"Lots of kids grow up in the system and turn out just fine."

Sure she had thought maybe there was more to what Sam had said to her that day, but made the judgement call not to press it, he clearly didn't want to go into further detail anyway.

Weeks had gone by since that day, domestics, a Breaking and Entering, drunk drivers, drug dealers. Odd to think witnessing and having the duty to sort out the cycle of city scum is considered a day in paradise to cops that love their jobs.

"McNally, how you seem to have a smile on your face every day when we get into the cruiser for a day of coffee and answering disturbance calls never ceases to amaze me."

Right when she was about to reply with something witty about his theory of going in with zero expectations, a familiar voice crept up on them and filled the air in the car.

" Stand by for the hotshot, we've got a noise complaint on 14 River street, 1508 are you 10-4?"

"1508, mark us we're on our way." Sam was able to spit those six words out without hesitation and minimal thought, he briefly tried to imagine the number of times he could have possible repeated those six words to the anonymous voice on the other side of the radio throughout his career.

Within moments, the sirens were up and Andy could feel the surge of the cruiser as Sam's foot pressed up against it. A few minutes later, they were stepping out of the car, approaching a beaten down semi-detached house.

"Seems pretty quiet to deserve a noise complaint," Sam said, somewhat ticked off that they drove all this way to answer a complaint of noise that appeared to be absent.

There was some kind of noise coming from the house though, faint as it may have been. Andy couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. It almost sounded like a crying puppy.

"Sam do you hear-"

What they hell. What the hell just happened. Andy opened her eyes to realize she was looking at the sky. Did someone just shoot her? She was on her back, her chest felt like it was going to explode. Something was wrong though, it wasn't just her chest, it was her entire body that felt like it was on fire. Her ears were ringing outrageously.

A few eye flickers later, when she was able to form thoughts again, she realized the air was thick and black, she could barely breath. Tilting her head up and around, she came to realization. Explosion. There had been an explosion.

Sam. Sam was with her, God Damnit. What if he wasn't okay. She had to find him. Think Andy, think. Okay, she thought, Sam was right beside me when I blacked out. She looked to her right, no sign of him. She looked to her left, nope. Shit Sam. She tried calling out for him, but realized her voice was so scratchy he wouldn't hear, even if he was in fact right beside her.

Soon enough, she heard sirens. Her vision was still blurry, but she could vaguely see blue and red lights coming fast towards her.

"1519 approaching the scene, some kind of house explosion, officer down. I need and ambulance now, repeat officer down!" It was Dov, running towards Andy, who was struggling to get on her feet, and failing miserably.

"Andy I need you to lay down alright, you've been in an explosion and I need to stay there until help comes." His voice only activated her raging headache even more.

"Sam, you need to find him Dov." she said with a raspy voice.