Is Love Enough?

Chapter 6

Bosco was sitting outside of Faith's hospital room with Michelle still sleeping in his arms. He was waiting for the doctor to finished looking over
Faith to make sure that she was okay. Bosco stroked Michelle's hair.

"Mommy is going to be just fine…" Suddenly the doctor came out of the room.

"Mr. Boscorelli." Bosco stood up and walked over the doctor.

"Is my wife going to be okay?"

"Your wife did the first step by waking up. We don't know how serious she is; we are going to have to run some more tests in a while."

"Can I see her?" he asked. The doctor nodded.

"She's been asking about you. Just don't be too long." Bosco nodded and walked into the room. Faith looked at him.

"Bos," she said in a weak voice. He walked up to her.

"Oh Faith… Don't ever do that to me again," he said as tears started to fall down his cheek. He tried to hug her, but he realized that he still had Michelle in his arms.

"Daddy..." she said looking up at him. Bosco smiled at her.

"Look, honey, Mommy's awake," he said, as he sat down and put her on his lap.

"Mommy!" Michelle cried happily as she crawled to Faith's side.

"Miss.. Mommy." Faith hugged her.

"I missed you too honey." Bosco looked at Michelle laying next to Faith and knew that everything was going to be okay.

"Bos…" she said, looking at him, "What happened?" He looked out the window.

"I'll tell you everything in just a few minutes, but I think there is a few other people that would like to see you." Bosco walked out of the room.

"Charlie.. Hannah!" he called. Charlie turned around.

"Bos, is something wrong with mom? Did she get worse?" he asked with a worried look. Bosco shook his head.

"Charlie, this is good news! She's awake." Charlie smiled.

"What? Mom's awake." Bosco hugged Charlie.

"Yes, she is going to be okay. She would love to see you. She doesn't even know that you are here. Why don't you take Hannah in too? I'll be in there in a few seconds." Charlie nodded and walked into the room. Bosco walked up to the admit desk.

"Can I use your phone?" he asked. The nurse looked up at him.

"Sure."

Susan was coming down the hallway when he heard Bosco talking on the phone.

"I'll see you in a few minutes, Ma. Goodbye." he said and hung up the phone.

"Bosco is everything okay?" she asked. Bosco turned around with a smile.

"Yes, everything is fine; Faith has woken up." Susan hugged Bosco.

"That is great news! I'm so happy for you."

"I want to thank you for everything that you did for us. You were more than just a doctor; you were a friend when I need one." Susan smiled.

"It's no problem."

"So how was Hannah at the park?" Bosco asked.

"Oh she loved it. She and Cosmo got on well together and Cosmo liked being the big brother for another little girl." Bosco smiled.

"Well I should get back to Faith. I don't even want to experience anything like this again. I don't ever want to lose her; she is my life. " Susan could tell how much Bosco loved Faith and his family.

"I'll see you later," Susan replied as she walked away from Bosco. Bosco walked back into the room.

"Bos, I was wondering when you were going to come back," Faith replied. Bosco walked up to her.

"I would never leave you for a long time. I love you, Faith. Please, don't you ever scare me like that, again! I thought I was going to lose you." She looked at him.

"Lose me? That could never happen."

"Well I'm going to go back to the hotel now, Mom. I'm so glad that you are going to be okay. I love you," Charlie said as he hugged her. She smiled at her
son.

"I love you, Charlie."

"Bye Charlie," Bosco said as he hugged him. Bosco sat down next to Faith and look at his two daughters lying next to their mom with big smiles. Bosco touched Faith's cheek.

"You don't know what these past few days have been like, Faith." She looked at him.

"I can only imagine what it has been like for you, Bos." Bosco climbed onto the bed.

"What are you doing, Bosco?" she asked with a grin.

"I just wanted to be next to you and our daughters. I need you now and always."
She grabbed his hand.

"I need you too. I love you, Bos. I love all of you," she said as she hugged Bosco, Michelle and Hannah. Hannah looked at Faith.

"Mommy..up!" Faith put her arms around Hannah.

"Yes, honey, I'm awake now." Suddenly there was a knock at the door.

"May I come in?" Bosco looked at Rose.

"Ma." Rose walked up to everybody.

"Faith, I'm so happy that you are awake," she said as she hugged Faith.

"You had us worried."

"Gramma… Mommy up!" Rose sat down next to them all.

"Yes Hannah, I see mom's awake." Faith looked at Hannah and Michelle.

"I hope you two have been good for your daddy while I'm been sleeping."

"Daddy.. with mommy.." Faith looked at Bosco.

"Oh has he?" she asked with a smile.

"He wouldn't leave your side. He only left a few times, but not that often," said a voice. They all looked and saw Susan standing in front of them.

"I'm glad to see that you finally woke up; you had us all worried, but I
think it is time that Faith got some rest." Hannah looked at Faith.

"No bye-bye." Faith hugged her daughter.

"Everything is going to be okay. I'm not going to leave you, but you go with
Grandma and you can come and see me later." Michelle hugged Faith.

"Love you."

"I love you, Michelle and you too, Hannah." she said as she hugged her two
precious daughters.

"No go!" Hannah cried as Bosco tried to pick her up.

"Hannah, mommy's going to be fine."

"No..." Susan looked at Bosco.

"How about Hannah stays here for a little bit longer and Michelle goes home with Grandma? Then it won't be so busy in here, and Faith can get some rest." Bosco nodded.

"Thank you, Susan." Rose picked up Michelle.

"Wave goodbye to everybody." Michelle waved goodbye to them all and then left the room. Faith looked at Susan.

"I remember you... You were that doctor whose niece went missing.. Dr…Lewis?"

"Call me Susan." Faith smiled.

"Susan, it is. So were you my doctor?" Susan sat down next to them.

"When you first came in the ER, I was. But I had to keep on checking up on you, because you and Bosco were so kind to me in New York. I wanted to
help you somehow."

"You did, Susan," Bosco responded. Hannah looked at Susan.

"Cosmo?" Susan smiled at the little girl.

"Sure, you can go back to the park, we'll see when." Faith looked at them confused.

"Cosmo's my son; I took Hannah to the park today. Even though Bosco was a little
overprotective. Michelle stayed with here with him."

"Overprotective, were you, Bos? And you tell me I am too overprotective," Faith responded with a grin.

"Faith, you were in a coma; I thought I was going to lose you. I didn't want
anything to happen with my kids." Faith touched his face.

"Bos, it's fine, I was only joking." Susan stood up.

"I have to go now, but I'll come by and see you too later. I think everything is going to be just fine."

"Bye, Sus..a" Susan smiled at Hannah trying to say her name.

"Bye Hannah," she said as she walked out of the room.

Hannah was sitting in Faith's lap.

"Faith are you sure she isn't hurting you?" Bosco asked, concerned.

"I'm fine, Bos. I'm in pain, but as long as I have my family with me, I'm okay. So tell me everything, Bosco. Why is everybody here? I know I was hurt, but how bad?" Bosco grabbed a hold of her hand.

"You were hit by a car, Faith and you were in a coma. I had to call Emily and tell her. She, Charlie, my mom and the twins came here. We didn't know if you were going to wake up."

"How long was I in the coma?" Faith asked.

"A few days," Bosco responded, "But I was so scared that you were never going to wake up. I know now how it was for you when I was in a coma." Faith nodded.

"So where's Emily?"

"She went back to New York yesterday for her test. She didn't want to leave, but I don't her that you would want her to take it."

"Of course I would." Faith grabbed the phone.

"I'm going to call her now." Bosco picked up Hannah and put her in his arms.

"Mommy needs to talk to your big sister Emily. So we are going to go and wait outside." Hannah looked at him, lovingly.

"Mommy… okay?" He stroked her hair.

"Mommy is just going to be just fine. We can watch her through the
window. How do you like the sound of that?" Hannah smiled.

"Yes." Bosco and Hannah watched Faith talking on the
phone with Emily. He knew that everything was going to be okay.

Bosco was on his way back to Faith's hospital room from taking Hannah back
to the hotel when he saw Detective Brown entering her room.

"Do you have some news?" Bosco asked as he walked into the room.

"Yes I do."

"Why don't we talk about it outside?" Bosco asked.

"Bos, if this is about my accident, I want to know! don't hide anything from me." Faith replied, "I'm a detective remember? I can make you tell me the
truth." Bosco laughed for the first time since this whole thing started.

"Okay, Faith." They walked into the room.

"So what do you have to tell us, Detective?" Faith asked.

"Have you caught the person that did this to me?"

"Yes and No."

"How can that be? You either caught the person or you didn't!" Bosco yelled.

"Bos, let the detective explain everything to us before you start yelling."

"We had a witness come forward and tell us that they saw a speeding car
coming down the street near where you were knocked down. So they got the
license plate number and we checked it and it was a New York City License
plate."

"That is where we live," Faith spoke softly.

"Yes I know that and we found out that the car was owned by Fred Yokas."

"That jagoff… I'm going to kill him!" Bosco yelled as he started to run out of the room.

"He wasn't the one that hit your wife; it was his girlfriend. She is in jail
right now, but there is much more that you should know. Fred's girlfriend
might be the one that hit your wife, but there is someone else that tried to
kill you that night." Faith and Bosco looked at each other with this confused look on their face.

"I don't get what you are saying." The detective sat down.

"Witnesses said that there was another car that was headed towards you two, but Fred's car got ahead of the car and ran Faith down. They said that the other car just drove by."

"I don't get what you are saying, Detective. Fred was the one that ranFaith down. Why do you care about this other car? The only thing they did
was speed," Bosco responded.

"Yes we thought it was a no big deal first of all, but then we read the license plate from the other car, we saw that it was from New York as well,
and we thought that was very interesting. So we found out the name of the person whose car it owns and we found out that this person has been
following you all the way from New York."

"What? How?" Faith asked.

"We figure out that you and Bosco were the link to everything. Fred was your ex-husband, so he must have followed you to Chicago."

"I don't care about Fred. I want to know about this mystery guy. How do you
know that this person has been following us." she asked.

"Well like I said, I knew that you and Bosco were the people that this person was after, so we
looked at tapes from the airport, hotel, restaurants. Anywhere that you went to see if there was a connection."

"So that is why you ask me all those questions yesterday about everything me
and Faith did while we were here? Why didn't you tell me then about Fred's girlfriend running Faith down?" Bosco questioned.

"I wanted to find more about this person that we think is following you before I told you everything," Detective Brown replied.

"So you are telling me this person has been following us everywhere?" Faith asked with a frightened look.

"That is what it looks like. This person went to the same hotel, restaurants. Everywhere that you went, they were there."

"So what are you going to do about it?" Bosco asked.

"I don't want my wife or kids to be in danger!"

"We don't know the reason that this person is watching you, but it looks like they have left you alone."

"How the hell do you know that? I've been in the hospital with my wife for how many days; of course you are going to see them following us because I haven't gone anywhere."

"It might be just a coincidence that you all went to the same places. We have keep tabs on this person and it looks like they have gone back to New York."

"So you are telling me you aren't going to do anything to keep my wife and my family safe from some person that been following us and wanted to kill us if it wasn't for Fred's girlfriend running Faith down?"

"Until we get proof that this person was trying to hurt you, there is nothing I can do. I can get a police officer to come and make sure that you
two of you are safe." Faith shook her head.

"I don't want my kids to be scared... Are you sure this person has gone back to New York?"

"Yes, all the signs point to them leaving town. The car is gone. We were following it to see where they went to see if they show up at the hospital, but they didn't. They went to the airport a few days ago, so I'm guessing that they left you alone."

"But you don't know that, do you? My family could still be in danger and you don't care because you think this person is gone. But you don't know for
sure, do you? Have you gone to New York to make sure that this person made it back there?" Detective Brown shook his head.

"I didn't think so."

"I'm sorry Detective Boscorelli, but I can't do anymore. The person has left Chicago. There is nothing that I can do about it anymore."

"You might not be able to, but I can." Bosco responded. Faith looked at Bosco.

"Don't do anything; I need you."

"What's the name of this person? Did you at least get that information?" Bosco asked, annoyed.

"Andrew Nardo." Bosco looked at Faith.

"That must be Allie Nardo's brother, but why would he just start to go after me after all this years?"

"I'm guessing you know who this person is." Bosco nodded.

"Thank for your help, Detective. But like you said, there is nothing more you can do, if he isn't in town anymore." Detective Brown then left the room.

"Faith, this is my fault! Because of what happened to his brother, he is after you and my kids."

"Bos, we don't know anything, please just forget it. He is probably back in New York."

"He doesn't know. He just thinks that Andrew Nardo is back in New York, but he doesn't know that for sure, does he? I don't want to lose you, Faith or our kids. I thought that I was going to lose you. I don't ever want that to happen. I'll just call the boss and ask him to check if Andrew is in
New York."

"Bos don't do that. Everything will be fine. We don't even know where this guy was here; maybe it was an coincidence that we all went to the same
place."

"You know that it isn't true. I just want to keep you safe," Faith looked at Bosco.

"I know you do, but I'll be fine. I'm in a hospital, Bosco. I don't think anything is going to happen to me." He looked at her.

"You're my wife; I love you." She touched his face.

"I love you too, Bos. Thank you for caring, but I'm going to be fine." He leaned over and kissed her.

"Just make sure that you don't leave anywhere without me."

"Where would I go?" she asked. He smiled at her.

"That's right, you can't go anywhere." Bosco could see that she was getting tired.

"I think it is time that I let you get some rest."

"Stay here with me."

Bosco waited until he was sure Faith was asleep before he left the room.

"Is Dr. Lewis still here?"

"No, she left a few hours ago."

"Is Dr. Lockhart or Dr. Carter here?" Bosco asked. He knew he shouldn't do this, but he had to keep his wife and kids safe.

"Dr. Carter isn't here, but I can get Dr. Lockhart for you," the nurse replied, "Just wait a few minutes."

A few minutes later, Abby walked up to Bosco.

"You said you needed to talk to me."

"Could I ask you a favor?" he asked. She looked at him.

"What kind of favor?" Bosco explained to her everything that happened.

"I'm not sure if I can do that..." Abby explained.

"All I'm asking you to do is only allow certain people in her room; I just want to keep her safe. You can't get in trouble for that, can you?" Bosco
replied.

"No, I don't think so. Why don't you talk to the main nurse on this floor? She is the one who sees who goes in and out of the rooms. Tell her that Dr.
Lockhart approved it. You must really love your wife."

"I do. Thank you," he said as he shook hands with Abby. Abby smiled at Bosco.

"No problem." She smiled to herself. 'I can see why Susan cared so much about him and his wife,' she thought to herself.

Bosco was lying in the bed next to Faith. He wasn't suppose to stay there all night, but nobody told him to go, so he didn't. He touched her face.

"I love you, Faith." He then put his head on her chest and started to fall asleep.

A man was walking down the corridor to Faith's room when a nurse came up to him.

"Visiting hours are over."

"I'm friends with the family," the man replied.

"I'm sorry, but you can't go in there."

"Listen here; I am friends with Boscorelli family."

"I'm sorry, but you can't go in there. Only family can go right now, Faith is still in critical condition." Abby replied as she came up to the nurse
and the man. The man nodded.

"I'll try and come back later." When the man was gone, the nurse looked at Abby.

"Why did you say that Faith is in critical condition when you know she isn't? "

"I guess Nurse Hunter hasn't told you about Faith Boscorelli. Only her family can go in there. You have seen them all before, so you know who."
Abby replied. The nurse nodded and walked away from Abby.

The man walked out of the hospital.

"I'm going to make Boscorelli paid for everything he did to my brother, even if it means destroying his whole family."