When Andy woke up on the morning of her first shift back from UC, She hadn't had a good nights sleep, actually she doesn't even remember the last time she has had a full nights rest. Because when she came back she brought something with her. Nightmares. There mostly of just her and Nick back at that warehouse when he pulled the trigger. Except in her dreams it actually has a bullet in the gun. When she wakes up from her nightmares she contemplates whether she should go to Nicks apartment just to see if everything is normal. But in the end she decides its best not to.
She finally gets up out of bed and heads to her bathroom to take a shower. But when she looks in the mirror she sees she has some dark circles under her eyes. Great! She thinks. I get to go to work looking like a zombie.
While she was in the shower she was thinking about her first day back and how she wasn't really looking forward to seeing some people… (Sam) but she vowed that she would stay strong and not think about Sam and his new girlfriend, Marlo? I think? Anyway what does it matter because, it really doesn't matter! It's going to be a great day regardless of what people will think. But I better get going if I want to go see my Dad and still get to work on time.
She grabs her keys and her jacket and goes to her car. It takes about 10 minutes to get to her dads. But when she knocks on his door there's no answer. She goes to the back door and knocks on the door again, still no answer. She starts banging on the door yelling "DAD! Open the door!" She looks through a window and sees him on the floor with a bottle of alcohol so she busts the door open and runs to him.
"Dad, wake up"
"Can you hear me?"
"DAD! WAKE UP!" she screams.
By that time he starts moaning. "Dad it's just me Andy" she says. As he starts to get up he looks confused.
"Dad are you ok?" she asks.
"Who are you?" Tommy said.
"Its me dad, Andy." Andy said.
"No your not." Tommy said.
"Yes I am. Dad how much did you drink last night?" She said concerned.
"NO YOUR NOT YOUR CLAIRE!" He said.
"Dad, mom isn't here she left us 15 years ago remember?" She said.
"DON'T LIE TO ME CLAIRE! WHY DID YOU LEAVE US HUH?" He said to Andy as he started to come toward her.
"I'm not Claire dad, Its me Andy, Your daughter." She said as she started backing up to the wall because he was coming towards her. Afraid what he might do to her because he's way to drunk to understand I'm not Claire.
He looks around considering what I said for a moment then, out of nowhere he punches me in the eye. "OW! DAD! ITS JUST ME ANDY!" she says. But as I keep backing away, he follows. Now I'm back against the wall and he is right in front of me. I don't know what to do. I don't know what he is going to do. Then he punches me in the jaw. My face hurts so bad right now I can barely concentrate.
"DAD! PLEASE STOP!" I yell. But its no use he grabs me and throws me on the ground. I land on his glass table in front of his TV. That hurt so bad I can barely get up. But I do. I grab him and punch him in the face knocking him out.
"Oh my god" I say to myself. I start crying trying to decide whether I should leave him there or call someone. I decide to just leave him there. I don't care anymore. He promised me he wasn't going to get drunk again, I think this is the worst it's ever been. I look at the clock and see its 7:50. I have 10 minutes to get to work. But I still just sit there crying. My face hurts, my mouth is bleeding and I have glass in my back.
I finally stand up and go to my car. But before I get in I carefully take the glass out. Luckily only one of the many pieces was in deep. I manage to get it out though. I get in my car and drive to work. 8:00 I say to myself. Parade starts in five minuets I get out of my car and I'm about to start walking when I realize that the blood from the glass on my back has gone through my shirt. I get a jacket out of my trunk and put it on along with a hat to kind of conceal my face. I walk in 15 and there's not a soul in sight. But I guess that works in my favor. But that also means parade is about to start so I run to the woman's locker room, change, then head out to parade I catch the last few minuets of franks speech. I thought I got away with it until I hear
"Nice of you to join us McNally" Frank said. Then everyone looked at me. Sam saw me and we made eye contact for a brief second then I put my head down so they can't see my messed up face.
"Sorry" I say. "It wont happen again"
"Not a good way to start your first day back" Frank said.
"Speaking of which. Lets all give a hand to Collins and McNally for the drug bust and a welcome back." Frank said.
They all congratulate us and we get a few pats on the back, which really hurt by the way.
"Serve, protect, and don't die out there." Frank said. Then he left and we all went to the bored to see who we were paired with today.
Swerak/Diaz
Shaw/Peck
Cruz/Dov
Collins/McNally
Phew. I say to myself. I really don't feel like Sam and his questions today. I walk out of parade and grab my bag. As I'm leaving I run into Traci.
"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't mean-" Traci started. But soon stoped when she saw my face.
"OH MY GOD ANDY WHAT HAPPENED!" she yelled.
"SHHHHHH! I don't feel like the whole Division knowing!"
"I'm sorry but Andy, what happened?"
"My drunk dad. That's what happened" I said.
"Oh Andy when was this? I just saw you last night," Traci said.
"This morning I went to go see my dad for the first time, and he thought I was Claire…" I said.
"Are you hurt anywhere else?" Traci said.
"I fell on his glass table and got some glass in my back but I got it out so it's fine. I'm fine." I tell her.
"Are you sure because I can call the Hospi-" she started but I cut her off.
"I'm Fine Traci, don't worry about me. I have to go Nick is waiting for me," I say. Then I start walking towards the car. Wow and I thought Sam was going to be the hard part of the day. Man was I wrong.