"Hey Bobby?" Doc said to the fellow medic one day before shift. Kim had breezed through the kitchen a few minutes earlier greeting them by name except for Jimmy who had been sitting at the table eating cereal. After she'd gone upstairs Jimmy had gone into the living room. This wasn't the first time something along those lines had happened recently.

"Yeah Doc?"

"What's with Kim and Jimmy? She hasn't said more then two words to him unless it was absolutely necessary in the last week."

"You haven't heard? I thought it was common knowledge by now."

"What?"

"Kim and Bosco are going out. Jimmy's not to thrilled about the idea."

"Kim's going out with Bosco? Kim Zambrano?"

"Yep."

"Man. For how long?"

"About six months."

"And she just told Jimmy?"

"Yeah well she figured now would be a good time 'cause he's got someone in his life."

"But still, six months and she's just now telling him that she's going out with Bosco?"

"Who's going out with Bosco?" Carlos asked.

"I am." Kim came down the stairs.

"I knew it!" Carlos exclaimed.

"What?" Kim rose an eyebrow at him

"I knew something was going on with the two of you. You were laughing way to much at his stupid jokes."

"They're not stupid."

"Oh man, you do have it bad." Bobby said.

"Let's go. We have inventory." Kim said to her partner.

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"Kim?"

"Yeah?"

"Your doorbell's ringing."

Kim lifted her head from her pillow and looked over at Bosco. "What?"

"Your doorbell is ringing."

Kim listened and then looked at the clock. "It's one in the morning!"

"You want me to get it?"

"No. I'll get it. You stay here and keep the bed warm."

"Yes ma'am." Bosco grinned.

Kim got up and pulled on her robe. She stumbled into the living room and after looking out to see who was ringing, yanked the door open.

"Jimmy?" She looked down at Joey, who was standing there looking very sleepy. "Joey, sweetheart, go jump into bed and I'll be there in a minute." Joey went past Kim and down the hall to his room. Kim looked back at Jimmy. "What happened?"

"My car got repossessed by my bookie."

"What?"

"They pulled me over and took my car, my wallet, and my watch. Kim, they were gonna kick my ass."

"And all this happened in front of Joey?" Kim was incensed.

"Yeah." Jimmy said. Before Kim could say anything else Jimmy pushed past her. "I'm going to say goodnight to my son."

After Jimmy left and Joey was asleep, Kim went back into her room.

"Everything okay?" Bosco asked leaned on an elbow.

"How much did you hear?"

"You've got pretty thin walls."

"He had bookies threatening his life in front of his son." Kim sat down on the bed.

"I doubt Joey knew what was going on."

"He knew that Jimmy lost his car and they had to walk home." Kim rolled her eyes. "And you know what? When and if I talk with Jimmy about this, he's going to ask that I cut him some slack."

"Probably." Bosco nodded.

"I cut enough slack. I cut him slack when we were married; I cut him slack after we were married. Maybe that's why he thinks he can tell me who not to see. Well, you know what? I'm through cutting him slack. He does something like this again and I'm going to court about Joey."

"You sure you want to do that? You've told me a million time how much Joey loves Jimmy."

"I got way to used to being let down when Jimmy and I were together. I'm not letting Joey get used to it. Jimmy has one more chance. If he screws it up, I will do what I have to, to keep it from happening again."