"Desperate Measures"
Summary: Angst/Drama
Disclaimer: I do not any Third Watch characters except for Meghan Boscorelli.
Chapter 10
Bosco looks out into the alley and doesn't see Meghan. He starts to get worried now, afraid she might have been hurt.
"Davis, where's Meghan?" Bosco yells to Davis.
Davis looks around. He doesn't see her.
"I wasn't paying attention to where she went. I was concentrating on shooting." Davis informs him.
They hear Finney yell from behind. He is standing at the edge of the dumpsters.
"She's back here and she's been shot." Finney yells.
Bosco jumps over Craig's body and runs up the alley to where Finney is. Davis is following him. When Bosco and Davis reach the area where Finney said Meghan is they see her sitting up against the side of the dumpster holding her right shoulder with her left hand. You can see a some blood on her hand. Bosco kneels beside her. He looks back at Davis.
"Get me a bus!" He yells at Davis.
Davis walks away and gets on the radio. Bosco is trying to look at Meghan's wound.
"Let me see." He tells her.
She pulls her hand away. Faith rushes up and sees Bosco looking at Meghan's shoulder.
"Bos, how is she?" She asks.
He turns around to see Faith.
"Shoulder shot, went clean through."
Bosco sees that Davis is back.
"Do we have that bus coming?" He asks Davis.
"It should be here any minute."
Bosco turns back around to look at Meghan. She is holding her shoulder again.
"Maurice, am I going to be okay?" She asks him.
"You're going to be fine."
"Where is Craig?" Meghan inquires to Bosco.
Bosco looks over to the doorway and sees Cruz covering him up with a sheet. He looks back at Meghan a second later.
"You don't have to worry about him anymore."
"He's dead?" She asks him.
"Yes." Bosco tells her.
Just then Carlos and Grace rush up. Carlos is carrying the jump bag.
"Let us through." Grace tells everyone.
Davis, Finney and Faith all back away to give them room. Bosco doesn't leave Meghan's side.
"Bosco, you have to move so I can get in here and help her." Grace tells him.
"This is my sister and I'm not leaving her side." He tells Grace.
Bosco moves to the other side of Meghan. Meghan looks at him.
"It's okay, Maurice."
"I'll be right back here if you need me."
He backs up a little out of the way. Carlos and Grace kneel on either side of Meghan. Carlos is doing vitals while Grace is checking out Meghan's shoulder. Jelly walks up the alley and up to where the body is lying. There are police officers there taking pictures of the crime scene. Jelly lifts up the blanket and looks at the body.
"What happened here?" He asks the one police officer standing nearby.
"I'm not sure."
Jelly looks up the alley and sees Faith. He yells for her.
"Yokas."
Faith turns around and sees Jelly. She walks down the alley and over to Jelly.
"What happened?" He asks her.
"Didn't Swersky tell you?" Faith asks.
"He just said something about Bosco's sister being forced to go back to Tennessee with her abusive husband. I didn't even know that Bosco had a sister."
"That isn't all. Her husband was Senator Craig Phillips. He came here to take Meghan back home. Apparently he was really abusive. He tried to sneak out the back with her, but Davis and Finney were here. Senator Phillips pulled a gun and pointed it at Meghan's head. She somehow got away. That's when he shot her. Bosco, Davis and Finney returned fire." She informs him.
"They made sure they got the job done. I'm surprised the little men in black suits aren't here yet to cover everything up." Jelly says.
Just then 2 men wearing dark suits walks up the alley and over to them. The one pulls out his identification badge.
"I'm Agent Douglas. I need to talk to whoever is in charge." He asks both of them.
"What took you so long? We've been expecting you." Jelly says sarcastically.