So I'm back…hi everyone J sorry about the absence but I lost all faith in Rookie blue and couldn't be bothered writing anymore. I've come back to finish all my stories even though I'm more annoyed with the fourth season than I was the third. Who else thinks Marlo is boring weird and so not right for Sam? And Andy and Nick? What? I kinda like Chloe, her and Dov look right together And Chris so better not leave! Anyway I'll finish this story before I update another and I promise I will finish this time, and here's the first step enjoy, don't worry if you have to read back on what's going on I did...twice.
Everyone stood outside the room waiting on Sam to come out, he'd been in there for hours now Daryl Traci and Oliver being the only ones to dare interrupt him. Andy had been still sleeping so they left him to it telling him to call if he needed anything.
Inside the room Sam leaned over the bed and dropped a kiss on her forehead "I better send her in I'd say she's doing her nut," he said and walked to the door.
As the door opened everyone moved closer holding their breaths hoping for good news "Nash she wants to see you," he smiled and walked over to Sarah.
"She's awake?" Traci asked but didn't wait for a reply as she ran into the room "oh Andy!" she sobbed as Andy looked back at her "thank god!" she said and threw herself at her.
Andy wrapped her arms around her and held her close "I'm fine Trac," she said and rubbed her back letting her cry it out.
A while later Traci sniffed and pulled back "don't ever do that to me again," she said and settled back beside her "I was so scared," she added.
"Sorry," Andy said "didn't know there was going to be flying bullets."
"Don't even joke about it Andy," Traci sighed "we were so close to losing you."
"Sorry," Andy replied "I don't really know how to cope with this I'm still a bit fuzzy as to what happened before I got shot…I know where I was when it happened, but I'm having trouble remembering what happened before it…and a few days before that," she mumbled her eyes cast down to her twiddling thumbs.
Traci sat up and looked at her a worried expression crossing her face "is there anything else you think you don't remember?"
Andy nodded "the last thing I really remember is me leaving Sam's house with my stuff after he accused me of breaking in….I don't remember much after that."
Traci nodded "well that was only yesterday so it's not too bad considering your brain was cut off from oxygen."
Andy frowned and looked off as if she remembered something "a guy," she said and looked a Traci "I remember a guy."
"Okay," Traci said slowly wondering if she should be calling the doctor "and do you remember what you were doing when you saw this guy?"
"Two guys," Andy said still frowning "not at the same time though," she added.
Traci scooted closer to her "what do you remembered about the guy you thought about first?" she asked.
Andy closed her eyes and tried to visualize it "I had just been shot- I was lying there on the porch, I heard footsteps then a shadow crossed over me, when I looked up there was some guy leaning over me just looking down at me."
"Good Andy good, what else?" Traci asked jotting it all down.
Andy squeezed her eyes tighter "he chuckled and took a step back before he ran away."
"Can you remember what he looked like?" Traci asked biting on her lip.
Andy nodded "blonde hair, well dressed, smelled like that stuff Chris uses…Calvin Cline, brown eyes, dark skin-tattoo peaking out from his neckline," she said and opened her eyes "that's all I see," she said and lay back against the pillow.
"That's great Andy we can narrow it down…what about the other guy? What do you remember about him?" Traci asked itching to get back to the station and begin her search.
Andy didn't close her eyes this time "I was at Daryl's desk when his phone rang, when I answered some guy asked was I McNally, when I said yes he asked me was I looking into Sandra's case. Again when I said yes he said he might be able to help me and asked me to meet him at a diner on fifth, when I asked how would I know him he said he'd know me and told me to come alone or he wouldn't show."
"Which diner?" Traci asked as she jotted it all down.
"Um…Betty's" Andy replied "when I got there I ordered a coffee, ten minutes later a guy in a hoodie drops down he told me not to talk just listen."
"What did he say?" Traci asked.
"He took a note from his pocket and told me not to touch it until he was gone, he said something like 'this is where he is I told him this would fall back on him. He then went on to say that he planned the whole thing and that he had tried to talk him out of it asking him to leave it it was an accident."
Traci frowned she was getting confused "Andy I don't understand," she said "planned what? What accident? Who is he talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about."
"I do," A voice said from the doorway they both looked over to see Daryl "I know exactly what she's talking about….give us a minute?" he asked Traci.
Traci looked and Andy then nodded and stood up "uh here," she said holding out her notepad "what I've got so far."
Daryl nodded and took it from her "thanks," he said and walked to the chair she had just been in.
"Trac!" Andy called "thank you for knowing me so well," she smiled.
Traci smiled back "what best friends are for…thank you for coming back to us, I'll be right out here," she said and slipped the door over.
"Go home!" Andy called after her and turned to Daryl "hi," she said trying to read him his face was blank and emotionless.
Daryl didn't reply instead he looked her from head to toe before turning back to her "what else happened at the diner?"
"Are we gonna talk about this?" she asked knowing how well he can shut down.
Daryl gave her a look she knew all too well "what else happened in the diner?" he asked again.
Andy looked down at her hands and sighed heavily " he said Corey blamed Sandra for Gina's death, I asked him did he not know that Sandra did try to help and why she couldn't."
Daryl nodded and jotted it down "what was his reply?"
"He said he knew why that he was there and tried to explain to Corey that she got trapped herself but he wouldn't listen."
Daryl nodded again "what else?"
"I asked him could he tell me his name he said no he'd already risked his life by coming to see me, when I told him I could keep him safe he said a couldn't and hoped the note helped before he took off."
Daryl nodded and stood up "I'll go see what I can dig up," he said and walked to the door.
"Daryl, when are we gonna talk about this? I know you're bottling it all up," she asked.
Daryl stopped briefly "if you know you know what my reply is," he said and walked out of the room leaving her looking after him.
Sam saw Daryl hurry by him like he was fit to kill "Daryl!" he called and stood up.
"Back in the morning!" he called and just kept walking.
Sam frowned he had been so worried about Andy but yet he only spent a total of five minutes with her, walking to her room he stuck his head in "everything okay?" he asked as Andy sat looking out the window wearing all sorts of expressions.
"Yeah," she sighed and turned to him "can you go after him and stay with him…I'm afraid he'll do something stupid with the state he's in."
Sam nodded but really wanted to say no, he really wanted to stay here with her "I'll keep an eye on him," he said and walked to the bed kissing her quickly "you rest up babe the others are outside, I'll call and check in on you…love ya," he said and jogged out the door hoping to catch up with Daryl.
Andy sighed heavily and lay her head back against the pillow, she knew Daryl was never a really big talker but with her it didn't seem to count, since they were kids he'd told her everything right down to problems he was having with girls as a teenager.
Dov chose that moment to enter "thank god you are sitting up," he said and hurried to the bed "you have no idea what it was like waiting to hear news on you," he said and sat down beside her. "We really thought you were gone-I even said goodbye," he said and dropped his head "it killed me," he mumbled.
"Dov," Andy sighed and placed her hand on his shoulder "I am here alive and kicking," she said softly.
Dov looked up at her "what is so important about this case that got you shot?"
Andy sighed again apart from Frank and Daryl no one but Traci and Gail knew and with that they didn't know everything "Dov, it's not for me to say."
"Is this why you're working out of twenty-seven with Daryl?" he asked.
Andy nodded "it was their case I just re opened it and until we have solid evidence it's still their case."
Dov nodded "you know I would do anything to help…and I'd keep it hush," he added.
"Dov you can't keep anything hush," she chuckled and looked over at him "but I trust you with this….go get my uniform pants, there's a note in the pocket. I want you to take it back to the station and see if you can get prints from it…any other than mine," she added.
Do nodded and stood up happy he could help "what do I do if I get any…go to Daryl?"
"No," Andy shook her head "if Trac is still here get her to go with you, if you do get anything come back to me."
Dov nodded again "you get some rest," he said and hurried out of the room to find Traci.
….
Down at twenty-seven Daryl paced outside the tech room as Sam sat watching "what exactly are we doing here?" Sam asked.
Daryl looked over at him "waiting for this dipstick to pull all calls from my desk IF HE EVER GETS UP OFF HIS ASS!" he yelled through the window.
Sam shook his head the tech guy had already been working on something when Daryl burst in demanding his request come first "take it easy man I know your mad but he has got other work to do-work he was doing before you barged in."
Daryl sighed "I hate waiting," he said and scrubbed his hands over his face "doesn't do anything for me," he added.
Sam chuckled and stood up "sounds a lot like your sister…come on, we'll go see is the footage from the shop next door in," he said and walked off.
An hour later they had gone over it twice, the guy had a hoodie up and knew to keep his face away from the cameras "it's no use we're not gonna get anything from it," Sam sighed.
"Here's what you wanted Connors," the tech guy said and dropped a file onto his desk "next time a please would go a long way," he said and kept walking.
"Thanks Don! Much appreciated!" he called after him and pulled the file to him "what time did Mel say Andy gave her that note?" he asked as he scanned up and down the numbers.
Sam looked down at his notepad "she said it was about one."
Daryl scanned all calls "here," he said pointing "she answered a call at twelve fifty-six….lasted just over a minute."
"Let's see who answers," Sam said and picked up the phone he sighed as it rang for ages "hello?" he said when someone finally picked up "who is this?" he listened and shook his head "alright thanks," he said and hung "damn pay phone on Lincoln way."
Daryl groaned it was just one dead end after another, then a thought crossed his mind "the bank," he said and pulled up a map of that street "Appleton national bank is on that street and what bank doesn't have cameras?" he asked.
Sam nodded "yeah but that street also has about ten pay phones on each side of the street."
"I can check the graphs see what switch it's on," Daryl said already typing it in "but it won't tell me which phone it was."
Sam jotted the number down "we're just gonna have to go call them all and see which one rings," he said and stood up.
Daryl got what he needed and logged out of his computer "it's on the same side as the bank so hopefully we'll get something off it," he said and the two headed out the door.
Over at fifteen Traci and Dov sat outside the lab waiting for dna results "so what exactly did Andy ask you to do once we got them back?"
"If there were any prints on it I have to go back to her with them," Dov replied.
"Guys I'm only running it now it could take a while why don't you go get coffee or something and I'll call you when I'm done," the lab guy said.
"Alright," Traci said and stood up "thanks Josh we'll be at my desk," she said and walked off.
When they got to her desk she turned back to him "what if we didn't go back to her?" she asked.
"What?" Dov frowned.
"If there are prints on that we should go bring him in ourselves," Traci said.
"No Trac," Dov said "we have to go back to Andy she's trusting me with this."
"Dov she nearly died she's in hospital she doesn't need to be worrying about this she can't do anything about it anyway."
Dov sighed "I know but she asked me too she didn't even want to let me in on this I can't let her down Trac."
Traci sighed heavily "what if this guy set her up Dov? Isn't it our job to make sure he pays for what he did?"
Dov shook his head "don't do that Traci, we're not doing anything, we're getting the results and going back to Andy like I was told to," he said and walked off to the coffee station.
Traci huffed and sat down she really didn't see the point in going back to Andy just to upset her when she tells her she has to stay out of it and at the hospital. She looked to her phone as it rang "officer Nash," she answered.
"Hey Nash it's Josh…results came in quicker than I thought."
Traci covered the mouth piece "Dov!" she called and waved him over "and was there any?"
"Apart from officer McNally's there was one," Josh replied
"And you're so awesome you have a name?" Traci asked biting on her lip nervously.
Josh chuckled "yes Nash I got a name."
Traci grabbed a pen "shoot," she said ready to write.
"A Ryan Westbrook, 32, no priors- just one for smashing a police car window when he was sixteen, last known address is in Philly," he said.
"Philadelphia?" Traci asked "so what the hell is he doing all the way up here?" she asked.
"That's you job Nash," he chuckled.
"Alright thanks a million Josh," she said and hung up.
"We have something?" Dov asked hovering over her.
"Yeah," Traci frowned "but I don't understand it at all," she said and turned to her computer "alright Ryan have you a picture to go with this?" she asked out loud as she typed.
"Damn it," Dov sighed "he's a kid in that picture that was over sixteen years ago."
"Yeah but Andy might remember his eyes or something," Traci said and printed it off "it's the best we got right now," she said and walked to the printer to collect it.
…..
At the hospital Andy Chris and Gail sat playing cards the doctor had been by to see her and assured Jerry and Ollie she was fine, so they had decided to home and let her rest up "ha I win again," Andy giggled.
"Only because we're letting you," Gail chuckled
"Yeah don't get used to it you know you suck," Chris added.
"Hey," Andy yelled playfully "I am not th…" she trailed off as she stared at the person in her doorway.
"Andrea," she greeted nervously her eyes darting from Chris and Gail back to a frozen Andy.
Gail had seen the photo albums she knew who it was "you got some nerve turning up here!" she yelled and jumped off the bed.
"I came to see if my daughter was okay," she replied.
"Like you care!" Gail yelled and took a step closer to her "get the hell out of here and don't come back!" she said shoving her backwards.
"Andrea please!" her mother called into the room.
Andy closed her eyes tight as a tear slid down her face "Chris please get her to leave, please, I cant, I can't," she said and began to hyperventilate. "She has to be gone, she can't be here," she yelled trying to get out of the bed.
"Andy, Andy," Chris said pinning her down "I'll get rid of her," said trying to drown out her and Gail arguing "just please get back into the bed."
Andy looked up at him with her watery eyes "please just get rid of her," she whimpered.
"I will I promise," he smiled sadly at her and settled her in the bed "I'll be right back," he said and threw her the remote "just watch some tv," he said and walked out shoving Gail with him and closing the door behind them.
"Get lost! How many times do I have to say it!" Gail yelled.
"I am her mother I have every right to be here!" her mother yelled back.
Gail scoffed and gave her the dirtiest look there ever was "you're no mother."
"Look I don't know who you are but not you or anyone else is going to stop me from seeing my daughter," she said and walked to the door-stopping when Chris stepped to block it "excuse me," she said and looked up at him.
"Exit is that way," Chris said nodding his head towards it.
She took a step back and sighed "all I want is to see if my daughter is okay."
"She doesn't want you here!" Chris yelled "now please leave before I arrest you!" he hissed.
"Is that a threat?" she yelled back.
"No mam, I don't make threats," he said and took a step closer to her "Andy doesn't want you here so leave. You will have to get through me first that will be the only way you'll get through this door."
Andy's mom scoffed "this is ridiculous! I wan your badge number, and yours," she snapped at Gail.
"6328," Gail said "and his is 6326 now get lost."
Sam and Daryl were at a dead end with the phone the bank said they would have the tapes sent over, while they waited they went to see Andy…arriving to a war zone outside her room.
Chris and Gail stood on one side yelling at woman while she yelled back and tried to get through them into Andy's room two nurses stood on the sidelines trying to calm them down. Sam stopped as Daryl halted quickly "what?" he asked.
"I don't believe this," he said and started to walk faster "Claire? What the hell is she doing here?" he hissed.
"We've been trying to get her to leave for the past half hour," Chris snapped.
"People please this is a hospital, cops or not I'm going to have to ask you to leave if you don't calm down," the nurse hissed.
Sam joined them and said nothing he had no idea who this woman was "uh, maybe you should take this somewhere else."
"No!" Gail snapped "she's totally upset Andy! She has no right to be here!"
"Oh for god sake!" her mom yelled "I am her mother I have every right to be here!"
"You should have thought about that before you took off and left her behind!" Daryl hissed and took a step closer to her "you get the fuck out of here before I make you!" he snarled.
Claire scoffed "I see you're still hanging around- still filling her head with crap too?" she hissed bitterly.
Daryl laughed "oh go screw yourself!" he snapped "I have been here for her!"
"Alright enough!" Sam boomed over him "you two go cool off," he said to Chris and Gail "Daryl go into Andy and you," he said turning to Claire "you're not wanted here so take off," he said and walked into the room not giving her a chance to speak.
Andy stared at the door as if expecting her to follow him in "she's gone," Daryl said watching her closely.
Sam sat beside her "how are you feeling now?" he asked slipping his hand into hers deciding not to mention her mom.
Andy scooted down in the bed she was in total shock she couldn't believe her mother had just turned up like that. She turned to Sam as he called her softly "yeah, fine…I just have a head ache, I'm going to go to sleep for a bit."
"Okay," Sam said and kissed her on the forehead "I probably won't be here when you wake up but I will be back."
Andy nodded with her eyes close "it's fine, I'll just see you whenever."
Daryl watched her and sighed she was starting to shut down like she always did when her mom was mentioned, looking down at his phone as it beeped he stood up "tapes are at the station…I'll meet you at the car," he said glancing at Andy.
Sam waited for him to leave and sat up on the bed and slid his hand on to her hip "babe do you want to talk before I go?"
"No," Andy muttered and pulled the covers closer "I'll just see you later."
Sam sighed and stood he knew there was no point trying "okay I'll be back…I love you," he said and waited for her to reply.
"Yeah me too," she mumbled quietly.
Sam hung his head and sighed "see ya round," he said and walked out of the room-Andy smiling to herself as he did.
Traci and Dov arrived back to the hospital and were filled in about Andy's moms return by Chris and Gail. They all now sat in the room in silence not knowing what to say. "Uh, we got a print off that note," Dov said breaking the silence.
"Dov!" Traci hissed and shot a glance to Andy.
"It's fine Trac…couldn't take the silence anymore," Andy said "what did you get?"
Traci pulled a folder out of her bag "we got a name- Ryan Westwood, the guy is in the system from when he was a teenager so the picture is not great," she said pulling it out "just look at it and see if any of the features stand out," she said handing it to her.
Andy took the picture from Traci and studied it "I don't know, he had his hood up the whole time."
"Just look for a minute Andy," Chris said.
"Something might stand out," Gail added.
Andy looked at the photo again pulling it closer she squinted her eyes a little "the eyes," she said and pulled it back "he had the same eyes."
"Anything else?" Dov asked.
"The hair maybe," Andy said and looked at the picture again "I think I saw a bit of brown sticking out under the hood."
"Right," Dov said and stood up "his last known address was in Philadelphia…what do we do now?"
"Take the picture to Sam and Daryl, this guy is still around he gave me the impression he lived around," Andy said.
"How so?" Gail asked.
"Well he called me and asked about Sandra's case how else would he know about it it's not on the news or anything," Andy said.
Chris nodded "she's right he would have had to hear someone mention it…were you and Sam anywhere talking about it?"
Andy thought back "no but Daryl and I went for lunch and were talking about it, but it was pretty quiet a couple by the door and the staff that was it."
"Right we'll start there," Gail said "maybe he works there."
"What's the name of the diner?" Chris asked.
"Orlando's, the one on the corner," Andy replied "and call Daryl if you find anything!" she called after them.
Traci and Dov made their way to the door too "we'll call if we get anything, get some sleep," Traci smiled before they slipped out of the room.
…
Sam sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose "this was another waste of time, he had his hood up the whole time."
"Yeah but look," Daryl said leaning over him pointing at the screen "he has a tattoo, how many people have tattoos on their hand?"
Sam scoffed "a lot."
"Yeah but how many of them have a heart with a dagger through it?" Daryl asked.
"It narrows it down is all…we have a lot of digging to do," Sam sighed.
"Hey," Traci, said coming up behind them "have you found anything else?"
"No," Sam replied "just after looking at the footage the bank sent over."
"Did anything come up?" Dov asked.
"The guy was on it but he had his hood up, we saw a hand tattoo so we'll work from there," Daryl said.
"That's why we're here," Traci said "we got prints from the note he gave Andy we got a name."
"And Chris and Gail are gone to check out a diner we think he works at," Dov added.
Sam and Daryl looked at one another "seriously?" Sam asked.
"Uh yeah," Traci said.
Daryl chuckled "we've only been looking all day and bam there you are after what? An hour?"
Dov stepped closer "Andy asked me to get the note…she forgot to say it to you," he added.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Sam asked and grabbed his coat.
"And where are we going?" Daryl asked as they followed.
"We're gonna go meet Peck and Diaz, it's the best lead we've had all day!" Sam called back.
Over at the hospital Andy finally hauled herself out of the bed the nurse insisting she used a wheel chair and also reminding her she had been shot twice and on life support. She wanted the doctors to see she could move around on her own so they'd send her home quicker.
When she got back to her room with a magazine she closed the door and rolled back to the bed when a voice startled her "I told you I didn't want to get involved."
"Ryan!" she gasped "wh-what are you doing here?" she asked alarmed.
Ryan stood up and started to walk to her as he did he watched as her eyes darted to the door then back to him "I'm not gonna hurt you," he said and stopped in front of her. Placing a hand under her knees and the other round her back he lifted her out of the chair and placed her on the bed "I had no idea he would do this," he said and sat in the chair beside her.
"Why are you here?" Andy asked again her panic subsiding.
Ryan shrugged "the last place anyone will expect to find me."
"I have people coming and going all day- all cops might I add," Andy said.
"Yeah I know…I came to tell you I didn't set you up, Corey doesn't even know I'm in town," Ryan said.
Andy nodded she believed him "my colleges are only looking for you so you can tell them what happened the day Gina died up until Sandra died."
"I can't," Ryan said and stood up "I'll be killed the second I step foot outside that station."
"No you won't we can protect you," Andy said she didn't miss the way he edged closer to the door with each word.
"Don't you get it?" he yelled "I can't go into that station…Anton has inside guys in all of them."
Andy's eyes went wide "do you know who it is from fifteen division or twenty-seven?" she asked.
Ryan nodded "a guy called Hicks from twenty-seven and a chick called Cruz from fifteen…I gotta go I'm sorry I can't help but I just can't risk it, I have a wife and two kids," he said and was gone before Andy could say another word.
Andy sat back against the bed and sighed how the hell did no one know this?