Faith awoke from her chair in the lobby. Near Bosco's room. The nightmares…reliving the terror. Alarms…coming from where? A nurse hurrying somewhere. She neared Bosco's room. She went in. Oh my God. It was Bosco. Faith froze. No…
The nurse screamed. A man rushed out of the room and fled down the hallway. Muscular arms…Faith snapped. She tore after the man. Down the hallway. Out the doors. Into the parking lot. Every muscle strained…
She dove, hit him in the back. They went down. He didn't move. She pulled his hands behind him and put the cuffs on. He groaned and lunged to his feet. Blood was all over his face. His nose was smashed. Faith searched for a gun but he was without one.
She jerked him toward the hospital. He cursed. Tried to wrest away but she put her gun in his back. "I have no reservations whatsoever about putting a bullet in you, bastard, not after what you did to my partner. So help me God, if you try anything, I will put two in you, just like you did to Bosco." She spat. She grabbed her radio. "Central, I have apprehended the perp. Get me some backup to transport him. And get this - he actually had the nerve to come back and try to kill Bos again." She jammed the gun into his back. Hard. He gasped.
"Tried? I pulled his plug. He's dead, sister. Didn't you hear the alarms going off?" He laughed. He actually laughed.
She closed her eyes. Wait, Faith, just wait…
"Move, jag-off." She was amazed at how calm she felt.
She walked him over to a small cleaning closet. Opened the door.
"I'm not going in there!" He shouted. Faith shrugged. "Ok." She hit him over the head with her gun. Hard. He fell into the closet, unconscious. She shut the door. Ran toward Bos's room. Doctors and nurses filled the small cubicle.
"He's in fib and he's not breathing, Doctor." A nurse spoke.
Faith's head swam and her sight grew blurry. Sound was distorted. "Bos, please, stay with me." She pleaded. She saw his face. A memory. He was smiling. They were laughing at something.
"Give me 250."
He looked at her. Their eyes connected. She gasped, it was so real.
"Give me 300. Damn it."
She slowly came back to reality. She saw his hand, hanging over the side of the bed. It was so white. So still. She knelt beside the bed and took his hand in hers. Willed him back with every fiber of her heart and soul. I need you, Bosco. Don't leave me like this. It's not right. Don't do this to me. I mean it. I'm not gonna let you go. I need you.
"Still in fib, doctor. Should we call it?"
Faith slowly looked up. Eyes pleaded with the doctor's. He looked at her sadly. Tears came to her eyes and overflowed. She shook her head.
Something like resolve filled the eyes of the doctor. He looked at the nurse. "Not on my watch. Charge to 350!" His energy rebounded throughout the room and the nurses started working again with new vigor. He placed the paddles on Bosco's chest. Bosco's limp body convulsed at the electrical charge surging throughout him. They waited.
"We've got a sinus rhythm, Doctor. It's...stabilizing around 60." He sighed in relief, wiped the sweat off his forehead. Faith thanked him with her eyes. He left.
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