corner of my eye. I sighed lightly and stared at the table as she spoke.
I was going to be careful to hear every work that flew out of her trap.
"Ever since Noble was arrested for possession, Noble and I had been working along with Captain Ray and Chief Adams on Richard Beuford's case." She started with a dry tone.
I bit back another moan really not wanting to hear the whole god damn story again. "Is this really necessary?" I questioned them looking from one to the other. Dave hissed something at my side while Cruz gave me a dirty look for interrupting her 'speech'.
"Boscorelli, is there a problem?" Swersky asked, his stress level surely rising.
"Telling the whole god damn thing isn't going to solve anything. Everyone knows what happened, we don't need the constant repetition do we? I have somewhere to be." I replied grimly trying to hold back the urge to push away my chair and get the hell out.
Swersky gave me a funny look. "I told you, you can't see, Yokas!" He hissed like a cat and I looked away stupidly. Cruz was smirking evilly.
"Rap it up to the hotel room." He continued after a second, his attention back to Maritza.
"Do you need anything specific Lieu; I wouldn't want to waste Boscorelli's time over here." Cruz snapped, her head cocking to the side in sarcasm as she leaned over the desk.
I found no words to say to her.
Swersky's eyes narrowed, "Talk."
"I walked in after finding out what was going on, gun at my side. Boscorelli followed me in about a minute after I arrived with Noble, Yokas wouldn't give me the gun, she aimed the gun at me and we fired." Cruz explained leaning back.
"After I told you not to go ahead without my consent." Captain Ray butted in over to Cruz, his eyes dark and cold.
"I had the facts. I wasn't going to spoil this and let this carabon get away when I had a chance to snatch um'," she grimaced in her seat, "So I tried to stop them and bang bang, our CI's dead." She scowled lowly.
"You're done with this Martiza." He stated.
I looked over across the table to watch for a reaction but she didn't reply, just sat there with a blank expression on her face.
"You're off this case, Sergeant," Captain Ray said almost tauntingly. "You're out of ACU until further notice."
"But I shot her self-defense! I didn't do anything wrong!" Cruz protested trying to save herself, almost pleadingly. "The bitch shot me and you're going to let her get away with that?!" She yelled infuriated.
I went to speak but I caught myself. I wanted to cover her up so badly. Tell them that I shot Cruz and Faith was clear, but I remembered Lieu. Telling me about the rounds counted. It was no use. I didn't know what to do now. There wasn't much to do until I could talk to Cruz. Alone.
"Officer Yokas will get her fair share at the end. You just better hope her case goes well, unless you two may be sharing a cell." Captain spoke. Swersky look agitated but remained silent.
Cruz and me both spoke at once. "I didn't do anything wrong here'!"
"Case? What?!" I questioned them quickly, standing up, my fists meeting the table. "What case? Faith was helping me. Okay? She didn't shoot Cruz for any reason." All eyes were on me.
"Sit down!" Swersky's stern voice echoed though the room as I sat slowly.
"Why did Yokas shoot Cruz then?" Captain Ray asked.
I didn't know what to say. I myself didn't know. "She felt threatened."
"Don't put words in her mouth. We will need to talk to Yokas at a later time." Captain Ray stated looking from me to Swersky.
I rubbed my face agitated. "So that's it?"
"What happens to the team?" Lieu Dave spoke after a moment. Cruz's face was shrewd in anger and frustration as she looked over to Swersky. I was glad.
"The team's going to be off for a while until we get this sorted out. I'm sure you will be fine without Sergeant Cruz for a while." Swersky replied. Cruz glared at him sourly. I found myself holding back another laugh as I looked at the two.
"Now if you don't excuse me, I should be going. Cruz, you be looking forward to hearing from me." Captain Ray informed her, standing up and heading out.
"Oh I will." She muttered inaudible after he left. I stood up along with Dave and Cruz.
Before I got a chance to corner Ritza, Dave ushered over to Cruz who soon disappeared out of the office. I'd have to figure out better timing.
I started out when Swersky's voice stopped me, "Bosco, I'm warning you. She's not going to want to see you."
"How do you know that? Huh?" I spat towards him. "I don't care. I really don't." I continued quietly.
"Leave her alone." He warned me but before he got a chance to say more, I vanished.