Part VIII: Moving

Bosco and Faith had shown the house to the gets one day after they had signed the contract. Charlie loved it, he had his own room and a gig back yard. Emily tried to look cool about the new house but you could see that she liked her new room.

They bought some paint for the rooms, Charlie and Emily choose the colours for their rooms, and started to pack up the old apartment.

On Saturday Ty, Sully, Kim and Alex came over to help them paint the new house.

If someone was wondering how Faith could afford the house or why it was this big, they kept quit. Kim and Alex were delighted as they found out about the baby. They spent the first hour or so with talking with Faith about the baby and looking at sonogram pictures.

They painted the walls in the nursery first, while Faith constantly run around to help.

"Damn it, Faith... Why don't you just sit down?!" Bosco finally asked.

"Bosco, I'm pregnant ! Not deathly ill and we have two paramedics here. I'm fairly sure nothing will happen"

"I know that, but that doesn't mean you should over do it! Sit, now!"

Everyone held his breath, expecting Faith to explode and to tell Bosco off but to their utter amazement she just glared at him and sat down. She took the vitamins and the water Bosco offered her and swallowed them without a word.

"Wow, Bosco is really protective of her.... Like an expectant father." Ty whispered.

"I think it's cute. I always knew Bosco had a caring site he showed it often enough when Faith was hurt. It's great that he is there for here", Kim answered quietly. "But you're right, he behaves like the worried new father. Do you think....?"

"Nah,... or...., nope they would have told us!"

The day went on and by 7 P.M. they had painted and wallpapered all the rooms. The guys had brought over the furniture and placed them in their respective room. Faith would unpack the boxes the next morning with the help of Kim and Alex, who offered to come over. As a little thank you Faith had ordered Italian food and some bottles of wine.

7.34 P.M Everyone that in front of the fireplace, chatting and laughing.

"Kim and Alex look at me all the time, like the want to ask something. I feel like a bug under a microscope!", Bosco told Faith as the went to get some napkins.

"I know, they tried to corner me the whole day and the whisper and giggle with each other all the time. Really strange!" "You think they suspect something?"

"Yeah, I would bet money on it! Think we should tell them?"

"Yeah, let's show them..", he grinned at the thought of their friends faces when they would find out.

Back in the living room; Bosco sat down in the couch while Faith handed the napkins to Charlie. The kids were sitting in the floor, Ty and Alex were occupying the love seat and Kim and Sully sat on the far side of the long couch.

As Faith tried to sit down beside Kim, Bosco grabbed her waist and pulled her down between his legs. She giggled lightly before snuggling into his arms. His arms went around her to rest on her belly, his face buried into her neck.

Everyone looked shocked at them, no noise was being heard. The silence was broken by Emily who stomped out of the room, she still wasn't comfortable with her mom and Bosco being together.

"We knew it!," Kim and Alex shouted. "There was no way you would have been this protective is there wasn't something going in between you do!"

"Does Fred know that Bosco takes on the father role for the child?", Sully wanted to know.

"Sul, I'm divorced for more than six month and I'm five month along.....", Faith explained as she realised there friends didn't get the whole truth.

Ty was faster at doing the math then Sully.

"That means Bosco is the father? Oh my god!"

Bosco smiled and nodded.

"But when? How? Tell me you weren't cheating on your husband with Bosco?", asked Sully.

"Of course not! How can you think that?"

"I didn't think it, I was just curious. So, how long has that been going on?"

"To be honest only about a month...", said Bosco.

"Funny, Bosco! I'm sure you know that it's not possible with her being pregnant in the fifth month", giggled Kim.

"I know, but we are only together for about a month. But I didn't say that the child was conceived during that time!" "It happened while we were at the undercover assignment in Jersey. We had sex and then decided to take it slow and then this little one came....", explained Faith.

"We talked about everything and decided to give it a try. So actual you helped me moving in, too!"

Still stunned they looked at each other, they couldn't believe it. Kim always thought they would be perfect for each other but never had imagined they would get together. Finally she broke the silence.

"Congratulations!", she said and hugged Faith with Alex following her example.

"Yeah, I never thought I would see the day Maurice Boscorelli would get caught by a woman!", Ty grinned.

Meanwhile at Faith old apartment; Martin had finally found the woman he was looking for. Her name was Faith Yokas, two kids and divorced. She had probably cheated on her husband or failed to fill her chores as a wife.

He stood in front of the apartment and watched it for a while. It was Saturday, so she couldn't be at work. Where was she? Out with some guy? Everything was dark, so he decided to take a look inside. Carefully he picked the lock, as not to make any noise to get the attention of any neighbours.

Inside was nothing. The walls were bare, there was no furniture or anything. It was clear that there was no one living here. But that couldn't be. The police had their files always very accurate, so she couldn't been gone for long.

He wasn't really bothered by her absence. He searched long and patiently for her and now that he had a name it would be much easier to find her. He just would wait outside of her precinct and following her home....

TBC..........

The next part will take a while, I'm busy with college and out of ideas... If anyone has suggestions, let me know.