The Rush
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Chapter Seven: Thank You For Being A Friend
They really needed to make hospitals smell better. Bosco tried to sit up but his head hurt too much. Openeing his eyes didn't do much either. He felt something warm on his arm. Forcing his eyes open he saw Seajae tears running down her face. She was sobbing uncontrolably. Jimmy and Sully behind her. Trying to make the pain subside Bosco took some deep breaths.
"Seaj......." He barly got the sound out. He felt her hand on his head. "Don't cry baby....." She kissed his forhead. Running her hand down his face.
"Seajae.....they need to take him." Sully knelt next to her. "Honey.....let them do thier job." Alex and Carlos went to him. They started an IV. Bosco looked at his wife. She was cliging to Sully. He must be in bad shape. Seajae never cried. "Seajae.....you need to calm down....." Sully held her shaking body. He watched as Carlos put in the IV and watched the moniter.
"We need to get him to the hospital."
"We're waiting for another bus Carlos. Damn it don't you die on me Bosco. I will never let you rest in peace. " Jimmy got the back board that Bosco was carring. They transfered him just as the other bus pulled up. They loaded him fast. Seajae clung to Sully. "You coming?" She nodded and Sully helped her into the bus. Alex put in a breathing tube and slowly sqeezed air into Bosco's lungs.
"Seajae......can you do this?" Alex looked at her friend. She was trained as an EMT but this was her husband. Her beloved husband.
"Yeah." She traded places with Alex. She looked down at her husband. He was slipping away. Away from her. Away from the kids. Leaning over she wispered in his ear. "Don't give up baby. You have so much to look forward to. Just don't give up. No matter how easy it would be.......just don't." She kissed his forhead. Carlos looked at Alex. They both swollowed hard. This wasnt't spppose to happen. Not to Bosco. He was one of the lucky ones. The ones that had brushs with death. But they were loosing him. Fast.
"Jimmy could you speed it up....." Alex yelled as she put pressure on the wound on Bosco's scalp. The blast at thrown Bosco across the street into the curb. He was twisted everywhich way. He landed hard on the pavement. "Seajae.......how ya doing?"
"Don't worry about me. Just do what you have to."
"Seajae.......I won't lie to you.....he hit his head hard....Carlos said he was thrown around. He's most likely has a lot of internal injeries." Jimmy wanted to tell Alex to shut up but he knew that they never lied to each other about the bad things. Seajae took slow deep breaths. She pressed the air bag on a even rythm.
"I know." She looked at Alex. The tears ran down her cheeks. "Alex.......just......." Seajae swollowed. Slowly with her free hand she took out her off duty gun and reached behind her and handed it to Jimmy. She knew......if he left her.....she might loose it all together. "Just don't let him be alone........"
"You'll be there Seajae. Everystep of the way." Jimmy pulled into the hospital. Bosco opened his eyes.
"Let's get him in and up tho the OR." Bosco reached for his wife. She was trembling as they got out of the bus. She was giving up on him. He reached for her to tell her not to give up. That he was fighting. He wasn't going to leave her. Not without a fight. The doors slid open and they brought him into the ER.
"Seajae......" Ken Miller looked up from the arm he was casting. "Maggie take over....." He took off his plaster cover gloves and went to the trama room. Seajae looked up. Bosco's blood covering her shirt. "What happened?"
"Ambulance exploded. He was only a couple feet away." Alex read off his vitals and let the nurse take over. Someone pushed Seajae out of the way and Alex took her arm. "Let them work Seaj. You know Miller will do everything he can." Sully and Jimmy were there. She turned into Sully's embrace and broke down.
"Come on Seajae....." Sully led her to the waiting room. "It's going to be ok." He stroked her back. "Miller's never given up on a Boscorelli. He's not going to start now." Jimmy got on his cell phone and started making the calls he hated to make. Soon friends and family would sorround Seajae and make her stronger. She needed them to help her make it thought this weather Bosco made it or not. But if he didn't make it he feared Seajae would not last.
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Seajae sat with her elbows on her knees and her head between them. There were so many people. She just wanted to be alone. Alone with her thoughts and her memories. It had been hours since Bosco had been rolled into surgery. Elliot Stabler sat next to her on one side and Mikey on the other. Every time the door opened they looked. Seajae didn't. She knew better. She knew that only bad news was coming. It was only a matter of time.
"You want some coffee?" Elliot asked.
"No thanks. You want to get some of these people to go home. They don't need to be here."
"I think they want to be here." He looked at his friend. "I know I don't have anyplace more important to be."
"You have a wife......kids......a job."
"My wife would kill me if I went home before finding out something about Bosco and the kids to for that matter and as for the Job. Well there's several others qualified to do it while I'm here making sure a good friend has all the support she needs."
"Thanks." The door opened and a doctor came to Seajae.
"Mrs. Boscorelli?" She looked up. He was new.
"Yes." Seajae didn't stand. The doctor bent at his knees in front of her.
"I'm Cooper Sinclair . Dr. Miller's associate. He told me to come out and tell you everything is going well. We had to remove your husbands spleen and there was internal damage but Ken's sure he found it all." Seajae could see the doctor was uncomfortable telling her things while the surgery was still in progress. "He said to tell you niether one of them will quit fighting for you." Seajae smiled.
"Thank you Dr. Sinclair. Tell Ken I know he'll do his best." Seajae stood. She grabbed her coat and headed down stairs. Elliot followed. She went out the doors on the first floor and lit a cigarette. "You didn't have to follow me."
"It's my turn." He stood next to her. Spring was in the air. Seajae inhaled deeply.
"You really should go home Elliot." He had always been there for her. Bosoc told her that he was there every day when she was in her coma. If they didn't see each other every day they at least talked on the phone. "Katy's going to think we're having an affair."
"Never happen. She knows I don't like woman who can kick my ass." He smiled. Bosco and Seajae stood for what every married couple wanted to be. And they both were what rookie cops dreamed about being in the acadamy. "Something more then Bosco is wrong, isn't it?"
"All I feel is empty."
"You mean like....he's gone?"
"We'll he's not here." She took another drag of her cigarette.
"Maybe we should get Gorin...he's more atuned to that side of you."
"No. I'm taking up enough of your times I don't need Bobby to anylize my empty feeling."
"Kevin said he wouldn't stop finghting for you and Bosco. He won't let Bosco die."
"But maybe he already is. I mean I don't feel......whole." She looked at the ground. "I fell like I did before Bosco. Before he loved me." Elliot wrapped his arm around her sholder.
"I know Bosco. He would never leave you unless he didn't have a choice in the matter. Most of us don't when it comes to dieing. But I have a feeling that Bosco would talk St. Peter into taking him if he had to." Elliot's phone rang. He turned and looked at it. "I gotta take this." He took a few steps away. "Stabler."
"We have two guys down here in need of your special interigation skills."
"They lawyer up yet?"
"Nope." Joey Doyle answered.
"Give me ten minutes." Elliot hung up and turned to Seajae. "I need to take care of something. You going to be alright?"
"Arn't I always?" He took her sholders and kissed her forhead.
"No your not. I'll be back."
"Go home Elliot." He got in his car. Seajae watched him drive away. She wondered why it took so long for her to find such good friends. Grounding out her cigarette in the ash tray she went back to the rest of her friends and waiting for news of her husband.
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Joey Doyle, John Sullivan and Caleb Mc Kenzie stood watching the man pace back and forth. Elliot came in behind them.
"This guy coming down from something?"
"Maybe. It's hard to tell." Joey looked at Elliot. "He was laughing pretty hard when ESU pulled him out of the burning bodaga."
"What's his name?"
"Larry Smith."
"You run him?"
"The printer ran out of ink before we could get his whole rap sheet."
"What is he like twenty?"
"Twenty-two. Just got out of Rikers for armed robbery on Thursday."
"Took him all of three days to find trouble." Elliot took off his suit coat and loosened his tie. "Ready to watch the master at work?"
"He was caught with the gun. Not much to confess to."
"How about where he got the gun. Or maybe why he took pot shots at an unarmed FDNY paramedic?" Elliot smiled. "Or maybe he's like to confess to shooting Kennedy." He rolled up his sleaves and walked to the door. Larry Smith was sitting down at the table. Elliot moved slowly and sat across from the man and slid a note book and pen toward him.
"Just put down in your own words what happened tonight." The man smiled at him.
"The thing is detective.....I don't recall." Elliot leaned forword.
"That's not an answer. Your going back to Rikers anyway. If you tell us how you got the guns and why you blew up an ambulance they might find some kinda heart and let you stay alive."
"Alive....It was an ambulance man.....no harm no foul." Elliot stood, putting his hands on the table and getting into Larry's face.
"See there was some foul. You shot a paramedic and when you blew up the ambulence you ingered a NYPD office who was helping the paramedic that was hurt. And you see.......this NYPD office wasn't just anyone...he was a friend. A good friend to everyone in this precient." Elliot stood up and went behind the man. "He had a wife....three kids and a whole lot of friends who will pretty much kick your ass if he dies." Elliot came up next to him. "You better hope he doesn't die."
"Some guy gave us the guns. He said to do what we wanted with him. He was a white guy about forty. We never saw his face." Larry looked at Elliot. "I swear." Elliot looked though the widow. He shook his head. Larry didn't know the man who gave him the guns but he was afraid he knew who did.
"You better not be lying to me Larry or your ass is mine." Elliot walked to the door and went to his three friends standing in the hall. "You want to take bets on who's suppling fellons with guns?"
"He wouldn't do that.....would he?" Sully was the only one who knew Tommy back then.
"I don't know Sully, I just know what Seajae's been telling me and what I saw on Saturday." Elliot looked at Larry Smith. "I don't think we'll get anymore from his partner but I can try."
"Dashell Monson. He's.....not all there. On the slow side. He got dragged into it like he does everything else. They let the retard take the fall." Joey looked at Elliot. "How is Bosco?"
"Doc Miller seems cofidant. He sent someone to talk to Seajae just before you called. They removed his speen." Elliot got his coat back on. "I'm heading back to the hospital. If you get anything more out of these two give me a call." He left with the strange feeling something wasn't right. He hated feeling that way. Now he was starting to sound like Seajae. Elliot smiled....maybe he was spending too much time with the Boscorelli's.
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"Seajae....." Ken Miller sat next to her. She had let herself drift off for just a moment. "Seajae...."
"He's gone?"
"No. Would I let that happen?"
"As much as you like to think it your not God Ken."
"We'll now that you burst my bubble........He's doing fine. Not where I'd like him to be but you know Bosco...anything to make my life more difficalt. He's in recovery...you want to see him?"
"What arn't you telling me?"
"We did an MRI on him. His got some swelling around the vertibry near his waist. We got the peices floting around the spinal cord. There's some swelling. It will take a few days to go down."
"He'll be paralysed?"
"Till the swelling goes down. I want you to tell him so he doesn't freak. There is no reason after the swelling goes down he shouldn't be able to walk." Ken looked at the woman he put back together more times then he could count. "When you walked in with him today it scared the hell out of me. I was afraid I couldn't do it again. I was afaid that I couldn't save him." Cooper Sinclair came up behind him.
"Hey."
"You met Cooper right?"
"Yeah. " Ken got up. "He wants to talk to you. I'm on call on night so if you need anything."
"Can you call Susan?"
"Her and Susie are on the way here. " Cooper sat next to Seajae. "I'll see you later Sunshine." Ken walked down the hall leaving Seajae and the new doctor alone.
"Your Maddie's husband?"
"Yeah. I was on call when Bosco came in. I heard the name and knew I had to scrub in." He put his elbows on his knees. "Ken can work miricles but even he has his limits."
"He put me back together more times then I want to recall. Thank you. For being there. And thank Maddie for helping us too. I don't remeber if I did."
"She likes you. And trusts you. She doesn't trust a whole lot of people." Cooper ran a hand though his blond hair. "I didn't think Tom would come back here. With IAD we knew he wouldn't come back to the nieghborhood. With Swertzsky and you around there wasn't a chace of curruption. Now....well he's here and even know we live ten miles from here.....Tommy...he comes down here to see me."
"Tom Hannigan won't be working here long. I won't put up with his garbage and all of us feel the same way. Dan's got Joey Doyle working with him. If anyone can crack Tom its Joey." Seajae stood up. "But with Bosco in here I'd keep Tommy away. As much as I don't like it Tom will stop by to see him." Elliot came up to them.
"Maybe not." Elliot looked at the doctor sitting in the hall way.
"Elliot Stabler....Cooper Sinclair." The men shook hands. "What happened?"
"Our two robbers from the bodaga."
"They have a lot to say?"
"Just that someone fitting Tom Harrigan's discription vaugly....gave them the guns." Seajae looked at Elliot and then Cooper.
"Get Maddie and Tommy out of town. I can handle Tom. I have Maddie's cell. I'll call you when it's safe." Elliot looked at Seajae. He knew Maddie Harrigan was dead. He better get into the game better if he was going to help Seajae though this.
"Seajae you need to be with Bosco right now. You can't go after........." Cooper looked up at the sound of foot steps. Tom Harrigan, hair tossled, blue eyes colder then Seajae had ever seen them. "anyone." Cooper finnished.
"Maybe I have to......" She looked at Tom and smiled. "Hey." She picked up her jacket off the chair. "I'm going to see Bosco." Seajae wasn't sure she wanted to leave the three men in such close proxsimity. Elliot had a pertective side when it came to the Boscorelli's and Cooper was Tom's wife's new husband. It could get messy. Cooper thought on his feet. He had that going for him. Heading to the recovering room she looked back once more hoping the three of them would hold it together long enough to make graceful exits.
"Hold up Seajae." Cooper took a few long strides and caught up to her. "I'll come with you." He put his hand on her back and lead her into the ICU.
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"Who's the new doc?"
"Sinclair....Cooper I think. Seajae just introduced us. How's the Brunett murder coming along?"
"Nothing new."
"Seajae feels bad leaving like she did."
"Yeah well it's not the first time I scared a partner away." He looked into the ICU window. "So Bosco is going to be okay?"
"Seems like."
"You get anything from those bastards who did this?"
"Just that someone gave them the guns. Who the hell would give a convicted fellon a gun?" Elliot watched at Seajae sat next to her husband. "I find the bastard I'm going to kill him." Even from a yard away Elliot felt Tom stiffin. "Bosco and Seajae......their two of the most caring people in the world. They help people. Even people who don't deserve it sometimes. I never understood how they could be that way. But they're just forgiving." He turned and looked at Tom. "They don't hold a grudge. No matter what you do."
"Only place that gets you is dead."
"I guess if that's the way you feel...but hey...they stayed alive this long." Elliot turned to leave and then turned back. "Don't mess with what they have Tommy. It may break your heart to see Bosco happy...but you know as well as I do that it took him a whole lot of years to make it to this point. Let them be happy." Elliot looked at his friends one more time and headed to the elevators.
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Seajae held Bosco's hand and let the tears fall. The tears for Maddie and Tommy and Cooper. The tears for the loss in her life. Tears for Angela, for Miranda......
"I'm still alive baby.....you don't need to grieve for me yet...."Seajae felt a hand stroking her head.
"I just needed a good cry and now was as good a time as any." She looked up and into her husbands eyes. "God your a sight for sore eyes."
"You not looking too bad yourself. It's bad?"
"Rumor has it you can now put flying on your list of accomplishments." Seajae never was good at ling to her husband. "There's some verabre damage. It'll take a few days for the swelling to go down."
"That's why I can't feel my legs?"
"Yeah. Ken and Cooper think its only temporary."
"Cooper?"
"Sinclair...new doctor. Is Tom still standing at the window?" As if on que Cooper came to his bed side.
"Hey. It's nice to see you with your eyes open Sgt."
"This is Dr. Sinclair. He helped Ken put you back together again."
"The old man getting slow?"
"Don't let him hear you say that." Cooper smiled. "Tom's still outside. I think he wants to see you."
"You know Tom Harrigan?"
"Bosco....he's.....he's Maddie's husband."
"My Maddie? She's dead......even if she was alive why would she of stayed in New York?"
"It's all she knew. She changed her name....her looks."
"And got lost all over again....." Bosco looked at Tom at the ICU window. "Tell him I don't want to see anyone."
"He'll go away soon enough. Cooper called in the reinforcements from downstairs." Seajae took a deep breath. "He doesn't like us in numbers."
"Tell me, what happened?"
"Someone gave those two fellons guns. We think it might of been Tom."
"What the hell happened to him?" Bosco shut his eyes and tried to remeber the Tommy Harrigan of the past.
"Maybe the days leading to Maddie......who knows......" Cooper looked at Bosco's chart and then at Bosco.
"The Tom you knew was gone long before Maddie 'died'. She told me that he lived a whole different life. A life none of you would appove of." Bosco knew he would like to get to know Cooper Sinclair better. "I'll up your meds a little....maybe that swelling will go down a little faster." Bosco's hand tightened on his wife's. "I promise you will walk again Bosco. I know it seems a little scary.....but it all work out." Cooper put down the chart and went to the cabinet and got the hyperdemic he was looking for and injected it in Bosco's IV. "Get some rest." He went to the door. "I'll take care of the rif raf." Turning he headed out the door.
"Who was that man in the white coat?"
"I think we just found a great new ali."
"I want to know everything....." Bosco said a little drosily.
"Later Superman." Seajae kissed his forhead. "I think I better go relieve Mikey. He's been with the triple threat for four hours." Seajae looked up to find Sully next to her. "I'm going to leave you in good hands."
"Yipee. I thought you'd stay with me....." He was slowly drifting out.
"I'll be back in a few hours." She kissed him. Hugging Sully she wispered. "Call me if he gets violent." Smiling Seajae slipped out of the room. She just wanted to stay and make sure Bosco was feeling better but she needed to deal with a whole lot of other things. Mainly Tom Harrigan. She was out the door when Kim stood up and went to her.
"You ok?"
"Yeah. How about you?" Seajae patted her belly.
"Feeling as big as a house. How's Bosco?"
"Ok. He's got a little spinal coard swelling."
"A little as in......?"
"It should go down and he should walk. Ken and that new doctor seem to think everything is just fine." Kim looked at her friend. This was Bosco they were talking about. The love of her life and she was talking like his ingeries were nothing.
"Seajae......Bosco needs you. Whatever's going though your head right now......you need to put it aside."
"He's fine Kim. Sully's with him."
"You know when you were here last he went home once...once in a week. You saw him for what five minutes." Seajae looked at Kim. She was angry at her. Seajae turned and watched Tom Harrigan walk down the hall. He would wait. Kim was right. Bosco needed her. Tom would mess up and they would get him. Seajae hugged Kim.
"I have my head somewhere else Kimmy. Thank you for pulling it out of my ass for me." She turned and went to Joey. "Keep an eye on him kid."
"You got it boss lady." He left to follow Tommy and Seajae went back to her husband. It was good to have great friends. Seajae thanked God every day for hers.
Disclaimer: I only own what I made up and the others are owned by those who really created them. Thanks for reading.
Chapter Seven: Thank You For Being A Friend
They really needed to make hospitals smell better. Bosco tried to sit up but his head hurt too much. Openeing his eyes didn't do much either. He felt something warm on his arm. Forcing his eyes open he saw Seajae tears running down her face. She was sobbing uncontrolably. Jimmy and Sully behind her. Trying to make the pain subside Bosco took some deep breaths.
"Seaj......." He barly got the sound out. He felt her hand on his head. "Don't cry baby....." She kissed his forhead. Running her hand down his face.
"Seajae.....they need to take him." Sully knelt next to her. "Honey.....let them do thier job." Alex and Carlos went to him. They started an IV. Bosco looked at his wife. She was cliging to Sully. He must be in bad shape. Seajae never cried. "Seajae.....you need to calm down....." Sully held her shaking body. He watched as Carlos put in the IV and watched the moniter.
"We need to get him to the hospital."
"We're waiting for another bus Carlos. Damn it don't you die on me Bosco. I will never let you rest in peace. " Jimmy got the back board that Bosco was carring. They transfered him just as the other bus pulled up. They loaded him fast. Seajae clung to Sully. "You coming?" She nodded and Sully helped her into the bus. Alex put in a breathing tube and slowly sqeezed air into Bosco's lungs.
"Seajae......can you do this?" Alex looked at her friend. She was trained as an EMT but this was her husband. Her beloved husband.
"Yeah." She traded places with Alex. She looked down at her husband. He was slipping away. Away from her. Away from the kids. Leaning over she wispered in his ear. "Don't give up baby. You have so much to look forward to. Just don't give up. No matter how easy it would be.......just don't." She kissed his forhead. Carlos looked at Alex. They both swollowed hard. This wasnt't spppose to happen. Not to Bosco. He was one of the lucky ones. The ones that had brushs with death. But they were loosing him. Fast.
"Jimmy could you speed it up....." Alex yelled as she put pressure on the wound on Bosco's scalp. The blast at thrown Bosco across the street into the curb. He was twisted everywhich way. He landed hard on the pavement. "Seajae.......how ya doing?"
"Don't worry about me. Just do what you have to."
"Seajae.......I won't lie to you.....he hit his head hard....Carlos said he was thrown around. He's most likely has a lot of internal injeries." Jimmy wanted to tell Alex to shut up but he knew that they never lied to each other about the bad things. Seajae took slow deep breaths. She pressed the air bag on a even rythm.
"I know." She looked at Alex. The tears ran down her cheeks. "Alex.......just......." Seajae swollowed. Slowly with her free hand she took out her off duty gun and reached behind her and handed it to Jimmy. She knew......if he left her.....she might loose it all together. "Just don't let him be alone........"
"You'll be there Seajae. Everystep of the way." Jimmy pulled into the hospital. Bosco opened his eyes.
"Let's get him in and up tho the OR." Bosco reached for his wife. She was trembling as they got out of the bus. She was giving up on him. He reached for her to tell her not to give up. That he was fighting. He wasn't going to leave her. Not without a fight. The doors slid open and they brought him into the ER.
"Seajae......" Ken Miller looked up from the arm he was casting. "Maggie take over....." He took off his plaster cover gloves and went to the trama room. Seajae looked up. Bosco's blood covering her shirt. "What happened?"
"Ambulance exploded. He was only a couple feet away." Alex read off his vitals and let the nurse take over. Someone pushed Seajae out of the way and Alex took her arm. "Let them work Seaj. You know Miller will do everything he can." Sully and Jimmy were there. She turned into Sully's embrace and broke down.
"Come on Seajae....." Sully led her to the waiting room. "It's going to be ok." He stroked her back. "Miller's never given up on a Boscorelli. He's not going to start now." Jimmy got on his cell phone and started making the calls he hated to make. Soon friends and family would sorround Seajae and make her stronger. She needed them to help her make it thought this weather Bosco made it or not. But if he didn't make it he feared Seajae would not last.
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Seajae sat with her elbows on her knees and her head between them. There were so many people. She just wanted to be alone. Alone with her thoughts and her memories. It had been hours since Bosco had been rolled into surgery. Elliot Stabler sat next to her on one side and Mikey on the other. Every time the door opened they looked. Seajae didn't. She knew better. She knew that only bad news was coming. It was only a matter of time.
"You want some coffee?" Elliot asked.
"No thanks. You want to get some of these people to go home. They don't need to be here."
"I think they want to be here." He looked at his friend. "I know I don't have anyplace more important to be."
"You have a wife......kids......a job."
"My wife would kill me if I went home before finding out something about Bosco and the kids to for that matter and as for the Job. Well there's several others qualified to do it while I'm here making sure a good friend has all the support she needs."
"Thanks." The door opened and a doctor came to Seajae.
"Mrs. Boscorelli?" She looked up. He was new.
"Yes." Seajae didn't stand. The doctor bent at his knees in front of her.
"I'm Cooper Sinclair . Dr. Miller's associate. He told me to come out and tell you everything is going well. We had to remove your husbands spleen and there was internal damage but Ken's sure he found it all." Seajae could see the doctor was uncomfortable telling her things while the surgery was still in progress. "He said to tell you niether one of them will quit fighting for you." Seajae smiled.
"Thank you Dr. Sinclair. Tell Ken I know he'll do his best." Seajae stood. She grabbed her coat and headed down stairs. Elliot followed. She went out the doors on the first floor and lit a cigarette. "You didn't have to follow me."
"It's my turn." He stood next to her. Spring was in the air. Seajae inhaled deeply.
"You really should go home Elliot." He had always been there for her. Bosoc told her that he was there every day when she was in her coma. If they didn't see each other every day they at least talked on the phone. "Katy's going to think we're having an affair."
"Never happen. She knows I don't like woman who can kick my ass." He smiled. Bosco and Seajae stood for what every married couple wanted to be. And they both were what rookie cops dreamed about being in the acadamy. "Something more then Bosco is wrong, isn't it?"
"All I feel is empty."
"You mean like....he's gone?"
"We'll he's not here." She took another drag of her cigarette.
"Maybe we should get Gorin...he's more atuned to that side of you."
"No. I'm taking up enough of your times I don't need Bobby to anylize my empty feeling."
"Kevin said he wouldn't stop finghting for you and Bosco. He won't let Bosco die."
"But maybe he already is. I mean I don't feel......whole." She looked at the ground. "I fell like I did before Bosco. Before he loved me." Elliot wrapped his arm around her sholder.
"I know Bosco. He would never leave you unless he didn't have a choice in the matter. Most of us don't when it comes to dieing. But I have a feeling that Bosco would talk St. Peter into taking him if he had to." Elliot's phone rang. He turned and looked at it. "I gotta take this." He took a few steps away. "Stabler."
"We have two guys down here in need of your special interigation skills."
"They lawyer up yet?"
"Nope." Joey Doyle answered.
"Give me ten minutes." Elliot hung up and turned to Seajae. "I need to take care of something. You going to be alright?"
"Arn't I always?" He took her sholders and kissed her forhead.
"No your not. I'll be back."
"Go home Elliot." He got in his car. Seajae watched him drive away. She wondered why it took so long for her to find such good friends. Grounding out her cigarette in the ash tray she went back to the rest of her friends and waiting for news of her husband.
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Joey Doyle, John Sullivan and Caleb Mc Kenzie stood watching the man pace back and forth. Elliot came in behind them.
"This guy coming down from something?"
"Maybe. It's hard to tell." Joey looked at Elliot. "He was laughing pretty hard when ESU pulled him out of the burning bodaga."
"What's his name?"
"Larry Smith."
"You run him?"
"The printer ran out of ink before we could get his whole rap sheet."
"What is he like twenty?"
"Twenty-two. Just got out of Rikers for armed robbery on Thursday."
"Took him all of three days to find trouble." Elliot took off his suit coat and loosened his tie. "Ready to watch the master at work?"
"He was caught with the gun. Not much to confess to."
"How about where he got the gun. Or maybe why he took pot shots at an unarmed FDNY paramedic?" Elliot smiled. "Or maybe he's like to confess to shooting Kennedy." He rolled up his sleaves and walked to the door. Larry Smith was sitting down at the table. Elliot moved slowly and sat across from the man and slid a note book and pen toward him.
"Just put down in your own words what happened tonight." The man smiled at him.
"The thing is detective.....I don't recall." Elliot leaned forword.
"That's not an answer. Your going back to Rikers anyway. If you tell us how you got the guns and why you blew up an ambulance they might find some kinda heart and let you stay alive."
"Alive....It was an ambulance man.....no harm no foul." Elliot stood, putting his hands on the table and getting into Larry's face.
"See there was some foul. You shot a paramedic and when you blew up the ambulence you ingered a NYPD office who was helping the paramedic that was hurt. And you see.......this NYPD office wasn't just anyone...he was a friend. A good friend to everyone in this precient." Elliot stood up and went behind the man. "He had a wife....three kids and a whole lot of friends who will pretty much kick your ass if he dies." Elliot came up next to him. "You better hope he doesn't die."
"Some guy gave us the guns. He said to do what we wanted with him. He was a white guy about forty. We never saw his face." Larry looked at Elliot. "I swear." Elliot looked though the widow. He shook his head. Larry didn't know the man who gave him the guns but he was afraid he knew who did.
"You better not be lying to me Larry or your ass is mine." Elliot walked to the door and went to his three friends standing in the hall. "You want to take bets on who's suppling fellons with guns?"
"He wouldn't do that.....would he?" Sully was the only one who knew Tommy back then.
"I don't know Sully, I just know what Seajae's been telling me and what I saw on Saturday." Elliot looked at Larry Smith. "I don't think we'll get anymore from his partner but I can try."
"Dashell Monson. He's.....not all there. On the slow side. He got dragged into it like he does everything else. They let the retard take the fall." Joey looked at Elliot. "How is Bosco?"
"Doc Miller seems cofidant. He sent someone to talk to Seajae just before you called. They removed his speen." Elliot got his coat back on. "I'm heading back to the hospital. If you get anything more out of these two give me a call." He left with the strange feeling something wasn't right. He hated feeling that way. Now he was starting to sound like Seajae. Elliot smiled....maybe he was spending too much time with the Boscorelli's.
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"Seajae....." Ken Miller sat next to her. She had let herself drift off for just a moment. "Seajae...."
"He's gone?"
"No. Would I let that happen?"
"As much as you like to think it your not God Ken."
"We'll now that you burst my bubble........He's doing fine. Not where I'd like him to be but you know Bosco...anything to make my life more difficalt. He's in recovery...you want to see him?"
"What arn't you telling me?"
"We did an MRI on him. His got some swelling around the vertibry near his waist. We got the peices floting around the spinal cord. There's some swelling. It will take a few days to go down."
"He'll be paralysed?"
"Till the swelling goes down. I want you to tell him so he doesn't freak. There is no reason after the swelling goes down he shouldn't be able to walk." Ken looked at the woman he put back together more times then he could count. "When you walked in with him today it scared the hell out of me. I was afraid I couldn't do it again. I was afaid that I couldn't save him." Cooper Sinclair came up behind him.
"Hey."
"You met Cooper right?"
"Yeah. " Ken got up. "He wants to talk to you. I'm on call on night so if you need anything."
"Can you call Susan?"
"Her and Susie are on the way here. " Cooper sat next to Seajae. "I'll see you later Sunshine." Ken walked down the hall leaving Seajae and the new doctor alone.
"Your Maddie's husband?"
"Yeah. I was on call when Bosco came in. I heard the name and knew I had to scrub in." He put his elbows on his knees. "Ken can work miricles but even he has his limits."
"He put me back together more times then I want to recall. Thank you. For being there. And thank Maddie for helping us too. I don't remeber if I did."
"She likes you. And trusts you. She doesn't trust a whole lot of people." Cooper ran a hand though his blond hair. "I didn't think Tom would come back here. With IAD we knew he wouldn't come back to the nieghborhood. With Swertzsky and you around there wasn't a chace of curruption. Now....well he's here and even know we live ten miles from here.....Tommy...he comes down here to see me."
"Tom Hannigan won't be working here long. I won't put up with his garbage and all of us feel the same way. Dan's got Joey Doyle working with him. If anyone can crack Tom its Joey." Seajae stood up. "But with Bosco in here I'd keep Tommy away. As much as I don't like it Tom will stop by to see him." Elliot came up to them.
"Maybe not." Elliot looked at the doctor sitting in the hall way.
"Elliot Stabler....Cooper Sinclair." The men shook hands. "What happened?"
"Our two robbers from the bodaga."
"They have a lot to say?"
"Just that someone fitting Tom Harrigan's discription vaugly....gave them the guns." Seajae looked at Elliot and then Cooper.
"Get Maddie and Tommy out of town. I can handle Tom. I have Maddie's cell. I'll call you when it's safe." Elliot looked at Seajae. He knew Maddie Harrigan was dead. He better get into the game better if he was going to help Seajae though this.
"Seajae you need to be with Bosco right now. You can't go after........." Cooper looked up at the sound of foot steps. Tom Harrigan, hair tossled, blue eyes colder then Seajae had ever seen them. "anyone." Cooper finnished.
"Maybe I have to......" She looked at Tom and smiled. "Hey." She picked up her jacket off the chair. "I'm going to see Bosco." Seajae wasn't sure she wanted to leave the three men in such close proxsimity. Elliot had a pertective side when it came to the Boscorelli's and Cooper was Tom's wife's new husband. It could get messy. Cooper thought on his feet. He had that going for him. Heading to the recovering room she looked back once more hoping the three of them would hold it together long enough to make graceful exits.
"Hold up Seajae." Cooper took a few long strides and caught up to her. "I'll come with you." He put his hand on her back and lead her into the ICU.
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"Who's the new doc?"
"Sinclair....Cooper I think. Seajae just introduced us. How's the Brunett murder coming along?"
"Nothing new."
"Seajae feels bad leaving like she did."
"Yeah well it's not the first time I scared a partner away." He looked into the ICU window. "So Bosco is going to be okay?"
"Seems like."
"You get anything from those bastards who did this?"
"Just that someone gave them the guns. Who the hell would give a convicted fellon a gun?" Elliot watched at Seajae sat next to her husband. "I find the bastard I'm going to kill him." Even from a yard away Elliot felt Tom stiffin. "Bosco and Seajae......their two of the most caring people in the world. They help people. Even people who don't deserve it sometimes. I never understood how they could be that way. But they're just forgiving." He turned and looked at Tom. "They don't hold a grudge. No matter what you do."
"Only place that gets you is dead."
"I guess if that's the way you feel...but hey...they stayed alive this long." Elliot turned to leave and then turned back. "Don't mess with what they have Tommy. It may break your heart to see Bosco happy...but you know as well as I do that it took him a whole lot of years to make it to this point. Let them be happy." Elliot looked at his friends one more time and headed to the elevators.
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Seajae held Bosco's hand and let the tears fall. The tears for Maddie and Tommy and Cooper. The tears for the loss in her life. Tears for Angela, for Miranda......
"I'm still alive baby.....you don't need to grieve for me yet...."Seajae felt a hand stroking her head.
"I just needed a good cry and now was as good a time as any." She looked up and into her husbands eyes. "God your a sight for sore eyes."
"You not looking too bad yourself. It's bad?"
"Rumor has it you can now put flying on your list of accomplishments." Seajae never was good at ling to her husband. "There's some verabre damage. It'll take a few days for the swelling to go down."
"That's why I can't feel my legs?"
"Yeah. Ken and Cooper think its only temporary."
"Cooper?"
"Sinclair...new doctor. Is Tom still standing at the window?" As if on que Cooper came to his bed side.
"Hey. It's nice to see you with your eyes open Sgt."
"This is Dr. Sinclair. He helped Ken put you back together again."
"The old man getting slow?"
"Don't let him hear you say that." Cooper smiled. "Tom's still outside. I think he wants to see you."
"You know Tom Harrigan?"
"Bosco....he's.....he's Maddie's husband."
"My Maddie? She's dead......even if she was alive why would she of stayed in New York?"
"It's all she knew. She changed her name....her looks."
"And got lost all over again....." Bosco looked at Tom at the ICU window. "Tell him I don't want to see anyone."
"He'll go away soon enough. Cooper called in the reinforcements from downstairs." Seajae took a deep breath. "He doesn't like us in numbers."
"Tell me, what happened?"
"Someone gave those two fellons guns. We think it might of been Tom."
"What the hell happened to him?" Bosco shut his eyes and tried to remeber the Tommy Harrigan of the past.
"Maybe the days leading to Maddie......who knows......" Cooper looked at Bosco's chart and then at Bosco.
"The Tom you knew was gone long before Maddie 'died'. She told me that he lived a whole different life. A life none of you would appove of." Bosco knew he would like to get to know Cooper Sinclair better. "I'll up your meds a little....maybe that swelling will go down a little faster." Bosco's hand tightened on his wife's. "I promise you will walk again Bosco. I know it seems a little scary.....but it all work out." Cooper put down the chart and went to the cabinet and got the hyperdemic he was looking for and injected it in Bosco's IV. "Get some rest." He went to the door. "I'll take care of the rif raf." Turning he headed out the door.
"Who was that man in the white coat?"
"I think we just found a great new ali."
"I want to know everything....." Bosco said a little drosily.
"Later Superman." Seajae kissed his forhead. "I think I better go relieve Mikey. He's been with the triple threat for four hours." Seajae looked up to find Sully next to her. "I'm going to leave you in good hands."
"Yipee. I thought you'd stay with me....." He was slowly drifting out.
"I'll be back in a few hours." She kissed him. Hugging Sully she wispered. "Call me if he gets violent." Smiling Seajae slipped out of the room. She just wanted to stay and make sure Bosco was feeling better but she needed to deal with a whole lot of other things. Mainly Tom Harrigan. She was out the door when Kim stood up and went to her.
"You ok?"
"Yeah. How about you?" Seajae patted her belly.
"Feeling as big as a house. How's Bosco?"
"Ok. He's got a little spinal coard swelling."
"A little as in......?"
"It should go down and he should walk. Ken and that new doctor seem to think everything is just fine." Kim looked at her friend. This was Bosco they were talking about. The love of her life and she was talking like his ingeries were nothing.
"Seajae......Bosco needs you. Whatever's going though your head right now......you need to put it aside."
"He's fine Kim. Sully's with him."
"You know when you were here last he went home once...once in a week. You saw him for what five minutes." Seajae looked at Kim. She was angry at her. Seajae turned and watched Tom Harrigan walk down the hall. He would wait. Kim was right. Bosco needed her. Tom would mess up and they would get him. Seajae hugged Kim.
"I have my head somewhere else Kimmy. Thank you for pulling it out of my ass for me." She turned and went to Joey. "Keep an eye on him kid."
"You got it boss lady." He left to follow Tommy and Seajae went back to her husband. It was good to have great friends. Seajae thanked God every day for hers.