Chapter 11: How Do You Know?
SCENE: MEREDITHS HOUSE
(Amber sits on the table practicing the continuous suture on her seventh banana with Maggie watching. Meredith walks downstairs and is surprised by the many bananas in the fridge)
Meredith: First milk now bananas? Does Jackson half want to get you pregnant?
Maggie: Ha-ha. I'm teaching Amber how to do the continuous suture flawlessly for ten bananas straight. If she succeeds then she can suture in the last graft in our next CABG. She's on number seven.
Amber: Yep, and I am going to make this suture my bitch if it kills me. I really need a surgery.
Meredith: To distract yourself from Sam coming back?
(Amber is caught by surprise and messes up the suture)
Maggie: Back to square one She-Karev. Get some bananas out.
Amber: No, I just slipped I was caught by surprise please let it slide.
Maggie: If I did that then I wouldn't be a good teacher besides you can't afford to slip on an actual heart. Try again.
Amber: Damn it! I need a break my hands are cramping up.
(Amber takes her gloves off and grabs herself a cup of coffee)
Meredith: So, are you going to talk about what happened with you and Andrew or not?
(Amber sighs as her mind flashes back to two weeks ago)
CUT TO FLASHBACK IN ANDREWS APARTMENT
(Amber and Sam look at each other in shock with Andrew silently panicking in the back)
Amber: What are you doing here? Your supposed to be in Europe.
Sam: (Stammering) Um I-I-I was able to or m-my lawyer was able to settle that red light stuff and renewed my DACA visa. I just got the all clear a few weeks ago and…I talked to Chief Bailey yesterday and she and Dr. Karev were able to get me back on the program.
Andrew: You-Your gonna work at the hospital? At Grey Sloan? Your gonna come back?
Amber: Oh, this gets better and better.
Sam: Um look I just came by to tell you that's all, that is all. I'm just gonna go and…leave you two alone. It was nice to see you guys again.
Andrew: Sam you don't have to leave.
Sam: No, I do I really do. I'll see you tomorrow.
(Sam promptly closes the door before Andrew stops her and they next hear her car shrieking out of the driveway. Amber turns to Andrew who looks as shocked as her)
Amber: I um I should go too.
Andrew: Amber, please let's just talk-
Amber: (Grabs her bag) There's nothing to talk about and I can't be here right now so I'm just gonna head home. Bye.
(Amber leaves the apartment while Andrew calls out for her. She quickly drives away groaning and beating herself up)
BACK TO THE PRESENT
Amber: Nope and I don't want to so let's talk about something else.
Maggie: Okay, Catherine has her surgery today and Richard, Jackson and Amelia are total wrecks. Amelia tries to hide it with neuro arrogance but this is the biggest tumor on a spine that anyone has seen so we can tell that she's panicking.
Meredith: The last time Amelia panicked over an impossible tumor she removed it and saved the patient's life.
Maggie: And permanently blinded her. Sorry I know that sounded bitchy and I know she's our sister but Richard has lost enough in his life and I'm worried that this will push him over the edge.
Meredith: Then we'll grab his hands and pull him back. I know your worried Maggie but Richard and Jackson need us and we have to be there for them as much as we can.
Amber: She's right I'll take care of your post ops and I already rescheduled your surgeries so you can be with them today.
Maggie: Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Amber: (Smiles sweetly) Appreciate it enough to down the bananas to seven?
Maggie: (Scowls) You get ten or you get nothing.
Amber: I had to try. I'm gonna head out, I'll be in the gallery later to watch.
(Amber leaves the house to go to rounds)
LATER AT THE NEURO FLOOR
(Sam and Amelia review the latest scans on Catherine)
Sam: Damn. That is a massive tumor. How are you going to visualize it?
Amelia: We almost couldn't until Dr. Jo Karev hooked us up with a scope that 3D visualizes the tumor it's called the ORBEYE. We've tested it and the screen is like physically seeing the tumor with our own eyes.
Sam: Amazing, you're really pulling out all the stops.
Amelia: We'll we're operating on a woman who has built an empire all on her own, owns the hospital, and is married to one of my closest friends so I am pulling out every stop I have.
Sam: Yeah. I don't suppose there's a chance I can scrub in. Or just watch?
Amelia: Sorry but this tumor requires stealthy and brilliant hands like mine and Koracick's. You can watch from the gallery though.
Sam: Okay.
Amelia: I'm really glad your back, the others are idiotic compared to you and I kind of missed having a mini me around.
Sam: (Chuckles) Well it's great to be back Dr. Shepherd.
Amelia: And I bet Andrew is ecstatic that you're here.
(Sam inhales and exhales as her mind flashes back to her first day back)
CUT TO FLASHBACK IN THE RESEARCH LIBRARY
(Andrew walks in to find Sam buried in the books)
Andrew: Um hi.
Sam: …Hey. I was just helping Dr. Shepherd find a way to go around Dr. Fox's tumor en bloc without hitting the carotids. Honestly all this neuro reading is making me hot like physically hot. I've gotten so used to hearts by now that I almost forgot what the frontal and occipital lobe's function.
Andrew: Yeah, I can imagine…so listen about last night-
Sam: I shouldn't have come by; I know that I just wanted you to hear that I was back from me instead of just running into me in the hall. If I knew you had company I wouldn't have come by.
Andrew: Listen I'm not mad you stopped by it was just…it was a surprise that's all.
Sam: Yeah, it was a surprise for both of us that night. You and Amber? Is that new or…?
Andrew: It was months after you left and it was completely unexpected but then things happened and we just…clicked, I guess. Look I just-
Sam: I meant what I said the night I left Andrew. We don't work at all and honestly when we broke up it felt right not just for me but for both of us. Don't worry about some love triangle because there isn't one. I came back for me not for you so you and Amber can…be whatever you want to be. I won't get in the way of that.
(Andrew's phone beeps)
Andrew: I have to go. I'm glad your back I mean it.
(Andrew leaves the library. Sam sits down and focuses on her work)
BACK TO THE PRESENT
Sam: Yeah, he's happy I'm back.
Amelia: Great so I guess you two are back together now that you're in the same country.
Sam: Nope that is definitely not an option.
Amelia: What? Why not?
Sam: Um can we just focus please?
Amelia: I would much rather talk about your love life than on this terrifying tumor I'm not ever 40% sure I will entirely remove so talk.
Sam: (Sighs) The night I left I broke up with Andrew not just because I was leaving but because we don't work as a couple at all. Then the night I came back I went to his place to tell him I was back when Amber Karev answered the door with Andrew inside calling her babe so there's also that. And now I have to roam around the hospital while my ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend walk around each other for reasons I don't know.
Amelia: (Processes) Wow. And I thought my love life was messy when my ex-husbands ex came back and announced she was pregnant with his child.
(Sam furrows her eyebrows curiously when Koracick walks in)
Koracick: You ready to present to the Fox-Avery-Webber family?
Amelia: Born ready let's do this. Check on my post ops and report back.
Sam: Got it. Good luck.
Koracick: I don't need luck Dr. Bello. Luck is for people with no stamina. (Winks)
(They all leave to go to their respective tasks)
LATER ON THE CARDIO FLOOR
(Amber talks on the phone with Maggie who gets ready to come down informing her of the changes)
Amber: Your VAD couldn't wait until tomorrow or she would miss presenting her sales pitch and there's an MVC who needs a maze procedure so I handed both of them to Dr. Altman. She didn't mind at all in fact she took my tablet before I could finish. I think she misses hearts.
Maggie: Yeah, I don't blame her. Good job Karev really.
Amber: Does this mean-
Maggie: Ten or nothing. Do we have to sign a contract for you to understand?
Amber: (Groans) Fine. I'll see you when I see you.
(Amber hangs up the phone and heads to the pit where she sees Andrew who looks at her and flashes back to two weeks ago)
CUT TO FLASHBACK IN THE SCRUB ROOM
(Amber and Maggie scrub out after completing the mitral valve repair)
Maggie: What do we tell the patient to do in between checkups?
Amber: Avoid stressful activities, keep a healthy diet and no smoking.
Maggie: Good. I have to say I was impressed with you in that O.R. you answered every question with little hesitation I mean you got 2 out of 11 questions wrong but that's just me being nitpicky.
Amber: Thank you Dr. Pierce. I did most of my fourth-year rotation with cardio so I think I picked up some information there.
Maggie: I've got some homework for you or I guess it's a practice test technically. I want you to practice your continuous suturing on bananas. If you get the suturing right flawlessly ten times on ten bananas then you can sew in the last graft in our next CABG.
Amber: (Shocked) Are you serious?
Maggie: Do you think you can do it?
Amber: Yes! Absolutely!
Maggie: Great I'll go to the grocery store after. The kids need juice anyway.
(Andrew walks inside the scrub room)
Andrew: Hey can you give me and Amber a minute to talk? Alone?
Maggie: Are you good?
Amber: I'm good, I'll follow you after.
(Maggie gives Andrew a threatening look as she leaves)
Andrew: Amber I am so sorry. I had no idea that Sam was back at all, if I did, I would've told you please believe that.
Amber: Please. Your face last night confirmed that, I was afraid your jaw would fall out.
Andrew: (Chuckles) Yeah it was a hell of a night. Seeing her there just blew me back to the night she left.
Amber: Yeah. Look I knew this was coming one way or the other so you don't have to give a whole speech or an apology. I've always known on some level that I was your rebound and that something or someone real would come along and-
Andrew: (Shakes his head at her assumption) Hey, hey, hey. Listen to me, I meant what I said to you on our first date, you are not a rebound. I like you Amber Karev, I really like you and anything between me and Sam is over. Okay? It's not an option.
Amber: (Keeps voice steady to appear composed) It's not true Andrew she's…she's Sam, she's here, and she's your first love Andrew, your first love. She can be an option if you want her to be we both know that.
Andrew: What are you saying?
Amber: (Sighs) You are a good person, a kind person who deserves to be with the person who makes you happy. Which is why I am going to give you time to figure out who you want to really be with and when you decide…let me know. I'll be fine either way.
(Amber kisses Andrew's cheek as his face shifts with confusion)
Amber: I have to go.
(Amber leaves the room. Andrew stands there and sighs as her words hit him)
BACK TO THE PRESENT
Amber: Um hi. I just came down here to ask if there any more cardio traumas, are there?
Andrew: Um no it's pretty slow down here. Which is good because most of the surgeons are in the gallery watching Dr. Fox's surgery. Are you gonna go down there?
Amber: I still have a few post ops to finish for Pierce and then I'm headed there after.
Andrew: I take it that cardio's going well?
Amber: Yeah, Pierce is a great teacher and I'm learning so much. All I have is three more bananas to go.
Andrew: Bananas?
Amber: Yeah, it's a long story and I have a lot to do so I'll see you later.
Andrew: See you.
(Amber leaves the pit and heads back to the cardio floor)
TWO HOURS LATER
(After finishing the post ops and charts Amber heads to the gallery to watch Catherine's surgery. Along the way she runs into Maggie who also heads there)
Amber: Hey.
Maggie: Hey. Have you heard anything? Have they already started?
Amber: Yeah, they started about an hour ago I don't know how it's going though.
Maggie: Okay, how's it going with Andrew? Has he made his decision yet?
Amber: Um I don't feel right complaining about my relationship problems when your bio dad's wife who's also your boyfriend's mom is on the table.
Maggie: (Scoffs) Please talking about your problems will distract me from mine you'll be doing me a favor.
Amber: Okay, in that case no he hasn't decided and we've been avoiding each other since then unless we can't. I haven't even said one word to Sam since she came back. Do you think I made a mistake telling him to take time? I mean he said that he and Sam were over should I have believed him then?
Maggie: (Sighs) Are you asking me as a friend/mentor? Or as someone who dated Andrew?
Amber: I really don't want to answer that. Do you have any advice either way?
Maggie: Amber if you continued to date Andrew you would have the possibility of him getting back together with Sam hanging over you like a guillotine. You need to know if he wants to be with you because he wants to be with you and not because Sam broke up with him and he has no one else to turn to. I think time is exactly what that man needs in response to this very confusing situation. You just have to be patient and hope for the best and prepare for the worst. That's my advice to you.
Amber: Thank you. I think that helped a little.
Maggie: No problem.
(They enter the full gallery where Mustang Sally blares in the O.R. with Koracick singing along. Maggie joins Richard and Jackson while Amber tries to find a seat. She finds only one next to Sam, Amber gingerly approaches the spot)
Amber: Um can I sit here?
Sam: Its fine.
(Amber sits down and watches the surgery with Sam next to her)
Amber: Where are they at now?
Sam: They already started navigating and resection. Their approaching posteriorly to remove it en bloc.
Amber: Doesn't the posterior way come with significant risks?
Sam: They need to avoid the carotid and jugular. This way they won't have to weave through the brachial plexus. It's better that way.
Amber: Hmm Mustang Sally seems like an odd choice but fitting for this kind of surgery. Do you know what I mean?
Sam: I haven't even heard this song until three minutes ago so…look for what it's worth I told Andrew my first day that I came back so I could finish my residency here. I'm not looking to get back together with him I made that very clear with him so you don't have to worry. I'm not that kind of person I mean I am doing my best to avoid you and Andrew so you don't get the wrong impression.
(Amber gives Sam a confusing look)
Sam: What?
Amber: I told Andrew that if he wanted to be with you then it was fine by me. I told him to take time to figure out what he wants and I've been avoiding you so that I don't have to see him choose you.
(Amber and Sam look at each other in shock over their predicament)
Sam: I think we broke him.
Amber: I think we did.
(They turn their attention to the surgery)
TWO HOURS LATER
(The gallery watches in fascination as This Must be the Place blares from the O.R.)
Amelia: This microscope is a game changer.
Koracick: I know. I feel like I could just walk into the screen and surf on the spinal cord. Never for money, always for love. Cover up and say goodnight. Say goodnight
Amelia: All right... it looks like we are clear to remove the tumor en bloc. Except-hang on. I can't get it free.
Koracick: Okay, then. Time to suck and pluck.
Amelia: I'm sorry, what?
Koracick: The tumors like a grape. You suck out the inside, then you pluck out the skin. Suck and pluck.
Amber: (Lips curled in disgust) How does everything that man says sounds like it came from a cheap porno?
Sam: (Shrugs) Years of practice?
Jackson: (Scoffs) I hate this dude.
Richard: Jackson, sit.
Jackson: No, I hate him. For real. I want to jump through this glass and just, like, choke him out. He is bopping. He's bopping over my mom's spine. I mean, who does that?
Richard: Maybe you should take a walk.
Jackson: I'm gonna take a walk now.
(Jackson leave the room. Amber hums to the song)
Sam: How do you know every song in this playlist? I mean most of the songs I listen to are from our generation.
Amber: My father was a wannabe musician; he shared his love of his with my brothers who then passed it on to me. It's a lot better than Ariana Gomez Perry.
Sam: (Silently chuckles) I swear you sound like my mom when I dance to J-Lo or Shakira.
Amber: You dance?
Sam: Yeah, I was captain of the dance squad in high school. I would've gone professional but then I realized that surgeons make a lot more money and are less risk for injury.
Amber: (Nods) Yeah, I wouldn't broadcast that. I figured you were a preppy type; we would have not been friends back then.
Sam: Agreed.
(Amber pulls out a Ziplock bag full of sour patch kids out of her coat and starts eating as the surgery continues)
Amber: You want one?
(Sam shrugs and grabs a piece of candy when Bailey walks into the gallery)
Webber: You gonna lecture me, too, on how I shouldn't be here?
Bailey: You shouldn't be. But that's not my call.
Amelia: It's not decompressing.
Koracick: What do you mean it's not decompressing?
Amelia: It's too dense, like it's made of-I don't know what, cartilage, small chips of hard calcifications.
Koracick: Damn it. I can't get it either. Kill the music.
(The music is turned off)
Koracick: We need to go in from the front.
Amelia: Her spine is open. It's all exposed. If we move her, we risk losing function in her forearm and hand.
Koracick: It's the only way.
(Amber and Sam eat the sour patch kids in tense over the decision)
Amelia: Okay, well, let me ask you one question first. Are you insane?
Koracick: We close up the incision. We flip her onto her side. I go in from the front. We meet in the middle to decompress and unearth this thing.
Amelia: So, the answer is yes, you are insane.
Koracick: We'll get a few more people in here, we can flip her.
Amelia: And keep her still and not sever her spine? Not to mention having to break scrub, re-drape, rescrub-
Koracick: Cow-tipping in Kansas!
Amelia: Dozens of sexless men!
Koracick: If it were you again on the table, what would you want?
(Amelia thinks it over before deciding)
Amelia: For the record, I do not like you.
(Amber and Sam widen their eyes in shock)
Webber: Shut down the gallery.
(Bailey exits everyone out and closes the doors)
Amber: Just when it was getting good.
Sam: I know right?
(They get in the elevator to go back to their tasks when a hand stops the door from fully closing. They see Andrew outside who freezes at the sight of them in the same elevator. Amber and Sam look at him waiting for a reaction)
Andrew: I'll take the stairs.
(Andrew walks away from the elevator)
Amber: We broke him.
Sam: Oh yeah.
(The elevator fully closes)
LATER THAT NIGHT IN THE ICU
(Maggie, Jackson, Richard, Amelia and Koracick enter Catherine's room when she wakes up)
Catherine: (Groggy) How... How...
Koracick: Easy, easy, easy, easy. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
Jackson: Hey
(Koracick tests Catherine's reflexes)
Catherine: I feel that. Okay.
Koracick: All right. Well, your reflexes are normal.
Catherine: My hands and feet move. Whoo. I'm not dead? With that tumor?
Jackson: No, you're most definitely not dead.
Catherine: Oh, I thought for sure they were gonna kill me.
Maggie: (Chuckles) Yeah so did I.
(The group is silent for a moment)
Catherine: What? Tell me.
Amelia: Catherine, when we went in to get the tumor, it was adherent to your brachial plexus.
Koracick: We were able to remove about 95% of it, but we had to leave one nodule behind.
Catherine: So... radiation? Chemo?
Amelia: They've had some success with proton beam therapy.
Catherine: Some?
Koracick: It's likely, even with treatment...
Catherine: I'll have to live with this cancer the rest of my life. I was sure you'd get it all or kill me trying.
Koracick: So did we.
Amelia: Catherine, I'm so sorry.
Catherine: Sorry? I'm alive. I can live with this for many years. People live with cancer. We've all seen it happen.
Koracick: You're gonna have to get, uh, scans every three months to make sure the tumor doesn't, uh, grow.
Catherine: And in between, I'll operate. And I'll hug my son. Make love to my husband.
Jackson: (Awkwardly) Okay...
(Maggie grins)
Catherine: Chase my Harriet, make mistakes, and fight about who gets to pick the movie on date night. You two have given me my life back.
Jackson: Now what? 'Cause we didn't plan on this.
Catherine: (Laughs) These two pulled off a miracle. Miracles aren't always punctuation marks. But they are worth celebrating. So, we are gonna have that party. We just might have to wait a couple of months so I can get on the dance floor. (To Richard) I love you.
(Richard smiles and leans down to kiss Catherine. Maggie's eyes pool with tears)
LATER IN THE RESIDENCY LOUNGE
(Andrew ties his shoes to get ready to leave when Maggie barges in and smacks him on the head)
Andrew: Ow! What was that for?!
Maggie: For being an idiot!
(Maggie smacks him in the head again)
Andrew: Ah! Can you be a little more specific please?
Maggie: I know what happened between you and Amber. I know that she told you to take time to decide what you want and I know that you've been avoiding her and Sam for the past two weeks! You are doing it again; you're doing to them what you did to me and I'm not just gonna stand around and do nothing while you act like a coward.
Andrew: I am not being a coward here alright, I told Amber that day that I want to be with her and she just told me to take time. She thinks that I'm still in love in Sam and…I don't know if I am or not but I'm not just gonna look at her and lie because she deserves better than that and so does Sam.
(Maggie tries to smack Andrew again but he grabs her hand and stands up)
Andrew: Okay this is going nowhere with you physically assaulting me. So, let's just talk about this calmly and keep our hands to ourselves got it?
Maggie: (Pulls hand back) You're acting like a coward by not fighting for one of them. You're just standing around avoiding getting into elevators with one of them while other people are worried sick about their spouses who have massive tumors on their spines. That alone tells me that you're afraid, you're afraid to make a decision because your worried you'll make the wrong one. (Sighs) Andrew life is too short to not spend with the person you love and Sam and Amber get that more than most people. I don't care who you choose as long as you fight like you mean it. Show her that you want to be with her and only her!
(Andrew looks at the ground as Maggie's word snap him out of his funk)
Maggie: Don't blow this.
(Maggie leaves the lounge and Andrew puts his shoes on and leaves making his decision)
LATER IN THE PARKING LOT
(Amber and Levi walk away from the hospital)
Amber: You know I have to say Schmitt your glasses were really holding you back. I mean it I'd do you if you weren't gay and we weren't friends.
Levi: Really? Because my mom thinks that I look weird without the glasses.
Amber: Dude the band alone looked weird now you look datable. I think I saw a few of the male nurses checking you out. Enjoy the change my friend.
Levi: (Grins) I should've gotten contacts years ago. Do you want to grab a drink?
Amber: (Groans) I have a carotid endarterectomy with Pierce in the morning. How about tomorrow?
Levi: I can't Nico's taking me to a baseball game. Link hooked him up with tickets.
Amber: I hate you being so in love. Let me know how it goes.
(Amber gets a text from Andrew reading, 'Can we talk? I'm at Joe's')
Amber: (Assuming the worst) Oh no.
Levi: What is it?
Amber: (Exhales) Andrew wants to meet up at Joe's. Now.
Levi: (Doesn't understand) Okay?
Amber: He's gonna tell me that he chooses Sam and he wants us to stay friends and then things are gonna get painfully awkward and I'm gonna end up drowning my sorrows in cheap booze.
Levi: (Optimistic) Maybe not, maybe he wants to tell you that he wants to be with you.
Amber: (Glares at Levi) Levi I know that you're a glass half full kind of guy but don't do that with me. The guy's first love came back after getting deported two weeks after we got together. Do you honestly think he's gonna choose some girl he barely knows whose brother put him in the hospital?
Levi: …Okay so what are you gonna do? Not show up?
Amber: (Groans) If I don't show up, he's just gonna find me at the hospital tomorrow and then things are gonna get really awkward. (Thinks of a plan) Okay here's the game plan; I'm going to meet up with Andrew, stall for two minutes with how we're not right for each other and then you are gonna interrupt us to tell me there's an incoming trauma and we're both needed.
Levi: I think DeLuca would get a page if there was an incoming trauma.
Amber: Just do it. Help me otherwise I am gonna kill myself with a broken beer bottle and it will be on you because you couldn't help your best friend out.
Levi: (Look at her touched) I'm your best friend?
Amber: (Desperate) Yes now please help your best friend out.
Levi: (Contemplates) Two minutes, right?
Amber: And not a second longer.
Levi: Okay fine I will do it.
Amber: (Kisses his head) Thank you.
FIVE MINUTES LATER AT JOES
(Andrew sits at the bar drinking a beer to gain courage when Amber taps on his shoulder)
Andrew: (Stands up and faces her) Hey I'm glad you-
Amber: I understand.
Andrew: (Confused) What?
Amber: I understand your decision, to be honest I would probably make the same choice too. We haven't dated that long and our history is muddy unlike yours with Sam.
Andrew: (Shakes his head) Wait hold on-
Amber: (Interrupts) I mean I know you said that I wasn't a rebound and I believe you but I also know that that was before Sam came back knocking on your door. I know you want to be a decent guy and do this face to face.
Andrew: (Tries to get a word in but Amber keeps talking) Can I just-
Amber: But honestly, I think a phone call or hell even a text is more bearable that this because-
(Andrew stops Amber's rambling by grabbing her face and kissing her. Amber stands there frozen and surprised but responds to Andrew causing them to kiss tenderly for a few moments and break apart with Amber speaking first)
Amber: (Rattled) Um…Did you kiss me just to shut me up or…
Andrew: (Chuckling) Man you really do assume the worst, you know that?
Amber: I was conditioned that way due to my traumatic childhood and you didn't answer the question.
Andrew: No, I didn't kiss you to shut you up, I kissed you because I choose you.
Amber: (Sighs) Because Sam doesn't want you?
Andrew: Because she was right the night that she left, we didn't work at all.
Amber: (Still pessimistic) She's your first love.
Andrew: She is but most first loves don't work out because they grow up and don't work long term. I knew it and so did Sam and we tried to make it work but it just…didn't. Sam knew that and that's why she broke up with me that night and I've been a wreck for weeks and then I wasn't. I don't have those feelings for Sam not anymore. And while I'm being honest, I'm not sorry I kissed you at the wedding because it's all I've been thinking about. I know you have options…but I want you to know that I'm one of them.
Amber: (Doubts him and herself) Why do you want to want to be with me?
Andrew: (Looks at her lovingly) Why wouldn't I? Your beautiful, your smart, your independent.
(Amber looks away as her low self esteem catches up to her)
Andrew: (Tries to lighten the mood) You have a great ass.
Amber: (Looks at Andrew and snorts in amusement) Well that's hot.
Andrew: Come on, we're good together and you know it so whatever voice in your head is telling you that you're not first choice tell it to screw off. And believe me when I tell you that the only thing, I want to do tonight is show you how much I want you.
(Amber's breath hitches as she looks at Andrew elated at his confession. Levi walks in as scheduled)
Levi: Hey Amber, I just got a page, Chief Karev wants us at the pit tonight.
Amber: (Still looking at Andrew in lust) Can you deal with it please?
(Levi gets the hint and walks away from Amber and Andrew)
Amber: Take me to your place now.
Andrew: (Grins) I'll drive.
(Andrew puts his arm around Amber and they head to her car)