Nothing mattered, except from the guy lying in the hospital bed in front of her.
He lay there, so fragile and weak. Nothing like the guy she knew, sexy, strong and hard to stay away from.
No matter what happened the in the past year, no matter that he was with someone else now, she just couldn't stay away.
Andy had spent the last two days at the hospital beside Sam's bed. Just moving as far as the cafeteria and she was never gone longer than 10 min.
He was her rock. The one she could always count on having her back. And she almost lost him. He had crashed twice before they were able to remove the bullet and stitch him back up. Now they were just waiting for him to wake up.
Andy couldn't stop thinking about what he had said. "I screwed up and it's my fault. I screwed it up over and over again...Andy I want you to be happy...more than anything in the world, more than I could ever want for myself...and you are with HIM. And I need to...I gotta go."
He wanted to leave. He couldn't stand being around her and seeing her with Nick. She couldn't believe the nerve he had saying those things to her.
For the past few month she had to look on how he and Marlo were together, everywhere. She had just wanted to move on, forget about Sam. Nick had just been the easy way out. He was a great friend, but she doesn't love him. What did Traci said after she broke up with Luke "To get over someone, you have to get under someone".
So Andy had just done that. She had hooked up with Nick. They just had sex, nothing more. Nick was easy. It didn't mean anything.
But then...then Sam had to go and get shot by Ford. And Andy's world just stopped rotating for those few hours, before the doctor told her he would make it.
That Bastard. He honestly thought he could get away with that. That he could pretend he cared about her all of a sudden, then leave and get shot all in a span of an hour.
Andy was determined that once he was awake she would kill him. Kill him for getting shot; kill him for not having his vest on and definitely for leaving without fighting for it.
Yes, she left first. That night of the blackout, then after they gotten suspended and then she left again after he told her he loved her. She had a big part in the failure that was their relationship, but Andy had never been happier than those days where she would wake up and Sam was beside her. He might have run off every morning, but he was still there every other free minute.
This time she wouldn't run. She would stay and fight for THEM. She wouldn't let anything get between them anymore.
Andy knows that she has to talk to Nick. This all hasn't been fair on him. She had let him on and she did not have the intention to hurt him.
Then there was Marlo. What was going on between Sam and Marlo, she didn't know, all she new Sam's girlfriend hadn't been in the hospital once since Sam got here. Andy had tried to call her, but she didn't answer. Traci had said that Marlo was suspended until further notice. So were Andy and Sam.
Andy didn't know if Sam heard what she said in the ambulance, but she would tell him once again he was awake, after she stopped being mad at him.
She would give anything to be with him again. She loved her job, but she loves Sam more. He is her Story. It had always been him. It was the second time she had tried to forget about him, the first time was, as she was with Luke and the second time as he was with Marlo.
Andy stood up and started pacing the room. She would make it work, she would fight, even if he would blow her off, she would help him come to his senses.
Nothing mattered more than the man lying in that hospital bed, fragile and weak. He is her story and Andy McNally loves him more than anything in the world. If he now could just wake up so she could tell him all that, she would be the happiest person in the world.
It would be the day first day of the rest of her live...hopefully with Sam Swarek.