Title: I'll Be By Your Side 10/17
Rating: PG
Pairing: Bosco, Faith
Spoilers: Up to Kingpin Rising
Disclaimer: I don't own Third Watch or it's characters

Author's Note: Thank you to Jamie for editing this so quickly.

"Oh my god!" Faith screamed, as she saw Emily's attacker lying in front of her. She didn't' expect to see him lying on the ground next to Bosco. There were so many emotions running through her at that moment…fear, anger, horror.

She ran to Bosco's side, and kneeled down next to him. "Please be okay." Tears started falling as she looked at Bosco lying before her. She knew that one of them was dead. She hadn't even bothered checking David…but she was surprised to see him there.

She checked Bosco's pulse, and heaved a sigh of relief at the feeling of his heartbeat against her fingers. It may have been weak, but at least he was still alive.

"Please don't leave me, I love you Bosco," she said, as the tears continued.

"He won't." said a voice. She turned around and saw Sully and Lieu.

"You followed me, didn't you?"

"Did you really think that we wouldn't?" Sully responded.

Lieu walked up to Faith. "Is he…"

"No, but he is barely alive," she cried. "I need to call for a bus."

"They are already on their way, just calm down, Faith." Lieu told her.

"Calm down. How the hell I am suppose to calm down when the man that I love is fighting for his life again." she yelled, as grabbed Bosco's hand. "Help is on the way, I'm so sorry about everything."

Sully walked up to Faith. "He's going to be okay."

"You don't know that do you?" Faith yelled.

"He's a fighter." Sully replied.

Faith looked at Sully. "How many times can Bosco get hurt before his strength and luck runs out? I can't lose him." she said, as the tears continued.

Sully put his hand on her shoulder. "I know you care about Bosco. We all care about him,"

"I love him." she said, as she touched his face. "You risked your life for Emily, even when we are mad at each other. Please don't die on me." she said, as she leaned over and kissed his forehead. She rested her head against his chest. "I'm sorry…" she just kept on repeating.

Lieu walked up to her. "Faith… you need to let Bosco go, Carlos and Holly are here now, they need to look at him."

Faith looked up at Lieu. "I'm never letting him go ever again."

"I know, Faith, but you need to let him go just for a few minutes, you want him to get better don't you?"

Faith stood up and wiped away her tears. She couldn't believe that she let everybody see her like this.

Lieu hugged Faith. "He's going to be okay, I know it."

"He's not superman."

"Don't you remember that you said the same thing to me when he got shot, and look how that turn out. You have to have faith in Bosco."

That is why everything went wrong in the first place, she thought to herself. She looked at Carlos and Holly working on Bosco. Why did you have to do this, Bosco? she thought to herself.

Sully looked at Faith. "So you and Bosco are dating, I would never imagine that you would be his type"

"We aren't dating." Faith replied.

Sully looked at her with a confused look. "You got to be kidding me, you told him that you loved him how many times, and you kissed him."

"On his forehead." Faith responded.

"I would never kiss another of my partners on their foreheads if they were hurt. You only do that if you love someone."

Faith sighed. How was she supposed to say that she didn't love Bosco? When she was desperately in love with him?

"I can't talk about this right now." she said, as she walked away from Sully, and walked up to Carlos and Holly. "Is he going to be okay?"

"We need to get him to the hospital now. " Carlos replied.

"Tell me now, is he going to be okay or not. How hard is that question?" Faith yelled.

Holly moved closer to Faith. "Carlos was just trying to say that he doesn't know how bad Bosco is yet."

"No, I was trying to say that we need to get him to the hospital."

"Do you want to come in the ambulance?" Holly asked Faith.

Faith turned to face Lieu and Sully.

"Go Faith.. We'll deal with everything here." Lieu responded.

Faith nodded, and walked with Holly and Carlos to the ambulance. She grabbed his hand. "You're going to be okay."

Faith sighed. She just hopes that she is right and that he is going to be fine.

))

Faith was waiting as the doctors worked on Bosco; she felt a chill down her spine, as she thought about the last time she was in the hospital waiting to hear word on her partner. Why did this have to happen? she thought to herself. She thought of how Bosco recovered from his gunshot wounds, and he was going to recover from this injury too, he had to.

She felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned around, and saw nearly most of the police officers from 55th Precient here.

Lieu walked up to her. "I called Bosco's mom and she is on her way."

"I meant to phone her, but as soon as we got here, I forgot."

"Faith, its fine, just relax"

"Relax, how can I relax when Bosco is fighting for his life again? Do we know what happened yet?"

"No, we don't know yet, all we know is that David Hunter was shot."

"So was that before or after Bosco got stabbed?"

"I don't know, Faith, but Jelly is working on it right now." Lieu responded. "He knows that this is a very important case to you."

Faith nodded. Ty walked up to her. "I know how hard this is for you, Faith. I know how much you love him."

"I do, Ty."

Ty put his hand on her shoulder. "He's going to be okay, and then you two can kiss and make up."

"I don't know if that is possible, but I don't really care about that right now, all I care is that he is alive."

Ty smiled. "That is love right there, Faith. You are desperately in love with him."

"Yes I am, Ty, but if you tell anybody…"

"Have I told anybody yet?" Ty questioned Faith.

Faith looked at Ty. "Sully sort of have an idea, I'm sure you told him."

"Well it wasn't from me."

"You must of given him a hint." Faith replied.

Ty shake his head. "Not from me, maybe you were the one that given him a hint."

Faith then saw a doctor walked out of Bosco's room, she run to him. "Is Mrs. Boscorelli here?" the doctor asked, as he walked up to the group.

"She isn't here yet, but we are all his family."

The doctor nodded. "I'm Dr. Matthews, Maurice Boscorelli is in critical condition, the knife was near his heart, we are concerned about how easily it could damage his heart, so we have to operate."

Faith nearly collapsed from the news. She couldn't lose him. "But he's going to make it through the surgery right?"

Dr. Matthews looked at Faith. "I don't know."

Faith then saw Rose coming towards them. She spotted Dr. Matthews, and ran towards him.

"How's my Maurice?"

Dr. Matthews looked at Rose. "You must be his mother."

She nodded. "Tell me what happened to him."

Dr. Matthews explained to Rose about Bosco.

"Not again." she cried.

Faith put her arms around Rose. "I know, Rose, but he is a fighter."

Rose looked up at Faith with this sad look. "But what if he can't."

Tears started to fall down her cheeks. "Let's not think this way."

Dr. Matthews looked at them both. "We are taking him to surgery now." he said, as some nurses wheeled Bosco out of the room.

Rose runs to her son's side. "Maurice, why are you doing this to me? Don't you remember that you told me before that you aren't going to die before me, don't break that promise." she replied, as she hugged Bosco. She then moved away from Bosco, so they could take him to surgery.

Rose watched as they wheeled him away, Faith put her arms around her. "He's going to be okay."

Rose sighed. "I hope so."

Sully, Lieu, Ty and some of the other police officers came up to Faith and Rose. "Is there anything we can do to help you both?"

Rose looked at them. "Find the person that hurt my Maurice."

Faith looked at Rose. "We aren't sure, but we think the person who did this is dead."

"How can you not know? Are you supposed to take care of your own?" Rose shouted.

Faith looked at Rose. "There was a dead boy next to Maurice, and we think that this person stabbed Maurice and then Maurice shot him, but we don't know yet."

"That sounds like my son." Rose smiled with a grin.

Sully looked at Faith. "I just called the station, and they said that your daughter called looking for you, she is really worried about you."

" Thank Sully."

Rose glanced at Faith. "Go and called your daughter, it's going to be while before Maurice gets out of surgery, so talk to your daughter."

Faith nodded, as she walked away from them.

((

Faith walked outside of the building and dialed the number.

"Hello?" Emily said, on the other line.

"Hi, honey." Faith said.

"Mom, have you found Bosco yet, I've been really worried." she replied. Tears started to fall down her cheeks. "Yes we have."

"Why are you crying, mom, if you found him?" Emily asked. "Is he dead?"

"No, honey, he's in the hospital." Faith replied.

"What happened to him?" Emily asked.

Faith sighed. "He's in surgery right now; I'll call you as soon as I hear some news."

"No, you won't, I'll coming to be with you right now." Emily responded.

"Em, stay with your father."

"No, mom, I'm coming now." she replied, as she hanged up the phone, not allowing Faith to say anything else.

Faith put her cell phone back in her bag, and headed back into the hospital.

((

Half an hour later,

"I don't want you doing this, Emily." Fred yelled, as they headed into the hospital.

"He saved my life, but you don't care about that do you?"

"Don't you remember he was the reason that your mother got shot." Fred replied.

"That was a long time ago, Dad. Why did you even come? You don't care if he is alive or dead."

"Your mom told me that I couldn't let you go out by yourself, so I had to come with you."

"Well I got here alright didn't I? You can go now." Emily responded, as she walked into the hospital and she then walked up to the Operating room floor, and saw Faith and a group of police officers in the waiting area.

Emily run to her mom and hugged her. "It's going to be okay, mom."

Faith looked at Fred. "I didn't think I would see you here."

"You told me that you didn't want Emily going out by herself, so I brought her here. But I guess I can go now." he replied.

Faith smiled slightly. "Thank you for bring her here,"

Fred nodded. "Do you want me to come by and pick you up later, Emily?"

Emily shakes her head. "I want to stay with my mom."

Emily hugged Fred. "I'll talk to you tomorrow," she said.

He nodded. "Bye Faith." he said, as he left the hospital.

Emily looked at her mom. "Has there been any news yet?"

"No, he's still in surgery."

Emily nodded, and watched as officers she didn't even know came up and hugged her mother, most whispering words of comfort.

Sully looked at Emily. "How are you doing?"

"I'm not the one fighting for my life."

Mother like daughter, he thought to himself.

Emily looked at Sully. "Do you know what happened?"

Sully looked at Faith. "That is up to your mom to tell you." Faith mouthed the words thank you.

Emily looked at them with a confused look on her face. "What aren't you telling me?"

" Em, we'll talk about this later."

"I want to know now; I'm not a child anymore."

Faith sighed. "I know you aren't. But I don't think this is the place to talk about it."

Emily sighed. "You'll never treat as an adult will you?" she replied, as she stood up and walked away from Faith.

((

A few minutes later, Faith walked up to Emily. "It's not because I don't think you aren't grow up, it is because you have been through enough already, you don't need to know what happened, Emily."

Emily glanced at her mother. "What is so bad that you don't want to tell me? I know that I have been an ordeal these past weeks, but I'm not going to break. I want to be here for you, mom when you need me, but I don't think you want me here."

"Bosco was going after David." Faith said.

"Do you mean the David, who attacked me?" Emily asked.

Faith nodded her head.

Emily looked at her. "Why was Bosco going after him?"

"He escaped from the hospital, and Bosco found out, and went after him, without any backup."

"Why would he do that?" Emily cried.

"Because that is what Bosco does."

Emily sighed. "Does that mean that David is out, and he can hurt me again?"

"No, honey, he is dead. He can't ever hurt you ever again." Faith replied, as she put her arms around Emily.

Emily nodded. "But Bosco could die because of me." she cried.

"None of this is your fault, Emily." said a voice. They turned around and saw Rose standing in front of them.

"Emily, you remember Bosco's mom."

Emily nodded. "I'm really sorry about your son."

Rose looked at Emily with this kind look on her face. "None of this is your fault; my son was just doing what he always does."

"But if I hadn't got attacked, he wouldn't have to go after my attacker."

Rose put her arms around Emily. "Don't blame yourself; I know that my son wouldn't want you to do that. Everything is going to be okay."

Emily smiled slightly. "I hope everything is okay."

Rose nodded. "It will be, I know it."

Faith then saw Dr. Matthews walked out of the Operating area. He walked up to Rose, Faith, Emily and the rest of the police officers.

"Mr. Boscorelli came through the surgery; he is in stable condition at the moment. He should make a full recovery."

"Can we see him?" Rose asked.

"We are taking him up to the ICU. He should be waking up soon." Dr. Matthew replied. Rose smiled. "Thank you for everything that you did for my son."

Dr. Matthews nodded, as he walked away from them.

Faith looked at Rose. "You go and see him first."

Rose looked at Faith. "Are you worrying about how he is going to react to seeing you?"

"He loves you, Faith. He can't start mad at you forever."

"I don't know, Bosco can be stubborn sometimes, all I care about right now is that he is going to be okay."

Rose hugged Faith. "Thanks for finding my son in time."

Faith smiled. "I would have searching for days looking for him."

"I know you would have." Rose responded. "I'll see you later." she said, as she headed to the ICU to see Bosco.

))

Most of the police officers had gone by now, the only ones left were Ty, Finney and Sully.

"Are you going to be okay, Faith?" Ty asked.

Faith looked at him. "Bosco is going to be okay, I'm more than fine. Thank both of you for being here for me."

"Of course we would be." Sully responded. "We are a family remember."

Faith nodded. "Have you seen Emily?"

"She was by the vending machine a few minutes ago." Sully replied.

"Thanks." Faith replied.

"I'm going to go now." Sully replied.

"Us to." Ty replied. Finney nodded. "I'm glad that Bosco is going to be okay." Ty responded. Faith nodded. "Thanks." They waved goodbye to Faith and then left the hospital.

Faith walked towards the vending machine where she saw Emily. "Hey."

Emily turned around. "Do you want a cookie or a chocolate bar?"

"Cookie," Faith said, as she grabbed the package. "Are you doing okay?"

Emily then started to cry." He could have died because of me." Faith put her arms around her daughter. "He didn't die."

Emily looked at Faith. "I just blame myself for what happened tonight and everything that happened before."

"Don't. You know Bosco did what he did because he wanted to do, not because of you."

Emily nodded, as she wiped away her tears. "I'm going to go and fresh up." Emily responded.

"Good idea." Faith responded. "Meet me in the ICU that is where Bosco is."

)(

Faith was just about to walk to the admitting desk to ask where Bosco's room is when Rose coming towards her.

"He wants to see you."

To be continued