Prompt: Sam runs into Marlo at the store and Marlo think they could have worked and wants to try again. Andy shows up, because she's there with Sam and Sam explains to Marlo that he's sorry but its always been McNally.
"Crap. I forgot to grab face wash. I'll go back to the pharmacy." Andy says after looking through all the items in their cart.
He continues checking the produce, and nods, receiving a kiss on his cheek and then she's off down to the other end of the store. This was the most stimulating outing he'd had in a about a month. And not because of his physical limitations, no. He'd been back at work, staying in the division, for a couple of weeks now, but Andy is convinced that he needs to take it slow.
It's great most of the time. She's basically moved herself into his house. She's there in the morning when he wakes up, usually with coffee already brewing. She's there at night when he goes to bed, his own personal heater. Though sometimes her feet are like blocks of ice…
And then there are the times he's not allowed to do anything. She runs the errands, she monitors how much he exerts himself, she keeps insisting that he needs to go rest. He's a little restless because of it, but she likes taking care of him, so for now, he's letting her.
Wouldn't want to say something and have her spook.
"Sam?" A voice calls from behind him, causing him to drop the apple in question.
He's pretty surprised to see Marlo there, basket of food in hand, smiling timidly.
"Marlo, hi." He says, still kind of confused. "I thought you were going on a trip."
She walks the rest of the distance between them and opens her arms, wondering silently if it'd be too weird
He concedes, only because it'd be weird to deny her that at this proximity. So he uses one arm, keeps it short.
"I have my hearing with the white shirts this week, so, I had to come back." She explains, trying to just get past the awkward mention of the suspension.
He nods, not even wanting to delve into that right now.
"I- I missed you." She says, looking like it's taken a lot of her pride to get the words out.
The way things went down after he got shot, he wouldn't have guessed it. She was distant, gave him a cold and impersonal speech about how this was never going to work, and she has to take care of herself. And then by the time he was released from the hospital, she was gone. Left him a letter, further explaining her side of things, maybe revealing more than he'd picked up on…
But she was gone, so he tried to spend his energy on feeling guilty.
"Yeah, you disappeared pretty quick there." He says, trying his best to dodge her comment.
She acknowledges that he doesn't say it back, and appears to think that maybe it was just a shot, because she bites her lip, and looks down briefly.
"I was thinking now, that I'm back, maybe we could get coffee sometime. Talk about… everything."
He's about to answer her, say, something, and then he sees Andy appear from the end of one of the aisles, face wash in hand, and a smile fading.
She knows its Marlo even though her back is to her, and then she suddenly doesn't know what to do with herself. Should she look at something on the magazine rack? Should she go and say hi.
She slows down, while deciding, and watches as Sam scratches the back of his neck, and grimaces a little. It's obvious that he's under a little bit of scrutiny. He's uncomfortable or bugged. Though he's got his 'guilty' face on.
She watches him say something, eyes finding hers after, and she only realizes that she came to a complete stop when Marlo turns to look at her too. She sees a glimmer of disappoint in her eyes, but then she smiles politely, and waves just small, and Andy returns it, moving her feet once again.
"I should have known." Marlo laughs looking back to Sam before McNally gets in ear shot, without any real hint that she's humoured by it, but she keeps a nice smile. "It was always her."