Thank you for all of your great suggestions. I am thinking that some of you have truly evil minds. Lol.
Luke shuffled into the patrol room early next morning. He sidled over to Andy and whispered softly
"You didn't come home last night."
"Nope" Andy replied not giving him a chance to continue.
She moved to the other side of the room without offering any further information.
Sam watched this interplay with great interest and wondered what was going on with those two. He looked searchingly over at Jerry who shrugged indicating that he had no idea what was going on either.
Andy smiled at Sam as they walked to their squad car.
"You seem awfully chipper today McNally." Sam commented.
"Yip" Andy replied without continuing.
"Okay, be that way, but you know that I will find out eventually don't you? Sam smirked.
"Oh, I really do not mind if you do Officer Swarek." Andy smugly responded.
Sam shook his head in mock frustration and they proceeded to their first call of the day. A shop owner had been held at gun point and robbed of the days takings which indicated a stupid or desperate robber as the shop had only been opened for 15 minutes. They questioned the shops owner for a while and then circulated a description of the robber.
While they were driving around the streets they spotted the suspect. Andy got out of the car and Sam drove to enter the alley from the opposite side. The suspect panicked and pulled a gun on Andy. Andy told him to put it down, that there was nowhere to run, Andy began to sweat as she stared down the barrel of the gun. The robber looked as if he was going to go down in a blaze of glory until Sam showed up; he kicked the robber in the back of the knee and as he folded he quickly disarmed him. Andy rushed forward and cuffed him.
"What a team, McNally told you I'd always have your back." Sam grinned at her.
Andy wanted nothing more than to throw her arms around Sam and hug him.
Driving back to the station with the suspect Andy did the next best thing. She placed her hand on Sam's knee and quietly thanked him.
Sam stiffened in surprise and then smiled at her, his dimples deepening as he realised that she hadn't removed her hand yet.
They were in the middle of booking the robber when Dov and Traci brought in the foulest smelling tramp ever.
"Oh, no way" shouted Swarek "I am out of here before he blows"
"Yeah, how do you think we feel?" said Traci holding her nose.
Andy grinned evilly and said "I don't mind booking him guys."
"Alright" Traci high fived her "I owe you one" She ran away speedily before Andy changed her mind.
"Come on Charlie." Andy coaxed him towards Luke's office.
Charlie tried to answer but was so inebriated it sounded like he was talking a foreign language.
"Andy!" Luke looked up and smiled at her until his nose informed him that someone else was there.
"Jeez, Andy you need to get him down to the cells he reeks!"
"I know Luke, I just wanted to ask if we could meet later to talk."
"Sure, sure." Luke replied his eyes watering at the unbelievable stench of urine coming from Charlie.
Andy inched slowly forward counting to 10 in her head. Charlie did not let her down, just as she stepped back he let fly, he vomited all over Luke, who was standing dumbstruck and gasping for breath. There were bits of carrot and sweetcorn hanging from Luke's face. Jo rushed in to Luke's rescue just as Charlie was lowering his trousers to relieve himself.
"Oh no, you don't" yelled Luke just as Charlie let forth a stream of urine over Jo's pant leg. Because of Luke shouting Charlie became disorientated and turned to spray Luke with what was left. By this time the whole station was round the office, laughing and snapping pictures, holding their noses against the insufferable stench. Andy had decided that it was time to take Charlie down to the cells. As a parting shot he turned to Jo and attempted to apologise but instead hiccoughed and the rest of his stomach's contents emptied over Jo.
Andy took Charlie down to the cells passing Dov, Gail, Traci and Jerry who were all crying with tears of laughter. Sam looked on once he had control over his own laughter and watched Andy all the way to the cells.
Andy came back up and hit the showers after dealing with Charlie. As she came out into the locker room Sam was waiting on her.
"Do you want to explain what that was all about?" Sam asked calmly.
Andy sighed and then repeated her story and finished with "The worst thing is he hasn't even noticed that I moved out."
Sam ran his hands through his hair and said
"You've got to tell him Andy."
"I know, but he has been avoiding me like crazy and I haven't had a chance. I know what I did there was out of order, but since he wouldn't talk to me I wanted to show him I'm not stupid and I know what is going on."
"I'm sorry that you had to find out that way." Sam commiserated.
"But considering what you did to him I would hate to get on your bad side." He joked.
"The sad thing Sam is that I'm not even sad or really upset about it, I am just mad that they went behind my back. I just don't have any sort of feelings left for him at all. I just want to move on and live my life."
Sam was absolutely gutted for Andy that she had been treated that way, but at the same time he was jubilant that she was free.
"So, are you coming to the Penny tonight?" Sam asked.
His shoulders slumped as she answered in the negative.
"I think that I have given everyone enough of a show today, I just want to go home and relax with a nice bottle of wine. Would you like to join me?" she asked
Sam brightened at once and readily agreed. They decided on a time and Sam drove her home to her apartment.
A couple of hours later he was back on her doorstep carrying flowers and wine. He was wearing black jeans and a black shirt. Andy opened the door wearing a pale blue dress that just skimmed the top of her knees.
He took her breath away standing there and she wondered how she could ever have chosen Luke over him in the first place. He was everything Luke wasn't; he was loyal, always trusted her, had her back and he knew her, he knew what made her tick. She felt safe with him.
Sam could hardly take his eyes off of her. He couldn't believe that he was finally here and it looked as though what he had hoped for was finally coming to pass.
She gestured for him to sit down and thanked him for the flowers and wine. The evening progressed nicely with Andy and Sam sharing lots of laughter and lots of personal information about each other. There was still a huge elephant in the room waiting to be addressed and Sam wasn't sure how to bring it up. He was relieved when Andy did however.
She coughed nervously and began. "I know that I still have to talk to Luke but at this point I don't think that anything I am going to say is going to come as a huge surprise to him.
Sam agreed with her and said that he wanted things to be truly over with Luke before the pursued their own feeling and that he wanted to go slowly rather than rush in. Andy reluctantly agreed although she felt that she knew her own mind now and she knew who she wanted, but she was going to respect Sam's wishes, after all he waited on her.
Sam kissed her gently on the cheek and said goodnight. Andy was sitting alone on her couch when her phone buzzed. She checked the caller id and wasn't greatly surprised to see that it was Luke. She answered and reluctantly told him to come over.
After and initial awkwardness, Andy started. "Luke, I know that I was mad at you today, but you have to realise that it was not a good way to find out that you were stepping out on me."
Luke sighed and agreed "Andy, this was totally unplanned, its just that our feelings were too strong for each other and I am really sorry that I did that to you. You did not deserve it and you did not deserve to find out the way that you did. I think that I got off lightly today." He joked.
Andy smiled at him and suggested that since they had to be professional and work with each other then they should at least be polite to each other. They both shook hands and Luke left.
Andy shook her head at the way her life had turned out. She thought that picking golden boy Luke would lead her to have a charmed life and that if she stayed out of bad boy Sam's way then everything would be great. "I should have trusted my gut and gone for Sam as he was the one that had my heart racing from day one." She mused.
She could not wait to go into work to see Sam in the morning to let him know the result of her meeting with Luke.