DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters, except for Matthew and Moxie. The rest of them belong to James Duff and the Major Crimes franchise.
A/N: Thank you all for the reviews! I don't know how many more chapters there will be to this story. But I will say there will be at least 3 more after this one. Thanks and enjoy!
Chapter 9
The next morning as Sharon woke up she found herself still wrapped in Andy's arms. She gently placed her left hand on his chest and lightly drew circles with her finger. Andy started to wake up and smiled at Sharon. "What time is it? I didn't hear your alarm go off yet" he said to her as he shifted his body. "We still have fifteen minutes before the alarm goes off" Sharon said back to him as she shifted with him. Andy rolled their bodies over so the they were now laying on their sides. "Go back to sleep" he mumbled into her hair as he closed his eyes again. Sharon laid there awake and contemplated whether or not to get up early or lay there until the alarm went off. Andy held her close to him and she decided she would just wait until the alarm told them to get up.
Fifteen minutes later, the annoying beeping noise started and Andy grumbled as he and Sharon both got up. "Good Morning" he said to her as he sat up and looked over at her. "Morning" she said to him and smiled, caressing his chest. They both got up and out of bed. "I forgot to tell you about what Matthew said to me last night" Andy said to Sharon as they were both in their closet picking out their clothes to wear today. "What was that?" Sharon said to him as Andy was looking for a tie and suspenders to wear. Andy turned around to look at her. "He asked me what would happen if he got lost, like Tommy did" Andy said to her. Sharon looked back at him. "Oh" she said. "What did you tell him?" she asked Andy. "I simply said that we would find him. Then he asked what would happen if one of us was lost" Andy said to her as he made his way out of the closet, carrying his suit out. Sharon turned around and followed him out. "And?" Sharon said to him. "I told him that we would find each other" Andy said as he hung up his suit in the bathroom. Sharon leaned up against the door frame and looked at Andy. "What?" Andy said to her as he looked back at her. "Nothing" she said to him as she handed his blue tie and matching suspenders. He took them from her and then closed the bathroom door to get dressed. Sharon then went back in to their closet to pick out what she was wearing.
After they were both dressed and ready, Andy headed downstairs to make them breakfast while Sharon opened Matthew's door and got him ready for school. "Is it okay if I ask Tommy what happened to him?" Matthew asked Sharon as he got dressed for school. "Oh, well I would see if Tommy brings it up first, he may not want to talk about it" Sharon said to Matthew as she combed his hair. They came downstairs and joined Andy and Moxie in the kitchen. Sharon saw all of the pancakes that Andy had made for them. "We're never going to eat all of these, Andy" Sharon said as she sat down at the table. Just then Rusty came in the back door and sat down to eat breakfast with them. "I heard you are having pancakes so I thought I would join you all for breakfast" Rusty said and then Sharon gave Andy a look. "What? The kid needs to eat breakfast" Andy said to her, still calling Rusty a kid. Sharon laughed and they all ate breakfast.
Just like every morning during the week, Sharon and Andy drove Matthew to school and dropped him off. "Have a good day, Matthew" Sharon said to him as she opened the back door and he stepped out. "Bye" he said to her, giving her a hug and then joining the rest of the kids walking into the school building. Sharon then got back in the car and they drove to the doggie day care place for Moxie. Andy got back in the car after taking Moxie inside and they headed in to work. "You'll be happy to know we do not have a tail" Andy said to Sharon as they waited at the stop light. "Well, that's good news to hear" Sharon said as she looked out her window.
The light turned green and Andy slowly started to drive the car. As they got closer to the intersection, he heard Sharon yell. "Watch out!" she said to him as he slammed on the brakes, another car came barreling in to the intersection from their right, and went through the red light hitting the front end of their car. Andy gained control of the car right away and came to a stop. The impact of the crash jolted Sharon in her seat, hitting her head against the head rest, and the car spun a little bit. Andy shifted the car into park. The other car that hit them took off. Andy looked over at Sharon to see if she was okay. "Are you okay?" he asked her as his right arm was still across her chest holding her back. "Yes, I think so" she said to Andy as she looked at him. Her head was throbbing but otherwise she thought she was okay. Andy undid his seat belt and then reached over and undid Sharon's. He then ran his hands over her, checking her out for himself. "I'm fine, Andy" she whispered to him as she placed her hands on his. Andy looked at Sharon, her eyes told a different story. Her pupils were dilated. "Does your head hurt you?" he asked her. "A little but I'm fine" Sharon said, giving a slight delay in her response to him. She looked at him again and he looked back at her. "I think you have a concussion, Sharon" Andy said to her but she waved him off.
Andy looked out the window but didn't get a good look at the car that hit them. Another car behind them stopped and a person got out of the car to see if they were okay. "Are you guys okay?" the person asked Andy. "Yeah, we are alright here" he said to them. "I called the police for you" the person said to them. "Thank you, we are actually the police" Andy said to the person as he flashed his badge on his belt. Andy got out of the car and went around the side to open the door for Sharon. She slowly stepped out of the car, holding onto Andy's hand. "Sharon, I think you should go to the hospital and get checked out" Andy said to her as they looked at the damage. The right front side of the car was smashed in but it looked like it was still drivable. Sharon found that she had a hard time concentrating on what Andy was saying to her, she just kept looking at the damage on the car. "We need to call Provenza" Sharon said to Andy. "You need to sit back down Sharon" Andy said back to her and guided her back to the back seat of their car. "Did you happen to get a look at the car that hit us?" Andy turned around and asked the person. "I did actually, and I wrote down the license plate as well" the person said as he handed Andy the piece of paper. "Thank you" Andy said back to him. Andy then concentrated on Sharon and notifying the rest of the team.
Just then, two patrol cars approached the scene of the accident. Andy looked up from his phone at the patrol officers approaching them and flashed his badge. "Lieutenant, are you guys okay?" the officer asked them. "I think my Captain here has a concussion" Andy said to them as he nodded over to Sharon. "Ma'am" the officer said to Sharon as he approached her. "Do you need me to call an ambulance?" the officer asked her. "No, no need I'm fine, just have a headache" she said to the officer and then looked up at Andy. "Ma'am, I need to get a statement from you, do you think you are able to do that?" the officer asked her. "Yes" she said and then gave her statement to him.
Meanwhile, Andy dialed Provenza's number. "Hey, it's me. Listen, we got into a car accident this morning on the way to work. No, Matthew was at school already, it was just Sharon and me in the car. Patrol is here and I handed them the info on the car that hit us, another driver pulled over and saw everything. Yeah, he's speaking to one of the patrol officers right now. Look, I think Sharon hit her head. I don't know on what. I'm going to take her. Yes, the car still looks like it's drivable. I'll send you a picture. Yeah, bye" Andy said to Provenza although Sharon could barely hear their conversation. "Thank you, Captain" the officer said to her as he moved away and went to his patrol car. Andy looked at Sharon as he moved closer to her. "How are you feeling?" he said as he knelt down by her. Sharon looked back at him and tried concentrating on his face. "My head still hurts, and I feel a little dizzy" Sharon said to him. This made him more concerned for her. "We're going to the hospital, both Provenza and I am giving you an order" Andy said to her as he gently placed his hand on her face. She reveled in his touch for a moment. "You can't order me, I outrank both of you" she said to him. Andy chuckled at her response. "Sharon?" he said to her as he looked at her. "Okay" she said to him and he stood up from the ground. He walked over to the patrol car. "I'm going to take my Captain to the hospital and get her checked out. Do you need anything else from us?" Andy asked the officer. "No sir. If we do need something, we know where to find you. We are searching for that car right now as well, Lieutenant" the officer said to Andy and then Andy walked back to the car.
He helped Sharon get settled in the car in the passenger seat again and then he went around and sat in the driver's seat. He then started to drive them to the nearest hospital, St. Catherine's. Andy turned on the car's lights and sirens as they drove. He glanced over at Sharon and saw that her eyes were closed. "Sharon?" he said to her and she opened her eyes. "You need to stay awake for me, okay?" he said to her, panic in his voice as he drove closer to the hospital. "Okay" she said to him, quietly. They pulled up to the emergency room and Andy placed the car in park and turned it off. He quickly got out of the car and a nurse met him outside. "Do you need help?" she asked him. "Yes, my wife hit her head in a car accident maybe twenty minutes ago. Her pupils are dilated and she says she has a headache" he told the nurse as they opened Sharon's door. Another orderly brought a wheelchair out for them. Sharon stood up from the car with the help of Andy and the nurse. "I don't need a wheelchair" she said to the nurse. "I can walk just fine" she added as she held onto Andy's arm and started to walk in to the emergency room. The nurse was on her other side also helping her in. "Why don't you have a seat right here and we will get a doctor to look at you" the nurse told Sharon as she brought them to one of the rooms. The emergency room was not busy this morning, which Andy was grateful for.
The nurse then brought some paperwork and handed it to Andy. "Here, you can start filling out the paperwork as much as you can regarding your wife while I take some vitals from her" the nurse said to Andy and Andy grabbed the clipboard. He started filling out the paperwork. The nurse helped Sharon remove her suit jacket and sat back onto the hospital bed. "You guys are LAPD?" the nurse asked Sharon as she took her blood pressure. "Yes, I'm Captain Sharon Flynn, that's my husband, Lieutenant Andy Flynn" Sharon said to the nurse. "Well, it's good that you know your name and your husband, that's a good sign" she said as she wrote down some information. Andy filled out the papers for Sharon, she just needed to sign some forms which Andy handed back to the nurse.
Just then, a doctor entered the room. "Hello, I'm Doctor Rosenberg, I'm an attending in the ER" the doctor said to Sharon and Andy. The Doctor looked at Sharon's chart for a second. "I understand you hit your head in a car accident this morning?" the doctor asked Sharon as he took a look at her eyes. He shined a mini-light up to them to see if her pupils reacted. "Does your head hurt, Mrs. Flynn?" he asked her. "A little bit" Sharon answered. "Sharp, shooting pain or kind of a dull, achy pain?" he asked her. "Dull, throbbing pain" Sharon said. "Does it hurt when I do this?" the doctor asked her as he placed his hands and gently touched her head, neck, and shoulders. "No" she said to him as she saw Andy sitting on a chair, waiting as the doctor examined her. "What about here, any pain in your chest?" he asked her as he tapped on her back and front ribs. "No" Sharon said. "Okay, good" the doctor said to her. "I want you to lay down now and I'm going to do the same tests to you" the doctor explained to Sharon. After going through the same thing, the doctor had Sharon sit back up. "It's good that you are not sensitive to different positions, that is a good sign" the doctor said to Sharon. The doctor then asked Sharon several questions about current events. This was to test her cognitive skills. "We are going to give you Tylenol for your pain right now, okay Mrs. Flynn?" the doctor asked her. "Okay" Sharon said as she took the pills handed to her by the nurse and then took the cup of water.
"Doctor, she had a hard time concentrating right after the car accident occurred and she felt dizzy as well" Andy said to the doctor, concerned about Sharon. "Mrs. Flynn, are you still dizzy now?" the doctor asked her. "No, that went away" Sharon answered him. "Are you nauseated at all?" the doctor asked her. "No" Sharon answered. "Okay, I want you to follow my finger" he said to her as he placed his finger in front of her face and moved it back and forth. She followed it. "Good" he said to her and wrote something down in her chart. "I am going to order you an MRI, I want to see if there is any swelling internally inside your head. I suspect you have a minor concussion, Mrs. Flynn but I want to make sure we rule out any possible swelling" the doctor said to Sharon and Andy as he made more notes to Sharon's chart.
The doctor and nurse both left the room, leaving Sharon and Andy in there to wait for the tests. Andy moved his chair closer to Sharon's bed and grabbed a hold of her hand as she sat up in the bed. "Usually, it's me laying on the hospital bed with you sitting here" he said to her, trying to get her to relax a little bit. He gave her a smile and she smiled back at him, squeezing his hand in hers. "You're going to have to take off all of your jewelry" he said to her and she nodded. He helped her remove the necklace he got her for Christmas and also the bracelets. He had placed them in the pocket of his suit jacket. She then took off her wedding rings and placed them in his hand. He placed them in his jacket pocket as well. The nurse came back in the room. "Okay, Mrs. Flynn we are going to take you for your MRI, I will need you to change into a gown, you can leave your pants on but remove your belt" the nurse told Sharon as she handed her a gown. The nurse then left the room to give them privacy. With Andy's help, Sharon removed her shirt, bra, belt, weapon, and badge and handed all of them to Andy. Andy placed her weapon on his belt for safekeeping, along with her badge. "You look goofy like that" Sharon said to Andy as she put the gown on. "I think FID would frown upon me leaving a weapon unattended. This way I know it is safe" Andy said back to Sharon as he leaned in and gave her a kiss. She was shaking a little bit. "Hey, you are going to be fine, it's just a precaution, that's all" Andy said, reassuring her as he grabbed her hand. Sharon nodded back to him.
The nurse came back in with an orderly. "Okay, Mrs. Flynn we are going to take you now for your MRI. We are going to keep you sitting up in the bed as we wheel you over to the location and then you are going to transfer to the table and lay down on it" the nurse explained to Sharon and she understood. "Mr. Flynn, you are welcome to stay here and wait if you'd like" the nurse said to Andy. "Sure" he said to her as he looked at Sharon. He walked over to her and gave her a kiss on her cheek. "I'll wait for you" he said to her and she smiled, remembering the time she told him that when he was in the hospital. They then wheeled her out of the room and headed towards where the MRI machine was located. Andy pulled out his phone and texted Provenza. 'At St. Catherine's now. Doc looked her over. Mild concussion but wants MRI to rule out swelling. Waiting for her to come back' he said in his text. He then sat down on the chair in the room they were in. He pulled her ring out of his pocket and stared at it. He wondered if this was what it was like when Sharon was waiting for him all those different times while he had tests and surgery done. He leaned back in the chair and waited for Sharon to come back.
TBC
