Six Months
Words: 632
Couple: Andy McNally and Nick Collins.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize don't belong to me.
Post 3x13.
Pre 4x01.
READ A/N AT END.
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Month One.
Andy McNally tapped her pen against the blank page of the journal. The lines faint enough that if she adjusted her eyes a certain way they would fade back into the page and she'd forget they were there.
Over the last three weeks she'd filled almost half of the moleskin journal, words that had meant something then but not anymore. Ramblings about the case, about home, about Sam. She dropped the pen back on the table with a defeated sigh and lifted a hand to push her fringe from her face.
"Write anything tonight Shakespeare?" his voice called from the kitchen with a chuckle, bringing her attention away from the blank page.
"You're hilarious Nick Collins. Hilarious."
"Careful, that's not my name."
Rolling her eyes, Andy tucked the pen into the book and closed it, turning in her chair to watch him move around the kitchen. He'd been in there for a while, and she was sure that not even half-an-hour earlier she'd heard him mutter underneath his breath that he used up all the eggs. And at two o'clock in the morning she was starting to get confused.
"You okay in there?"
"Yep."
Frowning, she stood up and slowly made her way to where the kitchen met the dining space, and almost found it hard to stop a giggle from escaping her lips.
"What are you doing?" she asked, a hand over her mouth to partially hide her amused expression.
"Some of the stuff in the fridge was going to go off," Nick explained slowly, keeping one hand over a bowl to keep the beater going and another pulling plates down from the cupboard, "Used up all the eggs though. I kept burning it and by the time I got it right, there were no eggs left."
"What did you keep burning?"
"Only the best omelet you'll ever taste."
Andy raised her eyebrows, dropping her hand to the side as she moved further into the kitchen to inspect the damage. Sure enough, sitting there on the frying pan was a cooked omelet, topped with tomatoes and everything.
"Alright, so if that's omelet, what's that?" she questioned, pointing to bowl on the bench.
"Pancake mix."
"The milk wasn't going off though?"
"I felt like pancakes."
She shook her head and stepped over to take the beaters from his hand and turned them off. Resting them against the side of the bowl she stepped back so he could reach across for the frying pan and plate the omelets that had been finished moments before.
"You know it's not healthy to eat this late," Andy pointed out to him with a smirk.
"Technically it's early," Nick answered as he placed the frying pan back on the stove to go back to later, "And believe me, it's never stopped you before. Up at three am eating protein bars while scribbling in that notebook of yours."
"Again, you're hilarious."
His chuckle made her shake her head slightly and it took her a moment to recognize that he'd moved to start tipping the pancake mix onto the pan. She glanced over at the omelet on the plate and stepped towards it, taking a fork from the open drawer.
Breaking off a bit and bringing it up to her mouth with the utensil se narrowed her eyes at it, "So you wanna tell me what's in this Gordon Ramsey?"
"Anything that was in the fridge," Nick shrugged simply, "I'll make a list when I remember."
"Oh you better remember," she ordered him through the mouthful of omelet, "This is good Collins."
"Really?"
"Really."
Her partner took the fork from her hands and mirrored her actions, his own eyes widening at the taste.
"Figure out what's in that," Andy told him, pointing at it, "You're making breakfast every morning."
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Crosses-fingers-hoping-that-it-didn't-turn-out-as- bad-as-I-thought.
So this is obviously AU. Started after Blackstone said that they went to Niagara for a biking trip, and this is so AU that eventually McCollins will because established. So AU that it also involves me outlining a sequel that re-writes a lot of what's happened in season four – primarily, their return and the whole McSwarek Peck/Collins drama. (Because there is this part of me that actually really really really ships Swarek/Cruz)
It'll follow the six months they're UC – pre-rescue – plus the weekend in Niagara. And because I'm not all that into bike-riding – or really, anything that involves exercise – I'll mostly be focusing on the fluffy McCollins.
Bits of the story will be prompted by the things they let slip about the UC in the show. Like "I don't like going to bed angry" and dubbing French flims. So not a lot of it will be like completely AU. Things will pop up that they've mentioned, it won't all be new. (ISH)
I have written all of the chapters for this! So I'll try and get one up each day for the next week – there are seven chapters – and hopefully I won't forget to post.
Let's just see how this ends up!
Thank you!
All mistakes are mine.
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