A/N: I have some good news! My friend has lent me their laptop so I am back on a Friday! Except this week... this week is a Thursday - mainly because you lovely people have sent me 300 reviews in only 27 chapters! Thank you all and keep them coming! (and the events in this squad car - while they sound a little far-fetched actually happened on my street!

Sam was driving to the disturbance call when he saw someone out of the corner of his eye about to step out onto the street.

"Sam!" Andy screamed as she saw the man step out and could clearly see his intention was to step in front of the car.

"Woah!" Sam yelled as he slammed his foot onto the brake and stopped inches away from him. "You ok?" he asked when the car was stopped and he reached for his seat belt.

"I'm fine. You go."

Sam got out of the car and headed over to the man, while Andy pressed the button on the radio.

"Despatch, this is 1506. We have encountered a problem on route to the disturbance at 390 Smiths Street. Can you send another unit and also a bus to our location?"

"Rodger 1506."

Andy got out of the car and carefully made her way over to where Sam was talking to the man.

"Freddie, this is my partner Officer McNally."

"She's pretty."

"Isn't she just. Listen Freddie, we have an ambulance on the way to check you over." Sam explained, waving Andy back a little.

"I don't need it. I'm fine."

"You walked in front of a Police car."

"Did I?"

"Yeah buddy, you did."

"I'm sorry Officer. I've had a very bad day. My wife left me and took the kids. She's gone to live with her mother in Quebec."

"That's rough dude. So why did you walk in front of the car?"

"She's my whole world Man. I gave her everything and asked for nothing. Why would she leave?"

"I don't know."

The ambulance arrived silently behind Freddie and Sam noticed they had turned their sirens off and was thankful. The last thing he needed was to spook Freddie further.

"She just upped and left." Freddie repeated.

"Freddie, these lovely people are here to take you to the hospital and make sure you're ok."

"I don't want to go."

"Freddie, I want this to be your choice, but I can make you if you refuse."

"So I have to go?"

"Yes."

"Ok I'll go."

"Good Man Freddie. And remember that everything happens for a reason."

Andy walked to Sams side as the Paramedics guided Freddie into the back of the ambulance.

"Everything happens for a reason?" She asked him.

"It does doesn't it?"

"Who are you and what have you done with Sam Swarek?"

"Come on, we better get to this disturbance." Sam said with a laugh.

They climbed back in the car and Sam fired up the engine and he set off for the scene they were originally headed for.

They arrived in minutes to find the scene quiet, but they could hear sirens not too far away. so they followed the sound until they arrived on the scene of chaos.

There was a car abandoned on a street, doors wide open, front end caved in and smoking and on the corner the squad car was parked, with a streetlight taking residence through the windscreen.

They turned around to see Chris and Dov leading a suspect in handcuffs out of the rear garden pulling bits of grass out of their hair.

"What happened?" Sam asked

"Genius here was breaking into the house down the way. Saw us coming and set off in the car, lost control on the corner and hit the lamp post. We pulled in, he managed to back the car up and get it around the corner before it died and the damn lamppost fell on our squad. We got out and he took off into the yard so we chased him and tackled him and took out a fence panel in the process.

Sam continued to ask questions about what had happened while Andy went to take a closer look at the squad while she was laughing at the comedy of it all.

She was looking at the light resting on the spiderweb of cracked glass that formed the windscreen and saw that the lamppost was pinning the drivers side door closed.

"Who was driving?" she asked.

"I was." Chris answered, shoving the suspect down onto the kerb while Sam went to go get the squad car.

"How the hell did you get out of the car?"

"I dived over the console."

Frank was surprised when he got to his desk and found two further holiday requests.

The one from Sam he was expecting, but the one from Gail he was not.

He looked at the dates and his suspicions were confirmed. Sam had requested the same dates as Andy and surprisingly so had Gail.

Confused, Frank signed off on all of their requests and started to rearrange the rota.

Once he had worked out the shift rotation to accommodate the days off he stuck the rota on the bulletin board where it was immediately swarmed by officers looking at their shifts for the next four weeks.

"Wait, why's Sammy off the same weekend McNally is?" Oliver asked, seeing 'Vacation' written by Sam's name.

"Why don't you ask him, he got back with McNally five minutes ago. I had assumed he was going to New York with McNally, but Peck handed me a vacation form too."

Oliver looked at Frank and went in search of Sam, finding him in the bullpen making himself a coffee.

"Sammy, what you got planned for next weekend? It's on the board you're taking vacation?"

"I am, in fact I need to talk to you about that. I need the house that weekend."

"What for?"

"I have company and I would prefer you not being there."

"Where the hell am I going to stay?"

"Stay at McNallys. She's in New York with Peck that weekend." Sam told him, popping his dimples at Oliver as he smiled, took his coffee and went to sit at his desk.

Jerry, who had been listening to the conversation, walked to Oliver's side.

"Do we believe him?"

"That he has company? Yes. That McNally is going to New York with Peck? Nope."

"We should follow him. See what he's up to."