I've had this idea swimming around in my head since 2x07 and just now got around to writing this little piece. I like Luke. I just don't think he belongs with Andy. That said, I felt like there were too many fics hating on Luke in the relationship and I decided to defend him.
Enjoy :)
All Luke Callaghan wanted was his fiancée back.
He knew he had made a mistake. He knew that he could never take back how terribly he had hurt her. In hurting her, he had hurt himself. It had been unintentional, but in a way, he had made her more guarded than she had ever been before.
Just when he thought they were starting a life together, he betrayed her trust. If he knew anyone, he knew Andy McNally and the way she had a hard enough time trusting people. The regret and guilt of his actions were eating him alive. Sleeping with Jo had been the worst mistake of his life. It had succeeded in ruining his engagement and relationship with Andy and making Jo feel more like an outsider in 15 than she did before.
What was even worse was how he couldn't help but think back to last year, when he found out about Andy and Swarek's "almost." They both swore that nothing had happened and while he had a hard time believing anything Swarek said, he was aware of Andy's inability to lie and trusted her. So how is it that she was able to stop and leave when he so clearly couldn't?
He had realized that so much had been left between him and Jo. Too many words unsaid, too much hurt, too little too late. She just decided one day that the wonderful life she had just wasn't enough for her and left him. And he had been teaching himself to forget her. He threw himself into his career, finding solace in photos of gruesome murders and chilling details of a cold case. Eventually it became enough for him.
Then he fell in love with someone who wasn't her.
Andy slowly started to become what Jo used to be to him. He could come home from work every day to her, curl up in their bed with her, and fall asleep with her in his arms. He was content, happy even, to live that kind of life with her.
He loved how she would smile whenever their eyes met from across the office. He loved how she was so serious on the job and so easy-going at home. He loved how she knew how far to take a joke. He loved how compatible they were. He loved that she loved him.
And most of all, he loved her. There was no one else in the world that mattered as much as she did to him. Not even Jo.
He made a mistake. He acted on pent-up emotions from too far in the past. But he didn't want his ex, not after what she did to him.
All he really wanted was his fiancée back.
