Bosco and Faith pulled up to their first call of the shift, a routine traffic accident. A silver BMW had ran into the back of another car.
"I'll take the driver of the BMW." Bosco told Faith. Faith nodded and went over to the other driver before she started talking to the driver she took a look at the vehicles. Her gaze stopped at the BMW staring at it for a while she could of sworn she recognized the vehicle. Shaking away the thought she looked towards Bosco to see how he was making out with his driver.
"So what happened here?" Faith heard Bosco ask the driver. Faith then noticed the driver walking slightly backwards and then looked towards her driver who was also keeping his distance. Her instincts took over for a minute as she felt that something wasn't right about the situation. Faith than studied the BMW again and out of the corner of eye she saw it, orange paint at the bottom of the back window. Her mind flashed back to when they arrested that rave fire starter.
"Hey Boz" She said calmly at first and than the screeching sound of tires spinning around corner took away both their attentions. Faith then saw the driver Bosco was talking to take off then looked back to her driver who had also taken off. Time seemed to have slowed down when she saw the window of the SUV come down and automatic weapon appeared aiming towards Bosco.
"BOSCO!" Faith screamed as loud as she could before the shots were fired Faith took cover behind the vehicle she was standing by and took out her weapon and begun blindly shooting towards the vehicle.
Bosco turned to face Faith at her scream thinking she was in trouble just as the shooting started. Standing unable to move quick enough Bosco felt the heat of the bullets ripping through his body sending him to the ground with a thud. Laying on his side he could feel and hear his blood rushing up his throat and to his ears. Using only his eyes, Bosco began to panic when Faith was no longer in his view. Trying muster up the strength to call out for Faith; Bosco inhaled a painful breath but all he could get out was a loud groan.
After the SUV left Faith stood and followed the vehicle with her eyes. Her attention was brought back to focus by the sounds of her partner screaming out in agony.
Faith quickly put away her gun and grab her radio running to Bosco. "10:13 officer down! I repeat officer down. I need EMS and assistance."
"Bosco!" She screamed out before kneeling beside him in an already growing pool of blood around him. "Bosco where you hit ?… where you hit?" Faith asked panicked while ripping away at his shirt.
"Faith" Bosco said in a hoarse whisper. "its…its bad isn't it?"
Faith peeled back his vest and through teary she looked at the damage. "O-oh gawd." Faith cried out then placing her hands on his muscular chest that is now coated in a thick layer of blood.
Faith look into Bosco face to see his eyes beginning to roll to the back of his head and his breathing almost non existent except for a small gasp every once and a while. Faith placed one of her blood cover hands on the side of his face not caring if was making a mess and leaned in close to his ear. "Boz stay with me…help is almost here." Watching as a couple of her tears land on his cheek and looked at his mouth as it opened slightly to gasp for another breath. Faith caressed his cheek and encouraged him to breath. "Come on…come on just breathe."
Faith looked up as she heard sirens approach and saw Davis and Sully pushing their way through the growing crowd around the two officers.
"Ah, damn." Davis cried before landing on a thud on his knees beside Bosco and immediately took hold of one of his wounds.
"Alright I need this crowd to leave now!" Sully yelled pushing back the crowd.
Bosco's vision blurred increasingly as time went on and the tightness in his chest soon became so intense that it started to go unnoticed. He watched as the shadowy figures around him blended in slowly with the background as it started to become dark as well. Bosco's body began shake from the shock of being deprived of oxygen under the helping hands of Faith and Davis. The last thing he heard was Faith's stuttered cry "no-o"
Faith kept her eyes locked on Bosco's shaking body and how it eased and became still after his eyes finally rolled to the back of his head unable to fight anymore.
Sirens of the ambulance came to a screeching halt and Carlos and Levine rushed to their side pulling away Davis and Faith. They stood not far them as they listened to the two paramedics yelled out things, but they only understood two things, not breathing and no pulse. After they got an IV going Carlos got out the paddles and shocked Bosco to try and get a pulse back in between shocks Levine would step in and do compressions.
Davis, Sully and Faith watched in horror as Carlos shocked Bosco for the third time leaving a lifeless body to lay on the ground. Suddenly like a miracle was sent over a faint beep started to show up on the heart monitor.
"Alright we got a weak pulse, its not much but its something." he said. "lets tube him so we can him out of here. I need someone to drive."
"I'm in." Levine said after she got the tube and bagged him giving Bosco oxygen.
Faith got in the back of the ambulance sitting next to Bosco she took hold of his hand looking into his unconscious face silently pleading for him to stay with her.
The two minute drive to Mercy seemed like an eternity but was once they pulled up not even a second was wasted as the doors to the ambulance flew open before it even had chance to completely stop. The gurney Bosco was on disappeared out the ambulance so fast that Faith forgot to let go of her grasp on his hand so it was ripped away from her leaving his arm to dangle off the side of the gurney lifelessly.
Rushing in through the ER doors Faith followed the gurney to as far the trauma room doors before she became separated from Bosco. Faith watched as the nurses cut away at his uniform and throwing the items to the floor. His gun belt hit floor with a smash causing whatever was attached to it scatter around the floor. Her eyes kept going back to the blood that was gathering around the gurney in small puddles. A hand placed on her shoulder took away her attention from the horror show in front of her.
"Faith." Swersky said gently guiding her away from what she was watching. Stepping into the lounge Faith was greeted with worried faces from fellow officers including Sully and Davis. Sully put a hand on Faith's shoulder.
"He'll be alright." He said hoping to encourage the situation.
"Faith, I need to know what happen out there and if we can connect this Donald Mann." Swersky said.
Faith took a deep breath before starting. "We got a call about a traffic accident, a BMW ran into the back of another car. The next thing I knew was this SUV came racing around the corner and started firing."
Faith looked around at the faces who were listening carefully. "The whole thing seemed kind of weird to me too."
"How so?" Swersky asked.
"Well at first I didn't think much about it but I thought I recognized the BMW from that rave fire when we arrested the fire starter. Then I noticed the guy who Bosco was talking with kept moving away from him, then I looked back at the BMW, I noticed this orange paint on the back window and by the time I realized the image it drew out all hell broke loose."
"What was the image?"
"It was a Monkey Face. Like the ones on the ecstasy tabs." Faith answered.
"So it was connected to Mann" Cruz said from the doorway and everyone turned to face her when she spoke.
Davis let out a sigh. "Damn this has to stop."
"Lieu do you think anyone has picked up Bosco's stuff yet?" Faith asked getting an idea.
"Maybe. Why?"
"I was just thinking Bosco took down this guys information. If we find him he must be working closely with Mann." Faith said taking a seat.
Cruz nodded her head. "It would definitely bring us closer to Mann if we find him. I'll go check it out."
"Keep me notified." Swersky said before Cruz left. "I'm going to go call the house to see if we can get a trace on that 911 call, we have to move fast on this."
Close to twenty minutes later a nurse came in to tell everyone that Bosco went up surgery. Sully, Davis and Faith went up to wait in the surgical waiting room where it would be more private because reporters had already begun to and bombarding them with questions.
"You guys want some coffee I was just going to grab some." Sully asked.
Faith looked up from her stare on the floor. "Yeah that would be great Sul, thanks"
Sully was about to get out the door when Sasha came running in. Sully nodded at her acknowledging her and continued on his journey out the door.
"Hey." She said a little out of breathe from practically running all the way from the ER. "I just heard on the news. I came as soon as I could. What happened?"
Davis greeted her with a hug. "Uh…its Bosco. He got hit pretty bad." Sasha looked at Faith with sad eyes and went to sit next to her. Giving Faith a hug she asked "Was it connected to Donald Mann."
"Yeah. We're fairly sure about that." Davis answered.
Sully walked in the room the coffees, while handing one off to Davis then Faith he said. "I just spoke to Swersky and it looks like we are one step closer to finding Donald Mann. That driver of the BMW worked with Joey Mann his son. He has some cops going to bring him in, thanks to Bosco for getting his information down."
"Good at least we're getting somewhere in this." Faith said while pulling a few fallen strands of her hair back. "We need to find him fast."
Four hours of waiting went by slowing with plenty of pacing back and forth and way too much coffee until finally a doctor came to explain Bosco's condition and to tell them that it was okay for them to see him.
"Officer Boscorelli had suffered three gunshot wounds, one to the abdomen and two to the chest. The bullet that had entered his abdomen punctured his stomach, the second bullet had collapsed his right lung and the third grazed the side of his heart causing the most damage out all of it but was repaired it as much as it could have been. Its going to be a long recovery but he should heal close to 100%."
Those statements repeated itself through Faith's mind as she sat at Bosco's side quietly in ICU listening as the ventilator breathed oxygen into him. Faith allowed her eyes to travel the length of his body that was covered by a thin sheet to just bellow his ribs, his chest wrapped in bandages. Looking at the various tubes and wires often caused her to turn away. The unnerving feeling went away when she thought back to when she first went to his side taking his hand into hers and Bosco opened his eyes for a small second even though they opened no more than a silt it sent the biggest smile across her face. Faith continued thinking about that half a second giving herself a reassurance that the fighter side of the old Bosco she knew was still there.
"Hey guys." A soft whisper came from the doorway. Sasha, Davis and Faith turned to see who it was. Cruz walked in closer and her eyes widen a small bit as she got her first glance at Bosco before she started.
"Uh…I'm not going to stay long…but uh…I just wanted to let you know that we found the driver of the BMW through Bosco's information he wrote down." Cruz said than finally taking her gaze away from Bosco recollecting herself. "We just brought him in an hour ago."
"Good" Faith told her quietly. "Did you get anything out of him yet?"
"Not yet." Cruz responded. "I just wanted to come see how he was doing first and let you know."
Faith just nodded in response. Cruz looked at Davis and Sasha for a moment and than back to Faith. "Well.. I should get back, I'll keep you posted."
Faith was given permission to stay at Bosco's side all night by his doctor. Davis and Sasha left for home for the night but said they would come back before the shift tomorrow. Faith moved her chair in closer to the bed, laying her head down on the bed she linked her fingers with his to hold his hand and closed her eyes to fall asleep at his side.
"I'll take the driver of the BMW." Bosco told Faith. Faith nodded and went over to the other driver before she started talking to the driver she took a look at the vehicles. Her gaze stopped at the BMW staring at it for a while she could of sworn she recognized the vehicle. Shaking away the thought she looked towards Bosco to see how he was making out with his driver.
"So what happened here?" Faith heard Bosco ask the driver. Faith then noticed the driver walking slightly backwards and then looked towards her driver who was also keeping his distance. Her instincts took over for a minute as she felt that something wasn't right about the situation. Faith than studied the BMW again and out of the corner of eye she saw it, orange paint at the bottom of the back window. Her mind flashed back to when they arrested that rave fire starter.
"Hey Boz" She said calmly at first and than the screeching sound of tires spinning around corner took away both their attentions. Faith then saw the driver Bosco was talking to take off then looked back to her driver who had also taken off. Time seemed to have slowed down when she saw the window of the SUV come down and automatic weapon appeared aiming towards Bosco.
"BOSCO!" Faith screamed as loud as she could before the shots were fired Faith took cover behind the vehicle she was standing by and took out her weapon and begun blindly shooting towards the vehicle.
Bosco turned to face Faith at her scream thinking she was in trouble just as the shooting started. Standing unable to move quick enough Bosco felt the heat of the bullets ripping through his body sending him to the ground with a thud. Laying on his side he could feel and hear his blood rushing up his throat and to his ears. Using only his eyes, Bosco began to panic when Faith was no longer in his view. Trying muster up the strength to call out for Faith; Bosco inhaled a painful breath but all he could get out was a loud groan.
After the SUV left Faith stood and followed the vehicle with her eyes. Her attention was brought back to focus by the sounds of her partner screaming out in agony.
Faith quickly put away her gun and grab her radio running to Bosco. "10:13 officer down! I repeat officer down. I need EMS and assistance."
"Bosco!" She screamed out before kneeling beside him in an already growing pool of blood around him. "Bosco where you hit ?… where you hit?" Faith asked panicked while ripping away at his shirt.
"Faith" Bosco said in a hoarse whisper. "its…its bad isn't it?"
Faith peeled back his vest and through teary she looked at the damage. "O-oh gawd." Faith cried out then placing her hands on his muscular chest that is now coated in a thick layer of blood.
Faith look into Bosco face to see his eyes beginning to roll to the back of his head and his breathing almost non existent except for a small gasp every once and a while. Faith placed one of her blood cover hands on the side of his face not caring if was making a mess and leaned in close to his ear. "Boz stay with me…help is almost here." Watching as a couple of her tears land on his cheek and looked at his mouth as it opened slightly to gasp for another breath. Faith caressed his cheek and encouraged him to breath. "Come on…come on just breathe."
Faith looked up as she heard sirens approach and saw Davis and Sully pushing their way through the growing crowd around the two officers.
"Ah, damn." Davis cried before landing on a thud on his knees beside Bosco and immediately took hold of one of his wounds.
"Alright I need this crowd to leave now!" Sully yelled pushing back the crowd.
Bosco's vision blurred increasingly as time went on and the tightness in his chest soon became so intense that it started to go unnoticed. He watched as the shadowy figures around him blended in slowly with the background as it started to become dark as well. Bosco's body began shake from the shock of being deprived of oxygen under the helping hands of Faith and Davis. The last thing he heard was Faith's stuttered cry "no-o"
Faith kept her eyes locked on Bosco's shaking body and how it eased and became still after his eyes finally rolled to the back of his head unable to fight anymore.
Sirens of the ambulance came to a screeching halt and Carlos and Levine rushed to their side pulling away Davis and Faith. They stood not far them as they listened to the two paramedics yelled out things, but they only understood two things, not breathing and no pulse. After they got an IV going Carlos got out the paddles and shocked Bosco to try and get a pulse back in between shocks Levine would step in and do compressions.
Davis, Sully and Faith watched in horror as Carlos shocked Bosco for the third time leaving a lifeless body to lay on the ground. Suddenly like a miracle was sent over a faint beep started to show up on the heart monitor.
"Alright we got a weak pulse, its not much but its something." he said. "lets tube him so we can him out of here. I need someone to drive."
"I'm in." Levine said after she got the tube and bagged him giving Bosco oxygen.
Faith got in the back of the ambulance sitting next to Bosco she took hold of his hand looking into his unconscious face silently pleading for him to stay with her.
The two minute drive to Mercy seemed like an eternity but was once they pulled up not even a second was wasted as the doors to the ambulance flew open before it even had chance to completely stop. The gurney Bosco was on disappeared out the ambulance so fast that Faith forgot to let go of her grasp on his hand so it was ripped away from her leaving his arm to dangle off the side of the gurney lifelessly.
Rushing in through the ER doors Faith followed the gurney to as far the trauma room doors before she became separated from Bosco. Faith watched as the nurses cut away at his uniform and throwing the items to the floor. His gun belt hit floor with a smash causing whatever was attached to it scatter around the floor. Her eyes kept going back to the blood that was gathering around the gurney in small puddles. A hand placed on her shoulder took away her attention from the horror show in front of her.
"Faith." Swersky said gently guiding her away from what she was watching. Stepping into the lounge Faith was greeted with worried faces from fellow officers including Sully and Davis. Sully put a hand on Faith's shoulder.
"He'll be alright." He said hoping to encourage the situation.
"Faith, I need to know what happen out there and if we can connect this Donald Mann." Swersky said.
Faith took a deep breath before starting. "We got a call about a traffic accident, a BMW ran into the back of another car. The next thing I knew was this SUV came racing around the corner and started firing."
Faith looked around at the faces who were listening carefully. "The whole thing seemed kind of weird to me too."
"How so?" Swersky asked.
"Well at first I didn't think much about it but I thought I recognized the BMW from that rave fire when we arrested the fire starter. Then I noticed the guy who Bosco was talking with kept moving away from him, then I looked back at the BMW, I noticed this orange paint on the back window and by the time I realized the image it drew out all hell broke loose."
"What was the image?"
"It was a Monkey Face. Like the ones on the ecstasy tabs." Faith answered.
"So it was connected to Mann" Cruz said from the doorway and everyone turned to face her when she spoke.
Davis let out a sigh. "Damn this has to stop."
"Lieu do you think anyone has picked up Bosco's stuff yet?" Faith asked getting an idea.
"Maybe. Why?"
"I was just thinking Bosco took down this guys information. If we find him he must be working closely with Mann." Faith said taking a seat.
Cruz nodded her head. "It would definitely bring us closer to Mann if we find him. I'll go check it out."
"Keep me notified." Swersky said before Cruz left. "I'm going to go call the house to see if we can get a trace on that 911 call, we have to move fast on this."
Close to twenty minutes later a nurse came in to tell everyone that Bosco went up surgery. Sully, Davis and Faith went up to wait in the surgical waiting room where it would be more private because reporters had already begun to and bombarding them with questions.
"You guys want some coffee I was just going to grab some." Sully asked.
Faith looked up from her stare on the floor. "Yeah that would be great Sul, thanks"
Sully was about to get out the door when Sasha came running in. Sully nodded at her acknowledging her and continued on his journey out the door.
"Hey." She said a little out of breathe from practically running all the way from the ER. "I just heard on the news. I came as soon as I could. What happened?"
Davis greeted her with a hug. "Uh…its Bosco. He got hit pretty bad." Sasha looked at Faith with sad eyes and went to sit next to her. Giving Faith a hug she asked "Was it connected to Donald Mann."
"Yeah. We're fairly sure about that." Davis answered.
Sully walked in the room the coffees, while handing one off to Davis then Faith he said. "I just spoke to Swersky and it looks like we are one step closer to finding Donald Mann. That driver of the BMW worked with Joey Mann his son. He has some cops going to bring him in, thanks to Bosco for getting his information down."
"Good at least we're getting somewhere in this." Faith said while pulling a few fallen strands of her hair back. "We need to find him fast."
Four hours of waiting went by slowing with plenty of pacing back and forth and way too much coffee until finally a doctor came to explain Bosco's condition and to tell them that it was okay for them to see him.
"Officer Boscorelli had suffered three gunshot wounds, one to the abdomen and two to the chest. The bullet that had entered his abdomen punctured his stomach, the second bullet had collapsed his right lung and the third grazed the side of his heart causing the most damage out all of it but was repaired it as much as it could have been. Its going to be a long recovery but he should heal close to 100%."
Those statements repeated itself through Faith's mind as she sat at Bosco's side quietly in ICU listening as the ventilator breathed oxygen into him. Faith allowed her eyes to travel the length of his body that was covered by a thin sheet to just bellow his ribs, his chest wrapped in bandages. Looking at the various tubes and wires often caused her to turn away. The unnerving feeling went away when she thought back to when she first went to his side taking his hand into hers and Bosco opened his eyes for a small second even though they opened no more than a silt it sent the biggest smile across her face. Faith continued thinking about that half a second giving herself a reassurance that the fighter side of the old Bosco she knew was still there.
"Hey guys." A soft whisper came from the doorway. Sasha, Davis and Faith turned to see who it was. Cruz walked in closer and her eyes widen a small bit as she got her first glance at Bosco before she started.
"Uh…I'm not going to stay long…but uh…I just wanted to let you know that we found the driver of the BMW through Bosco's information he wrote down." Cruz said than finally taking her gaze away from Bosco recollecting herself. "We just brought him in an hour ago."
"Good" Faith told her quietly. "Did you get anything out of him yet?"
"Not yet." Cruz responded. "I just wanted to come see how he was doing first and let you know."
Faith just nodded in response. Cruz looked at Davis and Sasha for a moment and than back to Faith. "Well.. I should get back, I'll keep you posted."
Faith was given permission to stay at Bosco's side all night by his doctor. Davis and Sasha left for home for the night but said they would come back before the shift tomorrow. Faith moved her chair in closer to the bed, laying her head down on the bed she linked her fingers with his to hold his hand and closed her eyes to fall asleep at his side.