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Andy decided that she needed a coffee before going in to see Sam so she found her way to a coffee cart on the floor above, where she happened to run into Dov.

Hugging him, she inquired about Chloe and how she was doing, finding out that her mysterious husband was still not letting anyone else but her family in the room. Dov had been getting his updates from Frank and was at the hospital hoping he could find a time when Price's husband left. He informed her that since Chloe's husband opted to wait on the clot, her condition worsened overnight. She was scheduled for surgery within the hour to remove the clot like Dov had urged all along. This time, the risks were much higher as there was an increased risk of swelling in her brain. Andy offered to stay with him, but he refused, stating that he needed some time to be alone. Hugging goodbye, and with an offer to return if he needed her, she headed down the hall to see Sam.

Just as the night before, Andy's feet did not want to walk into the room. What if he changed his mind? What if Marlo is here? What if Marlo shows up while I'm here? What is going to happen now? Deciding that she'd already thrown caution to the wind on the situation, she walked into the room, prepared for whatever awaited her.

Sam was asleep with an untouched lunch tray on the table. There was a nurse in the room who informed Andy that he had just been given another dose of pain medication about 15 minutes before, so he may be a bit out of it.

Thanking her for the update, Andy sat down and watched the slow rise and fall of Sam's chest. If she didn't let her thoughts run away with themselves, this could actually be considered to be a peaceful moment. She decided to wake him up by swiping his hair off his forehead, causing him to stir.

"Mmm. Hey beautiful girl," Sam whispered to her with his eyes still closed.

Does he even know who I am? Andy wondered as she replied back with a "Hey you, how are you doing today?"

"Better now that you're here. I missed you."

"Me too. Your lunch is here, did you want any of it? It might be cold."

"No, I'm not hungry."

Andy updated him on how Chloe and Oliver were doing, leaving out Oliver's inquiry about the two of them. Andy wasn't ready to bring that up yet. She wanted to just enjoy being with Sam without all the complications of the outside world, which were sure to hit full force sooner rather than later.

Sam laid there with his eyes closed most of the time and listened to her talk about their friends. He knew he'd have to start giving some answers soon and he wanted to enjoy just being with her. She deserved answers and he knew she was holding back on asking questions. He wasn't sure what to do himself. He couldn't just end things with Marlo over the phone; he owed her more than that, and he wanted his stuff back. He also knew he was in some trouble at work after Callaghan discovered the Kevin Ford board.

"Have you talked to Frank or Callaghan yet?" he cautiously asked her.

"No. I called in sick today. I just needed a day to let things settle, you know?"

"Yeah, I understand. Do you know what you're going to say?"

"I don't know. The truth? I really felt like it wasn't my place to say anything about her medical condition. How was I supposed to know she was stalking an innocent man?" She sighed. "I should have reported her when I found out about her bipolar condition. I had the chance then. I also had the chance when I found out that she had been at his house. Oh god, Sam. I could have prevented this, all of it; Price, Oliver, You… everyone would have been fine but I let it happen."

"Andy you had no idea it was going to play out like this" Sam said, pulling himself up into a sitting position. "No one could have predicted this. I was in a relationship with her and I had no idea that any of this was going on!"

"Are."

"What?"

"Unless something has changed since last night, you are still currently in a relationship with Marlo."

Sam sighed. He would have to deal with his relationship status soon, but not now. "Andy, I'm not getting into that now. We are talking about work and what is possibly going to happen. Now I'm pretty sure they're going to go after Marlo's badge; two police officers shot and one kidnapped is hard to come back from. As for you and I, we need to get our stories straight."

"Sam, there is no we in this. I knew for months. I could have stopped it. I should have stopped it, but instead, I threw the rulebook out the window and took her to her doctor and never told Frank."

"I never told him either Andy. I had no idea how serious her manic episode was until I saw the board, and by then it was already too late. I honestly thought she was just a bit worked up and needed some space."

"I don't know what I'm going to say tomorrow. I'm surprised that Frank hasn't called me already today. I could lose my badge Sam."

"We both could."

"They won't take yours. You didn't know until just recently."

Knowing she was right, he stayed silent.

"Besides," she continued, "who knows what Marlo's told them already."

As if her ears had been ringing, Marlo Cruz walked into the room. She took a quick survey of the room before they noticed her there. Sam was sitting up in bed; he looked much paler than usual but seemed to be alright. McNally was in the chair beside him in casual clothes; she must not have gone to work today. She had the chair pulled close to the bed but they weren't touching in any way. She had heard them talking about work as she approached, so she couldn't be sure on the entire nature of her visit.

Dating Sam Swarek had been a challenge from day one. They had met at the station and been on patrol together a few times before Sam made detective. The day he made detective, most of the division had gone out to The Penny for drinks. At one point in the night, she saw Sam sitting at the bar alone, finishing off a beer. Not knowing what came over her; she walked up to him and bought him another congratulatory drink. They sat at the bar and chatted for a while then played a game of pool against Diaz and Epstein, winning $20.00 in the process. Sam walked her out to get a cab but offered her a ride instead. They ended up back at her place and he spent the night.

After a few weeks, word got out at work that they were seeing one another. Sam's inner circle was pleasant to her, but she could tell they weren't a fan of her dating him, Oliver especially. He always looked at her in a sad way, as if he knew things between her and Sam were doomed. It didn't help that since the day she started, all she heard about was this mysterious Officer Andy McNally who was off undercover with the former military man Officer Nick Collins. She heard Peck whine about it on a daily basis;

"Chris, I just can't stop thinking about it. I mean Nick's been undercover with her for four months now! How can he resist her giant Bambi eyes and helpless persona? How did she even get picked to go on a task force? She couldn't even be a free hooker."

"I'm sure Collins and Andy are just fine. Besides, Andy is probably still pining away over Swarek. Traci told me something had happened between them the night she left. As for how she got picked for a task force, Gail you know she is a great cop. There was that drug bust with Swarek where she saved not only him, but us as well, you know when I got stabbed and we were locked in the factory? Not to mention the day she left, she re-caught a child abductor, saved the life of a little girl, and was left holding a grenade with no pin. She's not helpless. She's amazing" Chris replied.

"Ugh." Gail muttered in disgust. "Is there a penis at this station that isn't in love with her? I mean first Callaghan and then that mounted unit trainer, and she has had Swarek's heart since our first week, and now she's probably got Nick obsessed with her. You're in love with her too, aren't you?"

"What? No, I'm not in love with her! Gail, Andy and Swarek didn't get together until well after Callaghan cheated on her. They weren't together before that, were they? You'd tell me right?"

"Swarek is obsessed with her. He has this macho man/prince charming complex where he always has to protect her and save her from everything. I bet he's been in love with her since day one. After she caught him undercover the first day, there was something between them. He became her T.O. like the next day. What was wrong with Shaw? They also had a moment outside The Penny where they almost went home together."

"Yeah, but they didn't. Anyways, who knows what will happen with Andy and Swarek when he comes back. I heard he's dating Cruz now. Maybe Andy's over him."

"Yeah over him and onto my boyfriend."

"She wouldn't do that. You know that."

Marlo figured out early on that most of 15 Division was rooting for Sam and Andy to get back together. She had brought it up one night as they were lying in bed. Sam had promised her that things with him and Andy were definitely over and that she had nothing to worry about. He hadn't spoken to Andy in months and she had probably moved on as well. Hind sight is 20/20, but at the time, she had stupidly believed Sam. Hell, he probably believed himself.

The day 15 found out that Collins and McNally were missing, she saw a different side of Sam. It started out as Sam and Traci gathering people to secretly investigate Blackwell's drug smuggling case on the basis that Collins and McNally may be in the middle of a drug turf war. That seemed normal enough, since Nash was really pushing it as well. She didn't think too much of it at the time, but when Swarek freaked out that McNally missed her call-in, the emotions across his face and in his voice should have been obvious.

She had asked him in the kitchen of the station the day McNally came back what it meant for her and Sam, and he said it meant nothing and kissed her. She had believed him too. The longer McNally was back though, the more she noticed Sam's longing looks and his occasional distance. The day they both showed up with smoothies, she didn't know what to think. Sam Swarek was not a smoothie guy yet there he came, strolling into the precinct with the exact same smoothie cup that McNally had.

Then there was the day where the girl, Grace, had went missing in Ross Perek's cab. Sam ignored her completely and chose to ride with McNally that day. Granted, she heard he basically used her as his personal punching bag, but still; he picked McNally over her. Sure, he had explained to her later that he just needed her there so he didn't have to explain anything, but she could have sat quietly with him, he never gave her the chance.

The worst part was, the more she got to know Andy the more she actually liked her. It was impossible to hate this girl, and believe it, Marlo had tried. They had fought a lot in the beginning, Marlo not trusting her as a person or as an officer, but it didn't take long for her to realize why McNally was such an integral part of 15 Division.

Now here she was, sitting in her boyfriend's hospital room. Not only that, Andy had been running around the station with Sam before he was shot, she had insisted on going in the ambulance with him, she was sure she had waited around at the hospital last night, and here she was again. This girl was the bane of her existence at the moment and Marlo knew that even though she may have won a few battles for Sam's heart recently, Andy would win the war…unless she could stop her. She needed Sam right now. She loved him, but she also needed his support. McNally would be okay without him, but Marlo wasn't sure she could say the same thing about herself. This morning, her sister had told her that she "needed a break from the crazy." Normally Marlo would turn to her sister for help and support when things got rough, but now she was alone when she needed someone the most. She couldn't lose Sam, not now.

Walking into the room, she approached the bed.

"Hey baby," she said to Sam just before planting a long, slow kiss on his lips. "How are you doing? I'm so sorry I wasn't here last night, I was caught up at the station with Callaghan." She turned and looked in Andy's direction. "McNally," she said as a curt hello.

"McNally and I were just talking about what's going to happen at the station. You've got perfect timing." Sam informed her while Andy remained quiet in her chair. "How did things go with Callaghan last night?"

Sighing, she told them "Well, I've been suspended without pay while Internal Affairs investigates. I also have a series of psych evaluations I have to complete with the department doctors. My psychiatrist is also meeting with I.A., Luke and Frank today to basically completely divulge my life and my history of being bipolar. They've torn my house apart, and they are working their way through my life."

Not knowing what to say, Sam remained quiet while Andy awkwardly thought of a way to get out of the room.

"Is there anything you told them that we should know of so that our stories are the same?" Sam asked?

"There isn't much to tell Sam. I started dating you, I stopped taking my medication. I knew there was more to Kevin Ford than there appeared. I just had the wrong brother. I told them the truth about that. I also told them that you didn't know about it until the day in the evidence room, which is true. I tried to take some time off, but by that point, things were already in motion."

"Did you tell them how you went into his house?"

"No. I just left it at the confrontation in the driveway. I'm going to lose by badge, Sam. There's no reason for anyone else to" she replied, looking between Sam and Andy.

"Did you tell them that I knew?" Andy asked.

"I told them you found out the same day as Sam, in the evidence room. Luke knew that you knew about it, I couldn't deny that."

"Is there anything else we need to know?" Andy cautiously inquired.

"Well, I told them that you both had no idea that I hadn't disclosed my condition. Like I said, there's no reason for anyone else to lose their badge over my mistakes."

"Okay, so we have everything straight for the time being. Thank you for telling them what you did. I think I'm going to go up and check on Dov. Chloe's probably in surgery now. I'll see you both later." Andy said, gathering her stuff and leaving the couple alone, not knowing what was going to happen next. She could hear Marlo fussing over Sam as she walked out the door.