I woke up this morning and had a weird feeling in my stomach. It was one of those feelings that you know will come back to bite you later on. A feeling that had me contemplating whether to go to work or call in sick.

I decided to suck it up and go to work because after all we were already down an officer with Peck on suspension. Another day of work where I would have to deal with Sam looking at me and me trying my best not to look at him. Boy, did I miss him. Every single moment I craved for his protectiveness, his smile and those dimples. Those dimples were his cute puppy dog factor but I needed to move on because being with him was not meant to be. He even said that…

"McNally, you're with Epstein today," Frank said

Great, another day I can resist the temptation to look at my ex-boyfriend. Before I even got that thought out of my head Sam came walking over to me.

"Hey, how's it going?"

"Good, how about you sir?"

"McNally, we don't need to keep tip toeing around each other. Anyways I wanted to make sure that you were okay after that interview with the SIU"

"I'm fine, that's not you're job anymore, Sam. I'm a big girl and I can handle myself."

I decided to walk away before the conversation became more awkward.

Dov was waiting for me out by the squad car as I left the police station.

"Ready to go?"

"Yep, did you get coffee?"

"Yeah, I knew it would be a long day especially since you talked to Sam this morning."

"Well thanks for noticing, let's get a move on."

We had been driving around when we got the call that a prisoner had escaped during transport. It was the pedophile I had brought in with Sam a couple of months back. That guy was creepy.

Frank had told us to report back to the station so we could send out a search party in the district for this guy. We were discussing the information we had on this guy when a call came in saying he had a hostage situation at one of the hotels in downtown Toronto. This hostage situation would be soon become my worst nightmare.

Dov and I were assigned to help out with hostage situation while Chris and Nick were told to handle the crowds surrounding the hotel. We walked floor to floor checking every room until the radio fired up with word that the girl was in a refrigerator on the main floor. While the hotel was still being evacuated I decided to check this out.

I knocked on the door and heard no answer. I did the usual Police, clear the room yell policy that we were taught during the academy and then I opened the door. Not even expecting what was behind that door.

There was a girl, holding an object, strapped to her hand. She was pacing the room and had obviously been crying. When I approached her I realized what she was holding. A bomb.