Too Late? Chapter 3, a third watch fanfic

Too Late?

Chapter 3

Swersky couldn't believe what he just did. He just quit his job. "Bob, you can't be serious," Swersky's boss said, as he walked into Swersky's office where Swersky was emptying his desk.

"I have to."

" Don't let just one case ruin your career." Swersky turned around. "Just one case. Boscorelli wasn't just a case, he was one of us. Is this how you treat one of your own?"

"Boscorelli is gone. He wouldn't want you to do this." Swersky handed him his gun and badge. "Don't talk about him like he is dead, "he said, as he walked out of the office, and headed out of the police station.

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"Now what is someone like you doing in a place like this?" Sully asked the judge. She looked at him. "I could ask you the same thing."

"I asked first." Sully said, as he held onto the glass, still not taking a sip, but wanted desperate to. She sat down on the chair next to Sully. "An old friend of mine is meeting me here."

"In a bar? What kind of judge are you?"

"What judges aren't allow to drink?" the judge said. Sully glanced at her. "You just don't look the type."

"People can surprise you." She then saw her friend coming through the doorway. She looked at him. "I should be going."

"It's good to see you too, Judge." The judgle looked at Sully. "My name is Jenny."

"Judge, it is." Sully said, as he turned away from her.

He stared at his drink.

Save me….. Someone help me.

"No." Sully yelled, as he stared at the drink"Let me out." He grabbed the beer and was about to drink it when someone grabbed it and dropped to the ground. He turned around and saw the judge staring at him. "Why did you do that?"

"You don't need to drink."

He looked at him. "I don't know what people have been telling you, but I'm not a drunk." She looked at him. "That's why you have been staring at your drink instead of drinking it."

"Just leave me alone, go back to your friend. " Sully then looked at the bartender. "I want another beer." The bartender handed it to him. "You don't look good."

He grabbed the beer and walked out of the bar, with the beer still in his hands.

"You're not going to get away from me this time," Jeffery said, as he closed the coffin. "No…" Sully shouted, as the coffin was shutting and he was trapped inside.

"Help me, Sully." Bosco yelled.

"Sully."

"I can't help you…."

"Sully..."

Sully then looked up at the judge staring at him. "Why are you still here?"

"I forgot something in my car and that is when I saw that you were just standing in one place, saying things and the closer I got to you, I saw that you were bleeding."

"What are you talking about?" Sully replied, with this confused look on his face.

Your hand… "

Sully looked down and saw that the beer bottle was broken. She looked at him with a concerned look on her face. "Is everything okay?"

"I'm fine, it's nothing." She stared at him. "I know about what happened to you..."

He just shakes his head. "That is old news." She looked at Sully. "I'm taking you to the hospital."

"It's just a little cut."

She grabbed his hand. " It's not a little cut. What happened to you?"

"I just broke the beer bottle, it's nothing." She glanced at him. "Officer Sullivan, you have been through a lot these past few months it is understandable that you would want to drink, but…"

Sully stared at her. "How did you know that?"

"That you were an alcoholic."

She glanced at him. "My best friend was an alcoholic. I know the signs; I saw the way that you were staring at the beer. She did the exact same thing once, but I wasn't able to help her that time."

" So what you want to save me? I don't need that." She looked at him. "All I want to do is get you to the hospital to fix your hand and then you can go do whatever you want to do."

He nodded. "Fine," he said, as he walked towards the car.

" How's my prisoner doing this evening?" Jeffery laughed as he looked at Bosco with the gag in his mouth. "That's right, you can't talk."

Bosco mumbled through the gag. "Do you want to talk?" Jeffery laughed, as he took the gag off. "You bastard..." Jeffery laughed. "Now that's not how you talk to me. Haven't you learnt anything by now? You still have that attitude on you. What is going to take to make you stop being like this."

"Nothing," Jeffery punched Bosco in the stomach making him yell in pain. Jeffery paced around the room. "Look here, Officer Boscorelli have plans for you, you aren't going to get out of here alive, so you start to listen to me."

"Just kill me."

Jeffery walked over to Bosco and grabbed the knife on the table and placed it over his face. "It will be so easy to just kill you right now, but see Officer, you are special to me, I have been watching you for almost a year, I can't kill you now. You are going to be my captive forever."

Bosco's whole body frozen, this guy has been watching him for nearly a year. How could he be a cop and not realize that? Jeffery glanced at Bosco's face. "I know what you are thinking, what is he going to do to me? Why isn't he killing me like the rest of them?"

Bosco went silent.

"Answer me, damn." Jeffery said, as he grabbed Bosco's face. "When I talk to you, you answer back to me."

Bosco didn't answer. Jeffery grinned at him, as he walked over to Bosco and tighten his bounds. "Are you going to answer me now?" Jeffery tightened them as tight as he could do before Bosco yelled out in pain and yelled. "Fine… yes I want to know why?"

Jeffery laughed. "I won't be telling you," he said, as he pulled a needle out of his pocket. "Officer, you look pretty tired, I think it is time for you to go to sleep."

"No..." Bosco yelled. "No," as Jeffery injected the needle into his arm. "Next time l would suggest that you listen to what I say to you," he said, as he walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

Sully and the judge were waiting in the waiting room to get him checked out. Sully glanced at the judge. "You don't need to stay here, I'll be fine."

She looked at him. "I wouldn't be nice if I didn't stay here." The nurse appeared. "We can see you now." Sully stood up and walked over from the judge.

Ty walked into the hospital and the judge and walked up to her. "I came as soon as I can. What's wrong?" She looked at him. "Your friend needs you right now." He looked at the judge. "It has been a while since I seen you, I didn't know that you and Sully are friends."

"We're not, I saw him at the bar, and he cut his hand on the beer bottle. I know that he is an alcoholic but he didn't take a drink, but I think he is pretty close to it, Officer Davis. You are the only one that I can help him."

"I can't do that again, judge."

"You don't need to do that again, Ty. I didn't take one drop of the beer. I wanted to, but I didn't. So don't worry, you don't need to sober me up again. I won't fall off the wagon. You can go back home." Ty walked over to Sully. "Sully, have you talked to anybody about what happened?"

Sully shakes his head. "I'm not going to listen to this. "he said, as he walked out of the hospital. Ty followed him out. "Sully, wait. I'm just saying that you haven't been yourself lately. I just think that it would be best if you just talked to someone. I don't want you to."

"To drink again, is that what you are saying. You don't need to worry about me, and even if I did start to drink again, it is nothing to do with you."

"It is everything to do with me, Sully. You are my partner and my best friend, I can't let you go down that road again, I won't." The judge walked up to them. "Sully, how do you feel about going out for a late dinner, I'm kind of hungry."

"Don't do me any favors; I'm not going to drink" She smiled at him. "I'm only asking you out because I'm hungry; this has nothing to do with you." Sully glanced at Ty. "That sounds like a great idea." he said, as he walked away from Ty.

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Swersky walked into his house, his wife was sitting on the couch. "You're home early, Bob."

"I quit."

She stood up and walked up to him. "Bob, what happened?" she asked, as she pulled him into a hug. He sighed. "I can't be at a job where they don't care."

"This is about your officer that is gone." He nodded. "He's alive, I know. I will find him." She looked at him. "Bob, you can't keep doing this to yourself. He's gone. You need to move on with your life."

"He's not gone." Bob said, as he walked over to the window. She followed him, and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I know that you don't want to believe it, but the evidence points to that he is gone." Bob turned around. "I'm a cop I know that evidence isn't always right. If I start to believe that he is gone. Then I have to realize that it is my fault that he wasn't saved."

"Bob, it wasn't your fault that he was kidnapped. You did everything that you could do to save him." He looked at her with this sad look on her face. "That's not true, I heard him screaming for me to help him. My own officer was screaming for me, Betty, and I did nothing to find him."

She sighed. "Bob, you have to go back to work and tell them that you want your job back, you can't just quit, you only have a few more years before you can retire. Don't do this."

He stared at her. "You are telling me that you want me to go back to the place where they don't care about a fellow officer. I can't do that, Betty. I won't do that." She glanced at him. "You always care more about your job, haven't you?"

"Betty, this isn't about my job, this is about an officer that needs my help." She looked at him. " I know that, Bob, but what are you going to do when you realize that you were wrong, and he is gone. You just ruined your career for him. I love you, and but I can't always be second for you. You need to choose what you want. Your job or me?"

"It's not that like that. I am choosing to save a life."

"Bob, it has been two months, he is gone now. " Bob grabbed his jacket. "I need to get out of here for a while." he said, as he slammed the door shut.

Later that night,

Jeffery was sitting in his office when one of his men walked up to the door. "Boss, we have a problem." Jeffery turned around. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"You remember your last captive, well it seems like he didn't die like you thought he did. He's alive, and he is talking to the police. This is not good, Jeffery. I know Charlotte is there to keep an eye on everything, but I just have a bad feeling about this. What do you want me to do?"

"I need you to first find out who he talked to and what this guy knows. Get back to me as soon as you can." Jeffery sighed, as the man walked out of the office. Jeffery paced around the room. He has worked so hard to get Bosco here.

He walked back into Bosco's cell, and looked at him sleeping. "I can't let anybody find where you are. I just can't."

"No…." Bosco yelled. Jeffery looked at Bosco, having a reaction to the drug he gave him. "Don't hurt her... Please…"

"No…" he screamed. Jeffery kicked him in the stomach. "Time to wake up." Bosco was slowly starting to wake up and looked at Jeffery. "Don't hurt her. " Jeffery grinned at Bosco. "So who is this she that you don't want me to hurt. "Your partner, your mom, or that little girl? So many to choose from,"

"Don't you dare hurt them? You have me, leave them alone." Jeffery walked over to Bosco. "See Officer Boscorelli, you still have that attitude, I think I know the only way that you are going to listen to me."

"If you hurt them, I will kill you." Jeffery laughed, as he looked at Bosco. "Do you really think you are in a position to threaten me? There is no way that you are going to be able to escape, so you can't hurt me."

"I will."

Jeffery walked over to the table and grabbed the knife and placed it over Bosco's mouth. "I bet your mouth is pretty sore isn't it? So if I just move the knife right here, it would hurt wouldn't it?"

Bosco went silent, he had to stay strong, it was his only chance to survive this. Jeffery looked into Bosco's eyes. "Officer, you have been here nearly two months, you're not getting out of here. I'm just starting with you. Jeffery then walked over to the kitchen. "I bet you are pretty hungry, you haven't eaten for days now. "

"I don't need any food."

Jeffery laughed at Bosco. "Really, you think that. How about some water?" he said, as he brought the water towards Bosco's mouth. "Wouldn't this be nice right now? See officer, you don't get any of that, "Jeffery grabbed a chair and sat down. " My partner was just like you, he was young and thought he could do anything and nothing bad would happen to him, but it did, officer, and now you are going to pay for his sins."

"What about the other officers, why did they have to die, if I'm paying for your partner's sins?" Jeffery grabbed Bosco's broken arm. "Did I say you could talk about my partner?" Bosco yelled out in pain. Jeffery continued his story. "I saw you one night and you sounded like my partner, I knew that you were the next target, but you had to go and get yourself shot, so I had to wait for you to get better. Then it just wasn't the right moment to take you. The other officers were just like you, I had to get ruin of everybody that was like my partner, but unlike you, they gave in after a few weeks. You are a challenge, Officer."

"So what are you going to do to me? Just keep on hurting me over and over again. Isn't that getting kind of old,"

"We can't spoil the fun, now can." Jeffery said, as he walked up to Bosco, and kicked him into the stomach. Bosco's whole body jerked back. He didn't know how much more his body could take. It felt like every bone in his body was broken.

"I have enough of this. Your attitude is going to stop right here." he said, as he untied Bosco's hands from the wall. Jeffery glanced at Bosco and could tell by the look in his eyes that he was afraid for his life. "I'm not going to kill you just yet. " Jeffery then walked over to the table and grabbed the handcuffs.

Jeffery grabbed Bosco's hands and roughly put the handcuffs on them. "Did I hurt you?" He then untied Bosco's feet and put chains on them. "Now start walking."

"Where are you taking me?"

Bosco was so afraid of what Jeffery was going to do to him. Jeffery then opened the door and throws him into the room.

"Officer… what I'm going to show you is that I know where all your loves one are. I can hurt them whenever I want, so you start listening to me, or I will kill them."

He turned the TV on and there was Faith at her office. "She would be so easy to kidnapped and so much fun to hurt. Would you like her to join us, or how this one?" he said, as he saw a picture of Rose. Bosco looked at him in fear. "Don't you dare hurt my ma," he yelled, as he moved towards Jeffery.

"Now officer, move away from me." Bosco looked at Jeffery. "You are a coward, you can't even kill me." Jeffery grabbed a hold of Bosco and pushed him against the wall. "I'm not a coward; I can hurt you right now." He said, as he throws Bosco onto the ground, and started to punch him over and over again. He then brought the knife towards Bosco's face, and started to cut the uniform off, and stab Bosco in the leg. "No..." Bosco screamed.

Jeffery laughed. "You think I can't hurt you. I can and I will." he said, as he grabbed a hold of Bosco, and pushed him against the wall. Jeffery grabbed Bosco's handcuff's hands and put him over his head, and using the hand that was broken, he moved it over so many different ways that he knew that Bosco was in pain. Pain that he made happen, but Bosco was going to say anything because he wanted to stay strong, but Jeffery knew that wasn't going to last.

"Okay officer, you are going to be like that. I'm just going to have to do something about that," He laid Bosco on the bed in the room. Bosco saw the needle lying on the table. This was it, he was going to die. Jeffery walked over to the needle and walked over to the vital, and then walked over to Bosco and inject in into his arm. "No…"

"Just relax."

Then suddenly everything went black.

Sully had just got back from having dinner with Jenny when he saw Ty sitting by his apartment. "Davis, what are you doing here?"

He looked up at Sully. "I needed to check that you were okay." Sully opened the door to his apartment, and took off his jacket. "Ty, I know that you are worried about me, but I'm fine." Ty glanced at him. "Sully, you were in a bar, you're not fine." Sully sat down on the couch. "I told you already that I didn't take a drink. Shouldn't that mean something to you." Ty sat down next to him. "Sully, you have been sober for some many years, don't let Jeffery make you fall off the wagon. I don't want that for you, you worked so hard."

"I won't let him do that, Ty." He glanced at Ty. "Go home and be with Sasha." Ty shakes his head. "She…" Ty walked over to the window. "She's blaming herself for Bosco's disappearance. She and I aren't talking; she is too into finding him, Sully. I can't stop her; she is working all day and all night. He's gone, Sully. Why can't she figure that out?"

Sully smiled slightly. "It's easier for her to believe that he is alive than realize that she was so close to save his life."

"I know that, but why won't she let me help her."

"Everybody deals with things like this differently." Sully responded. Ty turned to Sully. "Please just don't deal with this by drinking." Sully pulled him into a hug. " I won't. You need to trust me, Davis."

Davis stood up. "Help me then and stop going to bars. If you need someone, just call me." Sully nodded. "Go home."

Davis nodded, as he hugged Sully and walked out of the apartment.

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He watched her. She was working in her office. He didn't want to take her, but he needed to change things around and this would definitely do that.

He needed everybody to stop thinking about Bosco and start to think about something else, and she was definitely the best option.

"Hello?" he said, as he catches her off guard. She turned around and he could tell by the look on her face that she knew exactly who he was. " No.." she screamed. He placed his hand on her mouth. "Shh..."

"No." she screamed. Charlotte then walked into the office. "Jeffery, what are you doing? You don't take woman." He looked at her. " I'm changing my plans, and you are going to help me," he said. "Make sure that nobody sees us, we will be going out the fire exit."

"No…" she screamed, as Jeffery moved his hand away from her. He looked at Charlotte. "I need to check that there is no evidence that I was here." No," the woman said, struggling in the grip that Jeffery had on here. "No... let me go," she screamed. He placed his hand on her mouth. "You are going to be quiet. You don't want to upset me."

He looked at Charlotte. "Remember no evidence." She looked at Jeffery. "Why are you doing this?"

"I know and that is all that matters." Jeffery said, as he dragged the woman out of the office.

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Bob woke up to a knock at the door. He opened the door and saw his wife standing in front of him. "Betty, I'm sorry about last night, but I can't just forget about him. I need to do this. I love you." She looked at him. " I know you do, and that is why I thought you might want to see this person that show up at our place this evening."

Bob nodded.

"Who?"

The man moved towards the door. "Could we talk inside?" Bob nodded, as Betty pulled her arms around him. " I love you, Bob, I know that you aren't choosing your work over me, but I need some time to think right now. I think you are going to be busy with work for now. " Bob glanced at his wife. " Are you asking me for a divorce?"

"No, Bob, just some time apart.,"

The man walked into the hotel room, and sat down. She looked at him. "You talk with him, I'll see you later." She said, as she left. The man glanced at Bob. "I'm sorry about this. I didn't mean to do anything to ruin your marriage."

"You didn't. So tell me what you needed to see me." The man closed the door, and locked it. He closed the blinds, and make sure that nobody was listening.

"Okay, "he said, as he sat down on the bed. "My name is Alex, I'm an police officer at 39, the serial killer that you kidnapped your officer was my old partner."

Bob looked at him stunned. "Why haven't you come to the police yet?" Alex paced around the room. " He's dangerous. He wasn't always like that. I couldn't risk my family. "

Bob glanced at Alex. "You need to tell me everything you know." Alex looked out the window. "My partner was always taking risks, it was like he didn't care, and I think that all goes back to the night that he loses his wife." He turned around. " She died because of him. Jeffery, who you know isn't his real name. He used to live in Boston, he said to me. He told me about his wife and how she dies because he was undercover with the mob. She was shot twice."

"Was this in New York or Boston?"

"I don't know, I don't know what to believe about that guy anymore. He was the best partner that I had; I thought he was my best friend. I never thought that he could do what he did to me." Alex replied, as he tried to stay composed. Bob looked at him. "You don't need to tell me this."

"I need to."

"One night, I found out that he was the killer that we were going after. I didn't get back up that night, I thought that he was there capturing the suspect, not capturing a victim. , I never thought that he was the guy. I never thought that I could be so wrong about someone. He saw that I saw what he was doing, and he chased me down the alley, he shot me once in the shoulder and once in the knee. He then dragged me and he kidnapped me. I…."

Alex walked over to the bathroom and splashed water in his face. "I was locked in a cell for two weeks; I didn't know what he was going to do to me. I thought I was going to die. Then the cops found me. Jeffery told them that he was here to save me. They believe him, they believe a killer over me. I left town and I forgot about New York, until I saw that he was starting again. I couldn't let this happen again."

"So why now?" Bob asked. "My officer isn't the first one."

"Because he looks exactly like me, and I think that your officer was kidnapped for a different reason than the others, I think Jeffery has a whole different plan. I want to help you find him and make sure that Jeffery pays."

Bob nodded. "Are you sure that is a good idea?" Alex nodded. "It is, and I think we need to start at the beginning, find out exactly when our "killer" "started" everything.

"You know that I'm not with the cop anymore." Alex nodded. "That is why I come to you, I need that we can do this own way. Partners?"

Bob nodded. Alex turned to Bob. "First call your wife and sort everything out, we will start in the morning, I'm staying right next door to you. See you in the morning." Bob nodded, as Alex left the hotel room.

Bob grabbed his phone, and dialed his wife's number. "Bob, I don't want to talk to you."

"Please, Betty, listen to me. I know that you don't understand why I'm doing this, but I need to save his life. I know that he is alive."

"Bob, don't do this."

"I have to. I love you, Betty. Whatever happens, remember that I love you and the kids more than anything." Betty's voice change into concern. "Are you doing something that's not safe?"

"I don't know what will happen, Betty."

"Just come home, Bob."

"I can't."

"I can't say that you will have a place to come back to when you realize that your officer is gone. I can't promise that I will wait." She said, as she hung up the phone. He throws his phone across the wall. " Damn it."

Help me.. Help me.

Bob didn't want to lose his wife, but this was more than just saving a life, he could finally fell like he was doing something about this, instead o f just sitting in an office.

I'm coming, Bosco. Hang on.

He then grabbed the picture of his wife out of his pocket. "I love you, Betty. We will get through this. We have to." He said, as he turned the lights out and went to sleep

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Bosco didn't know how he got out, but he was free. He was finally free. He was finally going to go home. I miss you, Ma, he said. But then something happened to him, he couldn't move. Every bone in his body was broken; every step that he took was making the pain worse.

"I need to do this, "he yelled to himself, as he grabbed his leg. " Just one leg…"

"No…" he screamed, as he collapsed onto the ground. He was finally free, and he couldn't do anything about it. He failed himself. He was just like all those other officers that Jeffery captured. Jeffery had finally won.

Jeffery walked into his office, and looked at his security camera and saw that there was a certain prisoner lying on the ground. " What the hell?" he yelled. He bumped into one of his man. "What's Officer Boscorelli doing outside?"

"He escaped." Jeffery grabbed a hold of the man and pushed him against the wall. "Now we know that is not true, so are you going to tell me how he got of there, and be careful what you say because your life is in the balance,"

"I couldn't… let" Jeffery shakes his head. "That is the wrong answer."

"You can't keep doing this to them. Don't you think he has gone through enough already? Just let him go." Jeffery still holding on the man. "Did I ask your opinion? I am paying you big bucks, and this is how you repay me." He walked over to the cell and opened the door and throw the man in there. "I'll deal with you later." he said, as he closed the door behind him.

Jeffery walked outside, and saw that Bosco was gone. "Damn it."

Suddenly he saw that Bosco was crawling onto the ground. "This is more fun than I thought it would be. Maybe I should leave him out there for a little bit longer; this could work to my advance."

Jeffery walked back inside and opened the door and saw his new prisoner looking at him. "It looks like your roomie is taking a nice long stroll for a while, so it looks like you are alone for now."

"Why are you doing this?" she asked. He walked up to her. "Officer, I don't think we know each other enough to tell stuff like this. I will tell you something, I need to do something different, so everybody will forget about Bosco and start to worry about you."

"Why me?" she asked. He smiled. "Actually you were just the first person that I saw last night, but my partner told me that you have been investigating me, so it seem like I pick the right person."

"Please just let me go…"

He shakes his head. "I can't do that, Sasha."

To be continued!!