This took forever to write, I just wasn't sure about it. I had so much I wanted to say...get across. I hope I did and I hope it's not too hard to follow along with. Sentences surrounded in colons & italic are words spoken in the past, if that helps.

I tried to incorporate as much as I could from all of your reviews...tried to answer a few questions.

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Earlier that day…

Andy slammed the door on the cruiser and rushed away, desperate to get away from him. He knew all along. All these awful days of trying to tell him and he knew already.

That was one avenue her mind had never explored. She ran a thousand different scenarios through her head, trying to think of every possible way to tell him. Trying to figure out in advance how each one would play out, the things that would be said. She didn't figure this one.

She had been on edge for ten days, ten whole days; the last five had been so bad that she didn't even try to bring up the subject. She even sort of told a lie or two to cover up the break up.

She wondered at his mood, you couldn't say anything to him lately without him taking it the wrong way. Even when she tried to smooth things over he'd start on some rant about how crabby she was; she was? You can only push a person so far before they shove back and when she did…there was something wrong with her.

She walked; half ran into the station and quickly got to the locker room before anyone could see her. She was out of breath once she reached her locker. She sat down on the bench, her head bent between her knees. She was shaking inside. The pressure in her chest was immense; it wasn't just from the sprint inside the station.

She was aware that she should have told him right away. She wanted to run to him immediately after her and Luke called it quits but that's what stopped her. She wanted to tell him so badly…it scared her. Then what would he say, what he would think, questions he would eventually ask.

She always ended up dumping her Luke problems on his shoulders, now there was no Luke and Andy couldn't figure out what was next. What if Sam would come after her, overwhelm her. But she even more scared that he wouldn't. The fear of the unknown paralyzed her.

She never realized until days after the break up, Luke was right, she used him to keep Sam at arm's length but she also used Luke to keep Sam close by, being her confident.

At least she and Luke hadn't moved in together. That would have been a colossal mistake. He knew for months that she wasn't really committed to their relationship. Once she told him that she needed more time before moving in with him, that was the beginning of the end.

Their break up was mutual, after this last blow up…this was definitely mutual. It was always the same, defending her friendship with Sam. Luke blamed Sam for everything. She thought back for a moment to the last words her and Luke spoke.

'Damn it Andy every time I turn by back, there he is. Don't you get it? He's trying to break us up!'

'No he's not!'

'No? Are you crazy? He's just bidding his time…playing the friend. Friend, my ass! How can you be so stupid? He wants you!'

Stupid, did the trick. She was done with being put down, accused at every turn. Lately he had started feeling comfortable calling her just about anything. This was the last straw.

'I guess I am stupid because you know what? You're right Luke! I love him.' Both of them stopped for a moment and stepped back stunned.

Only Luke didn't just walk away after that, no he made sure she knew…she knew that he was aware of everything. The night she went to Sam's house, he guessed, but assumed that they had slept together that night. When he started on her about how upset she was the night they went undercover and she thought Sam was about to be made…that's when she could take no more. She walked away and never looked back.

Luke was too proud to let anyone at the station know that they had broken up. He kept quiet about the split, as did she. When they met in the hallways, they would stop and talk for a moment or two never letting on. Andy believed he did that because he wanted Sam to suffer for as long as possible. Somehow Luke knew that she hadn't said a word to Sam yet.

She stared at the floor in the locker room. Still she could not believe that she told Luke that she loved Sam. She knew as soon as the words left her mouth she realized that they were true, but what now?

When Sam barked at her for what seemed the tenth time today. They were already on their way back to the station, but enough was enough, she finally spoke up and asked him what his problem was.

Okay demanded to know what his problem was. That was all it took…

'My problem? How about the fact that you broke up with Luke how long ago and you still haven't bothered to say a word to me! Is that why you've been acting so nuts lately? Missing old Callaghan huh?'

She was stunned into silence so he continued.

'Well don't worry; I'm sure you can turn things around if you try hard enough! Hell you could probably go back to being his doormat by tonight if you tried hard enough!' He barked at her.

Andy found her backbone. 'What do you know about anything? Mr. Safe Sam in his safe world…fighting crime and hanging at the Penny. Wow! You've seen the world, haven't you? When have you ever put yourself out there for a relationship? When was the last time you dated? Monica? That was like last year!'

'Don't you worry about who I see…I'm not like you I don't have to make an announcement to anybody about what I'm doing!'

Sam was seeing someone? How come she didn't know?

'Wait a second here, you're seeing someone?'

'I just told you whether or not I'm seeing someone is no ones business but mine! Stick to your own screwed up relationship!'

'Yeah Sam, who screwed it up?'

'What are you talking about now!' He asked bewildered.

'Luke said you have been trying to break us up all along! Just pretending to be my friend.' She wanted to take those words back as soon as she said them. She watched his hands shake on the wheel as he pulled into the parking area.

He just looked at her for a moment as he pulled into a spot. She had never seen Sam so furious.

'Lady, right now…I wouldn't have you on toast!'

'Good! Because you are the last man I would ever get involved with!' She hollered at him as she grabbed the door handle and jumped out of the cruiser.

"Hey Andy!" she jumped when Traci pounced threw the locker room doors and called out to her.

"Whoa…what's up?"

"Awful day." She said to her friend, Traci already knew about her break with Luke. She was the only one that Andy had told. "It seems that Sam knows about Luke and I…"

"I swear! I didn't…"

"Oh no! Traci…I'm not saying you told him, I know you wouldn't."

"How did he know?" Traci asked.

Andy shrugged her shoulders, "He guessed? I really don't know but right now…I never want to see that man again."

"Well? Ahh…still want to go to the Penny?" She asked hopefully. Traci and Jerry had been trying to put their relationship back together since she last broke with Dex without a lot of success.

Her and Andy had made plans to go earlier that day.

Andy sat there for a moment, "You know what? Let's go…what the hell!"