Retribution

This is the Sequel to Sacrifice. The italics iswhat Bosco is seeing while in a coma, the bolded italics, the flashbacks he is witnessing, and the bold is him talking.

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It has been my routine for over a year now, I walk up the same steps, into the same stale white building, to where I have witnessed my share a tragedy's, and share of life changing miracles, all except one miracle the miracle that my father awakes from his coma. It has taken me a while to get used to coming here, but now it's habit I guess, as I walk through the front entrance of Angel of Mercy Hospital I see the usual characters, Nurse Mary Procter, she gives me a pleasant wave and a warm smile, Carlos and Grace must be on a run because there here filling out papers in the office, as I walk by the window I give them a friendly wave, and than there is Doctor Fields, he's looking over a patients medical information but sees me coming and says "Hello Alicia" as I pass him and press the up button on the elevator.

"Hello Doctor Fields" as I here the ding letting me know that the elevator has reached me

Doctor Fields joins me in the elevator, he must be coming up to check on my dad and make sure that nothing has happened to him, which I know hasn't because nothing has happened in over a year. I press the #6 and up we go.

There are not many things I do these days, I come to the hospital sit with my mom, and any other visitors that might be there, it has been a frustrating year since my kidnapping, I have not really had much time to think of that awful night because I have been to worried about my dad, my hair has grown back to its old length, and the wounds that I did have, have healed up nicely.

The one thing I do think about an awful lot though is how we got to this situation, my dad was shot, for sacrificing himself for me, I thought I lost him for sure that night, but Doc Fields worked on him and managed to save him from dying, but he still had not woken up from the surgery. The bullet that stuck my dads vest only went part way through his chest, the actual impact is what caused most of the damage, it brought with it a lot of internal injuries, some new ones from this shooting, and it brought up some neurological problems that were already existing from the Donald Mann shooting many years ago.

My mom has not held up to well since the shooting, this was the second time that my mom, would have to sit at dad's bed side and just wait well dad decides to wake up or not. She has been a wreak through all of this, all she does is go to work, pick up Mikey from Grandma Roses, and come to the hospital and stays here all night at my dad's side.

I don't think she has had more than four hours a sleep a night all year long. All I keep saying to my self is "dad will pull through he has before and will again" and like Uncle Ty said "your dad's the strongest guy I know, he will fight and come back stronger than ever"

As the elevator comes to a stop I realize that we have reached our destination, I think Doctor Fields was talking to me but I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't even here a word he said "Alicia did you here me?" he asks

"Huh, what?" I say as I pop out of my trance and we walk down the hall outside dad's door

"I said, I talked to your mom this afternoon, I told her that you two should sit down and talk, I don't know how much longer we can keep your father hooked up to these machines, it's been over a year and there has not been any change, I know it's tough but there is really nothing more we can do for him" as he starts to walk down the hallway towards the elevator

I stood there stiff as a board, "he did not just say what I think he said" I thought to myself. As I try and put that statement into the back of my mind, I walk into my dad's room, my mom is already there, and so is Uncle Sully, and Ty, Mikey is in the crib that the hospital has supplied for him well my dad has been here.

He's getting so big crawling around all over the place, saying a few words, and looks more and more like my dad everyday, my dad has missed so much of Mikey's life already, and I can't help but think that it is all my fault.

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"everyone thinks that's I am already dead"

Beep Beep Beep

"You have made my life a living hell Bosco, so now I am making you pay"

Flashes of white light.

"Waffle?"

I see Faith

"Give me that. This is wrong. This…it's wrong. You guys are wrong. I'll call him."

Alicia! Where's Alicia

"You're what? You're sorry? You? I told you what would happen. I told you to slow down. But you didn't care about Mikey. You didn't care what would happen to him. None of you care!"

Mikey's Dead

"Bosco your a dead man and so is your daughter"

So many Bodies, Bodies all around me!

"Bosco you hang on man, do you leave me"

FINNEY

"daddy don't you dare go anywhere on me, daddy I love you stay here the paramedics are on there way, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy I lov………."

Flashes of white light!

"You don't get to cry! You don't get to cry!"

"Mikey, Mikey is that you"

"I am here Mo, I am here, it's not time to go yet, I am here to tell you that everything is going to be ok, everything is going to be ok Mo"

"Mikey, Mikey, Mikey, don't go, Mikey don't go, I am sorry Mikey, I am Sorry"

Everything fades back to the darkness, the darkness that has seemed to overtake me…

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