Hey gang! First off, I am SORRY that I haven't updated in so long, (slaps wrists) shame, shame I know my name, and thank you Lloydie for getting me on the ball ;)! Summer is here and its kind of hard sometimes…okay I admit….that isn't the truth…had a bit of a writer's block but I'm back with another chapter.
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Chapter 6 – Time Is Running Out
Faith had been sitting in Swersky's office for what seemed like hours upon hours, when really it had been only more likely fifteen minutes. The reason she felt like that was, she was unbelievably nervous. She didn't know how Swersky took the information she had given him, because he immediately told her to stay put and he'd be back. He didn't even show a reaction on his face, not even a single twitch, or hint of anger, and that is what scared the living hell out of her.
She didn't have much of a choice after Rose Boscorelli had walked in nearly collapsing right there at the front desk. Before she'd been confined to Swersky's office, almost like waiting for a parent to come back and give her the punishment. She had gotten a little information in how Rose found out about Bosco's disappearance.
Rose and Bosco had made plains the previous day, and when she had not heard anything from her son she went looking for him. Bosco had spoken briefly about how ever since Mikey's death how close they had been, how he been going over to his mother's a lot, taking care of her. He also mentioned it was like being a child again, his mother kept tabs on him practically, if he said he'd be over there and didn't show up and didn't even call to tell her he change his plains she would freak out. Well this time around, she freaked out and went over to his house, and found the shattered table and blood by the door.
Faith's hairs stood up on end when she mentioned the blood. She didn't know what his apartment looked like, because she never opened the door or tried to even take a peek. She some how convinced Rose to go back home, Faith knew if it was her in that position she stay at the Precinct, but that is when Swersky told her to go into his officer and wait there, which she was doing now.
She began looking around the office, seeing things for the very first time, but then she had to admit she wasn't usually in Swersky's office. Then a soft smile came to her face, if anybody in this Precinct should know every detail of the office it was Bosco. It was always a great accomplishment if Bosco could go even 60 days without having to go into Swersky's office for some kind of explanation on something that had transpired or to try and point him in the right direction.
Beginning to wonder how long Swersky was going to make her actually wait in there, she heard the door open with a little more force intended by the owner. She slightly turned her head to catch whoever was walking in with her peripheral vision and then turned back around when she saw Cruz sitting next to her. Faith tried so hard not to look over, but she found herself turning and glaring at Cruz, wishing almost she'd burst into flames and then her ash's would be left smoldering on the chair.
Faith then turned her head when she caught Cruz turning her own head to look over at her, she didn't want to catch her eyes and having a stare down contest right there in Swersky's office. She had diverted her attention back to her boss, Lt. Swersky was sitting in his chair, staring at both of them and for the first time besides her mother, Faith felt very uneasy being stared at.
"So, let me get this straight," he was looking at both of them, each getting his cold glare, as he moved back and forth, "one of my officers from MY precinct, goes missing….and NOBODY decides to tell me!"
He was meet with silence, Swersky was just beyond pissed off, he was frenzied with anger.
Faith just kept her mouth shut, the inner voice told her to be quiet, that out of the two women sitting there the one stupid enough to talk was Cruz. Which the Anti Crime Sgt did not let her down for Faith heard Cruz clear her throat.
"Sir….we have a good enough excuse." Cruz said licking her lips, but she flinched when Swersky brought his fist down on the desk to make a loud thump sound, intending to make her flinch in the first place.
"You better Sgt, because right now, the way I'm seeing it, there is no excuse!"
"What about, if we would of told you or let the Precinct in on it, it would be Boscorelli's death sentence?"
Swersky sat back in his chair, so far back he was in danger of falling backwards if he wasn't to careful. What he was doing was watching Cruz and Faith's body language; he just wasn't sure what to believe at that very moment. Studying them he finally nodded his head and once again glancing back between the two he nodded his head, "let's say I believe you…..do you have any information, like who is doing this, or any leads?"
Simultaneously Faith and Cruz shook their head no. Faith letting her eyes down almost ashamed to have admit it. Cruz just continued to stare at Swersky not sure what the next reaction was going to be.
"You better get some real quick, because I don't think I can keep this secrete for very long….dismissed." The two women got up from where they were sitting and quickly got out of his office. They didn't want to take any chances of Swersky had forgotten something to say because of how angry he was.
The minute the door shut, Faith caught up to Cruz, she grabbed her arm and jerked her around so she was facing her, which Cruz reacted by ripping her arm away. "Don't you dare touch me."
"I'll do whatever the hell I please….now where did you go?" Cruz arched an eyebrow while taking a step back, then a smirk came on her face, the one Faith always hated. It was like Cruz was thinking in her own mind 'I am better then you, watch this.'
"Since when did you become my mother?…Oh that's right, I forgot you do that to everybody, be everybody's mommy."
Faith studied Cruz for a second and then answered back with, "I would kill myself first before I ever became your mother."
"Do I have to separate you two?" Both of the two women turned around and saw Sully standing there, with Finney right next to him who was staring at them with a soft smile forming on his lips. "Oh please, that would be fun." Cruz glared at Finney as though at any minute she would make his head pop off just by staring at him.
Cruz rolled her eyes and began to turn around when Finney called after her, "Oh having a bad day?" She turned back around and took quick strides to reach him and grabbed him by the shirt collar, "You'll have a bad day if you don't shut your mouth." Faith went to grab Cruz's arm, but she saw it coming and she threw in a shove as she let go of Finney and she stormed away.
"Whoa! Talk about PMS!"
Finney then saw how Faith and Sully turned to glance at him and he threw his hands up quickly, "I'm gone."
Sully had been staring at Faith, when the whole fight had broke out, he had watched her reactions see if he could read off of them or find out something that was going on. Sully had always been good at reading people, but Faith was masking it, very well at that to.
When he had heard the two going at it, he really didn't expect it. It was just common knowledge how much Sgt. Cruz and Faith Yokas hated one another. Those two would go out of their way to make sure they didn't run into each other at the Precinct, but here they were, going nose to nose with one another and it wasn't about who shoved into who. Then right before Faith turned and walked away as well, she turned and looked at Sully and her eyes showed something.
Sully turned around with thoughts racing. She had shown complete turmoil that something was eating up inside of her. But what?
The more he thought about it, the more he began to get a very bad feeling and it was starting to slowly inch into his mind. It was at the tip of his tongue as though he knew what it was, but could not quite figure it out. Boscorelli kept coming up in his mind as the reason behind it, and that is when it struck him. Boscorelli didn't go for very long without being at work and now that he thought about it, Sully hadn't seen him for sometime.
'Could that be it, something had happen to Boscorelli and…' Sully silenced that thought, 'no, if something happened he would know, wouldn't he?' With that last thought hanging on, Sully realized it was time to get back to work. But he made a mental note; watch Faith even more closely then before. He may not like getting into people's business, but he would if it had to do with helping one of his fellow officers.
Faith waited a good time before she walked back upstairs to search for Cruz. She expected her to be working on another case, not caring anymore to help Bosco. Faith knew better, but it just felt so good to think that. Where she found Cruz was sitting in her office, just staring off into space. Walking into the office Faith sat down.
"I'm willing to try this again."
Nothing. Not even a simple turn of the nose, or a curl of the lip. Cruz didn't give any indication that she was listening to her, but that didn't stop Faith.
"I would just like to know where you went, and don't tell me its none of my business, I'm not stupid I know it had to do with…." Faith let her voice trail off, not wanting to have to finish that sentence and once again have to admit herself that Bosco really was missing at this very moment.
"I just want to know…please."
Cruz's day kept getting worse by the minute it seemed. She had gone to the location with the stuff they wanted and she got nothing in return. When she tried to ask anything to do with Boscorelli they just told her "We'll contact you again with more details." Then with that, they peeled away leaving her to stand there trying to figure out what the hell went wrong.
To make matters worse she gets back at the Precinct to find that Swersky was waiting for her. She had seen that look before and if she could help it, Cruz would rather stay away. In fact probably best better to go over to New Jersey when Swersky is one of his moods.
She sat there as Swersky ranted, and then tried to explain truthfully why, but she had this uncanny feeling that, he didn't believe her. Didn't matter, she knew the truth, and as much as Faith didn't want to admit it, she did as well. Problem was, how do you work with somebody you'd rather see get hit by a truck?
Then top it off, 'Finney, that little prick, one of these days.' She couldn't figure out what made Sully or Finney decided they needed to get into their business. People just can't stay out of things it seems. Then Cruz couldn't help but go back on the thought of Faith. She really did wonder if Faith and herself would someday be able to cooperate and find Boscorelli. Then again, hell would freeze over first, not to mention with pigs flying and cows being able to talk.
Cruz barely heard Faith walk in; she had this way of being able to tune out Faith whenever she started talking. She considered it a really good talent and she would continue to use it. That was until she heard the word please, that is what brought her out of her thoughts and she looked at Faith. Please? Cruz always thought for sure that Faith didn't know how to use that word. Just like Cruz didn't know how to admit when she was wrong.
Shifting in her chair it gave out a squeak, showing the age of it as she looked at Faith and then away as she spoke. "When you stormed out of here, I got a call to drop off the stuff at a checkpoint."
"That's it?" Faith arching her eyebrow.
Cruz rolled her eyes. "What did you expect, I'm hiding Boscorelli's body and not telling you?"
"Maybe."
Silence became deafening to the two women sitting there, as they were lost in their own thoughts. This wasn't going to work, Bosco would be dead by the time these two could see eye to eye, and even then they would fight who's fault it was.
Faith let out a sigh and finally broke the silence, "What about checking Bosco's apartment? It might….."
"All ready did that." Cruz cutting her off before she could finish her sentence.
Cruz didn't catch it; if she had she'd probably would have enjoyed it tremendously, a little too much probably. Faith's eyes had widen and then went back down to slits as anger began to boil over again.
"You know, since we are doing this together, it would help to let out a little information once in a while."
"What, it wasn't anything useful." Cruz let her eyes fall upon Faith. If it wasn't clear that Faith was angry in voice, it was showing up in her body language. Her hand was uncontrollably balling up into a fist and then re-releasing, and it was showing up in her eyes as though in her mind she was counting to ten, and then backwards to calm herself.
Faith was mad for two reasons, and she felt they were pretty good causes. For what seemed like the millionth time, Cruz had left her out in the dark. She didn't give her all the information that she had, even if it wasn't any good Faith still wanted to know. The important one, the one that really set her off and made Faith want to come up off her chair and strangle the Sgt right then and there Cruz had gone into Bosco's apartment. She obviously went in without permission and it was that, Faith hated so much about Cruz. She thought she could walk around doing whatever she damn well pleased.
"You know they call that breaking and entering"
"It's not breaking and entering when the door's unlocked, now is it?"
(Unknown Location)
"Tut, tut that's not proper behavior to show officer."
"Let me out of this bathtub and I'll show you some non proper behavior."
That smile came on his face, the one Bosco grown to really dislike as he nodded his head toward a guy who disappeared. Bosco's heart began to race again, as it beat against his chest.
"I'm sure you like that, and actually I would to, see what your made of, but," the one guy appeared again handing him a shotgun, "your out of time." He then pumped the gun and then pointed at Bosco. Bosco just stared at the man frozen in place as he watched the man began to gently pull the trigger back and the only thing that ran through Bosco's mind was, 'oh god,' as he watched his life pass before his eyes as this man was about to take his life.
'What are they waiting for? There just trying to torture me before they do it, just get on with it!' Bosco thought, but all he heard was a soft click and even that made him flinch with the sound. Nothing, at first Bosco thought he was dead and that's why he didn't hear anything but then he heard a snort as though somebody was trying to hold back a laugh. Then the entire room erupted with laughter and Bosco propped an eye open, and saw one holding his stomach and pointing at him, while the other had the gun slung over his shoulder, just laughing away.
At first, it wasn't clicking in Bosco's mind. Going through the traumatic experience of having a gun pointed at his head and thinking his life was just about to be taken, and then suddenly it was funny?
"Did you see….," the sentence was interrupted by more fits of laughter, "his face?"
"Check his pants to make sure he didn't piss all over himself."
Bosco looked back and forth between the guys standing over him. They had planned this all along? Make him believe, they were going to take his life, all for what, to see his reaction?
Hot seething anger rose up in Bosco. Bosco always had been short-tempered and been angry in his life more then he could count, but this time it went beyond that. He had never felt such anger before and without even thinking, not even allowing his mind to register that this could be a bad idea, he used his good leg and leapt at the one who had aimed the gun at his head. Bosco was so furious he didn't even feel pain from his body when he had taken the man to the floor and began strangling him and trying to hit any body part that he could.
The man under him, his eyes shown wide with fear as he had his oxygen caught off and his body assaulted with fists. He couldn't figure out where his men were in the first place, and the only thing he could come up with is that they hadn't expected the officer to lunge out of the tub with the smashed kneecap.
Out of the two men standing there one of them reacted and grabbed Bosco by the shoulders. Bosco reacted quickly feeling the hands on his shoulders trying to make him stop strangling the man underneath him. So he let go quickly, abruptly changed and decked the man in the face. With the force of the blow and stepping back he ended up falling right into the tub, not expecting it to be right behind him. Bosco then dodged the one that made a grab for him and he tried to break away and make a run for it.
Bosco's leg was screaming out in pain, but the only thing running through his mind is he had to make it to the stairs and outside. At the end of the hallway, where he knew the stairs were, he hobbled towards them, every step was agonizing but he put it in the back of his mind. Every fiber in his body was willing to go through anything, if that meant breaking free and escaping.
Just as he had reached the tip of the steps, the one who he had dodged in the bathroom caught up with him. He heard the thunderous sound of him running down the hallway and it echoing off the walls, but there was nothing Bosco could do. He didn't even have enough time to avoid it, because the man miscalculated and not expecting Bosco to stop so suddenly.
Bosco only had a mere second of registering what was about to happen before the man collided into him, and they both went tumbling down the stairs brutally.
The sensation Bosco got before his body hit the wooden stairs was almost unbelievable. He had the sense of flying, and his mind was slowing down everything. But then it became reality and he felt the wooden stairs hit parts of his body, as he tumbled down the stairs uncontrollably. Body parts struck the railing kicking out the rotten wood, and finally both of the two guys landed at the bottom of the stairs with a hard thud.
Bosco looked up at the door that stood right in front of him. He was so close, but once again he was denied his escape. As this began to set in, he slowly began to loose consciousness. The last thought before he completely lost his grasp, was that he hoped the one who taken the fall with him broke something at least. Then Bosco's body went slack, not knowing that thought was very close to the truth. The man sprawled out on the floor next to Bosco was dead. He had died when he landed on his neck, breaking it instantly and sending him to the next life.
TBC….
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