-Let the Sun Shine A Little-

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for all the reviews, follows and favorites! You have no idea how much this means to me! Anyways, I hope this chapter will be good enough for you guys, I think it is a good chapter, but I am also nervous about it. I have the story planned out, but I don't have the chapters written yet.

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one week later...

"So, how is Zoe doing?" Traci asked.

Traci and Andy were in the locker room getting ready for shift. It had been one week since Andy's shooting incident. The first couple of days, it really hurt her bad, but now the pain has gone down. Best gave Andy two days after the shooting to let her heal and to be with her daughter. When she went back to work after her two days, she was put on desk duty, even though she protested saying she was fine to go patrolling, but Best said 'No'. And now she has been on desk duty ever since. Sam has just been doing paperwork, since Best put the two on desk duty, but on the two days Andy was gone, he was out patrolling the streets by himself.

"She's good," Andy nodded. "She didn't want to touch me for the two days I was home because she was scared that she would hurt me, but I finally got it through her head that nothing could do would hurt me. And ever since, she has been my normal Zoe."

"That's good." Traci smiled.

"Yeah." Andy started to tie her shoe. "How's Leo been? And the wedding plans?"

Traci laughed, figuring that Andy would bring that up. "He has been good. And the plans are coming a long. Which reminds me, the dinner rehearsal is in four weeks!"

Andy squealed in delight. "Ohh, I am so happy for you Traci! I really do wish the best for you two!"

"Thank you, Andy. Is our little flower girl as excited as you?"

"Are you kidding?" Andy laughed. "She can't wait. She thinks that this is like the opportunity of a lifetime."

"Which it is! Because I am only getting married once." Traci said. "If Jerry and I don't work out, then that is it for me because I don't want to put Leo through that. You understand with Zoe. You haven't been with anyone since her father died."

"No," Andy nodded. "I understand. But, I do want to find someone and so we can be a big family. I mean, no one can replace her father, but someone can at least act like a father to her. She needs it."

"Yeah, well, we should get to parade. We don't want to be late."

Andy agreed and the two walked out of the locker room and into parade. They took the last two empty seats that were right behind Dov and Chris. They continued talking about the wedding and Zoe's excitement about being the flower girl. This went on for another few minutes before Best walked in and started to tell everyone what the plan was for today. Gail offered to work with Detective Barber, which to Traci's dismay, and Andy was assigned to the front desk for today while Sam was stuck doing more paperwork. For the rest of the coppers, they were out patrolling if they weren't doing paperwork or helping out with other cases.

As every on dispersed from parade, Sam waited outside the door for Andy. He spotted her getting up from the chairs and walking with Traci and Gail. The three girl were talking, but when Andy spotted Sam, she left the two girls to talk amongst themselves and walked out of the room.

"You got me stuck with paperwork again." Sam said.

Andy pretended to look hurt. "I did not get you stuck on paperwork."

"Yes, you did." Sam nodded. "Because of your injury, we have been on desk duty for the entire week."

"Well, it's not my fault that Best made you my partner." Andy shrugged.

"I know. Trust me."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Sam smirked. "Nothing. Just nothing."

"You're a jerk, you know that." Andy mused.

Sam laughed as he walked over to his desk. "I know, McNally, I know."

"Have fun doing paperwork!" Andy yelled as she walked to the front desk.

"Have fun at the front desk filling out irrelevant reports."

Andy laughed and took a drink of her coffee as she walked over to the front desk. She sat down in the chair and started to fill out some paperwork as she waited for something to come through. This probably went on for the next hour, Andy just sat there on and off doing paperwork. Eventually she stopped doing paperwork because she got too bored and started drawing random stick figures on a blank sheet of paper. Once that couldn't keep her happy, she grabbed her coffee, closed her eyes, leaned back in the office chair and began singing to herself. She sat like this for a couple of minutes before she heard someone whisper in her ear, "Boo."

At the whisper, Andy's eyes flew open and she jumped out of her chair. With her sudden movements, her coffee tipped over in her hand and spilled all over her chest. She looked over at the person of interest and yelled, "Swarek!"

Sam just laughed. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar? Really?"

"God Swarek," Andy said, trying to wipe off the coffee with her hands. "You are such a jerk."

"Like I said earlier McNally, I know. Anyways, here you go." Sam handed her some napkins that he had brought with him. As he handed them to her, she raised an eyebrow in question. "I knew you would spill your coffee all over yourself, McNally. Face it, you are a clumsy person."

"Yeah," Andy said, using the napkins to soak up the coffee that she spilled. "Well, I'd rather be clumsy person than a jackass."

"You wound me, McNally." Sam put his hand over his heart for dramatic effect. "I can take you calling me a jerk, but calling m a jackass? Really, McNally?"

Andy opened her mouth to say something, but the front desk phone rang. She glanced over at the phone a picked it up. "Fifteenth division, Officer McNally speaking."

A frantic voice spoke through the phone, words just spluttering out his or her mouth, making no sense to Andy. At the sound of the frantic voice, Andy sat down and continuously tried to calm the person down. Sam stood behind Andy, curious of what was going on.

"Okay, calm down." Andy tried. Which seemed to work because the person on the other line seemed to be taking deep breaths. A few seconds later, Andy tried to ask what happened, but that resulted in another meltdown. Andy tried to calm her down, but when hat failed, Sam grabbed the phone from her and started to speak into. "This is Officer Sam Swarek, I need you to calm down and tell me what happened. Whatever it is, I understand that it is scary, but for us to help, you need to tell us what is going on."

Andy glared at Sam for taking the phone out of her hand, but it immediately went into shock when she heard a woman on the other line starting to speak more clearly. Sam nodded as the woman, now known as Lydia Baxter, informed him that someone has taken her child. Sam told her that he would come over to the address that she had given him and check it out.

As Sam hung up the phone, Andy asked, "What happened?"

"Uhm, nothing." Sam shook his head. "Apparently someone trashed her house and something important has gone missing."

"That's it? She sounded so scared on the phone." Andy said, questioning what really happened.

Sam just nodded and told her that he was going to check it out. Andy tried to ask to go with him, but he said no because she was put on desk duty for a reason and that was to make sure her injury healed up. Andy reluctantly agreed and went back to the front desk. Sam watched her sit back down before he went over and grabbed Gail.

"What's going on?" Gail asked when Sam grabbed her by the elbow and pulled her into the empty parade room.

"Listen," Sam said, getting serious. "I need you to make sure that McNally doesn't leave her post at the front desk."

Gail looked at him in confusion, which caused him to elaborate more on why he was keeping it a secret. "We just got a call about a five-year-old missing little girl." Gail now started to understand now. "And I don't want he to get wind of it because, even thought its not her child, this little girl resembles her daughter and McNally will start freaking out because she will want to help in anyway possible, even if it means breaking the rules, but she will also be calling her own daughter every five seconds."

"How do you know that Andy will start freaking out?"

Sam licked his lips. "Because that is what her father did when a teenaged girl, around McNally's age, went missing. I don't want to see it again."

Gail nodded and agreed to help keep Andy out of the loop, hoping that Andy wouldn't suspect anything, but Andy watched as Sam pull Gail into the parade room and talk to each other. With her curiosity, she got up when Gail retreated back the detective's area and walked over to her. Gail noticed Andy coming, but pretended not to.

"What was that all about?" Andy asked.

Gail glanced at Andy before going back to the papers she was pretending to look at. "What was what about?"

"You and Swarek."

"Why jealous?" Gail smirked.

"Ew, no." Andy scrunched her nose in disgust. "It's just that we got a frantic phone call and when I couldn't calm the woman down, Sam took the phone and calmed her down and told her that he would go over to her house to check something out. But when I asked him what happened, it took him a second to think, like he either forgot or he was making up something. And whatever you two were talking about, it was serious."

"Do you really want to hear about my personal life, Andy?"

Andy crossed her arms across her chest. "Since when does Swarek involve your personal life?"

"Do you really want to know Andy? Do you really want to know?"

Andy had an internal debate with herself before answering Gail, "You know what, forget it. I don't know why anyone comes to you for answers anyway, you are no help." Andy muttered the last sentence to herself as she walked back to the front desk.

When Andy retreated, Gail let out a huge breath of air and hoped that Sam would figure out what happened and get it over quickly, because if the child really is missing, than there is no way that they would be able to keep it from Andy.

On the way to Lydia's house, Sam was silently listening to the chatter on the radio and thinking about his deal with Gail. At first he was thinking about how he was going to tell Traci about the call and to keep Andy at her post, but he knew Traci and Andy were too close and Traci wouldn't be able to keep something like that from her. He chose Gail for a specific reason, she would be able to keep Andy at her post, since she was working with the detectives for the day and she is the ice queen of the rookies, so he's heard, but she would be able to push Andy away from the investigation.

As Sam pulled into the one-story house, he saw, through an open window, a woman pacing back and forth, frantically. Once the woman spotted Sam, her eyes started pouring out tears, as the child herself walked through the door. She walked outside and met Sam by his police cruiser.

"I'm Lydia Baxter and my- my daughter... she.. she was taken from me." She stuttered before putting her hand over her eyes to hide the tears.

Sam, trying to comfort her, put his hands on her shoulders. "Okay, Lydia? Lydia, you need to listen to me." She put her hand back by her side and was taking deep breaths, trying to calm herself. "I need you to tell me what happened."

Lydia nodded and started to explain to Sam what happened. "I went outside to grab the mail and I left my daughter in her inside, eating some yogurt while I came outside. I was out here for probably minute at the most. I came out, grabbed the mail, sorted through it when as I walked back to my house. When I opened up the door, I saw the back door opened and ran into my room, where I left my daughter and then there was this man, he.. he had a gun and his hand over her mouth."

"How do you know it was a guy?" Sam asked.

Lydia started biting the thumb nail ferociously before answer Sam's question. "Because he spoke to me. He.. He put a timer in my bathroom and hit start. He said once the timer went off, I could break the door down and call 911 if I wanted to and so I did. I waited."

Sam wrote down the information on his notepad, "Why did you wait? Why didn't you just break the door and call 911 immediately?"

"Because he said she was watching and that if he saw be come out... he... he'd kill her."

With the last three words she spoke, she started to cry again, but Sam tried to calm her down. This took a couple of minutes before he calmed her down to the point where she could speak again and Sam decided he had one final question before heading back to the station with the information.

"Can you answer one last question for me and then I am going to take you down to the station?"

A few more tears slipped out of her eyes before nodding and with her permission, Sam asked her the last question. "Why did you call the fifteenth division instead of the the 911 hotline?"

"My husband used to work for the fifteenth division."

Sam nodded. "And where is he now?"

"Uhm.. He passed away almost 5 years ago."

Sam's face fell. "I'm so sorry. Uhm, if you are ready to go, I want to take you back to the station."

Sam went over and opened up the passenger side door for her and let her in. He then put in the report into the radio before getting into the drivers seat and taking Lydia back to the station. As he pulled in, he opened up the passenger door for her and led her inside. Sam noticed Andy giving him a glare/concerned look. She was still upset at the fact that he wouldn't let her come, but if this was a serious case, she was concerned.

Sam just shook his head as he led Lydia over to the detectives station. He informed Jerry what the situation was as he handed Lydia over to Jerry. A couple of minutes later, when Jerry was finished going over the facts, he then informed Sam that this was a high priority case because a child's life was at stake. Sam agreed with him, but cursed under his breath, as he walked away, because Andy would now hound him with questions why he didn't involve her in the first place. And Sam was not ready to play a game of 20 questions with Andy.

Sam figured that he wouldn't be able to void Andy, with her curiosity, and when Jerry called a meeting to all available officers. Even though she was working the front desk, Best had her come to the meeting because this was a high priority case. As soon as Best walked into the parade room, Jerry started to go over the details of the case. "About an hour ago, Alexis Baxter was abducted from the inside of her home. That is the last known place of her whereabouts. Lydia Baxter, her mother, told us what happened. She went outside to grab the mail while she left her daughter inside, on her bed watching a movie. When she came back in, she noticed that the back door was kicked in and so, she ran to where she had last seen her daughter. When she entered her bedroom, there was a male wearing all black and had a gun pointed to her head." Sam took a glance at Andy, who looked like she was having a hard time listening to the details. "When the mother entered the room, he set a timer and said that when it went off she could break down the bathroom door and call 911 if she wanted. So he locked her into the bathroom and waited until it went off and then she called the fifteenth division. Now, "

Andy raised her hand with a question. "McNally." Jerry nodded acknowledging for her to go ahead.

"Where is the father and why did she call the fifteenth division instead of the 911 hotline?"

"Good question," Jerry pointed towards Andy. "The father was a rookie here five years ago who died during a shoot out about two months he was on the job. Since he worked here, that is why she called here."

As Jerry went on about it was a high priority case, Andy slipped out the back, hoping that she went unnoticed, which she did to everyone but Sam. When he saw her leave, he followed her to the empty locker room. He found her with her phone held up to her ear and pacing back and forth muttering, "Pick up. Pick up. Pick up." She didn't notice Sam follow her and just kept pacing listening to the ringing until it went to Lily's voicemail. "Why aren't you answering?!" She yelled to no one and nothing in particular.

"McNally." Sam said, getting her attention.

She took one glance at him but went back to dialing the number on her phone. "Why isn't she answering? There is no reason she shouldn't be answering." She said, totally ignoring Sam.

"McNally." Sam tried again, but Andy just kept on trying to get a hold of Lily, who still didn't answer her phone. Sam walked over, closer to Andy and put his hands on her shoulders to try and get her to calm down and stop pacing. "Andy!"

At the mention of her first name coming from Sam's mouth, Andy looked up at him. "Why wouldn't you tell me about a possible missing child case?" She asked, before pushing him away from her.

"Because you have a daughter and with another a child that is around your daughters age, your judgment would be clouded. You would get to emotionally attached." Sam said, trying to reason with her.

"How do you know my judgment will be clouded? How many other people on the force have children and still do their job when a child goes missing?"

"Yes, there are a lot of officers who do and still work missing children cases. But not a lot of officers work a missing child case that resembles their own child a week after being shot and going on a suicide mission back to the people who shot them in the first place."

"I am doing this to make the community a safer place for her to live in!" Andy yelled.

"I understand that, but I am not going to let you risk your life to save another child when you almost left your own child a week ago. She needs you!" Sam yelled back.

"You don't know what my child needs and it is not your life to risk!" She rammed her finger into his chest.

"Yeah," Sam threw his hands in the air. "But I am also your partner and I am not going to let you die knowing you have a five-year-old child at home who needs you."

"She is four, not five." Andy said quietly, starting to realize what Sam was saying, but she was still furious at him for trying to control her life.

"Fine, you want to risk your life, go ahead, but do remember that you will not doing it on my watch." Sam then turned away angrily walked out the locker room door. As he pushed the door opened he saw the eyes of Traci, Dov, Chris and Gail on him as he walked towards the detectives station. He waited and turned around for a second and saw Andy coming out, and their eyes locked for a split second before Andy looked away. But the intense look between the two didn't go unnoticed by the recently let go rookies.

"What was that about?" Traci asked when Andy made her way over to them.

"And why do you smell like coffee? Gail remarked, crunching up her nose. The rest of the group nodded, curious of why she smelled like coffee.

"Let's just answer both questions with Swarek is a jerk."

Gail nodded and pursed her lips before leaving the group and walking towards the detective station. Chris retreated and followed Gail too, leaving just Andy, Traci and Dov talking. "What is all this with Swarek?" Dov asked.

"I really don't want to talk about it." Andy shrugged as she dialed Lily's number again. "Lily is not answering her phone."

"Andy, I'm sure Zoe is fine. You know Lily would never let anything happen to her." Dov said.

Andy nodded, "I know, but after all this, I just want to make sure everything is okay."

"Come on' Andy. Lily will call back as soon as she sees that you called. They are probably out side throwing a ball or learning how to ride a bike or something. She is just probably not near a phone right now." Traci said. Andy nodded in agreement. "Let's go work on the case. I'm sure everything will be fine."

The three walked back to the detectives station and started to help in anyway possible. Traci and Chris were sent to the house to see what evidence they could get from CSU, Dov went to put an missing child alert out and Gail and Andy were sent to talk to Lydia. On their way to talk to Lydia, Gail and Andy made a deal that Andy would be the one to talk to her since she could connect to her as a mother and Gail would take the notes.

"Hello, Mrs. Baxter. I am Officer Andy McNally. You can call me Andy." She introduced herself when they entered the room where the police had Lydia sitting in while they did their investigation.

Lydia looked up at Andy at the recognition of her voice. "You're the one who I first talked to when I called."

"Yeah," Andy nodded. "I am. Now, I need to ask you a few questions, is that okay?"

Lydia agreed and Andy went on to ask her a few questions. "Is there anyone suspicious hanging around you lately?"

"No, Alexis and I are usually home to ourselves except for when she goes school during the weekdays. Uhm, today she had the day off because of a teacher work day and we just wanted to make a movie day out of it so we have been watching like almost all the princess movies. Did you know how many princess movies there are?"

Andy laughed. "Yeah, I do."

"You have a daughter then?" Lydia asked, confirming her thoughts.

"Yeah, she is four. She will be five in a few months."

"Can I see a picture?"

"Sure." Andy said before grabbing out a picture she always keeps in her pocket. She unfolded the picture to reveal the face of her daughter. The picture was taken in a field of flowers and it showed the little girl with short brown hair with bouncy curls. Zoe was smiling a big smiling while holding a flower, with the sun setting perfectly on her face. To this day, it has always been Andy's favorite picture of her.

"She looks like Alexis, you know without the big brown eyes and the curly hair." Lydia said with a few tears streaming down her face.

"You noticed that too?" Andy laughed.

Lydia nodded. "What's her name?"

"Zoe."

"That is a beautiful name."

Andy nodded and smiled, showing her thanks. "Anyways, so no one suspicious?

"No," Lydia wiped the tears away. "She is really shy so she wouldn't talk to anyone she doesn't know. She barely talks to teacher at school."

"Who does she talk too?"

"Uhm, she will talk to me, her friend Lauren from school, this lunch lady at the school, my friend Hannah... and the mail man."

"The mail man?" Gail asked.

Lydia nodded. "Yeah, he started doing our neighborhood a few months ago and I would go out, get the mail from him, we'd share a few words than he would leave. One time when I was talking to him, Alexis came outside and he said he didn't know I had a daughter. I told him I did and he was being polite and brought out a candy bag and let her pick. Usually I wouldn't let her do something like that, but I have seen him give it to the neighborhood kids a few times so I figured it was okay."

"What's his name?"

Lydia looked shocked. "You don't think he did this do you?"

"We have to consider every possibility. He is a new guy that came into your life and Alexis warmed right up to him."

"No, David couldn't do something like that."

"Okay," Gail said. "We have a first name. Now, we need a last."

"Come on' Lydia, it is for your daughter." Andy said.

"Okay, his name is David Emerson."

Andy asked one last question. "Why didn't you two talk today?"

"We don't talk everyday, but when I do notice him coming out, Alexis and I go out to say hi, but today Alexis just wanted to stay in and watch movies."

"We have a name." Gail announced when she and Andy went back to the detectives station.

Jerry walked over to his computer and asked, "What's the name?"

"His name is David Emerson. He is the mailman and appeared out of nowhere starting to do their neighborhood a few months ago and Alexis warmed right up to him even though she is normally shy to everyone else."

Jerry quickly typed his name into the computer and began a search. It wasn't until they found the man in question. "Okay, David Michael Emerson, he had a normal life growing up. He had two parents for the most of his life until they split when he was nineteen. Dad all the way in Arizona while the mom was soon diagnosed with cancer a few years later and died shortly after. About five years ago, one of his friends checked him into a psych ward because he was suffering from multiple personality disorder. But a year later, he was released with the doctor that treated him said that he was doing so much better and as long as he kept taking his medicine, he would be fine."

"So, the doctor just let him go trusting him to take his medicine by himself?" Andy asked.

"No," Jerry shook his head. "He checked up on him every once in a while. He would question his friends and they all said he seems normal the doctor wrote down."

"We think he's our guy?" Gail asked.

"Yeah, I mean he is our best lead at the moment." Jerry said.

Gail and Jerry continued to keep talking when Andy's cell phone rang. She quickly excused herself before walking out of the detectives station and back into the locker room. She checked the Caller I.D. and it was none other than Lily. Andy quickly hit answer and said, "Lily? Hello?"

"Whoa, hey, Andy. I got like five missed calls from you, what's going on?" Lily laughed.

"Don't laugh Lily, where the hell have you been?"

"Whoa, Andy, calm down. What's wrong?"

"Where is Zoe?" Andy demanded.

"She is sitting on floor watching the rest of Cinderella. Andy, what's going on?" Lydia asked.

"Where were you when I was calling?"

"Uhmm.. Well, Zoe wanted to watch Cinderella so I put it on and she was sitting on my lap. About thirty minutes into the movie, my gum that I was chewing accidentally spilled out of my mouth and landed in my hair, so I went to go grab a pair of scissors but started screaming and said she didn't want me to cut her hair. I read some where that you can get gum out with some peanut butter so I did and I got the gum out but then I had to deal with tha peanut butter in her hair so I put her in the bath and I washed out the peanut butter. I quickly dressed her and she wanted to finish watching Cinderella, so she is. Andy, what is going on?"

"Uhm.." Andy swiped her bangs out of her face. "A five-year-old girl went missing today."

"Oh, Andy, are you okay? I am so sorry. If I had the news on and knew, I wouldn't have missed your call."

"I know." Andy nodded, even though Lily couldn't see her.

"Do you want to talk to her?" Lily asked.

"How absorbed is she into Cinderella?"

"Zoe." Andy heard Lily pull the phone away and yell before putting the phone back. "She is really absorbed. But I can get her out of her hypnosis if you want me too."

Andy laughed. "No, that's okay. She loves Cinderella."

"Yes she does." Lily agreed.

"Okay, well, I have to go. We have a lead on the little girl."

"You go save her Andy." Lily said, giving Andy some support.

"Bye Lily."

"Bye Andy."

With the goodbyes, Andy hit end on her phone and let out a huge breath of air she didn't notice she was holding. She quickly fixed herself before walking out of the locker room. As she walked out, she noticed Sam leaning against the wall opposite of the locker room. When he saw Andy he stood up and walked towards her. The two didn't say anything as they walked over to the police cruiser. Sam finally broke the silence. "Did she call?"

"Yeah, she did." Andy nodded.

"Is everything okay?" He asked as they both got into the car. Sam put the key into the ignition and started the car. "We are heading over to one of Emerson's friends house."

Andy nodded. "Okay, and yeah everything is okay. Turns out she was giving my daughter a bath."

"Look, I'm sorry for trying to tell you what to do earlier. It's just.." Sam stopped speaking as he pulled out of the parking lot.

"Its just, what?"

"Your father did the same thing when a teenager about your age would go missing. He would start freaking out and call you and keep calling you if you didn't answer." Sam said.

"I remember that some days he would call me constantly whereas on a normal day, he wouldn't call me at all. I remember this one time, I accidentally left my phone upstairs and I was downstairs watching TV, he kept calling me but I didn't answer, so when I did call him back, he said I was grounded."

"I walked him when he was yelling at you over the phone one time."

Andy laughed. "So you knew my father."

"Yeah," Sam pursed his lips and nodded. "He was my T.O."

"I wonder why I've never hear of you until now." Andy wondered.

"I don't know, but Tommy wasn't much on talking about his home like while at work so I'm assuming he wasn't much on talking about work at home."

"Probably. Anyways, do we think that Emerson has Alexis at his house?" Andy asked.

Sam shook his head. "I doubt it. Gail and Jerry left before us and they called right before you came out of the locker room and said that the neighbors haven't seen him in a few days. We also talked to the postal service and they said that they had a meeting with Emerson's doctor before they hired him and that they wanted updates on him to make sure that it would be safe to send him out and have some interaction with people."

"So that is why we are heading to his friends house instead."

"Yeah, Brandon Dunn was the last outgoing call Emerson had on his phone records and he and Dunn became friend while they were in the institution together. We tried calling Dunn, but he never picked up and after tracing his phone, it said that he was at his house and Emerson's phone was traced there too." Sam informed her.

"We'll get her back, right?"

"Yeah, we will get her back. I know it in my gut that we will."

"Thanks Swarek. For reassuring me." Andy said.

"Anytime, McNally. Anytime."

For the rest of the ride, the two let silence consume them. They just sat there and listened to the radio chatter that went through out. Andy just couldn't wait to get home and stay with Zoe for the rest of the night. She just wanted to snuggle down with her little girl and watch princess movies with her. Only a couple of hours left, Andy assured herself. But she did wonder if it every got better; working missing child cases while having children, but that question was saved for later for someone in particular.

A few minutes later, Sam and Andy arrived at Brandon Dunn's house. Sam said that Jerry and Gail were going to meet them there but if they got there first that they were allowed to go right in. Sam and Andy made their way the front door of the house and knocked on the door. They announced themselves as police, but after a few minutes went by and they got no answer, Sam and Andy both took their guns out the holster and nodded at each other. Andy backed away as Sam kicked open the door. They entered the house and there were no sounds being made. Andy went right while Sam went left and they cleared the main level of the house. Sam ordered Andy to go upstairs while he went to check downstairs. Andy agreed and started to make her way up the stairs. She then started with the closest room to her, which was the bathroom, and cleared the it. The next door led to a hall closet, while the next door led to a bedroom. Andy carefully opened the door. She sucked in a breath at the sight she saw.

In front of her was Brandon Dunn, on the floor, with a bullet through his chest. On the bed, David sat, holding Alexis with a gun to her head. Andy made immediate interaction. "Mr. Emerson, I'm Officer Andy McNally. I need to ask you to put the gun down."

David shook his head. "No. If I do, you will take her away from me."

"Can you tell me what happened to Brandon?"

"He tried to take her away from me like that bitch did."

"David," Andy looked at the little girl, who seemed like she had be crying a lot. Alexis caught Andy looking at her and started to cry again, but never said a word. "Alexis needs to go back to her mother."

"That woman is not her mother!" He yelled, waving the gun around. "She stole her from me! She is my daughter!"

"Okay," Andy said trying to calm him down. "I need you to put the gun down."

Andy reached for her radio to call for Sam and for some backup, but when she did, David yelled "No! Don't bring anymore people into this! You just need to realize that she is my daughter and that bitch's!"

"Mr. Emerson, have you been taking you medicine?"

"That poison that is trying to get me to forget about my daughter, hell no!" Alexis just kept on crying while Andy tried to get David to calm down and put the gun down. Andy just stood there with her gun trained on David, trying to think of a way for everyone to get out of here safe. A few seconds later, Andy felt a warm presence behind her and she knew that Sam had finally came.

"Mr. Emerson, I need you to put your gun down. We don't want and accident to happen, do we?" Sam tried.

David shook his head, but this time he moved the gun to the back of Alexis' head. When he did that, both Andy and Sam tensed up and tightened their hold on their guns. "Mr. Emerson, if you do not move the gun away from her right now, I will shoot you."

"You shoot me, my finger bounces off the trigger and the bullet goes through her head." That made Alexis start to scream, which scared David and he tried to comfort her. "No, no, no sweetie. I am just trying to get the bad guys away, there is no way I would ever hurt you my darling."

"David, if you want to protect Alexis, you need to let us take her." Andy said. Sam was about to yell at her for saying that, but David just sat there with a blank expression on his face. His eyes flicked over from Andy's to Brandon's body on the floor. He then scrambled further onto the bed, pushing Alexis away. His eyes went over to Andy and her gun.

"Did.. Did you kill Brandon?" David slowly asked, but then he noticed Alexis' presence. "Alexis? What are you doing here? What he hell is going on?"

"David, can you hand me the gun?" Andy asked slowly, putting her own gun away after Sam said it was okay and that he had her back.

"What gun?" David asked, but then he felt something heavy in his hand and looked down. At the surprise of the gun in his hand, he let it fly out of his hand when he jumped in surprise. "Oh my god, did I do this?"

"David, I need you to get up off the bed." David slowly got up and turned around while Andy handcuffed him. As she did so, Sam called in the report saying they have the suspect in custody and the missing girl. Andy brought David outside and put him in the back of the police cruiser as Sam grabbed a blanket out of the back and wrapped Alexis up in it. He then picked her up and she cried into her shoulder. Sam and Andy were waiting for their backup to come. Not a minute later, cop cars began to show up.

When Jerry and Gail showed up, Sam asked if he and Andy could take their car to take Alexis back to her mother, which they agreed, while they take David Emerson back to the 15th division. Sam got behind the wheel while Andy stayed in the back with Alexis. Sam smiled at how Andy interacted with Alexis. It felt like the longest ride back to the precinct to the both of them. Once, finally, there, Andy picked up Alexis and she hugged Andy as she brought her inside. When Andy spotted her mother, Andy whispered in Alexis' ear and set her down and watched how Alexis ran to her mother. Lydia gracefully picked up her daughter and cried. She was crying even harder that before.

Everyone in the precinct was smiling and clapping for the two reuniting. After a couple of minutes of holding her daughter, Lydia walked over to Andy and Sam. "Thank you. Thank you so much. Oh my god.. you have no idea how much this means to me. If there is anything I can do to repay you, just ask. I may not have much money or anything, but anything, I promise you."

"Oh no," Andy shook her head. "Getting you two back together and seeing the two of you together is payment enough, trust me." Andy spoke for the both of them.

Lydia nodded and said okay and thanked them one more time before walking away.

"Good job today, McNally."

"Thanks. You too Swarek."

The two retreated away from each other and into opposite locker rooms. Andy quickly got changed and walked out. She just wanted to get home as soon as possible, but before she did, she needed to ask Oliver a question. She looked around until she spotted him filling out some paperwork.

"Hey, Oliver?" Andy asked when she approached him.

"What's up, McNally?"

Andy shrugged. "I just want to know if it gets better. You know, being a parent and working cases like this."

Oliver smiled. "Not really, but you learn how to handle it. It is tough in the beginning, but, I promise, you will get a hold of it."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"Thanks, Oliver." Andy said.

Oliver nodded, "Anytime."

After the small talk she had with Oliver, Andy went outside and walked towards her car. Andy got into her car, threw her bag into the back seat and pulled her keys out of her purse. She put the key into the ignition and turned it. The car started, but shut down. She tried it once more only to have the same thing happen again. She looked up as she saw Sam walking towards her. Andy got out of the car and opened up the hood.

Sam peered over her shoulder. "Yeah, you aren't going to be driving that home."

"Are you serious?" Andy groaned.

"Yup," Sam nodded. "It's going to take some work."

"What are you offering?" Andy said sarcastically.

But Sam wasn't joking. "Sure. I have tomorrow off and I'm pretty sure you do too, not that you need to have the day off, but I won't be doing anything."

"Are you sure?"

"Why not, McNally? It'll just mean you owe me a favor."

"Oh, that's your secret agenda."

"Always have to have one." Sam said.

Andy nodded. "Okay, so I have you to fix my car, now I just need Traci to get out here to give me a ride home."

"No," Sam disagreed. "I'll take you home."

"Swarek, I have to pick up my kid first." Andy said.

"I don't care. And I am not going to take 'No' for and answer."

Andy debated for a minute before rolling her eyes and agreeing to let Sam take her home. Andy quickly got her bag out of the back of the car and walked with Sam over to his truck. She smiled as she slid into the passengers seat.

Traci and Gail watched as she did so.

"Okay, what is up with those two?" Gail asked.

"Beats me." Traci shrugged as she watched Sam drive out of the parking lot.

"I don't understand how she gets into his pants within a week when I have been trying for two years."

"Gail."

"Yeah?"

"You're disgusting."

It was about a ten minute drive to Lily's house and the only word that were spoken were the directions Andy had given Sam to her house. As Sam pulled into Lily's driveway, Andy unbuckled and asked Sam, "I can just have Lily take me home. You don't need to also take me home."

"I said I'd take you home, McNally. I'm going to take you home." Sam said.

Andy nodded. She was too tired to discuss this with him at the moment. "Okay, well, you want to come in?"

"No, I will just wait here."

"Sam, Lily and I usually talk for a while Zoe plays with some toys." Andy said.

"I really don't want to intrude. And why did you call Sam?"

"It's your first name and we are off the clock, so I think we can call each other by our first names. Plus, my daughter wants to meet my hero.

Sam laughed and licked his lips. "Your hero?"

"She is a four-year-old girl, she asked me if a prince saved me like all the other princesses. And you are definitely not a prince, so I said you were a hero."

"Are you sure about this Andy?"

In response, she nodded and got out of the truck and went towards the front door. Sam was slowly walking behind her. Andy waited until he was on the porch with her when she knocked. It was a few moments until Lily answered, "Hey Andy!" She waved and smiled, even when she spotted Sam.

"Hey Lily, this is Sam. Sam, this is Lily. I met her in high school." Sam smiled and put out his hand and the two shook hello. Lily let the two into her house and a second later, Zoe came running towards Andy. Andy picked her up and started to introduce her to Sam.

"Zoe, this is Sam. Sam, this is Zoe."

Zoe gave a cheeky smile and waved hello. She was giggling and her mother talked to her for a few minutes before Zoe look over at Sam with a serious look. "Are you mommy's hero?" She asked.

"Uhmm.." Sam laughed and nodded. "Yeah, I guess I am."

After his answer, Zoe squirmed out of Andy's around arms and wrapped her own around Sam's legs. "Thank you for saving mommy." She said, her voice a little muffled.

Sam looked up at Andy, who was just smiling with a hand over her heart. He then reached down put a hand on her back and rubbed it up and down.

"You're welcome."

Is it okay? I really hope it is!

Again, if you like it, please review! If not, please don't review. And if I have any grammar or spelling mistakes that you want to correct me on, GO AHEAD, just not in a harsh way, please!

Quick Question: Oliver's wife will be mentioned in the next chapter, should I keep her name Zoe and we just have two Zoe's? Or should I change it? Leave your opinion in a review, please!

Have a wonderful day my lovelies!

~MerryBerryBlue

UPCOMING: We get more into Sam and Andy's relationship.