Chapter 23
disclaimer: yea bows head down to NBC...i wish BOSCO was mine...
OK so I'm no doctor and am too busy to go looking up all the correct medical terms so just go with the flow here people if it sounds corny!!! Thanks :)
"Over here quickly" Faith said as Doc and Kim entered the room.
"What happened Faith?" Doc asked as he started to assess the condition of her partner.
"I wish I could tell you Doc, he didn't show up for work today so we came here looking for him and found him like this." Faith replied.
"It looks like he got beat up or something" faith said to Doc, motioning to the purple marks all over Bosco's stomach and chest.
"No, those aren't bruises Faith, that is a sign of a serious illness internally, something else is going on" Doc replied.
Faith gasped, "Oh God I am so sorry...I should have let you take him into Mercy yesterday," Faith cried, as she watched Doc hook Bosco up to all kinds of monitors.
Doc quickly worked him up, determining that Bosco was going into shock from the stress to his body, and had a dangerously high temperature, which would explain his delirious behavior.
"He is non responsive" Doc shouted, "we need to get him outta here now" he said to Kim, as they got Bosco onto the stretcher.
They all got outside, and Kim and Doc loaded Bosco onto the bus, with Faith close behind.
"I'm gonna ride with him" Faith called to Ty.
"Yea, see you at the hospital" Ty called back, suddenly wishing that Sully was with him, and he was not alone.
In the back of the bus, Faith sat next to Doc, with tears in her eyes, as she looked down at her partner, unconscious and helpless, snd she cursed herself for not doing something earlier.
"I knew it Doc" Faith whispered, "I knew that something was terribly wrong, I...I felt it and I still didn't do anything."
The tears started to fall freely now from her eyes, as she let her emotions pour out.
"Oh my God, what have I done? Is he gonna be OK? What do you think is wrong with him? Do you have any idea Doc?"
"Whoa calm down a second Faith," Doc said as she kept talking and asking questions of him.
"First of all, he is stable right now, and we will be at Mercy in a minute, and you know that he is going to get the best treatment there," Doc reassured Faith.
"It could be any number of things, but its probably just a virus, that has invaded him internally" Doc explained to Faith, not wanting her know that he was afraid it was much worse than that though.
They finally pulled up to Mercy and got Bosco out, the doctors all shocked that it was Mr. loud mouth obnoxious supercop.
As he was wheeled into the trauma room, the doctors kept trying to ask Bosco, who was now drifting in and out of consciousness, what had happened to him in the last few days.
He could not respond, only a moan now and then about something else that was in pain.
They asked him if his neck hurt, he groaned yes, if his eyes hurt to the light, and he responded yes to that as well.
Faith was right beside him the whole time, holding his hand, although she wasn't sure he even knew it was her, and although the guilt was killing her, Faith let the doctors know about Bosco getting sick and then blacking out yesterday, and how she thought maybe he hadn't been feeling well the day before either.
She just told them about how she tried to get him to come in and he refused, convincing her it was just the stomach flu, and she had let him have his way, all the time apologizing for not catching on that it was more serious, and forcing him to come in.
The Doctors really didn't care though, what her feelings were, they just wanted to concentrate on finding out the problem now, and making it better, making HIM better, so they asked her to please step outside so that they could work.
"NO, I am not leaving him" Faith demanded, "He needs me here, you don't understand" she pleaded with them.
"Please Faith, we just need some room here to work, the sooner we can identify the problem, the sooner we can fix it" said one of the nurses, as she gently tried to usher Faith out of the trauma room.
Faith finally relented, and let go of Bosco's hand.
She turned around to leave, but was immediately stopped at the sound of Bosco's voice.
"Faith...don...dont go" Bosco whispered hoarsely, and although, he didn't have much strength, he reached his hand out to find hers.
Faith stood dead still in her tracks, and looked at the doctors.
"Oh All right, just this time," the doctor said, as it was clear that these two had a special bond, whatever that was, and that it was obviously helping Bosco.
Faith quickly walked over to Bosco's hand and grabbed it again, squeezing gently and leaning down to his head so that he could hear her, " I am here Bosco... I am here."
disclaimer: yea bows head down to NBC...i wish BOSCO was mine...
OK so I'm no doctor and am too busy to go looking up all the correct medical terms so just go with the flow here people if it sounds corny!!! Thanks :)
"Over here quickly" Faith said as Doc and Kim entered the room.
"What happened Faith?" Doc asked as he started to assess the condition of her partner.
"I wish I could tell you Doc, he didn't show up for work today so we came here looking for him and found him like this." Faith replied.
"It looks like he got beat up or something" faith said to Doc, motioning to the purple marks all over Bosco's stomach and chest.
"No, those aren't bruises Faith, that is a sign of a serious illness internally, something else is going on" Doc replied.
Faith gasped, "Oh God I am so sorry...I should have let you take him into Mercy yesterday," Faith cried, as she watched Doc hook Bosco up to all kinds of monitors.
Doc quickly worked him up, determining that Bosco was going into shock from the stress to his body, and had a dangerously high temperature, which would explain his delirious behavior.
"He is non responsive" Doc shouted, "we need to get him outta here now" he said to Kim, as they got Bosco onto the stretcher.
They all got outside, and Kim and Doc loaded Bosco onto the bus, with Faith close behind.
"I'm gonna ride with him" Faith called to Ty.
"Yea, see you at the hospital" Ty called back, suddenly wishing that Sully was with him, and he was not alone.
In the back of the bus, Faith sat next to Doc, with tears in her eyes, as she looked down at her partner, unconscious and helpless, snd she cursed herself for not doing something earlier.
"I knew it Doc" Faith whispered, "I knew that something was terribly wrong, I...I felt it and I still didn't do anything."
The tears started to fall freely now from her eyes, as she let her emotions pour out.
"Oh my God, what have I done? Is he gonna be OK? What do you think is wrong with him? Do you have any idea Doc?"
"Whoa calm down a second Faith," Doc said as she kept talking and asking questions of him.
"First of all, he is stable right now, and we will be at Mercy in a minute, and you know that he is going to get the best treatment there," Doc reassured Faith.
"It could be any number of things, but its probably just a virus, that has invaded him internally" Doc explained to Faith, not wanting her know that he was afraid it was much worse than that though.
They finally pulled up to Mercy and got Bosco out, the doctors all shocked that it was Mr. loud mouth obnoxious supercop.
As he was wheeled into the trauma room, the doctors kept trying to ask Bosco, who was now drifting in and out of consciousness, what had happened to him in the last few days.
He could not respond, only a moan now and then about something else that was in pain.
They asked him if his neck hurt, he groaned yes, if his eyes hurt to the light, and he responded yes to that as well.
Faith was right beside him the whole time, holding his hand, although she wasn't sure he even knew it was her, and although the guilt was killing her, Faith let the doctors know about Bosco getting sick and then blacking out yesterday, and how she thought maybe he hadn't been feeling well the day before either.
She just told them about how she tried to get him to come in and he refused, convincing her it was just the stomach flu, and she had let him have his way, all the time apologizing for not catching on that it was more serious, and forcing him to come in.
The Doctors really didn't care though, what her feelings were, they just wanted to concentrate on finding out the problem now, and making it better, making HIM better, so they asked her to please step outside so that they could work.
"NO, I am not leaving him" Faith demanded, "He needs me here, you don't understand" she pleaded with them.
"Please Faith, we just need some room here to work, the sooner we can identify the problem, the sooner we can fix it" said one of the nurses, as she gently tried to usher Faith out of the trauma room.
Faith finally relented, and let go of Bosco's hand.
She turned around to leave, but was immediately stopped at the sound of Bosco's voice.
"Faith...don...dont go" Bosco whispered hoarsely, and although, he didn't have much strength, he reached his hand out to find hers.
Faith stood dead still in her tracks, and looked at the doctors.
"Oh All right, just this time," the doctor said, as it was clear that these two had a special bond, whatever that was, and that it was obviously helping Bosco.
Faith quickly walked over to Bosco's hand and grabbed it again, squeezing gently and leaning down to his head so that he could hear her, " I am here Bosco... I am here."