Too Soon

Chapter 14

Rating: PG 13 for violence

It had been three days since Sully and Bosco agree to be partners and so far, they haven't found him, but they weren't going to give up.

"Sully, I know you are up to something," Faith said, as she walked into the locker room, as he was getting ready for his shift.

"What are you talking about, Faith?" Sully asked, as he closed his locker door.

She sat down on the bench next to him. "I heard you asking Jelly about Jeffery Banks."

"Well that bastard is the reason that my partner is in a coma!" Sully yelled, "So why wouldn't I want to know how the investigation is going."

"It's more than that, Sully." Faith replied. "You aren't up to something are you? I know you want this guy to pay, so do I. He kidnapped an innocent little girl, he needs to pay, but you going after him is only going to make it worse. Sully leave it to the detective to do their job."

"You mean you?" Sully asked.

Faith nodded, as she smiled slightly. "Yes I mean me. I promise you that we will find this guy and make him pay."

Sully nodded. "I hope so."

"How's Ty?" Faith asked.

Sully sighed. "He's still in a coma. No change."

"I'm sorry," Faith said, as she placed a hand on Sully's shoulder. "He's going to be okay. Look at what happened with Bosco and he came out of it,
Ty's going to do the same thing."

"Thanks, Faith," Sully said. "I should get to work now," Sully said, as he walked out of the locker room.

Faith just sat on the bench, sighing, she knows that Sully was up to something, she just didn't know what it was, yet.

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The next day, Bosco walked into the shelter, and he walked up to the receptionist.
"I'm here to see Amanda."

Ms. London was walking towards Bosco. "Mr. Boscorelli, I'm glad that you are here. She's been asking about you."

"So she is talking to you again?" Bosco asked.

Ms. London smiled slightly. "I wouldn't exactly say she is talking. All she will say is Bosco will save me. Then I ask her what she means, and then she won't talk to me. Do you know what she means?"

"I think I do. May I go in?" Bosco asked.

She nodded. "Of course you can."

Bosco then opened the door to her room, and walked inside. He saw Amanda sitting in the corner of the room, across the wall. He sat down next to her. "Hey kiddo."

She just stared at him, not saying much. He then walked over to the desk, and pulled out a coloring book and some crayons, and then placed them on the ground.

He then walked over to Amanda, and grabbed her hand. "Amanda, why don't we color again?"

"Bosco..." she said, as she wrapped her arms around him.

She looked at him, sadly. "You came back."

"I told you I would. I never break my promise. So should I color with pink again or a different color?" Amanda walked over to where the coloring book was, and sat down, Bosco followed her. She then picked up a crayon and handed it to Bosco.

"Purple this time," Bosco said, with a smile, as he started to color with Amanda.
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Bosco had been coloring with Amanda for the last half an hour, he looked at Amanda.

"So how are you doing?"

She looked at him, nervously. "Find me..."

"Find who?" Bosco asked with this concerned look on his face.

"I can't say," Amanda said.

Bosco grabbed her hand. "You can trust me. I want to help you, Amanda, if someone hurt or said something to you, I can help you."

Amanda just stared at him, like she has gone into her own world again.

"Don't do this to me, Amanda, I want to help you," he said, as he looked at her.

"It's my job."

"Because you're a cop."

Bosco smiled slightly; just maybe she was going to finally tell him why she stopped talking.

"That's right, Amanda. You can talk to me," he said, as she climbed onto his lap. "I'm scared."

"I know you are, tell me what scared you. "

She just shook her head.

He looked at her.
"You know I get scared too."

She looked at him with this confused look. "You get scared?"

Bosco touched his face. "Yes, Amanda, I get scared too. When I'm scared, I talk to someone. Just like you can talk to me."

"Can't..."

"You can, Amanda. I'm not going to let anybody hurt you, I promise you that. Did the man that hurt your family come here?"

She just looked at him with this scared look on her face. "They kill me."

Bosco held her in his arms. "He won't hurt you."

"Hurt me like my parents." Amanda said, as she started to cry.

Bosco stroked her hair. "Shh, Amanda, I'm not going to let anything happen to you, but you got to tell me exactly what he said," he said. She looked at him.

"I told you.. kill me."

Ms. London then walked into the room. "Amanda, its dinner time."

Bosco stood up.

"No... leave!" Amanda cried.

Ms. London looked at Bosco. "If you want to stay, you can. We are having hot dogs."

"Well you didn't tell me you are having hot dogs, those are my favorite." Bosco said, with this grin on his face, as he looked at Amanda, who looked
so sad. He wishes that she would tell him everything that happened to her.

He grabbed her hand. "Do you want to show me where you have dinner?"

She nodded. "Stay?"

"Yes I'm going to stay and have dinner with you," Bosco said, as they walked out of the room.

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Later, Bosco was walking Amanda back to the room when she stopped. He kneeled down and looked at her. "What's wrong?"

She looked at him. "Scared."

"I know you are scared, but you have to talk to me."

"If I tell you, you'll be gone too."

Bosco shook his head. "Nothing's going to happen to me. Did someone say that to you?"

Bosco and Amanda walked over to the chairs, and sat down.

He looked into her eyes. "Listen to me, kiddo. I won't let anything happen to you. Trust me."

"You should trust him; he's the best cop out there," said a voice.

Bosco looked up and saw Sully standing in front of him.

"I don't know if you remember me, I'm Officer Sullivan." Sully said, as he shook hands with Amanda.

Amanda looked at Sully, not sure what to say to Sully. She then grabbed Bosco's hand.

"Its okay, Amanda. Sully is a police officer like me. Although he likes the donuts more than me." Amanda laughed at that. Bosco was happy to see her laughing.

Sully looked at Bosco. "I'm going to get you for saying that."

Amanda then looked at Bosco. "He said he'll kill me and you if I tell you, you're dead too."

She then pulled up her shirt. "Then he did this." Bosco was taken back by the bruises on her chest.

"Why didn't you tell anybody this?"

"Because then you would be dead." Sully and Bosco both looked at each other, knowing exactly who did this.

Bosco looked at Amanda. "Was this the same guy that you saw when your parents die?"

Amanda nodded.

Bosco hugged Amanda. "You did a great job."

"Now you are going to die," Amanda said, terrified

"No I'm not, Amanda. We are going to catch the man that did this and make him pay. I promise you that," Bosco said.

"Now let's get you back to your room."

Bosco then looked at Sully. "Wait for me here." Amanda then waved goodbye to Sully.

"Bye, Amanda," Sully said.

She then smiled at him. "Bye… Sullivan."

"It's Sully," He said, as Amanda and Bosco walked away from him.

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"So nobody is allowed to visit her unless it is me or Officer Sullivan, or one of your staff. I want a guard watching her at all times," Bosco told Ms. London.

"Are you sure that is wise?"

Bosco nodded. "Yeah. Someone is threatening her and that's why she's been so distant lately."

"Oh my god, but how?"

Bosco sighed. "We don't know that yet. Just keep an eye on her; I don't want anything to happen to her."

"You care about her, don't you?" Ms. London said.

Bosco nodded. "She has been through a lot lately. I just don't want her to get hurt. If there is anybody suspicious here, call me right away,"

"I will," Ms. London said, as she walked away from Bosco and Sully.

"What are you doing, here?" Bosco asked Sully, "Shouldn't you be working?"

"I took the day off... I need to talk to about the case and when I didn't find you at home, I knew that you would be here."

"So what do you need to talk to me about the case? Have you found something that is going to catch the guy?"

"No, I talked to Jelly yesterday and he said that they are investigating and they don't think that he has left town."

"Don't tell me you are going to tell me that you are going to leave it up to the detectives to find this guy."

"Of course not, Bosco. This is just as personal for me as it is for you. I'm just thinking that maybe we should tell Lieu what were are up to."

"Like I'm not going to do that! He thinks that I've left town. There's no way he's going to let us take this case."

"I know that, Bosco, but I'm just thinking if something happens to us when we are going after him... Wouldn't you like back- up?"

Bosco sighed. "Sully, we'll going to be fine. If we tell Swersky, he is going to tell us that the detectives are doing their jobs. He's going to make us stop searching."

"We don't know that for sure; let's just go to Swersky."

"To think I thought you were a good cop that wanted to see justice been doing for his partner, but I guess not."

"You know that I want him to pay for hurting Ty. This has nothing to do with that... All I'm asking for is back-up, nothing more."

"Fine, you're the one going to Swersky because he will never listen to me."

"That's because you are always getting into trouble," Sully said.

"I am not!" Bosco said, as they walked out of the shelter.

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Sully and Bosco entered the police station.

"So you go and talk to Swersky and I will wait for you here."

"I don't think so, you are coming with me. We are partners, remember?"

"That doesn't mean that I have to come with you."

"What are you scared to go to Swersky's office?" Sully asked, with a laugh.

"I'm not scared; I just don't see the reason why I have to go too."

"You know you aren't in trouble. I know that is hard for you seeing as every time that you go to his office is because you did something wrong."

Bosco smiled. "It's like the damn principal's office."

"I'm sure you were in that office many times,"

Sully then grabbed Bosco's arm. "You're coming with me. I'll do all the talking; you just sit there and back me."

"Like I'm going to let you talk and get me into trouble."

"How can you be in trouble?"

"Let me see I said that I was leaving town, but I didn't."

Sully laughed. "But you quit the force, so you aren't in trouble," Sully said, as they walked up to Swersky's office, and knocked on the door.

"Come in," said a voice.

They walked in and Swersky was looking at papers so he
didn't see who was there.

"Boss," Sully said.

Swersky looked up from his desk, and saw Sully and Bosco standing in front of him.

"Okay, what did I miss?" Sully sat down on the chair. "Well you can see here that Bosco never left town."

"May I ask why nobody told me this?" Swersky said, as he looked directly at Bosco.

"I'm not allowed to say anything," Bosco said, as he looked at Sully and laughed.

"I'm your boss, so tell me why you didn't leave town," Swersky said, looking at Bosco.

"I was leaving town like I said I was, but then I got a phone call about Amanda," Bosco said, sighing. Swersky looked at Bosco.

"That was the little girl that you found in your your bushes right?"

Bosco nodded. "Something happened to her to make her stop talking, and that's why the shelter phoned me and it wasn't until today that we found out exactly what happened."

"So why are you in my office?" Swersky asked.

"Don't tell me you screw up."

Sully laughed. "For the first time, I can say Bosco hasn't done anything wrong, well yet he hasn't."

"Boss, Bosco and I have been working together trying to find Jeffery Bank. But we've both realized that we need to have back- up if or when we find him."

"Like I'm going to let the two of you find this person. This is personal for the both of you. I'm surprised at you, Sullivan, that you would ever think about going after him... You know that is the detective's job."

Sully sighed for a moment, and then looked at Swersky. "Ty isn't just my partner; he is my best friend. I have known him for a long time. I can't just let this guy get away with hurting Ty. I know that isn't what you want to hear boss. I don't care what you do; you can fire me, put me on probation. It's not going to stop me from finding this guy. I didn't have to tell you boss, but I trust that you know what is best. Both Bosco and I will make sure that justice is served. You either help us with or will do it on our own. Do you really that is a good idea with Bosco being my partner?"

"Hey!" Bosco said.

"I mean it in the nicest way, Bosco," Sully replied.

Swersky looked at Bosco and Sully knew how important this was to them.

"Okay you do this, but you have to report back to me every shift. I guess you aren't quitting anymore," Swersky said to Bosco. Bosco looked at him.

"I guess not right now."

Bosco and Sully stood up. "So report for work tomorrow and you two can be partners."

Sully nodded. "Thanks, boss, but we are going to work on it today."

"Fine, but tell me all the information you find," Swersky said.

Sully nodded. "Okay, boss." T

here was a knock at the door, and Faith walked into the room.

"Bosco… Sully? What are you two doing here? I thought you were leaving town a few days ago."

"I can't explain it now, Faith," Bosco replied.

Swersky looked at Faith. "So what did you want to see me about?"

Faith sat down on the chair. "We just got some news about Jeffery Banks."

Bosco and Sully both turned to Faith. "What news?" they asked.

"This is detective work."

Bosco looked at Faith, angry. "Don't do this to me. You know this is personal for me that's why you aren't saying anything."

"Do you really know me that way?"

Bosco smiled slightly. "Yes I think I do."

Faith laughed. "Maybe I change since not being your partner."

"I don't think so, Faith, you don't change," Bosco replied.

Sully looked at the both of them. "You two can fight about whether Faith change or not when we find this bastard, so tell me what the news, Faith."

Swersky looked at Faith. "It's okay, you can tell them. I said that they could investigate Jeffery."

Faith nodded. "Okay, I just got a call from one of the detective who was following Jeffery's men. "

Faith stopped for a moment. "I really think you should be off this case, Bosco."

"Faith, don't do this. I know I'm not your partner, but I need to know everything. You either tell me or I'll find out myself; do you really want me to do that?"

Faith took a deep breath, as she looked at Bosco.
"The detective said that the man stopped his car in an old warehouse and took a woman out of the car, she looked to be tied up. The detective search the warehouse, but they didn't find anything. He thinks that the man knew he was being followed, so he made it look like he was going to the warehouse, but he wasn't."

"So what does this have to do with me?" Bosco asked.

Faith sighed. "By the description, I'm sorry to say but it was your mom. I called her to see if she was home, but she wasn't Bosco, I'm sorry. We are doing everything we can to find them."

Sully placed a hand on Bosco's shoulder.

"You said that you had some news, is this all the news or do you have something more?" Sully asked.

"I do. The same detective said that they found the car again and this woman and two men, one who were are pretty sure is Jeffery entered a building on 115 Madison Avenue." Bosco's whole face went white. Sully knew exactly what was in that building.

"It's going to be okay, Bosco," Sully said, trying to reassure Bosco.

"We're going to find them both and they are going to be okay."

"Am I missing something here?" Faith asked.

"We need to go now," Bosco said, as he hurried out of the room. Sully followed him.

Faith just looked at Swersky confused.

"What just happened?" she wondered and ran out of the room to catch up with Bosco and Sully.

She grabbed Bosco's arm. "What's wrong?"

Sully turned around. "That building is the building that that little girl Amanda is staying."

"Oh my," Faith said, as she walked up to Bosco.

"I'm so sorry, we're going to help Amanda and your mom. Don't worry. I'm not going to let anything happened to either one of them."

Bosco sighed. "I should have never let my mom come home and I should have kept a better eye on Amanda! I knew that he threatened her. I thought having a guard on her would keep her safe."

Sully looked at Bosco. "This is not your fault."

"You tell that to my mom and Amanda when they are dead because of me," Bosco said, nervously as he got into his car.

Sully walked over to the passenger seat and got in. "I'll take my car and follow you," Faith said.

Bosco wasn't really listening to anything Faith was saying, all he wanted was to save them. He didn't know what he would do if anything happened to them.

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Meanwhile, Jeffery paced up and down the room. He had to make sure that everybody else had left the shelter. He didn't want any innocent people dying; he only wanted the ones that Maurice Boscorelli cared about to die. He smiled to himself. He planned everything perfectly even killing people exactly how Boscorelli's brother die, so he would come after him. He'd tried to kill Boscorelli, but that didn't work, so he would do the next best thing: make Boscorelli watch the ones he loves die in front of him that will be just like killing him.
He walked over to the little girl's room, and looked through the window, and looked at both Boscorelli mom and the little girl tie up in the chairs, looking so helpless. He opened the door. Rose looked at him, scared, but she couldn't say anything because she had duct tape over her mouth. He walked over to her and kneeled down to the rope that had her feet tie up, he then tighten it. She screamed in pain.

"Did I hurt you?" he laughed. He then walked around the chair and tightened the rope that was keeping her hands tied up together. He couldn't have her escaping. She screamed again. He then walked over to Amanda and did the exact same thing to her, but she didn't scream like Rose did, she just stared at Jeffery, worried.

"I should go and see if Boscorelli is here yet, so we can start..." Jeffery said, as he walked out of the room, locking the door behind him.

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As Bosco was driving, Sully was talking on the cell phone. He wanted to check on Ty, as he didn't know what was going to happen here.

"Sasha, its Sully. I just wanted to check up on Ty." Sully said.

"Is he awake yet?"

"He woke up an hour ago. I phoned you at home, but you weren't there, so I thought that you were at work. I knew that you would come by after work."

"I'm working on finding the guy that did this to Ty." Sully said, "We're going to make him pay."

"Who are we?" Sasha asked.

Sully smiled slightly. "Bosco."
"You're working with Bosco? Are you sure about that?"

Sully laughed. "He's not that bad, this is just as personal for him, Sasha, even more than it is for me," Sully said, sighing.

"Do you think I could talk to Ty, just…" Sully stopped before he said anymore. A few seconds later, Ty was on the phone.

"Sully?" Ty said. Sully couldn't believe how much he has missed his voice; he thought that he was never going to hear that again.

"Are you okay?" Sully asked concerned.

"I'm pretty sore, but the doctor says that I'm going to be okay," Ty replied.

"That's good, now that I ever thought you weren't going to be okay," Sully said, as a tear fall down his cheek.

"You were a great partner, you annoyed the hell outta me, but I still love being in the car with you."

"To me it sounds like you are saying goodbye. Is there something you aren't telling me, Sully?" Ty said, with a worried tone in his voice.

"Are you in danger?"

"I'm fine, Ty."

"Are you sure, Sully?" Ty asked, "I can get out of this hospital bed right now and come and help you."

"Don't you dare, Ty? You just woke up from a coma."
Ty sighed. "Promise me that you will be careful. I don't want to lose you."

"Like I almost lost you."

Ty laughed. "I should be the one as your partner, so I can have your back."

"Bosco has my back."

"That's what worries me," Ty laughed.

Bosco then looked at Sully, telling him that they were there.

"I've got to go, Ty," Sully said.

"Just be careful, Sully."

"I will." Sully said, as he hanged up his phone.

Bosco turned to Sully. "Why were you saying a sad goodbye to Ty?"

"I wasn't saying goodbye to him," Sully replied.

"Yes you were. You don't have to come up there with me, Sully," Bosco replied as he got out of the car.

Sully got out of the car as well and looked at Bosco. "I'm your partner; I'm coming with you."

"So I am." Faith said, as she got out of her car.

Bosco turned to Faith. "This could get dangerous, you have Charlie and Emily to think of."

"Boz, I'm a cop! I deal with dangerous situations all the time," Faith replied.

Bosco nodded, as he walked towards the building where all the kids were at, and the people that worked at there.

Bosco then saw Ms. London. "What happened? Where's Amanda?" he asked.

Ms. London looked at Bosco with a scared look. "I tried to help her, but he said that if I didn't leave with the kids now, that he was going to kill us all. He had a gun pointed at Amanda and said that I leave now or she and the rest of the kids were dead. I didn't want to leave her, but I didn't know what to do."

"It's okay… you did the right thing. Was there an older woman with the man?"

Ms. London looked down at the floor. "He came into the front door with this woman with her hands tie behind her back. I tried to get him to let her go, but he said that she was part of his plan."

"Thanks, Ms. London," Bosco said. "Take the kids away from here. Take them somewhere safe."

Ms. London nodded. "You'll save her, won't you?"

Bosco nodded. "Of course I will," he said, as he, Faith and Sully walked into the building and up the stairs.

Meanwhile, Jeffery was pacing around the room.
What's taking him so long to get here, Jeffery thought to himself, but just then he heard someone opening the door. There was Boscorelli, but there were two other people with him, they will die as well.

"Boscorelli, we finally meet," Jeffery said, as he walked up to Bosco.

"Where are they?" Bosco yelled.

"Soon, you will find out," Jeffery said, with a laugh.

Faith walked up to Jeffery and grabbed her handcuffs.

Jeffery shook his head. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." he said.

Out of no where, a man come up behind Faith and hit her across the head. "Go take her to the room"

"Oh Boscorelli, you were suppose to be come alone, now I have to hurt your friends," Jeffery laughed.

He then turned to Sully. "Aren't you Ty Davis's partner or wait you aren't his partner anymore. So how's he doing? Still in that coma?"

Sully jumped the guy and punched him.

"Sully, you're supposed to be one to keep me from hitting this guy!" Bosco yelled, as he pulled Sully off the guy.

Jeffery laughed at Bosco. "You really think that you are going to win. I have you all trapped here, and you are all going to die."

Bosco then pulled out his off duty gun, and aimed it at Jeffery. "No, I think you are the one that is going to die."

"Now…. I don't think so..." Jeffery said. "You kill me… my men will kill your mom and that woman and that precious little girl. That's not to say I'm not going to kill you, just not yet. So drop your gun now."

"No!" Bosco yelled.

He then turned around and saw that Sully had a gun to his head.

"Are you going to stop now?" Jeffery yelled. "Or do you want to want your friend dead?"

"Why didn't you pull out your gun?" Bosco yelled at Sully.

Sully laughed. "Thanks, I have a gun to my head and you care more about why I didn't use my gun."

"I just meant that you should have had your gun out."

"Well it doesn't matter now, does it?" Sully said.

"Drop the gun now." Jeffery said. Bosco dropped the gun and Jeffery kicked it across the room. He then hit Sully's head with the gun that he was holding, making him fall onto the ground.

"Why did you do that for?" Bosco yelled.

"Because you two were starting to annoy me…." he said.

"I don't get why you are doing this." Bosco yelled.

"This is more than just wanted to see the person that was after you. You want more, you want
revenge for something."

"I didn't know that you were that smart!" Jeffery said, as he hit Bosco over the head.

"But not smart enough."

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An hour later, Bosco woke up and saw that he was in some kind of basement. He tried to
move them, but then realize his hands were handcuffed. He looked down and saw that his feet were tied up as well. He looked around and saw that Faith, Sully, his mom, and Amanda were all in the same situation.

Jeffery walked up to Bosco. "Nice of you to wake up."

Bosco sighed. "Where are we?"

"Far away from the shelter. It took a lot to get you all out of there without being seeing, but I did it before, so I knew what to do. Now it's time. Let the games begin."

To be continued!