10:30 A.M.
Bosco's apartment The Rolling Stones Paint It Black plays loudly. Someone is banging on the door, but the music drowns that sound out.
"Mo! Mo! Come on man open the door!" Mikey yells as he looks over his shoulder down the hallway.
"Mikey!?" Bosco calls as he turns down the stereo and heads for his apartment door.
An antsy Mikey stands in the doorway.
"What are you doing here?" Bosco asks
"I need help." Mikey says
Bosco rolls his eyes and mutters, "When don't you need my help?" Then out loud he says, "What do you need my help with?"
"Just let me in." Mikey says brushing his way past his brother and then shutting the door behind him. *~*~*~*~*
Taylor and Walsh are in the waiting room of the doctor's office.
"Alex Walsh." The nurse calls.
Walsh and Taylor stand and follow the nurse to an exam room. The nurse hands Taylor a gown.
"Put this on and the doctor will be in shortly." The nurse says as she walks out.
Taylor changes into the gown.
"I hate these things." She laughs
"Yeah, me too." Walsh smiles.
Taylor laughs.
"Are you ready to find out what we're having?" Walsh asks
"Yeah, are you?" Taylor responds
"I'm nervous." Walsh admits *~*~*~*~* Faith is cleaning up the apartment. The TV is on but Faith pays no attention to it. The phone rings.
"Hello?" Faith says *~*~*~*~*
"Mikey, you gotta tell me what's going on." Bosco demands
"Mo, I'm in big trouble." Mikey says
"And so you ran to your big brother, the cop." Bosco says as he turns away
"No one else can help me." Mikey says
"What did you do to screw up this time?" Bosco asks
"It went bad." Mikey says
"What did? What went bad?" Bosco demands *~*~*~*~*
The doctor enters the exam room.
"Mr. and Mrs. Walsh. How are you today?" she asks
"We're doing well." Taylor says
"That's good to hear. And how are you feeling?" the doctor asks
"No complaints." Taylor replies
"Good. Are you ready to find out the sex of the baby?" the doctor asks
Taylor and Walsh smile. "Yes." Taylor replies *~*~*~*~*
Kim is folding laundry and listening to the radio. The news comes on.
"Police are still looking for two men involved in an early morning shooting of an elderly woman. The two suspects fled the scene after the woman, whose identity has been withheld pending notification of the family, apparently walked up on a drug deal. Anyone with any information has been asked to call the New York Police Department.."
Kim switches off the radio.
"Why must people be so brutal?" She asks out loud. *~*~*~*~*
The doctor is running the sonogram.
"There's the heartbeat." She announces
Walsh and Taylor both smile.
"Okay, there's the baby." The doctor says as Taylor and Walsh both watch the screen. "Looks like you have a healthy baby boy there."
"We're having a boy?" Walsh asks
"Yes Mr. Walsh, you're having a boy." The doctor replies "I can print the pictures if you would like them."
"Yes, we would love them." Walsh responds.
"Okay, I'll print them right out and we'll get you on your way." The doctor says
"Thank you." Taylor replies
"We're having a baby boy." Walsh smiles proudly as he hugs Taylor.
"We're going to have to think of names." Taylor smiles
"We have time." Walsh replies as the doctor hands him the photos of the sonogram. *~*~*~*~*
2 PM
"Mikey, you realize how dangerous this is?" Bosco asks
"It was stupid, but I need your help to get out of it." Mikey replies
"No Mikey, you are NOT listening to me, you're going to need a body bag to get out of this." Bosco replies. "You can't go screwing with dealers, especially one like Marco."
"Mo, I made a mistake." Mikey pleads
"I can't help you Mikey, you just put Ma and everyone else in danger. How do you know they're not following you? They didn't follow you here?" Bosco says grabbing his stuff
"Where are you going?" Mikey yells
"Work, and you're leaving here now too!" Bosco says *~*~*~*~*
3 PM
"Lieu, you got a minute?" Taylor asks
"Sure Taylor, come on in." Lieutenant Johnson says
Taylor enters the office and closes the door.
"What's up?" Lieutenant Johnson asks
"I just came back from the doctor. I'm 4 months pregnant, I've known for a while, but I never said anything." Taylor says
"Oh. Congratulations. But you know." Lieu says
"Yeah, that's why I came in here." Taylor responds.
"Well, it's only for your safety." Lieu responds
"I know Lieu, I just wanted to see what I get to do now." Taylor replies
"Well, this is the first time I have ever had to deal with this." Lieu says, "But I know that you can't go into any burning buildings." He smiles
"I know. So I guess that puts me washing units and stocking huh?" Taylor asks
"We'll see what's going on." Lieu replies.
"Thanks Lieu." Taylor says *~*~*~*~* 8 PM
Bosco and Faith are driving down 95th.
"Faith, I have a problem." Bosco says
"When don't you have a problem?" She cracks
Bosco looks at her for a moment. "Anyway, Mikey came over this morning."
"Mikey? You're brother Mikey?" Faith asks
"Yeah, he's in trouble." Bosco says
"Wait, isn't he the one we busted for drugs?" Faith asks, "I didn't think you could get in that much more trouble." "He pissed Marco off big time." Bosco says
"Marco? Oh man Bos, he's in trouble." Faith replies
"Yeah, and he came running to my place." Bosco says
"Bosco look out!" Faith yells
Bosco slams on the breaks. Another car slams into their RMP.
"Let's get out of here." Bosco yells as a gunman opens fire on their RMP.
"55 David to Central 10-13. 10-13 95th Ave." Faith radios.
"Let's go!" Bosco yells as the pair runs for cover. One of the men from the other car lobs a grenade at the RMP. "Oh shit!"
The grenade detonates. *~*~*~*~*
There is a knock on Davis's apartment door. Davis gets up to answer the door.
"Who is it?" He asks
"It's me." Sully answers
"Hey Sul, what's up?" Davis asks
"Just thought I'd stop by and check on you." Sully says
"Well cool. But you know I'll be back to work tomorrow." Davis says
"I know." Sully says
"What's in the bag?" Davis asks
Sully hands it to him.
"A new vest." Davis laughs
"I figured you'd need it." Sully laughs.
"Yeah, thanks." Davis replies "Well, I better get back to work." Sully says
"Yeah, protect those streets." Davis cracks
"See you tomorrow." Sully adds as he leaves.
Davis looks at the vest, then places it on the table. *~*~*~*~*
"55 David to Central, where's our backup?" Bosco screams into his radio as shots continue to ring out.
Faith and Bosco have taken cover behind a dumpster.
"You know this isn't going to work for long." Faith says returning fire.
"I know, but we really don't have much of an option." Bosco responds
Additional shots are fired from another police unit.
"Heard you needed some help, thought we'd drop in." Sasha yells over
"Thank you Lord." Bosco says *~*~*~*~*
"Squad 55, Adam 55-3, Boy 55-3 commercial fire 1769 98th." The alarm squeals
The squad scrambles to get to the scene. When they pull up to the scene they find Rose's Bar in flames. Angela Rose is outside watching in tears as her bar burns.
Sully gets to the scene.
"Ma'am do you know who might have started this fire?" Sully asks
Through the tears Rose replies "Some men who were looking for my son."
"Ma'am, who's your son?" Sully asks
"Michael Boscorelli." Rose replies
"Boscorelli? As in Maurice?" Sully asks
"Yes, that's my other son." Rose replies
The fire department works on extinguishing the blaze. Rose stands in shock. *~*~*~*~* Mikey is trying to keep a low profile on the streets. He is wearing his hood up hoping that no one will recognize him on his way back to his apartment. He gets to his stoop and hesitantly opens the door to his building. He hears gunshots coming from down the street. He looks down to see the flashing lights from police vehicles.
"Bosco!" He yells as he takes off running down the street. *~*~*~*~*
"We're still out gunned Bos." Faith says
"I know." Bosco replies
"Son of a!" Faith yells
"You hit?" Bosco asks
"Yeah." Faith replies
"Where?" Bosco asks
"Shoulder." Faith replies
"55 David to Central. We have an officer wounded. Requesting ESU." Bosco radios
Sasha and Gusler continue to fire back at the small gang that has their fellow officers trapped.
Bosco is looking out from behind the dumpster.
"Mikey no!" He yells as he spots his little brother running onto the scene.
The gunmen focus their attention on Mikey, he is hit. Bosco runs for his brother.
ESU arrives on scene and immediately. The shooting ends and the smoke is lifting as the medics arrive on scene.
"Mikey." Bosco says as he kneels next to his brother.
"Mo." Mikey mutters
"I'm here. You hang with me." Bosco says
Kim and Carlos get over to them.
"You gotta help him." Bosco pleads
Kim looks down. "We'll do what we can Bosco." They worked on Mikey. Suddenly he trembled.
"I'm not doing so well am I Mo?" Mikey asks
"You're doing fine. You're okay." Bosco said through tear filled eyes. Faith now stood above them. Bosco looked up and Faith gave him a mournful look.
"You're a terrible liar Mo." Mikey says
"What am I gonna tell Ma?" Bosco asks
"Tell her." Mikey's voice cracked and slowly trails off, "that I love her." with that Mikey breathes his last breath.
"Mikey? Mikey?" Kim do something." Bosco cries
Kim looks at Bosco sadly knowing that nothing can be done, he'd lost far too much blood. Bosco pulls his brother closer to his chest and tears roll down his cheeks. *~*~*~*~*
Back at the house Taylor and Walsh are standing in the kitchen.
"So you think of any names yet?" Walsh asks
"A few, how about you?" Taylor asks
"A couple." Walsh says
"Well?" Taylor questions.
"I like the name Aaron." Walsh says
"Well I like James, so how about Aaron James?" Taylor asks
"Perfect." Walsh smiles as he kisses Taylor.
"You tell the guys that you're having a son yet?" Taylor asks
"Not yet." Walsh says
"Well, let's go." Taylor smiles as they walk into the TV room.
"Hey guys, we got a little announcement to make." Walsh says
DK flips the TV off and the guys all sit silently. "Taylor and I are gonna have a son." Walsh announces proudly.
Jimmy jumps up from the couch. Smiling proudly.
"Congratulations." Jimmy says as he shakes Walsh's hand and hugs Taylor.
"What are ya gonna name him?" DK asks
"Aaron James." Taylor says
The guys all congratulate the pair. Lieutenant Johnson smiles.
"Just what the world needs, another fire fighter." He cracks *~*~*~*~*
Bosco sits in silence looking into his locker.
"You okay?" Faith asks as she returns to the locker room to grab her things
Bosco closes his locker. "I gotta go tell Ma."
"I'm sorry Bos." Faith says
"Yeah, me too." He says solemnly as he walks out.
Bosco's apartment The Rolling Stones Paint It Black plays loudly. Someone is banging on the door, but the music drowns that sound out.
"Mo! Mo! Come on man open the door!" Mikey yells as he looks over his shoulder down the hallway.
"Mikey!?" Bosco calls as he turns down the stereo and heads for his apartment door.
An antsy Mikey stands in the doorway.
"What are you doing here?" Bosco asks
"I need help." Mikey says
Bosco rolls his eyes and mutters, "When don't you need my help?" Then out loud he says, "What do you need my help with?"
"Just let me in." Mikey says brushing his way past his brother and then shutting the door behind him. *~*~*~*~*
Taylor and Walsh are in the waiting room of the doctor's office.
"Alex Walsh." The nurse calls.
Walsh and Taylor stand and follow the nurse to an exam room. The nurse hands Taylor a gown.
"Put this on and the doctor will be in shortly." The nurse says as she walks out.
Taylor changes into the gown.
"I hate these things." She laughs
"Yeah, me too." Walsh smiles.
Taylor laughs.
"Are you ready to find out what we're having?" Walsh asks
"Yeah, are you?" Taylor responds
"I'm nervous." Walsh admits *~*~*~*~* Faith is cleaning up the apartment. The TV is on but Faith pays no attention to it. The phone rings.
"Hello?" Faith says *~*~*~*~*
"Mikey, you gotta tell me what's going on." Bosco demands
"Mo, I'm in big trouble." Mikey says
"And so you ran to your big brother, the cop." Bosco says as he turns away
"No one else can help me." Mikey says
"What did you do to screw up this time?" Bosco asks
"It went bad." Mikey says
"What did? What went bad?" Bosco demands *~*~*~*~*
The doctor enters the exam room.
"Mr. and Mrs. Walsh. How are you today?" she asks
"We're doing well." Taylor says
"That's good to hear. And how are you feeling?" the doctor asks
"No complaints." Taylor replies
"Good. Are you ready to find out the sex of the baby?" the doctor asks
Taylor and Walsh smile. "Yes." Taylor replies *~*~*~*~*
Kim is folding laundry and listening to the radio. The news comes on.
"Police are still looking for two men involved in an early morning shooting of an elderly woman. The two suspects fled the scene after the woman, whose identity has been withheld pending notification of the family, apparently walked up on a drug deal. Anyone with any information has been asked to call the New York Police Department.."
Kim switches off the radio.
"Why must people be so brutal?" She asks out loud. *~*~*~*~*
The doctor is running the sonogram.
"There's the heartbeat." She announces
Walsh and Taylor both smile.
"Okay, there's the baby." The doctor says as Taylor and Walsh both watch the screen. "Looks like you have a healthy baby boy there."
"We're having a boy?" Walsh asks
"Yes Mr. Walsh, you're having a boy." The doctor replies "I can print the pictures if you would like them."
"Yes, we would love them." Walsh responds.
"Okay, I'll print them right out and we'll get you on your way." The doctor says
"Thank you." Taylor replies
"We're having a baby boy." Walsh smiles proudly as he hugs Taylor.
"We're going to have to think of names." Taylor smiles
"We have time." Walsh replies as the doctor hands him the photos of the sonogram. *~*~*~*~*
2 PM
"Mikey, you realize how dangerous this is?" Bosco asks
"It was stupid, but I need your help to get out of it." Mikey replies
"No Mikey, you are NOT listening to me, you're going to need a body bag to get out of this." Bosco replies. "You can't go screwing with dealers, especially one like Marco."
"Mo, I made a mistake." Mikey pleads
"I can't help you Mikey, you just put Ma and everyone else in danger. How do you know they're not following you? They didn't follow you here?" Bosco says grabbing his stuff
"Where are you going?" Mikey yells
"Work, and you're leaving here now too!" Bosco says *~*~*~*~*
3 PM
"Lieu, you got a minute?" Taylor asks
"Sure Taylor, come on in." Lieutenant Johnson says
Taylor enters the office and closes the door.
"What's up?" Lieutenant Johnson asks
"I just came back from the doctor. I'm 4 months pregnant, I've known for a while, but I never said anything." Taylor says
"Oh. Congratulations. But you know." Lieu says
"Yeah, that's why I came in here." Taylor responds.
"Well, it's only for your safety." Lieu responds
"I know Lieu, I just wanted to see what I get to do now." Taylor replies
"Well, this is the first time I have ever had to deal with this." Lieu says, "But I know that you can't go into any burning buildings." He smiles
"I know. So I guess that puts me washing units and stocking huh?" Taylor asks
"We'll see what's going on." Lieu replies.
"Thanks Lieu." Taylor says *~*~*~*~* 8 PM
Bosco and Faith are driving down 95th.
"Faith, I have a problem." Bosco says
"When don't you have a problem?" She cracks
Bosco looks at her for a moment. "Anyway, Mikey came over this morning."
"Mikey? You're brother Mikey?" Faith asks
"Yeah, he's in trouble." Bosco says
"Wait, isn't he the one we busted for drugs?" Faith asks, "I didn't think you could get in that much more trouble." "He pissed Marco off big time." Bosco says
"Marco? Oh man Bos, he's in trouble." Faith replies
"Yeah, and he came running to my place." Bosco says
"Bosco look out!" Faith yells
Bosco slams on the breaks. Another car slams into their RMP.
"Let's get out of here." Bosco yells as a gunman opens fire on their RMP.
"55 David to Central 10-13. 10-13 95th Ave." Faith radios.
"Let's go!" Bosco yells as the pair runs for cover. One of the men from the other car lobs a grenade at the RMP. "Oh shit!"
The grenade detonates. *~*~*~*~*
There is a knock on Davis's apartment door. Davis gets up to answer the door.
"Who is it?" He asks
"It's me." Sully answers
"Hey Sul, what's up?" Davis asks
"Just thought I'd stop by and check on you." Sully says
"Well cool. But you know I'll be back to work tomorrow." Davis says
"I know." Sully says
"What's in the bag?" Davis asks
Sully hands it to him.
"A new vest." Davis laughs
"I figured you'd need it." Sully laughs.
"Yeah, thanks." Davis replies "Well, I better get back to work." Sully says
"Yeah, protect those streets." Davis cracks
"See you tomorrow." Sully adds as he leaves.
Davis looks at the vest, then places it on the table. *~*~*~*~*
"55 David to Central, where's our backup?" Bosco screams into his radio as shots continue to ring out.
Faith and Bosco have taken cover behind a dumpster.
"You know this isn't going to work for long." Faith says returning fire.
"I know, but we really don't have much of an option." Bosco responds
Additional shots are fired from another police unit.
"Heard you needed some help, thought we'd drop in." Sasha yells over
"Thank you Lord." Bosco says *~*~*~*~*
"Squad 55, Adam 55-3, Boy 55-3 commercial fire 1769 98th." The alarm squeals
The squad scrambles to get to the scene. When they pull up to the scene they find Rose's Bar in flames. Angela Rose is outside watching in tears as her bar burns.
Sully gets to the scene.
"Ma'am do you know who might have started this fire?" Sully asks
Through the tears Rose replies "Some men who were looking for my son."
"Ma'am, who's your son?" Sully asks
"Michael Boscorelli." Rose replies
"Boscorelli? As in Maurice?" Sully asks
"Yes, that's my other son." Rose replies
The fire department works on extinguishing the blaze. Rose stands in shock. *~*~*~*~* Mikey is trying to keep a low profile on the streets. He is wearing his hood up hoping that no one will recognize him on his way back to his apartment. He gets to his stoop and hesitantly opens the door to his building. He hears gunshots coming from down the street. He looks down to see the flashing lights from police vehicles.
"Bosco!" He yells as he takes off running down the street. *~*~*~*~*
"We're still out gunned Bos." Faith says
"I know." Bosco replies
"Son of a!" Faith yells
"You hit?" Bosco asks
"Yeah." Faith replies
"Where?" Bosco asks
"Shoulder." Faith replies
"55 David to Central. We have an officer wounded. Requesting ESU." Bosco radios
Sasha and Gusler continue to fire back at the small gang that has their fellow officers trapped.
Bosco is looking out from behind the dumpster.
"Mikey no!" He yells as he spots his little brother running onto the scene.
The gunmen focus their attention on Mikey, he is hit. Bosco runs for his brother.
ESU arrives on scene and immediately. The shooting ends and the smoke is lifting as the medics arrive on scene.
"Mikey." Bosco says as he kneels next to his brother.
"Mo." Mikey mutters
"I'm here. You hang with me." Bosco says
Kim and Carlos get over to them.
"You gotta help him." Bosco pleads
Kim looks down. "We'll do what we can Bosco." They worked on Mikey. Suddenly he trembled.
"I'm not doing so well am I Mo?" Mikey asks
"You're doing fine. You're okay." Bosco said through tear filled eyes. Faith now stood above them. Bosco looked up and Faith gave him a mournful look.
"You're a terrible liar Mo." Mikey says
"What am I gonna tell Ma?" Bosco asks
"Tell her." Mikey's voice cracked and slowly trails off, "that I love her." with that Mikey breathes his last breath.
"Mikey? Mikey?" Kim do something." Bosco cries
Kim looks at Bosco sadly knowing that nothing can be done, he'd lost far too much blood. Bosco pulls his brother closer to his chest and tears roll down his cheeks. *~*~*~*~*
Back at the house Taylor and Walsh are standing in the kitchen.
"So you think of any names yet?" Walsh asks
"A few, how about you?" Taylor asks
"A couple." Walsh says
"Well?" Taylor questions.
"I like the name Aaron." Walsh says
"Well I like James, so how about Aaron James?" Taylor asks
"Perfect." Walsh smiles as he kisses Taylor.
"You tell the guys that you're having a son yet?" Taylor asks
"Not yet." Walsh says
"Well, let's go." Taylor smiles as they walk into the TV room.
"Hey guys, we got a little announcement to make." Walsh says
DK flips the TV off and the guys all sit silently. "Taylor and I are gonna have a son." Walsh announces proudly.
Jimmy jumps up from the couch. Smiling proudly.
"Congratulations." Jimmy says as he shakes Walsh's hand and hugs Taylor.
"What are ya gonna name him?" DK asks
"Aaron James." Taylor says
The guys all congratulate the pair. Lieutenant Johnson smiles.
"Just what the world needs, another fire fighter." He cracks *~*~*~*~*
Bosco sits in silence looking into his locker.
"You okay?" Faith asks as she returns to the locker room to grab her things
Bosco closes his locker. "I gotta go tell Ma."
"I'm sorry Bos." Faith says
"Yeah, me too." He says solemnly as he walks out.
