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Andy was sitting at the rookie table in the Penny and she was miserable. She had arrested an undercover cop from her own division that day ruining 8 months of undercover work for him. The person in question was looking at her with such disdain that she shuddered.

"Guys, my first day on the job and I totally screwed up, it's a wonder I didn't get fired!"

"Jeez, McNally, forget about that, you arrested a murder suspect and came out with the weapon as well on your own, totally rock and roll McNally!" Dov raised his glass toasting her.

She grinned at him and her smile slowly dropped off her face as she looked behind her to see Swarek gazing intently at her with a dark brooding expression on his face.

She finished her drink and said her goodbyes to her friends. She made it in just as her father was making a hot chocolate. She made to head into the bedroom and he chuckled. "Had to read the superman story 3 times before the sandman eventually came." He smiled softly at her and Andy returned the smile, she backed out of the room content for the first time that day.

She shared a hot chocolate with her dad as she told him all about her insane first day on the job. He winced when she told him about taking down an undercover cop but was very supportive and reminded her that it wasn't her fault. He stood up to go and hugged Andy reminding her that he would be stopping by in the morning before she went to work to perform his grandfatherly duties. She hugged him close to her and said for perhaps the hundredth time. "I don't know what I would do without you Dad."

He tenderly cupped her cheek d said. "The same could be said for you, baby girl. A pregnant daughter with nowhere to turn certainly changed my life, it was the catalyst I needed to finally get a hold of my life and stop drinking, it was the best thing to ever happen to me." He kissed her goodnight and walked across the hall to his own apartment.

Andy couldn't quite believe at her age that she was a cop and a mother and was doing everything on her own, this wasn't quite what she had planned for herself as she was growing up. She felt overwhelmed at times but also felt proud of what she had achieved so far. She just wished with all of her might that HE didn't have to be involved.

When she saw him today her heart had almost stopped beating in her chest. Her breathing became constricted that after all these years she was face to face with him. Standing there pointing a gun at him was not exactly what she had in mind if they ever came face to face again. Lost in her memories she drifted off to the first time that she set eyes on him.

Flashback

She couldn't take any more her father had come home drunk every night this week and she was tired of it. She went out for a walk to clear her head and make her plans, she was going to have to move out, dealing with her father's alcohol problems every day was destroying her and making her short tempered and irritable with everyone.

She hugged her arms around her middle as she walked through the park close to her home. She was so lost in her misery that she didn't see the men approaching her from the opposite end of the park.

One of them whistled at her and said "Hi beautiful, what's a pretty girl like you doing out on your own?"

Andy's eyes widened as she realised the possible danger that she now faced. She tried to play it cool and said "Hey guys, not in the mood for company, I'm meeting my boyfriend here." She lied.

"Well why don't we keep you company until he comes." The larger one sneered at her. The other one circled round to her back and she was having difficulty trying to keep her eye on both of them at once. She thought over all the self defence moves her father taught her. She was the daughter of an ex cop and she knew that she could handle one of them, two of them however presented her with a problem.

The one at her back grabbed her arm and she kicked back hitting him in the nether regions. The bigger one backhanded her across the face momentarily stunning her. They both began advancing on her in tandem, she gulped and attacked, they were not expecting it and she had the upper hand for a minute before they rallied and they both began raining blows on her. She fought them with everything she had but soon realised she was outmatched and they were going to overpower her soon. She punched one of them in the face and heard the satisfying sound of bone crunching as she broke his nose.

At that point she felt the bigger one being trailed off her as someone else joined in the fray, she had no time to observe him as the one with the broken nose ran at her yelling a string of profanities at her as he closed in. She punched him rapidly two more times in the face keeping the rest of her body fluid and moving she finished off with a roundhouse kick to his stomach. He stumbled off with blood streaming down his face, holding his stomach, he did not look back.

It was then that Andy noticed her rescuer who made short work of the bigger one. He swore at them both and took off running. Her rescuer turned his attention to her then and she noticed his dark brown eyes searching hers filled with concern.

He asked her if she was okay and she replied "Yeah, they didn't really get the chance to do anything, thanks to you."

He grinned at her and it was then that she noticed how handsome he was and his dimples were to die for.

"It looked like you were holding your own." He remarked admiringly also taking in her long wavy brown hair and sparkling brown eyes.

"Yes, I think they will be sorry they picked on the wrong girl tonight, thanks again, I mean it I was really starting to fear the worst there. Andy said swallowing her tears.

"It's okay, I'm glad I could help." He brushed her tears away tenderly using his thumb. She felt the surge of electricity as his touch sparked off all sorts of new and strange feelings within her. He quickly removed his hand just realising that she might not welcome his touch after what she had just been through. She soon dispelled him of that notion when she leaned into his touch again.

End Flashback.

She closed her eyes tightly against those memories, she fought her feelings as she had all her life and tightened her resolve to make the best of a bad situation and pray with all her might that he did not recognise her as he certainly didn't seem to today.

The next day was the usual hub of noise and chaos at breakfast, she smiled at the look on her fathers face he absolutely adored being a grandfather and he was determined to do a much better job than he did with Andy. She blew kisses as she backed out of her door and put her game face on for going into work.

She was sitting with Traci swapping stories about the madness of their morning routine as they were both single mothers and could relate to each other on a different level from everyone else. Traci was regaling her with Leo's latest craze when the noise erupted in the parade room. Andy stiffened and refused to turn round as the officers all whooped and made a big deal about Sam Swarek being back in uniform and on the job. He took it in good grace and gave as good back as he got. Andy failed to see his eyes narrow in speculation as he glanced her way.

When Boyko shouted out who was partnered with whom, Andy wanted to crawl into a hole and die. She turned around to acknowledge her partner for the day and Sam smirked knowingly at her.

She raised a shaky hand to her forehead as Traci looked on with concern. "God, could the universe conspire against her any more than it already has, how hard did her life have to be?" Her thoughts were in turmoil. She thought she could handle working at the station by barely acknowledging his existence but to actually have to work side by side with him as her training officer was more than she could take.

"Andy are you going to be alright?" Traci asked

"Fake it 'til you make it right?" She smirked unconvincingly at her. Traci patted her comfortingly on the back as she rose to meet her training officer.

Sam swaggered out ahead of her to the patrol car talking as he went. "I did not ask to be a training officer but you will do exactly as I say, you will back me up regardless, I am only doing this until a spot on Guns 'N Gangs opens up, I am not your boyfriend, I will not be holding your hand. Got all that?"

Andy shrugged her shoulders with pretended indifference "Sure." She replied anxious to get this day over with.