The cold steel of the door bit into her hand as she pushed it open.
Back to the door she was ready for everything, or so she thought.
Mind racing the door opened and there he was sitting on a chair waiting on her.
Waiting just for her. Something had to be up here.
"Police, drop the hood!" Faith screamed as she pointed the gun at him.
Slowly he stood from where he had been seated and pulled the sweatshirt hood from his face.
"You really know how to give a guy a workout..." He stated waiting for her reaction.
She didnt know whether to laugh or to cry. It all made sense to her now. Due regard to caution, the probie not following her, this being his apartment building, how blind she had been!!
"I think you can put your gun away now, Faith." Bosco quietly said as he took a step towards her. He didnt know if this was the smartest idea or the stupidest idea he had ever had but he had run out of the others.
Faith stood there frozen in time, as thought the words that Bosco spoke never came.
He did all this for her, to get her attention... To try and get something he knew he could not have.
A sob ripped through her chest as she holstered her weapon.
Was it the thought that he loved her this much or the thought that she could never be with him that caused her to cry? That was the question on both of their minds.
Thinking this might be his opportunity to talk to her and concerned that he had hurt her in some way Bos took a step forward.
"faith?" he meekly spoke
Faith glaired at him and held out her hand in a sign that meant to stay where he was.
"Stay away!" She angrily shouted. "I dont know what the hell you were thinking but stay away!"
She turned her back to him and stared out toward the rest of the city. If it werent for the fact that they had just been on a foot chase the scene might have been really romantic. What with the Empire State Building in the background and the clouds from the storm moving away. Wincing Faith pushed those thoughts from her head.
"Faith, I know I messed up in the past. For years I sat beside you in our unit doing nothing but pushing my feelings for you down and telling you about every other girl I was with. I didn't want to talk about them, and some of them never even existed, I talked about them so I wouldn't talk about what was right in front of us. Us."
He took a step towards her and hearing him she turned to face him. Her face seemed to mellow, he thought's seemed to change.
"Bos, even if that's the case, even if this has been real to us both you can't change at the drop of the hat. We both have responsibilities, families, work... I just dont think that anything like this will work. One night was great but its time to move on."
She said as she walked over to the railing to look down.
He had no words at first. Thinking about what she said confused him. After all, if she too had these worries maybe it was real. Coming to the realization that if it was real to her he had a chance he followed her to the rail, grabbed her waist and turned her around.
Everything seemed to pause while they were face to face and Bosco almost lost his nerve to say what he needed to but realized it was now or never.
"Faith Mitchel, I need you to listen to me without adding anything, you can talk later but right now its my turn." she started to protest but he put a hand over her mouth. Warm against his palm, the fact that she hadn't bit him gave him hope.
"You talk about work,families, and responsibilities but for the last seven years of my life over the family I have, the responsibilities I have known, and all the obstacles work has thrown at me you have been the one thing that has kept me going. I suffered in silence while you stayed with Fred, in a loveless marriage and somehow, when it all ended I thought we would have a chance. Now, after over a year I finally get one.""
He took his hand from her lips and took a step backwards. Using his arms to express his feelings he finished what had taken him years to say.
"Faith you are not another one night stand, or chapter in my life that I'll move on from. I need you. I need you like I have never needed anyone before and if you walk away now, if you leave when I need you most and when we finally have a chance at this thing it will all be for waste. I Love you Faith Mitchell, and I always will."
Something broke inside her, a dam that held back everything and as tears flooded her eyes she ran to him, enveloped him in an embrace and knew in that instance that
"One Night Changes Everything."