Chapter 1

Andy's POV

Andy swung her hair over to one side and laughed as she and Nick walked arm in arm toward Mike's drug store. She was sweating under her jean jacket, as it was early summer in Toronto. She laughed inwardly at her choice of clothes tonight. Andy would never have worn a cheetah print top, jean jacket, black leather mini skirt, and feather earrings that hit her shoulders. But then she wasn't Andy tonight. She was Maya Louis. Maya put her eyeliner on too heavily for Andy's taste and chewed her gum too obnoxiously.

The man next to her wasn't Nick but Davie Knox, a painter from NYC. She had even begun to call him that when they were alone. Simply, so she wouldn't forget or accidentally refer to him as Nick, or Collins during a deal.

Tonight the plan was simple… walk in, pretend to be buying a pregnancy test…. Walk out. Easy. She took a deep breath as Nick opened the door and the cool breeze from inside hit them. They stumbled in pretending to be tipsy.

He let go of her so she could walk to the feminine care isle. She cleared the store with her eyes, pure instinct. It was empty except for a teenager near the back of the store. He was restocking sodas. She scanned the array of tests with her eyes, trying to look focused.

She heard Nick behind her as he walked up to the cashier. "Hey man, are you Mike?"

"Yes"

"Then can I get um…" He cleared his throat and lowered it so she had to strain to hear.

"See I talked to Robbie down in Burlington, he told me if I ever came up here I should get some from you."

"I don't know any Robbie and I don't do that stuff here…. "Nick interrupted. "Naw Naw man, Robbie said you got the best dope in town, he said ask for Mikey, and you see my girl over there…"

Andy took her cue spinning slightly to glance in Nick's direction. "Thinks she might be preggos and I don't know how I'm going to deal, so I kind of need it tonight man, think you can help me out. "

There was a long pause and Andy picked up a test and examined it. "Yea ok give me a sec." The man started to the door behind the register. It had worked, so Robbie and Mike were involved. Maybe they were brothers. That would make since.

She took a step to her left but just then she heard a loud exploding sound as she lost her footing, and everything went black.

Sams POV

"Aww man Ollie, your getting that burger all over the place." Sam said picking up a French fry that had somehow made its way over to the driver's side of the car and throwing it back at Oliver as he ate his food.

Oliver spoke with a full mouth, "I wab humbree." "Yea I can see that." Sam chuckled. He usually hated night shifts but somehow when he and Ollie had night shift together he enjoyed it.

The past 6 months had been really hard for him. At first after she left he tried to put out a missing persons on her, before Tracy convinced him that she was probably on a UC assignment. What really convinced him was the fact that Collins was also missing. Still he didn't know which was worse, that she might have been kidnapped, or that she chose a UC assignment over his vow to do anything and everything to get her back.

He still loved her, he probably always would, and he almost never stopped thinking about her. The only time he was actually able to forget about her was when he was assigned to night shifts with Oliver. They were constantly stopping for midnight snacks. The food was mostly for Oliver but Sam ate sometimes.

Tonight they had stopped at Burger King. They hadn't been back on the road after their pit stop for more than 5 minutes when a car in front of them rolled through a stop sign. "Don't do it Sammy, that's just cruel." Oliver took a sip of his soda, "besides too much paper work.

"Oliver, he broke a law and it's our duty to give him a ticket." Sam turned his grinning face to where Oliver could see the famous dimples.

" Nah, Sammy your just bored. Tell you what, let's turn right here and go down queen. Maybe we can find some drug deals to bust."

"Sounds good to me." Sam said making the right turn. "Later we should…" But Oliver was interrupted. They hadn't gone two-hundred feet when the drug store up the road exploded and burst into flames.