You're Never Alone

Author's Note: Thanks Jamie for all your help.

Chapter 6

"No…your wrong!"

Ty looked down to the floor before looking back up at his friend. "Bosco…I wish I was. The lab double checked all the tests just to make sure."

"I don't care how many times they checked it!" Bosco shouted, rounding on Ty. "If she was gone…I'd feel it!"

Lieu put his hand on Bosco's shoulder. "I know this is hard for you…we didn't want it to end up like this."

Bosco shrugged off Lieu's hand, his face full of rage, hurt and confusion. "Until I see her body with my own eyes…she's alive, Lieu!"

"Bosco-" Sully started, his eyes sullen and sad. "You know as well as we all do that-"

"That what?" Bosco shouted, cutting Sully off. "That what, she's dead? That there's no point in even looking for her? Let me tell you something…if it was me that had gone missing, Faith would never stop looking. It wouldn't matter if it was a body that she was looking for, she wouldn't quit on me!" He paused, running his hand through his short hair as a single tear fell down his cheek. "And I won't quit on her."

"Bosco, don't do this to yourself."

"Don't do what? Have hope?"

Lieu cautiously placed an arm across Bosco's trembling shoulders. "You know…that we're not going to find her alive. She's gone, Bosco."

"Bosco." Ty said softly, his voice failing.

Shrugging Lieu's arm off again, Bosco looked over at Davis. "Ty, leave me alone. All of you, just leave me alone!" He left the room, taking off down the hallway.

"Boss, do you think he's going to be okay?"

"I don't know, Ty. I really don't know."

Sasha and Lynn met up at the bottom of the steps into the precinct. "Did Sully ask you to meet him here to?" Sasha asked as they started up the steps.

Lynn nodded. "Sully didn't sound like himself on the phone." She opened the door, and they walked inside.

Ty and Sully approached them, both looking extremely sad. Sasha smiled at them. "I'm sorry that I couldn't help look for Faith today…but I had to get back to the office."

"Sasha, "Ty said, sadly, his voice breaking.

"What's the matter?"

"I think you will need to sit down," Ty told her.

"I can't listen to this again." Sully said, as he rushed out of the police station. Lynn looked at the others before quickly following him outside.

Ty led Sasha to a bench by the door and helped her sit down. "We got some news about Faith this afternoon, she's-" He stopped, as tears started down his face.

Sasha swallowed hard. "She's dead, isn't she?"

"We found a car and there was blood everywhere. The seats, the…floor mats." Ty said, as tears started to fall down his cheeks again. "The…lab ran it…it tested positive for Faith's blood type. There was no body, but you know as well as I do, that-"

"I know, Ty." She said, as she put her arms around him. "I can't believe this. I've been praying that there was a chance, that we'd have some sort of miracle-"

"We all were." Ty responded, rubbing Sasha's back as he tried to sooth her.

She sat up, wiping at her tears. "How are you holding up?"

Ty looked down on the ground. "I can't get the image out of my head, of all the blood everywhere; I can only imagine what she went through. Why couldn't we save her?"

Sasha reached a hand up, wiping away a tear that snaked down his cheek. "You did everything that you could to find her."

"But it wasn't good enough was it. She still suffered." Ty said sadly.

"You did the best you could, don't blame yourself,"

Ty sighed. "How can I not blame myself?"

"Try." Sasha said. She then grabbed a hold of his hand. "Everything's going to be okay, I can't believe that she's gone. We were never that great of friends after she found out I work for IAB, but I always respected her as a cop. I'm just so sorry that it had to end like this. How's Bosco doing?"
Ty sighed. "How do you think he is doing? I don't know what this is going to do to him losing Faith like this. He's already not believing it; he won't until he finds a body."

"I would be the same way if something happened to you, Ty, I wouldn't want to believe you were gone." Sasha responded. "I would want to keep hope as long as I could."

"But Sasha, it's not good for him. There is no way we are going to find her alive." Ty replied.

Sasha nodded. "He knows that, but the heart makes you think weird things when you are hurting. Where is he? I would like to see him."

"I wouldn't do that, Sasha, maybe later. He needs to be alone right now." Ty said.

Sasha grabbed his hand. "Let's get out of here"

Ty nodded. "Ok." And they quietly left the station…

Lynn and Sully were sitting in a bench outside of the precinct. He was looking ahead, as if lost in his own world…his own thoughts. Lynn already knew about Faith, but she wanted to give Sully the chance to talk about it if he wanted to…she reached over and took his hand gently. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"She's dead, we couldn't save her. We help people all the time, but we couldn't save one of our own."

Lynn gave his hand a squeeze, before raising it to her lips "I'm so sorry, John,"

"I knew the moment that they said that they found his car, that it wasn't good news, and then when we open the car door-" He swallowed hard, his face paling lightly.

"John, you don't need to do this." Lynn spoke softly.

"I need to get this out." Sully whispered, looking down to the ground.

"Take your time, I'm here for you."

Sully took a deep breath as he spoke. "There was blood everywhere in the car, I knew at that moment she was gone, I didn't need any tests to know that was her blood."

"Isn't there a chance that she's still alive?"

Sully shakes his head. "Even though there was no body in the car, there is no way she could survive that."

Reaching her arms around him, Lynn pulled him into an embrace "I'm so sorry, I didn't get to know her, but by what you told me about her, she sounds like a great person."

"She was." Sully said. "I just wish we could have found her."

"I know you do."

"What kind of cops are we if we can't find one of our own. I have lost many people before, but this time it is different, because there was a chance that we could have saved her life, but we didn't."

"Did you find her? And let her die. No, John. So don't blame yourself."

Sully nodded. "I know…"

"How about we go back to Ty's place. It's not going to do you any good being here."

Sully nodded. "You are right. Thanks for being here, Lynn."

"I'll always be here for you, John." He said, as she put her arms around her, as they walked back to the car.

A hour later,

Lieu was talking on the phone when he saw Wiggs walk into the precient. " Mike." Lieu shouted.

Wiggs looked at him with a sad look on his face. "I didn't want to end up like this, Bob. I want to find her so bad. She was such a great detective."

"She was, Mike. She was one of my best cops."

"Don't tell me she's gone." said a voice; they turned around and saw Jeff standing in front of them.

"I thought you heard about it already, Jeff." Wiggs said.

"I've been out on a case all day." He looked down to the floor, his face whitening. "This can't be happening."

"I'm sorry, Jeff, I know you and she were friends." Lieu said softly. "Especially since you were the one who found out she was missing in the first place."

"This can't be happening, she can't be gone." Jeff repeated, shaking his head. "Where did you find her?"

"Well, we haven't actually found her body." Wiggs said.

"Then why are you saying that she's dead." Jeff yelled, as tears started to fall down his cheeks.

"We got a lead about a car in the river, I don't want to go into details, but there was blood everywhere in the car, there is no way that she could survive."

"But there's no body, so she's still alive."

"Jeff, you know as well as I do, that's she couldn't have survive that." Wiggs said.

Jeff looked at Wiggs with this sad look on his face. "But how do you know that?"

"Jeff, why don't you take a few days off, I know this is hard for you." Wiggs told him. Jeff nodded, and walked away from Wiggs and Lieu.

Jeff walked up to Faith's office, and saw a man sitting in her office. "You must be Bosco."

Bosco snapped his head up, narrowing his eyes. "Who the hell are you, and what are you doing in Faith's office!"

"I'm Jeff McKinnon. I uh…worked with Faith occasionally."

"You are the one that found that she was gone." Bosco said.

Jeff nodded. "I heard the news about Faith; I didn't think anybody was in her office."

"What are you going to get rid of her stuff now that she's gone?" Bosco said. "You listen to me, she's not gone. So don't you even think about touching her stuff!"

Jeff smiled slightly. "You are exactly like she told me you were,"

Bosco didn't have time for this; he didn't want to talk to this Jeff person. "Can you go now?"

"Yep, a jerk exactly how she said that you were."

"Don't talk about her like you knew her!" Bosco yelled.

"I knew her just as well as you did." Jeff said. "But I will leave you alone," He was about to leave the office when he turned around. "I don't believe that she's gone either, not until I see a body will I believe it." He said, as he walked out of the office.

"You're not gone, Faith.. I would know if you were." he said, as he throws stuff off her desk. "Why did you have to do this to me, Faith? Why?" he whispered, as tears started down his face.

"Don't cry, Maurice."

Bosco snapped his head to the doorway, frantically wiping at his tears. "Ma…I didn't see you there."

"I figured that," Rose responded, slowly entering the room. "I heard about Faith, I'm so sorry, Maurice."

"What are you sorry about, she's not gone." Bosco said, as he turned back towards the desk.

She grabbed his hand. "Maurice… don't you walk away from me. I know you are hurting right now, let me help you."

"I told you that she's not gone, I would feel it if she was gone. We are going to find her and bring her home."

"Maurice…. "Rose said, as she grabbed his hand. " I know how important Faith was to you, but this isn't going to do you any good,"
"I would know if she was dead…I would feel it. She's not." He yelled, his voice breaking.

Rose put her arms around Bosco, stroking his hair in an attempt to soothe him. "I know you don't want to believe it."

"I can't believe it, I won't." He broke the hug, walking over to the wall where pictures were hung…Faith's smiling face looked out at him from one of the frames.

He then started to cry. "She's not dead, ma…she's not." Turning around, he leaned back against the wall…slowly sliding down it to the floor.

Rose quickly went to him, kneeling down and pulling him into her arms. "Shh, let it all out."

He grasped at her shirt, trying to get as close to her as possible. "She can't be ma, she can't. She wouldn't leave me alone-"He paused, letting out a great big sniffle. "If she's gone ma, then it's my fault for not keeping her safe. She was my partner I should have be there for her."

"You haven't been her partner for a long time, Maurice."

"That doesn't matter; I'll always be her partner." He said softly, once again pulling Rose closer. "Always."

"Maurice-"

"But she's not gone… there's no body... So she's still alive no matter what anybody says... she has to be alive ma…cause if she was dead, a part of me would have died with her. I love her so much."

"I know you do…" Rose said, as she grabbed a hold of his hand. "Come on, let me take you home."

"I don't want to leave, Ma."

"It's not good for you staying here. Let me take you home and take care of you."

Bosco shook his head, wiping at his tears. "I can't leave her office, there has to be a clue somewhere, something that we missed before."

"I didn't ask you to come with me, Maurice." She said, her voice serious. "I'm telling you."

"I love you, Ma, but I'm a big boy now, I can take care of myself."

"You listen to your mom and go home with her now." Lieu appeared at the door, looking at me with narrow eyes. "I might not be your boss anymore, but I can tell Wiggs to tell you to get out of this precinct, so we can do it the easy way or the hard way."

Rose tried to smile. "Thank you, I know he won't listen to his mother, but he has to listen to you."

"I don't have to listen to any of you." Bosco said loudly as he stood up.

Rose looked at Bosco. "I love you Maurice, I know you are in pain right now, but you are being really stubborn, just let me take you home."

"Fine…But don't think this means that I think she's dead, but because I don't" he said, as he walked out of Faith's office.

Meanwhile,

Greg looked at Faith in the passenger seat. He smiled to himself as he thought about what a genius he was…putting that blood in his car would throw the entire investigation off. Now that they thought she was dead, there was no reason to continue the search.

"What are you smiling at?" Faith asked.

"I'm just thinking about our life together"

"We aren't going to have a life together; someone is going to find me."

Greg grinned. "No… that is where you are wrong." I made sure that nobody would come after you. he thought to himself.

Faith then looked out the window, as they were driving down the road. She had this bad feeling that she was never going to be found, she is going to be stuck with Greg for the rest of her life.