That afternoon Faith, Bosco, Sully, Ty, Bobby, Alex, Doc and Carlos all met
up for lunch.
"How's Kim doing?" Ty asked Bobby.
"She's doing better. She'll be back to work in a couple of days, the doctor suggested she take a few days to get back on her feet after yesterday. She was released from the hospital this afternoon." Bobby replied.
"We might have a lead as to what happened too. One of the officers at the precinct might have seen the person responsible leave the firehouse after he and his partner were bringing in an arrest." Faith said.
"Really? That's great. Is there a way Kim and I could talk to this person and see if we might be able to identify who he's talking about?" Bobby asked.
"I don't see why not. I'll talk to him when I see him back at the precinct and if its ok with him you all can meet after work or something." Faith replied.
"Did he give any kind of description as to what this person looked like?" Bobby questioned.
"Approximately 6'2, brownish black haired white male wearing a paramedic T- shirt. Ring any bells with anyone?" Faith replied.
"Yeah, it does." Bobby responded, feeling anger rising.
"Who?" Carlos asked curiously.
"Craig." He replied bitterly.
"That freak? He may have been messed up in the head but would he really go as far as poisoning her?" Carlos asked.
"Hello? Look what he's done to her already retard. Her first day back at work he's starting shit with her, and me. You weren't there Doc, but this guy wouldn't leave her alone. That afternoon when we came back because it was so slow, he followed her to the roof and tried to talk to her but started coming onto her and shoved her against a wall and forced her to kiss him. Remember when I was in hospital after getting hit in the head with a piece of brick? It was him who abducted her on the unfounded call and beat her when she covered his double with Alex. You should have heard the message he left on the answering machine in our apartment, I don't think she heard it thank God, and now possibly this." Bobby replied, forcing himself to keep his temper in check thinking about what this asshole had done to her in the past.
"Want us to run this guy through the system and see if he has any priors? He certainly sounds like he's a few short of a six pack if you ask me." Bosco said.
"Sure, makes me wonder if this guy has done stuff like this before. Because before Kim came off maternity leave he was normal, he may have been really annoying but wasn't acting too off." Bobby replied.
"What's this jag-off's last name and we'll run him through the system." Bosco asked.
"I just knew him as Craig, Doc do you know? You trained him after all." Bobby said.
"Lemme think for a second and see if it comes to me, I know I heard him say it." Doc replied.
Doc thought for several minutes and then it hit him.
"His last name is Anderson." Doc said, relieved that he was able to recall it.
Just then Faith and Bosco got a call. Before they left Faith said "As soon as we run him through the system we'll let you all know what we find."
A short time later everyone disperses and heads back out to work. The four medics return to the station since no calls had come in after about ten minutes. When Bobby and Alex go in, Bobby starts thinking about the last time they'd come back like this what had resulted and pushed the thought back.
"You ok?" Alex asked as they headed upstairs.
"I'll be fine. Just was thinking about yesterday." He replied.
"Do you really think Craig is the one that did it?" Alex asked.
"The description sounds like him and none of us had on a paramedic T-shirt yesterday, we all had our uniforms on. So he's the only person I could logically see doing it. Just look at what he's done already." Bobby replied.
Alex nodded her head sympathetically and when they crested the top of the stairs to the kitchen area Jimmy asks, "Look at what who's done already?"
"I'll tell you later Jimmy." Alex says softly, watching Bobby head toward the bunks, assuming he's going to call and check on Kim.
After Bobby was upstairs Jimmy asked, "What's all this about?"
"There might be a lead across the street. Someone might have seen the person who might have poisoned Kim leaving the firehouse yesterday after we'd all finished with the kid with seizures." Alex said.
"Really that's great, right?" Jimmy asked somewhat confused.
"Yeah it is, but the description matches someone who used to work here." Alex replied.
"Used to?" Jimmy said; "They think it was what's his name."
"Craig?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, that son of a bitch." Jimmy replied.
"Faith is running his name through the system to see if he has any past history that we should be made aware of." Alex said.
"Now that you think about it, he could have done it because look at what all he's done to Kim already." Jimmy commented, thinking back to the stuff that Craig had pulled before he left the station.
"That's what Bobby said." Alex replied.
Bobby lay across his bunk talking to Kim on his cell phone, seeing how she was doing. He'd decided he'd tell her about the lead when he got home from work that evening, that way they could talk about it face to face and not over the phone.
"Hey Kimmy, how you feeling?" he asked.
"Pretty good. Just relaxing with Joey and Keira and watching a movie." She replied, leaning her back against the couch and Keira leaning her back against Kim's stomach.
"What movie you three watching?" Bobby asked.
"Ice Age." She replied.
A smile broke across his face as he heard Keira start to coo and giggle through the phone.
"She's been doing that through the whole movie when she sees the saber- tooth cat." Kim said smiling.
"I guess you could say it's her first favorite movie character." He said with a laugh.
"Yep." Kim replied.
Kim heard the loudspeaker over his phone and knew a call had come in.
"I'll see you later sweetheart, gotta run." He said, heading downstairs.
"Ok, be careful and I'll see you after work." She said softly.
"Don't worry, I will." He replied, before hanging up the phone.
By the end of the movie, Keira had worn herself out and fallen asleep. Kim gently picked her up and carried her into the nursery. She gently laid her down and brushed her dark hair back and placed a gentle kiss on her daughter's cheek and covered her with a soft blanket and went back out to where Joey was.
"Keira asleep?" Joey asked when she came back to the living room.
"Yeah, she's out like a light." Kim replied to her son.
"Do you think when she gets older she'll try and do what I do?" Joey asked.
"Probably, because she'll see you as a role model. I know when Aunt Melanie was little she'd try and copy everything I did." Kim said.
"Really? What did she do?" Joey asked eagerly.
Kim knew that if Joey ever told Mel that she'd told him this she'd throw a fit but told him anyway.
"There was one time I was getting ready to go out with some friends one summer when I was in high school. Mel had seen where grandma kept her make- up and was watching me put a little bit of make-up of my own on. She went and got into grandma's stuff and drug out all her make up and had it all over her face and clothes. As I headed down the hall she followed me into the living room when your grandmother shrieked at the top of her lungs at what Mel had done to herself and found the bathroom a total mess." Kim replied.
"Aunt Mel did that! Grandma must have gone crazy!" Joey said between fits of laughter.
"Oh believe me she did. When I turned around and saw what she had done, I knew she must have been watching me and decided to try and copy what I was doing." Kim said with a smile; "You can't tell Mel that I told you that or she'll have my head."
"I won't say a word." Joey replied giving his mother a hug; "How bad did she look?"
"It wasn't pretty. She had lipstick all over her face blush on her cheeks, forehead and nose. Thank goodness she'd left the mascara alone because that stuff wouldn't have come off for god knows how long." Kim said when she heard the lock on the door click.
"How did grandma react to what she did?" Joey asked as Bobby walked in the door.
"Not too well. She like to have never got all that stuff off her face. Needless to say she hid the make-up in a new place after that so she couldn't get into it anymore." Kim replied as Bobby sat down beside her on the couch.
Bobby placed a gentle kiss on her lips and asked, "What have you two been talking about?"
"The antics Aunt Mel got into when she was little." Joey replied excitedly.
"I think its about time for someone's bedtime." Kim said, looking over at Joey.
Joey began to whine about how he wasn't sleepy and asked, "Can I at least play my gameboy till I'm tired?"
Kim gave him a stern look and said, "One hour with the gameboy then you're going to bed. Deal?"
"Ok," Joey replied, heading to change into his pajamas and play with the gameboy in his room.
After Joey was gone, she turned her attention back to Bobby and asked, "How was work tonight?"
"Pretty good. The calls came at a moderate pace but no major calls." He replied; "The cops think they might have a lead on what happened yesterday."
"They do?" she asked.
"Yeah, someone saw a white guy about 6'2 with brownish-black hair leave the firehouse wearing a paramedic T-shirt." Bobby replied.
"That almost perfectly describes Craig. So they think he's the one that did this?" Kim questioned.
"They're looking into it but he looks like the main suspect right now." Bobby replied.
"What else is that jerk going to try pull? Hasn't he put us through enough already?" Kim asked softly.
"I don't want to know. Hopefully this will be the end of it. He's not like us, something has to be fueling his actions. Maybe something from his childhood sent him off the deep end. Whatever the cause, we should still be prepared incase he'd try to pull another scheme off." Bobby replied, pulling her up off the couch.
"How's Kim doing?" Ty asked Bobby.
"She's doing better. She'll be back to work in a couple of days, the doctor suggested she take a few days to get back on her feet after yesterday. She was released from the hospital this afternoon." Bobby replied.
"We might have a lead as to what happened too. One of the officers at the precinct might have seen the person responsible leave the firehouse after he and his partner were bringing in an arrest." Faith said.
"Really? That's great. Is there a way Kim and I could talk to this person and see if we might be able to identify who he's talking about?" Bobby asked.
"I don't see why not. I'll talk to him when I see him back at the precinct and if its ok with him you all can meet after work or something." Faith replied.
"Did he give any kind of description as to what this person looked like?" Bobby questioned.
"Approximately 6'2, brownish black haired white male wearing a paramedic T- shirt. Ring any bells with anyone?" Faith replied.
"Yeah, it does." Bobby responded, feeling anger rising.
"Who?" Carlos asked curiously.
"Craig." He replied bitterly.
"That freak? He may have been messed up in the head but would he really go as far as poisoning her?" Carlos asked.
"Hello? Look what he's done to her already retard. Her first day back at work he's starting shit with her, and me. You weren't there Doc, but this guy wouldn't leave her alone. That afternoon when we came back because it was so slow, he followed her to the roof and tried to talk to her but started coming onto her and shoved her against a wall and forced her to kiss him. Remember when I was in hospital after getting hit in the head with a piece of brick? It was him who abducted her on the unfounded call and beat her when she covered his double with Alex. You should have heard the message he left on the answering machine in our apartment, I don't think she heard it thank God, and now possibly this." Bobby replied, forcing himself to keep his temper in check thinking about what this asshole had done to her in the past.
"Want us to run this guy through the system and see if he has any priors? He certainly sounds like he's a few short of a six pack if you ask me." Bosco said.
"Sure, makes me wonder if this guy has done stuff like this before. Because before Kim came off maternity leave he was normal, he may have been really annoying but wasn't acting too off." Bobby replied.
"What's this jag-off's last name and we'll run him through the system." Bosco asked.
"I just knew him as Craig, Doc do you know? You trained him after all." Bobby said.
"Lemme think for a second and see if it comes to me, I know I heard him say it." Doc replied.
Doc thought for several minutes and then it hit him.
"His last name is Anderson." Doc said, relieved that he was able to recall it.
Just then Faith and Bosco got a call. Before they left Faith said "As soon as we run him through the system we'll let you all know what we find."
A short time later everyone disperses and heads back out to work. The four medics return to the station since no calls had come in after about ten minutes. When Bobby and Alex go in, Bobby starts thinking about the last time they'd come back like this what had resulted and pushed the thought back.
"You ok?" Alex asked as they headed upstairs.
"I'll be fine. Just was thinking about yesterday." He replied.
"Do you really think Craig is the one that did it?" Alex asked.
"The description sounds like him and none of us had on a paramedic T-shirt yesterday, we all had our uniforms on. So he's the only person I could logically see doing it. Just look at what he's done already." Bobby replied.
Alex nodded her head sympathetically and when they crested the top of the stairs to the kitchen area Jimmy asks, "Look at what who's done already?"
"I'll tell you later Jimmy." Alex says softly, watching Bobby head toward the bunks, assuming he's going to call and check on Kim.
After Bobby was upstairs Jimmy asked, "What's all this about?"
"There might be a lead across the street. Someone might have seen the person who might have poisoned Kim leaving the firehouse yesterday after we'd all finished with the kid with seizures." Alex said.
"Really that's great, right?" Jimmy asked somewhat confused.
"Yeah it is, but the description matches someone who used to work here." Alex replied.
"Used to?" Jimmy said; "They think it was what's his name."
"Craig?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, that son of a bitch." Jimmy replied.
"Faith is running his name through the system to see if he has any past history that we should be made aware of." Alex said.
"Now that you think about it, he could have done it because look at what all he's done to Kim already." Jimmy commented, thinking back to the stuff that Craig had pulled before he left the station.
"That's what Bobby said." Alex replied.
Bobby lay across his bunk talking to Kim on his cell phone, seeing how she was doing. He'd decided he'd tell her about the lead when he got home from work that evening, that way they could talk about it face to face and not over the phone.
"Hey Kimmy, how you feeling?" he asked.
"Pretty good. Just relaxing with Joey and Keira and watching a movie." She replied, leaning her back against the couch and Keira leaning her back against Kim's stomach.
"What movie you three watching?" Bobby asked.
"Ice Age." She replied.
A smile broke across his face as he heard Keira start to coo and giggle through the phone.
"She's been doing that through the whole movie when she sees the saber- tooth cat." Kim said smiling.
"I guess you could say it's her first favorite movie character." He said with a laugh.
"Yep." Kim replied.
Kim heard the loudspeaker over his phone and knew a call had come in.
"I'll see you later sweetheart, gotta run." He said, heading downstairs.
"Ok, be careful and I'll see you after work." She said softly.
"Don't worry, I will." He replied, before hanging up the phone.
By the end of the movie, Keira had worn herself out and fallen asleep. Kim gently picked her up and carried her into the nursery. She gently laid her down and brushed her dark hair back and placed a gentle kiss on her daughter's cheek and covered her with a soft blanket and went back out to where Joey was.
"Keira asleep?" Joey asked when she came back to the living room.
"Yeah, she's out like a light." Kim replied to her son.
"Do you think when she gets older she'll try and do what I do?" Joey asked.
"Probably, because she'll see you as a role model. I know when Aunt Melanie was little she'd try and copy everything I did." Kim said.
"Really? What did she do?" Joey asked eagerly.
Kim knew that if Joey ever told Mel that she'd told him this she'd throw a fit but told him anyway.
"There was one time I was getting ready to go out with some friends one summer when I was in high school. Mel had seen where grandma kept her make- up and was watching me put a little bit of make-up of my own on. She went and got into grandma's stuff and drug out all her make up and had it all over her face and clothes. As I headed down the hall she followed me into the living room when your grandmother shrieked at the top of her lungs at what Mel had done to herself and found the bathroom a total mess." Kim replied.
"Aunt Mel did that! Grandma must have gone crazy!" Joey said between fits of laughter.
"Oh believe me she did. When I turned around and saw what she had done, I knew she must have been watching me and decided to try and copy what I was doing." Kim said with a smile; "You can't tell Mel that I told you that or she'll have my head."
"I won't say a word." Joey replied giving his mother a hug; "How bad did she look?"
"It wasn't pretty. She had lipstick all over her face blush on her cheeks, forehead and nose. Thank goodness she'd left the mascara alone because that stuff wouldn't have come off for god knows how long." Kim said when she heard the lock on the door click.
"How did grandma react to what she did?" Joey asked as Bobby walked in the door.
"Not too well. She like to have never got all that stuff off her face. Needless to say she hid the make-up in a new place after that so she couldn't get into it anymore." Kim replied as Bobby sat down beside her on the couch.
Bobby placed a gentle kiss on her lips and asked, "What have you two been talking about?"
"The antics Aunt Mel got into when she was little." Joey replied excitedly.
"I think its about time for someone's bedtime." Kim said, looking over at Joey.
Joey began to whine about how he wasn't sleepy and asked, "Can I at least play my gameboy till I'm tired?"
Kim gave him a stern look and said, "One hour with the gameboy then you're going to bed. Deal?"
"Ok," Joey replied, heading to change into his pajamas and play with the gameboy in his room.
After Joey was gone, she turned her attention back to Bobby and asked, "How was work tonight?"
"Pretty good. The calls came at a moderate pace but no major calls." He replied; "The cops think they might have a lead on what happened yesterday."
"They do?" she asked.
"Yeah, someone saw a white guy about 6'2 with brownish-black hair leave the firehouse wearing a paramedic T-shirt." Bobby replied.
"That almost perfectly describes Craig. So they think he's the one that did this?" Kim questioned.
"They're looking into it but he looks like the main suspect right now." Bobby replied.
"What else is that jerk going to try pull? Hasn't he put us through enough already?" Kim asked softly.
"I don't want to know. Hopefully this will be the end of it. He's not like us, something has to be fueling his actions. Maybe something from his childhood sent him off the deep end. Whatever the cause, we should still be prepared incase he'd try to pull another scheme off." Bobby replied, pulling her up off the couch.