Chapter 8
"You came back" Sam said in a whisper his eyes showing astonishment as he looked at Andy.
Although everyone had told him she was alive and just came out of her coma, he wanted to see for himself.
"What? Sad not to be rid of me after all?" Andy said feigning hurt as she raised her hand to put it over her heart.
"Not at all. Glad to see you decided to see for yourself if I would accept your little challenge" Sam said pulling out all stops on a fully dimpled grin.
"And what challenge would that be?" Andy said unsure of having challenged Sam to anything recently.
"Well you said' If you want me show me, if you need me tell me, if I'm worth it then fight for me'."
"How do you feel about those words now McNally?" Sam said after giving her a minute to think his words over.
Andy was not sure of what Sam ment, and was still scared to lay it all out there for real, and in person.
"Andy?" Sam said looking more nervous at Andy's silence than she had ever seen him look.
"Andy I meant every single word I said. I meant what I said when I said I didn't want to take the spot in Guns & Gangs because I couldn't imagine my life without you in it. I meant it when I said that I didn't want to come back if you weren't gonna be here with me. I meant it when I said Kisses are like tears, the real one's can't be held back when I kissed you and I sure as hell meant it when I said I love you. I felt it when I kissed you and I felt it when you said it. I saw it in your eyes Andy. They weren't lying".
Andy sat staring at Sam mouth agape. That was the most words she had ever heard him string together. It was also the type of words that had her fazed as they were the personal, emotional, private type- and it was just not like Sam to speak words of that kind.
"Andy..." Sam said as soon as she averted her eyes to her hands in her lap.
"Andy look at me" there came his TO tone of voice making Andy's head snap up the instant he called her.
"Look at me and tell me I'm lying when I say you felt it too. Look me in the eye and tell me you don't feel anything. That you don't feel this thing between us. That you don't love me back. And I'll leave you alone, no questions asked"
Sam was barely whispering loud enough for Andy to hear him, but she did. She would have heard him utter those words if she had been standing a continent away.
"I can't" she whispered back.
"You can't what McNally?"
Great his defenses were back up and she knew she caused the high rise walls to be rebuilt. The minute she heard him call her McNally instead of Andy she knew that she had hurt him first by not answering then by her very shallow answer.
"This Sam, I can't do this" standing up weakly from her wheelchair Andy was planning on running. She couldn't wheel the chair out by herself and there was no one to push her, so the only option left was to walk out of there.
As she took a step forward she felt the drips pull on her arm. Turning back with a muffled curse she tried to unhook the drip bags from the drip rail on the back of the wheelchair while leaning over the chair she rested one hand on the top of the back rest while the other reached out to unhook the drips.
Not noticing that Sam was climbing out his bed Andy struggled on her weak legs as she bit back the moan of pain from her wounds as she stretched out to reach the drips.
Not noticing that Sarah never anchored the breaks on the chair Andy began wheeling forwards as she pushed on the chair. Unable to regain her vertical posture she realized that she was losing the balance the chair offered and mumbled a loud "crap" as she knew she would tumble forwards and meet the floor face first.
Sam noticed Andy's wheelchair moving before she did and managed to get out of bed and step forwards towards her. As he grabbed hold of her upper arm he felt a tug on his other arm as his drip pulled on his hand. Deciding to let the drip pull out Sam stepped further towards Andy and yanked her firmly backwards to stop her from falling forwards.
As Andy felt her body being pulled in the other direction she spun around and effectively crashed in to Sam losing her footing and pushing him backwards.
They both crashed to the ground in a tangle of limbs with Andy half on top of Sam causing him to raise an eyebrow and flash a full dimpled grin at their less than appropriate position on the floor.
"Shut up" Andy said not amused by his mischievous grin. This caused Sam to bust out in a fit of laughter as he wrapped his arms around her holding her to him while she tried to stand up.
"It's not funny Sam. I could have hurt you. You just got shot and had major surgery and I end up tackling you to the ground" Andy had worry lines creasing her face at the thought of injuring Sam.
"I kinda like the fact that you threw caution to the wind and decided to jump me."
"Sam! I did not jump you, I fell on you. No that sounded better in my head. I fell into you! You know what I mean" Andy said by way of her common nervous rambling.
"You mean fell for me?" Up go the cocky eyebrows again.
"Yes"
"No". She stammered out quickly.
"Andy you just admitted it. So while I have you here, you haven't answered my question yet" Sam said still holding on to her tightly as they lay on the floor.
"What question?"
"How do you feel about those words now? Tell me I'm lying when I say you didn't felt everything too. That you don't feel this thing between us. That you don't love me. And then if you can say all that, I'll let you go and we disregard it all" Sam was peering at her with a sort of worried expression caressing his face.
"I can't. You know I can't and you know I can't take back what I said Sam. Even if I wanted to I couldn't".
"Do you want to? Take it back?" Sam now put his head back down resting it against the cold floor tiles, not wanting to look at her if her answer came as a yes.
"No" she answered without hesitation in nothing more than a whisper.
That got Sam's head to snap back up as a dimpled smile lit his face all the way up to his eyes.
"So then when you said If you want me show me, if you need me tell me, if I'm worth it then fight for me what did you have in mind exactly there McNally?" He said with a wicked look now settling on his face. Dimples in full display mode.
"Oh...I think you covered the basis, by coming back for me." Andy said a blush creeping up her cheeks.
"Ok so now we can get up off the floor before someone comes in and sees this and really thinks you tried to jump me"
Sam's words were still filtering out his mouth when the door opened, Oliver, Jerry, Traci and Sarah all standing staring at them laying tangled on the floor.
"Too late" Sam said before he let out a Chuckle.
"It's not what you think" Andy said to the spectators standing in the doorway.
"Um...McNally, what I think is that you just can't seem to stop tackling our Sammy here, but this time instead of trying to feel him up and kiss him, maybe you should just go ahead and actually do it. We'll be back later" with that said Oliver ushered everyone out the room before closing the door behind them.
