Rendition of episode 4x08 – For Better, For Worse.
I don't own Rookie Blue.
Every one of Frank and Noelle's friends and family members are gathered in one place, a loving vibe coursing through the room as they patiently wait for the ceremony to start. Frank's up front, standing strong, calmly waiting for his beautiful bride to walk down the aisle so that he can marry her, so he can proclaim his love to her, because regardless of what she told him earlier, he still wants to marry her so that he can be there for her for better or for worse. And Sam, his last minute best man is standing next to him waiting… not so patiently for someone to walk as well, that someone not being Frank's bride. A ringing phone brings him back from staring at the back doors, he looks around to see whose phone it is, who left it on, but is cut short when Frank turns around to look at him.
"Swarek." Frank murmured to him.
Sam realizes it's his phone that's ringing. He grabs it out of his pocket to find out who is calling. It's that someone who's not Frank's bride.
"Yeah?" He answers. He doesn't say her name out loud in front of the crowd.
He hears her take a deep breath. "Hey Sam, we tried calling Dov, he didn't pick up, could you put your phone on speaker, just so we can hear everything. We'll put our end on mute."
"Where are you?" Sam asked softly.
"Still working." Andy mutters to him.
Sam rolls his eyes. "Yeah, okay." Sam told her softly again as he put his phone on speaker and set it in his handkerchief pocket of his suit coat to make it unseen.
Andy and Nick are sitting in their cruiser waiting for their suspect for the casino bus robbery to get off of his shift from a seventy foot tower so they can bring him in. Andy set her phone down on the panel in between them and hit mute. It was Nick's idea to call Dov and ask him to put his phone on speaker so that Andy could at least hear the ceremony but after it went to voicemail they had guessed that Chloe had made him put his phone on mute already. Then Andy remembers someone who would always pick up her phone, so she called Sam.
"There it is… that's the riff." Andy said with a smile at hearing the opening tune to the song. "She's coming in."
After hearing the song end and the ceremony start, Nick looked over to see Andy smiling at the words being said.
"I actually… kind of wish we were there now." Nick said softly.
"Me too." Andy agreed.
Andy of course is saying the words in her head as she hears Frank and Noelle's vows, hearing their happy tears and smiles in their voices.
"To love and to cherish." Frank told Noelle looking lovingly into her eyes.
Sam felt his heart heavy at the words and looked down a bit to hide his thoughts from controlling the look on his face and he remembers his phone's in his pocket, the reason for his chest feeling heavy.
Andy sniffed as if she were hearing these words for the first time. "Gets me every time." Andy said softly. "I know those words like… the back of my hand, but I still… they're just… every time they get more and more magical."
"That's how I feel about you." Nick said in a sure tone.
Andy let out a short laugh at how her words get more magical every time she talks to Nick, but when she looks over to see his serious expression her laugh dies out and her smile fades away at how he just told her how every time she's with him, she gets more magical to him, how he just told her he has feelings for her.
Andy kept her eyes on him. "I do?"
Nick kept his eyes on her as he nodded. "It's crazy right?" He said in a softer tone.
It is crazy how they have stayed such great friends for so long, how they maintained that comfort zone for friends for so long and how just now, right now it hit him how she deserves to know how he feels about her.
Andy's words get interrupted by the construction manager informing them that Jamie is on his way down, which his shift is over. Andy and Nick ask him one question about what he was doing earlier this morning and with that he was back up to climbing the seventy foot tower.
"Jamieson Ward." Andy yelled up to him. "You are under arrest… for evading arrest…"
"Good one." Nick told her.
"Well how else are we going to get him down?"
Nick looked up at the tower, weighing there options of climbing it. "I'm game if you are."
Andy let out a laugh at him and walked over to the front of the cruiser to sit on the hood. "Don't hurt yourself." She told him in a sarcastic tone. "Just… call back up, we've got time." She watches him as he walks in front of her after he called in for backup.
Nick sits down next her, their arms touching.
They don't say anything to each other; they sit in comforting silence, soaking in what happened. Andy put her hands in her pockets and looked over to the guy who just confessed something so real to her, something she's not used to hearing. Nick keeps his eye forward proud that he told her how he feels. Andy pulls and apple out of her pocket and takes a bite, then hands it over to Nick, who smiles as he takes a bit. Andy soon lets out a smile too, happy he took the apple, happy he's not pushing things onto her. They sit like this until backup arrives.
Now Nick and Andy are pulling into the parking lot of the hotel where Frank and Noelle's after party has already started.
After Nick puts his truck in park in looks over to her and notices she's not moving to get out.
"I mean, it's crazy, right?" Andy asked.
He looked over at her.
"That's what you said." Andy told him.
"It is." Nick confirmed. He wants to ask her what she would say about it, but he doesn't want to push her into saying anything about it right on the spot.
"What do we do now?" She asked.
"Well, I guess that's up to you." Nick told her. He said his part, he pushed himself into it and now it's just up to her to decide if she's going to let him do anything about it, to decide if she shares the same feelings. "Here." Nick told her to wait for him; he got out of his truck and walked over to her side to open the door for Andy. He helped her get out.
"Not scared about Gail's death glares?" Andy asked as they walked towards the building full of their friends and the newlyweds.
"Not anymore." Nick smiled to himself at the thought than looked over to her. "Don't think I'll even notice…"
Sam's hanging onto the bar with his elbow, eyes trained on the drink in front of him. A hand swoops in and takes it. Oliver.
"Help yourself brother." Sam tells him.
Oliver finishes it as Sam asked for another one. "Thanks man." Oliver gave a huge smile.
Sam noticed it and chuckled out a laugh at the sight. "What happened to you?"
"This is the first date I've had in two decades. It's crazy how much fun I'm having."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, and it's all in thanks to that Epstein kid, you know?"
"That's great." Sam meant his words.
Oliver couldn't stand still, he's either waving his arms back and forth or he's looking around this room, zooming in on Celery talking to Tracie and Chloe every now and then.
Sam took notice of it. "Are you happy?"
Oliver turns to face his brother at his question and stops his excited movements. "I am, I'm happy, I am happy." He brought up another smile and leans his elbow against the bar as he sees a couple approaching the room. "I'm really happy… Are you happy?"
Oliver looks over at Sam after he takes a sip of his drink, and nods his head at the question. "I'm trying."
Oliver looked over to see a solution for Sam. "Okay, well…" Sam looked up to see Oliver watching something. "Don't miss you're chance brother." Oliver patted his shoulder as he notices Sam look in the direction of Andy walking in with Nick.
When Nick and Andy walked in together, Nick immediately noticed Oliver and Sam looking over at him and Andy. But Nick's attention is turned to Andy when he can tell she's about to say something.
"Andy!" Chloe stepped up and hugged her. "I can't believe you're late. Hi Nick, how are you?" Chloe asked as she pulled Andy away from him. "You have to see how Dov set up this table, it's like perfect."
Since then Dov and Nick are hanging at the bar talking to each other like brothers. Oliver and Celery have been laughing with each other and dancing the entire time, really enjoying each other's company. Andy, Chloe and Tracie have been running around trying the various deserts, sending Steve to get them champagne or wine every so often.
"Would you mind getting me another glass?" Tracie looked over to Steve.
"No, no more wine!" Chloe said. "Steve, my man, try and find us some tequila this time… you're a detective."
"You want him to detect out some tequila?" Steve asked Chloe.
"Yes! Frank told the bar tenders to not serve me any?! How mean is that?" Chloe told the group.
They all laughed at the rookie but Steve agreed and stood up from the table they're all sitting at to go find the girl her tequila. Andy rolled her eyes at the sight and as she did she noticed Sam walk out of the reception hall, jacket flung across his shoulder, looking down at his phone.
"I'll be right back." Andy muttered to Tracie after seeing Sam leave.
Tracie looked up to see where her friend is looking. "Andy…" She tried to start but didn't get to finish because Andy kept walking.
Andy finds him as he's walking outside.
"Hey." Andy said a bit of a chill in her voice from the cold weather.
Sam turns around to see her, and looks up from his phone in his hand. "Hey." He tries to perk up the mood in his tone. "I see you made it."
Andy pulled her arms across her body as chills ran down her body. "I just… wanted to thank you for earlier… you know the phone thing-"
"Oh sure, yeah, no problem." Sam told her.
Andy smiled in thanks.
"Anything for that one girl who actually likes weddings and walked in late because of work." Sam grinned.
Andy nodded in agreeing with his statement and took a beat of silence before responding. "Yep… work is always getting in the way, isn't it?" She asks, not expecting a serious answer.
They took another beat of silence.
"Hm, well it seems like you're enjoying yourself now." Sam said, not a serious answer at all, but implies a serious meaning.
Andy understands. "I am." She said in almost a sad tone, her voice cracking.
She takes another beat of silence before continuing after giving him one of her beautiful smiles. "Save that dance for another time?"
Planning on another wedding soon McNally? Sam thinks. There are so many ways Sam could have responded but he took a page out of her book and gave the most serious answer he could. "Sure." He grinned again.
Andy nodded at his answer and turned around to walk back into the warmness of the reception hall.
Andy walked in the room on a mission. She looked over to her point of destination seeing only Dov leaning against the bar.
"Hey, where's Nick?" Andy asked once she walked up to Dov, taking another sip of his drink. "Whoa. What happened?" She asked after seeing this isn't his first, or third.
"I told Frank about me and Chloe."
Andy put a hand on his shoulder at the thought of confessing to their staff sergeant that he's dating his god daughter. "Congrats?"
"I guess so." Dov said.
"How'd he take it?" Andy asked remembering vividly how Frank reacted to the news of her and Sam.
"Uh, well I don't know."
"Dov… how do you not know? He was either happy for you or…"
"No, like I don't know, he got asked away for Noelle before he could even react."
Andy nodded at his answer. "Then that's…"
She got cut off by Dov looking up to her expectantly.
"Good, bad? Am I getting fired?" Dov worried.
"No, no Dov. Don't look at me like I have the answer." She patted his hand. "Obviously he's happy for the two of you. If he wasn't… he would've said something to you by now."
Dov nodded in agreement. "You're… you're right."
Andy took the drink out of his hands. "So go out there and dance with your girlfriend."
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm going too." Dov clapped his hands together and pursued Chloe to ask her to dance. But he stopped to lean back to tell Andy one more thing. "Oh Collins is out on the terrace getting some fresh air."
Andy nodded, thankful he told her where Nick is. "Now go…" She pushed him in the direction of Chloe laughing with Tracie and Steve.
Andy stepped outside and pulled her arms around her body again, she stood there a moment seeing the back of Nick.
"Hey…" Andy said to get Nick's attention.
He was gazing out over the edge of the terrace; he turned around to see her. "Andy, hey…" He turned to face her, keeping his left arm on the railing as she stepped up in front of him, rubbing her hands together, nervous.
"Hey um… about before-"
"Andy you don't have to stress over it, I-"
"No I do. I…" She shut her eyes to breathe out her next words, the same ones she used for Sam earlier. "I am." She opened her eyes. "Nick, uh I just… I think I need some time."
Nick rubbed her fore arms, feeling chills on her skin. "It's okay, I'm not going anywhere." He looked into her eyes, letting her know she doesn't have to have an answer to everything right now. He shrugs his shoulders. "I've got all the time in the world."
"Okay." Andy said softly.
"Andy! Nick!" Chloe interrupted from over at the door. "Come in here! Froelle's leaving; we have to wave them off! C'mon you can't miss this too!" She disappeared after that.
Nick smiled at Andy one last time before turning away.
"Thank you." Andy told him softly, standing still realizing how thoughtful he is for giving her time.
There you go! Not too bad? Bad? Let me know! Review!
I cannot believe we are nearing the… I don't even want to say it, the end of the season. Ugh what will I do with my life?
But what did you guys think of the episode?! I am mega excited for THURSDAY!
