"Hey, Kim," Faith called as she watched Bosco's wife walk into the stationhouse.

"Hi, Faith. How's he doing?" she asked her. He called her to let her know that they were done and she could come and get him. He told her that he wasn't leaving until the found the little girl so she could take the car home after her shift to take care of the kids.

"He's okay, I think."

"How about you?" Kim questioned, looking at the exhaustion on Faith's face.

"I'm okay too," Faith answered.

"So, if you're both okay, he must look like hell too then?" Kim teased her.

"Thanks. And you have a nice night too," Faith retorted.

"Why don't you wait a minute and we'll give you a ride home," Kim offered.

Faith stopped and looked back at Kim. She was tired and she really didn't feel like dealing with the people on the train at this time of night. She turned back to Kim and saw Bosco coming up behind her. "You sure?"

"About what?" Bosco asked, the fatigue evident in his voice. Kim turned around and looked at him. It reminded her of when he was having the troubles with the panic attacks and she shuddered at the thought that they were starting up again.

"Hey, you," Kim said, putting an arm around the small of his back and helping to propel him down the hallway. "About giving your partner a ride home," she told him.

"No question. Get in," Bosco said as he held his hand out for the keys from Kim.

"Like hell," Kim said, hitting him in the hip with her own. He just smiled. He was too tired to argue.

"Thanks," Faith said. Bosco climbed into the backseat so that Faith could get out easier. He'd move up front after they dropped her off.

Kim started off towards Faith's apartment and the two started talking. Bosco just sat in the back and listened and looked out the window, letting the sounds of their voices relax him. They arrived at Faith's building and she opened the door to get out. After thanking Kim, she turned to the back to thank Bosco only to find him sound asleep against the window. She looked at Kim.

"Is he okay?" Kim asked Faith.

"Yeah. It's a good tired. He worked his butt off to find this little girl. But it was a good ending this time. We all needed that. Take him home and pour him into bed, Kim," she told her.

"Have a good night, Faith." Faith closed the door and Kim watched her until she was safely inside her building.

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Kim drove home without the radio on. She loved to listen to the rhythmic breathing of Bosco when he was asleep. She pulled up in front of their apartment building, turned off the car and turned to wake him up.

"Hey," she said softly, gently shaking his knee as she reached over the front seat. His eyes slowly opened and he looked around.

"We dropped Faith off already?" he asked, unaware that they were in front of their own building.

"No. I dropped Faith off. YOU dropped off as soon as the car started moving," she joked, bringing a smile from Bosco.

"Come back here," Bosco said to her.

"What?" she asked.

"Come back here," he said again. She shrugged and climbed into the seat alongside him.

"Here I am. Now what?" she said as she saw the look in his eyes and started smiling.

He slowly leaned over and began kissing her. Soon they were both totally engrossed in each other and the fact that they were in the back seat of a car like teenagers didn't even dawn on them. After they were finished, they sat in the seat, Kim resting her head on Bosco's chest.

"So, how's it feel?" she asked him.

"Felt great," he said, thinking she was referring to their lovemaking. "It's been a long time since we did it in my car," he said as he played with her hair.

"I meant finding that girl alive today," she said playfully hitting him in the ribs. He grunted and then laughed.

"Oh, that. It felt good. Except that..." he paused, thinking of the look on Dr. Lewis' face as she found out that her sister had left with the little girl while she was getting coffee.

"Except what?" Kim asked him.

"That doctor from Chicago - the little girl's Aunt. She came all this way and she was so worried. She obviously loved the kid more than life itself. She was ready to do anything it took to find her. And even when we found her sister in that bus, all messed up on the drugs and half-dead, she still loved her. She still wanted to help her," Bosco explained as Kim just listened in silence, letting him talk it out. "Then we found that kid with that whacko. Thank God the only thing he did was sedate her. He didn't have the time or the guts to do anything more. She flew into that ER and took over with the ER Doc to make sure that everything was being done right for both Susie and her sister."

Kim thought he was finished and said, "That's what family does, Bos. You'd do the same thing for Mikey and you know it."

"She left," he said quietly.

"What?" Kim asked.

"The sister. She sent Dr. Lewis for coffee and then she took the kid and left. She didn't tell anyone where she was going or anything. What's gonna happen to that little girl without her Aunt to look after them?" Bosco said, looking at his wife.

"We can only hope for the best, Bos. Hope that she decides that Susie's life is more important than her own," she told him.

Bosco leaned down to kiss the top of Kim's head. "Let's go to bed. I'm beat."

"C'mon. I'll get you something to eat first. You'll sleep better with a full stomach," she said as they got out of the car and headed upstairs, with their arms around each other's waists.