FaaS, snippet Seven

Simcox didn't look totally convinced he wanted to go anywhere - but he fell into step beside Bosco, and they headed back, into the fray.

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He'd expected Yokas to yell at him. He'd even added it to his revised ETA home. Fortunately for his ETA, Yokas could yell at him in the car, while she was taking him home - no convincing her that he could return to work, his shoulder was fine. He hadn't even tried, because he really liked having his head *not* bitten off. Not to mention the fact that she wouldn't drop the matter, for weeks. Or years.

He didn't know if Jimmy would yell. They hadn't had a chance, since they'd started dating, to even really be worried for each other's safety. At least they hadn't, that Bosco knew of - if Jimmy were the stoic, say nothing, act like nothing's up type, Bosco might simply have never noticed.

Bosco was waiting at home, now, for Jimmy to get off work and stop by. Then he'd find out if he were getting yelled at *again* - and he was hoping that regardless, he could wrangle some coddling and pampering out of the incident. Maybe if he'd let the docs take care of his shoulder themselves, and put him in a sling with orders to rest for several weeks, he could have guaranteed getting Jimmy to wait on him hand and foot. Too late for that now, he reminded himself. All he had gotten were doctors' orders to restrict him to desk duty for three weeks, and that was mostly Yokas' fault. He'd been all for sneaking out and letting them notice, later, that they were missing a patient.

Might have done it, too, if he hadn't been yelled at. In the midst of the confusion and noise from everyone else in the ER - how did Bobby Caffey manage to out-shout them all?

And what was up with *Bobby* yelling at him?

Bosco shook his head, still not sure what that was all about. He'd zoned out on Yokas' lecture on the drive home, trying to figure it out. Bosco and Simcox had done their jobs, brought a little peace and order to a small section of the ER, then Bosco had sent Simcox down to find his partner while he intended to stand around being an irritated, don't piss me off even more, uniformed presence near the desk. He'd turned around to find Bobby and Kim standing there, glaring at him in varying degrees of pissed off.

Bosco had halfway expected Kim to say something - but before he could say a word, Bobby had opened his mouth.

They'd stood there for a good two minutes before he slipped into Spanish, and kept yelling. Bosco hadn't said a word, hadn't tried to get past them - half afraid Caffey might re-dislocate his shoulder, just to make him let the doctors put it back, properly.

Listening to Bobby yell, Bosco had tried to figure out what had sent him off - even now, he wasn't so sure what it had been. He'd covered a variety of topics, though few of them in complete sentences. It seemed to boil down to 'Don't ever do something so stupid again' and 'What the hell were you thinking'.

Neither of which told Bosco anything. Except that he cared enough to scream.