5x01 – No Ordinary day
How can 3 hours be longer than 3 years Andy doesn't know. It's been that long since Sam was brought to surgery to extract the bullet and stop the bleeding. She went to the waiting room to tell Frank and the other officers about Sam's condition and to fill the admission papers. Then she tried to call Marlo, but she never answered. After the 10th call, she gave up. It took 45 minutes to take care of everything. All she had to do now was waiting. After more than 2 hours, a couple of officers left, and she was alone in the waiting room with Traci and her own thoughts.
"Andy please say something. You're just staring at the floor, no tears, no words, you're scaring me …"
Andy lift her head to look at Traci for a second, then she stared at the floor again.: "I….I….I feel so helpless, I don't know what to do, I just have a million of thoughts in my mind….".
Traci knelt in front of her and cup her hands: "Hey, look at me. He'll be fine Andy. Sam. Will. Be. Fine."
Just then the doctor came out: "Officer McNally can I talk to you ?"
Meanwhile –15 division
By the time Frank and Nick arrived at the station, Luke had already take the statements and Holly was instructing the forensics.
Luke approached Nick and lead him to the interrogation room in order to take the statement, while Frank told everyone to go to parade in 5 minutes.
In the interrogation room, Nick had just finished his not so friendly talk with Luke and was reaching the door when he heard the detective say: " Are you gonna let her go?"
Nick turned around and with a sad smile said " It's not like I didn't know what the risks were. …See you Callaghan".
Parade room
When Frank came to the parade was greeted only by silence and wondering glances.
"Alright everybody, as you know tonight detective Swarek was shot here in the station. The shooter, Kevin Ford, was killed by Officer Collins. Swarek is still in surgery in order to extract the bullet, and a few officers are there to keep us posted. Now, I know how you feel, somebody came here, in our house, and stroke us down. But we can't allow our fears to get the best on us. So, we have a job to do, assignments are on the whiteboard. Serve, Protect, and held your head high. Dismissed."
At the hospital:
Andy got up and went straight to the doctor forgetting Traci and the other officers.
"How is he?"
"Miss McNally , detective Swarek is alive. We were able to stop the bleeding and took the bullet out. We're taking him to ICU and hopefully he will wake up in a couple of hours"
Andy was speechless, but someway she found the important words to say "Can I see him?"
The doctor smiled and told her to follow him.
She stopped at the door and thanked the doctor before entering the room. She stared at the sleeping form in front of her, took a chair a sat down taking his hand in hers. When she thought she had no more tears and no more words left, voice and tears came.
"Hey Sam, you're gonna be OK, you know, I just talked to the doctor, he told me that. All you have to do is wake up. Come on Sam, come back to me". She laid her head against the still entwined hands, and completely drained, fell asleep.
Patrol car-next morning
Gail and Chris started the morning shift after a night spent in the waiting room of the hospital waiting for the doctor to come out and tell them their friend wound be fine.
"I really don't want to work today"
"Come on Chris, Sam's fine, Andy's fine, with a little luck Chloe will be ok too, Why are you so worried?"
"Gail, Sam's not fine, he just got shot, Andy and the word fine shoundn't be put in the same sentence. EVER. And Chloe is not out of the woods as well. And she's married! How can you hide something like that! "
"You're such a drama queen. You know what? I'm gonna…."
Just then the radio spoke:" 1509 street fight in spadina"
Chris sighed and answered the call: "1509 responding." He turned to Gail and said :"No ordinary day."
Gail smirked and said: "let the fun begin"
At the hospital
Andy woke up to a clank. She turned her head and relaxed when she realized it must have been a nurse checking on Sam. She got up to grab the bottle of water on the nightstand beside Sam's bed, and saw an envelope with his name on it. She immediately recognized the handwriting as the same on the notepad she tampered. She rushed to the door and looked around, searching for Marlo but she was nowhere to be found. She was about to came back to the room when she saw Luke .
"How's he doing?"
"He's still out, the doctor said it would've been awake in a couple of hours, but it had already been 10 hours….uhm, I'm sorry, I don't want to be rude, but what are you doing here?"
"I'm here to take your statement Andy, I'm sorry, I waited as long as I could but…."
"It's ok….apparently I still have some time.." she said glancing throught the window to the sleeping figure laid on the hospital bed.
Spadina
Gail and Chris were handcuffing two drunk men, when a woman run towards them screaming.
Chris tried to calm her down to understand why she was screaming. When the cries finally stopped , she brought them to the house she came out from.
What they found there, was unexpected, to say the least.
"Chris I really think we should call Homicide….You know, I might be dating Holly, but I'm still not allowed to do an autopsy."
She took the radio "This is 1509 backup requested at 89675 Spadina. Homicide scene. Send the CSI."
In the meantime Chris was trying to reach Callaghan "Hey Luke it's me…yeah I know you're at the hospital but we have a murder and we need you here….ok yes I'll send you a text with the location. Bye." He turned to Gail and said:" he's coming."
Hospital
"Look Andy I really need to go, I'll send someone to bring you some fresh clothes, I know that you're not gonna leave this place anytime soon. Just call me if you need anything OK?"
"Thanks Luke.."
When Callaghan left she decided to grab a snack at the vending machine, when she heard someone clearing his throat behind her. She turned around and saw Oliver in a wheelchair handing her a cup of coffee. Andy looked at him and before he could even speak she burst in tears and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Be careful McNally, I know I'm handsome but my ribs are broken"
"Sorry Oliver it's just that…..argh I swear I was going to visit you…I just…..I didn't want to leave him….they said he would have been awake by now but…"
"Andy…will you please stop rambling and tell me what's going on in that pretty head of yours?".
She took a deep breath and admitted:
"It's my fault! He was leaving and I was talking him down and then we saw your patrol car outside and when we came back into the station he didn't put his vest on…..oh God Oliver….what if he hates me? "
Crime Scene
Luke arrived at the scene and was immediately welcomed by Chris and Gail who filled him about the case.
When he stepped into the house he looked at the scene and at the victim on the floor. Suddenly he recognized the tattoo printed on the dead body.
"Great, just what I need today…." He said to himself. Luke then turned to call Chris who was outside talking with the witness : "Diaz, call Guns and Gangs and detective Peck. Tell him we have a murder, and that the victim was with the 912". Chris nodded and dialed the numbers.
Hospital
More tears fell , and Oliver reached for her chin and looked straight in her eyes: "you listen to me McNally. There's no way in the world that Sam could feel for you something anywhere near hate. I still don't understand how can you two be so blind towards your feelings, but if you don't face them, I will! You must know something, Andy….something Sam said to me at the cabin not long ago. We were waiting for that two morons, and…he told me that he missed you."
"He told you what?"
"He told me he wants to marry you, he wants you to be the mother of his children….I don't know if you understand what this means….Sam has never been the family man…and the fact he thinks he can have a family…with you…..it's…it's beyond amazing McNally…you can't let it go! you just can't!"
Andy just nodded her head not trusting herself to speak because she was sure no words would have came out…She managed a thank you to Oliver, who just smiled and went to Celery who was waiting for him near the elevator. Just then she came to Sam's room and saw that his eyes were wide open and staring at her.
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