Chapter 9-Darkness Falls Over Manhatten
Home. There was no sweeter place on earth. Seajae sat staring into the flames of the fire place. Hope was contently sleeping on her lap. Bosco had just gone and put Angel and Mac to bed. She looked down at the little girl. She was blond and blue eyed. Her hair was curly like her mothers had been. It had taken them awhile but they learned everything they could about Hope's birth mother after she died. Not only for future refrence but for themselves. They needed to know once they fell compleatly in love with the baby that no one would ever come back to take her away. She felt warm hands on her shoulders. Looking up Bosco smiled.
"You want me to put her to sleep?"
"Please. The news said we got a total of fourty inches of snow in three days."
"Seems like more." Bosco took the sleeping baby from his wife's arms and put her to sleep in her crib. He came back and sat next to Seajae. "You want something?" She curled into his arms.
"Just you."
"You have me."
"I know. I like hearing you say it." She kissed him. "I want to run something by you."
"What?"
"I want to rebuild Angela's." Bosco closed his eyes. They still owned the land where his mother's bar once stood. He couldn't bare to part with the last part of his mom he had.
"Seajae.......I don't know. I mean.....Hell baby it's not like we don't have jobs and a family to raise. What are we going to do with a bar to run?"
"I'll qiut the force." The words struck Bosco hard. He had wanted to here them after Angel was born and then after Mac. But now he wasn't sure that's what he wanted.
"You'd quit?" She looked at him.
"Yes. For something I believe in."
"You'd give it all up?"
"No. I'd have you and the kids and my friends." Bosco kissed her. He let his hand drift down to the scar just below her wiast line.
"Don't Bosco. Don't go there." Seajae took his hand and broght it up to her mouth and kissed it. "What I did. What I went though it was all in the line of duty and what broght me here. Now. To this point in my life."
"And you want to give it up?" She looked down at the ring on her left hand.
"I'm not giving up anything but a career that caused alot of pain and heatache." Seajae looked up into Bosco's eyes. "I want to feel safe. I feel that here with you and the kids but on the streets lately I feel like.....like I.....I'm thinking too much. And you and I both know where that gets you in this job."
"You're really thinking about quitting?"
"Yeah." He kissed her then. Kissed her with all the emotion that had been pent up for days. In the cabin he had watched her wrestle with a bunch of things including her past. He wanted to make it all better. If this what it took to make it better then this is what they would do.
"You can always come back."
"Yeah, I can always come back." She retuned his kiss with a passion she had always had for this man. A passion she never felt till him. "Make love to me Boscorelli."
"MMMM That's one thing I never want you to quit doing Sunshine." He slid his hands under her legs and lifted her off the couch.
"Your going to hurt yourself Maurice." He smiled and carried her into the bedroom and closed the door behind them, locking out the rest of the world.
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The world came back with a vengence with the morning light. The phone was ringing before the sun was barly up.
"Boscorelli." Seajae rolled over and grabed the phone.
"Hi."
"Elliot? It's five in the morning and you call and say hi?"
"Good morning Seajae. Better?"
"What do you want Stabler and it better be good. I'm leaving for Hawii in twelve hours."
"We got a kid down here for rape and murder."
"Good for you Elliot. Nice job. Now can I go back to bed?"
"Seajae.....it's Charlie Yokas." Seajae sat up. She looked at Bosco still deeply sleeping.
"When...how...." She wispered.
"Last night. We picked him up about a block from the scene. Covered in the girls blood. Seajae he said he didn't do it but hell it all points to him."
"Give me a half hour. Has he asked for his mom or Caleb?"
"Just you."
"Thanks Elliot."
"I'll keep the wolves away till you get her." Seajae hung up the phone and looked over at her sleeping husband.
"Maybe I spoke to soon." She wispered. Everytime the thought of quitting crossed her mind another tragidy came up. Slipping out of bed she pulled her hair back. It was hard with limited movement of her right arm. Quietly she slipped out of bed and got dressed. Seajae kissed her husbands head and left the room. The kids were still sleeping and Kelly and Joey sat at her kitchen table. "I need your huband for a few hours Kelly."
"As long as you bring him back in one peice."
"Promise. Tell Bosco to finnish packing."
"And if he asks where you are?"
"Tell him I'm tieing up loose ends." She grabbed her guns from the safe and Joey helped her with her jacket. "See you in a bit." Joey kissed his wife and the two left the apartment.
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"Do I dare ask what were doing?"
"No. Head to the 23rd." Seajae looked ahead.
"What?"
"I just want this all to be over."
"What?"
"The worring. The pain. I'm quiting the force Joey."
"No your not." She looked at him.
"Yes I am."
"Right. And hell just froze over. Seajae, this is your life. Your world. Your never going to quit this job."
"I am. I'm rebuilding Angela's."
"Really. So your going to be a bar tender? No way. That's just not you Seajae." Joey pulled into the lot behinde the 23rd preicent. He put the car in park and turned off the egine. "Why are we here?"
"Charlie." Was all she said as she got out of the car. Putting her badge around her neck she headindinto the building. Charlie was fourteen. Fourteen. Stopping at the front desk the Sargent looked at her.
"You look like hell Boscorelli."
"Thanks Sarg. I'm here to see Charlie Yokas. Stabler said he'd keep out of lock up for me."
"He's upstairs with Stabler."
"Thanks." Seajae took the steps slowly. Joey stayed two steps behind her. Faith's son was in trouble. Big trouble by the look on Seajae's face. Damn them all for making her the one they always call. She didn't need this. Not now. Not when she was making a life changing decicion. Elliot was at the top of the steps.
"Morning Sunshine."
"Bite me. So how bad is it?"
"He's asking for you. That's all he's said since the black and whites picked him up." Seajae looked though the widow. He couldn't harm a fly. Not little Charlie. Handing her guns to Joey she looked at Elloit.
"Thanks for not calling Faith or Calab."
"He needs a lawyer Seajae."
"He'll get one." She walked in the door. "Hey Charlie." He looked up. His innocent boy face filled with tears. He stood up and went to her. She took the boy in her arms and let him cry. Outside Doyle looked at Stabler.
"You still think he did it?"
"Never thought he did. But he needs to explain what the hell happened." They watched Seajae rock the child. She told him it would be alright. That she would take care of things. The boy continued to cry.
"Charlie. Charlie honey you need to talk to me." She took his face in her hands and looked him in the eyes. Eyes so like Faith's. "Tell me what happened."
"I was at the park with my friends last night. We ditched some girls we were talking to in the woods. I fell. When I woke up I was covered in blood. I freaked and headed to the street and thats when the black and white picked me up."
"Where were you suppose to be Charlie?"
"Will's house. He was ahead of me a few yards when I fell." Seajae stood and looked at the boys head. There was a three inch laceration at his hair line. Someone had cleaned it but blood still seeped out.
"Does your head hurt?"
"I hurt all over." Seajae looked up into the two way glass. Elliot noticed her flinch. He watched her as she stroked the boys hair.
"I'll get you some asprine. Charlie, did you hurt anybody. Maybe one of those girls?"
"No aunt Seajae. I would never do that." Seajae knew Charlie and Emily like her own children. She knew he couldn't hurt another human being let alone kill them.
"You want me to call your mom and dad?"
"Not yet. I wasn't there Seajae. I was in the woods and got knocked out. I don't need mom and dad stressing about it right now."
"Charlie, your not going home anytime soon. The blood on your clothes was the girls."
"I never hurt anyone Seajae....I swear." The boy began to cry again. Seajae took him in her arms.
"I know kiddo. I know." She pushed the boy away and stood up. "I'm going to make some calls and see what I can do about getting you out of here."
"Not mom and dad."
"No....but I am giving Elliot Will's address. He was with you right?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't he come looking for you?"
"I don't know." He looked at Seajae. "I don't know." Seajae went to the door.
"I'll be back Charlie. You want anything?"
"I just want to go home aunt Seajae."
"I'm working on that Charlie." She shut the door and headed down the hall to Elloit. "Will Adams. Fourteen. 5'10 red hair blue eyes. He left Charlie in the park. He lives about three blocks uptown from us." He looked at Seajae.
"You want to come?"
"Yeah." Joey followed them out the door and to the car.
"Should we call Faith. Seajae she's got to be worried about the kid."
"Charlie was spending the night. He usaully doesn't come home till late afternoon. Joey let me handle Faith and Caleb." They got into the car and drove back up town. Elliot was silent as they pulled up in front of Will's house.
"You want point?"
"Yeah. I'll take it." Seajae walked up the steps of the brownstone and knocked on the door. A woman answered the door. "Mrs. Adams..."
"Detective Boscorelli." She smiled. "How nice to see you."
"I'm afraid this is not a social call. I need to see Will."
"Will? What ever for?"
"Mrs. Adams, he was with Charlie Yokas last night. Charlie was suppose to spend the night. Charlie was found in the park this morning. He said that Will was with him. I need to talk to him."
"He's still alseep."
"Can we wake him. It's important."
"Come in." Seajae followed the woman into the house. Elloit and Joey followed.
"This is detective Stabler and officer Doyle."
"I'll get Will." She walked up the stairs. Seajae turned to talk to Elliot. The scream shattered the quiet. The three officers took the steps two at a time. They stopped behind Mrs. Adams. Will Adams was handing from the light fixture by his belt.
"Well this isn't what I expected." Seajae and Elliot pushed past the boys mother and tried to get the boy down as Doyle called for a bus. "God let there be a note."
"We can't get that lucky can we?"
"What I'm I going to tell Faith?"
"That her son is in deep shit." The removed the boys body from the belt. Seajae checked for a paulse.
"Shallow but there. Joey put a rush on that bus." She tiltled the boys head.
"Don't you dare die on me you little brat." Elliot started CPR. Mrs. Adams wept in the corner of the room.
"Come on Will. Don't do this to your best friend. Don't do this to me." Seajae helped Elliot. "Breath damn it. Breath." Joey let in the paramedics. Seajae and Elliot moved back. If the boy died so did any chance of Charlie proving his innocents died with him. Seajae walked to the street. She opened her phone and dialed her house. Bosco answered on the fourth ring. "Meet me at Faith and Calebs in fifteen."
"Whats up?"
"You don't want to know. See you in fifteen." She shut her phone and threw it as hard as she could with her left hand. It shattered agaist the building. Elliot put his hand on her shoulder. She pulled away and headed the three blocks to home. And to shatter a mother's world.
Home. There was no sweeter place on earth. Seajae sat staring into the flames of the fire place. Hope was contently sleeping on her lap. Bosco had just gone and put Angel and Mac to bed. She looked down at the little girl. She was blond and blue eyed. Her hair was curly like her mothers had been. It had taken them awhile but they learned everything they could about Hope's birth mother after she died. Not only for future refrence but for themselves. They needed to know once they fell compleatly in love with the baby that no one would ever come back to take her away. She felt warm hands on her shoulders. Looking up Bosco smiled.
"You want me to put her to sleep?"
"Please. The news said we got a total of fourty inches of snow in three days."
"Seems like more." Bosco took the sleeping baby from his wife's arms and put her to sleep in her crib. He came back and sat next to Seajae. "You want something?" She curled into his arms.
"Just you."
"You have me."
"I know. I like hearing you say it." She kissed him. "I want to run something by you."
"What?"
"I want to rebuild Angela's." Bosco closed his eyes. They still owned the land where his mother's bar once stood. He couldn't bare to part with the last part of his mom he had.
"Seajae.......I don't know. I mean.....Hell baby it's not like we don't have jobs and a family to raise. What are we going to do with a bar to run?"
"I'll qiut the force." The words struck Bosco hard. He had wanted to here them after Angel was born and then after Mac. But now he wasn't sure that's what he wanted.
"You'd quit?" She looked at him.
"Yes. For something I believe in."
"You'd give it all up?"
"No. I'd have you and the kids and my friends." Bosco kissed her. He let his hand drift down to the scar just below her wiast line.
"Don't Bosco. Don't go there." Seajae took his hand and broght it up to her mouth and kissed it. "What I did. What I went though it was all in the line of duty and what broght me here. Now. To this point in my life."
"And you want to give it up?" She looked down at the ring on her left hand.
"I'm not giving up anything but a career that caused alot of pain and heatache." Seajae looked up into Bosco's eyes. "I want to feel safe. I feel that here with you and the kids but on the streets lately I feel like.....like I.....I'm thinking too much. And you and I both know where that gets you in this job."
"You're really thinking about quitting?"
"Yeah." He kissed her then. Kissed her with all the emotion that had been pent up for days. In the cabin he had watched her wrestle with a bunch of things including her past. He wanted to make it all better. If this what it took to make it better then this is what they would do.
"You can always come back."
"Yeah, I can always come back." She retuned his kiss with a passion she had always had for this man. A passion she never felt till him. "Make love to me Boscorelli."
"MMMM That's one thing I never want you to quit doing Sunshine." He slid his hands under her legs and lifted her off the couch.
"Your going to hurt yourself Maurice." He smiled and carried her into the bedroom and closed the door behind them, locking out the rest of the world.
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The world came back with a vengence with the morning light. The phone was ringing before the sun was barly up.
"Boscorelli." Seajae rolled over and grabed the phone.
"Hi."
"Elliot? It's five in the morning and you call and say hi?"
"Good morning Seajae. Better?"
"What do you want Stabler and it better be good. I'm leaving for Hawii in twelve hours."
"We got a kid down here for rape and murder."
"Good for you Elliot. Nice job. Now can I go back to bed?"
"Seajae.....it's Charlie Yokas." Seajae sat up. She looked at Bosco still deeply sleeping.
"When...how...." She wispered.
"Last night. We picked him up about a block from the scene. Covered in the girls blood. Seajae he said he didn't do it but hell it all points to him."
"Give me a half hour. Has he asked for his mom or Caleb?"
"Just you."
"Thanks Elliot."
"I'll keep the wolves away till you get her." Seajae hung up the phone and looked over at her sleeping husband.
"Maybe I spoke to soon." She wispered. Everytime the thought of quitting crossed her mind another tragidy came up. Slipping out of bed she pulled her hair back. It was hard with limited movement of her right arm. Quietly she slipped out of bed and got dressed. Seajae kissed her husbands head and left the room. The kids were still sleeping and Kelly and Joey sat at her kitchen table. "I need your huband for a few hours Kelly."
"As long as you bring him back in one peice."
"Promise. Tell Bosco to finnish packing."
"And if he asks where you are?"
"Tell him I'm tieing up loose ends." She grabbed her guns from the safe and Joey helped her with her jacket. "See you in a bit." Joey kissed his wife and the two left the apartment.
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"Do I dare ask what were doing?"
"No. Head to the 23rd." Seajae looked ahead.
"What?"
"I just want this all to be over."
"What?"
"The worring. The pain. I'm quiting the force Joey."
"No your not." She looked at him.
"Yes I am."
"Right. And hell just froze over. Seajae, this is your life. Your world. Your never going to quit this job."
"I am. I'm rebuilding Angela's."
"Really. So your going to be a bar tender? No way. That's just not you Seajae." Joey pulled into the lot behinde the 23rd preicent. He put the car in park and turned off the egine. "Why are we here?"
"Charlie." Was all she said as she got out of the car. Putting her badge around her neck she headindinto the building. Charlie was fourteen. Fourteen. Stopping at the front desk the Sargent looked at her.
"You look like hell Boscorelli."
"Thanks Sarg. I'm here to see Charlie Yokas. Stabler said he'd keep out of lock up for me."
"He's upstairs with Stabler."
"Thanks." Seajae took the steps slowly. Joey stayed two steps behind her. Faith's son was in trouble. Big trouble by the look on Seajae's face. Damn them all for making her the one they always call. She didn't need this. Not now. Not when she was making a life changing decicion. Elliot was at the top of the steps.
"Morning Sunshine."
"Bite me. So how bad is it?"
"He's asking for you. That's all he's said since the black and whites picked him up." Seajae looked though the widow. He couldn't harm a fly. Not little Charlie. Handing her guns to Joey she looked at Elloit.
"Thanks for not calling Faith or Calab."
"He needs a lawyer Seajae."
"He'll get one." She walked in the door. "Hey Charlie." He looked up. His innocent boy face filled with tears. He stood up and went to her. She took the boy in her arms and let him cry. Outside Doyle looked at Stabler.
"You still think he did it?"
"Never thought he did. But he needs to explain what the hell happened." They watched Seajae rock the child. She told him it would be alright. That she would take care of things. The boy continued to cry.
"Charlie. Charlie honey you need to talk to me." She took his face in her hands and looked him in the eyes. Eyes so like Faith's. "Tell me what happened."
"I was at the park with my friends last night. We ditched some girls we were talking to in the woods. I fell. When I woke up I was covered in blood. I freaked and headed to the street and thats when the black and white picked me up."
"Where were you suppose to be Charlie?"
"Will's house. He was ahead of me a few yards when I fell." Seajae stood and looked at the boys head. There was a three inch laceration at his hair line. Someone had cleaned it but blood still seeped out.
"Does your head hurt?"
"I hurt all over." Seajae looked up into the two way glass. Elliot noticed her flinch. He watched her as she stroked the boys hair.
"I'll get you some asprine. Charlie, did you hurt anybody. Maybe one of those girls?"
"No aunt Seajae. I would never do that." Seajae knew Charlie and Emily like her own children. She knew he couldn't hurt another human being let alone kill them.
"You want me to call your mom and dad?"
"Not yet. I wasn't there Seajae. I was in the woods and got knocked out. I don't need mom and dad stressing about it right now."
"Charlie, your not going home anytime soon. The blood on your clothes was the girls."
"I never hurt anyone Seajae....I swear." The boy began to cry again. Seajae took him in her arms.
"I know kiddo. I know." She pushed the boy away and stood up. "I'm going to make some calls and see what I can do about getting you out of here."
"Not mom and dad."
"No....but I am giving Elliot Will's address. He was with you right?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't he come looking for you?"
"I don't know." He looked at Seajae. "I don't know." Seajae went to the door.
"I'll be back Charlie. You want anything?"
"I just want to go home aunt Seajae."
"I'm working on that Charlie." She shut the door and headed down the hall to Elloit. "Will Adams. Fourteen. 5'10 red hair blue eyes. He left Charlie in the park. He lives about three blocks uptown from us." He looked at Seajae.
"You want to come?"
"Yeah." Joey followed them out the door and to the car.
"Should we call Faith. Seajae she's got to be worried about the kid."
"Charlie was spending the night. He usaully doesn't come home till late afternoon. Joey let me handle Faith and Caleb." They got into the car and drove back up town. Elliot was silent as they pulled up in front of Will's house.
"You want point?"
"Yeah. I'll take it." Seajae walked up the steps of the brownstone and knocked on the door. A woman answered the door. "Mrs. Adams..."
"Detective Boscorelli." She smiled. "How nice to see you."
"I'm afraid this is not a social call. I need to see Will."
"Will? What ever for?"
"Mrs. Adams, he was with Charlie Yokas last night. Charlie was suppose to spend the night. Charlie was found in the park this morning. He said that Will was with him. I need to talk to him."
"He's still alseep."
"Can we wake him. It's important."
"Come in." Seajae followed the woman into the house. Elloit and Joey followed.
"This is detective Stabler and officer Doyle."
"I'll get Will." She walked up the stairs. Seajae turned to talk to Elliot. The scream shattered the quiet. The three officers took the steps two at a time. They stopped behind Mrs. Adams. Will Adams was handing from the light fixture by his belt.
"Well this isn't what I expected." Seajae and Elliot pushed past the boys mother and tried to get the boy down as Doyle called for a bus. "God let there be a note."
"We can't get that lucky can we?"
"What I'm I going to tell Faith?"
"That her son is in deep shit." The removed the boys body from the belt. Seajae checked for a paulse.
"Shallow but there. Joey put a rush on that bus." She tiltled the boys head.
"Don't you dare die on me you little brat." Elliot started CPR. Mrs. Adams wept in the corner of the room.
"Come on Will. Don't do this to your best friend. Don't do this to me." Seajae helped Elliot. "Breath damn it. Breath." Joey let in the paramedics. Seajae and Elliot moved back. If the boy died so did any chance of Charlie proving his innocents died with him. Seajae walked to the street. She opened her phone and dialed her house. Bosco answered on the fourth ring. "Meet me at Faith and Calebs in fifteen."
"Whats up?"
"You don't want to know. See you in fifteen." She shut her phone and threw it as hard as she could with her left hand. It shattered agaist the building. Elliot put his hand on her shoulder. She pulled away and headed the three blocks to home. And to shatter a mother's world.