Disclaimer: Still don't own anything related to Third Watch.

Cruz stared at Bosco, tears gently rolling down her face. She was trying inhale what had just happened. Bosco just proposed to her. She didn't know what to say, could it be that he is only proposing to her because she is pregnant.

"Cruz are you going to answer my question?" Bosco asked. He gave her an anxious look, he also was worried about why it was taking her so long to answer, was she unsure about marrying him?

"Yes Bosco I will marry you!" Cruz said excitedly as she hugged Bosco. In her sub-conscience though she was still afraid about his intentions, her or the baby.

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4 Months later

Bosco and Cruz decided to wait till after the baby was born to get married because Cruz wanted to look good in her dress. She is now 9 months pregnant and she could go into labor any time now. Unfortunately for Bosco he couldn't get this day off.

It was seven o'clock and Monroe and him had just finished eating dinner with Cruz.

"Man I wish we didn't have to leave her." Bosco said as they drove off from the apartment building.

"She'll be fine, she has your cell phone number if she needs you." Monroe said.

"I know I just I'm worried." Bosco said.

"I know you are, and I understand ok. She has your cell phone number if she needs you she'll call ok?" Monroe asked.

"Yeah I guess you're right." Bosco answered.

It wasn't until they got back to the station that he had to worry. As they got out of the squad car Bosco's cell phone rang, he looked up worriedly at Monroe as he answered it.

"Bosco you gotta help me the baby is coming now!" Cruz screamed on the other end.

"Ok I'm coming, it'll be ok sweetie." Bosco said he closed his cell phone while looking over at the firehouse. He noticed that Boyd 55-3 was there. He ran over into the station and up the stairs. As he ran in he noticed Kim and Levine sitting down.

"Kim you gotta help me Cruz is going into labor. She's at our apartment." Bosco said.

"Ok come on Holly." Kim said.

"Coming." She said as she ran to them.

They sped off to Bosco and Cruz's apartment and within minutes they were back down again carrying Cuz on the gurney.

"Oh my God!" Cruz screamed.

"It's ok we're almost there." Bosco said.

"She's almost fully dialated." Kim said. " How much longer Holly?"

"We're about 3 minutes out." Holly answered.

They arrived at the hospital exactly 3 minutes later and speed up to the ER. They pushed Cruz into one of the trauma rooms to find out that the baby was crowning. Dr. Fields came running in.

"Ok Sergeant Cruz I need you to give me a good push." He said. Cruz pushed and also started screaming.

"It's ok Ritza it's going to be ok." Bosco said as he ran his hand across her forehead.

"Ok one more push Cruz." Dr. Fields said. Again Cruz pushed and screamed.

The room grew silent as the baby began to cry.

"It's a girl." Dr. Fields said as he brought the baby over for Cruz to hold.

As Cruz continued to hold her she all of a sudden stopped moving and looked as though she was not breathing.

"Oh my God what's wrong with her Dr. Fields?" Cruz screamed.

"I don't know, Proctor call NICU and tell them we're on our way." Dr. Fields said.

"I'm on it." Proctor headed to the phone called the intensive care unit and came back in.

"There ready for us." She said.

" Maritza we are going to do everything we can for her ok?" Dr. Fields asked.

"Ok." Cruz said in between cries.

A half an hour later Dr. Fields came back in with a saddened expression on his face.

"I'm sorry Maritza and Bosco but we did everything we could but on fortunately we could not save your little girl." Dr. Fields said. Bosco's face grew sad as he suddenly realized something.

"Um, Dr. Fields are you saying that she was mine?" He asked.

"Bosco we ran some tests and she was indeed your child." He answered.

Bosco went over to Cruz's bed and hugged her as she continued to cry. Within a few minutes she fell asleep exhausted from the labor.

Bosco left the trauma room and headed for the lounge not expecting all of their friends to be in there.

"Oh I didn't know you guys were here." He said.

"Well when we found out that Cruz went into labor we thought we would come by to see the little one." Faith said.

"Our baby died." Bosco said.

"What?" They all questioned.

"After they gave her to Cruz she stopped breathing and they took her away then Dr. Fields came back and told us that she died. They did tests and she was mine." Bosco poured himself some coffee and sat down.

"Oh I am so sorry Bosco." Faith said.

"Don't be it's not like you enjoyed the fact that Cruz and I had gotten back together." He said.

"Bosco I didn't mean anything when I said that." Faith said,

"Yeah well, it's too late now. I'm going to go sit with Ritza." He got up and left Faith sitting there questioning everything she had donq in the last few months.

When he got to Cruz's room she was awake. He walked in and said a gentle hey knowing that she was upset.

"Look I know you don't really want to be with me and you only wanted to marry me because I was pregnant so you can leave now." Cruz said with tears rolling down her face.

"Oh Ritza, I didn't want to marry you just because you were pregnant I want to marry you because I love you with every bone in my body." Bosco said as he sat down and held her hand.

"Really?" She asked.

"Really, really" Bosco answered.

"I love you Bosco." Cruz said.

"I love you too Maritza." He gently kissed her on the cheek and sat with her while she slept.

TBC