I do not own these characters. That distinction goes to James Duff, etc.

Special thanks goes to RoslinGirl983 for talking through the plot line & researching with me and to gingersnapped907 for checking for missing words. You both are awesome!

Be Mine

Chapter 1

After Christmas, Andy had spent a month trying to figure out what Sharon wanted to do for Valentine's Day. Finally, he went to Provenza and asked him to try to do some digging to help him out. It was unsuccessful… very unsuccessful… and wound up getting him in trouble with Sharon, too.

After the mishap of Provenza's attempt, Sharon sat Andy down and told him exactly what she thought of Valentine's Day despite her "sense of occasion". She told him in no uncertain terms that she did not appreciate nor want to celebrate Valentine's Day except to shower the kids with some extra love and attention.

So Andy decided that he would just have to do some research and either talk to Andrea or Amy or – God forbid – call Gavin to ensure that his plans would be acceptable but not too over the top.

Andy asked Amy to accompany him to pick up lunch. Amy reluctantly agreed exchanging a weird look with Julio.

As they walked out of the PAB, Andy turned to her and asked, "Can I ask you a question as a female?"

Amy responded, "If it has to do with you and the Captain, absolutely not! I do not want to know about anything that is going on outside of the walls of the PAB. If it is in regards to your daughter, sure, I'll answer."

Andy just hung his head and muttered, "Never mind." They proceeded to go pick up lunch for the team and returned to the murder room.

A few days later, Andrea came by to talk to Sharon about a case that was coming up for a hearing. Andy fell instep beside Andrea as she was leaving the murder room. He hoped that Andrea would take pity on him and at least answer his questions.

"Andrea, can I talk to you for a moment before you leave?" Andy asked.

"Sure. I'm assuming that the break room would be an acceptable place to talk," she responded while raising her eyebrows.

"It should be," was his response.

"Then, lead the way, Lieutenant."

Andy continued walking towards the break room praying that Andrea would be helpful to him and he could actually put his plan into action. After passing Andrea a bottle of water and taking one for himself, he gestured towards a table for her to sit.

"Why do you want to talk to me specifically? Shouldn't you be talking to Provenza or Sharon before you talk to me?"

"Well, since this isn't a case-related thing, I think that I'm ok not talking to them. Besides, I have already tried talking to both of them and both of them have asked me to drop this subject. However, I do need you to keep what I am about to say in the strictest of confidence for the next few weeks though. Do you think you can do that?" Andy rambled.

"As long as it won't affect your job performance, I think I can do that. But you really should talk to Sharon," was Andrea's reply.

"Sharon keeps insisting that she doesn't want to do anything for Valentine's Day this year. That she doesn't want to celebrate it because it just doesn't have any meaning and just brings up bad memories for her. I'm sure it does, but I would like to do something to show her how much I appreciate her and appreciate everything that she's done for me this winter. I don't want to do anything extravagant, but I want to do something a little more than what we normally do for a date."

"Stop right there, Andy. I need to make a phone call," Andrea interrupted. She turns around to grab her bag and pulls out her cell phone sending a quick text message waiting for about 30 seconds before hitting send on the phone call and turning on the speaker phone.

"Andrea, what is this 911 call for? I'm working on things that are more important than you right now," came through the phone. Andy cringed as he recognized the voice. It was the one person that he was really hoping to avoid having to talk to about this.

"Well, Andy has decided that he wants to go do something all romantic for Sharon on Valentine's Day, but wants to make sure that it isn't too much. He grabbed me today to talk about it. I figured that you needed to also be consulted seeing as you have known her for much longer and know the history," Andrea started the call.

"You don't say! Well, does he think that he's going to get some if he goes all romantic?" was the reply.

"No, he doesn't. I'm extremely happy with how things are going," Andy replied. He was really regretting having asked Andrea to help. He supposed that this was payback for everything that he had put both of them, and Sharon, through over the years, but he really was trying to do the right thing.

"You don't need to get so defensive about it, Lieutenant," Gavin replied. "What is the big plan that you have hatched?"

Andy proceeded to tell Andrea and Gavin about his idea for the day. When he had their seal of approval, he figured that he was safe to firm up the plans that he needed to for the special weekend and start on his craft project.

TBC