AUTHOR: trista groulx (the dustytiger)
DISCLAIMER: kim, faith, fred, joey, bobby, jimmy, bosco, davis, sully, none of these characters not are mine, i'm just borowing them to play with them for a little while, they belong to their creator and the actors and actresses who portray them, i promise i'll be gentle, don't sue
RATING: PG-13 tops currently
CONTENT: kim/faith friendship, fred/faith , kim/bobby ? SPOILERS: 32 bullets and a broken heart (missing scene/continuation)
SUMMARY: Kim and Faith become friends after they share their heartaches that Valintines day.
AUTHORS NOTES: i kind of like this part, kim and faith spending time with their kids, still bonding before hand, pls tell me what you think hehe... i've got some drama coming and i really hope you like it... pls stayed tuned and tell me if you're digging this fic i love to hear it!
Later that evening Kim and Faith decided to go visit Bri, and her daughter together. When they entered the room, the teenager didn't seem recognize them. Then Kim said hi, and she recognized the voice.
"Oh, it's you," she said. "You look different."
"It's amazing what a change of clothes can do," Faith laughed. "How are you feeling?"
"Still sore."
"Yeah, you will be for a few days," Kim explained. "How's your daughter?"
"She's good. The doctors said that whatever you did when she wasn't breathing probably saved her life."
Kim smiled. "I was just doing my job."
"What did you name her?" Faith asked.
"I named her after the lady that saved her life, Kim."
Kim blushed. "You didn't have to do that."
"I wanted to. And her middle name is Faith, after you, officer."
Faith smiled. "That was really nice of you."
"You were both so good to me today, it's the only way I could think to thank you."
"You did the hard part, Bri," Kim reminded her.
"But I wouldn't have known what to had you not helped."
A nurse came in, holding the baby. "Who are you visitors?" the nurse asked.
"The people who delivered her, Kim and Faith," Bri told her. "Can you let them hold her?"
"Of course."
The nurse carefully gave the baby to Faith, then left the room. Faith just about melted holding the baby. Her mind was filled with thoughts of her own kids when they were that age. For that moment all her problems disappeared.
"She's beautiful," Faith whispered.
"I can't believe she was really inside of me," Bri said.
"I felt that way when my daughter was born. I just looked at her and wondered how could have possibly made her."
"How old are your kids?"
"My daughter is ten, and my son is eight."
She seemed to mature for her age, Faith thought to herself. She still thought of he own children as babies sometimes. Seeing Bri in the hospital bed made her remember that Emily was only five years younger.
How could her little girl be transformed from what she was, a little girl, to a young woman like she was talking to in only five years? She couldn't wrap her brain around it, and it worried her, a lot.
"You want to hold her?" Faith asked Kim.
"Yeah," she replied.
Faith gave the baby to Kim. She smiled at the baby. She, too let her mind wonder to when her son was that age. He was growing up too fast, she thought, as she looked at the newborn in her arms.
"It's been so long since I've held a new born," Kim laughed. "This almost makes me want to have another one."
"Really?" asked Bri.
"Yeah, my son's six now I don't get to cuddle him anymore."
"They grow up so fast," Faith sighed.
"My parents have been saying that a lot of late," Bri laughed.
"I would imagine. If my daughter was pregnant I know I'd be saying that."
"I was gonna give her up for adoption at first. But then I started feeling her moving around inside me, and I couldn't even think about it anymore. It's gonna be hard but I'm gonna be a good mom."
Kim was still holding the baby, who started to fuss a little.
"I think someone wants to go see Mommy," Kim said.
She then gave the baby to Bri. Who smiled at her, still not believing it was all real. A doctor came into the room.
"Who are your visitors?" he asked.
"Her namesakes, Kim and Faith," Bri replied.
"Which one of you is Kim?"
"I am," Kim said, unsure of herself.
"I have to tell you, if you ever wanted to be a doctor instead, you should seriously consider delivering babies. It had to take some quick thinking in the middle of street to start the baby breathing."
Kim blushed. "I just did what I thought would work best under the circumstances."
"You did an excellent job, I must say."
"Thank you."
"How are you feeling, Bri?" he asked his patient.
"I'm feeling all right."
"It's almost time for another feeding, so I'll send the first nurse who is free to help you out, all right?"
"All right, thank you."
The doctor, smiled, then left the room.
"Was it weird?" Bri asked them.
"What?" asked Faith.
"When you started nursing?"
"Very weird," Faith laughed.
"Yeah, at first it was so strange, but you get used to it," Kim assured her. "But we should probably go if you have to feed her."
"All right, thank you so much for stopping by," said the teenager.
"No problem, we'll see you later," said Faith.
"All right, bye!"
"Bye," said Kim.
The two women left the room. Then looked at each other.
"Coffee?" Kim offered.
"I think that would be a good idea."
They went down to the hospital cafeteria for a coffee.
"I've never wanted to get home to my kids so much," Faith said, sitting down across from her friend.
"I know, I just want to go home and watch my son for a few hours before I can't anymore."
"Have you ever had to deliver a baby before?"
She shook her head. "Today was defiantly a first, and hopefully a last."
She laughed. "Why a last?"
"Cause if I see too much of that I'll never give my son that little brother or sister he keeps asking for."
"Have you told him you need to find a daddy first?"
Kim laughed. "He think that his own daddy will do just fine."
"He still wants you two back together?"
"Some days he does. So how as your first day as a medic?"
"I wouldn't want to do that again. I really don't know how you do it."
"Do what?"
"That baby wasn't breathing, you had to think fast, and do the right thing to save it. I could never keep calm under those circumstances."
"I was a nervous wreck, but I couldn't let the patient know it. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I wanted to hang it upside down and smack it like in old TV shows." Kim laughed.
"What did you do?"
"Just a quick baby Heimlich, it's the only thing I could think that might be safe. You just learn to do what you have to do to save a life. Besides, I could never do your job."
Faith shrugged. "I guess it's just a matter of what you chose?"
"Pretty much. I hate to cut this short, but I'd really like to get home to my little boy."
"Yeah, I'm kind of excited to see my two as well."
"See you tomorrow?"
"Yeah."
They both got up, and gave each other a hug, then headed to their respective homes.
Kim stopped by her mother's to pick up her son.
"Bobby's not with you tonight?" Catherine asked her daughter.
"I wanted to stop by the hospital and check on someone," Kim replied.
"And he didn't go with you?"
She shrugged. "Not really a guy thing."
Catherine looked at her daughter quizzically. "Did you two have another fight?"
"No, nothing like that! I promise, Mom. We're still trying to figure out where we want this to go."
She nodded, knowing her daughter didn't want to talk about her partner.. "So, how was your day?".
"All right," she replied. "I delivered a baby today."
"Really?"
"Yeah, got on the scene of an accident, where the traffic wasn't moving and in one of the cars there was a fifteen year old in labour."
"Fifteen years old?"
"I know, I couldn't even imagine having a child that young, but she did. She says she's going to keep it too."
"Wow. Why did you have to deliver it?"
"The girl's father wouldn't let any of the guys near her. I had to ask Faith to help me, comfort the girl."
"Who's Faith?"
"One of the officers from across the street, we're friends."
"I see."
"There was no way to get her to the hospital, so I had to do it. It was unreal, Mom. Then when she had it, the baby wasn't crying, so I had to get her breathing. I actually did all, right there in the car! It was amazing!"
Catherine laughed. "Thinking of a career change?"
She laughed. "No, I would be very happy if today was the first and last time I had to do that. I'd never have another one if I had to see that on daily basis."
"Was it a boy or a girl?"
"Girl, she named it after me."
"Really?"
Kim nodded. Then she heard stomping coming from the other room. Joey came running up to her, and hugged her leg.
"Mommy!" he exclaimed.
She picked him up and kissed him on the cheek. "Are you all ready to go home?"
"Yeah! Is Bobby here tonight?"
"No, not tonight sweetheart."
"All right." He looked upset.
"Do you like it when Bobby's around?" Catherine asked her grandson.
"Yeah," he admitted. "I like Bobby a lot!"
"What would you do if your mommy and Bobby got married?"
Kim shot her mother a nasty look. She had not told Joey that she was seeing Bobby yet. He thought they were still friends like always.
"Bobby and Mommy can't get married," Joey told his grandmother.
"Why not?"
"Cause Mommy's gonna marry Daddy again."
Kim sighed. "Joey, we've talked about this before."
He looked up at her. "But I want you to get married again."
"I know you do, sweetie, but it's better this way, one day you'll understand."
He looked a little dejected. "All right."
"I'll see you later, Mom," she said hugging her mother.
"See you tomorrow Grandma, love you!" said Joey.
"Love you, too." Catherine told him giving him a hug.
Kim took Joey's hand, and they got into the awaiting cab. Joey looked upset.
"Are you mad that daddy and me aren't going to get married again?" she asked him.
"I don't understand why you can't be married anymore."
"Joey, do you remember how much we used to fight?"
He nodded. "You still do."
"I know, but at least this way you don't have to hear it all the time."
"But at school," he said.
"I know they tell you it's a sin at school. I wish I could find a way to explain everything to you, but I don't know how just yet. Once you get older you'll understand, I promise."
"Why do I have to wait till I'm bigger to find out everything?"
"Cause right now all you need to know is that your daddy and me think that us not being married is the best thing for us, and for you." He hugged him, kissing him on the forehead. "I'll tell you what, Bobby and me have to tell you something. On my next day off we'll treat you like a big boy, and we'll bring you out for supper and everything to tell you what's going on, all right?"
He smiled. "All right. You and Bobby aren't getting married are you?"
She laughed. "No, honey that's not what we're going to tell you."
Now she just needed to tell Bobby what she had told him. She knew he would have no problem with it. She was actually kind of excited to tell him that they were going out. She knew that if he was going accept anyone it would be Bobby.
XX
When Faith got home, no one else was up. Not even her husband. He was in the bedroom, which annoyed her a little bit. But at that moment she didn't care. She looked into the kid's room. She kissed Charlie on the forehead, then kissed Emily's forehead.
"Mommy?" Emily asked.
"Did I wake you?" she asked.
"No, I was trying to stay awake to tell you something."
"What did you want to tell me?"
"I got my test back, the one you helped me study for, and I got an "A." Thank you for all your help."
Faith smiled. "No problem, Em, that's my job."
Faith looked at her daughter, and wondered how it was that she'd be transformed into a young woman in only five years. In Faith's eyes she was still a little girl who needed help with so much. Five years was not a long time for her to change that much. She just hoped that she and Fred had taught her enough not to get in that kind of trouble.
"Mommy, is something wrong?" Emily asked.
"No, Emily, nothing's wrong. Just something I saw today, made me think. How about we get some hot chocolate in the kitchen so we don't wake up your brother?"
Hot chocolate when she got home from work was something they shared on a regular basis, and it was one of the ways she knew her daughter so well.
She smiled. "All right."
Emily climbed out of bed, and followed her mother to the kitchen. Emily loved hot chocolate nights with her mother. It was the only time she got her mother all to herself, and she wouldn't trade it for anything.
Faith made two mugs of hot chocolate, adding extra mini marshmallows to one. She gave the one with marshmallows to her daughter, who had sat down at the table.
"Emily, promise me you'll tell me when you start noticing boys, all right?" she asked, sitting down across from her daughter.
"I notice 'em, all right!" laughed Emily. "They're all buttheads."
"When you don't feel like that about them anymore, I want you to tell me right away, all right? Can you promise me that?"
"I don't think that I will, but okay, Mom, I promise."
"Thank you, Emily."
"Why are you worried about me and boys?"
"Just something I saw at work today. Just made me realize that you're not a kid anymore, and that you're going to be a teenager before I know it."
"I am aren't I?" Emily asked, smiling.
Faith nodded. "You are, you're growing faster then I'd like you to, Em."
"Not fast enough!"
"Why do you say that?"
Emily shrugged. "Just some of the older girls at school have been bugging me."
"Why?"
"Cause of some of my clothes, and because I have to keep an eye out for Charlie."
"What's wrong with your clothes?"
"They said they're babyish."
"Do you think they are?"
"No."
"Do your friends think they are?"
"Of course not! They wear the same kinds of clothes!" Emily laughed.
"Then what's the problem?"
Emily smiled. "I guess you're right. I just don't like it when they tease me."
"No one does, Emily, but some people like hurting other people."
"What about Charlie?"
"You know, no one's been asking you to keep and eye out for Charlie anymore. We just wanted you to help him when school was new to him. I think he can probably find his way around by himself now."
"Really?"
Faith nodded. "You've done a good job helping out until now, maybe we can try letting him find his own way around now. You always meet at the sitter, or your father at the same place after school, right?"
"Yeah."
"All right, good. So tomorrow why don't you ask Charlie if he thinks he's big enough to find his way back there by himself after school?"
"That might work!"
"So, if he thinks he is, then that's the problem solved, right?"
"Right."
"Try not to listen to what the older girls have to say. If you like your clothes then that's all that matters, right?"
"Yeah." She was playing with her mug. "So am I really gonna start looking at boys different soon?"
"Probably."
"Will they grow up and stop being buttheads?"
Faith laughed. "Probably not."
"Then why would I be interested in them?"
"It's just something that happens when you grow up. It's hard to explain."
Emily laughed. "I do promise that you'll be the first one to know if I like a boy."
"I hope you don't change your mind when it happens."
"Why are you so worried about me and boys all of a sudden?"
Faith shook her head. "Just something I saw at work today."
"What did you see today?"
"I was at the scene of an accident and a fifteen year old girl had a baby."
"Really? That's really young to have a baby."
"I know, only five years older then you are."
She laughed. "Don't worry about me, Mom, I don't want to ever have a baby."
Faith laughed. "You might change your mind."
"I doubt it, Mom. After Daddy told me where babies came from I don't think I ever want to do that."
Faith was a little annoyed the Fred had told their daughter where babies came from without her one day. He hadn't gotten into the whole puberty thing, but Emily had refused to believe in the stork, and wouldn't relent until he told her where babies really came from.
"Sometimes mistakes can happen, Emily," Faith told her daughter. "If you decide you can't talk to me, remember that, mistake happen, so be careful."
"I will, I promise."
"Good," Faith smiled.
"I would really like to keep talking to you, but I'm really tired. Goodnight, Mom."
"Good night Emily," she said.
She stopped at the door to her room. "I love you, Mom."
"I love you to, Emily."
She curled up on the couch, but had trouble falling asleep. The day had been long, and she had seen more then she would have liked to have. She knew that she'd regret not making Fred give up the bed in the morning, but at that moment she couldn't deal with him.
XX
A few minutes later she got up, and went to the doorway of the kid's room. She just watched as they slept. She smiled, thinking about all the good times they had had together. After a long moment, she went back to the couch, and fell asleep only moments later, happy thoughts of her children filling her mind.
At Kim's they were just getting ready for bed. Joey was in his fire engine pajamas, and Kim was wearing a long night shirt.
"What story do you want?" she asked him.
"The three bears," he replied.
She went to his shelf, and got the book. She then got into the bed with him. He curled up next to her, on her stomach, so that he was laying down, but could still see the pictures.
"Once upon a time there were three bears…" Kim started.
She got a few pages in, and she noticed that his breath had slowed and he had fallen asleep. She kissed him lightly on the forehead, savoring the moment with him. She knew that before long she wouldn't be able to do this.
She closed the book, and placed it carefully on the floor next to the bed, having nowhere else to put it. She didn't want to wake him again, fearing that he might not get back to sleep.
She knew that if she stayed there the night her back would be sore in the morning, but the pain the next day would be worth it to be able to spend a little more time with her son. All and all it wasn't the worst place to be spending the night.
She was glad to be so close to her son. She felt like she didn't spend enough time with him. She knew that she had to work all the hours so that he'd have a roof over his head, and food in his stomach. Even so she felt like she was missing out on a lot of quality time with him.
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end notes: i was gonna have something else, but i bumped it tot he next part, i thought some interation with their kids would be really approprite (i think i may of goofed on ages) anyway, tell me what you think about this fic, i really like to hear it, more drama coming soon you'll see!