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Chapter 16-Without A Trace

It was two o'clock and the squad room at the 5-5 filled with friends and family. When Maurice Boscorelli called a meeting no one said no. The shift started in an hour. He didn't need that long but he wanted to be sure they all knew where they stood in the most recent crisis and what he was going to do about it. He walked into the room and fifteen sets of eyes followed him to the front of the room.

"Thank you all for taking time out of your busy lives to do this. Most of you all know that Seajae was taking a statment at the hospital this morning and she past out. Her doctors are calling it exhaustion at the moment. He'll know more after he runs some more test." Bosco cleared his thoat and looked at the floor for a minute and then back up at his friends. "Seajae's in pretty bad shape guys. I'm not going to lie and say a few days rest is going to make it all go away."

"Whatever you need Bosco, we're here." Sully stood at the back of the room and spoke for all present in the room.

"I appreciate what all of you have done. Since my mom died we've all been a little out of sorts and this is just another set back. Some of you know that starting in March we're rebuilding my mom's bar." Some looked surprised others gave knowing smiles. "Seajae wanted to quit and run the bar herself." Bosco looked at his frinds. "My wife has always been there for us. Sometimes me more then anyone expects her to be the strong one. We need her here not running the bar down the street but if things don't change she's going to kill herself."

"Bosoc....she's just tiered right?" Jimmy asked. "There's not someting your not telling us."

"Loosing these kids put a strain on her. She made promises she couldn't keep. You know she doesn't like when that happens. Dr. Miller is sadating her for forty eight hours. It will give her body time to heal. I don't know about any of you but since we got off that mountain I haven't seen her eat anything. I should of seen it."

"We were all busy."

"Yeah well I'm married to her. I should of seen it." Faith watched her friend struggle with the fact his wife had been over working herself and he was too wrapped up in something else to see it.

"We're all guilty Bos." Ty and Alex had been absent from some of the recent gatherings as were Sully and his family but Bosco knew they cared and were there for them in a crisis.

"Well now that you all know how things stand . What I need from you guys is to find these kids. I would love to tell Seajae when she leaves the hospital that those kids are safe and sound." They all nodded in agreement and headed out to work. Faith and Caleb stayed behind.

"I'm sorry about taking atvantage of Seajae Bosco." He looked at his best friend of over fifteen years. She looked tiered but all the worry and stress of the last week erased from her beautiful face.

"Faith she did it for all of us. Charlie is as much our family as anyone. Don't blame yourself. Ever since we came off the mountian its been one thing after another." Bosco hugged her. "She wouldn't of had it anyother way." Caleb nodded in agreement. They stood there for along time, gaining strength from eachother.

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Seajae awoke disorented. She felt weaker then she ever felt before. Looking around she knew where she was and sitting in the chair next to her bed was her uncle. Jackson looked older then she remembered but it had been nearly thirty years hadn't it. A nurse came in and put something in her IV.

"What are you doing?" She wispered. Though hazy eyes she reconized Peggy.

"You need rest Seajae. Doctor's orders."

"Bosco?"

"He's on his way. He had a meeting at work." Jackson took her hand.

"I can't loose him Jack." Tears stung her tiered eyes.

"He's not going anywhere sweetheart." He stroked the hair out of her eyes. "And niether I'm I." Her eyes grew to heavy to keep open.

"Is everyone ok?"

"Yes. Everyone's fine." Jackson knew she needed to hear the words. To know she wasn't letting anyone down by being here. "They'll all be here when you wake up."

"Promise?"

"Promise." It was one promise Jackson McBride intened to keep.

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Some of the dreams were hazy and some were so vivid Seajae wasn't sure they wern't real. Scenes of her and Bosco. Angle Faith. Mackenzie and Hope. Seajae needed to pull herself out of the dark abyss she was in but even the sound of familier voices couldn't get her to the surface. She gave up and let the darkness take her.

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Sully sat next to Seajae's bed. He held her hand. She was pale. He had never seen Seajea so weak and pale. Even after Mackenzie's birth. He heard soft footsteps behind him and turned seeing Tatianna behind him.

"She's better?"

"Same."

"She will get better John." She put his arms around him. "Soon. Soon she will be back to the old Seajae."

"I hope your right honey." She smiled.

"When have I been wrong?" Sully laughed.

"Well....." She punched him lightly.

"I'm going for coffee. You want some?"

"Please." Sully turned back and watched his friend sleep. He hoped Tatianna was rigt. Seajae needed to be better soon. For all there sakes.

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Bosco sat in his patrole car writing up a ticket for the car in front of him. A knock on the window make him look up. Ty was standing next to his car. He rolled down the window.

"What the hell are you doing?" Ty looked at his friend.

"This jag off ran a red. What does it look like I'm doing?" Ty bent down and looked at Joey Doyle in the drivers seat. He strugged his shoulders and raised his hands.

"Bos, your wife is in the hospital. You need to be there with her."

"Sully and Tatianna are there." Ty shook his head.

"And you feel you don't need to be?"

"She's sleeping Ty." Bosco kept writing the ticket.

"Bosco."

"What!" He yelled looking in his friends eyes. "What do you want me to do. Sit on my ass and worry if she's going to pull though this. I know she is."

"Maybe just to be there when she wakes up." Bosco tore the ticket out of his book and opened the door.

"Do you know how many times I sat and waited for her to wake up Ty. I logged less hours on the firing range." He walked to the car and gave the teenaged boy the ticket. Ty watched him. He seemed tence and for Bosco that wasn't good. "I can't sit anymore."

"Hey man I understand. But how do you think she'd feel waking up without you there?"

"Ty just let it go. I need to work. To keep my mind off all the other shit." He opened the door. "We're all meeting at the hospital at 11:30. Pass it on to whoever. Miller is letting up on the seditive and Jackson promised we'd all be there when she woke up." Ty saw his friend soften a bit. "I need you there. We need you there."

"You got it. Any word on the kids?"

"No. I'm going to shake Black's tree on my dinner break."

"Don't shake too hard. You don't want the CIA coming down on you too hard."

"I'm not scared of them." Bosco got in the car. "See you later?"

"Yeah. Call me if you need me before then."

"You know I will." Bosco rolled up the window and Doyle pulled away from the curb.

"Black's office?"

"Yeah. And don't start on me too. "

"About what?"

"Seajae."

"When have I ever given you a hard time about the way you treat your wife."

"I treat her fine Doyle. You better then anyone know that."

"All I know is your in a car with me while your wife is in a hospital room less then a mile uptown."

"Seajae wants these kids home."

"How does working the street get that done?" Doyle pulled into the office complex that held Agent Blacks office.

"It keeps me from killing some bastard for not giving me the answers I need." Bosco got out of the car.

"You need me to call Davis?"

"Only if Black comes flying out his window and hits the car." Bosco looked at Doyle. "I was kidding." Joey shook his head. "You know I was kidding Doyle." All he did was watch as Bosco headed up the steps and hoped his friend and partner was kidding. Almost afraid to follow Joey got back in the car and made a phone call.

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"Boscorelli. I heard about your wife. Hows she doing?" Black reached out his hand, Bosco didn't take it.

"Find those kids Black." Derren Black didn't take kindly to threats. But Marice Boscorelli had clout in this city. Problably more then he knew he had. Him and his people had brought down some big names in drug runners and dirty politions in the last few years. Along with his FBI connections and pull with a dozon law enforcement agencies he was a far better police officer then his beat cop sargents badge reflected. Along with his wife. A wife that lay helpless in a hospital bed because she pushed to hard.

"I'm trying." Was all he could say.

"Not hard enough apparently. Funny how sixteen people can drop off the face of the earth and not one person witnessed it. I tried telling Seajae to let it go. Aparrently its one of those things that she can't let go. And when she wakes up and I cut her loose its you she's coming after Agent Black. I don't know how much you know about my wife but you best start working your ass off to find those kids. Once I let her loose Black she'll be all over you. Ever seen pit bull attack?" Bosco leaned on Blacks desk with both hands. "Thats a walk in the park compared to what my five foot six inch wife will do to you."

"Is that a threat Boscorelli?"

"Damn straight." Bosco turned and headed for the door. He turned back. "Seajae has never given up on somthing she believes in. More then once she nearly died trying. If anything happens to her and I find out you had anything to do with those kids turning up missing I will find you." Bosco opened the door and headed out of the building.

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Eleven o'clock couldn't come soon enough. Bosco threw his vest and gun belt in his locker. He turned and looked at the pictures that hung on the door. Seajae. Angel, Mack and Hope. His life. His loves. He must of done something right to deserve them. He traced the line of his wifes face. She was his forever. He hoped he could make her see she needed to slow down or she would't be around for anyone. Slamming his locker Bosco headed out. Joey Doyle was at his truck.

"Bum a ride old man?"

"Who you calling old." Joey looked at his watch.

"You in about thirty minutes."

"Hell I forgot. How did you remember?"

"Kelly has it circled on our calandar. The big four-O. How does it feel to be middle age man." They got into the truck.

"Ask me in ten years." Bosco started the truck and headed toward the hospital. "We're leaving for Hawaii on Friday. You still tagging along?"

"You took my wife, hell yeah I'm tagging along. I have a week."

"You can take Kelly back if you want. She needs a vacation from the Boscorelli triple threat." Joey laughed.

"The best birth controle in town. A week with the Boscorelli kids." Joey looked a Bosco. "Your kids are great. They listen. They have manners most adults don't have. They're great kids Bosco."

"Your wife and you have a lot to do with that. Your both there when we can't be."

"I'll take some credit but you and Seajae, you made those kids what they are." They pulled into the hospital parking lot. There were sqauds and detective vehicles all around the lot.

"This doesn't look good."

"Your telling me." They got out of the truck and headed for the ER doors. Sully, Faith, Ty, Kim and Alex stood at the nurses desk. Bosco scanned the room. Elliott and Caleb stood talking to Christopher and Swerzky to Jimmy and Carlos.

"What happened." All eyes turned to Bosco. The nurses and doctors stopped what they were doing. Faith took a step forward.

"Ah we....we went upstairs to see Seajae....Bosco Sully and Jimmy had just met us in the cafiteria for a minute. We came up to her room and......"

"And what Faith?" Bosco grew tence. Joey took a step closer to his friend.

"She was gone Bos. Her room was empty. IV's gone. It looked like she was never there."

"Maybe they moved her....maybe....."

"Bosco.....Peggy just got off duty...they didn't move her. But whoever took her waited till the shift change. Waited for everyone to be busy."

"Your telling me someone took my wife from one of the busiest hospitals in New York. Just took her and her IV and walked out the front door." There was an anger in Bosco's eyes that had been saved for people he arrested. Now he was looking at Faith and Sully with the same angery look.

"They didn't use the front door." Ty looked at his friend. "We don't know how they got her out but they didn't use any of the entraces down here. No one here or at the main entrance would of let that happen." Bosco looked down at the floor then back up.

"Then where the hell is my wife?"

"Bosco, were searching the hospital room by room. If she's here we'll find her."

"If she's here." The doors of the ER opened and Special Agent Darren Black came into the room that was uncomfortably silent. Bosco turned and the anger in his chest rolled out of him. He knew then who was behind his wifes disappearence. Without thinking he lunnged for the younger man. It took six people to hold him back. "You son of a bitch where is she?"

"Where's who Sgt Boscorelli." The tone in his voice was not as calm as he would of liked it to be.

"My wife Agent Black. And if you don't have the right answers no one will bother holding me back because they'll all want a peice of you. Now where the hell is my wife?"

"Seajae Boscorelli is an important witness in a CIA investigation but we would never indanger someone by removing them from a medical facility." Black took a step back knowing Boscorelli would try and lunge for him again. He didn't have to. Elliott Stabler took three steps and had the man agaist the wall.

"Wrong answer ass wipe. Now again my friend wants to know where his wife is."

"I don't know. If we have her they.....hell they wouldn't tell me. I'm just the agent in charge. The company does what ever it wants to. Damn it McKenzie tell them. If they had ever mentioned taking Seajae I would of intervined." Elliott tighted his grip. "I would of. Damn it this is not what I signed on for I swear." Elliott loosened his grip and let Blacks feet back to the ground.

"We find out your lieing and they'll never find all the peices of your body." The room grew quiet again. Seajae Boscorelli was missing. And with all the men and woman standing there no one knew where to begin to look for her. She had dissappeared without a trace.