Maritza excused herself from the group, and left the room. In the corridor, she hugged her middle. The pain was coming back. Bosco carried her medicine and he was nowhere to be found. Hopefully, Swersky would release him soon, and she could get her meds.

Footsteps approached, and she glanced up. But the person approaching wasn't the one she'd hoped for.

"Sarge!"

"Hey Manny."

"How are you?" Manny asked carefully.

"Okay." Even though all she could think was, 'Where's Bosco?'

"Good, good," He nodded, " There's a buzz going around about you showing up with some guy named Boscorelli."

This time, she nodded, "Yeah, I did."

"Isn't he the guy that took four bullets?"

"Yeah, he did," Maritza wrapped her arms tighter around her middle. It really hurt. She saw Manny's eyes widen, then felt a warm arm slip around her. She leaned back against the owner of the arm.

"Hurts?" He asked quietly. She nodded. He slipped the bottle of pills into her hand," Just take one. Two'll knock you out again."

"Okay," She nodded, and left Bosco's arm, heading for the locker room to take her pill in peace.

Back in the hallway, Manny turned to Bosco, "So you're Boscorelli?"

Bosco nodded, "And you're Manny Santiago."

"How'd you know?" Manny asked curiously.

Bosco gave a cocky, one shouldered shrug, "It's my job to know."

Manny's eyes went wide, his mouth opening slightly into a surprised 'o' shape.

"Just kidding," Bosco laughed, seeing Manny's reaction, " I do my research."

"Research?" the wide eyes narrowed, "Are you IAB?"

"Heck no!" Bosco's eyes were the ones that widened now, "What gave you that idea?"

Just then Brendan approached, "Hey, Bosco!"

Bosco's attention left Manny, and turned to his friend, "Yeah?"

"Everybody's getting pretty jumpy in the roll call room. Ty and them all are waiting for you," Brendan waved the file he held in the roll call room's general direction.

"Alright, I'm going kid," Bosco took a deep breath, and exhaled hard, "Just give me a second?"

Brendan nodded, "I'll tell them you're on the way."

"Thanks."

After Brendan left, Manny muttered, "There's on reason to think your IAB. You're right friendly with Rat Junior."

"Did I hear you right?" Bosco narrowed his eyes, "Are you lowering yourself to petty name calling? I won't have any of that in my house."

"Your house Bos-co?" Manny taunted.

"That's Lieutenant Boscorelli to you," Bosco crossed his arms across his chest, and put on his best, 'Don't mess with me' face. "I don't want to hear you insulting your fellow officers again, even at a second grade level. Understood?"

Slightly dazed, Manny nodded.

"Good," Bosco turned on his heel and walked away. He met Maritza at the corner. He motioned back towards Manny, "So, that's your new star huh?"

For a minute, she didn't know what he was talking about. Then it hit her. She had called Bosco her "star" back when they worked the Noble case. She shook her head,

"No, no new star. Do you remember all the trouble the last one was?"

Chuckling, he took her hand in his, and intertwined their fingers, "Come on. Brendan says everybody's getting jumpy in the roll call room."

Maritza nodded, "He's right." Then, something puzzled her, "How do you know Finney?"

Bosco looked down at his gun, then over at her, "I taught him to shoot."

Sorry, sorry, sorry I took soooo longtp post this.