Part 15: Calmness before the storm
The last four weeks had been very tense. Bosco and Faith constantly looked over their shoulders, always fearing someone was after them. The kids couldn't go out, apart from going to school. Their friends had to come over so Emily and Charlie would be save. The cops who were by their side 24/7 were quickly going on their nerves. Swersky had requested some specialist, normally guarding witnesses.
Now they couldn't go anywhere without company. Bosco never was very patient but he really tried to be for Faith sake. To his surprise Faith was the one who often lost her patience. Due to her hormones she quickly got agitated and slammed doors behind her.
There was a team trying to catch Roberts, but until now they hadn't found him. They had found the place where he had worked, but he hadn't been there since he broke into the house. Knowing that, his boss could tell them where he lived, but he wasn't there either. The landlord said he had seen Roberts last, a few days after the incident. He hadn't seen him since then and his rent hadn't been paid.
In the apartment they had found some of the photos and things that were taken from the house. The rest of Faith things were gone, along with most of his clothes and some personal items. That about covered everything the police found out. They asked every source they knew of but no one had seen him. He wasn't even anywhere near Faith or Bosco.
After some discussions they decided to reassign the cops assigned to Faith and her family, they didn't find any indication that Roberts would come after them or that he had something to do with the attempts to kill Bosco. Swersky and Bosco fought hart to keep at least some of them assigned to them. It was no use, but Swersky promised to have a RMP patrol around their house more often and Sully and Ty would help him look after Roberts.
Bosco was still worried so he decided to ride a desk until they found Roberts to be near Faith. He showed even some paranoiac tendencies, going trough every room in the house before letting them go inside.
Bosco & Faith house;
Tuesday afternoon; The kids had long gone to bed, Bosco and Faith sat in front of the fireplace. They relished to have some time for themselves with no one around for the first time in four weeks.
"You know, Bos... It's time we get our life's back. I'm tired of always looking over my shoulder. In only four weeks I'm gonna have that baby and I want to have everything in order before then. When she is born I don't want to have to worry about anything. I just want to enjoy the time with my kids and the man I love."
"Okay, what do you suggest?", he asked, kissing her softly.
"Why don't we get the room ready? We just put the things from the shower in the nursery and never placed them right. Why don't we do this tomorrow, we have the day off, and then see what we're still needing? Like a regular stroller.... And afterward we can look trough some books with baby names..."
"Sounds good!", he whispered in her ear. "Why don't we start the relaxing part right now?"
He pushed her down on the couch and moved over her, careful not to crush her belly. Moving his hands softly over her body he kissed every potion of exposed skin he could reach. Moaning she placed her hand behind his neck and pulled him in a passionate kiss, exploring his mouth before their tongues met.
Next morning;
Sometime during the night they had woken up naked in front of the fire place. They had made love and then wanted to take a nap before going to their bedroom. Bosco woke up because he was cold, realising that they were still in the living room and woke Faith up to go to bed.
Now the sun streamed through the blinds and woke Faith up. Groaning she rolled out of the bad, she now had difficulties getting out of bed and it was a real pain to get up when sitting in a chair without help. She now was more than ready for her daughter to be born and the back pain to disappear. The last few days the baby had laid on her bladder and Faith had to run to the bathroom every few minutes, thank god she had change positions last night so she could spend the time with Bosco without having to get up regularly. Faith hoped to god that the little girl would be on time, not like Emily who had been two weeks later. Luckily they knew the date of arrival very accurate, after all she knew when the child was conceived without a doubt. That was the good thing in not having sex for a while...
Coming back from the bathroom she found Bosco in the kitchen with breakfast ready, the kids had already gone to school.
After they had eaten they went to the nursery to put everything in place. Between the things from the baby shower and all the presents the had gotten from friends and family they had more than enough of everything. They only needed a stroller.
Faith tired easily this days so they decided to put the shopping off for now. Settling in with some sandwiches and ice tea for lunch they grabbed the books with names and started to read. Each of them would wrote down the names he or she liked and then they would compare and try to settle the name they would give their daughter.
Two hours later they both had a page full of names.
"Who goes first?", Bosco asked.
"How about you start with one and then I tell you one of mine?"
Nodding Bosco started.
"How about Kylie?"
"Carlos' girl is called Kylie, I don't think naming our daughter the same would be a good idea."
"Okay, point taken!"
"Emma?"
"Nah, sounds too much like Emily!"
"Jody?"
"Sounds too much like one of your former girlfriends", she grinned.
Giving her a mock angry look he said "Fine!"
"Jamie?"
"No!"
"Why? Just no, I don't like it.... But what about Andrea?"
"To classic!"
When Charlie and Emily came back from school they had ruled out Gabriella, Kirsten, Sarah, Dana and a few others, but still hadn't settled for one.
Hearing them arguing the kids just grabbed a bite to eat and headed to their rooms. It was the first time they did their homework without being told to do so.
"What about this one....?"
"I like it but I like that one, too."
"Then we just have to settle which one will be the first name and which one the second..."
Finally they settled it but decided to not tell anyone until the baby was born.
Sorry guys, you'll have to wait like everyone else until the baby is born ;)