Is Love Enough?

Chapter 9

Faith yelled Rose's name over and over, but Rose never answered. Faith knew that something was wrong. She got out of the bed and was starting to get dressed when the nurse walked in.

"You shouldn't be out of bed, Mrs. Boscorelli."

"My mother-in-law and children are in danger; I need to go help them."

"You aren't going anywhere; you have to rest," the nurse replied leading her back to her bed.

"You can't stop me!" Faith yelled.

"I think I can," The nurse said.

"You aren't well enough to go and help your mother in law. Do what everyone else does and all the police," the nurse said as she walked out of the room. Faith sighed. She wanted to go and help Rose and kids but she knew that there was no way she was getting out of here. So she picked up the phone and called Detective Brown, but he wasn't there. She left him a message. She prayed that he got the message in time. She lies her head on the pillow and sighed, her whole family was in danger and there was nothing she could do help them.

Meanwhile, Susan looked at her son.

"Are you sure that you saw that?" she asked. He nodded. Cosmo looked at her with a scared look.

"Is the bad man going to come and get me?

"Of course not, honey," she said as she hugged him.

"Now tell me again exactly what you saw." Cosmo didn't say anything.

"It's okay, Cosmo. Nothing is going to happen to you. Your daddy and I will make sure of that." Chuck sat down next to Cosmo and Susan.

"Mommy is right; you'll be fine. Now tell mommy what happened." Cosmo hugged Susan.

"Mommy, it scary. I was walking down the trail towards the parking lot, because I wanted to show Hannah and Michelle something and that was when I saw the bad man hit Hannah and Michelle's Daddy. Two other men grabbed the girls and took them away. Daddy was there with me, but he didn't see it. I was so scared." Cosmo said, as tears started to fall down his cheek.

"It's okay.. Cosmo."

"Is Hannah and Michelle going to be okay?"

"Of course they will," Susan said, as she looked at Chuck worried. She hoped that Bosco and his kids would be okay, but she wasn't positive. Carter then entered the lounge.

"How's Cosmo?" he asked. Susan looked at him.

"He's going fine, but do you think you could just watch him for a few minutes?"

"Of course" Carter said, as he sat down next to Cosmo.

"I need to talk to you outside," Susan told Chuck. They walked outside of the lounge.

"What Cosmo said is true. Bosco and the kids have been missing for many hours now... Faith knew that something was wrong, but nobody would believe her. We have to tell the police now,
before it's too late."

"I talked to Bosco in the park; he was so happy that his wife was awake," Chuck replied.

"Well let's just hope that they can find him and his kids and they can be a family."

"I'm going to take Cosmo home." Susan nodded.

"I'll be home as soon as I finished talking to the Decetitves. I'm sure he will want to talk to Cosmo, but that can wait until tomorrow," Susan sighed.

"How I am going to tell Faith that she was right and that her husband and kids are in danger like she thought they were?"

"You'll figure out, like you always do," he said as he hugged and kissed Susan. He then went into the lounge. Carter walked out of the lounge.

"Susan is everything okay?" he asked as he walked up to her. She turned around.

"You remember the hit and run victim, Faith Boscorelli?"

"Sort of."

"Well her husband and her kids went missing today, but we didn't know exactly what happened. We do know they were kidnapped. I can't believe my son had to go through with that, and what Faith and her family are going through. Why do bad things have to happen?"

"I don't know, Susan... I ask that myself everyday that I come to work." Carter replied. Susan nodded.

"Thanks for listening." she said as she walked away.

A hour later, Luka, Pratt, Sam and Carter were waiting for the ambulances to show up. The
first one showed up and Luka took it.

"What do we have here?"

"We have an approximately twenty year old female with injuries to her head and chest. She is conscious, but pulse is weak and thready," the paramedic told Luka.

"What's your name?" Luka questioned

"Emily," the woman replied.

"What happened?" he asked as he wheeled her in.

"We tried to save Rose… Is she in another ambulance? Where's my brother?" she said, as she started to go into unconsciousness.

"Sam I need you over here.. " Luka said, as they wheeled Emily into the ER. The other ambulances show up and Carter and Pratt hurry towards them.

"We have a male teenager with injuries to his head. Looks like he was beat up pretty bad. He's unconscious ." Carter and Pratt wheeled the boy in the ER.

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Bosco moved his hands, his wrists were starting to hurt and they were also starting to bleed. He knew that there was a chance he wasn't going to get out of here, but it wasn't going to give up just yet. He yelled hoping that someone would hear him.

"What do you think you are doing?" Andrew replied.

"Nobody can hear you; this is an empty apartment building," Andrew replied.

"Now I've got a surprise for you," he said as he took the handcuffs off Bosco. Bosco stood up.

"I've got a surprise for you too, jag off," he said as he kicked and pushed Andrew to the floor. He just kept punching and punching him until he was too hurt to get up.

"If I was you, I would stop this or your mom and your kids are dead. Or they could be dead already." Bosco didn't know if Andrew was telling the truth, but he wasn't going to take any chances. He would die, if anything happened to his family because of him. But what Andrew doesn't know is that Bosco has the key to the handcuffs just in case he needed them.

"Fine," Bosco said as he stood up.

"I could have killed you."

"You mean like how your wife killed Mann? She shot an unarmed man. You wouldn't do that to me, would you?"

"You don't know anything about that. How do you know about it anyhow?" Bosco questioned.

"I have people working for me at your precient and know everything about you; I've been watching you for a very long time. It's a miracle that you came back after getting shot, but you'll never get back to work now, or New York. It's really sad that you have to die in Chicago, you had to go away, didn't you?"

"Do you want your surprise now?"

"I don't want anything from you!" Bosco yelled.

"I think you will want to see this.. it will be the last time you see her," Andrew replied. Andrew knocked on the door. The door opened suddenly and Rose walked in with a gun in her back.

"Make one false move, she's dead." Andrew shouted.

"Can't I have some time with her?"

"Alone." Bosco replied.

"Don't do anything stupid, or you'll have to watch your mom die in front of you. You wouldn't want that would you?" Andrew and his men walked out of the door.

"Five minutes and that is it." Bosco ran to Rose's side.

"I'm so sorry I got you into this." he said as he looked at her all beaten up.

"Maurice, this is not your fault." she said, as she hugged him. She then looked at Bosco and saw that he was bleeding.

"Oh my…"

"Ma, it's fine, I'll be okay, just a little stab wound."

"I love you, Ma. You were the best mom that I have. Take care of Faith and the kids for me." Rose looked at her son.

"You are going to get out of this okay, I know you will." Bosco nodded.

"It doesn't look good, but I do have a plan." Bosco said as he explained it to Rose. Andrew walked back into the room.

"Time to go." Rose looked at her son.

"I love you." Bosco nodded to tell her that it was time to do it. Rose looked at Andrew.

"Why are you doing this?" she asked.

"I know you lost a brother to violence. I lost a son to that too. I think about him all the time. Do you think of your brother?" Andrew smiled slightly.

"I think of him about the time. I miss him." Andrew then looked over the room and saw Bosco was gone.

"Where's Boscorelli?" he yelled to his men. Andrew ran out of the room and went to look for Bosco. Andrew pulled out his gun.

"You left me no choice." Bosco then hit Andrew against the side of his head.

"You don't mess with me or my family." Bosco ran into the room to get his mom, but she was gone.

"Damn it." he said. He was so close to getting out, but there was no way that he was leaving her with his mom and his kids. He had to find them. He walked down a dark hallway.

"You know for a cop, you are pretty dumb; you could have escaped, but you care more about your family than your own life. Well I hope they appreciated it when you are dead," Andrew replied.

"I don't think so," Bosco yelled, as he hit Andrew in the stomach, giving Bosco enough time
to start to run away down the hallway.

"Damn it.. you are going to pay for this.." Andrew responded, as he stood up. Bosco then saw a man taking Rose to the other room. He punched the guy in the face.

"Come on, Ma." he said as they started to run away. Rose then stopped suddenly.

"Ma, why are you stopping? We have to find Michelle and Hannah." Bosco turned around and saw Rose had a gun in front of her face.

"You move one more step, she's dead."

"Don't kill her. Do want you wanted to do from the beginning, kill me. Let my family go." Andrew laughed.

"I would like to do that, but I can't."

"Then what are you going to do to me? Torment me? You can't kill me, jagoff. You wouldn't know how."

"I do know how.. I'm just waiting for the right moment to do it." Bosco laughed.

"Then just do it."

"No… Maurice."

"Shut up." Andrew replied. Bosco moved slowly.

"Don't you talk to my mother like that?"

"I said don't move." Bosco grabbed the gun out of Andrew's hands.

"What do we have now? It looks like I'm in control," he said, as he pointed the gun in Andrew's face.

"Ma.. go!"

"I'm not leaving without you."

"You are going to tell me where my kids are now." Bosco yelled. Suddenly Bosco felt someone punched him in the side where he had just got stabbed a few hours ago. He started to feel pain, and he started to lose grip of the gun and he fall onto the ground. Andrew grabbed the gun, and was about to shoot Bosco when he saw that Bosco was slowly running down the hallway.

"You left me no choice!" Andrew yelled as he fired his gun and shot Bosco.

"No… No." Rose screamed. Someone then grabbed Rose.

"Not my son." she yelled, as the man dragged her away.

"Maurice.. no." Andrew picked up Bosco and carried him back to the room.

"I knew that you weren't going to be easy."

((

Susan was just about to walk out of the hospital when she saw Emily, Faith's
daughter in the exam room. She ran into the exam room.

"What happened?" Susan asked Luka.

"She was beaten up pretty bad. She's got a head injury and some cuts and bruises, but she is not as bad as the other boy."

"You mean her brother?" Susan asked, "How bad is he?"

"I don't know. It doesn't look good."

"Is Emily going to be okay?" Susan asked.

"We are going to take her to have a MRI," Luka replied.

"Do you know where her mom?" Susan nodded.

"She's the one that was hit by the car a few days ago, Faith Boscorelli."

"Oh," Luka replied sadly.

"Do you want me to tell her about her kids?"

"No, I'll do it," Susan replied.

"Just page me when you get the results of Emily's MRI." Luka nodded.

"You really got to like this family haven't you?" Susan didn't say anything, she just walked out of the exam room and walked into the other room where Charlie was.

"How is he doing Carter?"

"He's going to need surgery, but we can't find his parents to sign for it," Carter explained.

"Don't worry about that, I know the mom... I'll go and tell her about this. This is going to be really hard to tell her, especially after what she's going through right now."

"Whose son is this?" Carter asked. Susan sighed.

"Faith Boscorelli's, the hit and run victim, how much can one woman take? Is Charlie going to be okay?"

"I don't know, Susan." Susan walked up the boy.

"I saw him come to her room with his half sisters; you could see how much he loved them. Do you know how this happen?"

"Luka said something about they were trying to save Rose." Susan sighed.

"That's Bosco's mom; I think I understand what happened now." she said as she walked out of the room. She paused for a moment. She didn't know how she was going to tell Faith all this, but she had to it.

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Susan walked into Faith's room.

"What's wrong, Susan?" she asked, seeing the look on Susan's face.

"I don't know how to tell you this."

"No. Don't tell me that they are dead. No!" Faith cried. Susan walked up to Faith and hugged her to try and calm her down.

"It's not Bosco or the girls. It's Emily and Charlie."

"What?" Faith yelled as she got out of the bed.

"I need to be with my kids! Oh God! Where they are?" Faith said as she collapsed in Susan's arms. Susan helped Faith back into the bed.

"Calm down, Faith… and let me explain."

"I'm not going to calm down! What happened to Emily and Charlie?" Faith asked, nervously. Susan sat down next to her.

"They were brought in just an hour ago. They were beaten up, it seems like they were helping Rose."

"Rose?" Faith replied.

"So she was hurt, so the detective didn't get there in time." Susan looked at Faith.

"I don't know what happened to Rose, she wasn't admitted here. Maybe she's at another hospital, Emily has to have a MRI and Charlie needs surgery." Faith cried out.

"This is my fault; I didn't get there in time! I should have left the minute I knew that Rose was in danger! Now my kids are fighting for their lives."

"This is not your fault, none of this is. We are going to find Bosco, Hannah and Michelle; we might have a lead now." Faith looked in shock.

"What kind of lead? I thought the detective didn't believe that they were missing."

"Cosmo saw Bosco and the kids being taken, I called the police, but they haven't got back to me yet." Faith looked at Susan in shock.

"Cosmo saw everything, I can't believe that. Now maybe people will look for my family now. "

"I hope so, Faith." Faith looked at Susan.

"How's Cosmo? That must have really hard for him." Susan nodded.

"He will be okay."

"I can see what Bosco sees in you, you are worried about my son, even though your whole family is in trouble."

"You have been here for me."

"Can I go see my kids?" Faith asked. Susan nodded.

"I was wondering when you would ask?" she said as she pulled the wheelchair and helped Faith in it.

The next afternoon, Ray was working at the admitting desk when some people came up to the desk.

"We'll here to see Faith Boscorelli."

"Are you family?"

"I guess you can say we are," said one of the men. Susan was just about to walk in the lounge.

"Did you say Faith Boscorelli?" she asked as she walked up to them.

"Yes, we are from New York City. We are her friends; I'm John Sullivan." Susan shook his hand.

"She told me that you wanted to come, but she didn't tell me that you were bringing the whole police station." Sully nodded.

"Well when one of our police officers are missing, we come to help."

"I'm Ty Davis," the other man said to Susan.

"Bob Swersky." the oldest of the bunch replied.

"Sasha Davis." Susan then explained to everybody what happened last night and where Faith
was. They couldn't believe it.

"I'll take you all there."

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Faith was sitting in Charlie's room, waiting for him to wake up. The doctors said the surgery went well, and that he should be okay, but it all depended on if he woke up or not. Luka walked into the room. Susan walked into the room.

"How's Charlie?" she asked. Faith sighed.

"He's still hasn't woke up yet."

"I went by Emily's room.. she's going to be okay. She's awake and asking about you, but there is someone with her right now."

"Who?"

"Sully is talking to her." said a voice. Faith turned around and saw Swersky, Davis and Sasha standing in front of her. She looked at them.

"I told Sully that I didn't want him to come."

"Did you think we wouldn't come, we are going to help you find Bosco, Hannah and Michelle?" Ty said as he came up and hugged her. Faith smiled.

"Thanks guys, but I know if there is much you can do, seeing as this not New York."

"I'm sure there is a lot we can do to find them, we just can't arrest the idiots that did this." Sasha replied.

"Or Jagoff like Bosco likes to say," Faith said as tears started to fall down her cheeks. Everybody hugged Faith. Faith felt a little better knew that her other "family" was here.

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"Is he dead yet?" the man asked Andrew. Andrew looked at the man.

"I don't know yet. I hope so, he has to pay."

Do I look I'm dead, jagoff, Bosco thought to himself, as he slowly started to wake up. His whole body ached; he felt like he was dying. He moved suddenly and saw that he was tied to the chair with ropes instead of the handcuffs. Andrew walked up to Bosco.

"No handcuffs anymore, I don't think you will be escaping anymore. You look too weak to do anything." Bosco tried to move, but it hurt too much. Andrew was right, he was too weak. The other man slowly walked up to Bosco.

"You don't look that well, you look like you are in pain."

"Help me," Bosco said quietly. He couldn't see who the person was, because he tried to open his eyes, but he was too tired.

"Help you? I don't think so." the person said, as he punched Bosco in the side. Bosco yelled out in pain.

"Did that hurt? Well let me try that again." he said, as he punched him again. Bosco recognize the voice. But it couldn't be, he wouldn't do this, would he? he thought to himself. Bosco looked up and saw that it was him. I must be
dreaming, Bosco thought to himself, as he rubbed his eyes, but it wasn't a dream... It was real.

"Fred."

To be continued!