Sharon watched him walk to elevator before closing the door and heading back to her coffee. It didn't take Sharon long to pack all of Jack's belongings because as it turned out there wasn't much at her condo to begin with. Deciding that it would be safer if someone else dropped off his things rather than Andy, Sharon called a friend of Jack's who stopped by later that afternoon. After Jack's friend left, Sharon decided to call the Chief and let her know that both she and Andy would be requesting an audience with her first thing Monday morning.
Before they both knew it, it was early Monday morning and Andy was knocking on Sharon's front door. Sharon walked from the kitchen to the door and looked through her peephole, checking that it wasn't Jack and opening the door with a big smile when she realised who it was and how sleepy they still looked.
"Good morning Andy. Why don't you come in, I'm almost ready." Sharon opened the door wider and let him in. Andy just grunted in reply as he walked through the door which earned a quiet chuckle from Sharon.
Sharon closed the door and walked through to the kitchen indicating to Andy as she walked past him to follow her. "I'm going to let you in on my morning secret Andy since it looks like you could benefit from it." Sharon laughed as she handed over the mug she had been working on just before Andy had arrived. He looked sceptically at the mug in his hand before slowly taking a sip and then sighing gratefully when he realised that it wasn't one of her herbal drinks. "I take it you like it?" Sharon asked cheerfully noticing Andy's reaction to the triple shot she had created for him.
"Oh yeah, it's great. How many shots of coffee did you put in this?"
"Three. I usually only have a double shot when I wake up but I figured you may appreciate the triple shot since you appear overly grumpy in the mornings at work." Sharon laughed at Andy's look of false indignation. "Okay let me just get my bag and then we can go. I want to see the Chief as early as possible." Andy just nodded in response as he skolled the rest of his coffee before rinsing the mug and putting it on the sink then meeting Sharon at the front door.
When Sharon and Andy walked into the murder room a little while later, the Chief was already in her office on the phone and she did not look happy. When she noticed them walk into the murder room, Brenda lifted her hand and signalled she wanted to talk to them.
"She doesn't look too happy." Andy murmured to Sharon as they put their things away before walking to the Chief's office. By the time they walked into her office, closed the door and sat down, Brenda had finished her phone call and was looking more than a little pissed off.
Without hesitating Brenda got right to the point. "Are y'all sleeping together?"
Sharon was so gobsmacked by the question that she was stunned into silence and left Andy to answer the question. "Ah no Chief we aren't. Why would you ask that?" Andy chuckled nervously while rubbing his hand along the back of his neck.
"Well that was just Chief Pope on the phone and he is under the impression that y'all are because he received an anonymous phone call late yesterday afternoon saying that the two of you are in fact sleeping together and have been for a while now. Which is news to me because if y'all are in a relationship or just sleeping together you would have to report it to me and I know how Sharon is about rules. Now I don't believe it because as I said before, I know how Sharon is with rules. So would you care to explain?" Brenda asked sternly.
"Jack." Sharon whispered.
"I'm sorry but who is Jack?" Brenda was getting frustrated.
"Jack is, was my partner. He was a part of the reason we wanted to talk to you this morning Chief. Long story short, I caught him with his secretary and I ended it with him over the weekend." Sharon answered calmly even though she wasn't feeling calm on the inside. She could see Andy out of the corner of her eye clenching his fists. She wanted to reach out and take his hands to help calm him but she knew the Chief would really think they were sleeping together then.
"Okay let me get this straight; this is really just him getting back at y'all for the break-up." Sharon nodded her head meekly. "I'm glad we cleared that up; I'll call Will and let him know. Now what did y'all want to talk to me about this morning? Y'all were pretty mysterious on the phone Saturday afternoon Sharon." Brenda gladly moved onto the next topic.
Sharon shifted nervously in her chair, "Well Chief as I said before, Jack is a part of the reason we came into see you. You see on Friday afternoon I received an envelope which contained two return tickets to Paris and accommodation which is for a total of two weeks next month for my birthday and they were from Jack. But now that the relationship has ended, I have a spare ticket and I have asked Andy to come with me instead because everything has been booked in my name. So the whole reason for us coming in and seeing you this morning and asking for time off together was so that you wouldn't get the wrong idea and think that something was happening between us but it didn't quite turn out like that." Sharon explained as calmly as possible.
"Oh right well, I don't think it should be a problem for y'all to take time off together, you both need some time off and if we need extra help I'm sure we could borrow some people from Robbery Homicide. Although I may have to explain to Pope as to why y'all are taking holidays together, I'm afraid he may really believe what your ex had said during the phone call. I promise I won't go into full detail as to why y'all asked Andy to go with you. So if y'all both want to get all the official paperwork done I can put in y'all leave requests into Pope today so it can be sorted and dealt with sooner rather than later."
Sharon thanked the Chief and apologised for Jack's behaviour before both she and Andy left the office and went straight to the break room for some much needed coffee.