"Desperate Measures"

Summary: Angst/Drama

Disclaimer: I do not own any Third Watch characters except for Meghan Boscorelli.

Chapter 6

Meanwhile back at the 55th precinct, a group is gathered in the conference room to figure out a plan to rescue Meghan. Bosco is standing at the front of the room while Faith, Sully, Davis, Monroe, and Finney are sitting at the desks. Cruz walks in and sits down at another desk. Everyone looks at her wondering why she was here. She never helped unless it would somehow help her out. Cruz notices everyone looking at her.

"Don't look at me like that. When anything involves a fellow officer, I'm there to help." She informs the group.

"Go ahead, Bosco. Tell us what you got." She tells Bosco.

"Okay. Well I know we have to come up with something quick. Craig isn't going to waste time to get back to Tennessee. I also have a feeling that this time he's going

to kill Meghan. This son of a bitch is a senator who has a private jet. So we need to start with that."

Meanwhile downstairs, Rose Boscorelli walks into the precinct. She walks up to the desk where Lt. Swersky is standing. He watches her walk up.

"How are you Rose?" He asks her.

"I'm doing good. Can you tell me if Maurice is here? I wanted to see if he was hungry." She tells him.

"Bosco is actually in the middle of something."

"Oh, is it something really important?" She asks him.

"I don't think I should be the one to tell you that."

"Why? What's wrong?" Rose was now getting extremely worried. Anytime someone would act this way, it was because one of her kids were involved. Well, she wasn't going to wait and find out. She lost a son already and she wasn't about to lose another child. She was going up and get the truth right from Maurice.

Rose starts to walk up the stairs towards the roll call room.

"Rose, you can't go up there" He yells up to her, but it's too late. Rose is already down the hall.

Inside the roll call room, the group gathered there are finalizing their plan.

"Finney and I will be checking out the hotels. You said this guy is a senator so we'll check out the usual places that politicians stay." Davis replies.

"While you are doing that, Monroe and I will check out the airport and see if we can put a hold on any flight he has scheduled to leave." Sully informs the group.

"Good, we'll keep in touch by cell phone in case he has a radio." Bosco tells everyone.

Just as everyone stands up, Rose opens the door and stands just inside the doorway. She sees the small group that is gathered there and realizes that this isn't a department thing, it's personal.

"Maurice, what's going on. Don't lie to me." She begs Bosco.

Everyone is filing out of the room except for Rose, Faith and Bosco.

"Ma, what are you doing here?" He asks.

"I came to see if you wanted to eat, but by the way Lt. Swersky was acting, I needed to come up here. Something is going on and I want to know what it is."

Faith walks over to Rose and starts to lead her back to one of the desk.

"Rose, I think you need to sit down."

"Faith, please. I know Maurice doesn't want me to know, but if it's about one of my remaining children, I have a right." She pleads with Faith.

Bosco walks up to the desk that Rose is now sitting at. He pulls another desk closer to her. Faith is standing beside Bosco.

"Meghan is in town. She came to seek my help to leave Craig once and for all." Bosco tells her.

Rose is starting to get worried. She knows what kind of man Craig Phillips can be.

"Maurice, where is she? He'll hurt her when he finds her."

Bosco looks at Faith and she knows that he wants her to finish the story.

"Rose, Bosco and Meghan were getting ready to go into his apartment when two men jumped them. They roughed Bosco up and took Meghan."

Rose immediately looks back to Bosco with the look of fear covering her face.

"Maurice, you have to find her. You know what he is capable of."

"Don't worry. That's what we just did. We have a plan to get Meghan. I need you to go home and wait for my call."

"I can't go home. I want to be there when you find her."

"Ma, I promise you I'll bring her straight to you when we find her. Please go home and wait for me there." Bosco tells his mom.

"It's okay, Rose. We're going to do everything we can. We won't let him hurt her." Faith says trying to comfort Rose a little.

A look passes between Bosco and Faith. They both pray that they will find Meghan in time.