Chapter Seven: Safe Landing

Bosco watched his wife sleep. She looked like a child curled up on the plane's sofa. Her blond hair pulled back from her face. Things were so screwed up. They should be at home. Together. Not here. There was something wrong about the whole mess his father was into. Something that put his whole family in danger. Seajae stired. Her eyes opening quickly.

"Hey…it's ok baby." He moved next to her and took her in his arms. "God I missed you." He kissed the top of her head as she cuddled closer to him.

"Not as much as I missed you." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and took in the scent that was her husband.

"The kids think they're in heavan. Horses and fields."

"Ghosts and memories."

"I don't think they found those yet."

"They were here. When I came back after I got out of my Marshall Training. Sitting at the table like nothing had happened." Bosco looked down at her.

"Your parents?"

"My parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle and my brothers. Mac looks so much like them." She sat up. "They were all waiting for me." Seajae looked at Bosco. "Daddy smiled at me and mama cried. Ghosts…all of them but they looked so real. I fell to my knees and cried. Mama put her arms around me and we cried together. They said good-bye and I never came back here. I couldn't bear them not being here. So I hired some people to clean now and then and keep the horses. I don't know if I can face the place Bosco."

"It's a house Seajae. Just a big old house with tons of sweet memories and just one horrible one. If I have learned one thing from you and your gift is that the good…it always out weighs the bad."

"Bosco…I don't know if I can handle this one. It feels so wrong. So…I just can't do it. I can't fight this one. I don't think I'm strong enough."

"You're stronger then any woman I know. You can make it though anything. I love you Seajae Marie McBride Boscorelli." He took her face in his hands and kissed her. Fear and his wife were no strangers but whatever his father was into put more fear into both of them then ever before. "It's just a house Seajae."

"I know. I just hope I'm stronge enough to face the ghost that aren't there any more." They stood up and headed for the house.

Elliot pulled into his driveway in Brooklyn after midnight. Apparently whoever was on Seajae's tail was serious about getting her. He was nearly to the Canadian boarder before they gave up following him. He got out of the car and he never knew what hit him. He reached for his gun but it was too late. As he slipped into darkness all he could think of was what would Katie say when she found him.

"We took the GPS out of all our phones for the time being. Changed the numbers and made them untraceable." Caleb McKenzie sat next to Bosco outside the McBride ranch in West Texas. "Did you know your wife is a computer wiz too?"

"Nothing with her surpises me anymore." Bosco looked out at the night sky. The stars were so bright Bosco wondered if he'd ever really seen them in the New York sky.

"There's a list of numbers by the phone. The number here will be rerouted and redirected so many times it'll make anyone who's tracing it head spin." Caleb looked at the man who had made Seajae McBride a human again. He was tence and ready to jump at the least sign of danger. That wasn't always a good thing. "You going to be okay?"

"Why do people always ask me that? My family is put in the line of fire because of my child beating, alcoholic father. I find a son I never knew I had and my wife is wound tighter then a gairtar string. I'm fine Caleb." Bosco stood up and put his hands on his hips and looked out over the field in front of him. "This isn't going to go away is it?"

"What? The danger?"

"No, this danger. They won't give up will they."

"They have the CIA on the payrole. You know how that always turns out."

"Yeah and it sucks." Caleb's phone rang. He took it out of his breast pocket and answered it. Bosco took three steps forward and took a deep breath. He wasn't in the mood to go to bed. He had slipped Seajae a sleeping pill and he knew when she awoke she'd have his head but she needed to sleep. He turned when he heard Caleb swear softly, close his phone and get up. "Should I ask?"

"No. I need to get back." He turned and Bosco followed.

"You were never very good at hiding things McKenzie." Caeb turned as he picked up his jacket.

"You have to keep your mouth shut. Because your wife gets wind of this there's no keeping her from going back to New York." Bosco looked at Caleb. "Someone got to Elliot." For a second Bosco couldn't breath. The last few days he'd been feeling like Elliot Stabler was a thorn in his side. Always there for Seajae when he couldn't be. But he always knew Elliot had her back. Like she knew Faith had his.

"When?"

"Seems he took Seajae's tail on a ride though the New York country side. He lost them and headed home. His car was found parked in front of the house. Katie heard him pull up and got worried when fifteen minutes past and he didn't come in the house. The driver's door was open and his phone was on the ground next to the car. Doesn't look like he even knew what hit him. No blood, no trace so far."

"You have your men on it?"

"Do you even have to ask? After you Seajae value's that man more then anything."

"Yeah." Bosco went to the refigerator and got a bottle of water.

"You don't like that they're so close?"

"It's nothing. Just those pangs every man gets when their wife spends more time with her partner then her husband."

"Been there. You my friend started a fight or two at my house." Bosco looked at Caleb, surpised. "What you don't think you're the only one whos wife has a man for her best friend and partner and feels jelouse."

"I guess I just didn't realize me and Faith…we haven't been partners for a long time."

"But you've been friends for fifteen years." Caleb put his jacket on. "Let it all go Boscorelli. Seajae loves you more then life it's self. I knew that from the moment I saw you two together. Next to Jack, I've knowen Seajae longer then anyone and till she found you she let no one in. Not even me. You opened her up to a wonderful life that included love and family. Hell me too for that matter. Don't ever in a million years think that Seajae would turn her back on you and everything you have." Caleb woke Ty up from the couch. "Time to take off Davis." Groggily Ty got to his feet.

"You ok?" He asked Bosco. Even half -asleep his friend was worried about him.

"Yeah. Get back to that beautiful wife and daughter. And tell Alex we'll have this mess cleaned up before her due date." He shook his friends' hand and pulled him into a short man like embrace. "Take care Ty."

"Yeah man, you too." He headed to the door with Caleb behind him. Before he left Caleb turned and looked at his friend.

" I'll call as soon as I hear or find out anything. Remember what I said." Bosco nodded and patted the man on his back as he exited the door. Closing it behind Caleb he locked all three locks and leaned agaist the door. Closing his eyes he said a prayer for Elliot. He had saved Seajae more then once. Not only on the Job but her personal life too. He was their friend and he was missing. How was he going to keep this from Seajae? He knew he had to. If he didn't she'd be on the next plane to New York and when it landed she'd have a big red bulls-eye on her chest. Shutting off the last of the lights Bosco headed upstairs to bed and the arms of the most incredible woman he had ever know.