Sam and Andy raced to her house. They had arrived to see a fire truck and two cruisers from twenty-seven parked outside. Andy jumped out before Sam had stopped and began to run towards her house.

"Hey! You can't go in there!" one of the officers yelled and ran after her. When he caught up with her he slipped his arm around her waist and pulled her back.

"That's my house!" Andy cried fighting to get away from him.

"You still can't go inside; the fire department is not finished yet. Can you come over here with me please?" the officer led her to the side of the pavement. "Look I get you're upset but I cannot let you go in there."

Andy turned to face him" how ba- oh my god, Jamie?" she shrieked and flung herself at him. "I can't believe it's you."

"Hey cuz" he smirked, he knew all along it was Andy but decided it would be fun to wait until she copped it was him. "How are you doing?"

"Besides the obvious I'm fine." She nodded to her house "I thought you were up near Niagara Falls."

"Yeah, I was, I transferred down Monday, me and Ester broke up so it's a fresh start."

"Aww no, I'm sorry, are you okay?" She asked rubbing his arm.

Jamie shrugged "I'm doing okay, it was for the best. We drifted apart and became strangers, she's happy now and so am I. We still talk; we're trying to be friends."

Sam watched the scene in front of him. 'Who the hell is this guy? And why is he touching her?' he gritted his teeth and walked over. "So how bad is it?" He asked slipping his arm around Andy's shoulders looking at Jamie as if to say 'back off buddy.'

Andy placed her hand on his chest and rested her head on his shoulder. "We don't know yet, the fire department is still inside. Sam, this is Jamie, Jamie this is Sam."

Sam shook his hand. "So how do you guys know each other?"

"Oh, silly me" Andy giggled. "Jamie is my cousin; he did live up near your sister but has moved back down and is now in twenty-seven."

Sam relaxed immediately he held out his hand again "Sam Swarek, Andy's partner and-"he looked at Andy.

Andy rolled her eyes "he's my boyfriend Jamie."

Sam smiled smugly she's already calling me her boyfriend. "Yeah, I'm sure you know she's a handful"

Jamie laughed "that I do, she's a menace alright. So, how did you guys meet?"

"Yeah story for another time" Andy laughed.

"Wait, did you say your name was Swarek? Have you relations in St Catharine's? I met a girl up there, she's a councillor. Very nice girl, Sarah Swarek." Jamie said looking at Sam.

Sam smiled "yeah that's my sister. She stayed up there and I moved to go to the academy."

"Cool, she mentioned a brother, in fact she always talked about you." Jamie said with a smile.

"That's Sarah, talks to anyone who'll listen." Sam laughed. "How did you meet her?"

"Funny story, I actually knocked her over. My shoe lace was open and I had my hands full, so I stupidly tripped, let all the bags fall. I jumped to grab a bag that was rolling down the pavement, she stopped it with her foot, but I wasn't quick enough to stop myself. I sent her flying and landed on top of her. She got a bit freaked out so I quickly jumped off her, pulled her up and apologized. She was cool after that; we went for coffee, my treat of course, since I knocked her cup out of her hand." Jamie shook his head and smiled.

"I think my cousin has a crush on your sister" Andy whispered.

Sam glared at her. "So when do you think we can go inside and get out of here?" He looked at Andy who was looking back confused. "What? If you think I'm letting you stay here tonight you've another thing coming."

"I'll be fine Sam it was just the kitchen." Andy protested

"I don't care, what about smoke damage Andy? It could be everywhere." Sam shot back.

Jamie took this as his cue to leave "I'll just go check it out, wait here, I won't be long." He hurried off inside.

"It's not your job to look after me Sam. I can manage that all by myself." Andy said angrily.

"Look Andy, you can't stay here not tonight anyway, you need to give it a few days. You can stay at mine or Nash's or Epstein's. I don't care as long as it's not here." Andy looked at him questioningly "I have a spare room if that makes you feel better."

Andy smirked and stepped closer to him having no idea why she was angry in the first place. "I don't want the spare room I want-" she was cut off by here phone ringing. She dug it out of her pocket "hello" she said cautiously, she hadn't known the number.

"Hi is this Officer McNally?" a woman chirped from the other end

"Uh yes, yes it is" Andy shrugged her shoulders at Sam.

"Ms McNally, I'm calling from St Mikes. We have admitted a girl by the name of Sophie Dunhill. She has asked for you, she will not speak to the Officers who arrived with her."

"Okay, she's my friend. What happened? Is she okay? Why are there other cops with her?"

"Her apartment caught fire; just a bit of smoke inhalation. She is claiming not to know how the fire started as she was out all day."

"Alright, tell her to calm down I am on my way." Andy hung up and looked at Sam "can you take care of things here?"

"Why? Who was that?" He asked.

"Because Sophie is in hospital and she won't talk to the other cops that are there, I need to go. Can you just grab me stuff to sleep in and maybe three days' worth of clothes?"

Sam sighed; this had something to with why her friend came to see her earlier. "Okay here" he held out his keys. "Take my truck, I'll catch a ride off your cousin and meet you at the hospital when I'm done."

Any took the keys she kissed him softly "thank you. I'll see you soon." She smiled at him and hurried off to his truck.

"Be careful!" he called after her.

Andy turned and smirked" you worried about me or the truck?"

Sam gave her the once over and nodded his head. "Defiantly the truck" he smirked back to let her know he was kidding.

"We'll be fine Sam. I gotta go" she jumped into the truck and beeped as she drove away.

Jamie returned "hey, where's she going? Fire guy said she can go in and look."

"She got called to the hospital, her friend was taken in" Sam replied. "So how does it look?"

"They contained it to the kitchen, but her living room and the spare bedroom are destroyed with smoke damage, she'll have to throw everything out."

"So her bedroom is okay?" Sam knew how much work she put into her new house. She had spent a full week painting and laying floors by herself just in her bedroom, she wanted it to be perfect.

"Yeah, that, the bathroom and her smaller living room at the back of the house are fine." Jamie answered.

"I need to grab her some stuff, then can I grab a ride to the hospital from you? I gave her my truck and told her I'd meet her there."

"Sure you go get what you need and I'll finish up here." Jamie walked away to the other officer to let her know he was taking Sam to the hospital. Luckily he was solo today or he'd be bringing his partner with them.

Andy parked in the hospital lot and took the elevator up to the floor she was told Sophie was on. She had tried calling Amy to see if she was okay but it went straight to voicemail. She reminded herself to check in on her after she was finished with Sophie. "Hey" she greeted the officer outside Sophie's room she knew him from twenty-seven but couldn't remember his name, He knew her too.

"Hi" he replied "I think they gave her something, she hasn't screamed in about twenty minutes."

Andy peaked her head in the glass of the door, Sophie was lying staring at the ceiling. Another officer Andy recognized was sitting on a chair beside the bed looking bored. "What has she being saying?"

The officer stood behind Andy and looked into the room too. "Just she knows who started the fire and they were trying to kill her. She kept saying call you, you would believe her and tell us it's true."

"Okay, thank you" Andy said as she pushed the door open and went inside.

"ANDY!" Sophie yelled before she was even in the room "tell them I'm not making it up, tell them its all true, the letters, everything." Sophie just kept going

"Hey, Soph, calm down, okay. Officer" Andy looked at his tag "Malone, can I have a few minutes with her then I'll come talk to you?"

"Sure, it's time for a bathroom break then some coffee." He smiled and left them to it.

"Sophie, start from the very beginning. Andy said as soon as the door was closed.

"I came home a little after midnight; me and Amy stayed talking after you left, then Kyle came home and gave me a ride over to my place. I was so tired I just crawled into my bed in my clothes, next thing I knew my neighbour Josh is pulling me out of my bed saying my apartment was on fire."

"So you didn't make dinner or use anything this morning?" Andy asked.

"No, Andy I left for work at eight am, I went straight from there to the station at seven, then on to Amy's. I have no idea how it started." Sophie cried.

"Okay" Andy didn't want to freak he out anymore so she left out her place being on fire too then she excused herself from the room." Hey" she said to the office outside. "Can you do me a favour?" he nodded. "Okay here's the thing, my place and her place were set on fire tonight. You see we due in court next week, anyway, there are three of us, would you be able to run a unit by to check on the third person? She's not answering my calls."

"Sure no problem, do you want a unit from us or one of your own?"

"Oh yours please, nobody knows what is going on there, and my boyfriend is on his way he's from fifteen too, so can you call me out here when you hear anything back?"

The officer looked at her funny but agreed "okay I'll just go set that up, will you guys be okay while I'm gone?"

"Yes we'll be fine thank you." Andy opened the door and slipped back into the room.

Sam had just grabbed any clothes he found and threw them into a bag from her closet, he remembered to grab some shower stuff and make up for her too. He made his way down to Jamie and they headed off to the hospital.

They had pulled up just as an officer walked back inside "that's Jenkins" Jamie said "he must be with Andy and her friend."

"Yeah maybe, I better go in and see what's going on, you coming?" He asked as he climbed out of the cruiser.

"Sure, do you know what friend it is?" he asked when he caught up with Sam.

"Sophie something I don't know her, I only met her today." Sam replied.

"Sophie Dunhill? No way, they're still in touch? Do they still talk to Amy?"

"You know them? Yeah I think so I heard her mention Amy's name today why?" Sam stopped and turned to him.

Jamie shrugged "Just asking, we all went to school together."

"Oh yeah?" Sam asked and started to walk again.

"Yeah, they were pretty close back then; I figured they'd of lost touch by now."

"Well seems they haven't, wait here" Sam said as he found Sophie's room.

Inside the room Sophie was freaking "Andy I can't do it! I think I need to bail! I can't cope with this, it's not a threat! That was a warning, he will kill us! I'm telling our attorney I can't, Andy please I can't do this, you're stronger than both of us can't you go alone?"

"Sophie! We are in this together and we are all going to be there. I promise I'll move you and Amy to a safe house until it's over." Andy said.

"But Andy-"

"No buts Sophie! Think about Amanda, Jen and the waitress who didn't survive, plus Ramon, all he was doing was working, it shouldn't have happened to any of them. Amanda and Jen we're our friends, we owe it to them, to their families!" Andy sniffed as her eyes filled with tears god how she missed them two. She had imagined them all siting around, still the best of friends they were back then. She was about to add something when the door opened.

Sam had been listening outside, he knew he shouldn't have but he needed to know what was going on. This wasn't just coincidence both their houses were set on fire the same night. Sensing Andy wasn't finished he decided to give them more time" Hey, just called to see if you needed anything from the shop."

"Hey" Andy smiled and walked to him, she kissed him quickly. "Can you grab me a bottle of water? I'll be ready to go when you come back."

Sam kissed her again "take as much time as you need." He nodded at Sophie and left them to finish.

Andy turned to Sophie again. "So we are doing this and you will be staying with me until then. I'll be by to pick you up in the morning, drink lots of water and try getting some sleep. I'm going to get officer Jenkins to arrange for an officer to sit with you until I come back tomorrow" Andy went over and hugged her "I promise we'll be okay, this will all be over next week."

"Andy" Sophie called as she walked to the door "I love you, you know that right?"

Andy smiled "I do and I love you too, get some rest I'll be back at nine am."

Sam ran into Jamie at the shop "Jamie" he called and motioned him into a corner. "What do you know about an Amanda and Jen? What?" Sam asked as Jamie's face paled.

"Is this what all of this is about?" He ran his hand through his hair "man that broke Andy bad, she hasn't been the same since."

What are you talking about?" Sam asked.

"Has she not told you?" Sam looked at him confused. "Of course not" Jamie shook his head. "I wish she wouldn't bottle things up. Okay when we were thirteen they used to hang out in some café. The guy, Ramon knew them and would let them sit there for hours. One night some guy came in and started shooting anyone, he took down the waitress, Ramon and the two girls. Amanda was Andy's best friend in the world; she only survived because as soon as she saw the guy walk in she pressed her alarm thing my uncle made her wear, she has a good eye for them kinda things, you know dodgy people. He was there in twenty seconds flat; he took down the guy without a second glance, who'd blame him? He saw some guy pointing a gun at his daughter. Anyway she pushed Amy and Sophie to the floor and jumped on top of them when the guy shot his gun as he fell to the ground, it hit Andy in the shoulder." Jamie took a shaky breath "if she hadn't of used her brain that night, we'd of lost her."

Sam was shocked he stood there looking at Jamie with his mouth opened. His heart broke for her for all she had been through at such a young age now he understood what was going on. "So why is this stuff happening now? Sophie and Andy's places on fire the same night? Shouldn't the guy of been sentenced by now?"

"They filed for a re-trail stating Sophie wasn't in her right mind at the time. I didn't help that the guy was Donny Marcello either."

"Donny Marcello! Sam yelled.

"Keep your voice down!" Jamie hissed and looked around. "Yeah he sent his guys after the girls but Uncle Tommy was always on him, always on step ahead of him, never let any of them go anywhere alone, got two guys to stay with Amy and Sophie 24/7. That's what turned him to drink, They got Andy when she was sixteen walking into school one day, just took her from the gates, luckily Amy's dad saw them and sped after them he ran the van off the road. He pulled the van door open and dragged Andy out but he was too late, they had broken her arm, leg and two ribs by the time he got them to stop. He got her to the hospital and called Tommy. What broke him was Andy, she kept crying for him saying she pressed the alarm and he never came, turned out her left his part of it on his desk and he was on the road, blamed himself for not protecting her. Look Sam, I'll level with you here because you seem to really care about her and her you. I'm not really here for a fresh start, I'm here because one of my Ci's heard he's planning on murdering all the witnesses. The old lady that saw it all go down from outside fell down her stairs and died last week, there is no way that was an accident."

"So you're here to protect her?"

"Yes" He straightened up when he seen Andy approach" listen don't ask her anything and if she does tell you something play dumb and Sam? Please use this information and keep her safe he's a dangerous guy. Andy was just lucky she wasn't at home it was rigged to blow, probably Sophie's too."

"Oh I will, believe me; I'll kill anyone who comes near her. I'd gladly spend the rest of my life in prison knowing she's okay. Hey sweetie ready to go? Sam leaned up off the wall and pulled her into him.

"Yeah, Jamie why are you still here?"

"Hello to you too, I thought I'd stop in and see how Sophie was doing."

"She's fine, but she's sleeping now." Andy said quickly.

"Okay I'll stop by and see her in the morning with you then" Jamie smiled knowing the real reason Andy was making excuses. She knew he knew about that night and him visiting Sophie would get her to tell him everything.

"sure you can pick me up at eight-thirty" she turned to Sam. "Does Frank know about my house?"

"Yeah I called him, he doesn't expect you in tomorrow and he also asked if you needed a place to stay." Sam smirked.

Andy chuckled "And I bet you said you've got it covered?"

"That's because I do." Sam dropped a kiss on her forehead. "lets get home." he took her by the hand and walked her to the exit.

"See you in the morning Jamie." Andy called as he climbed into his cruiser.

Jamie waved and pulled off. Sam wrapped his arm around her waist "Do you want some company tonight?"

Andy tapped her finger against her chin "Hmm, i might, we'll see when we get there." Andy giggled as Sam stopped walking.

"You might?" he asked. Andy nodded "Fine, you sleep on the sofa tonight" he stamped his foot and huffed off to the truck.

Andy giggled as she heard him chuckle. she went around his side and wrapped her arms around his neck "i don't care where i sleep as long as you're there with me." She smiled and kissed him.

"Good answer McNally, you get bumped up to a bed now." Sam grinned and climbed into the truck.

Andy smiled and turned around to walk to her side of the truck, her smile quickly faded as a car skidded to a halt beside her and a guy jumped out. Without thinking she did what she did best, she ran.