This one is two chapters :)

Title: bad day, bad week
Author: Cindy Ryan
Spoilers: 2x10

It was three in the morning before Andy McNally got a decent lead. She'd had a long bad day herself and should be at Traci's on the hide-a-bed buried under a down comforter. Instead she was out in a newly acquired used car searching for a friend. Andy didn't know what was going on with the three amigos. All she had gotten was a cryptic phone call from Dov and a worried text from Gail stating Chris hadn't come home.
The fact that neither one was aiding Andy in this search worried her. There had obviously been some kind of argument between the three rookies and Chris had taken the brunt of it.

The Penny had been Andy's first stop and the bartender hadn't seen Diaz. She'd checked the other bars the rookies sometimes went too if the Penny was too crowded but no sign of Chris there either. Plus he wasn't answering her calls or texts which added to Andy's worry.
Normally she could get a response from him no matter what.

Andy sighed as she carefully maneuvered the snow covered streets. At least this was a distraction from her own problems. Her own day from hell. She still couldn't believe Sam had left on the undercover op without a good bye.
After everything Andy thought he'd at least give her that much.
But then she had realized she probably didn't deserve it.
She'd waited too long to take a chance and Sam had moved on.

Shaking her head to clear it Andy pulled into the medium sized parking lot of the well lit glass and wood two story building near the water front. It was a twenty four hour gym. The largest in Toronto. Not just a gym but boasted a heated pool, sauna, full running track, racquet ball courts and a rock wall. Andy had only seen the commercials on tv and hadn't had a chance to come.
From what she'd heard from other officers this gym was incredible worth the price of membership. Which Andy was sure was half her pay check.

Trudging up the steps Andy pushed open the glass doors and stepped gratefully into the warm interior.
A perky brown haired receptionist greeted Andy and she gave the young woman Chris's description. The staff member nodded and said he'd been here for awhile. Andy thanked her and began to scan the sparse crowd.
In the background Andy heard a walkie-talkie crackle to life.

"Ma'am?"The receptionist called gaining Andy's attention. "One of our staff spotted your friend in the batting cage."

Andy blinked in surprise. This place had a batting cage too, of course it did.
Probably with state of the art pitching machines and wide screen video screens to track your progress.

"Thanks."McNally replied as the other woman gave her directions.

Up a flight of stairs and down a blue carpeted hallway Andy found the batting cage through a door on the left. She pushed open the gray nondescript door and found a room the size of the station's locker room.
Eight batting cages lined each wall separated by a ribbon of black mat. Bats, helmets and other equipment hung in lockers on either end of the room.
As she predicted wide screen monitors showed not only scores but the batter's speed and skill level. Wide screen tvs hung above the equipment monitors portraying twenty-four hour sports networks.
Five of the cages were occupied. Three on the left and two on the right. Andy spied Chris in the last cage on the right.
Stifling a yawn Andy trudged toward the end of the room. Chris was wearing dark blue sweat pants and a dark gray t-shirt. His helmet was black.

"You're a hard person to find."McNally stated as she leaned against the metal wire mesh of the cage.

Chris didn't look up as he pummeled another baseball. "Didn't know anybody wanted to find me."

"If you bothered to check your phone tonight you'd know that wasn't true."Andy countered.

"Hard to believe you'd track me down just for Gail's sake."Chris stated angrily.

Andy didn't miss the hurt concealed behind the anger. She'd been there herself all too recently.

"She's not the only one worried."

"What? Dov? My so called friends list is rapidly shrinking."

Andy winced as Chris smashed another baseball against the green matted wall at the other end.

"I was worried too."Andy stated. "You didn't answer any of my calls...not like you."

"Sorry."Diaz replied quietly as he stepped back and hit a button on the control panel on the left side of the cage shutting off the pitching machine.

"You and Gail break up?"Andy inquired gently.

Chris took off the helmet and slumped back against the cage wall. "Dov kissed Gail."

Andy did a double take that was the last thing she'd expected to hear. "What?"

"Yeah that was my reaction too."Diaz replied bleakly.

Looking around Andy noted belatedly that this wasn't the venue for life changing conversations. There had to be somewhere in this gym that had refreshments.

"Come on, let's go talk."McNally urged as she opened the cage door. "There a juice bar in this place?"

"Combined with a twenty-four hour cafe."Diaz replied as he exited the cage and put his equipment away. "Gail gave me a membership for my birthday. Figured I might as well use it."

Andy placed a gentle hand on her friend's right shoulder as they left the batting cages.