Title: Calling Out For Help
Couple: Sam/Andy
Rating: T, mild language and may have some adult themes later.
Part: 10 of?
Pages: 8
Spoilers: season 2 episodes 1-8
Disclaimer: I do not own Rookie Blue… Wish I did…. :D
Summary: Sometimes a person's ego gets in the way. What will happen when Andy's gets in the way of her calling out for help? Sometimes calling out for help can be the hardest to do ever.
Authors Note 1: Thank you all for the reviews! I know I had some spelling mistakes that I caught after posting… story of my life…. But I do have a wonderful reviewer who has offered to be proof read chapters before I post them. So thanks to nana-puddin for taking on this task, this will start next chapter once I find out how to get the chapter to nana-puddin….lol! Hopefully that will help the story be more readable for people.
Calling Out For Help: Shakes So Bad it Moves the Earth
Andy:
Getting back to command central I start looking for Sam. I couldn't find him or Epstein so I thought maybe they were walking slower than the rest of us. By the time I really start freaking out I see the dive team and Frank walking out of the woods. Looking around once more, sifting through the many blue uniformed covered bodies I can't find him, I can't find Sam.
Sam where are you?
Best shakes hands with the lead dive team member and the team parts ways. The SWAT team was packing up as well. I see Best walk over to his SUV and open up the hatch. He places three huge evidence bags in the open space then closes the heavy white door. I see him looking around and keep looking around. He started counting out loud.
"We are missing two. Where are Epstein and Swarek? Everyone should be here by now."
Nobody speaks up and I start feeling tears build up behind my eyes. Something was really wrong.
Frank grabs his radio and begins calling out for Epstein and Swarek.
"Epstein Swarek, what's your 20?"
"Sir, it Epstein, I can't find Swarek."
Frank lets out a low curse and I quickly turn away from everyone to wipe my eyes. Tears were now falling out of my brown eyes and spilling out onto the asphalt of the highway. I feel a hand on my shoulder and look up to find Oliver there.
"We will find him McNally. Sammy boy knows what's he's doing. If something did happen to him he'll survive. Sam is strong McNally."
I nod unable to find my voice. I knew what Oliver was saying was true, but my mind was racing a thousand miles a minute thinking of anything that had happen to him. Was he hurt? Was he kidnapped?
I hear leaves rustling and I look up hoping to find a head full of dark hair. However I see a skinny Dov walking out of the woods. He looked defeated. I watch as he walks over to Frank and asks to speak with him. I was hopefully Dov may know more than he left on for the entire unit to hear.
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Frank:
Hearing that one of the best coppers I had the pleasure of working with was missing made my stomach plummet to the ground. We didn't know what might have happened to Swarek. I was hopeful that Epstein may know something. Glancing over at McNally while I was waiting for Epstein to return to command central, I see her back towards everyone and Oliver hugging her. I can softly hear a gut wrenching sob coming out of her.
When Epstein came out of the forest I see the look of hope cross McNally features, only to be disappointed when she saw it was her friend and not her boyfriend. Of course as soon as Swarek and McNally get together something like this happens. Nothing can ever be easy for those two. The two who probably deserve to be happy the most out of anyone in the division, Hell maybe even in the world.
Stay strong Sammy boy, well find you and bring you home to your love.
I walk over to Epstein and we both move a little ways down the road to keep anyone from hearing anything he might say.
"Epstein, what the hell happened out there?"
"Well Sir, Swarek and I spilt apart by a few feet to cover more ground. I never really heard him so I didn't think anything of the silence. When I heard we captured the suspect I headed back to where we both decided to meet up afterwards to head out. I waited a little while and he wasn't there. Then I went looking for him. Sir I found this."
I look down at Epstein's hand and see Sam's gun lying against the pale flesh of Epstein's hand. I bite my tongue to keep from cussing again. I motion for him to continue.
"I found this as well."
Epstein produces a police badge. I look down at the number and I go numb. It can't be her; it has to be a mistake. No way.
"Sir, this is Jo's badge. It has her badge number and her name on the back. Even her ID is still in it."
I nod and we head back to everyone else. I see McNally hung Dov and tell him it's not his fault. I hated to break up the moment but I knew we need to start a full out search of the woods again. In hopes of Finding Sam, even if it was a bleak outlook.
"Ok officers, we are looking for one of our own again. Sam Swarek is missing. Let's roll out; I want everyone back at command central in five hours if we haven't found anything. Keep guns drawn just in case, we have reason to believe it may have been Jo who got him."
I look over at Andy and see the worry for Sam is replaced with hatred for Jo. I motion for everyone to roll out. I make a call to the division and ask for more back up and I see the SWAT team getting geared up again. I question them and the team leader just looks at me and says,
"He's one of us, and that female officer looks like she just got a death sentence so we're assuming she's the officer's girlfriend, were helping to find him even if it takes forever."
I sigh and nod, the more officers, the more ground we cover and faster as well. "Thank you."
They nod and head out again. I wait for the backup to arrive, and allow my thoughts to go wild for awhile. My mind automatically goes towards Noelle. Our budding relationship was still new to both of us, much like McNally and Swarek. There has always been something between us, but I never acted on it. The events of the past couple of hours have made me rethink that stance.
Love between officers was never easy. Things like this happen too often and tear apart relationships. I was hopeful we would find Sam before too late, for his sake and McNally. They were too good together and I was afraid that McNally would turn to the bottle if we didn't find Sam like her dad did after her mom left.
I hear sirens coming down the road and turn my head to watch as at least 30 more cars pull up. Cops from all the divisions showed up, even a couple from Guns and Gangs that worked with Sam before. I brief them all and we all head out into the woods. I lead Nash and Noelle deeper into the woods both of whom had just shown up after getting the call.
All of us were unaware that we had just missed Jo pulling off the road a few miles from us with another man sitting in the passenger seat and Sam in the back hatch knocked out cold to the world.
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Sam:
Waking up what I'm assuming is a few hours later I feel the surface I am on moving, almost as if it was a moving car or something. I open my eyes and see the blue metal of the car hatch. I silent cruse at what has happened. Feeling my arms locked behind me I notice they hit the top of my back pocket. I couldn't feel anything anymore. I was numb, weather from trying to block out any pain I had or just from sheer terror I don't know.
I close my eyes hoping this was all a bad dream and that I would wake up next to my beautiful girlfriend and could forget this nightmare. Opening my eyes again, I realize this is not a dream this is my realty right now. Taking a quick assessment over my body I determine besides probably having a concussion, I was ok. Well as ok as one could be with this situation.
I wasn't even scared for myself. I was scared of what Andy was going through. Whatever I was going through at this moment seemed superficial compared to the pain I know she felt. Hell, I felt the anxiety of being separated from her as well. I can't protect her if I'm being held hostage.
My mind was racing of ways I could have gotten out of the situation. I had my gun in hand I should have tried to use it. I knew I could take Jo, what stopped me? The questions kept coming full force as I feel the car stop moving. Hearing Jo talk I listen carefully to what she was saying.
"I'll unlock the door; you just get him inside fast. I have to get back to work or they will suspect something is up."
I didn't hear a response but the hatch door opened up a few moments later. I see a man I knew and wasn't all that surprised he was involved. After all I took his girl. With one last thought I am blind folded.
Stay strong Andy. I love you ,and we will get through this.
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Andy:
Five hours, that's how long I've been running around in the woods with Oliver trying to find Sam. Seven hours since I've last seen his face, or heard his voice. Two hours since I felt the hole in my heart opening up again ripping me wide open. One hour since the worst that could happen started running through my mind. 30 minutes since I imagined a life without him, without Sam.
I look over at Oliver and see he is almost as frantic as I am. Sam was his best friend, it was hitting home hard that Sam was gone and nobody knew anything. Looking up I see the helicopters going over my head. The noise was killer on my ears but if they helped us find Sam I didn't really care about my hearing. As the helicopters pass I hear my radio crackle to life with Frank's voice.
"All officers, report back to command central, it's getting too late."
I hear the responding "10-4s" that went out to Frank and I sigh. I knew it was a lost cause right now because the sun was about to fall behind the horizon for the day. Being in the woods at night with a possible kidnapper and killer on the loose wasn't an option, even if I so badly didn't care if I got hurt as long as I had Sam back.
Oliver lays a hand on my shoulder and then motions for me to follow him out of the trees. I sigh and nod before following him out. When we do reach the final part of the tree line I break down and fall letting the events of the past couple hours take hold of me. I start sobbing and hear Oliver replace his gun in its holster and come over to me. His arms wrap around me in a comforting way, a way that my father use to do before he got hooked on the bottle, it was a fatherly way that he was hugging me I realize. Letting me know that he was here, and he felt the pain as well.
"Come on McNally, we have to get you out of here. Sam will be fine. We'll find him and bring him home to you and in a year or two all of your fellow officers will be at the wedding."
My tears start falling even more rapidly at Oliver's words. I prayed to whoever would listen up in the sky that Sam would come back to me and we would have the life Oliver said we would.
Feeling someone touching my utility belt I look down and see Oliver removing it and handing it someone. Glancing over I see its Jerry and Traci beside me.
"Hold on McNally I'm going to pick you up ok?"
I nod and start to feel a weightlessness take over me again. Much like the same feeling I had with Sam when we picked me up. Even though that seemed like forever again, I knew it was only about 24 hours ago. Laying my head on Oliver's shoulder I take in his scent. It wasn't the one I wanted to be, the one I needed it to be.
"Shaw, what's wrong with McNally?" I hear Frank's voice boom as my group of four walked out from the heavy wooded tree line.
"She's just tired, and everything has caught up with her." Oliver says to answer Best's question.
"McNally I know this is hard, but we will bring him back. I haven't had an officer die on my watch yet, and I sure as hell am not going to let it start. Do you have a place you could stay at tonight?"
I shake my head to indicate no; I didn't want to go back to Sam's. It would hurt too much being there without him.
Oliver pipes up again, "She'll stay with my family Best. My wife would love her to meet her."
I see Frank nod and leave us alone for a few moments and I ask to be put down and automatically wrap my arms around Oliver as if he was my father. In many ways he was, he was there when my dad wasn't.
"Thank you Oliver. You don't have to I can stay at my dad's."
I see Oliver give me the, "yeah right" look before telling me what I already knew he would.
"Andy, I know for a fact Sam doesn't want you staying there. Therefore you won't be. My wife has wanted to meet you for a long time and although I wish it was under different circumstances you need to be around people. Plus it helps that my wife, Zoey, is a psychologist. She might be able to help you cope with this ordeal."
I just nod knowing I wasn't going to win this battle. I un-wrap my arms from Oliver and Traci is on me the moment I'm free. I feel her tears running down her face and hitting my dirt covered uniform.
"I'm so sorry this is happening to you Andy."
"Thank you Traci."
"You know you can stay with me, but I think Oliver is right. Talking to someone may help."
"Ok."
I feel her arms removing themselves from around me and feel another masculine set wrap around me. I see the purple shirt he has under his suit this morning and know its Jerry.
"Well find him rook, just hand in there."
I feel Jerry kiss my head before leaving me with Oliver and walking away with Traci. Oliver breaks me out of my mind.
"Let's get you to the department, and changed. Then well head over to my house for a nice hot dinner ok?"
"Yea."
Oliver leads me to his patrol car, and I pass the one I rode in with Sam. I run my hand along the side, and flashbacks of all the moments I've had with Sam in that car assault my mind. Making the water works return in full force. Removing my hand from the car, I see Jerry walking over with a set of keys someone had given him and get in the car.
The ride back to the division was filled with my sobs and Oliver's silence. I had never wanted Sam with me so bad in my life. I guess the old saying is true.
You never know what you have 'till it's gone.
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When we got back to the barn Oliver tells me to take a shower and to take as long as I needed. He was in no rush to get back home and to meet him in the bullpen when I was done. So that's what I did.
Standing under the hot spray I can feel the water droplets burning my skin, feeling like its being ripped open and torn off. I was ok with feeling pain. It meant I was feeling something at least. When it all became too much I put my back against the cold title that lined the shower and moved myself into a corner pulling my legs up and wrapping my arms around them. I leaned my head down to my knees and let myself cry for everything that had gone wrong. The feeling of loneliness was starting to seep back into my bones, after Sam had chased it off.
The gut wrenching sobs shook my body. The shakes were so bad I would have sworn the earth was moving with me. I was trying to hold myself together, even though my heart had been torn out my chest.
Feeling the water shut off I and a towel being put over me, a voice made me focus on where I was.
"Andy, come on let's get you dressed."
Looking up I see Noelle, and just nod. To numb to say anything that wasn't "I'm fine" which I knew by know everyone saw through. It was my go to answer as when I was in a hard situation or was hurting. Noelle gives me her hand to pull me up and I wrap the towel around me as she does. I walk small steps to locker, and get dressed. Somehow I end up in Oliver's personal car. I don't remember walking to it, but apparently I did.
Pulling up to Oliver's house I see his little girls run out and greet their dad and Zoey come over to me and pull me into a hug.
"I'm Zoey, Oliver's wife. I've heard a lot about you Andy McNally. How about we get you some good food , warmth and then we will talk."
I find my voice long enough to say "Nice to meet you Mrs. Shaw." The sentence was cracked and filled with my sadness. She just smiles at me and tells me to call her Zoey. Turning around to find where Oliver went I see him running in the yard with his little girls. It makes me sad knowing that I may never to have that kind of life with Sam. He may never come back to me.
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Jo:
Crap! Where is my police badge? I know I had it clipped on my belt when I went into the woods to capture Swarek.
The woods!
No no no no, I couldn't have dropped it! I would have felt it! I wrack my brain trying to figure out where I put it. My desk has been turned inside out, and my car as well. I hear a knock at my door and see Frank and Noelle stand at my door.
"Hello Best, Williams."
"Detective Jo, looking for this maybe?"
I see Frank holding my badge in an evidence bag.
"YES! Where did you find it?" I run over to grab it and he jerks it back and nods to Williams. She quickly pulls my arms behind me. I try to pull them out of her grips but she is strong woman!
"let me go! Why are you handcuffing me! I've done absolutely nothing wrong!"
"I think we need to talk Jo. Williams put her in observation room 2."
Noelle nods and takes me to the room. She slams me down into the cold steal gray chair and before turning on the cameras to record the session she looks me dead in the eye and says "You better tell us where Swarek is or you will never see the light of day again. You got it home wrecker?"
I don't say anything. I watch her turn the cameras on and I wait until someone comes to interview me. Going more nervous with every second that passed and more anxious about what was about to go down.
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Author's Note 2: So there is chapter 10! Wow, I can't believe how fast this is going! I'm thinking maybe 2-4 chapters are left, including an epilogue. I may do a sequel of some sorts once I get settled into my classes and see what kind of extra time I have. Although I have some more ideas for other stories outside of this one that I think everyone will like.
Author's Note 3: Both Officer Smith and Detective Jo get interrogated, separately, and one spills the beans on the other… I wonder which one :D Andy will also talk to her dad a little bit and to Zoey as well.
Author's Note 4: Updates are going to be spaced out now that I have a proof reader! So expect one every few days. Depends on how fast I can these written and get proof read! Thank you so much for your wonderful reviews! Ten more please?