A/N: For some reason I've been having these crazy vivid dreams lately, and this was a part of one of them. I loved it. Anyway, here is Chapter 1. I will update as soon as possible, if I decided to continue it.

CHAPTER 1

3:12am: Andy woke up to the sound of her phone ringing. Jerry. She jumped out of bed in a panic, tripping over clothes on the floor. "Jerry? What's wrong?"

"Have you heard from Sam at all in the past few days?" he asked, his voice inundated with anxiety.

"N-n-no. Of course not, we're not allowed to have any contact," she answered.

"Yeah, right, Andy. I know he e-mails you stuff about the case, he trusts you. I get that but he is supposed to be checking in with us everyday or so and he hasn't. I'm going to ask you again, have you heard from Sam?"

"I got an e-mail from him yesterday morning," she said hesitantly. The last thing she wanted to do was get him in trouble for keeping contact with people outside of the operation.

"Forward it to me," he said, just before he hung up.

Andy grabbed her laptop and logged on.

"Andy, what are you doing?" Luke asked, wearingly, as he rolled over to face her.

"I have to e-mail Jerry."

He sat up and looked at the clock, "…it's 3 o'clock in the morning. This can't wait till a more reasonable hour?"

"Sam hasn't made any contact with them for a couple days, he e-mailed me yesterday. Jerry needs it," she stated, knowing full well that a slew of sarcastic comments or questions were headed her way.

"3 o'clock in the morning and she's worried about Swarek. Go figure," he stood up, grabbed his pillow and walked slowly towards the bedroom door.

"Where are you going?" Andy asked.

"I'm sleeping on the couch. I, for one, do not care that much about whether Sam Swarek has made contact in the past few days or not. He's never been much of a rule follower," he stopped at the doorway and turned around, "…I guess when someone says Swarek, you jump."

"Luke, he's my partner."

"No, Andy, not anymore he's not. Chris is your partner; Sam took the spot in Guns & Gangs. Sam is undercover. Professionally, you have no ties to him," he shook his head and disappeared in the hallway.

Andy ignored the anticipated reaction as she scanned the e-mail before she forwarded it. She couldn't help but think about how the last conversation she held with Sam in person, could very well be the last.

*Flashback*

"I got a call yesterday. There's an opening in Guns & Gangs," he said.

"Are you going to go for it?" she asked, hoping for him to say no.

"They offered it to me," he said quietly.

"Oh."

"Andy, I took the job," he said. His tone somber.

"Yeah, I know."

"You know?"

"Well, I mean, you probably wouldn't tell me if you hadn't. You're leaving, that's why you're telling me. I'm going to get a new partner," she said. She didn't want Sam to go, not just because he was her partner.

"It's for the best," he stated, matter-of-factly.

Andy's mind was racing. She sat there trying to process the reality that Sam, her partner, was leaving, "…it's for the best?"

"Look, Andy. This way…" he was pinching the bridge of his nose, "… it's the best way. It's the only way."

She fought back tears. She had to pretend she wasn't going to miss him. She had to play the part; act like it wouldn't kill her inside to not have him around. If there was one thing Andy McNally had excelled at, it was the ability to lie to herself. If only lying to those around her was that simple.

"Alright then. It was, uh…" she opened the door of the cruiser, "…it was fun working with you Officer Swarek. Good luck," she shut the door, walked away and let the tears fall.

*End Flashback*

It had been almost six months since that conversation took place; six months of pretending was getting old. She missed him; she missed him so much it physically hurt.

She told Sam she was moving in with Luke after the undercover op as Gabe and Edie, and as she anticipated, he wasn't too thrilled. A couple weeks later, he was gone; hidden, deep undercover. She wasn't made aware of his location, of the case, anything. She was completely in the dark, and that was far too much to handle.

After nearly two months of the standard "no contact", Andy started doing her research. She needed to know he was okay. She was sneaking into offices, hacking into computers and glancing at confidential files, anything she needed to do to find Sam; even if it put her job in jeopardy.

She knew that her actions wouldn't compromise his safety, as long as she kept her distance and kept the e-mails cordial, like she was an old friend.

That is exactly what she did, and what she had continued to do over the past four months. It got to the point where she was checking her e-mail at every possible opportunity, where she would be disappointed if she didn't hear from him.

She had convinced herself that she was just worried about her ex-partner, that all she was doing was keeping an open line of communication. Andy had even attempted to convince Luke of that. Unfortunately, he wasn't quite as gullible as she would have liked him to be.

Andy had been walking on eggshells around Luke for months now. He lost it when he found out she was e-mailing Sam, but not because she was in contact with him, no. It was because she had taken measures to hide it from him, and blatantly denied it when he confronted her. That was the beginning of the end; she knew it, and so did he.

A/N: What'd you think? Like it? Love it? Loathe it? Continue it? Reviews are appreciated. Whether I continue this will be based on the reviews, unless I'm completely inspired, in that case I may just continue for my own selfish benefit.