Kim, Joey and Bobby all sat at the round kitchen table talking, when the
rest of the firefighters joined them after finishing up with the truck.
Several hours later, Kim and Joey left to head back home for the rest of
the day. Bobby and Jimmy both walked out with her and Joey to the front of
the station and bid them farewell and watched as she and her son headed
home.
The day was another slow one for the firefighters until much later that night. As for the paramedic's, their shift was fairly busy with routine calls. The big call of the evening came when an explosion occurred at a gas station where there was a motor vehicle accident that had taken place right in front of it involving two cars. One of the fuel tanks in one of the cars had ruptured, sending gasoline in the direction of the pumps at the gas station. All it took was a single spark to ignite the trail of gas, luckily the owner of the station had shut off the pumps when the accident happened, even though there was a person refueling at the time.
The person refueling never heard the warnings to get out of the way because of the walk-man that was blaring music. As the trail of gas kept igniting closer and closer to where the person was standing, the only apparent way to avert a catastrophe was to physically move the person away from the car since they obviously couldn't hear the warnings. Bobby had noticed the young man not responding to the warnings the fire department shouted and had a feeling things were going to take a turn for the worse. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Jimmy start running towards the young man but was too far away to make it in time. Instinctively, Bobby took off towards the young man, the ignited gas trail getting too close to the hose of the gas pump for comfort.
Right when Bobby got to him, the flames began to lick at the hose and the two ran a short distance before Bobby heard Jimmy yell for everyone to take cover. An explosion was coming. Bobby pushed the man to the ground and shielded him as car exploded, raining down fiery pieces of debris around them. After getting up from the ground, he helped the young man up and headed over to where Alex was standing. After the fire was under control Jimmy headed over to where Alex and Bobby were checking out the young man making sure he was ok.
After everything was taken care of at the accident site, and all the injured were attended to and transported to the hospital, it was finally time to call it a night. Back at the firehouse everyone was gathering their things after returning from the last call of the night. Bobby had just gotten his things from his locker and was on his way out of the station when Jimmy came over to him.
"That was a gusty run you made at that kid at the gas station," he said as he leaned against one of the trucks in the bay.
"Yeah. Somebody had to do it because you wouldn't have gotten to him in time." Bobby replied.
"Your lucky Kim wasn't there or she would have probably given you the same lecture I get about taking risks." Jimmy replied laughing.
"Yeah, but you take risks all the time, I take them when it's called for." he replied as he headed out into the cool night air towards his apartment.
Kim was curled up in bed reading a book while she waited for Bobby to either call or come over. Two hours after she hadn't heard anything from him she called his apartment but got no answer. She placed the phone by her on the bed and went back to reading for thirty more minutes before calling again. When she called back, she thought he had picked up but as she listened to the noise in the background she realized she heard a fight going on in his apartment. She quickly called her mother to see if she could come up and stay with Joey while she went to check on Bobby to make sure he was ok after what she had heard in the background of the phone. Within minutes her mother had arrived and Kim took off for Bobby's apartment, calling Faith and Bosco enroute to let them know what she had heard.
Ten minutes later Kim arrived at Bobby's and stood outside waiting for Faith and Bosco. She fought the instinct to go on her own and knew it would be too dangerous for her alone if there was a fight going on in there. Five minutes later Faith and Bosco pulled up and the three of them dashed up the stairs towards his apartment. As they cautiously made their way down the corridor to his room, they could hear voices fighting in Spanish but couldn't recognize any of them. The door to his apartment was cracked and Kim peered through, seeing that his apartment had been ransacked. Fear grew within her, not knowing whether Bobby was hurt or ok.
Bosco kicked open the door to find a group of six masked men beating up Bobby who was gagged and duct taped to prevent him from fighting back or calling for help. The men dropped Bobby and fled towards the fire escape. Bosco went to the stairs and headed outside, while Faith followed the group to the fire escape. Kim ran over to Bobby and fell to her knees beside him as she undid the tape on his feet and wrists and carefully removed the tape from his mouth. After helping him to his feet, she helped him over to the sofa and went and dampened a washcloth so he could wipe the blood from his face.
"How did you know what was going on?" Bobby asked her when she returned.
"I called twice, the first time no one answered and the second time I heard what sounded like a fight in the background and got over here as fast as I could." She replied back softly.
Minutes later Faith and Bosco returned after capturing two of the six men to check and see how Bobby was doing. After giving his statement to the police, he headed into the bathroom to cleaned himself up a bit before heading back to where Kim was sitting.
"Till this is sorted out, you're staying with me," she replied when he sat back down next to her.
"I'll be fine here, don't worry." he replied back to her, hoping to ease her anxiety.
"You had six unwanted houseguests when you got home. There is a reason why they were here, and until that's revealed your staying with me," she said back to him, hoping he'd see to reason.
Knowing he wasn't going to win this battle, he relented and said, "How long will I be staying with you?"
"As long as it takes to figure out what's going on, or until it's safe enough for you to return here." she replied.
Bobby headed for his room to pack some clothes for his stay with Kim and told the officers where he would be if they needed to reach him and turned and left with her to return to her apartment. When they arrived, Bobby went straight to the bathroom to take a shower and change while Kim talked to her mother before she left. A short time later, Kim's mother left and went back to her apartment and Kim peeked in on her sleeping son and headed back to her room to free up a drawer for Bobby's things in the dresser.
Ten minutes later Bobby returned to Kim's room and sat down beside her.
"The second drawer of the dresser is all yours," she said as she saw the bruises starting to form on his face and chest.
"Do you have any idea who those men were?" she asked as she placed the book she'd been reading on the nightstand.
"I think that they might have been friends of Matty's." he replied back as he finished putting his clothes in the dresser and stretched out next to her in bed.
Kim flipped of the bedside light and gently kissed Bobby before falling asleep with her right arm draped over his chest.
The next morning, Kim woke up first and rolled over and removed a small notebook from the nightstand that she'd been keeping with ideas for the wedding. Thirty minutes later Bobby began to wake up and looked over at Kim who was busily writing down more ideas.
"What are you up to?" he asked curiously.
"Writing down ideas for the wedding," she replied, glancing over at him.
"Want to go ahead and set dates and stuff?" he asked.
"Sure," she replied smiling as she reached over to the nightstand and found a small calendar.
After a bit of deliberation they both agreed to getting married in one month and decided on a location to hold the ceremony at and Bobby called over and made the necessary arrangements, while Kim began to think of bridesmaids dresses. She looked through a magazine of formal dresses, trying to find the perfect color to have the bridesmaids' dresses done in. One color almost jumped off the page at her, as she looked at the picture, she knew that was the color she'd use for the dresses. After jotting down a note that the bridesmaids' dresses would be dragonfly in color, she saw Bobby come back into the room. As he sat back down beside her, he said "Now, where to we want to go after the wedding?"
"Ever been to the Bahamas?" she asked.
"Nope, but I've always wanted to go down there though." he replied back.
"Wanna go?" she asked, grinning.
"Like I could say no." he replied laughing.
"The Bahamas it is then." She said smiling, as she jotted down the honeymoon location in the notebook.
"Did you ever find the perfect wedding dress?" he asked her curiously.
"As a matter of fact I did, but you still don't get to see it for another month." She replied with a sly grin.
"Now what am I supposed to do to prepare myself for what you're going to look like." he asked her jokingly.
"Use your imagination. You've got a good one of those, so it should be a piece of cake." she replied laughing as he pulled her onto his chest.
"I still can't believe how lucky I am to have met you so long ago when you first came to the station." he said quietly.
"I know. I feel the same way." She replied as she rested her chin on his chest.
An hour later, they finished up the remainder of the planning they were doing for the day, and agreed to pick back up where they left off that evening or the next morning.
"What do you want for breakfast?" Kim asked as she began to get up.
"You have bagels?" he asked.
"You better bet. What kind of bagel do you want." She asked him.
"What kind?" he replied quizzically.
"Yeah, you know like, plain, cinnamon apple, blueberry, poppyseed, etc.," she said back.
As a look of confusion crossed his face, she laughingly said, "Get in here and look at the bags, maybe that will help you decide."
"I've always considered a bagel to be just a bagel regardless of the kind it is." He replied laughing as he followed her towards the kitchen.
Kim got out the bags of bagels and grabbed a cinnamon apple bagel for herself and put it in the toaster as he continued to look at the bags. She put on a pot of coffee and headed over to get the cream cheese out of the fridge and said, "What kind of cream cheese do you want." She saw the same look cross his face when they were discussing bagels and began to laugh.
"You don't go shopping much do you?" she asked as she removed three containers of cream cheese from fridge.
"Nope. Is it that noticeable?" he asked.
"Oh yeah." she replied laughing.
"After breakfast, you want to go for a morning run in the park?" she asked as she put strawberry cream cheese on her bagel.
"Sure," he replied as he finally decided on a blueberry bagel and put it in the toaster.
After Kim had finished her bagel, she put her empty coffee cup in the sink and went to get ready for her morning run, while Bobby finished up eating. A short time later they were ready and dropped off Joey at her mothers and headed out for a relaxing run. They walked hand in hand chit chatting until they reached the park, where they simultaneously broke into a slow run. After about thirty minutes, Bobby began to pick up the pace slightly and Kim kept right up with him easily. After several hours' worth of running, the two slowed to a brisk walk and took a bit of a breather.
"Before we head back to your place, we ought to have a match race." Bobby said jokingly.
"Why mess up perfectly good automobiles?" she asked him.
"I meant a race on foot." he replied laughing.
"Oh, ok." Kim replied, blushing slightly.
Just then her cell phone began to ring. When she answered, she found Alex on the other end.
"Hey Kim, what's up?" Alex asked her friend.
"Not much, just out for a morning run with Bobby." she replied.
"Sounds like fun." Alex said back, looking over at Ty who sat beside her.
"Yep, especially now that he wants a match race." Kim replied laughing.
"How exciting. Can we come watch?" Alex asked.
"Sure, we're down at the park, lemme get the scoop on the details real quick and I'll relay them to you." Kim said before she put her hand over the phone and talked to Bobby.
After relaying the details to Alex, they hung up their phones and headed towards the starting point of the race to wait on Ty and Alex.
The day was another slow one for the firefighters until much later that night. As for the paramedic's, their shift was fairly busy with routine calls. The big call of the evening came when an explosion occurred at a gas station where there was a motor vehicle accident that had taken place right in front of it involving two cars. One of the fuel tanks in one of the cars had ruptured, sending gasoline in the direction of the pumps at the gas station. All it took was a single spark to ignite the trail of gas, luckily the owner of the station had shut off the pumps when the accident happened, even though there was a person refueling at the time.
The person refueling never heard the warnings to get out of the way because of the walk-man that was blaring music. As the trail of gas kept igniting closer and closer to where the person was standing, the only apparent way to avert a catastrophe was to physically move the person away from the car since they obviously couldn't hear the warnings. Bobby had noticed the young man not responding to the warnings the fire department shouted and had a feeling things were going to take a turn for the worse. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Jimmy start running towards the young man but was too far away to make it in time. Instinctively, Bobby took off towards the young man, the ignited gas trail getting too close to the hose of the gas pump for comfort.
Right when Bobby got to him, the flames began to lick at the hose and the two ran a short distance before Bobby heard Jimmy yell for everyone to take cover. An explosion was coming. Bobby pushed the man to the ground and shielded him as car exploded, raining down fiery pieces of debris around them. After getting up from the ground, he helped the young man up and headed over to where Alex was standing. After the fire was under control Jimmy headed over to where Alex and Bobby were checking out the young man making sure he was ok.
After everything was taken care of at the accident site, and all the injured were attended to and transported to the hospital, it was finally time to call it a night. Back at the firehouse everyone was gathering their things after returning from the last call of the night. Bobby had just gotten his things from his locker and was on his way out of the station when Jimmy came over to him.
"That was a gusty run you made at that kid at the gas station," he said as he leaned against one of the trucks in the bay.
"Yeah. Somebody had to do it because you wouldn't have gotten to him in time." Bobby replied.
"Your lucky Kim wasn't there or she would have probably given you the same lecture I get about taking risks." Jimmy replied laughing.
"Yeah, but you take risks all the time, I take them when it's called for." he replied as he headed out into the cool night air towards his apartment.
Kim was curled up in bed reading a book while she waited for Bobby to either call or come over. Two hours after she hadn't heard anything from him she called his apartment but got no answer. She placed the phone by her on the bed and went back to reading for thirty more minutes before calling again. When she called back, she thought he had picked up but as she listened to the noise in the background she realized she heard a fight going on in his apartment. She quickly called her mother to see if she could come up and stay with Joey while she went to check on Bobby to make sure he was ok after what she had heard in the background of the phone. Within minutes her mother had arrived and Kim took off for Bobby's apartment, calling Faith and Bosco enroute to let them know what she had heard.
Ten minutes later Kim arrived at Bobby's and stood outside waiting for Faith and Bosco. She fought the instinct to go on her own and knew it would be too dangerous for her alone if there was a fight going on in there. Five minutes later Faith and Bosco pulled up and the three of them dashed up the stairs towards his apartment. As they cautiously made their way down the corridor to his room, they could hear voices fighting in Spanish but couldn't recognize any of them. The door to his apartment was cracked and Kim peered through, seeing that his apartment had been ransacked. Fear grew within her, not knowing whether Bobby was hurt or ok.
Bosco kicked open the door to find a group of six masked men beating up Bobby who was gagged and duct taped to prevent him from fighting back or calling for help. The men dropped Bobby and fled towards the fire escape. Bosco went to the stairs and headed outside, while Faith followed the group to the fire escape. Kim ran over to Bobby and fell to her knees beside him as she undid the tape on his feet and wrists and carefully removed the tape from his mouth. After helping him to his feet, she helped him over to the sofa and went and dampened a washcloth so he could wipe the blood from his face.
"How did you know what was going on?" Bobby asked her when she returned.
"I called twice, the first time no one answered and the second time I heard what sounded like a fight in the background and got over here as fast as I could." She replied back softly.
Minutes later Faith and Bosco returned after capturing two of the six men to check and see how Bobby was doing. After giving his statement to the police, he headed into the bathroom to cleaned himself up a bit before heading back to where Kim was sitting.
"Till this is sorted out, you're staying with me," she replied when he sat back down next to her.
"I'll be fine here, don't worry." he replied back to her, hoping to ease her anxiety.
"You had six unwanted houseguests when you got home. There is a reason why they were here, and until that's revealed your staying with me," she said back to him, hoping he'd see to reason.
Knowing he wasn't going to win this battle, he relented and said, "How long will I be staying with you?"
"As long as it takes to figure out what's going on, or until it's safe enough for you to return here." she replied.
Bobby headed for his room to pack some clothes for his stay with Kim and told the officers where he would be if they needed to reach him and turned and left with her to return to her apartment. When they arrived, Bobby went straight to the bathroom to take a shower and change while Kim talked to her mother before she left. A short time later, Kim's mother left and went back to her apartment and Kim peeked in on her sleeping son and headed back to her room to free up a drawer for Bobby's things in the dresser.
Ten minutes later Bobby returned to Kim's room and sat down beside her.
"The second drawer of the dresser is all yours," she said as she saw the bruises starting to form on his face and chest.
"Do you have any idea who those men were?" she asked as she placed the book she'd been reading on the nightstand.
"I think that they might have been friends of Matty's." he replied back as he finished putting his clothes in the dresser and stretched out next to her in bed.
Kim flipped of the bedside light and gently kissed Bobby before falling asleep with her right arm draped over his chest.
The next morning, Kim woke up first and rolled over and removed a small notebook from the nightstand that she'd been keeping with ideas for the wedding. Thirty minutes later Bobby began to wake up and looked over at Kim who was busily writing down more ideas.
"What are you up to?" he asked curiously.
"Writing down ideas for the wedding," she replied, glancing over at him.
"Want to go ahead and set dates and stuff?" he asked.
"Sure," she replied smiling as she reached over to the nightstand and found a small calendar.
After a bit of deliberation they both agreed to getting married in one month and decided on a location to hold the ceremony at and Bobby called over and made the necessary arrangements, while Kim began to think of bridesmaids dresses. She looked through a magazine of formal dresses, trying to find the perfect color to have the bridesmaids' dresses done in. One color almost jumped off the page at her, as she looked at the picture, she knew that was the color she'd use for the dresses. After jotting down a note that the bridesmaids' dresses would be dragonfly in color, she saw Bobby come back into the room. As he sat back down beside her, he said "Now, where to we want to go after the wedding?"
"Ever been to the Bahamas?" she asked.
"Nope, but I've always wanted to go down there though." he replied back.
"Wanna go?" she asked, grinning.
"Like I could say no." he replied laughing.
"The Bahamas it is then." She said smiling, as she jotted down the honeymoon location in the notebook.
"Did you ever find the perfect wedding dress?" he asked her curiously.
"As a matter of fact I did, but you still don't get to see it for another month." She replied with a sly grin.
"Now what am I supposed to do to prepare myself for what you're going to look like." he asked her jokingly.
"Use your imagination. You've got a good one of those, so it should be a piece of cake." she replied laughing as he pulled her onto his chest.
"I still can't believe how lucky I am to have met you so long ago when you first came to the station." he said quietly.
"I know. I feel the same way." She replied as she rested her chin on his chest.
An hour later, they finished up the remainder of the planning they were doing for the day, and agreed to pick back up where they left off that evening or the next morning.
"What do you want for breakfast?" Kim asked as she began to get up.
"You have bagels?" he asked.
"You better bet. What kind of bagel do you want." She asked him.
"What kind?" he replied quizzically.
"Yeah, you know like, plain, cinnamon apple, blueberry, poppyseed, etc.," she said back.
As a look of confusion crossed his face, she laughingly said, "Get in here and look at the bags, maybe that will help you decide."
"I've always considered a bagel to be just a bagel regardless of the kind it is." He replied laughing as he followed her towards the kitchen.
Kim got out the bags of bagels and grabbed a cinnamon apple bagel for herself and put it in the toaster as he continued to look at the bags. She put on a pot of coffee and headed over to get the cream cheese out of the fridge and said, "What kind of cream cheese do you want." She saw the same look cross his face when they were discussing bagels and began to laugh.
"You don't go shopping much do you?" she asked as she removed three containers of cream cheese from fridge.
"Nope. Is it that noticeable?" he asked.
"Oh yeah." she replied laughing.
"After breakfast, you want to go for a morning run in the park?" she asked as she put strawberry cream cheese on her bagel.
"Sure," he replied as he finally decided on a blueberry bagel and put it in the toaster.
After Kim had finished her bagel, she put her empty coffee cup in the sink and went to get ready for her morning run, while Bobby finished up eating. A short time later they were ready and dropped off Joey at her mothers and headed out for a relaxing run. They walked hand in hand chit chatting until they reached the park, where they simultaneously broke into a slow run. After about thirty minutes, Bobby began to pick up the pace slightly and Kim kept right up with him easily. After several hours' worth of running, the two slowed to a brisk walk and took a bit of a breather.
"Before we head back to your place, we ought to have a match race." Bobby said jokingly.
"Why mess up perfectly good automobiles?" she asked him.
"I meant a race on foot." he replied laughing.
"Oh, ok." Kim replied, blushing slightly.
Just then her cell phone began to ring. When she answered, she found Alex on the other end.
"Hey Kim, what's up?" Alex asked her friend.
"Not much, just out for a morning run with Bobby." she replied.
"Sounds like fun." Alex said back, looking over at Ty who sat beside her.
"Yep, especially now that he wants a match race." Kim replied laughing.
"How exciting. Can we come watch?" Alex asked.
"Sure, we're down at the park, lemme get the scoop on the details real quick and I'll relay them to you." Kim said before she put her hand over the phone and talked to Bobby.
After relaying the details to Alex, they hung up their phones and headed towards the starting point of the race to wait on Ty and Alex.