Is Love Enough?

Chapter 17

A few days later,

"So the little red riding hood and her Grandmother..." Bosco said, as he looked at Michelle, and saw that she had fallen asleep in his arms.

"Well at least I didn't make you fall asleep, Hannah-banana," Bosco said with a smile, as he looked at his other daughter.

"Daddy… play."

"I wish I could Hannah, but Daddy is still a little hurt. I promise as soon as I get out of here, I'm taking you and your sister to the park."

Hannah put her arms around Bosco.
"Daddy, love."

"I love you too, Hannah, and you too, Michelle," He said as he hugged the both of his daughters.

"You are really good with your kids."

Bosco looked up and saw Carter standing in front of him. "Hello, Dr. Carter."

Carter walked up to Bosco. "I just thought I'll see you how you are doing. You and your family are all that Susan talks about."

Bosco grinned. "All woman like me..."

"But there is only one woman for you, right?" Faith said as she entered the room.

Bosco smiled. "Of course there is."

"Nice to see you again, Dr. Carter."

"You too, Faith," Carter said.

Carter then sat down next to Bosco. "So how are you feeling?"

"I'm doing better," Bosco said. Faith then looked at Bosco. "Why didn't you tell me that you have to see a therapist?"

"Because I'm not seeing one. And how did you know anyway?" Bosco said.

"Susan told me."

Carter looked at them. "I'll leave you two alone." Carter said as he walked out of the room. Faith waited until Carter was gone before she said anything else.

"I know you hate therapists, but you have been through so much lately, Bosco… My
accident, your kidnapping, please just go and talk to the therapist. Just this one time for me?" Faith pleaded.

"I don't know." Faith grabbed his hand, "Just one time."

Bosco looked at Faith. "You know I can't say no to you... Fine this one time, that is it." Faith then grabbed a hold of Michelle and Hannah, who had fallen asleep.

"I'm going to take them back to Susan's place. What time is your appointment?" Faith asked.

"You don't have to come with me." Bosco responded.

Faith smiled. "I have to make sure that you go."

Bosco grinned. "I told you I would go."

"I know that Boz, but I know you too well," Faith said, as she leaned over and kissed him.

"So what time?"

"5 o clock."

"Okay, I'll be there," Faith said. Bosco then waved goodbye to Faith and the kids as they left his room.

Susan knocked on Bosco's door. "I'm here to take you to your therapist?"

"Where's Faith?" he asked, as he got out the bed.

"She got stuck in traffic." Susan said. "What do you think you are doing getting out of the bed by yourself?"

"I'm not weak. I just got shot once; it's not like I got shot 4 times or anything. Oh wait that happen to me. So I think I know if I can walk or not."

"This is hospital policy."

"You should know by now, I don't listen to what people tell to do," Bosco said as he stood up by himself.

"Sit down now!" Susan replied.

Bosco looked at her. "You are just as bossy as Faith is," he said, as he sat down on the wheelchair. He then looked at Susan.

"So Faith called you and told you to take me to my therapist as she thought that I wouldn't go if she wasn't here."
Susan grinned. "Maybe," she said as she wheeled Bosco out of his room. They had just got to the office, when Abby came up to them.

"Susan, we need you to down in the ER." Susan looked at Bosco.

"Go, Susan, you can see that I'm going to go. You don't need to worry," Bosco said, as he wheeled himself into the office.

Abby looked at Susan as Bosco went into the office.

"You have really got attached to this family. I can see why you got attached to him, can we say sexy?"

"I'm married, Abby."

"Don't tell me you didn't notice how sexy he is. If he wasn't married, I think I would ask him out."

"No you wouldn't."

"We never know will we?" Abby said, as Abby and Susan walked away.

The therapist looked at Bosco. "So you have been through a lot these past few weeks. How do you feel about everything?"

"Fine."

"Mr. Boscorelli, I'm sure you don't feel that way, now tell me how you really feel? How did you feel when your wife was hurt."

"How the hell do you think I felt?" Bosco yelled.

"I am getting the sense that you are angry about the accident," the therapist nodded.

"Are you dumb? Anybody would be angry about their wife getting hurt. I'm not doing this; I can't," Bosco said, as he got up from his wheelchair. He opened the door and was about to walk away.

"What do you think you are doing Bos?" Faith said as she stood up and walked over to him.

"I'm sorry, Faith, but I can't do this. I love you, but I'm not doing this." The therapist then came up to them.
"You must be Mrs. Boscorelli; I'm Dr. Thomason." Faith shook the doctor's hand.
"Nice to meet you. I'm sorry about my husband."

"Don't apologize for me... This guy wants to know if I was angry about your accident. What doesn't she think I was happy that you got hurt?"

The therapist looked at Bosco and Faith. "How about both of you talk with me? Would you feel better with your wife in the room?"

"No!" Bosco yelled. Faith grabbed his hand. "Boz, come on. I'll come in with you."

"Faith.. I don't." Faith then put her arms around him.

"Please do this for me. When we get back home, I'll repay you for this," she whispered to him.

"Fine, but only for you." Bosco said, as he and Faith walked back into the office with Dr. Thomason. Bosco and Faith sat down on the couch.

"Now let's talk about the kidnapping. That must have been hard for the both of you." Dr. Thomason said. Bosco sighed.

"It was. Bosco's my life, if anything happened to him I don't know what I would do." Faith said. A single tear come down her cheeks.

"He is everything to me."

Bosco grabbed her hand. "I know Faith, but I didn't die."

Faith looked at him. "But that wasn't the only time that I thought that I was going to lose you. What about the time you took 4 bullets for me and was in a coma for 4 months."

The doctor looked down on the pad. "I don't see anything here about this... When did this happen?"

"5 years ago," Faith said. "I can still remember that day like it happened yesterday. Bosco saved my life by jumping in front of the bullets because I frozen when the gunmen came at us."

"Do you feel regret because your husband had to save your life?"

"That's enough, we're leaving." Bosco said.

Faith looked at Bosco. "It's fine; I can answer the question. Yes I do feel that it was my fault that Bosco was hurt, and everything that he had to get through."

"Faith… I don't blame you, I love you." Bosco said, as he grabbed her hand.

"It wasn't for me saving your life; we probably would have never said that we love each other."

Faith smiled. "I guess you are right, but I still feel about everything that you had to go through because of it." Bosco put his arms around her.
"But you were there for me during my recovery. I couldn't have ask for a better person, "he said, as he leaned over and kissed her.

Dr. Thomason looked at them both. "How about we talked about your kidnapping, Bosco?"

Half an hour, Bosco and Faith returned back to his hospital room. Faith helped him into
the bed.

"I don't need help."

"I know you don't need help," Faith said.

"But I like helping you," she said, as she leaned over and kissed him.

"I like you helping me too."

"Don't the two of you ever stop kissing," said a voice. Faith turned around and saw Ty, Sully, Lieu and Sasha standing in the doorway.

"I could say the same thing about you and Sasha." Bosco responded. Ty smiled.

"That's different."

Faith looked at Sully. "So are Bosco and I fired now? We have taken a lot of time off," she said, with a laugh.

"I talked to the Department, and everything is sorted out," Sully said.

"Thanks Sul. It's still weird having you as the boss." Faith said. Sully smiled.
"I know."

Swersky looked at Faith and Bosco. "How do you think I feel not being your boss anymore?"

"Do you miss me?" Bosco said with a smile.

"I never said that." Swersky said.

Bosco smiled. "I know you miss me, you just don't want to admit it. You wish that you didn't retire."

"Of course, Bosco."

Sully then looked at Bosco and Faith. "So we all have decided we are going to go back to New York, seeing that you and Faith are safe." Faith smiled.

"Thanks for all your help, guys; it really means a lot to us."

Ty smiled. "You're like family to us; we would do anything for the two of you and your family."

Sasha then looked at her watch. "We better go if we want to make our flight."

Faith waved goodbye to them. "We see you all later."

"Finally we are alone." Bosco said with a grin, as he leaned over and kissed her.

"Boz, you need to have some rest." Faith spoke softly.

"I've had enough rest to last me forever, I just want to be with you."

"And you will, but you need to have some sleep. I'll be back later. I want to go by and see our kids."

Bosco nodded. "Fine." Faith saw the pout he had on his face.

She smiled. "It's not like I'm not going to be back."

"Well you better be back, I sleep much better with you by my side." Faith waved goodbye to Bosco and then left the room.

A few days later, Susan and Bosco's doctor walked into his room.

"Well Mr. Boscorelli, it looks like you are getting out of this hospital." Bosco's doctor said.

"Finally." Bosco said. "Does that mean that I can go back to New York?"

Susan looked at Bosco. "That is why I'm here. You are still recovering and your doctor thinks that it would be best if you wait a few days before you go back to New York and when I told him that you will be staying at my place, he was more than happy to let you leave."

Bosco smiled. "Thanks Susan."

"But Susan is going to keep an eye on you to make sure that you are recovering nicely, before you go back home"

Susan smiled at Bosco's doctor. "I'll make sure he is recovered before he goes back home."

The doctor's pager went off. "Just sign the forms, and then you can go."

Bosco nodded. "Thanks." Bosco said as the doctor left the room.

Susan looked at Bosco. "Well I'm not finished my shift yet, but I'll be back in a few hours "

"You mean I don't get out of here now." Bosco said.

"If you want to get out of the hospital today you need to wait for me, but if you want to stay here, I can go and tell your doctor that you are staying."

"Its fine; I can wait."

Susan smiled. "I thought you would say that," she said.

"I'll see you later," she said, as she left the room.

A few hours later, Faith and Bosco were waiting for Susan to show up.

"I'm so glad that you are finally getting out of the hospital." Faith said, as she put her arms
around him.

"You're glad? What about me?" Bosco said with a grin, "I just want to get out of here and be with my kids and my lovely wife. How are they doing?"

"They all are doing great." Faith said with a smile. Susan walked in the room.

"Well in about half an hour you can see my kids. I have never seen my house that full before."

"Susan, we can stay at a hotel." Bosco replied.

"Don't be silly, I love having everybody there, and I know Cosmo loves it," Susan said.

"Come on. Let's getting going, but we need to go down to ER first. There are a few people that want to say goodbye. It seems like you are famous. Everybody wants to know how you are doing." Susan said with a smile.

"I told you everybody love me, Faith" Bosco said. Faith laughed.

"But only one of us get to take you home." she said, with a smile. Susan then walked out of the room for a second and came back with a wheelchair.

"I'm not sitting in that."

"You are if you want to leave," Susan said. Bosco looked at Faith.

"Are you going to help me here?"

"No," Faith said, shaking her head.

"I don't have any say in this; this is hospital policy."

"Fine." Bosco said, as he got into the wheelchair, and they all left his hospital room.

Susan wheeled him down to the ER, and walked towards the admitting desk where Sam and Luka were. Sam walked up to Susan.

"So Mr. Boscorelli is finally leaving the hospital, I heard that you have been giving trouble to the nurses."

"Now why would I do that?" Bosco said with a grin.

Sam then knelt down. "But what I heard from the nurses was that you were their favourite, and their worst, at the same time."

Faith smiled. "I wonder why. He can be the most charming person and the most annoying."

"Faith… you do remember that I'm here." Bosco said with a grin.

"I thought you loved me."

Faith smiled and kissed him. "Oh I do."

"I'm glad that your whole family is doing better now," Luka said, when suddenly his pager went off.

Luka then waved goodbye to Bosco and Faith and walked away. Carter and Abby came up to them, holding hands.

"I didn't know that the two of you were together." Faith said. Carter smiled as he looked at Abby.

"We dated before, but then things happened, and we broke up."

"But we both care deeply about each other and I helped John through something these past few weeks, and we decided to give our relationship another chance."

Faith smiled. "I'm happy for you," She then turned to Bosco.

"We broke up a few times, didn't we?"

"But that was when we were just partners." Bosco replied.

"But it hurt the same way, but that doesn't matter as we found our way back to each other, just like John and Abby did."

"Well we should be getting going now," Susan said.

"I'll see you tomorrow." Susan said. She then saw that Bosco had got of his wheelchair.

"What do you think I was going to listen to you?" Bosco said, as he started walking out of the ER with Faith behind.

"I guess not," Susan said, as she followed them.

Susan opened the door to her house, and her, Faith and Bosco walked inside, and walked into the living room. Bosco couldn't believe what he saw, it was a banner that read.

"Welcome home Daddy." He could see that Michelle and Hannah had done some coloring on it. Then the little girls run towards Bosco.

"Daddy!" Bosco smiled at them.

"Daddy is home."

" Daddy.. home." Michelle said, as she held onto Bosco. Bosco looked at Emily and Charlie standing in the corner.

"Are you going to come and give us a hug too?"

"We didn't want to interrupt your time with your kids." Emily said. Bosco looked at Emily and Charlie.

"You're my kids too," he said, as he looked at Faith.

"You can tell them." Faith replied. Bosco had this big smile on his face.

"When we get back to New York, I'm going to be adopting the both of you, even though I see you as my kids already; we are going to make it officially."

Emily and Charlie walked over to Bosco and hugged him.

"That's the best news I have ever heard, you can finally be our dad." Charlie said. Faith and Susan watched Bosco with his kids.

"You are really lucky to have a husband like Bosco who wants to adopt your kids."

Faith smiled. "He has acted like their father for a long time now, we are just making officially."

"What are you doing, just standing there, Ma and Faith. Come give me a hug," Faith and Rose towards Bosco and the rest of them.

Susan smiled at them. The Boscorelli family was finally getting some happiness finally and she couldn't be happier, if anybody deserve it, they did.

To be continued!