DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters. They belong to James Duff and the Major Crimes franchise.
A/N: This chapter is from Andy's POV. Again, this is just an add-on to the Episode White Lies, part 3. I tried to stay in canon with the characters from what we know. Thank you!
Chapter 3
Andy's POV
I can't believe this is happening to me again, and in front of Sharon. I don't want her to see me like this, in pain and panicking. As I fall to the floor against her door to her office, I grabbed her hand and clutched it to my heart. The pain is sharp and it rips through me. I close my eyes for a second and I hear people call my name and my rank but I focus on her voice, Sharon's voice. I open my eyes and look straight into hers and I can tell she's scared, heck I'm scared right now too. She caresses my face with her hands and at this point, I don't want to lose her. Funny, as I'm thinking about that because I'm the one laying on the floor with chest pain as she's looking at me trying to talk to me in her soothing and calming voice. God I love this woman so much.
The next couple of things happen so fast. One minute there are paramedics assessing me and taking my pulse and stuff. They placed me on an EKG while I'm lying there, and rattled off some medical terms. I grimaced in pain and Sharon continued to hold my hand. I try to focus on what she is saying to me. The next minute I'm being loaded into the back of an ambulance. I look around and see Sharon coming with me. She looks worried. She needs to know that I love her. I'm sure she already knows as I tell her every morning when we wake up together. Damn it! I didn't get to tell her that this morning because she wanted to rush back to the office while I wanted to just hold her a little longer. She's holding my hand now and I focus solely on her. God she's beautiful, I need to tell her that too.
I assume we arrived at the hospital because the next thing I know, I'm being wheeled into the Emergency Room and there are doctors and nurses yelling something. Sharon gets stopped by a nurse and I want her to stay with me but I'm being wheeled into a room, where there are nurses now taking my vitals, I'm being hooked up to a machine, and I am being poked with a needle. I grimace as it is being pushed into my hand and it starts to burn. The doctor is asking me if I'm in pain, I nod my head and tell him that my chest hurts. Whatever the monitor shows him, he gives an order to the nurses and one nurse is handing me another aspirin to take. They take off my sobriety ring and bracelet and place them in a bag along with my watch and personal items. Hopefully Sharon comes back here soon so I can focus on her again. The pain starts to subside after the IV was started and it's getting easier to breathe now. Maybe because I have oxygen being shot up my nose now. Sharon has been gone awhile. I'm still being poked and prodded by the doctor. He says something to the nurse and she walks out of the room. "Lieutenant, we are going to order some tests to see what is causing this to happen to you and we will go from there, okay?" the doctor stated. "Okay" I said. "I'm going to go out and speak with your girlfriend now and bring her back here with you" the doctor said. "We are going to take care of you Lieutenant, don't worry, you are going to be fine" he added and left the room. The room I am in is big and a typical hospital room, not like the one I was in last year. Huh, last year with that stupid blood clot. I hate to put Sharon through this again. She's been so good to me; I need to make this up to her. Meanwhile, I'm just going to close my eyes for a bit.
I feel someone caressing my left hand, so softly, I open my eyes and I see Sharon. I give her a smile, my smile, that's only reserved for her and she smiles back. It looks like she had been crying. I hate it when she cries, especially now because all I want to do is comfort her. She's had a rough couple of days and now to top it all off with me in the hospital. "I'm sorry" I say to her. "What are you sorry about?" she asks. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you that I love you when we woke up this morning" I say back to her in a low voice. "I love you Andy" she says to me, in her soft and sweet voice. I look back at her, "I love you too Sharon" I say.
That darn nurse interrupted our moment as she takes my vitals again and tells us that I'm going for some tests soon. Two orderlies come into the room to take me, as they start to wheel me away; Sharon says "I'll wait for you". I smile back at her and keep my eyes on her as I'm being wheeled away down the hall. I close my eyes as I'm being wheeled into another room that is bigger and a little darker. There's also a nurse with me, she's nice and she's telling me what the different tests are. The two orderlies help me off of the hospital bed and I lay down on another table that goes into this CT scanner or whatever you want to call it. The nurse is telling me what to do and I have to lay very still for this procedure. Not a problem I tell her. As I am being moved into the scanner I think back to last week when I was at Sharon's condo, before this last case we had. I had wanted to surprise her with a weekend trip getaway up the coast in a small cottage that I had seen advertised in a magazine. Nicole had helped me organize the surprise for Sharon but then we had caught this white supremacist case and I had told Nicole that this weekend wasn't going to work out. She told me not to worry and that once the case was over she would still help me set it up for a different weekend. So much for that I thought. I've been laying here for what seems to me to be an eternity and then I start to move out of the scanner. The nurse tells me I did great and the orderlies help me back on to the hospital bed and I am off to another room for another test I assume.
This time I am lying on a table and there is some cold gel being rubbed on my chest. It tingles a little bit but starts to warm up as soon as the technician rubs this wand over my chest. He tells me to take a deep breath, and then let go of it which I do. He rubs this wand back and forth, almost soothing like as I drift off and remember how Sharon likes to rub my chest as we lay together in her bed. I picture Sharon rubbing her hand along my chest and start to smile. The technician asks if I'm doing alright and I tell him yes. He stops rubbing the wand and starts to wipe my chest with a towel to remove the gel he had used. He told me I did great and that they got a good picture of my heart. The orderlies come back into the room and help me back into the hospital bed and wheel me back to my room. I hope Sharon is there because I need to see her again. Instead of lying down on the bed, the orderlies have me sit up, which is better and I am able to see a lot that is going on in this hospital. I am wheeled back into my room and I see Sharon there. I can tell she has been crying again. What I wouldn't give just to hold her right now in my arms and tell her everything is going to be okay. She stands up, smiles at me, and then grabs my hand. Geeze her hands are cold. I guess I made a face when she did that because she said "Are you in pain?" "No" I replied back to her "Your hands are just cold" I said while I threw on my charm to her. "I love you" she tells me. "I love you too" I say smiling back at her. She tells me that everyone is outside waiting, even Nicole as she caresses my face. I love it when she does that. I look into her eyes "Thank you" I say to her. "For what, sweetheart?" she asked. "For loving me and everything else that comes with it" I simply said. Just then, the doctor walked in and said he had the results of the tests I had just done.
