Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Third Watch characters, except for Mak, Dt. Tsarr and Nick
Billy's eyes fluttered open. The streaming sunlight beamed through the window next to him and he strained to pull his eyes into focus. The white covers were pulled up to his waist and he saw a white bandage wrapped around his wrist. Looking at it, he felt a surge of light, tingling pain run up his arm, just as a voice sounded nearby,
'Hey, you're awake now,' Billy turned, Lt. Johnson and Jimmy were standing in his doorway,
'Yeah,' he replied softly, 'what happened? The last thing I remember was opening a door.' Both firemen sat down next to him and Jimmy was the first to speak, he spoke very softly,
'After you opened the door, there was a flashover. You fell over and took D.K. with you. Regaining his strength, he managed to pull you to safety.'
'Really, is he okay?'
'His doing okay, he just has a cut in his head.' Lt. Johnson murmured
'Where is he?'
'Right next door, Alex is with him and the place is full of police officers.'
'Why?'
'Apparently, Bosco was shot and he will be out for a few weeks. They think it was those escaped prisoners who did it, but they don't know yet.' Jimmy finished, he looked up as Alex entered the room
'Hey Billy, good to see you up,' She said standing next to Jimmy,
'Well?' Jimmy asked her
'He's sleeping,'
'Good, anyways Billy, the doctors tell us that there is no lasting damage and you'll be out of here by Friday.'
'Gr...ea…tt..' Billy mumbled groggily,
'Maybe you should sleep too.' Alex said, slowly Billy nodded and then he fell asleep. The two firemen and Alex then walked quietly out of the room and back to the main hall. The police officers were slowly staring to disappear and they eventually met up with Kim, Carlos and Doc.
'Well, how are they now?'
'We talked to Billy and D.K. and both are fine and should get out of here soon.'
'That's great news, because the house is going to seem so empty without them playing football and what not.' Carlos stated a hint of sarcasms just audible
'What not?' Alex repeated as is she was disbelieving her own ears
'Where did you come up with that one?' Doc commented turning to him. His voice was slightly raspy from his sickness.
'What? Am I not allowed to say what not?'
'Not you,' Jimmy replied as he started to laugh. Soon the group broke into laughter, even Carlos as together they walked outside and headed back to the house, well actually, Mary Procter kicked them out.
The day passed quickly and nearly without notice. Faith was stuck on desk as soon as she returned to the Precinct, and soon the hours slipped by, she turned to Lt. Swersky, and he appeared to be in the middle of a conversation on the phone. He must have been talking for over two hours before he put the receiver back down. Other than that, thought Faith, nothing else happened. Just like any other day with nothing to do.
The sun was slightly clouded the next morning; the clouds floated past the sun like caused the sunlight to falter in its patterns. The shades from the clouds were currently hovering over Camelot as three came around.
Carlos had been right, as soon as Jimmy met up with Alex on their way in, they noticed a change. It seemed to be much quieter and empty since D.K. and Billy were both in Mercy. At first both had thought there wouldn't be much of a difference, but now they felt differently.
Jimmy looked around; Carlos was not there, and neither was Kim. Doc, however, was sitting at the table and reading the paper.
'Where is everyone?'
'Lt. Johnson is in his office; Carlos and Kim are out on a call….'
'Already?' Jimmy stated, cutting him off
'Yeah, it's going to be a busy day.'
'Jimmy, glad you're here; we have two rookies coming in. Like Alex, one is half fireman and the other half is a police office. She will later join across the street. She, Lt. Swersky and I have been over this, she will step in for us until the end of the week.'
'That's a twist,'
'Yes, she and the other should be here any minute, show her the ropes and get her used to being a firewoman again.'
And then, as if on cue, thuds of footsteps came up the stairs as two people entered the room. One was female and the other was male.
'Jimmy, this is Mak and Nick. Guys this is Jimmy, he'll be showing you around. Any questions ask him.'
'Alright, I'll be right back, the lockers for your stuff is up here.' Jimmy said blushing slightly as he led the two people up the stairs. As he reached the top of the stairs Nick and Mak branched off to two empty lockers and Jimmy went to his. Alex was just emerging from the bathroom when she noticed the two new people.
'Alex, these are two new guys filling on for Billy and D.K. Mak,' he said pointing out Mak to her, 'Is half police officer, she's going across the road, and this is Nick.' He said pointing him out. Jimmy was actually looking directly at them for the first time. Nick was tall and had blond hair with black underneath and had dark eyes. Mak had long waist length black hair was sparkling blue eyes. Alex shook their hands and spoke to Mak,
'You remind me of someone. But, anyways, you're half police officer?'
'Yes, I lived up in Canada, in Toronto. Then my mother died last October and I moved here to be with my dad.'
'Oh, I'm sorry.' Alex said quickly remembering how bad it feels too lose someone so close like a parent. Alex and Mak left and became fast friends, the same happened with Nick and Jimmy. The four of them had so much in common with one another.
'Faith, pay attention.' A harsh voice barked out. Faith was brought back to her senses, she was in the middle of Roll Call and Lt. Swersky looked ticked.
'Sorry Lieu,' she mumbled
'As I was saying, you are going to be paired up with a rookie. Currently she is across the road helping the firemen till the end of the week, until then you're going to be paired up with Davis in 55 Charlie.'
'She's a fireman and a police officer?' Faith looked into his eyes; it was easy to see that he was not joking.
'Yes, I suggest that you meet her, if you see her at a fire.'
'Yeah,'
'Alright, that's it. You can go.' There was a shuffle and feet moving, chairs screeching, Faith got up and left with the others. Ty Davis was waiting for her downstairs.
'Drive or ride?' he asked her as she walked down the stairs
'Ride,' she mumbled in return, 'where's Sully?'
'He didn't feel good, and decided to stay home.' He replied opening the Precinct doors. They got into 55 Charlie and took off down the road.
'55 Charlie respond to a disturbance at 23rd and West'
'55 Charlie 23rd and West, 10-4 Central,' Faith replied into the radio while Ty flipped on the lights and headed towards the call.
'Barely started and already a call.' He said to her
'Yeah, yesterday it was really slow,'
'Yeah,' It had occurred to Faith that she and Ty Davis and rarely ridden together, at first she didn't notice, but now it felt a little awkward. She didn't open her mouth until they arrived on the scene. Ty was the first to exit the squad car, closely followed by Faith. There was a ring of people on the sidewalk and two other people were in the middle, fighting.
'Alright, what's going on here?' Faith called out in an innocent but dangerous tone. She pushed her way to the middle with Ty. The people stopped and looked at them. One of the people fighting was a knife, the other a bat.
'Nothing,' one of them said
'Sure looks like nothing,' Ty replied
'I tells you, we ain't doin' nothing.' The other stated icily. People in the crowd were nodding and calling out in agreement.
'First of all, "ain't" isn't a word, second of all, I won't ask you again. If you say "nothing" one more time, everyone here is going down to the station. If you don't want that, I suggest you take a hike.' Faith shouted to everyone. People in the crowed slowly started to dissipate back down the streets.
'Now, what is going on here?' Ty repeated to the two remainders
'This homie was hittin on me girl,'
'Was not, she's my girl and you was hittin on her.' The two began to argue and fight again. Faith reached out and took the knife away, and Ty did the same with the bat-guy
'Put your hand on the car, you too, "homie"' Faith yelled gesturing to the squad car. She and Ty patted down the two offenders and placed them in the car. They then drove them to the Precinct.
AUTHORS NOTE I know this particular chapter makes no sense. I needed to introduce the replacement for Bosco but then I realized that I had left two firemen in the hospital. I need to make her comfortable around the firemen; she will later become one of the main characters. My apologies to anyone I have misled and bear with me, please.
