You're Never Alone
Rating pg for bad language
Chapter 12
The next morning,
Bosco looked at Faith sleeping peacefully. He was happy that she was finally getting some rest, which is just what she needed. While he quietly got out of the bed, he noticed her hands, and saw where she had been tied up. It made him sick to his stomach to think what she went through.
"I'm sorry it took me so long to find you." Bosco said, as he touched her face. He then walked out of the door. He turned to Sully who was standing outside the door. "I'm just going to be gone for a few minutes; can you just keep an eye on her?"
Sully nodded.
Bosco then walked towards the bathroom, walked over to the sink, and put water on his face.
All he could see were the bruises and cuts on Faith's wrists. He then flashed back to Faith lying in the backseat, all ducted taped together. His partner, his friend.
Bosco put more water on his face. "I'm sorry... Faith."
Bosco didn't hear someone walking into the bathroom. "Bosco, are you okay?" said a voice. He turned around and saw Jeff standing in front of him.
"I'm fine." Bosco said, as he moved away from the sink. Jeff didn't know Bosco well, but he knew that he wasn't alright.
"I know how hard this whole thing has been for you. You can talk to me."
Bosco looked at Jeff. "I'm fine. So how's your wife?"
Jeff had this big smile on his face. "I have a daughter; she was born one o clock in the morning.
Bosco patted Jeff on the back. "Congratulations Jeff."
Jeff then pulled Bosco into a hug. "Thank you."
"I should be getting back to Faith." Bosco said, as he walked out of the bathroom.
Later that day,
Lieu walked into Faith's room. "Bosco, I just wanted you to know that we have a sighting of Greg about half an hour away from here. Someone said that he was staying a hotel. They overheard someone say, "Greg, we are supposed to get out of town", but he said that he couldn't leave her. He wanted to , but he can't,"
"What are we doing here? Let's get him."
Bosco turned to Faith, and saw the scared look on her face.
"He's after me. He couldn't leave town because he is coming to get me," she said. Bosco looked at her. "He's not going to find you. I promise you. I won't let him anywhere near you."
Bosco then turned to Faith." I will stay here with you."
She then looked at Bosco. "Go. I know you want to, but just please be careful, Boz. He's dangerous. He will hurt you. I can't lose you."
Bosco hugged Faith. "I won't do anything stupid."
Faith looked at Bosco.
"Okay, I won't do anything too stupid." Bosco said, with a slight grin. He then turned to Rose, who had just entered the room. "I need you to stay with Faith."
"Bosco."
"Faith. I can't leave you by yourself. It looks like Sully is coming with us, but Ty is here."
Faith sighed. "Fine. Go." she said, as Bosco and Lieu headed out of the room.
Rose grabbed the chair and looked at Faith. "How are you feeling?" she asked.
"Scared."
Rose looked at Faith. "I know you are scared, but he can't find you." Rose said, gently. Faith shakes her head. "I'm not scared for myself, I'm scared for Bosco."
Rose looked at Faith. "He's gone after him, hasn't he?" Rose asked.
Faith nodded. "I know how dangerous Greg is, he will kill Bosco if he gets a chance." Faith said, as tears started to fall down her cheeks.
"Don't think about that, Faith. Maurice is going to be fine." Rose said, as she pulled something out of her bag. "I brought you some magazines."
"Thanks Rose." Faith said, as she grabbed one of the magazines and tried to read it, but all she could think about was Bosco and the danger he was in right now.
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As Lieu and Bosco showed up at the hotel, Wiggs and Michaels looked at Bosco. "Greg was gone when we got here, but his partner we were able to catch."
"So have you gotten anything out of him?"
Michaels smiled at Bosco. "It seem like his partner is telling everything to the police officer."
"Why now?" Sully asked.
Wiggs looked at them. "That I can tell you... Shawn said that Greg told him the police are going to find you or me, and he made sure that Shawn couldn't get away, but he could. I guess Shawn had enough."
"So did he say where Greg was going?"
"I can tell you that." Shawn said, as he came towards them in handcuffs. "That son of bitch said that we are going to leave town together, but he never was going to do that. He wanted me to get arrested. He said that he was going to go back to the beginning to get some things, and then he was going to get her."
"What does back to the beginning mean?" Bosco asked. Shawn looked at him. "The first place that he took Faith. It is a small house about 20 miles away from here."
Bosco looked at Shawn. "I'm going to need your help."
Wiggs and Michaels looked at Bosco. "This isn't your investigation."
Bosco looked at them. "Do you want to catch him or not? It doesn't seem like you know what you are doing."
"Fine." they said, "But if anything happens..."
"I know it will be my fault."
Bosco looked at Shawn. "I need you to phone Greg right now and tell him that you need to see him."
"He's not going to believe that. He made it so the cops would find me."
Bosco smiled slightly. "He doesn't need to know that. Just tell him that the cops didn't find you, but you both need to get out of town now."
"I don't know" Shawn said.
Michaels looked at Shawn. "I'm sure if you help us find Greg, it will help your case a lot."
Shawn nodded. "Fine." he said, as he picked up his phone and dialed a number. Sully walked over to Bosco. "Bosco, you shouldn't be here. This is too personal for you."
Sully looked at Bosco. "It's because it is so personal that I am here. Isn't that the reason you are here. You aren't a cop anymore"
"I'm just retired. Wiggs asked for my help in case they need back- up. I'm still a cop, you know."
Bosco laughed slightly. "You miss this, don't you?"
"Oh yeah." Sully laughed.
Bosco then saw that Shawn off the phone. Shawn turned to them all. "He is going to the house like I said, I told him to meet me there, and we will figure out how to get out of town." Shawn replied.
Bosco smiled. "Good job."
Bosco grabbed Shawn's arm. "Let's go now."
Michaels looked at Bosco. "He's not your criminal."
"Do you think I'm going to let you take him... this is my plan. He's coming in my car."
Shawn looked at Bosco. "What about my handcuffs?" he said, as they walked towards the car. Bosco laughed. "Did you really think we are going to take them off? Are you that stupid?" Bosco replied.
Lieu turned to Bosco. "You might want to be nice to the person."
"Me nice?"
Lieu laughed. "I guess some things don't change." Lieu said, as they walked over to the squad car, and threw Shawn into the back seat.
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As they approached the house, Bosco stopped the car. "Now I don't want you to do anything stupid. You are going to go in the house and then walk outside with him."
Lieu looked at Shawn. "Don't do anything stupid or my friend here is going to be really upset and I can tell you that you are not going to want to mess with him."
Bosco grinned at Lieu.
Bosco then unlocked the handcuffs from Shawn. Bosco and Lieu then got out of the car, and opened the door, and Shawn got outside. "Remember..."
"Nothing stupid." Shawn said, as he walked towards the house. Bosco turned to Lieu. "This has to work."
"It will, but we might want to move the car away." Lieu said. Bosco nodded. "You move and I'll stay here."
"Bosco, don't run after him by yourself."
Would I do that?" Bosco said.
Lieu laughed as he got into the car. "Yes you would"he said, as he got into the car and drove off.
Just then, Greg walked out of the cabin with Shawn behind him. As Bosco ran towards him, Greg punched Shawn in the stomach, making him fall onto the ground. Greg then started to run as fast as he could.
"Stop... police..." Bosco yelled, as he ran after Greg. Lieu, Sully, Michaels, and Wiggs all yelled for Bosco to wait, but Bosco didn't care, there was no way he was going to let Greg get away.
"I'm going to get you jag off!" Bosco yelled.
Greg ran down an alleyway. "You're not going to get away from me this time." Bosco yelled, not hearing the rest of the guys telling him to wait for backup.
Greg got to the end of the alleyway and saw that it was a dead end. Bosco then smiled at Greg with a gun in his hand. "You're not going to get away this time, Greg."
"What are you going to do? Shoot me?" Greg said, with a laugh. "Then I will win because you will be in jail. And then I can get Faith and we will be happy. I'm going to have so much fun with her. She's"
"Don't you dare talking about Faith," Bosco yelled, pushing Greg against the wire fence, not realizing that he had dropped his gun.
"You hurt her, I'm going to make you pay," Bosco shouted, as he punched Greg in the stomach over and over again. Greg laughed. You can't stop me. I will find her and take her again and this time you will never find her. She will be mine."
Bosco then started to punch him over and over again. "You're never going to hurt Faith again. Never..." he shouted. "How does it feel getting beat up, it's not much fun is it?"
"This is fun. I'm glad that we finally got to meet each other." Greg said, as he punched Bosco in the stomach and in the face. Bosco then grabbed his gun that was on the ground.
"I'm going to," but before Bosco could do anything, Lieu and the rest showed up. " Put your arms where I can see them?" FBI Agent Michaels yelled, as he read Greg his rights.
"He tried to kill me." Greg yelled. "I would be dead right now if you hadn't come."
Michaels looked at Greg." Did he threaten you?"
"Well no..."
"Well then he didn't try to kill you." Michaels said, as he put the handcuffs on Greg's hands. "But he beat me up, can't you see?"
Michaels looked at Bosco, whose face was beaten up as well. "It looks like he was defending himself from you. Isn't that right Officer Boscorelli?"
Bosco nodded. "I tried to arrest him, and then he tried to hurt me, I had to defend myself."
Sully, Lieu and the rest knew that wasn't what happened, but they weren't going to say anything, as they knew they would have done the exact same thing.
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All Faith could think about was Bosco. She was getting tired of waiting, she had to find out. She walked out of her room, and as soon as she walked out of the room, Bosco and Sully were coming off the elevator. She ran towards him, and put her arms around him. "Bos."
He looked at her. "It's over, Faith. It's really over."
She then looked at him. "You're bleeding?" she said, pointing at his hand. He looked at his hand, "I didn't see that."
She then touched his face. "You have bruises on your face. You fought with him didn't you?"
"I had to, Faith."
Faith looked at him. "You didn't."
"Yes I did." Bosco said.
"John" Lynn said who was walking towards them. "You're okay?" she said, as she put her arms around him. "I was so worried when Faith told me that you had gone to help."
He looked at her. "I'm fine, Lynn. Everything's fine now."
Ty who was standing guard said, "Is anybody going to tell me anything?"
"We found Greg, Ty. He is in jail." Sully explained.
Bosco looked at Faith. "What are you doing out of the bed?"
She looked at him. "I couldn't wait any longer; I needed to know if you were okay."
"Let's get you back to bed," he said, as they walked into Faith's room, and Faith got into the bed. She then looked at Bosco. "You need to get a doctor to check out your hand, Bosco"
"Its fine"
Faith looked at him. "Do it for me. You could have opened the stitches up, Bos."
Lynn looked at Bosco. "You should do what she says."
"Are you ganging up on me?"
Faith laughed. "Yes we are."
A doctor walked into the room, and he saw Bosco's bleeding hand. "Let me check that out."
Faith smiled at Bosco. "Thank you," she said, as she watched him walk away from them.
Bosco walked back into the room after everybody had left. Faith looked at Bosco and saw that he had a cast on his hand.
"Bos?" Faith said. Bosco sat down next to her. "The doctor said that the stitches came out and that I broken my hand when..."
"When you punched Greg, I know that you didn't do it because you weren't trying to defend yourself, were you, Bosco?"
"I don't have to answer your questions, detective without a lawyer," Bosco said, laughing. Faith smiled.
"Very funny."
Bosco glanced at Faith, and she knew the answer. "So how long do you have to wear the cast?" she asked.
"For a few weeks."
She looked at him. "You know you shouldn't have done it."
"I don't regret it, Faith. I had to make him pay for hurting you." Bosco said.
She looked at him. "You promised me that you wouldn't get hurt."
"No, I promised you I wouldn't do anything stupid, and I didn't."
Faith laughed. "Breaking your hand is not stupid."
"It's nothing, Faith. I've had worse things happened to me." Bosco replied.
Faith's doctor then walked into the room. "I need to check your wound," the doctor said.
Bosco nodded, and walked outside the room
A few minutes later,
Bosco walked back into the room. "How are you doing?" he asked, as the doctor walked out of the room.
"My doctor says that I will have the stitches out in a week or so"
She then opened the gown and touched the bandage.
"Faith,"
She looked at him, with tears in her eyes. "He's always going to be with me."
"No, he's not, Faith. It's just a scar. We all have them" Bosco replied.
Faith looked at him sadly." I wish I could just forget about it, but I can't stop thinking about what happened. I thought.."
He pulled Faith into his arms. "It's going to take time, Faith. I'm going to be here through everything."
"You have a life to get back to."
"No, Faith, my life is here with you. I thought I lost you, I'm not going to leave you now," he said, looking at her. "I'm moving back to New York."
"I can't let you do that, Bos."
"Faith, this is my home, I tried moving away thinking that I would forget about everything bad that happened here, but I couldn't forget the one person that means the most to me. I couldn't forget you."
"Bosco, I appreciated everything that you did for me, but I don't want you moving back here because you think that something is going to happen to me again. It's not. I'm going to be fine."
"I'm not moving back for you, Faith. Yes you are one of the reasons, but I realized that I miss it here."
She smiled at him." I don't know if I believe you."
"Then don't." he said, laughing. She then hugged him. "I miss you so much, Bosco."
She then saw that he was in pain. She then lifted his shirt and saw all bruises on his chest.
"He hurt you like I said he would." Faith said, as she started to shake. "I'm going to lose you. He's going to take you away from me."
Bosco shook his head. "Faith, look at me. I'm fine. It's just a few bruises."
"Hurt you." she cried. He held Faith in his arms. "Faith, Greg's in jail, he can't hurt you or me ever again."
He held onto for what seem like ages, he hated to see Faith like this. Lieu Swersky and FBI Agent Michaels walked into the room. "We need to take Faith's statement."
Bosco let go of Faith, and turned around. "Right now is not a good time for this."
Faith looked at Bosco. "Its fine, I need to do this." she said. He looked at her. "You don't have to."
"Stop protecting me.
Bosco shook his head. "I'll always do that."
He then looked at Lieu. "I trust you that Faith is going to be okay."
Lieu smiled slightly. "I'll make sure of it."
Bosco then turned to Faith. "I'll wait outside for you."
She nodded. "Thanks, Bosco for everything."
He smiled at her, as he left the room.
A few days later,
Faith was getting out of the hospital. "Are you ready?" Bosco asked, as he stood in the doorway. She looked at him. "You don't have to take me home."
"I want to, Faith." he said, as he grabbed her bag. He then looked at her. "I have a surprise for you."
To be continued