CHAPTER THREE

It was the night after Andy had told all the rookies her and Sam's story. Tonight they wanted to know the rest, or really his war wounds, well to be truthful; Dov and Chris wanted to know about what happened in between Sam's graduation and Andy's time at the academy.

"What about the big things? Like when you got injured somehow?" Dov had a secret man crush on Sam and he may not admit it but he sure does show it. Luckily for Dov, Sam was sitting at the rookie table tonight and he was in a giving mood plus Andy looked up to Dov as her brother so he decided to share. "I've been shot twice and stabbed once; my second shooting and my stabbing aren't that interesting just undercover op's gone wrong. My first one you may like though."

FLASHBACK

Sam had been on the force for six months and he had seen some pretty scary stuff however what he was about to experience would make him both hate and love his job.

Sam and Tommy entered an abandoned parking lot, they would have liked to wait for backup but a 6 month old baby girl was missing here and they had to get her back. Even though she was gone for 5 hours the pressure was on as they knew that the crooks; who car jacked the mothers car, wouldn't have bothered to look after the baby. Or so they thought.

"Keep your eyes open Sammy, you see any movement, tell me" Sam nodded to Tommy understanding how he was on edge, Tommy had decided to spend one shift in uniform instead of his dress uniform that he would normally be in as chief to partner with Sam at 15 in order to replace his good friend for a weekend.

Sam kept walking until he did see movement, he also heard movement. The criminals were cooing over the baby? Now that was something Sam did not expect, they also didn't expect him. He tried to get Tommy's attention to let him know that he found them but Tommy was too far away. So Sam went in, gun drawn. You would have thought that since they had a baby in there they wouldn't have guns but luckily there were only two of them. Sam shot the first one straight away but the second one managed to get him in the shoulder before Tommy made it to Sam and shot the second thief.

To say that Sam was scared was being nice to his rather large ego. He was terrified, in that moment all he could think about was how he didn't want to leave. Not yet, not when he just managed to get a great steady life.

Tommy kept telling Sam to hold on, not to go yet and that he couldn't leave Andy. Sam didn't want to but the darkness just looked to comforting to him seeing as he hadn't slept for about 36 hours. That was when he went black.

Next thing he knew he was in a hospital bed with Andy sleeping beside him on her chair and his parents and siblings on the chairs and cot's set up in the rather large room. So this is what happens when a cop gets shot Sam thought.

Andy peppered him with kisses after he had made what sounded like gagging noises since he hadn't had any water which made his siblings laugh.

END FLASHBACK

The rookies all laughed at the end of the story. Traci wanted Andy's side to the story though. "What about you Andy, how did you find it?"

"One word, horrible."

FLASHBACK

Andy woke up from her nice dream to a not so nice sight. Oliver at 2 am in the morning wasn't very pretty, he wasn't happy or excited though. He was dead nervous and Andy could sense it. Jerry, Noelle and Frank all came into Sam's room and told her that she just had to get up and get dressed without any questions asked.

Whilst Andy was confused she did what they said, she had a bad feeling about that shift that Sam was on, even if he was partnered with her dad.

He decided that when his best friend had to take a couple of day's leave that he wanted to go back to 15, especially since the shift that he would cover would mean that he could be partnered with Sammy. Tommy wanted to hear how Sam was doing on the job, he barely got to see him since Andy would spend a couple of nights at his place instead of the family home, so he got to spend some rare quality time with him. At first it was awkward but then Sam cracked a joke and they were off like two old friends.

When they were finally in the car Andy asked Noelle what was going on, she knew she could count on Noelle as they were good friends and Andy considered her a big sister, especially since she and Frank started dating, she thought they were perfect for each other.

"Sam. He was in a car park, looking for a baby who was missing for hours and he and your dad got split up and when he found the baby there were two guys with her and he shot the first one but the second one got a shot to him. It was in the shoulder, he's in surgery now. Your dad shot the guy who got Sam." Noelle felt like she was about to break down in tears as Andy was just sobbing and sobbing.

Tommy had called Oliver and told him as much as Noelle told Andy but that was it. No news was out yet except that he was in surgery.

Once the car had barely stopped Andy jumped out and sprinted to the emergency room and straight into the arms of her father.

Once Tommy had reduced her tears he told her how Sam had crashed twice in the ambulance on the way over but he was stable once they brought him in and that they were just removing the bullet now and that he should be out soon. Andy had never been happier at that moment that her dad was the chief of police.

Two hours later when family were allowed into Sam's room Andy broke down again as she took in his weak frail body hooked up to all of the tubes. Eventually she cried herself asleep next to him.

THREE HOURS LATER

Andy heard gagging. That wasn't good she thought, but then she just tried to go back to sleep. That was until she realised that the gagging was coming from Sam. She immediately started kissing all over his face and repeating his name. However he couldn't respond so Sarah gave him water whilst the nurse was paged.

END FLASHBACK

"The other two times I got called to the hospital was scary but that one was the worst." Andy had tears threatening to fall from her eyes, so Sam brushed them away from her eyes.

Andy gave him a light peck on the lips. The next toast went to whoever was out there that looked after her Sam. Her Sam.