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Life As We Know It

Chapter 1

It had been almost a week now that Sharon Raydor had arrived home early because she was feeling sick. Time and time again she put it down to all the over-time she was doing with Andy being off sick. The moment she walked through the door, she saw the way Andy rolled his eyes at her.

"Early again?"

"Yes, I wasn't feeling that great."

Andy got up from his place on the couch and came over to her, leaning in to kiss her before he took a step back.

"So, how about I make that appointment for you?"

"Andy I already told you, I don't need to go to the doctor, I'm fine."

Andy had been patient with her but now he was starting to get frustrated with her.

"For god sake Sharon, it's been a week. A week of you complaining about how tired and sick you were feeling, if it were me, you'd be marching me down to the surgery in a flash, telling me I needed to get myself checked out, in fact…that's exactly what you did."

Sharon straightened up when Andy began to raise his voice, anger showing in his tone.

"Why are you yelling at me."

"I'm not yelling, I'm just….jesus Sharon, clearly something isn't right."

"I don't have time Andy, the case load we have right now, there just isn't time."

"If it was that bad, you wouldn't be coming home early every day this week would you?"

"You know what Andy, you're obviously beginning to feel a little frustrated being cooped up in the house on sick leave and I do understand that, but don't you dare take it out on me. I've put up with it because I know you hate being at home but now you're starting to take your frustration out of me and I won't stand for that. I will go to the doctor, when I get the time, all right?"

Before Andy could respond, Sharon marched down the hallway, going to the bedroom, the door slamming behind her.

Sharon leaned against the door, closing her eyes as she got herself together, she made her way over to the mirror, removing her suit jacket and laying it over the arm of the cube chair that was sitting in the corner. She looked at herself in the mirror, the dark circles under her eyes, sighing as she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear before going over and taking a seat on the bed. She sat for a few moments, her anger at Andy fading before she lay down, her eyes closing. She heard the faint knocking on the door, opening her eyes slowly, looking at her watch to see three hours had passed by.

"Sharon, are you awake, it's Andrea?"

Sharon sat up on the bed, picking up her glasses and putting them on.

"Come in Andrea."

As Andrea came in to the room, she could see that Sharon had obviously just woken up, seeing the tiredness in her face.

"Oh god, I woke you up, I can come back."

"No, no don't be silly. I'm up now. What can I do for you?"

"Well I stopped by your office to drop of my final report for the Myers case and Lieutenant Provenza said that you'd left early. I know you said you needed it for tomorrow so…"

"Oh yes, of course. I'm sorry, I completely forgot you'd be coming by, forgive me."

"It's okay, no harm done. Are you okay?"

"Mmmm, oh yes I'm fine."

"You don't look fine, is Andy driving you crazy being at home all day?"

"No, nothing like that."

"Are you sure, because he didn't look very happy when he let me in?"

"We just had an argument when I came home, that's all."

"You want to talk about it?"

"I…"

Andrea could see some tears in Sharon's eyes as she began to speak, her arm coming around the other woman's shoulder.

"Hey, what is it? You know you can talk to me and it won't go any further, what did you fight about?"

"Oh…me."

"Is something wrong?"

"It's just, oh I don't know. I've just been so tired lately, nauseous, I'm not getting enough sleep. It's probably just the last case, it was pretty tough going."

"Have you been to the doctor?"

"No, that's what Andy and I were arguing about earlier. Apparently I can't take my own advice."

"You don't want to go?"

"I'd feel stupid going, if there's nothing really wrong."

"There's nothing to say it's anything bad, you might just be run down, you said it yourself, your last case was hard going, but…it doesn't hurt to go and get checked out anyway."

"I suppose so."

"Nobody likes going to the doctor, god knows I don't, but I also know I can't avoid it when I'm not well. You're a smart woman, you know what the right thing to do here is."

"I can just hear the "I told you so" from Andy now."

"He loves you and he's obviously worried about you, ease his mind, and yours. I can always keep you company if you want, if you don't want to go alone."

"You'd do that for me?"

"We're friends, I don't have many…I need to keep the ones I have close." Andrea joked.

"Thank you Andrea, I'll call Trisha in the morning and make an appointment and I'll let you know when it is."

"That's fine, well I better go. I've got a few more reports to finish before I can go home."

"I'm sorry you had to come all the way down here."

"Don't be silly, I'll call you okay."

"Night Andrea, and thanks for dropping the report off."

"I'll see you later."

Andrea hugged her before she got up and left the room, the door closing behind her. Sharon went over to the mirror, fixing her hair, smiling when she heard Andrea saying goodbye to Andy.

Andy was watching a ball game when Sharon came out of the bedroom, making her way over to the sofa, Andy looking up at her with a smile on his face.

"Andrea give you what you needed?"

"Mmmm, she did…budge up."

Andy moved over a little so that Sharon could join him on the sofa, taking his arm and putting it around her shoulder, before she leaned her head on his chest.

"I'm sorry about earlier Andy, I don't want to fight."

She felt Andy kiss the top of her head before he forced her to sit up.

"Hey, I'm just worried about you, that's all. This isn't like you, I just wanna make sure you're okay."

"I know, I'm going to phone Trisha in the morning and make an appointment as soon as possible."

"You're probably just run down, the sooner I'm back at work, the better."

"Only another couple of weeks,"

"I could always come back earlier if you…"

"Not a chance, two weeks and then you can come back, until then…just keep doing what your doing."

"So nothing?"

"Not nothing, keeping me company." She smiled.

Andy pulled her close, before she leaned in and kissed him.

"I'm glad you're here Andy."

"Me too, moving in together was the right move."

"I agree."

"Ho about we finish the ball game and then we can decide on dinner."

"Sounds good."

He looked at her, seeing how tired she still looked.

"Just close your eyes sweetheart, I'll wake you up for dinner."

"Mmmmm, okay…I love you Andy."

"Love you too Sharon."

To Be Continued…