Andy walked into the Penny, she stopped at the door and looked around for Traci but her eyes didn't find her, then her eyes landed on the TO`s table, like every time she walked in, but couldn't see Sam either, only Jerry and Oliver at the table. She looked down at her watch while she walked up to the bar and took a seat.
It didn't take Liam long to put a beer in front of her hands, she smiled at him and took a sip at the same time as she looked around the bar again, still no sign of Traci.
"Drinking alone, McNally?" A familiar voice asked and appeared next to her by the bar.
"Nah, waiting for Traci." She smiled shyly at him and fumbled with the label on the bottle, she tried her best to ignore the fact that the man next to her grinned and trailed his tongue over the back of his teeth's.
"Callaghan working late?" He rested his elbows on the top of the bar and looked at her profile, she just nodded and took another sip of her drink, couldn't stand it anymore so she looked over and met his gaze, feeling her heart tremble under him and cheeks turning red. His grin only got wider as her cheeks got redder.
"Hey, sorry I`m late!" Traci came from behind in a rush and took the empty chair on the other side of Andy and gulped down Andy`s beer, earning herself raised eyebrows from her and Sam.
"Swarek." She said and put the bottle down and smiled to him, and then to Andy, Sam just gave her his famous grin with dimples, that made even Traci weak in the knees. Liam came over to take Sam`s order.
"Scotch on the rocks and uh." He looked over at Andy for a second, eyebrows knitted together and swallowed thickly. "And a cosmopolitan." Both Andy`s and Traci`s head whipped around to look at him with smirks on their faces.
"Didn't know Oliver liked the girly drinks." Andy said while she chuckled to Traci. "No no, I guarantee you that it's Jerry!" Traci shot back and chuckled even louder than her friend. Sam rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly, and looked over his shoulder for a second.
"Neither of them actually." The chuckles stopped immediately and Sam was stared at with confused looks on the girls. Liam came with the drinks and he picked them up and walked away from the bar. "Don't go too hard at it, McNally, I need you to function tomorrow!" he called over his shoulder while he was walking through the Penny.
Andy`s chin dropped and she felt a lump in her throat when she saw him walked right pass his usual table nodding to Oliver and Jerry, and took his place at a table in a corner….with a woman. And from what Andy could see it was a gorgeous woman, with long straight blond hair, her eyes lit up when Sam sat down with her and she smiled at him, but the thing that stung her most was the smile he gave her.
Andy couldn't tear her eyes away from them, and she felt a sudden urge to put her palm over her heart to steady it. She heard Traci put an order on some drinks, and before she could make the words Traci shoved a glass of brown liquid in her hands.
"So things aren't exactly working out great with Dex." Traci said and pulled Andy`s eyes away from Sam and his company, which Andy was thankful for at the moment. She turned her eyes to Traci and shaped an apologetically smile to her friend.
"I`m sorry, I know you want Leo to be happy, but trust me, two unhappy parents will not make the kid happy." She rose her glass up in a toast and clinked it with Traci`s before they shot down the burning liquid.
Andy`s eyes frequently looked over to Sam`s table, took in the scenes where the woman rested her hand on his arm and smiled seductively at him. The more she looked, more burning liquid where thrown down her throat. Traci shot down equally as many drinks as she did and the tipsier they got the sound level of their talk and giggles were raised.
Andy was glad she had a friend like Traci to put her head elsewhere when she needed it, and she was able to to do the same for her.
"And then he licked his cheek, like licked!" Andy was telling Traci a story where some perv she and Sam had put into booking a few days ago, who wanted a bite of Dov who was assigned to booking that day.
Traci laughed so hard that she threw her body back and caused the stool to wiggle under her weight, causing her to fall of her barstool and dragged Andy with her. Both girls laid flat on their backs on the floor of the Penny laughing tears when Jerry and Oliver suddenly stood over them. Both girls where pulled up by their arms to their feet, and Andy had to steady herself by holding on to Oliver`s shoulder.
"You look funny." She giggled and touched his face, Oliver shook his head at her. "So do you, so do you."
Sam saw the scene at the bar and excused himself for a minute and walked over to them, he leaned one hand on the bar and told Liam to cut them off.
"Party-pooper." Andy pouted and pinched his nose, he pulled his head back and laughed at her, hearing the giggles from Traci.
"You two are going home." He pointed at the two of them, Andy and Traci exchanged looks agreeing that Sam sounded stupidly bossy and overprotective, and burst out in laughter.
"Sammy, we got this, go enjoy your date." Jerry`s words cut the laughter of Andy and she locked eyes with Sam for some seconds and then stared down at the floor, eyebrows knitted together and finding swallowing hard, she felt Oliver put one arm around her shoulders and giving them a squeeze.
"Sure?" Sam was asking Jerry, but he was looking at Andy, confused by her reaction to the words. Jerry nodded at him and he started to walk back to his table.
From his seat he saw Oliver lead Andy out of the bar with one arm around her shoulders, figured it was probably to steady her drunken feet's. Jerry was right behind with Traci.
After he had given his date a ride home Sam laid in his bed digging his brains out, he had a great date, hell even got himself a kiss, but still something about Andy`s reaction bothered him. He was well aware that they had something, but she had made it clear that she wanted Luke, and he had accepted that, even if it hurt like hell to watch the two of them.
So he had decided that maybe it was time to give another woman a shot, no harm no foul, it was just innocent and he had needs too. He growled at his own thoughts and pushed himself over to his stomach and buried his face in the pillows, drifting off to sleep.
"Nice of you to join us, McNally!" Oliver called out when Andy walked into Parade, looking like crap, she winced at his loud voice and glared at him before she took her seat next to Traci. Mostly the reason for her looking like crap was the alcohol from last night, but another part was Sam at the Penny with a woman.
It pissed her off that she was feeling jealous over it, she had no rights to him, she had Luke and was just where she wanted to be. At those thoughts she made a grimace at herself and let her forehead meet the table with her palms spread next to her head.
Her head snapped up so fast she had to steady it with her hands when Best walked into parade to give out assignments for the day. After parade she quickly got into the D`s office to look for Luke, she found him over a file on his desk.
"Hey." She said while she stood awkwardly in the middle of the room, he looked up to her and smiled to her.
"Hey you." She rolled her eyes a little at him, feeling frustrated by him not coming home last night.
"So, uh, you never came home last night."
"Yeah, big case, you know. Look I have a lot to do so just come find me later." He didn't wait for her respond, just retrieved his eyes down at the file.
She came hurriedly out of the office and was headed for the rec room to get her equipment when she heard a voice she normally found soothing, but today it was annoying.
"Hey McNally, make some coffee will you?" He grinned at her while he stood talking to Oliver, she rolled her eyes for the second time today and turned to stand to the coffee stand. He came up next to her, putting her duffel bag down next to her feet, she knew she should smile and thank him for getting her things, but instead she grabbed the bag and put the strap heavily over one shoulder.
"How's the head?" She frowned her nose at his question and shoved the cup of coffee into his hands, and took a big sip of her own.
"I`m gonna make your dreams come true today, Swarek." Even if he realized she had some snarky comment coming his way, he still felt his heart rate pick up the pace at her words.
"Oh yeah?" Sam`s eyebrows shot up and he ginned his biggest grin at her, dimples in full force.
"Follow my lead." She grumbled and started walking towards the sally port, Sam fell into step with her and took the bag from her shoulder and put it on his.
It took Sam a while to realize what her lead was, but when he finally did he grinned over at her in the squad car, she frowned her nose at him again.
"You`re really not going to talk at all?" She shrugged her shoulders at him and got into a comfy position in her seat.
"Fine, then I`m going to talk." He was still grinning at her, that stupidly sexy grin she loved so much, she rolled her eyes at him and gave him a smirk before she put one elbow up to the window and leaned her head at her arm.
"Come on, McNally, don't leave me hanging." He pushed her shoulder playfully and got rewarded with a tiny smile on her lips.
"Is that a smile I see? He poked his finger into her side, causing her to squirm and giggle a little.
"Sam, stop it!" She was giggling and leaning her body so far to the door she could.
"Oh, she speaks!" The only respond she gave him was a swat on the arm and she shook her head at him.
"Seriously, how`s the head?" His grin faded and a serious expression took over his face, she frowned her nose again and rested her head on the window, letting out a whimper. A box landed in her lap, she lifted it to her eyes, squinting a little to read the label, she grinned a thank you in his direction and swallowed two Advil's dryly.
"So, uh, how was your date?" If it was one thing he hadn't wanted her to ask, it was about that, he looked carefully over at her, but she didn't meet his eyes.
"It was… great actually." She closed her eyes at his words, hoping he wouldn't catch the emotions in her eyes.
"Who is she?" She really didn't want to know, but she really did want to know. She tried to act casual about it so she wouldn't reveal how she really felt.
"Her name is Natalie, met her trough Jerry a while ago, she`s friends with Jerry`s ex." He tried his best to keep it short, it made him really uncomfortable to talk about this with her. He searched his head for an exit way out of her interrogation.
"How`s playing house?" He regretted the tone it came out in right away, but when she raised her eyebrows in surprise it was too late.
"It`s fine." And after that she went back to being quit again, and actually didn't say much the rest of shift, only necessary work related conversations.
"Hey, you ready?" She stood leaned up by the doorframe to the D`s office and looking at Luke, silently begging that he for once could put her before work.
"No, actually I`m stuck here for a couple of more hours. See you when I get home ok?"
"Sure." She turned on her heel and walked down the hall, head hanging low and dragging her feet.
"Need a ride?" She huffed out a breath when she heard his voice come up behind her, and yet again he took her bag from her shoulders, assuming she was going to say yes.
"Thank you." She followed him to the truck and climbed in the passenger door when he opened it for her.
Silently she looked over at him, took in his profile, studying him for anything different, his eyes met hers and she quickly retrieved her eyes and stared at the road in front of them. She felt her cheeks burn when she saw him still looking at her from the corner of her eye.
He parked outside the house and shifted in his seat and searched for her eyes.
"Thank you, Sam, I`ll see you tomorrow." She didn't met his eyes as she climbed down the truck and walking towards the door, fumbling in her pocket for her keys. She shot a discrete look over her shoulder when she had the key in the lock and saw his truck still there, with him still staring at him, she found a smile and disappeared behind the door.
Finally inside she leaned her back against the door and slid down to the floor, burying her head in her hands and let out a heavy breath.
She crawled herself to bed and her thoughts wandered to Sam, like they did every day, but this time it bothered her more than it usually would.
Those feelings she was trying really hard to keep away came creeping up, she knew it wasn't only Luke who made those feeling appear again, she knew that mostly it was because he was seeing someone.
And that being the reason really pissed her off.
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