There I'll Be Always

Chapter 13

It has been two weeks, and Sully has wanted to change partners nearly every day, but he promise Faith and he wasn't about to break his promise now.

"Why are you looking into space, are you thinking about the donut that you want?" Bosco smirked. Sully took a deep breath.

"Yes, Bosco, that is exactly what I'm thinking about."

"You don't have to be sarcastic to me."

"I'm not." Sully yelled, as he looked at the window. He wasn't even driving the car, as Bosco made a big deal about he always drives. He learnt after the first week of hell with Bosco to just give him what he wanted.

Sully then suddenly looked at Bosco and saw sadness in his eyes, and exhaustion. "How are the kids?"

"Doing as good as can be expected. You're not Faith, so don't think that we are going to have this great partnership. I only have one partner, and it's not you." Bosco yelled with anger in his voice.

"I know, do you really think I want to be your partner?"

" Then why are you?" Bosco yelled, as he stopped the car in the police station. "Because that is what Lieu wants."

Bosco got out of the car. "I'm going to request a new partner."

"A new partner?" Sully yelled. "Nobody would want to be your partner; I'm the only person beside Faith who would want to be with you."

"I would rather be with Faith any day than you." Bosco said, looking down at the ground. Sully looked at his partner. "Are you okay?"

"Am I okay? Of course I'm okay, why wouldn't I be?" Bosco yelled as he walked into the police station. Sully sighed, as he walked into the police station behind Bosco. "

Bosco."

He turned around. "Our shift is over; you don't need to be nice to me."

Sully walked up to Bosco. "We all care about you."

"You're not Faith. You got it. I don't need someone looking out for me. "

"When I'm your partner, I'm going to look after you."

Bosco turned around. "Well we aren't on the streets anymore are we, so you don't need to look out for me, you hear me. Just leave me alone." He said, as he walked into the locker room.

Sully sighed, as Lieu looked at him. "Are you sure that you want to do this? I can get someone else to be his partner, someone who..."

"Who doesn't care about what happens to him." Sully responded. "I told Faith that I would take care of him and that is what I'm going to do. It looks like he is going to need us."

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A few days later,

Sully was walking down the corridor towards the visitor's room. The atmosphere was exactly what you would expect in a place like this. Dark and gloomy.

A place where Faith shouldn't be.

Sully flashback to a conversation he had with Ty yesterday.

"Why would she risk her career and her life for him?" Ty asked. Sully looked at his young friend. "It's not an easy answer."

"If you were the one that got hurt instead of Bosco, I think I would have gone after the person that hurt you."

"But would you kill that person?" Ty asked. Sully sighed. "That is something you won't know until you experience it."

"But she has kids to think about."

"The reason she did was because of me. If it wasn't for me, she wouldn't be in jail right now. If you are going to gossip, you might want to do it where I wouldn't hear you."

Sully turned around and looked at Bosco. "We weren't gossiping."

"Don't think I don't know that everybody is whispering about me. Did you hear that that good cop is in jail because she had to save her no good partner?"

"You know that is not true." Ty responded. Bosco looked at Ty and Sully. "How many times have you said that Faith is the one to get me out of trouble?"

"That's different." Sully responded. "She wasn't saving you. She was protecting all of us. Did she do the right thing? That is something we won't know."

"Stop acting like this."

"Acting like what." Sully yelled.

"That you care about me. I don't need anybody." Bosco yelled, as he walked away from Sully and Ty.

"Officer Sullivan," said a voice. The officer looked at Sully. "You can go inside you know." Sully nodded. "Thanks," he said, as he walked inside, and saw Faith sitting in the corner. As he got closer to her, he saw that she had bruises. He hated to see her like this. He wishes that there was something he could for his friend. " Let me guess the person look worse than you."

"Of course," Faith replied. " . "How is he?"

Sully sighed, as he looked at Faith. "He's fine."

Faith glanced at Sully's face. "Don't lie to me. I know that he isn't fine. So tell me the truth, how is he?"

Sully looked at Faith. "He's not himself."

"What do you mean?" Faith asked, sighing. She moved in her seat, she was happy that she wasn't handcuffed anymore. She looked into Sully's eyes, and could see that there was a lot he wasn't telling her.

"What aren't you telling me, Sully?"

"He's not the same cop that I know, which I can understand with everything that he has been through. He doesn't care anymore about catching the criminals. He doesn't do anything really. Although he still can annoy the hell out of me."

"Sully, I thought I told you to take care of him."

Sully laughed. "You really think it is easy to get through to him. He doesn't want anybody to help him, especially me."

"Just try harder, Sully. Please." Faith pleaded.

Sully nodded. "I can't promise you anything." Faith looked into his eyes. "I know you care about him. You know as well as I do, that he isn't handling this well. I need someone to make sure that he's okay."

Sully sighed. "I haven't tried to kill him yet, so I guess I can do this."

"One more thing," Faith replied. "I don't want him coming here to see me." Sully laughed. "You really think that Bosco is going to listen to me."

"I don't want him seeing me like this; I don't ever want to see him ever again. I want him to get on with his life, Sully. I am going to jail for the rest of the life, he needs to realize that."

Sully looked into Faith's eyes, and saw that she was telling the truth. "Faith, don't."

"Sully, would you want to see the one that you love like this?" she asked. He sighed. "I would want the chance to say if I would want to come or not. You're not being fair to Bosco."

"I love him too much for him to have to see me like this every time he sees me. Just do this for me."

"I can't." Sully replied, as he stood up. "You are going to have to tell Bosco this yourself."

"I can't do that to him."

Sully sighed, as he looked at Faith. "You have to make a decision, Faith."

"I already have. I don't want to see him anymore." Sully sighed. "Don't do this to yourself; it is going to make this harder for you."

"How can this be any harder, Sully? Do you see me? Do you see the bruises on my face? How do you think Bosco is going to react knowing what I'm dealing with? Do you really think that is a good idea for him to see me like that? What do you think he is going to do?"

"I can't answer those questions, Faith."

"You can't or you won't. You know exactly what he will do. Look what he was going to do to the guard that hurt me. Please help me, Sully, keep him away from here."

"I don't know, Faith."

Faith then saw a guard. "I want to go back now."

"Faith, I can't promise anything."

She looked at Sully as the guard took her away. "Please."

He sighed, as he watched them take her away.

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Please help me, Sully.

That is all Sully could think about on the ride back to town. He will never forget the way that Faith looked when she was asking him. She really didn't want Bosco there.

He picked up his cell phone. "It's me, I need to see you."

"I know that we aren't friends, but Faith wanted me to talk to you about something. Are you going to meet me or not?"

Sully hung up the phone a few minutes later. He then drove towards the diner and stood there and waited for Bosco to show up.

"How can this be any harder, Sully? Do you see me? Do you see the bruises on my face?

Sully was mad when he first walked into the visitor's room and saw the bruises on Faith's face. He knew exactly what happens in a place like that. If he felt like that way he can only imagine what Bosco would feel like. He has been keeping an eye on Bosco the last few weeks and he has seen how on edge he has been, he can only take so much before it is too much. He promise Faith that he would take Bosco and that is exactly what he is going to go to do.

Sully saw Bosco coming towards him. He took a deep breath.

"What did Faith want to tell me?" he asked.

"Hello to you too."

"I'm not here for a friendly talk; I'm here because you told me that Faith wanted to tell me something. Why did you go and see her?" Bosco asked, with this curious look on his face.

"She's my friend."

"How was she?" Bosco asked. He looked at Bosco. "She is as good as can be expected. She wants you to know that she loves you, but she doesn't want you to visit her."

"She what?" Bosco yelled. "She can't tell me what to do?"

Sully glanced at Bosco. "She cares about you; she just thinks that it would be best for you to not see her."

"What are you her best friend now?" Bosco yelled with this anger in his voice.

Sully keep on thinking about what Faith told him earlier. "For once in your life, listen to what Faith says and don't visit her. Don't you think this is hard enough for her? She doesn't need to deal with you."

"But she doesn't mind seeing you though."

Sully looked at Bosco. "Stop being a jerk, and think about this. She is going through the worse time in her life; she doesn't need to have to make sure that you are okay."

"Is that what she say?"

"Not in so many words."

Bosco glanced at Sully. "Did she ever say that she didn't want to see me, or are you just thinking that?" Sully was starting to get really annoyed with him. "For once in your life start acting like a man stop acting like a child."

"Just shut up. You don't know anything. I'm taking care of her two kids. Does that sound me being a child?" Sully looked at the young officer, who for the most in his career annoys the hell out of Sully, but he was going to stick this out, if he kills him.

"Just don't visit her that is all I'm telling you." Sully said, as he started to walk away from him. Sully could swear that he heard Bosco yell that he was requesting a new partner, but that was something that Bosco did nearly every day and every day he never did.

You better appreciated this, Faith, Sully thought to himself, as he walked into the car.

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Faith was sitting in her cell when the guard comes up to her. "You have a visitor."

Faith sighed. "Who is it?"

The guard shakes his head. "I don't know." Faith knew exactly who this was; she knew well enough that he wouldn't just go away.

"Fine, five mins and that is all." Faith replied, as the guard opened the door, and walked towards the visitor's room. She took a deep breath when she saw Bosco sitting down on the bench.

"I told you to not come." she yelled. Bosco stood up. "You really think that I'm going to listen to what Sully has to say."
"Just respect my wishes, Bos."

He looked at her, and saw the bruises on her face. "Who did this to you?" he yelled, with this anger in his voice.

"It doesn't matter."

"It matters to me, Faith. You don't belong in here."

"I killed a man; I belong in here, Bosco. I need you to leave me alone. Don't you ever come back here again? I won't see you."

"Don't do this to us."

Faith sighed, as she looked at Bosco. "There is no us anymore. I'm going to jail for the rest of my life. Just take care of the kids for me, that all I ask."

"We are going to get you out of this." Bosco replied with this hopeful look on his face. She shakes her head. "There is no getting out of this."

"Just leave."

"I won't leave you." Bosco yelled, as he grabbed her hand. "I love you."

"Guard..." Faith yelled. The guard walked in to the room. "Is everything okay here?"

"I want to go back to my cell."

"Don't do this, Faith." Bosco yelled. She looked at him. "Just leave me alone and don't ever come back here again."

"Faith."

"Guard, I want to go now." she said. She looked at him as the guard walked her out of the room. "Please don't come back."

Bosco just stood there as Faith walked away from him. He didn't know how to deal with this, should he do what she says or should he do what he wants?

Bosco put his hands on his face. "I love you, Faith. I'm not going to leave you."

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As Bosco walked towards his apartment, he heard her voice. "What the hell are you doing here?" he yelled, as he walked towards the doorway where she was standing talking to Emily.

"Emily, get in the apartment. I need to talk to my friend here for a moment." Emily looked at Bosco. "She just wanted to see how you are doing ." Bosco glanced at Emily. "I need to talk to her alone. Can you please go inside?"

Emily slammed the door shut.

"I'll ask you again, what the hell are you doing here, Sasha?" Sasha looked at Bosco with this sad look on her face. "I wanted to say that I'm sorry."

"Sorry?" Bosco yelled with this mad look on his face. "Sorry that you are the reason that Faith in jail or sorry that you got caught and everybody knows you for the bitch that you are. The bitch that rats out cops. How does it feel to see what happens when you rat out cops? Do you know what you did to not just mine and Faith's lives, but those two kids in there. You destroyed our lives."

"I had to do my job."

" You didn't have to do this, Sasha."

Sasha glanced at Bosco. "Please don't be mad like this, I was just doing my job. She did the crime, she needs to pay."

"Things aren't as simple as that. What happened if your nephew was shot, and you knew exactly who did it, would you just sent that person to jail or would you make sure that person never hurt anybody ever again?" Bosco glanced at Sasha and saw that she was silent.

"I told you it isn't simple. Think about that next time you decide to rat out a cop," Bosco said, as he opened the door and slammed the door shut, leaving Sasha to question everything that she was doing.

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Bosco walked into the apartment, and just looked at the picture of Faith and just throw it across the wall. He then put his hands on his face, and kneeled on the floor and just started to cry.

"Bosco," said a voice. He wouldn't say anything. Emily walked up to him and sat down next to him. "You know what my mom told me once when I was little, that it was okay to cry when you are hurt. Its okay, Bosco, we are all hurting right now."

Bosco wiped his tears away. "I wasn't crying, Emily." he said, standing up. She looked at him. "You know you don't have to lie to me."

"Emily," he said, as he walked towards the kitchen. "I need to make us some dinner. Charlie will be home soon." Emily looked at Bosco. "You went and saw mom, didn't you?"

Bosco glanced at Emily and saw that she looked exactly like her mom at the moment. "I did."

"Can I go and see her?"

Bosco shakes his head. "I don't think that is such a good idea," he said, as he started to make the dinner. She walked up beside Bosco. "I want to see my mom, you can't stop me."

Bosco turned and looked at Emily. "She doesn't want to see any of us, we need to respect that." Emily walked over to the stool. "Why are you acting like this? You never use to be like this. You never did what our mom told you to do, so don't start now. Please, I want to go and see her, I need to see her."

"We'll talk about this later, Em."

She stood up and wrapped her arms around him. "Thank you,"

"I didn't say yes. Don't forget that the custody trial is tomorrow. I don't know when we are going to have time to go and see your mom." Emily looked at Bosco. "Why do we have to go to court, I know who I want to be with. I'm not even a kid anymore, they don't care about me."

"You are still a minor until you turn 18." Emily looked at Bosco. "When I turn 18, I never want to see my father ever again; he is the reason that I was kidnapped. How could he do that?"

Bosco wrapped his arms around Emily. "He never wanted you to be hurt. He just didn't know what he was doing." Bosco replied, trying to be as nice as he could about Fred.

"Go and start your homework, I'll call you when it is dinner." Emily nodded. "Thanks for everything, Bosco."

Bosco nodded. He couldn't believe that he break down in front of Emily, he would make sure that never happened again.

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The next morning,

Faith was sitting on the bench waiting for her guest to show up. She hopes that Bosco listened to her and wasn't here. As the door opened, she saw her lawyer coming towards her. "Faith,"

" Yes," Faith replied.

Her lawyer looked at Faith. "We need to talk about your trial."

"What?" Faith asked.

"I want you to plead not guilty."

To be continued.