WOW! Ok so the response to this story for the prologue is way more than I expected! You guys are just great! Thanks for the reviews, alerts and to the ones that have followed me or added me to their favourites! As always thanks to Jelly Bean Jenna.

Just so you know this story is set sometime in the future. Sam & Andy have never met & that will come clear in a chapter as to why but they have heard stories about each other. And there is a character death in this chapter so please don't hate me!

Disclaimer - I don't own Rookie Blue.

Chapter 1

The darkness, the pulling against the hand cuffs, screaming so loud and yet no-one could hear her. She could feel her heart pound fast as the voices from above got louder, scuffling and then the bang of a gun. Struggling, fighting, her friend lying on the floor, blood everywhere...

"Arghhhhhhhhhh" she screamed as she flew up from where she was lying, struggling against the hands that shook her shoulders but finally tried to listen to the voice that was shouting her name;

"Gail, Gail your safe...your safe" the smooth and calm voice of Nick hovered around her. As she closed her eyes to control her breathing, she relished in the fact that she was next Nick and no-one else. Opening her eyes she took in her surroundings and she was shocked to see where she was, she couldn't even remember being rescued;

"How did...?" she said struggling to finish her question in case she didn't like the answer. Nick however understood as he grabbed her hands and sat on the end of the bed;

"We found you passed out in the back of the suspect's car. We caught a break and raced to the house...you were gone but...but Traci was still there. She had placed her cell phone in the suspect's pocket so we were able to find you by tracing it" Nick said as gently as he could. He wasn't sure how much Gail remembered but he wasn't about to freak her out so he kept his details short and to the point.

Gail quickly nodded as she listened to what he had told her, thanks to Traci's quick thinking with the phone, she had been found; alive. Closing her eyes once more she knew she was missing something, as she thought over Nick's words, the way he slightly stumbled as he mentioned Traci made her think as to why...

"Oh my god! Traci, is she...is..." she panicked as once again her breathing and heart beat was out of her control;

"Hey, hey..." Nick smoothed as he tried to gain control, this was not something he wanted to do "She's in surgery, has been for two hours now. There's still not been any news" he said sadly, he had been popping in and out the room while Gail was sleeping but every time he got told the same thing; there had been no news;

"It's my fault, if I hadn't have been taken then she wouldn't be fighting for her life" Gail cried as she finally let more tears fall.

"Don't do this to yourself Gail, Traci wouldn't want you to blame yourself either. We all know the dangers of the job, we knew them when we took the oath and we knew they can come at any point in our careers" Nick said more forceful than intended but Gail had to know that it wasn't her fault. Still as the tears fell and she thought of her friend, she managed to speak;

"What about Jerry?" she asked, Gail knew Jerry was out of town at a Detective's meeting for the case he was working on;

"He's on his way, he got called as soon as we found her" he said as he moved off the bed and back onto the chair. Gail nodded;

"And Andy?" she said swallowing, Andy was Traci's best friend. Nick sighed before replying;

"No-one can reach her yet" and with that last sentence out Gail finally broke down and fell into Nick's arms.

As the rain battered down on the streets of Toronto, Jerry Barber was speeding along the road with sirens blaring; trying to reach his destination as quickly as possible. He had been out of town for the past few days dealing with a case that took a few months to put together. When he got a call from his best friend Sam Swarek he thought it was just the normal "Hi how are you" conversation but the tone of Sam's voice gave it away. Jerry knew from the moment Sam spoke that something bad had happened but what stopped his heart for literally a moment was the words "Traci's been shot, you need to get here now" that camefluttering through the phone. He can't even remember giving a reason to the other Detective's, he just had to get back to Toronto. He was already speeding out the car park when Sam ended the call.

That call had come two and a half hours ago and finally Jerry found himself pulling up outside the ER department of the hospital. He didn't even have the car fully in park as he quickly jumped out and moved as fast as he could. Rushing through the corridors the beating of his heart was all that could be heard, as he reached the waiting area, the scene that greeted him wasn't one he wanted to see.

A sea of blue stood around before him, people sitting on the chairs with their heads hanging, whispers from others floating around him. But it was his own friend's and who he called extended family that had his stomach in knots. Swallowing hard he finally found his voice to call out to his friend;

"Sam! Traci, where is she? I need to see her?" he said as he forced himself to look at Sam only. Sam stood rooted to the spot, staring his best friend in the eye getting ready to tell him the one thing that would wreck his life;

"Jerry I...I'm sorry man...I'm so sorry" he said as he heard the gasp of someone from behind him he didn't pay much attention.

Jerry seemed to question Sam slightly with his eyes but you could see that what Sam had said quickly dawned on him. Taking a few steps forward, Jerry reached out and grabbed Sam with the shoulders;

"You're wrong...you must...it can't be true" Jerry cried as the tears run down his cheeks like a waterfall. All Sam could do was swallow and shake his head. Then it seemed to all happen in slow motion, Sam felt himself sinking to the ground; his best friend clinging to him as he cried his heart out. His best friend had lost his whole future in space of a few hours, the other officers stood around as one of their own broke into a million pieces.

As Sam sat he looked around at the other who were also crying, not just for the lose they had suffered but for their friend too. Sam locked eyes on Gail who was standing slightly behind him, it was obvious she had walked into the waiting area just as he delivered the news.

As time seemed to stop 15th Division had been rocked to the core, they had lost one of their own. Detective Traci Nash had died in the line of duty, saving a fellow officer and friend.

So there you have chapter one. Well I did say there would be a character death, so sorry for Traci fans but this is the way it's to be for this one! Up next, Andy is here. How will she take the news and will she be back? Also a small look into Sam after the tragic event.