AUTHOR: trista groulx (the dustytiger)
DISCLAIMER: kim, faith, fred, joey, bobby, jimmy, bosco, davis, sully, none of these characters 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 divorce, kim/bobby r, faith/bosco sex/ust
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 know i'm skipping a tiny bit, but whatever, girl's night! woot, and does kim have surprises up her sleeve you'll see, reviews are always welcome i love to hear what 'ya think
Kim, Faith, and Alex were all sitting at a local bar. They had decided some time ago that they needed a girl's night out. Somehow they had all managed to get the same day off that week, so they decided that it was fate, and that they had to go out.
They were all off the next day, and had agreed to meet at a bar, of Kim's choosing, after they had all gotten off shift.
Bobby was watching Joey for the night, and Bosco had agreed to take Faith's kids overnight. Even with him doing that Faith was in denial that Bosco was falling for her, and that she was falling for him.
Alex and Faith each had a beer in front of them, while Kim was drinking a diet cola. Since she couldn't drink too much since her operation, she had agreed to designated driver for the night.
They were there mostly to see if Faith was ready to date again, or if she was still not ready since Fred had left. Alex was also hoping to pick up the night. While Kim was happy making wedding plans with her fiancé when they were home.
"So if you could mess around with anyone either at the firehouse, or at the station house, consequence free, who would you go for?" Kim asked Alex.
"If I only had to go by looks, I'd have to pick your very yummy fiancé," Alex replied, she remembered how disappointed she had been when he had told her he was engaged. "But he's too much of a good boy for me. Jimmy's pretty easy on the eyes, but I think a little too wild. I think I'd have to go with that cop, Davis, he is absolutely gorgeous and he seems to a good balance of good to bad."
"Ty?" Faith asked. "I'd do him. He's a good guy, but he's got quiet the wild side too, I agree he's a damn good choice."
"Yeah, he is defiantly fuckable," Kim laughed.
"What about you, Kim, other then the two you've already been involved with who would you pick?" Alex asked.
Kim thought for a moment. "I'm pretty committed to Bobby, but if something were to happen, and that didn't work out, and he was still available, I'd have to go with Bosco."
"Really?" asked Faith, surprised.
"Just for some casual fun, I'd totally go for him. I've always thought he'd be kind of fun to mess around with. Of course, you can't really talk now can you, Faith?"
Faith shook her head. "I can't believe what I'm hearing."
"I haven't actually DONE anything with him," Kim reminded her friend. "He's easy on the eyes, and has in the past done the one night stand thing. He'd be a good no strings attached kind of night. I've heard he's not too bad, so if he was available, I'd do him, and not look back when I was done."
Faith laughed. "I really have to stop telling you things."
"You've messed around with your partner?" Alex asked, almost shocked.
"All of once! It didn't mean anything!" Faith exclaimed.
"So you just randomly one night decided to jump into bed with him, and then the next morning you decided you should just be friends?"
"Something like, that. I was upset, one thing lead to another, we ended up sleeping together. He told me that he'd be fine with it being a one night stand, I left that's all it was."
"Isn't it strange being friends with him now?"
"Not really, it was one night, it didn't mean anything."
"Sure it didn't," laughed Kim. "You're not falling in love with him either are you?"
"You sure you're not putting rum in there when we're not looking?" Faith wanted to changed the subject.
"Quit changing the subject!" Kim laughed. "I want to know more about this Bosco thing. I'll get it out of you if have to pay for all the alcohol myself."
"So, Faith, if you had to chose anyone, your delectable partner included to have your way with, who would you chose?" Alex asked her, knowing that if she didn't ask then she may never get the chance.
Faith looked at the floor. "I don't really know."
"Come on! We both answered!" Alex protested.
"All right, if I had to chose anyone at either house, I'd have to go with Bos, but that doesn't mean a thing!"
"Sure, sure, you keep living in denial," Kim laughed.
"Yeah, just get it over with, just jump him and have pig wild monkey sex with him, again, I guess," Alex added.
Faith shook her head. "It's not that easy."
"Sure it is, what are you so afraid of?"
"He's my best friend, I just don't want to fuck that up if I'm not ready to date again."
Alex laughed. "I guess that makes sense. I'm not sure that I could keep my hands off of him after being him once."
Faith shrugged. "I've always been able to, accept that that one night. I was upset, and I needed to feel like someone cared about me. I don't want to say it was a mistake, cause it wasn't. But after my husband left, it just didn't feel right at first. Then Bosco started taking the kids one day a week, so that they'd have some kind of male role model in their lives, and that just complicated things further."
"What?"
"Bosco's been around since my kids were born. They've always had him around. I don't want to do anything that would take the only other guy they've ever cared about away from them, you know."
"Yeah, that's really logical, it wouldn't be good if their father, and whatever Bosco is to them just leaves without ever looking back."
"He's like their big brother, really, and now he's like their second father. They want me to marry Bosco, but I have to be sure that it's what both of us want before I go for it. I don't want my kids to go through losing him too."
Alex nodded. "That must be rough. Maybe I'm selfish but I can't imagine not putting myself first."
Kim broke her silence, saying, "everything changes when you have a kid. It's not even really a conscience thought process, you have this life that you're responsible for, and you know that it has to come first."
Faith nodded. "Yeah, I always thought that people were crazy when they'd say stuff like that, but then I had Emily, and everything just changed."
Alex laughed. "I've never been much of a nurturer, though. I doubt I'll have kids, just in case the instincts don't kick in."
Kim laughed. "I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't have a clue with their own kid."
"Me either," Faith admitted.
"Although before I can think of that I should find me a man!"
"I'll drink to that!" Faith exclaimed, raising her glass.
Kim felt a tap on her shoulder, and she turned around, to see a pretty good looking guy standing behind her, grinning stupidly.
"Excuse me," he asked. "Do I know you?"
"No, I don't think so," Kim replied, politely.
It was very possible that she had seen him at some point, or that she had even saved his life, but she didn't think she had.
"Oh, I just thought you were the girl of my dreams."
Kim shook her head, she couldn't believe the pick up line he had used.
"While that's, uh, flattering," she said, faking a smile. "I'm not sure that my fiancé would like it if I fulfilled your dreams." She showed him her engagement ring.
"Oh, uh, sorry then," he stammered, turning many shades of red, before he turned around to join a group of guys who were laughing their asses off at him.
"Okay, then," Alex laughed.
"Have you ever heard such a lame pick up line?" Kim asked.
"I've never heard that one."
"The worst I ever got was before I met Fred, I was out dancing. This guy came up behind me, and put the tag back in my shirt, and then asked if it said angel on it," Faith laughed.
"Oh my god really?" Alex laughed.
"What did you tell him?" Kim asked.
"Probably to go screw himself sideways, I'm not really sure." Faith looked at the empty bottle in front of her. "Where the hell did my beer go?"
Kim laughed. "I'd have to go with, you drank it, officer."
Faith laughed. "This was a really good idea."
"It'd be better if the guys weren't hitting on the one who's engaged," Alex laughed.
"One guy, relax. So back to the Bosco thing."
"How about not?"
Kim smiled. "Come on Faith."
"No, you know what my feelings are on that subject."
"I think you should just go for it," Alex said.
"You don't even know him."
"I don't have to know him, or you for that matter, very well, to see that you two are crazy about each other."
Faith shrugged. "You've been conspiring with Kim."
"No, actually, I haven't. It's just the way you look at each other sometimes. And the way you look when you say his name."
"What are you talking about?"
"When you talk about him, you look just as goofy as miss bride to be over there does when she talks about her Prince Charming."
"I do not!"
"How do you know? Is there a mirror in front of you that no one else can see, so you know exactly what your eyes look like and your facial expression is when you talk about him?"
Faith blushed. "All right, all right I see your point. But that doesn't mean that I'm ready for what Kim has."
Kim smiled. "We're not asking you to marry the man in a few months. We're asking you to give a relationship with the man a try."
"What's the worst that can happen?"
Faith looked over Alex, as she replied. "The worst that could happen? I could try this, and have it not work out. I will lose my best friend, and my kids will lose the only male role model they have left."
Alex nodded. "All right, and what's the best that could happen?"
"The white knight comes on his white horse, whisks you off your feet, marries you, and you live happily ever after," Kim decided to answer.
"And what really happens will be somewhere in the middle. The guy obviously feels very strongly for you if he agreed to take your kids overnight."
"Especially since he didn't really have to. You au pair could have watched them until you got home."
"Katri had plans, I didn't want to make her cancel them."
"But you could have asked her to, and she would have."
"All right, I hear you loud and clear. But I'm a big girl and I can decide who and what I want when I'm good and ready."
"We know that, we're just trying to nudge you in the right direction," Alex laughed.
By this time the waitress had been by with the fourth round of drinks, Faith was beginning to feel the effects of the alcohol, mostly because it had been so long since had actually had a drink.
Alex was just getting past the feeling sleepy part, and knew it would be one more drink at least before she really started to feel the alcohol.
"Oh my god!" exclaimed Faith. "I love this song! We have to dance to it!"
She shot up, grabbing Kim's hand, hardly waiting for her new friend to catch up. Alex followed her friend over to the empty dance floor. They all began to dance to the music, although Kim didn't have anything in her, but she was having fun pretending that she was a little tipsy.
As Faith danced, Kim noticed a man coming toward her. Kim motioned for Faith to look behind her. When she did she was pleased by what she saw. She went over to the guy, who was looking a little shy.
Soon the two of them were dancing, leaving Kim and Alex left their friend to dance with the guy.
"I thought she said she wasn't ready to date," Kim laughed.
"She looks pretty damn comfortable with him," Alex replied.
Faith stayed on the dance floor with the guy for a couple of songs, and moved when something they didn't like, and couldn't figure out how to dance to came on.
Faith was still flirting with the guy she had danced with. Half way though the song she was back at the table.
"He gave me his number," Faith informed them.
"And?" Kim asked.
"I don't know."
"Did you tell him that you had a great time, but you probably won't call because you're madly in love with your partner?"
Faith shook her head. "I'm not madly in love with Bos!"
"All right then."
"I'm not!"
"But you are ready to date, cause you seemed awfully comfortable flirting with him," Alex had to add.
"Thanks," Faith muttered, glad when the waitress brought another round over.
"Faith, we just want you to be happy," Kim assured her friend.
"I am happy."
"But I'd bet you'd be happier if you had someone to go home to."
Faith shrugged. "I don't know."
"Then what's stopping you from using that number?" Alex asked.
Faith went silent, she knew exactly what, or rather who was stopping her, but she didn't want them to know. She knew that she been falling for her partner for a long time, she just didn't want to admit it.
Bosco had been amazing with her, and the kids since Fred had left, and she did want to try something more with him, but she was terrified of screwing up what they had together.
"Your silence says it all," laughed Kim.
"I do care about Bosco, and just cause I'm flirting with a random stranger doesn't mean that I'm really ready to get into a relationship with him."
"You make things way too complicated, you know that?" Alex asked her new friend.
"What do you mean?"
"You just seem to be over thinking this whole thing with your partner. If you really do care about him then, everything should work out the way it should, I think."
Faith shrugged. "I really don't know if I agree with that."
"My new philosophy is life's too short to really sweat the small stuff," Kim said.
"It's just, that, I don't want to screw anything up for my kids."
"Is that really all it is? Or are you afraid of something else."
Faith shrugged. "I care about Bosco, I don't want to lose him. I won't just jump into a relationship with when I'm not sure I'm ready make things worse?"
"They could, I guess, but he may also get sick of waiting around for you to realize he's a good guy, and you'll lose him for good."
"I really don't know what I want to do. I care about him, all right. I want to see what happens, but, it's Bosco. I know what he's like."
"I really think it's in the past," Kim said. "He hasn't been with anyone since he was with you."
"I guess, but look at what happened with you and Jimmy."
"Bosco may have been a little like Jimmy, before, but I honestly don't think that he is any more. He's grown up he really cares for you."
Faith shrugged. "I just, I still don't know."
"The fact that he takes your kids on his day off, every single week has to tell you something. The old Bosco would have never done anything like that. His days off were precious to him, so that he could find unsuspecting victims to bring home, have his way with, and then never call again."
"I know all of this, but."
"He's not doing that anymore, there has to be reason for that. The first thing that pops into my is cause he's busy with you, and your kids. The fact that he has waited this long for you to figure out what you want, just goes to further prove how much he cares about you."
"Bosco was like Jimmy?" Alex asked, almost shocked. "I find that hard to believe. He can be a little tough, but I'd never peg him as a womanizer."
"That should tell you something right there," Kim told her friend.
"But, it's Bos, I just- I don't know."
"Just tell me the first thing you feel when you think of him," Alex said.
"What?"
"Don't over think it, just a word association kind of thing. What's the first thing that pops into your head when I say Bosco."
"God, I love him," Faith heard herself saying, hardly believing she had actually said it.
"See?" Kim said.
"It doesn't mean that I should actually just go for it, though."
"Life's too short to over think things. If you love him, you should be with him."
"What if?"
"He worships the ground you walk on, he would never do what Fred did, not in a million years."
Faith shrugged. "I just don't know. This whole thing with Fred made realize that sometimes things aren't as they appear."
"And the whole thing with Jimmy didn't make me a little gun shy?" Kim asked.
"You don't seem to have a problem with Bobby, you two are nauseatingly in love," Alex laughed.
"We are now, but after I spent that night with him, and he told me he loved me," Kim remembered.
"You ran like a cheetah away from him," Faith recalled.
"And you talked me into getting over my fears, and I did, and look at where we ended up."
"Bosco's no Bobby."
"For you, I think he very well could be."
"I doubt that somehow."
"Who would have believed a year ago that Bosco would actually take your kids, and bring them out every single week on his day off? If we went back in time and told the you from a year ago, you'd fall over laughing."
"I guess so."
"So who's to say he can't be great for you?"
"Was he really that bad?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, he certainly liked his women," Faith replied. "His bedroom had a revolving door on it he had so many women in there."
Alex laughed. "I so don't see that. He just seems to committed to you. It's not even just your friendship, it's like he's already married to you, almost."
"Really?"
"Why would I lie about that?"
"You have a point there. Are you sure you're not plotting something with Kim?"
"All we plotted was to get you out, if there's anything else up her sleeve, I don't know what the hell it is. I'm just telling you what I've seen since I was here."
Kim smiled. "Bobby actually helped me with the second half of my plot," Kim informed her.
"And what might that be?"
"It just walked through the door."
Faith looked toward the door of the bar, and was shocked to see Bosco walking in.
"Where are my kids then?" she asked.
"At my place. Joey and Charlie have been bugging for a sleepover for a while now. Since there's no school tomorrow, I figured it wouldn't be too big of a deal. Emily is set up on my couch, with her books and movies, and is apparently really happy."
"Oh, why'd you let me drink so much?" Faith asked.
"To prove to you just how much he cares about you. As soon as he found out about this girl's night he's been worried that no one would take care of you properly if you drank too much. So, I killed two birds with one stone."
"I can't believe you did all this."
"So whenever you're ready you just go over there, and tell him you're ready to go, and he'll take you wherever you want to go."
The waitress came back. "That's him?" she asked, Kim.
"Yeah, whatever he wants put it on my tab," Kim answered.
"Wait a minute, you know the bartender?"
Kim smiled at her friends. "This is my sister, Melanie. You didn't think it was strange that she knew to just coming back?"
"A little," Alex admitted.
"You didn't get that guy to dance with me did you?"
"No, he did that all on his own," Kim assured her friend.
"I can't believe that you went to this much trouble!"
Kim smiled. "So this is my sister, and she's my other bridesmaid. Mel, I'd like you to meet, Alex, and Faith."
"I've been trying to guess who was who all night," Melanie laughed, she glanced at the bar. "Wow, girl, I don't know how you've kept your paws off of him for a whole year! He is one good looking man!"
Faith laughed. "It's a long story."
"I'll have to join you on one of these girls nights, and get the full story," she laughed. "I should get back to work, though. I'm sure your friend wants a soda or something."
The women continued to drink, and had a couple more rounds, before Faith felt a little overwhelmed by the amount that she had had. She didn't drink often, but she did she made sure she got her money's worth.
When she went to get up she could barely stand up, and they had to call Bosco over to help her out of the bar. Alex wasn't fairing much better. She could stand up, but as soon as movement was added, her legs got wobbly. As Bosco helped Faith to his car, Kim was helping Alex to her own.
The two cars went in opposite directions, and Kim brought Alex home, on her way to her own apartment, and hoped that her plan with Faith would not backfire.
She had not expected Faith to drink that much, and was worried that everything she had planned would be lost in a drunken haze. She did trust Bosco not to screw things up though, and she just hoped that she was right.
When she got home, all of the lights were off. Emily was sleeping on the couch. She pulled the blanket over the child as it was a little chilly in the apartment. She went into Joey's room, to peak on the boys. The two of them were in sleeping bags on the floor. His fire trucks, and police cars were on the bed, waiting for them the next morning. She smiled, watching her son sleep for a long moment.
Suddenly she felt two strong arms snake around her waist. She was startled, but soon settled into the embrace. She was glad to be home.
"How did it go tonight?" Bobby asked her.
"It went well, but I'll know the rest in the morning," she replied, taking his hand, and going into their bedroom.
"That makes sense, then. Ready for bed?"
"Yeah, it's been a long day, I have almost no energy left."
She quickly slipped on one of Bobby's FDNY T-shirts, and then slipped into bed. She fell asleep almost immediately, hardly able to keep her eyes open.
tbc...
end notes: tehehe i told you kim had some stuff up her sleees, evil laugh hope you all like this one, i bet you're salavatign to see what happens with bos/faith huh? reviews pls? they make me giddy!