TI'll Be By Your Side 11/14
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Bosco, Faith
Spoilers: Up to Kingpin Rising
Disclaimer: I don't own Third Watch or it's characters
Author's Note: I know I said that there were going to be 17 chapters in total, but I change my mind.

I'll Be By Your Side

Chapter 11

So many thoughts were going through Faith's head, as she was about to open the door to Bosco's hospital room. What if the reason he wants to see her was because he wanted to tell her that he never wants to see her again. Get a grip, she told herself, as she opened the door, and walked inside.

She looked at Bosco looking all pale and hurt. She gently hugged him. "I'm so glad that you are okay. I thought I'd lost you." She choked out, sitting down beside his bed.

"I'm fine, Faith, it was just a little accident," he smiled slightly.

"I see that you are back to your normal self."

"Faith." he said. "I..." but before he could say anything, she grabbed his hand.

"Let me talk, Boz. Look, I know you are angry at me, but you need to hear what I have to say."

"But Faith..."

"No buts let me talk. That night in the apartment, I told you that I love you, and I meant it. The reason that I went behind your back isn't because I didn't trust you, it was because I couldn't let anything happen to you. If something happened to you, I don't know what I would if, I couldn't live my life without you."

"If you loved me, you would have come to me with your questions, you wouldn't have gone behind my back,"

"You are telling me that if I came to you, you wouldn't have gotten mad at me?" Faith replied, looking into his eyes.

"Well, we'll never know will we?" Bosco asked, looking at Faith.

She grabbed his hand. " So you are telling me that you just wanted me to come in here so we could continue arguing?"

"Well..."

Faith stood up. "I'm glad that you are okay, but I'm not going to stay here if we are just going to do what we have been doing for the last while."

Faith was just about to walk out of the room when Bosco told her to wait. Faith turned around. "Why should I?"

"Because I love you, Faith, damn it."

"I know you love me, Boz, that is not the problem. The problem is can you forgive me for what I did?" Faith responded.

"If you let me talk first of all, you would know the answer already."

Faith shakes her head. "I don't care anymore, Bos, I know the answer already."

"You think your so smart, Detective." Bosco said quietly, his eyes sad. "But you are far from that. You have no clue how I feel."

"I'm Detective now." Faith said, annoyed.

He looked at her. "Why do you have to be so stubborn?"

"Stubborn?" Faith said with a laugh. "I'm not the one that wouldn't talk to me, because he thought that I "betrayed" him."

Faith sighed, crossing her arms across her chest. "Do you know what it was like to found out that you were missing? I was so scared that I was going to lose the man that I love. I didn't care that you were mad at me, I just wanted to find you, and now look at us…we are back to where we were before you went missing, and why the hell did you do it?"

"Why did you think I did it, Faith?"

"Oh, I dunno-" Faith started looking to the floor. "Because you are an idiot,"

Bosco grinned. "Ouch that hurts."

Faith sat down next to him. "This is going to be interesting."

He grabbed her hand. "I know that I have been a really ass to you lately about what you did. It's just that you are the only person in my life that I could trust, besides my mom…and when you went behind my back, it was like nothing was real anymore. It felt like everything in my life was wrong, like when I woke up from my coma, nothing was the same as it had been."

"I'm sorry, Bos, I really am. But this is not explaining why you went after David without back- up."

"I did it because I wanted to show you that I was the same person I was before…and of course I wanted to keep Emily safe from that bastard."

"You are the same person."

"If I was the same person, you wouldn't have thought that I cheated to get back on the force." Bosco said, annoyed.

"So we are back to the same thing, you can't forgive me." Faith said.

"I never said that." Bosco replied, looking at her with this upset face. "You aren't even listening to me; I'm explaining why I went after David."

"Okay fine, Bosco, finished what you are saying."

Bosco smiled slightly. "I went after him because I wanted to show you that I still love you, and I'm sorry for everything. I want to be with you."

Faith was taken back by what he said. "I don't know…if there is an us anymore Bosco…I don't know if we can be together."

"Are you stupid, you love him?" Sully said, as he entered the room. "Everybody knows about much you love him after the way you were when we found you"

"You were" Bosco responded.

Faith nodded. "I should let the two of you talk."

"Faith, don't go,"

"I need to," she said, as she hurried out of the room.

Sully looked at Bosco. " What did you do to her?"

"Why is it always me?"

"Why wouldn't it always be you?" Sully said, with a smile.

Bosco then looked at Sully. "So how exactly was Faith when you found me?"

"You don't want to know. All she kept saying was that she was sorry over and over again."

Bosco looked at Sully with this look on his face. "Are you sure about that?"

"Yes, she kept on saying that over and over as she was holding you, I don't know what she meant, but seemed really upset."

"Thanks Sully,"

"You know why she said that, don't you?" Sully asked.

Bosco nodded. "Yes I do."

Sully could see how tired Bosco was. "I'll let you get some rest. Just give Faith some time; she'll want to be with you."

"How do you know that?"

Sully smiled slightly. "Someone doesn't go that crazy when they aren't crazy in love with that person."

Sully then said goodbye to Bosco and left the room.

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Faith was sitting in the waiting room, when Ty came up to her. " I thought you would be with Bosco?"

She turned around. "I was."

"Are you two still mad at each other? I thought that this would have brought you two together."

"It sort if did." Faith said, looking down to the floor.

"So why are you sitting by yourself, and not with the one that you love?"

"I just don't know if I and Bosco should be together." Faith said.

"Well you won't know until you do it. Just tell me if you aren't going to be with him, so I can tell Lieu to not be put me in the same car as him."

"It won't be that bad."

"Yes it will. Bosco is crazy in love with you, why do you think he was so upset about everything."

Ty then saw Sully coming towards him. "I'm going to catch a ride with Sully, tell Bosco that I'll come by and visit him later." Faith nodded, as she sat there wondering what she should do.

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As Faith was walking back to Bosco, she heard him talking to Emily. "Emily, this is not your fault, please don't blame yourself. I did this because I wanted to."

"But you could have died." Emily cried.

"But I didn't." Bosco said, as he hugged her.

"Are you just going to stay there or are you going to come in?" Bosco asked, Faith, who was standing in the doorway.

"I think I'll just stand here and watch the two of you talk." Faith said with a smile.

Emily walked up to Faith. "Come here."

So Faith sat down next to Bosco and Emily. Emily looked at Faith. "So Bosco tells me that you aren't sure about being with him."

"Emily Yokas!" Faith said, annoyed that Bosco told Emily about how she felt.

"Don't get mad at her, I told her." Bosco replied.

Faith looked at Bosco. " I guess I can't be mad then."

Emily smiled at her mother. " I can understand why you aren't sure about it, mom, especially the way that Bosco acted towards you the past few days, but me and Bosco talked, and he told me everything. I can see that he really loves you."

Faith smiled at her daughter. "Thanks."

"Well I'll leave you two alone, as I think you have some talking that you need to do. I'll be down in the cafeteria, take as much time as you need." Emily said, smiling, as she left the room.

Bosco looked at Faith. "I'm guessing that Emily wanted us to talk."

"You think so."

Faith then sat down next to Bosco, and grabbed his hand. "Em was right about something we do need to talk." She took a deep breath. "I don't want to argue with you anymore, I want to be with you, Bosco, I just don't us to hurt each other anymore because we have been doing that lately."

"Yes we have, but isn't that how we always are?" Bosco said, grinning.

"Yes…tragedy always seems to bring us together, but could you try and not hurt yourself to get my attention."

"I'll try that"

Faith then leaned over and kissed him. "Sounds good."

"Does that mean we are together now?" Bosco asked.

"I guess it does," Faith muttered against his lips.

Unknown to them, the door had just opened, and Emily opened it and looked at both Bosco and Faith in each other's arms.

"This is exactly how it should be," she said, out loud, as she closed the door, and left them alone.

To be continued!