Back to the NYPD 9- The L Word for the First Time
Thanks to Teresa (Lovinbosco2) for being my extra set of eyes.
Hope you enjoy this chapter everyone.
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She runs into his house and sees Bosco lying on the floor, gun in his hand.
"BOSCO!" she screams!
Faith hesitates, she doesn't want to walk any further for fear of what she's about to see. She's frozen just outside the kitchen. Afraid. Afraid she's going to see Bosco's brains splattered all over the place. She takes on small step trying to catch her breath as she hears the sirens whaling in the background and the sound of tires screech to a halt.
She's still standing in the same spot as Sully and Ty come running up behind her.
"Faith is everything all right?" Ty asks as he steps in with Sully close behind.
When Sully comes in his face says is all
"Oh Crap!"
Sully moves through the house knowing that Faith is too stunned to go into the kitchen to look and see if Bosco is really dead. He walks through the living area first. He sees that the phone has been blown to pieces, and tossed across the room. This makes Sully even more nervous than he was when he walked into the house.
Slowly he walks into the kitchen and sees Bosco lying on the floor, but there's no blood around him what so ever. Sully quickly runs over to Bosco and checks for his pulse. It's strong and so is his breathing.
He quickly checks over Bosco's body. No signs of any gun shot wounds. He then looks around the room sees that the table has bullet holes from where he shot the beer bottles.
'So that makes seven bullets accounted for, where was the eighth?' he wonders, then stands up over top of Bosco and faces the way Bosco looks like he might have been when trying to shoot his self. There it is. The final bullet hole is in the door of his mother's refrigerator. Sully lets out a big sigh and rubs his forehead.
"He's alright guys. All the bullets are accounted for. I think he may have just passed out from all the alcohol he drank. Ty call the paramedics?" Sully asks while picking up Bosco and moving him over to the couch. He puts him on his side so if he does vomit he won't aspirate on it.
"Faith. He's alright. Come on. Bosco's going to be alright." Ty tells her gently. He calls Carlos on his cell, telling him the situation and to get to there right away.
Faith slowly and shakingly, walks into the living area and takes a seat next to Bosco. Some how she manages to call the boss and asks him to tell Jelly that she won't be back for the next couple days. She needs to stay with Bosco.
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It's been three hours since Bosco gave Faith the scare of her life. He's still sleeping and Faith is just finishing up cleaning the house when she here something coming from the living room. Bosco is tossing and turning in his sleep.
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"Don't you die before me?"
"You got it."
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Faith walks over to Bosco side. He's mumbling something, but Faith can't make out what he is saying. It sounds like something about his mother. ……………………………………………………………
"We're going to sit like normal people and eat lasagna. Is that too much to ask? You're brothers for God's sake."
"This guy, Alie Nardo, told me to tell you that he says hello."
"You don't need to protect me all the time."
"He can hurt you."
"You hurt me." ………………………………………………………………….
Faith is starting to make out what Bos is saying.
"I'm sorry Ma. I never meant to hurt you. I'm sorry Ma." He pleads as he starts to cry.
Faith puts her hand on Bosco shoulder and gives him a little shake.
"Bos? She says softly while brushing his hair back with her fingers. Bosco, wake up. You're having a nightmare. Wake up Bos."
He slowly opens his eyes and sees Faith in front of him.
"Faith." he says in a ragged breath.
"Yeah Bos. I am here."
He sits up slowly and wipes the tears away from his eyes. He looks at Faith as she continues to search his blue eyes. He looks so broken and lost.
She moves closer to him and puts her arms around him. He finally begins to speak
"She told me not to die first Faith, and I didn't." he says as another tear falls down his face.
"I know Bos. She's in a better place now. She's with Mikey, and I know that they are both so proud of you." Faith says as she starts to rub his back.
"But why Faith? Why does this always have to happen to me? My life was finally starting to get back to normal. Then I come back to this fucking city and everything falls apart again." He drops his head into his hands as defeat and grief try to consume him.
She doesn't say anything. She just moves closer to him and embraces him in a hug. She runs her fingers through his hair and whispers.
"Bos, I'm here for you, I will always be here for you… cause I love you Bosco."
Faith never imagined that the first time she would say that to him would be when she was trying to comfort him over his mother's death.
Bosco moves away from Faiths hug and looks at her. His eyes look like they have some life in them again. For the first time since Bosco found out Rose was dead, he looks her in the eyes. He knows that she's not just saying that to make him feel better, but because she really means it.
Bosco still hasn't said anything back so Faith continues.
"That was the last bit of advice that your Ma gave me the last time we talked before this happened." She tells him while looking down nervously at her fingers. "I told her that we hadn't talked in a while. Your Ma said that I should call you and just finally get it out in the open and tell you that I love you."
"She was a smart lady." Bosco says as he grabs Faith and kisses her on the lips. "I love you to Faith. I don't know what I would've done had you not been here."
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It's been three weeks since Rose's death now. The visitation and burial has long since past.
Bosco is set to come back to work today. This will be the first time he's been back to the NYPD since he's been back from Miami.
As he pulls up to the station, he sits in his car for a moment. It feels a little awkward after having been gone for so long. He hasn't talked to most of the people he's about to run into in a while. A knock on the window startles him out of his trance. He looks up to see Ty standing outside his window with a huge smile on his face. Bosco opens the door and glances around as Ty asks him.
"You ready to go in man?" He just nods his head and grabs his bag out of the back seat.
He and Ty climb the steps into the precinct. As soon as he walks in everything in the house seems to stop. All the eyes are on him. He looks around until he sees the love of his life at the top of the stairs.
He smiles and says, "What do I smell or something?"
Everyone bursts out into laughter, and cheers erupt that Bosco is back. He's greeted by some of his fellow officers with handshakes and pats on the back.
He looks behind the desk. There's Lt. Swersky looking at him with his arms folded. It really doesn't look like he's to happy with him already and he just got here.
"Boscorelli my office now." Swersky says in a stern voice. Bosco thinks to himself, 'Great I've been here for all of two minutes and I am already in trouble.'
He rolls his eyes and follows Swersky into his office taking a chair across from him. Ty takes Bosco's bag into the locker room for him whistling a tune as he goes. …………………………………………………………………
Ty walks in to the locker room and calls Sully over as he looks around the room for anyone else.
"Sully get over here and lets do this. Swersky just took Bosco into his office." Sully comes running over with a bottle of itching powder and they open Bosco's bag pouring it all over his uniform. They're both laughing like two school children when Monroe and Finney come walking in.
"What are you two doing?" Monroe asks.
"Nothing, just putting a little itching powder into Bosco's uniform." Sully says in between chuckles.
"He's gonna kill you guys." Monroe says raising her eyebrows and shaking her head.
"That's not a good initiation for a rookie guys." Finney says with a grin.
All three officers look at each other and say. "Rookie?"
Monroe opens her mouth to say, "He's no…" but Ty and Sully both put their hands over Sasha's mouth to shut her up.
"Well this will do for now Finney. Oh hey, tell you what, I think Boss has you riding with that rookie today by the way." Sully chuckles again. ………………………………………………………………………
"Am I in trouble Boss?" Bosco asks.
"Did I tell you to speak Boscorelli?" Swersky says with a frown on his face, which quickly turns to a smile as his voice softens. "Of course not Bosco." He laughs. "I just wanted to give you a proper welcome is all. And, you're being offered a new shield. Here. You're being promoted. Welcome back Detective Boscorelli." Swersky says with a smile extending his hand to Bosco.
He just looks at the Lieutenant funny. "A promotion? I haven't done anything." Bosco replies surprised at what he's hearing.
Swersky answers with, "Well, since you only took a leave of absence from the force, the big wigs downtown decided you deserved a promotion after you saved all those people at that 7-11. You'll still have to be in uniform for a week. Just till you get back into the swing of things again. Is that alright with you?" Swersky asks.
"Of course." He laughs standing to shake the bosses hand, both a little excited and embarrassed by all the attention. "Thank you Sir." Bosco says.
"Congratulations Bosco. Now go get dressed and don't be late for role call."
Bosco walks out of his office and into the locker room still not believing what just happened. He pauses for a moment at his locker thinking how proud his Ma would've been had she been alive to see this. …………………………………………………………………….
