After about ten minutes, the cut had stopped bleeding and he wrapped a protective bandage over the wound and lifted her from the counter in the bathroom and carried her across the hall where he laid her down on the bed, waiting for her to wake up. As she slept, Bobby went and grabbed his phone and called Bosco, one of the cops at the 55. Bobby waited and waited for an answer and let out a heavy sigh. Just as he was about ready to hang up, Bosco answered.
"Who the hell is this calling me at five in the morning?"
"Bosco, its me Bobby. I'm sorry to wake you but I desperately need your help." he said as his voice began to falter.
"Oh God this must be serious." Bosco thought, hearing the panic in Bobby's voice.
"What's wrong Bobby?" Bosco asked.
"I need you to find my brother and lock him up after what he did to Kim." Bobby replied as anger began to course through his veins as he relived what had happened earlier.
"What did he do?"
"He beat the hell out of her and held her captive with a knife at her throat and said if I didn't let him out of the apartment she would die. When he left, he slashed her upper arm with the knife and shoved her into me and ran" He replied, trying to keep his anger in check.
"How is she now?" Bosco replied as fury filled his body.
"She's unconscious, the pain from her arm as she slammed into me knocked her out. The bleeding has stopped, so I'm just waiting for her to wake up." Bobby replied in a lighter tone.
"Stay with her. I'll call Faith and we'll be over shortly." Bosco said.
As Bosco hung up with Bobby, he quickly got dressed and headed for his car and dialed Faith's number.
"Hello?" came a groggy voice on the other end.
"I'm gonna kill that jag-off son of a.." Bosco started to spew into the phone.
"Hold up, Bos what's wrong?" Faith replied anxiously.
"Bobby just called. His brother beat Kim for trying to help sort out things between them." Bosco said gripping the steering wheel of his car with an iron eagle grip.
"Get dressed Faith I'm coming to get you so we can go to Bobby's." he said as he hung up the phone.
Luckily Fred and the kids were out of town and she was home alone. About the same time as Faith finished dressing, she heard Bosco banging on her door. Faith grabbed her purse and keys and stepped out the door, locking it behind her.
"Lets go." she said as they ran for Bos' car.
After getting in the car and heading towards Bobby's apartment, Bosco said, "Faith call Bobby and tell him we are on our way."
In what seemed like a matter of minutes, they arrived at Bobby's apartment complex and were on the elevator to his apartment. As Bobby waited, he sat next to Kim, praying that she would wake up. He checked her arm to see if it had still stopped bleeding when he heard someone pounding on his door. Bobby ran to the door and let Faith and Bosco in.
"Where is she?" Faith asked.
"Follow me." Bobby said as he walked quickly with the two officers in tow.
"Oh dear god." Faith said as she saw the unconscious form of her friend covered in bruises and a large bandage on her arm.
"Can we see her arm?" Bosco asked.
"Yeah. Faith hold her arm out while I undo the bandage." Bobby said as he quickly unwrapped the gauze bandage and removed the folded four by fours.
Faith and Bosco felt rage building inside them as they looked at the wound on her arm.
"Please find my brother and lock him up. He has to pay for what he did to her." Bobby said as an icy tone entered his voice.
"Do you have a recent picture of your brother?" Faith asked.
"Yeah, come with me into the living room and I'll get it for you." Bobby said.
As Faith followed Bobby, Bosco sat by Kim and whispered into her ear.
"He will pay for what he did to you Kim. You have my word."
As Faith and Bosco headed to the 55, Bobby returned once again to Kim's side and knelt by her while praying. Several minutes later, he heard her moan from the pain in her arm.
"Kim, can you hear me." Bobby asked.
"Yeah, what happened to me?" she said as she winced when she tried to move her arm.
"Matty beat you when you tried to talk to him and held you hostage at knife point. Before he left, he slashed your arm before shoving you into me and fleeing." he said no longer able to hold back tears of guilt.
"It's ok Bobby, don't cry." she said as she tried to sit up a bit.
"If I hadn't let you try and talk to him, none of this would have happened." he managed to say.
"Bobby. Look at me." She said softly as he lifted his head and looked into her eyes.
"I could never blame you for what happened. You are nothing like your brother," she said holding his face in her hands as she looked into his pain-filled brown eyes.
"We have known each other for so long, I could never hold you responsible. I know you tried to get to me. you will always be my hero Bobby, always," she said as she wiped away his tears with her hands.
"Still if I.." Bobby started to say as Kim cut him off by gently kissing his lips.
"Hush. You need some sleep. Stay in here with me." she said as she moved over making room for him.
As he slipped into bed beside her, he buried his face in her long blonde hair. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her next to him and said, "Kim, if I would have lost you, I don't know what I'd do."
"You'll never loose me Bobby. I love you too much to ever leave you," she said lovingly.
"I love you more than anyone I've ever been with. I want to be with you forever." he said as his body succumbed to the exhaustion of the events of earlier.
Several hours later, Kim awoke to find Bobby still asleep next to her. He felt her touch his tear-streaked face and opened his eyes to find her smiling down at him.
"Good morning." she said quietly.
Bobby sat up beside her and gently brought his mouth to hers and kissed her.
"How do you feel?" he asked.
"The pain in my arm is less intense than what it was earlier, but other than that I'm just sore and weak." she replied.
"That's a relief," he said as he ran a hand through her hair.
Just then the phone rang and Bobby answered it.
"Hello," he said into the phone.
"Hey its Faith, how are you and Kim holding up?" she asked.
"I feel much better after some much needed sleep. Kim just woke up again." he replied to Faith.
"Could I talk to her?" Faith asked.
"Sure, let me pass her the phone." Bobby replied as he handed her the phone.
"Hi Faith, how are you?" Kim said.
"God its good to hear your voice. After seeing the state you were in, you really had us worried." Faith replied to her friend.
"Its good to be back." Kim said as she looked over at Bobby.
"Let me talk to Bobby again." Faith said as Bosco came over to her.
"Any news yet?" Bobby asked after Kim handed the phone back to him.
"Not yet, we are looking everywhere. We've already copied in the Serg and this should take top priority in roll call." Faith said.
"That's a relief because the sooner he is off the streets the more comfortable I'll be." Bobby said.
"That's understandable. I gotta run, Bos and I will stop by later and check up on you two." Faith replied.
"That's cool, because we aren't going anywhere." Bobby said.
"Talk to you later." Faith responded.
"Bye." he replied as he turned off the phone.
Bobby put the phone back down and looked at Kim and said, "I'll go fix us some breakfast, then I'll help you into the bathroom so you can clean up and re-bandage your arm."
"While you take care of breakfast I'm going to call mom and check on Joey." Kim said reaching for the phone.
"Sounds good." he said before he kissed her on the forehead before heading in to fix breakfast.