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Chapter 9 – Two Cops and a Nurse

"What have we got?" Asked the Emergency doctor as the medics wheeled in their patient.

Bailey who had his hand resting on the gurney as he wheeled in the man the cops had found just only a few minutes ago on the street. "Name unknown, found unconscious, broken ribs, a shattered kneecap,…" the list continued down as the doctor began examining his new patient. There was nothing this doctor hadn't seen before, no doubt about, the man was roughed up but he would be back up on his feet in no time. Though the shattered kneecap worried him, there was no telling how much damage was done to it, and if he would be able to walk properly again.

"Come on, let's get him up to surgery."

The two officers that had found Bosco, were standing and watching as they wheeled the unconscious man out of the ER and up to surgery. Kyle shook his head. "Guess we won't be finding out any time soon what happened to him."

"I say we go back." John suggested still starting at the doors that had closed shut, the big sign saying 'authorized personal only.' It was almost a slap in the face, that if you weren't walking around in scrubs, you were never going to be able to see what was beyond those doors. John had no intention of being a patient to see finally see past them either.

Turning his head John saw that his partner was giving him a puzzled look, not sure if he understood what the reason as to going back. "Why do you want to go back, what's the point?"

Shrugging his shoulders John then replied with, "there's not really a point, I just do." Then not giving his partner any chance to retaliate he turned around and walked away leaving Kyle standing there by himself.

"So we go back." Kyle said to himself as he again glanced at the doors and then went to follow his partner, out to the RMP.


Faith had been sitting at the end of the stairs just staring at the spot on the floor. She had been sitting there by herself with the flashlight just pointed where dried blood had been split. Bosco's blood. Tears wanted to come and spill out over her cheeks but she refused to cry. He wasn't dead, why should she cry? It was her trying to deny the fact this was bad and it only seemed it was spiraling out of control and getting worst by ever hour.

They had done everything they could to get Bosco back but it seem that it wasn't meant to be. Fate was laughing in their face and almost seemed to be dangling Bosco in front of them but not allowing them to have him back. They were so close; she could feel it and it was quickly escaping their grasps.

Cruz and herself had no other choice but to tell Swersky they had failed, and had to have somebody else handle it. There was no telling what would happen when the entire department found out. The letter had specified that nobody could know, and it would soon leak into the news and sure enough it be all over the place.

Soft footsteps could be heard and Faith heard whom she assumed was Cruz walked down the stairs and stood behind her. Cruz looked down at the back of Faith who had been sitting at the bottom of the stairs for the last 10 minutes. When Logan and herself had begun to climb up Faith had stood there, and then sat down. She decided to leave Faith to herself, as she walked outside to get as far away from Logan. Every time she saw that man, all she wanted to do was make him eat her gun. All because of this man, betraying the shield and allowing this to happen.

Not wanting to think about it anymore and knowing they had to get back at the Precinct she turned and went to get Faith. She found Faith staring at the spot that they pretty much assumed Bosco had been laying where the dried blood was. There was just no telling what had happened to him, and it deeply scared the two women.

"Come on, we have to get back."

Cruz wasn't sure at first if Faith was going to respond, and just ignore her but to her surprise, Faith nodded her head and proceeded to stand up. Faith turned around and Cruz just simply said, "I know." Without much being said they turned and walked up the stairs and shut the door, closing their only hope on finding Bosco.


John sat in the driver's seat as Kyle in the passenger watching out the window. He let out a sigh, as he turned and glanced at his partner then back to the window. "So how long are we going to do this?"

It wasn't that Kyle had no sympathy for the guy, but he didn't know him and there was just no telling what his story was and how he ended up there. The odds of them finding the connection were slim to none; they could be doing better things with their time then going around in circles practically.

Kyle again turned and saw that his partner was going to ignore him on this subject, John would continue until he found something to quench his curiosity and mind. The car began to slow down and Kyle moved his eyes to stare out the front windshield to see three people making there way towards the car.

"What's wrong with this picture?" John asked.

He immediately picked up on what John was asking. From his position inside the car he could see that both the two women and the man were to nicely dressed for an area as they were in. When people look that out of place, you always have to check up on it.

John rolled down his window, as the three didn't make any movement to run as he pulled up. "A bit late to be out in an area like this." What he didn't expect was the dark haired woman to then pull out a badge.

"Sergeant Cruz," then pointing to the other woman "Detective Yokas," and then pointing to the male, "Officer Logan Weller." Cruz then put her badge back away as she then announced what Precinct they were from, to make sure any doubts were blown away. "We are with the 55th Precinct."

John and Kyle turned and looked at each other, and then Kyle leaning a little more asked, "What are you doing so far from your own Precinct?" It wasn't uncommon to get other Precincts throughout the entire city, but it was just odd to have a Sgt., a Detective and an Officer running around in a bad area late in the night and curiosity was being peeked.

"We don't have to answer any of your questions Officers." Cruz snapped back. Cruz was tired of this all ready, and they hadn't even been talking more then a few seconds.

"Yeah you do when you're in my jurisdiction, and snooping around houses without giving my Precinct any notifications." John ripped right back not liking how this was going. He didn't like how this one thought she could talk to him and his partner as though they were two rookies out of the academy.

The one named Yokas then pushed Cruz out of the way of the window, which Kyle caught the glare that Cruz gave to Yokas. "Look, I'm going to be honest with you, we are looking for my partner." Faith normally wouldn't tell other people her business, but she felt it was the right thing to do to get these guys off their backs so they could continue their search. "We were informed that he was being held in this house, so that's why we are here and haven't told anybody. We were hoping to do this with the element of surprise."

John and Kyle turned looked at each other. 'Couldn't be possible, could it?' The odds of the man they picked up being the same man Yokas was talking about had to be one in a million. It would explain some things though, and it sure didn't hurt any to give it a chance. Kyle shrugged and John turned back around.

"We just picked up a man not to long ago, bad shape….he's at the hospital right now. Doesn't hurt to come and take a look, might be the man your looking for."

Faith's heart skipped a beat when the officer said they had found somebody not to long ago. She couldn't take another let down. Glancing at Cruz they both looked at one another and then Cruz spoke up for the three of them.

"Lead the way."


Kyle and John walked into the emergency room with two women tailing from behind as they walked up to the front desk. Kyle began tapping his fingers on the counter as he waited for Nurse Evans to get off the phone. Clearing her throat she put the phone down and glanced up.

"Hi guys, back so soon?" Smiling at Kyle and then looking at John.

"Anytime to see you." Kyle then felt his partner's elbow into his side as he then straightened up, as he then got serious. "We were actually wondering were you put the guy we brought in an hour or so ago."

Nurse Evans then grabbed a strain of hair that had escaped her pony tail and pulled it back behind her ear as she then turned reached over grabbed some paper work and put it down in front of her. She quickly began flipping through it as she went to work finding were they had put the guy that Kyle had asked for.

Faith had been standing there as patiently she could take it. She was so nervous that it wasn't going to be Bosco that she wanted to grab the book from the nurse and find it herself. For her, this was going all to slow in her mind and the nurse could be going a lot faster. She then shoved her hands deeply into her pants as far as she could go without ripping through the actual pocket itself. Faith about wanted to faint when she heard the "ah hah!" as the nurse then stood up to show them where they're man was.

Cruz on the other hand was as calm as could be inside and outside. She kept telling herself it would be okay if this wasn't Bosco that they would find him alive just it might take a little more time then they originally anticipated. Logan had decided to stay in the car. It probably was the best thing he could do, be the furthest away when they found out if this was Bosco or not. For if once again it wasn't Bosco, and they had come to another dead end, Logan would be killed by Cruz and Faith. Both of them sick of having their hopes being let down, and it was just never wise to piss off a woman with high emotions who also owned a gun and carried one.

Silence and tension was in the air as they rode the elevator up. Cruz rolled her eyes seeing Kyle and Nurse Evans eyeing each other. They had no idea what kind of turmoil Faith and herself had been put through. She tried to ignore it but as soon as the elevator opened up she pushed through hard between them, uttering under her breath, "god get a room."

Nurse Evans glared at Cruz as Kyle moved away, keeping his space as they began walking towards the patients' rooms down the dimmed corridor. Later into the night they turned the lights low so if they wanted to keep a door open and keep their eyes on the patients they wouldn't be bothering them with the lit up hallway. Evans stopped and glanced and whispered. "I can only let one in, there's another patient in there."

Faith's eyes had been down as her thoughts were running wild, but when she heard only one could go in she immediately stepped up quickly before Cruz could say anything. "I'll go."

Cruz's words were caught in her throat. She wanted more then anything to go in there, but reluctantly watched as Faith stepped into the room with the Nurse. For once she didn't argue and just prayed that it was Bosco and they had finally found him.

Faith could barely see in the room that was almost pitch black as she tried to mentally prepare herself. She watched as Nurse Evans walked to the last bed and nodded her over as she checked the chart to make sure it absolutely him. Slowly Faith made her way towards her but almost wanting her legs to collapse under her. She just couldn't do this anymore and glancing at some of the beds being occupied by other patients. Part of her wondering what their story was, how did they end up here? Closing her eyes as she cleared the curtain separating the room, she then opened them and she about dropped right where she was. For on the bed, her former partner of 10 years, Bosco who she thought had been murdered was asleep unaware of the world around him.

Still staring at him Evans then asked the woman "Is that him?" When she didn't get a response she then turned to see that Faith had put her hand over her mouth as tears began to fall down as she then shook her head yes. She then walked over and immediately sat down and grabbed Bosco's hand.

Slipping out of the room quietly she then came up to Cruz who was standing there watching for any kind of reaction. Cruz's eyes traveled to see if she could see Faith still standing by the door, half expecting to be told it wasn't him and Faith had finally lost it. But she didn't see Faith anymore and she saw a smile on Evan's face.

"It's him."

Cruz found herself stepping back at hearing this news. She then went to walk into the room wanting to see it for herself, when the nurse intercepted her by putting her hand in front of the door way. "I can only have one in there right now." Cruz had not come this far to be stopped by some nurse who was on a power trip. So she did what she knew how to do best, push back. Without even a bit of hesitation she then pushed hard through the nurse's arm and caused Evans to drop her arm back to her side or have her arm broken from Cruz pushing through.

The nurse was going to follow her but Kyle grabbed her shoulders, "let them be." Evans had thought about it as she glared into the room but then relaxed and decided she'd rather stay outside with Kyle anyways.

Cruz stopped in front of Bosco's bed and held a gasp that wanted to escape when she saw how badly he looked. Faith looked to see Cruz was there and for the first time in the history between the two women, both smiled as they had found the one thing they had been looking for what seemed for so long but only been long a few tiring days. They had found Bosco.

(An Unknown Location)

A man was walking back and forth as he realized the danger he was in. He should just skip town and leave, for he had failed his job. Losing the Officer that he had sworn to watch over until his boss was ready was not good considering the type of boss he had. Now the Officer was gone and he had nothing. He heard footsteps and turned around.

"Well?"

"I…uhh…he's gone."

Silence. This was the moment of his life for either a gun would be pulled out and he would be shot and killed, or he would be given a second chance. He could feel his heartbeat starting to pick up as he heard the footsteps coming closer. Feeling hot breath on his face as he then glanced up and rage was speaking volumes in his boss's eyes.

"This isn't good…." He then felt the eyes travel down his body, maybe seeing if he had Kevlar vest on, "fix it or," turning around "I'll make sure nobody will ever find your body ever again, you understand me?"

"..Ya….Yes." Finding himself stuttering as the sound of the door vibrating through out the entire room. He really had to find another job, before it was the death of him.

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