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Chapter 37- When The Truth Scares You.

"Andy?". She was too quiet.

"Sam? Who is it. What's going on?".

Sam could hear the murmur in her voice as it trembled. She was scared and he wasn't helping by not telling her anything.

"Andy get out of the house take a gun, a magazine and the phone and go. Please?".

Andy could hear car doors closing through the phone, a buzz of activity around Sam.

"Okay".

She could also tell that he was scared too.

Andy kept the call connected and put the phone into her pocket while she unlocked the lockbox, took out Sam's gun and a full magazine that she shoved into her other pocket.

She listened for sounds around the house but didn't hear anything.

The doorbell ringing made her jump, a soft squeak filtering out before she could stop it.

"No, don't answer the door" Sam was yelling into the phone hoping that she was listening.

"Andy!".

At the sound of her voice, Andy froze. She was about to run out of the house because Gail was here?

Moving to the door Andy pulled her phone out of her pocket and told Sam that it was Gail, a relieved sigh filling her ear.

"...Nick I know okay, what do you want me to do? If she's sleeping and I kick the door down..."

Andy stood just inside the lounge listening to Gail yell at Nick over the phone. It made her giggle. The two made a good pair, each balancing the other out. Nick warmed Gail up, and she seemed to keep him calm.

"Nick sent her Sam. Have you dispatched the entire division to our house?". Andy was mad now, her voice low but potent in Sam's ear. He could also hear her frustration, she was in the dark about the circumstances and she didn't like not knowing anything.

The doorbell rang again and made Andy jump; again, but this time she opened the door to see Gail hang up on Nick.

"See you later Sam" Andy said hanging up. "Hi" she said addressing Gail.

Gail came inside and looked around as though she was expecting something to be wrong. "You okay?".

Andy nodded. She was mad as hell right now, but she was okay.

"Um, Nick called, Sam thought you might be in trouble? I was closer". Gail explained her presence on Andy's doorstep.

"Nope, I'm fine" Andy sighed out.

"Do you mind" Gail said looking at Sam's gun still clutched in Andy's hand.

A pregnant woman holding a loaded gun with the safety off probably wasn't her idea of a happy welcome.

"Yeah, right sorry" Andy walked away and went to put the gun back in the lockbox.

Gail hovered in the kitchen waiting for Andy to come back. She made herself coffee but didn't make anything for Andy, she didn't know what she wanted anyway.

"So, they sent you?" Andy said finding her way back to Gail who nodded and sipped her coffee.

"Yup, they're just worried about you Andy" Gail tried to find her passive nature. Andy had been through so much over the last few months that she was trying to keep the bad memories from stirring up.

"I noticed. But keeping me in the dark isn't going to help".

"I know. If I knew anything I'd tell you, but I don't. Nick called and asked me where I was. Sam is freaking out and asked Oliver to come over until he got home".

"Yeah I figured that" Andy said even though she didn't mean for it to sound so sarcastic.

"Sorry" she added sheepishly.

"I get it Andy. But put yourself is Sam's shoes, whatever the situation is, he's just worried about you".

Andy was chewing on her bottom lip, Gail was right. Sam wouldn't just freak out over nothing, and he had a really good reason to worry about her if something was wrong. It wasn't just about her anymore.

"I think it's about Sarah" Andy said looking away.

Oliver arrived a short while later with Nick, Andy's dark, quiet house coming to life with late night visitors.

When Sam made it home he found Andy sleeping on the couch, the others keeping watch over her as they shared coffee in the kitchen where they had clear sight of Andy through the open plan kitchen island that Sam had recently put in.

"Thanks Man" Sam said when Oliver met him halfway and pointed out to Andy.

"We've always got your back". Oliver said. Sam had helped him out a few times and he was more than willing to repay the favors.

That's what friends did.

Jerry edged inside the doorway looking pleased to find the Swarek household intact and safe, Sam's reaction to someone at his house while Andy was home alone had him a little worried for a while.

"Need us to stay?" Collins asked as Peck hopped down from her comfortable seat on Sam's newly installed marble counter top.

"Nope but thanks for you know". Sam waived his hand around, he still hadn't figured out how to master the art of conversation with people that didn't know him very well.

"Okay, well call us if you need us" Peck said as she tugged Collins out of Sam and Andy's front door. Oliver and Jerry following deep in conversation.

Sam locked up behind them, and then took a moment to watch Andy look peaceful as she lay in slumber.

Sam bent down next to her, his fingertips trailing over her cheek as she stirred slightly at his touch. When it registered that he was home, her eyes flew open and she smiled his way as she said "Hi".

"Hi".

Sam would never grow tired of watching her wake up.

Without warning Andy sat up straight before launching herself at Sam, her arm's wrapping around his neck as she pulled him closer.

"Don't ever do that again Sam". She said as she tucked her face into his shoulder.

"I won't". He knew that he had scared her, he could hear it in her voice when she was living the nightmare, and he didn't want to do it again but knew that he would have to.

"Talk to me".

See, she was waiting for him to do just that.

Andy pulled away and Sam sat down next to her taking a long breath before saying anything.

Andy was guessing that it had something to do with Sarah. She could tell by how Sam had changed to Brother mode, cop mode being checked out the second she confirmed that the flash was the one from Sarah.

"The DNA on Abigail's kitchen knife matches a Sylvano. Elliot's younger brother by the looks of things".

"Elliot? Teddy-bear Elliot?". Andy showed her shock. "What does he have to do with this?"

"I have no idea, but Sarah was chasing him when she went under. Her flash had files and files of lists, dates, money transfers. I just haven't pieced how it all fits together yet". Sam's voice told of his tiredness, but it held an underlying tone that spoke volumes about his relief at finding a bit of hope at catching whoever killed Sarah.

"But he was in jail so it doesn't make sense".

"I know. But I'm going to find out in the morning".

Andy sensed that Sam wasn't telling her everything, so she crossed her arms and gave him the look that screamed spill while she waited. There was definitely more.

"I sent Lars to a safehouse with the girls for a while, the attack on Abigail was enough to get them in".

And then Andy knew what was coming next.

She stood up, with a struggle but eventually managed. She turned to face Sam who had his eyes closed as she looked down at him and scowled.

"No".

Andy walked away, not really knowing where she was going. She just needed to go, now.

"Andy..."

"No Sam, you're not sending me away too, not now".

"Andy, what if they come after you and I'm not here?".

Andy could hear the agony in Sam's voice, but didn't he understand that she was not going to go anywhere if it meant that there was the chance that she would have this baby without him being there.

"Sam, we have four guns in the house, and I have been trained to use all of them, by you. I don't want to go..."

She couldn't even finish saying that.

"Just no okay?".

"Andy, I... What if they take you? It's not just you I'm thinking about here". Sam cast his eyes down to her stomach, this was about more than just them now.

"No, I'm sorry Sam. But this is about me making this decision because of this baby. How can I bring a child into the world when I'm not even sure that you'll be there to watch it grow up? Or when I have to live looking over my shoulder, living in fear? No I won't do that again Sam, the first time was enough".

Sam stared at Andy as a plague of memories washed over her from when they first met, and how she had lived with so much fear for weeks that it altered her forever.

"Andy, I can't loose you too. Or the baby, I won't...".

"Then don't make me go Sam. Don't make me?". Andy was shaking her head, her eyes heavily misted over with sparkling tears as she clamped her teeth down on her bottom lip to hold them in.

Sam didn't answer, he just closed the space between them and wrapped her up in a hug, her stomach pressed up against his as his arm's encircled her. He loved the feeling of that, he was really going to miss it when the baby came into the world.

It was well into the morning hours when they finally made it into bed.

Andy waited for Sam to get out of the shower before she got comfortable in their bed.

When she fell asleep with her head on his shoulder, Sam was glad that he had called Frank and told him the situation and then called him again after he got home to fill him in that everything was okay, but Andy wouldn't be at work in the morning.

Frank understood, so he told Sam that Andy should rather take her last few shifts off and Sam agreed wholeheartedly. She needed her rest and only had three shifts left anyway.

She would probably wake up and be mad at him for agreeing to it, but it was the best for her under the circumstances.

She had been so mad with him on the phone earlier, but when he got home she had let her anger flare into relief and happiness when she saw him.

Eventually falling asleep, Sam kept one arm wrapped around Andy, the world fading away behind closed eyelids.

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