At 5-20am Sam walked into Franks looked up & saw him approaching, he motioned for him to come in without knocking. Glancing around the room, he Saw Boyd from Guns & Gangs as well as Superintendent Peck waiting on him along with Frank.

"Sir, ma'am, Boyd." He greeted everyone. 'Must be serious if Peck is in so early' he thought dryly to himself.

"Sam sorry for the unearthly hour but we have a situation. Superintendent Peck has requested you personally on this & I trust you to be discreet about, m'am would you like to brief Sam?" Frank asked hesitant on how to continue.

"Yes thank you Frank" She said standing up from the chair she was sitting in. "Sam I want you on this because I trust you to be discreet & you are the best in the field. My nephew Charlie... Well Charlie was a junkie that got his last high on some bad junk & he overdosed last night. His dealer got spooked by his untimely demise & killed his supplier that gave Charlie a mix of his own backyard junk with the pure blow he gave him to sell so he shot him & left his body to be found with Charlie. Boyd the rest is for you to clear up" she said flatly leaving Boyd to fill in the blanks as she turned away to hide her welling tears.

"You will go under as a seller from Ottawa on the run looking for a job. You killed your ex-boss for giving you bad blow to sell that 3 people overdosed on & shot a cop when they came looking For you. Your name is Owen Sinclair. Here is your new ID. You will be down on the dock by 6-00am looking for Danny Silvato. He'll hook you up with a job working for Alex Costas. Costas is our target, Silvato is one of ours but he's not making any progress.". Boyd explained showing Sam a hand full of surveillance photo's.

Sam stood staring at Boyd running his hand through his hair clearly annoyed by the unexpected assignment.

"Officer Swarek I don't care how or what you get this guy on. I want him taken down even if it ends up as a bullet in between his eye's because he was J walking. As long as it takes & whatever it takes. Do you understand?" Peck asked moving over to look Sam in the eye's almost pleading.

"Uh yes ma'am. Understood" Sam said as he mused over how blatantly straight forward she was, but also taken back by her slight display of emotion that he was not accustomed to seeing her so freely display.

"Good!" She simply said before leaving Franks office.

"Well Sammy leave your stuff in your locker & Boyd will take you down town where you will catch a cab & head to the docks. Watch your back & bring Peck her man" Frank said before waiving them out his office.

Opening his locker Sam thought of how Andy would react to him being gone when she woke up & was fully focused. Deciding to text her quick he pulled out his phone 'Andy, I'm so sorry I had to go. Sam Xxx' hitting the send button he turned to switch it off & threw it in his locker before slamming the door. Making his way out the locker room towards Boyd waiting outside he hoped this would be over soon.

Andy woke up to the screaming of her alarm. Hitting it to shut it off she rolled over remembering the events of the night before. Sniffing her still blocked nose, she found the familiar scent fill her nose- a Mixture of muskiness & leather. Her still blocked nose was accompanied by a splitting headache. The first signs of a hangover & a bad cold fused together. Expecting to find Sam she rolled over clutching a hand full of empty air instead. She was stunned to find herself alone in her bed. With a loud groan she leaned over the edge of her bed & she saw his clothes were gone. Flopping back on her pillows she thought she would see him at parade & the thought made her smile. Jumping out of bed she made her way to the shower smiling all the way, excited about seeing Sam soon.

Once out the shower Andy dressed & did her make-up, a little more than usual, she grabbed her phone & made her way to leave when she noticed she had a new text. Opening the new message she found it from Sam. 'Andy, I'm so sorry I had to go. Sam Xxx' Smiling she put her phone in her pocket & made her way to work.

Once at the barn Andy made her way to the locker room to change into her uniform running late as usual- Andy blew through like only hurricane Andy could.

"Well look who is doing the walk of shame" Traci said as soon as she stepped through the door & in to the locker room.

"Shut up!" Andy giggled as she opened her locker.

"Oh come on, we've been waiting like forever for the Mcswarek hookup! So spill" Traci said well aware that her friend had been waiting just as long as the rest of the 15 had.

"Mcswarek?" Andy giggles raising an eyebrow at the newly found nickname.

"Yeah, we kinda named you guys that" Traci said with a huge smile. "Hey how's the cold?" She asked seeing Andy reach for her tissue box.

"Better, only got today & tomorrow left on the med's then I should be right as rain" Andy replied as she finished wiping her nose & reached to pull out her pills & took what was prescribed for the morning dose.

"Ok back to the Mcswarek saga- how was it?" Traci asked moving back to the topic of conversation.

"Heavenly" Andy said simply with a mega smile as she closed her locker door now fully dressed for parade. "But I'll fill you in later, we've gotta get our asses into parade or we'll be late" Andy said moving for the door.

Parade started & Andy kept throwing innocent glances at Sam's usual spot in the back of the room, but it remained empty. Her heart sinking with every empty glance she took. Soon she noticed Gail was also absent.

As Best was wrapping up their morning briefing he made a brief mention of both missing faces "Peck is off on personal leave & Swarek is out on assignment, so Diaz booking Shaw/McNally, front desk Epstein, Nash/Riley, Lindsey/St Cloud. Serve protect & have each other's backs." He said before make a hasty exit.

Andy sat now confused by Sam being 'out on assignment', that meant he was undercover. Thinking of his text from earlier, she realized that it was about going to Guns & Gangs not going home to shower. Soon she felt tears well up in her eyes & her heart sink to new levels of low.
Just when she thought they were finally making it to where they wanted to be, well at least where she wanted them to be, something would stand in their way .Making her way to the squad car to meet Oliver her phone beeped signalling a text. It was Traci- u ok?

Not really!She replied.

Traci- wanna talk later? Drinks at Penny?

Sorry can't it's Thurs- dinner with dad.She typed & sent the reply putting her phone away as Oliver came over.

"You ok there McNally?" He asked in his daddy tone.

"Yup" was all Andy could muster as a response as she climbed in the car.

Four weeks had gone by since Sam left but he was making good headway into Alex Costa's close knit family of hookers, suppliers, pimp's & goons. He had managed to get a job selling within a few days of meeting up with Danny. He would usually fence his goods at clubs mostly to kid's under 25. Sometimes he felt like taking the kids & beating some sense into them for throwing their lives away but he had to remain focused on the job so he could get back to Andy & his life.

'Andy' he thought staring at the ceiling of his really dodgy undercover apartment.
'So close & yet so far.' Andy was defiantly his drug of choice, his addiction. Since she had tackled him in the alley & saved his ass from Anton Hill he knew there was a connection there, a spark. Some kind of addictive pull towards her had made him unable to keep himself away from her looking for the ultimate high he would get when their hands would accidentally brush, or their shoulders would touch. Her scent he mussed actually sniffing the air as if to catch a whiff of it. Her scent would send him to cloud nine. Having finally had her fall asleep in his arms Sam knew that he wanted that to happen again & again & forever. 'Wait, forever?' He thought surprised by his own trail of thought.
'Yeah, forever, I can do forever' he smiled before dozing off to dreams filled with forever's.

"Aarg!" Andy sighed as she wiped her nose for the hundredth time since she entered the locker room.

"Still sick?" Traci asked concern for her friend lacing her voice.

"Yeah...has not gone away since like forever." Andy replied rolling her eyes.

"Maybe you should go back to the doctor, you need..." Traci stated to suggest but was cut short when Andy clamped her mouth with her hand & ran into the nearest stall housing a toilet before throwing up violently. "Hey you ok?" Traci asked when Andy came out a few minutes later.

"Yeah, I will be in a bit. I've been sick like that every morning for the last three days" Andy replied grabbing her toothbrush & toothpaste & heading for the basin.

"Ok, well I really think you might wanna go see the doctor!" Traci said with a smile.

"Yeah, well I'll try on Monday when we're off if I'm not better by then. Or dead!" Andy replied flatly.

"Um...still on the birth control pills right?" Traci asked now raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, why would you ask..." Andy trailed off as her mind began working overtime. "Wait you don't think that..." She continued rambling as she fumbled for her phone & opened the calendar. "Shit!" She exclaimed loudly panic flashing over her face.

"Hey it's ok, we'll check when we can get you an appointment before you go all panicky on me ok?" Traci said reassuringly.

"This cannot be happening! It was like, one time & I drink my pills like clockwork, &...crap I was on the antibiotics...& Sam is not here. Oh God what will Sam say?" She cried when things made sense to her now over working brain.

"We'll try today for an appointment at lunch ok? I'll go with you" Traci said hugging Andy who was now letting tears flow freely.

In parade they were paired with their partners for the day, Traci with Gail now that she was back & Andy with Oliver as she was every day.

The morning was slow on patrol with them only answering a B&E at a store on Third Street. Andy was deep in worrisome thought when she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket.

Traci- hey how u hanging in there? Meet me at barn 4 lunch app at 1-30.

"Hey McNally, everything ok? You're wearing a funny face" Oliver asked jokingly trying to cheer his obviously not happy partner.

"Um...yeah. Can you drop me at the barn by 1-15 for lunch? I um... I.. Have to be somewhere with Traci for lunch" she said looking at him with a panicked face.

"Yeah sure, but you know you can come to me if you need something right?" Oliver said genuinely concerned for her.

"Yeah thanks Oliver. I'm ok, it'll be ok. Everything is fine" she tried smiling & tried to sound convincing but knew she was failing miserably. Hell everyone knew she was such a bad liar.

Their shift dragged by & it was almost time to head back to the barn.
Andy was feeling more nervous than she had ever before. Having had a really quiet morning she had more than enough time to ponder all aspects & possibilities of her possible situation.

"Call me when you're ready to be picked up McNally" Oliver said as he pulled in to the barn. "I'm off to Pappa Joe's to meet Jerry for lunch. See you later" he finished as she opened the door when he stopped.

"Sure thanks Oliver" Andy replied with a weak smile before getting out.

"Ready to go?" Traci asked as soon as Andy entered the barn making her way over to her.
Traci knew Andy well enough to hang around the door to meet her as soon as she came in. Before she changed her mind about going Traci ushered Andy towards her car.

"As ready as I'll ever be" she replied softly holding back the tears as they made their way out the door.

Ten minutes later they were in their Gp's waiting room" Dr Young is ready for you Miss McNally" Anne the receptionist said ushering them into the Doctors office.

"Traci, Andy good to see you both. What can I do for you Andy?" Dr Young said smiling sweetly at Andy.

"Well, I have been sick since the last time I was here, you know the sniffles & then I...um started throwing up & well I'm late too.." She trailed off not knowing what more to say.

"Well hop on the bed, let's take a look at you" Dr Young said as she ushered Andy to the bed.

A few minutes later the doctor was done & gave Andy a form "Take this to the lab next door & let them do some quick blood work. You can come back here & wait & we'll see what the results say. Should take about fifteen minutes or so"

"Thank you Doctor" Traci said as Andy had lost her ability to formulate words.

The blood was drawn & the friends returned to the waiting room neither having said a word since leaving the doctor's office. Andy sat silently fidgeting with her hands in her lap staring into space while Traci sat silently staring at Andy.

"Doctors ready for you" Anne said ushering them back into the doctor's office.

"Well your results are back & congratulations are in order. You are 5 weeks pregnant & otherwise healthy. I'm giving you a prescription for some prenatal vitamins & an appointment for a check-up in three weeks' time."

Andy stopped listening at five weeks pregnant & barely took notice of Traci pulling her hand up & leading her out to the car. As they got in all sorts of emotions came flooding over Andy fear, longing, desperation, fear , fear, fear. Soon the tears were streaming down her face & her body was shacking as she sobbed.

"Oh Andy! Don't cry, hey come here" Traci said pulling Andy into a tight hug. "It'll be ok"

"How will it be ok Trace? It was one time & now I'm pregnant & Sam is not here. What is he going to say when he comes back? If he comes back! How will I tell him? It's not like we're together it was just what it was & now I'm in such a mess!" She cried into Traci's shoulder.

"Hey! Hey look at me" Traci said as she pushed Andy away to look at her. "Sam is not like that! He's been holding out for you all this time & now that he has you he's not gonna let you go so easily. We've all seen how he looks at you, and believe me when I say he's got it bad for you".

"Then why did he leave?" Andy whimpered out barely audible.

"It's his job Andy. We don't know the details but we both know he must have gotten an order from high up to go now. I know for a fact that he has been offered a spot with guns & gangs that he has turned down plenty of times. Why do you think he did that? Guy's that work that job have nothing to keep them home & nobody to come home to that's why they do it. It's not hard to figure out what or who is holding him back now. We'll take it one step at a time & I'm here every step of the way ok? Now who do we tell first Frank or your dad?"

Andy knew in the back of her mind that Traci was probably right but she still had a feeling of fear overcome her.