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Part X. The Fall of 55-David

It was a while that Jing-Mei met the crew from the third watch shift. She had been alternating between working days and midnights. The times that she had not been in the ER, she had found herself in other units, mainly the OR and ICU. Even though, she was hired as the Chief Resident in the ER, she was brushing up her skills in other areas of the hospital. She would not delusion herself with the idea that she had nothing to prove because she knew from the first day, people were wary of having somebody out of state to fill one of the top position in the ER.

There was the odd time that she found herself in the ER from three in the afternoon to eleven at night. Sully and Davis' 55-Edward had been in and out. She had also acquainted herself with the paramedics, Monte Parker who was better known as 'Doc', Alex Taylor, Kim Zambrano and Carlos Nieto. There were those from the FDNY who frequented the ER as well, but the one person that she had been trying to find were the crew from the 55-David, Officers Boscorelli and Yokas.

That night, she caught the sight of Sully and Davis. Catching her eye, Davis walked over to her and smiled. "Hi Dr. Chen."

"Davis, rough night?"

"Something like that," muttered Sully who had joined his partner at his side.

"Oh?"

"Anti-crime," put in Davis as if that was enough explanation.

An entourage made their way into Mercy's ER. "Speaking of the devil," Sully grunted.

It was then Jing-Mei realized the source of discontentment. Near the head of the pack was Bosco in plain street clothing, walking about two steps behind a raven-hair female. She spared no comments as she strutted her way through the sea of people who parted the way at her approach. At the nurse's station, she barked at Bosco, "Alright Boscorelli, start on that paperwork and I'll go question the suspect."

"But - "

"You wanna be in Anti-crime or not, Boscorelli? Then, git yourself started on that paperwork." She leaned in closer to him and invaded his personal space, but her message was loud and clear as she pressed on her hands on the sides of his waist.

Then just a quickly, she dismissed him with a wave of hand and walked away without a backwards glance. Bosco sighed but avoided any eye contact as he got started on some of the documentation. Davis and Sully shared a look and Jing-Mei spoke for both, "So, that's Anti-Crime?"

"Sergeant Cruz in the flesh," Sully grumbled again.

"What's Bosco doing with somebody like her?" she asked innocently, "I thought he was with Officer Yokas."

"You mean, you haven't heard?" Davis answered incredulously.

Sully shot a look at his partner but he said nothing. He hated gossiping about fellow coworkers especially those from the 55-David. However, Bosco wasn't exactly being discreet about his recent dealings with Anti-Crime.

Davis briefly spoke about the bank robbery and the involvement from Officer Yokas and her daughter. Jing-Mei recalled hearing about on the news and the ER, but she didn't realize the connection with Faith. Davis told the Chinese doctor that Yokas came to work and broke down in the locker room, when she told them (Sully, Davis and Bosco) that Fred had taken the kids and filed the divorce. Bosco had tried to offer comfort but it only made things worse. Faith blamed him for her failing marriage and called him on every bad thing that had ever happened to them. It wasn't pretty but the members of 55-Edward had left during the initial confrontation. It didn't take a genius to figure out what happened after that.

Lieu had ordered them both to his office. It ended up being that Faith was given a few days of personal day off. Bosco was sent up to Anti-Crime to help out with some of the cases. Rumour had it that the partners didn't really reconcile because when Faith came back from her leave, she revealed that she was trying for the Sergeant's Exam again. She wanted a stable job because she thought that it would boost her chances in her custody battle. Bosco saw no reason in leaving Anti-Crime with Cruz being the icing on the cake. However, anybody with eyes could tell that she had Bosco practically salivating at the palm of her hand.

"And, needless to say, it has been like pulling teeth around here. Everybody is walking on eggshells waiting for another confrontation to happen. Anyways -"

At this point, Davis' and Sully's radios sounded. "Central to 55-Edward."

"55-Edward here. Go ahead, Central."

Jing-Mei took this as a cue to make her exit as the two officers walked off to answer another call.

-o-o-

That night, Jing-Mei decided to stop at a 24-hour grocery store that wasn't too far from the hospital. She smiled reminiscently as it reminded her of the Jumbomart back in Chicago. She and John had often raided the freezer aisles to satisfy their mutual cravings for mint chocolate flavour ice-cream. It was such a domestic thing to do shopping with one's husband and it was such moments as these that she wondered what John was doing now. She sighed and made a mental note for herself to check her emails tonight. Pratt had said that he was going to email her sometime this week and she didn't want to be hopeful for an email from John.

In her thoughts, she didn't realize that she wasn't controlling the shopping cart in front of her. It crashed into another and Jing-Mei was just about the apologize when she caught the familiar sight of Officer Faith Yokas.

"Officer Yokas!"

The other woman was just as surprised as she was, "Dr. Chen."

"I'm so sorry," the two women said simultaneously.

They blushed, but managed a small smile at each other. "I'm sorry. I wasn't really paying attention," Jing-Mei managed to recover first.

"Don't worry about it, Dr. Chen. I don't think my mind is currently on my shopping right now."

"Jing-Mei."

"Excuse me?" The police officer was caught off guard for the second time in the span of less than three minutes.

"I know we didn't get off to a great start, but please, call me Jing-Mei. I'm not at the hospital right now, Dr. Chen sounds very formal."

"Then, you must call me, Faith."

Out of impulse and before she could stop herself, Jing-Mei offered, "Feel up to a coffee, Faith?"

If the blonde was surprised by the request, she hid it well by the smile that graced her lips, "Sure, I think I know just the place."

End of X

AN: I know it's not really ER-focused right now. I'm trying to establish the relationship in the TW series and then bridge that with Jing-Mei. I will go back Carter and Luby soon.