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A/N: Hello Everyone! There will be another chapter after this but it is rated M so I had to change the rating of this story to accommodate. Thanks for understanding!

Chapter 6

They made an offer on that house and then afterwards, they took her kids out for a late lunch. Ricky and Emily discussed their latest work schedules. Rusty talked about what he was planning on doing. He really never discussed it with Sharon or Andy before because they were busy with the Dwight Darnell case and then Andy's health scare. He decided that this was the time for him to drop his latest news on them. "Mom, Andy, I have some news for you" Rusty said and both Sharon and Andy looked up at him.

"You know how I enjoyed being like an advocate for telling Buzz's story this past instalment of my blog, right?" Rusty said to them. "Yes" Sharon said and listened to him. "Yeah kid" Andy said and listened to what he was saying. "Well, I decided that I liked being an advocate, so, I decided to start applying for law school" Rusty said and then looked at both of them. Sharon had a shocked look on her face but then smiled and was happy for him. Andy looked at Rusty and then looked at Sharon. "I told you, out of the frying pan" Andy said to Sharon. Sharon shook her head. Rusty got up and so did Sharon and they hugged each other in the restaurant. "I'm so proud of you, Rusty" Sharon said to him quietly. "Thanks" he said back to her. Andy reached over and shook Rusty's hand. "Congrats kid" he said to him. Rusty smiled. Both Emily and Ricky knew before and were still happy for their brother.

"There's still some classes that I need to take before I can get accepted into law school, but I was looking at the school calendar and if I take the classes that I need to, I will be done by the spring semester" Rusty said as he continued to eat his lunch. "What schools are you looking at?" Sharon asked him. "Oh, well I was looking at UCLA and the Gould School of Law, USC which is in Los Angeles" Rusty hesitantly said. Sharon looked at him and said "those are both good schools Rusty". They finished lunch and headed back to the condo.

Sharon wanted to spend some girl time with Emily before she left to go back to New York City tomorrow so they went out shopping. Rusty said that he was heading to the school library, which left Andy and Ricky by themselves. "I think my mom is going to be very happy in that house if you guys are able to get it" Ricky said to Andy as he was packing his bag up. "It has a lot of potential, and I want your mom to be happy, because if she's happy, then I'm happy" Andy said back to Ricky. "Oh my gosh, you sound like a Hallmark card!" Ricky teased Andy as he walked over to place his bag behind the couch. "I do not!" Andy stated to him as he was on his laptop computer sitting at Sharon's desk.

"What are you doing?" Ricky asked him as he walked over to his mother's desk. "I'm looking for ideas to surprise your mother" Andy said as he looked at the screen. Ricky walked behind him to see what Andy was looking at. "You know, my mom doesn't need a fancy trip anywhere, right?" Ricky said as he looked at the screen too. "We have the next couple of days off, and it seems to me like she needs to get away and not have it turn into a case like our last getaway did" Andy simply stated. "Yeah, but you know that wasn't your fault some serial killer just happened to be at the same town as you guys" Ricky stated as Andy detected some sarcasm there.

Meanwhile, Sharon and Emily enjoyed their time shopping together. Since Emily has been in town, they seemed to barely spend time together with everything that was happening. "I miss this a lot when I'm in New York" Emily said to her mom. They were walking through a store. Sharon looked at her daughter and smiled. "Well, you could move back here. The Los Angeles Ballet could use someone like you in their repertoire" Sharon said to her. Emily just smiled back at her mom when she said that. She had thought about it a while ago, actually the last time she came to visit them during Christmas, about moving back to LA.

"Oohh Mom, we have to stop here" Emily said as they found themselves in front of Victoria's Secret. Sharon looked at Emily. "You should buy something for Andy, you know to spice it up a little bit" Emily said back to her mom who looked mortified. "For your information, not that it is any of your business or your brothers' business, but we do not need any help spicing things up in that department. We are doing just fine" Sharon said as she looked back at Emily. "Actually, more than just fine. Amazing in fact" Sharon said. Emily just shook her head at her mom. "Oh, come on Mother, just look at a couple of things" Emily said as she dragged her into the store.

Sharon and Emily looked around the store. Sharon saw a couple of things that she liked and with Emily's help, she decided to buy them. "It's very tasteful, Mom, not like some other things I have seen" Emily assured her. Sharon and Emily were done shopping and started to head home. "What did you want to do for dinner?" Emily asked her mother. "Let's see what the boys have planned first and then we can decide" Sharon said as they started to drive.

Back at the condo, Andy was still trying to figure out something to surprise Sharon with. They had the next couple of days off and he didn't want them to go to waste. He looked and found something that both of them would enjoy. He called up Provenza. "Yes Flynn this better be good" Provenza answered in a huff. "I just want to know where you are taking Patrice" Andy asked him. "We are currently on our way to Palm Springs. Why? Is everything okay?" Provenza asked. Ever since Andy had his health scares, last year and this year, he has worried about his best friend. "Oh, no everything is fine. I'm just trying to figure out where I could take Sharon for a little getaway while we are all off" Andy said back to him. "Listen, I've got to go. But wherever you take her, make sure you don't create a case there. I'm on vacation" Provenza said and then he hung up with Andy. Andy just looked at the phone and shook his head.

Rusty came home before Sharon and Emily got home and plopped himself on the couch. Ricky looked up at him. "Everything okay, little brother?" Ricky asked him. "This is just going to be harder than I thought" Rusty sighed. "You know, getting into Law School and all of that" he continued. "Well, if that is what you want to do, then it won't be that hard" Ricky said back to him.

"What do you guys want to do for dinner?" Andy asked the two of them. "Your mother and Emily are on their way home now" he stated. Rusty just looked at them. "I'm not really hungry. I think I'm just going to go to my room" Rusty said as he got up from the couch and headed down the hallway to his room. Andy watched him leave. "What's up with him?" Andy asked Ricky. Ricky just shrugged and said "guess getting into law school wasn't all it is cracked up to be". Andy looked back at Ricky and gave him the 'don't tease your brother look'. Andy headed down the hall to Rusty's room and knocked on his door. "Can I come in?" he asked him.

Rusty opened the door and Andy stepped inside his room. His room looked a lot different than when Andy stayed in it while he was recovering from his initial altercation with that car and lady last year. "Everything okay?" Andy asked him as Rusty took a seat at his desk. "Yeah, it's just a lot of things that I need to get done before I even attempt to apply for law school" Rusty said to him. "Well kid, this afternoon at lunch it sounded like you had everything figured out, what changed?" Andy asked him.

"When I was at the library at the school, they had these posters up to apply for various law schools. As I was standing looking at one of them, a professor came by and said to me that he didn't think I would be able to get into one of the schools with my background" Rusty said as he looked at Andy. Andy had a concerned look on his face. "I don't know if I'm going to be good enough to get into them. I have a lot of classes to take and finish" Rusty continued.

"One step at a time kid. First of all, to me, it sounded at lunch like you had a plan in motion and knew the steps to take, right" Andy said and Rusty nodded. "Okay, so don't let some professor, who you don't have for classes, change your mind" Andy stated. "Your mother and I are proud of you" Andy said to him. Rusty looked back at him. He knew his mother was proud as she has told him before, but he never figured that Andy would be proud of him. Hell, Andy was mad at him when he brought Gus to the station for the first time and had forced Sharon to tell Gus about his sister. He was mad at him for a couple of days after that.

"You're proud of me?" Rusty said in disbelief. "I'm proud of all of our kids, mine, and your mother's" Andy said back to him. "That includes you, Rusty" he added. "Thanks" Rusty simply said and then turned back to his desk to finish on working on his homework. Andy just nodded and walked out of his room. He sighed as he walked back to the living room. Sharon and Emily just then walked through the front door with a lot of shopping bags. "What, did you buy out every store?" Ricky teased his sister. Emily just smirked at him and placed her bags down on the couch. Andy had a worried look on his face when Sharon greeted him with a kiss. "Everything okay?" Sharon asked him. "Yes" he said back as he kissed her. Sharon then headed towards their bedroom with her shopping bags. Andy followed her into their room.

"Rusty just had some issues at the school library with a professor, but I spoke to him and I think he is fine now" Andy said as he sat down at the foot of the bed and watched Sharon put away her things. "Do I get a fashion show?" Andy asked her and smiled. She looked up at him as she placed the bags in their closet. "Later tonight you will" Sharon said. Andy stood up and walked over to where Sharon was standing in their closet and pulled her in for a kiss. Sharon hummed and Andy groaned while deepening their kiss. "Mom?" Emily was calling out. Sharon and Andy pulled away from each other and sighed. Andy smiled at Sharon. "How about we go away for the rest of our days off?" Andy whispered to her. Sharon looked at him with a curious look. "We've tried that already, didn't we?" Sharon said teasing him a little. She walked out of the closet to see Emily standing by the door.

"Nicole just texted me and asked if we wanted to join them for dinner tonight" Emily said to her. "Nicole texted you?" Andy asked her. "I wonder why she wouldn't text or call me?" Andy said. "She said she did text you earlier, but didn't get a response back from you so she texted me and wanted to know if everything was okay" Emily stated to him. Andy looked at his phone and saw a missed text from his daughter. She had sent it the same time he must have been talking to Provenza on the phone. Sharon looked back at Andy. "Sounds great" Sharon said. "Where are we going?" Andy asked Emily. "Nicole said we could go over there, Dean was going to have a cookout" Emily said back to them. "Hmm, okay then I am going to freshen up and I'll be ready to leave in 15 minutes" Sharon said to the two of them and then headed into the bathroom.

Andy texted back his daughter. 'Sorry I didn't see your text. Don't worry everything is okay here. We will be heading over to your house in about 15 minutes. See you then sweetie'. Andy waited for a reply as he got himself ready. He still needed to talk to Sharon about going away for the next couple of days. He thought it would benefit her a lot and might even help with her nightmares too to just relax and unwind. 'Great Dad!' was the reply that he got on his phone from Nicole. Sharon was all set and she knocked on Rusty's door. Rusty opened it and saw Sharon on the other side. "Everything okay?" Sharon asked him. "Everything is fine Mom" Rusty replied back to her. "Okay, Nicole invited us over for dinner tonight. Do you want to come or are you going out with Gus tonight?" Sharon asked him. "Gus is working late, but I'm not really hungry" Rusty said to her. Sharon moved closer to Rusty and placed her hands on his shoulders. "I don't want you to feel pressured with everything school related, but I would really like it if we could all go as a family. You don't have to eat anything if you don't want to" Sharon said to him. Rusty rolled his eyes and agreed to go with them.

They arrived later that evening at Nicole and Dean's house and everyone was having a good time. Andy was playing with his step-grandsons in the backyard while Sharon, Nicole, and Emily were talking in the kitchen. Ricky and Rusty were helping Dean with the grill. "So, Sharon how are things going now since you and my dad are married?" Nicole asked Sharon as she was preparing the vegetables. "Really well Nicole" Sharon answered. "As you know, we placed an offer on a house we saw this afternoon. Hopefully we get it" Sharon said back to Nicole. "Yes, the way my dad was describing it, it sounded absolutely fabulous!" Nicole said. "Anything else going on?" Nicole asked her. Sharon was watching Nicole as she was cooking in the kitchen. "Well, for some reason, he wants to take me on a getaway trip the rest of our days off" Sharon said hesitantly to both her and Emily. "You should go Mom" Emily said. "Yes you should go with him" Nicole said to Sharon.

Sharon looked out the window in the kitchen at Andy playing with his, well, their step-grandkids now. A smile was brought to her face as she watched him. "He wants me to relax and doesn't think we could do that here" Sharon said and tensed up when she saw Andy pretending to be knocked over by the kids. She took a deep breath when she saw him get back up. "Sharon, you need to relax. It's been a hell of a few weeks for the both of you. My dad would do anything for you, you know that, right?" Nicole started to say to Sharon as she handed her a serving bowl. "Yes, I know that" Sharon said as she took the bowl from her. "I think you should go Mom. I think it would be good for the both of you" Emily suggested. Sharon looked back at her. She knew they were both right. Perhaps she should let Andy take them away for the rest of their time off.

Dean and the rest of the boys showed up in the kitchen with the food that was cooked on the grill. Everything was ready and they all sat down and ate dinner. Rusty even had a little bit, because by the time the food was ready, he was getting hungry. It was an enjoyable evening with both of their families joined together. It was getting late and Sharon wondered where Andy had went. Nicole told her that she may have seen him taking the step-grandkids up to their rooms to read them a bed time story.

As Sharon walked in on the kids' room, they were laying in their bunk beds listening to their Grandpa read them The Jungle Book. It was their favorite movie and they loved having the book read to them. Their eyes were drooping and they were falling asleep fast. Sharon smiled at Andy as she stood and leaned against the door. Andy looked up and smiled back at her. "Well boys, I hate to say it but I'm going to have to get going now. Grandma Sharon has found me" Andy whispered to the both of them. Sharon chuckled as both kids turned in their beds and she walked over to them. "Good night boys" she said to them and gave them each a kiss on their cheek. Andy did the same. "Good night Grandpa Andy. Good night Grandma Sharon" they said to them. Andy and Sharon then walked out of the room holding hands. "You know, you are a pretty, sexy grandma, if you don't mind me saying" Andy said to her as they headed downstairs to get ready to leave. "You're not so bad yourself, grandpa" Sharon teased him.

All of them said their good nights to each other and they headed back to the condo. Rusty, Ricky, and Emily got ready for bed. Ricky was leaving early in the morning to head back and Emily's flight was at 8am. "Good night everyone" Sharon said to them as she and Andy headed towards their bedroom.

As they were getting ready for bed, Sharon stepped up behind Andy and wrapped her arms around him. "If you want to go away for the rest of our days off, I would love to join you" Sharon said to Andy. "What made you change your mind?" Andy asked her as he turned her around in his arms so they were facing each other now. "Both of our daughters encouraged me to take you up on your offer. They agreed that I needed to relax after everything that has happened" Sharon said to him as she reached up and placed a kiss on his cheek. She then continued to get ready for bed. Andy was very happy about this and got out his laptop to find out if the deal he was looking at earlier was still available. It was to his surprise so he booked it. Come tomorrow, they would be enjoying a nice, relaxing time at the Marriot Coronado Island Resort and Spa.

Sharon was ready for bed and Andy quickly changed his clothes. "No fashion show tonight?" Andy asked her. "I promise you will see a fashion show tomorrow" she said. As they both settled into bed, Sharon asked Andy where they were going. "We are going to the Marriot Coronado Island Resort and Spa" Andy said to her. "Oh, how lovely!" Sharon said excitingly. As she laid into the side of Andy, she said to him "do you think they will accept our offer on the house?". Andy leaned into her and pulled her in close to him. "I hope so" he said. Sharon was concerned as they did not hear back from the realtor. She was able to relax in Andy's arms. "Well then, we have an early and busy morning ahead of us" Sharon whispered to him. He leaned down and kissed her goodnight and they both snuggled into one another and drifted off to sleep.

TBC