Too Soon

Chapter 4

Bosco looked at the little girl standing in front of him; she was all dirty and looked like she had been out all on her own for the past weeks.

"How long have you been hiding in the bushes?"

"I wasn't hiding," Amanda replied, looking at Bosco with a scared look on her face.

"I want my mommy and daddy."

"I know you do." Bosco responded, "How about I take you to the police station and we find where your parents are."

"My mom told me to never get in car with a stranger," Amanda said.

Bosco smiled.

"That's right." How stupid, can you be? A little girl isn't going to go in a car with a man
she doesn't know, Bosco thought to himself.

"I need to go now," Amanda replied, as she started to walk away from Bosco.

"I have to get home." Bosco looked at the little girl; he could see that she has been through a
lot.

"Amanda, don't go. I'm here to help you; I'm just going to call some friends. You just wait here for me. Okay."

She nodded.

Bosco then dialed a number. "I need your help."

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Bosco walked over to Amanda, and sat down next to her on the curb.

"How long have you been on your own?" She looked at him.

"Are you really a police officer? Do you fight bad guys?"

"Yes I am a police officer. I guess you could say I fight bad guys." Bosco said, with a slight smile. Even though I can't catch all the bad guys, he thought to himself. Amanda looked at Bosco.

"Are you married? Do you have kids?" Amanda questioned him. But before he could say anything, a police car showed up. Bosco and Amanda stood up. Faith walked out of the car.

"What did you do this time, Bosco?" Faith asked, as she walked up to him.

Bosco smiled at Faith. "Faith, I would like you to meet a friend of mine. This is Amanda."

Faith smiled at the little girl. "Nice to meet you."

"You are a cop. Just like him." Amanda replied, as she looked at Bosco.

"Is he your partner?"

Faith smiled. "Do you want to go and sit in the police car?"

Amanda nodded."I always wanted to ride in one. I'm going to be a cop when I'm older," Amanda replied, as she ran to the police car.

Faith glanced at Bosco.

"So who is she? Don't tell me she is your daughter that you never knew about."

"Of course not, Faith. I was coming out of my apartment and she was hiding the bushes. She said something about her parents being gone. I think she has been by herself for a while."

"I was going to take her myself, but she wouldn't ride with me. At least her parents teach her something. Why doesn't anybody know she is missing?"

"Didn't you say that she said her parents are gone?" Faith questioned.

"Yes, but I don't know if that is true, or if that is just what she has been told," Bosco replied.

"She said something about the bad man, but I don't really know anything else."

Faith nodded. "I'm sure we'll figure something out. Do you want to ride in the police car with me or take your car?"

"I'll come in the police car," Bosco said, as he got into the passenger seat.

"We'll going to take you to the police station and you are going to talk to someone people about what happened to you." Faith replied.

"No!" she screamed. She openned the door and ran out. Bosco ran after her.

"Amanda!" he shouted. He always hated seeing a kid hurt, even if she wasn't hurt physically, he was sure that she was emotionally.

She looked at him, scared. "I'm not going."

Bosco sat down on the curb, next to her.

"I know you are afraid about talking about what happened. I know how you feel."

She looked at him. "Your parents were hurt…"

He didn't like talking about what happened to him, but he didn't know what else to say.

"You see this bandage," he said, as he turned his face, so she could see it.

"You got hurt."

Bosco nodded. "Yes I got hurt. I don't like to talk about it, it makes me remember the day that I got hurt and I don't like to think about that day. Is that is how you feel?"

She nodded.

"It's scary." she said, as she put her head on Bosco's knees.

"I don't want to talk about it."

He looked at her. "I'll make you a deal. You go to the police station and tell us about your parents, and you can ask me anything about what happened to me?" Amanda smiled.

"Deal."

She then grabbed a hold of Bosco's hand. She looked at him. "Can I ask you question now?"

"Sure," Bosco said, as they walked back to the squad car.

"Did it hurt?"

(((

Bosco was watching Faith and Jelly talking to Amanda. He just hoped that that they were able to get some information out of her.

Is it not over

Bosco remember what Mikey told him earlier.

"Is this what you mean, when you said it was over. Is this who I suppose to save? But how do I save this little girl?" Bosco mumbled to himself. Lieu then walked up to him.

"You know you are really late for roll call today." Bosco turned to see Swersky standing in front of him.

"I'm sorry, boss, but this little kid needed my help."

"And you decided to help her."

"What do you expect me to do leave her in the bushes all alone, so I wouldn't be late for work?"

"We all hate kids cases. Do you think she was abandoned?" Swersky asked.

"No I think her parents were either murdered or seriously hurt?" Bosco replied.

Swersky nodded. "You are going to stay here until you know."

"Yes, boss. I'll make up the shift."

"It's fine… Why don't you take the shift off; you look exhausted. Are you sure you up to returning to the force, maybe you came back too soon?"

Bosco was sick and tired of hearing everybody asking how he was.

"Thanks boss, but I'm fine. It won't be much longer before Faith is finished with Amanda, and then I'll start my shift."

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Faith walked out of the room, and saw Bosco sitting on the bench.

"Shouldn't you be out working?"

"I wanted to find out about Amanda."

Faith smiled. "You were always good with kids. I think that is the only time I have ever see you sensitive."

"So do you know who she is, and what happened to her parents?" Bosco questioned Faith.

"Yes we do and it's not good," Faith responded.

She looked at Bosco.

"You have to promise me, you aren't going to do anything about this."

"Faith, tell me."

"We have been looking for family of two people. It happened 2 weeks ago. We found two bodies, with no ids on them."

"How do you know that is her parents? She said that it happened?"

Bosco and Faith sat down.

"When we got the body, you could see that the place that we found them wasn't where they were murdered. I don't know how to tell you this, but the person that murdered Amanda's parents, is the same person that murdered the other two people earlier this week."

"You mean the drug lord."

"I'm sorry, Bosco. Her dad was working for the guy that we are going after for the other murders, so we just figure that he did this one as well. The only difference is that he didn't you know, do what he did to the other bodies."

"Because of Amanda."

Faith nodded.

"So what's going to happen to Amanda?" Bosco asked.

"Children Services is going to try and see if they can find some relatives, if not she will be put in foster care."

"I'm going to get that son of bitch." Bosco yelled, as he stood up and was about to walk away from Faith, when he heard a voice.

"I did what you said, so now I want you to tell me everything about you getting hurt? How many scars do you have?"

He turned around and saw Amanda standing in front of him.

I can't talk; I have a job to do you know," he said, as he walked away from Faith and Amanda.

Amanda looked at Faith sadly. "Did I do something wrong?"

Faith smiled. "No, sweetie, he didn't mean to upset you, he's just busy."

"Catching bad guys?" Amanda said with a grin.

Faith nodded. "Yes. Let's just hope he is careful," she whispered to herself.

"Bosco is really nice."

Faith smiled. "He is."

((

Later that shift, Bosco had just finished his shift, he tried to find anybody that knows the drug lord, but nobody would say anything, they either didn't know where he was or they were too scared to say.

I'm not going to let him away with this. I'm not going to find him, Bosco whispered to himself. He walked into the locker room.

"How's the hangover, Bosco?" Ty responded.

"I'm not in the mood," Bosco said.

"You did have a lot to drink last night, I'm surprised that you came into work. You have a great singing voice, maybe you should audition for American Idol."

"Shut up, Davis!" Bosco said as he started to change his clothes.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Do I look I want to talk about it?" Bosco said, as he closed his locker and left the locker room.

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Bosco was walking to his apartment, when someone came up to him.

"Do you have the time?" the man asked.

"It's late," Bosco replied. The man then punched Bosco in the face. Bosco was surprised by the attack, but regained his posture and hit the man back. The man then punched Bosco again, and then pushed him onto the ground. Bosco was about to get his off-duty gun out when he looked up and saw 5 men standing over him. They began kicking him in the side, while the other guy was punching him in the face. Bosco knew that he was outnumbered; he tried as hard as he could to fight back, but there was just too many of them.

After a few minutes, they drag him to the alley, and started to beat him even more. He lost track of how many times he got beaten up.

They all of sudden stopped, and then one of the man looked down at Bosco.

"This is from our boss; he knows you are looking for him, but he's not ready to see you," he said, as they all laughed at him and walked away from him.

Bosco slowly got up, but his whole body was hurting. He then felt someone touch his shoulder. He grabbed his gun; he was going to protect himself this time.

"Don't touch me." he yelled, as he pointed the gun at the person, he then looked up, and saw Amanda standing in front of him.

"What are you doing here?

To be continued!