I'll Be By Your Side
Chapter 3

"No. you don't understand. I want to talk to Bosco alone."

Faith was sitting outside of Emily's hospital room and all she could think was that Emily didn't want to talk to her; she wanted to talk to Bosco. It wasn't that she didn't trust Bosco because she does, but she doesn't understand why Emily didn't want to tell her what happened to her.

She walked up to Emily's room and saw Bosco and Emily talking. She hopes that Emily tells Bosco everything and she can find out who did this to her daughter and make them pay.

Emily looked at Bosco sitting next to her. "I'm sorry about how I acted when you got out of the hospital. I was just so shocked, but now looking at it, it isn't so bad."

Bosco touched his scar. "We aren't here to talk about me. You told me that you would tell me what happened to you. So tell me."

Emily took a deep breath before she spoke. "I was nearly home when this guy stopped me. He told me that he knew me from this party I went to and he was just too shy to come up to me."

"Did you remember him from this party?" Bosco asked.

"No."

"So you mean that there's a chance that he wasn't even at the party and he was just lying to you?"

"I don't know, Bosco. We started talking and I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. He asked me if I wanted to go for coffee. I thought why not since mom wasn't going to be home until late. We walked to his car and then I told him that I needed to call someone first. I picked up my cell phone and was about to call mom to tell her that I might be late. Suddenly, he grabbed it out of my hands and threw it on the ground. I knew that something was wrong, so I started to run down the alleyway, and that's when he hit me on the head. I heard him call someone on his cell phone and he said that something went wrong and that he couldn't get me to go with him. I was so scared I didn't know what he was going to do to me." Emily replied in a shaky voice. Bosco looked at Emily. "He didn't..."

"No." Emily replied.

"I was unconscious for a few minutes but when I woke up, he was looking at me and told me that isn't over. Then he ran off."

Bosco looked at Emily and could see how afraid she was. "Emily, it is over. He can't hurt you anymore."

"But, why didn't you tell your mom this, Em?" Bosco asked as he sat down next to Emily.

She looked up at Bosco. "Ever since I overdosed, I tried hard to be a good daughter; I know I get mad at my mom a lot, but since me and her have been living together, I can actually get along with her, and now I made another mistake."

"Em, you didn't make a mistake. You did everything right."

Bosco got up. "I'm going to go and get your mom."

Emily looked at him. "Don't tell her."

He turned around. "No matter what you do, your mom loves you, and you did nothing wrong Emily," Bosco told her.

"Yes I did," Emily responded. "I was going to go out for coffee with this guy. I didn't even care that I didn't know who he was. I was just happy that some guy noticed me."

"Do you remember what his name was?"

"David."

Bosco knew who the guy was now, or he thought he knew. He walked out of the room and Faith was anxiously waiting in the waiting area.

"Bosco, what did she say?" Faith asked, with this concerned look on her face. Bosco then told her everything that Emily told him.

"Why wouldn't she tell me this?"

"Don't be too hard on her, Faith. I think she just doesn't want to disappoint you."

"I love her Bosco, no matter what."

"I know you do. I think she knows that too, but she's just scared right now. I think this really shook her up," Bosco explained.

"I'm going to see her. You can go home now, I'll be fine,"

"No, Faith. I'm staying here with you."

About half an hour later, Faith came out of the Emily's hospital room.

"How's she doing?" Bosco asked, as he stood up and walked up to her.

"She's doing better, she's sleeping now. The doctors said that she can go home in about an hour or so. They wanted to keep her overnight for observation, but she doesn't want to stay in a hospital."

"I don't blame her, I hated being in the hospital all those months."

"I know that I'll be happy if I never see a hospital again in my life," Faith said, laughing for the first time since Emily was admitted to the hospital.

"Did Emily tell you the name of the guy? Because when I find him I'm going to…" Faith shouted.

Bosco's eyes mirror Faith's fury as he responds, "Oh yeah, me too, if you beat me to him."

"She said that the guy name was David"

Faith looked at Bosco with this upset look on her face. "You don't think this was "Dracula" do you". His name was Dante, but we know that is only his "vampire" name. This is all my fault, Bosco. I taunted the guy in the club, and he found out where I live and I guess he was trying to get her to become one of them but when she wouldn't go, that's when he hurt her."

"None of this is your fault."

Faith looked at Bosco with this sad look on her face. "I wish I could believe that."

He put his arm on his shoulder. "Believe it, Faith."

She looked up at him. "You're always here for me, even when I'm not there for you."

"You are Faith, when you should be. I should have never asked you to shoot for me. It was stupid."

"Bos, I should have explained why I wouldn't do it for you; I shouldn't have let you leave upset." Faith responded. "I couldn't shoot for you, because if I did, and you got back to the force because of me and something happened to you, I don't know if I would be able to forgive myself. I don't want to lose you. I came close to losing you before and I don't want that to happen again."

"I don't know what I thought. For a second, I thought you wouldn't help me because I wasn't your partner anymore."

"Bos, I would do anything for you, more than you will ever know," Faith spoke softly. He and Faith sat down.

"Faith, I never meant to hurt you that night when I told you to go to hell, and when…" but before he could say anything Faith stopped him.

"No, let me talk… I'm just trying to apologize …"

"I know you are. You don't need to say you're sorry. I knew that you were hurting and you didn't mean it. You showed me today when you were there for me."

"So we're okay?" Bosco asked.

"We're more than okay," she said. "I need to take Emily home and then I'm going to make sure that this Dante guy pays for hurting my daughter."

Bosco put his hand on Faith's shoulder. "I don't really think that's a good idea. You need to take Emily home and be with her tonight."

"Bos, I need to make this guy pay."

"You will, Faith. We will, just not tonight."

"When did you become the level headed one?" Faith replied with a grin on her face.

"It doesn't happen often, Faith,"

The next morning,

Bosco walked into Faith's office, but she wasn't there. "Have you seen Faith, I wanted to see how her daughter is doing today?" Bosco asked Jelly.

"I don't know, she left a few minutes ago. Maybe she went to get me something to eat."

Bosco nodded. "Just tell her I'll come by and see her later."

"Okay," Jelly replied, as Bosco left the office.

Bosco was walking down the stairs when Ty came up to him. "The boss wants to see you. You haven't been back 2 full days yet, and you're already in trouble," Ty laughed, as he walked away from Bosco.

Bosco smiled, wondering why the boss wanted to see him.

He walked up to Swersky's office and knocked on the door. "You wanted to see me, boss?"

Swersky looked at Bosco. "You aren't going to be on the street today."

"Why not, Boss? You told me when I returned to the force I would be back on the street like before."

"Bosco…"

Bosco turned around and saw Faith standing by the door.

"I need you with me today… I want your help to catch Emily's attacker."