Chapter 3

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'Sorry, officers, my buddy here doesn't know how to behave,' Sam said as an apology before turning back to the other man.

'Yeah, yeah, yeah, just walk on,' Oliver said. If he was in any way surprised, he didn't show it. As the two man walked away, the unknown man kept his face away from the car like he didn't want to be recognised.

They drove off again. Andy looked in the rear view mirror, watching Sam walk away. Just before he rounded the corner, he turned around and looked at the fading car.

'We've got to get back,' Andy said, casting a look over her shoulder, but Sam had already disappeared from sight.

'No, no, no, no, no!' Oliver said. 'Andy, we can't. You have to let him do his job.'

'Well, he bumped into our car, can't we arrest him for that?' Andy asked desperately.

'No, we can't. Besides, do you think that arresting him and blowing his cover once isn't enough?'

Andy sighed. She knew he was right. She could not intervene with his undercover job. Yet, now she'd seen him, the need to talk to him, to tell him how she felt about him, was unbearable.

'It isn't fair,' Andy muttered as a single tear fell down her cheek.

As their shift came to an end, they drove back to the station. Andy quietly got out of the car and walked to the locker room. As conversation around her started up, she kept quiet, wishing things were different.

At least she now knew he was safe, sort of anyway. And no matter how much he had wanted to hide it, she saw the look in his eyes as he looked at her. He wanted to be with her as much as she wanted to be with him. But it didn't bring her any comfort. He still wasn't here.

As she emerged from the shower, a worried Traci was waiting for her.

'Andy, are you alright?' she asked. 'Oliver told me,' she added in explanation.

'No, I'm not alright. I saw him, Trace. He was so close, and I had to let him walk away.'

'I know how hard this must be for you, but Andy, you must promise me that you won't go looking for him.'

'Why would I do something like that?' Andy asked in surprise. With the shock of seeing him, she hadn't even thought about going back there.

'Oh, come on. You want to be with him, and though he would try to send you away at first, he wouldn't mind you staying. But you can't go,' Traci said as she saw Andy's face change as the idea started to settle and expand in her mind. 'You'll bring the operation in danger. You'll put him in danger.'

'Yeah, yeah. Oliver said the same thing. Well, not about not going to look for him, but the essence was the same. I just hope he catches whoever their looking for fast.' Andy threw her things in her bag. 'I'll see you later, ok?' Andy said as she walked past Traci out of the locker rooms.

On her way out, Andy passed a small room, usually used as an office, nobody was working there now. The fact that she heard voices coming from that room, made her curious enough to stop for a moment and listen to what they were saying.

'… went to see him today. He's alright, right on schedule, though we did have a little run in with some of your officers,' a familiar, but unpleasant voice said.

'What do you mean, 'a little run in with my officers'?' Best's voice asked.

'So we are crossing the street, start pushing each other around a bit, Sam falls on this cruiser. I kept my face away, just in case it was someone I knew who could blow everything, since there could be someone following us, which was probably a good decision. He said he knew the officers were from this division, but he didn't tell me who they were, just that he was sure they'd keep their mouth shut. Sure as he might be, I'd appreciate it if you could have a word with whoever was driving car 15-04 today, just in case.'

'15-04 you say?' Best let out a small laugh. 'Don't worry, Oliver's got it under control.'

'What do you mean, he's got it under control?' the other person asked, a slightly angry undertone in his voice.

'You don't have to worry about a thing. Oliver will keep his mouth shut and I'll have a word with the other officer if that would make you feel better.'

'Thanks, yes it would. Now, I better go. Team's waiting on a briefing.'

'Right, see you later.'

Andy quickly walked on and out of the door. Outside, she nearly ran the first couple of blocks before finally slowing down to a walking pace. She didn't know why she just did that, but she felt that if she had stayed, she'd be in trouble. So Boyd was the mystery guy from earlier that day. It was a good thing Oliver had stopped her from going after him than, since she wasn't Boyd's favourite person in the world. He and Traci were right. She would have to let him be. She couldn't risk going to Sam. It was dangerous. Like Boyd just said, someone could be following him, watching his every move. If that person would later follow her and would find out she was a cop, it wouldn't take long for them to figure out that Sam was a cop too.

Andy got into Traci's house. It was empty since Leo was staying at his dad's for a few days and Traci probably was at the Penny. She sat down on the couch for a moment. What was she going to do? Sit here alone didn't seem like a good plan, she would drive herself nuts thinking about Sam. After a couple of minutes she got up and walked out of the house. It was a cold night and she had forgotten her scarf, so she pulled her coat tight around her, hugging herself with her arms.

She just walked, taking turns here and there, not quite caring where she was going. She just had to do something. After a little while, she found herself at one of the main crossings in the city. Instead of walking right, the way that would lead her back home, or going right ahead, taking here to the city centre, she chose to take the left turn. Why she did it, she didn't know. She just walked but soon found herself in the same neighbourhood she and Oliver had been in earlier that day.

What was she doing here? She shouldn't be here! She should go home, get some sleep and then tomorrow, she would feel better. She was ready to turn around when her phone started ringing. She took it from her pocket and checked the caller-id.

'Hi, Traci,' she said as she answered.

'Hi. Where are you?' Traci sounded worried on the other end of the line.

'I just went for a walk. I'm on my way home now.'

'Ah, and where did you walk to?' Traci asked accusingly.

'Just around. See you soon.' She quickly hung up. She knew Traci would know where she was, but that was something she would deal with when she got home. She turned around and started walking back. It was then that she saw something out of the corner of her eye. A man, a cross the street. There was nothing much special about him, but one thing she did notice about him. In the light of the neon letters of the next door store she clearly saw his hair, his dark hair with plenty hair gel. She crossed the street, she had to be sure. She couldn't have come here, be so close to him and not look him in the eyes, talk to him.

As she came closer to the man, she started walking faster. It was him, it had to be him! She had nearly reached the man, as he turned around to face her. From one second to the other all her hope was lost. It wasn't Sam, it was just some random guy. She sighed deeply and walked on. She didn't know where she was headed, but her feet seemed to know the way home by heart. She was staring off in the distance, not noticing anybody around her. It was no use. She wasn't going to find him, even if she did look for him.

She heard voices coming her way, two men having a discussion of some sort. They were talking rather loud, but it didn't matter much. Just as they passed her, one of the men bumped into her. She stumbled for a second, but soon felt two strong arms steadying her.

'Whoa, there. I'm sorry, I wasn't looking,' a voice said. The voice, though she had heard it just now caught up in the discussion, was familiar now. Terrified of being disappointed again, she looked up to the face of the man.

His face was worried, and as soon as she locked eyes with him, shock seemed to appear in them for a brief moment.

'Are you alright?' he asked, his voice a near whisper now.

'Yes. I'm fine. Thank you,' Andy muttered.

'Look, Sammy, we've got to go. We're on a strict time schedule here. Save the flirting for another moment, alright.'

'You sure you're alright?' Sam asked, arms still around her and his eyes still holding hers.

Andy nodded slowly, not quite believing this was happening.

'Alright than,' Sam said, reluctantly letting go of her. 'Stay safe,' he whispered before walking off.

Andy remained standing there, too stunned to move. She watched him walk away for the second time that day, only now she felt better. Seeing him, him touching her. The craving for more had a large presence, but part of her felt more relieved, more content than before. She saw him look back twice, flashing a smile at her both times. When she couldn't see him any more in the crowd of people that seemed to grow by the second, she turned around and started walking home once again. When she was nearly there, she got a text from Traci.

Where are you?

She didn't bother answering, since she was already at the end of the street. She'd be home in about a minute.

'Hi,' she called out as she entered. She found Traci sitting at the kitchen table.

'Hi,' Traci answered. 'So, how was your walk?' Traci asked.

'It was… good.' There was an awkward silence for a moment.

'So, how was it at the Penny?' Andy asked hoping this question would distract Traci from the long walk she'd been on.

'Great, I spend most of the evening watch Dov, Chris and Gail mentally murder one another. Then I sat at the bar with Jerry, who seemed a little lost without having his best friend there with him. Speaking of his friend, you wouldn't happen to be out looking for him tonight, now were you?' Traci had put up the face she usually only put up if Leo had done something he knew he shouldn't have.

'No, Trace, I swear, I just went out for a walk, I just happened to suddenly find myself in the part of town where I saw him earlier. And then I saw this guy, and I could have sworn it was him, but it wasn't him, and then I just…'

'Ehm, right,' Traci stopped her. 'Well, you should probably know that Best wants to have a word with the two of us first thing tomorrow morning.'

'Right, ok,' Andy said, a little surprised that this was all she was going to get, for now at least.

'I'm off to bed,' Traci said. 'Night.'

'Night,' Andy said.

Getting ready for bed seemed to take longer than usual, as her mind was occupied with the encounter with Sam just now, how brief it might have been. They way he had looked at her just now… she wondered if she would get any sleep at all.

The next morning she woke feeling extremely tired. She'd probably gotten only two or three hours of sleep, but it was nothing a large cup of coffee couldn't take care of. She got up and by the time she entered the kitchen, Traci was already there. She seemed to be in a much better mood than she had been in last night.

'Morning,' Andy said, gladly taking the coffee mug Traci was handing her.

'Morning. We're going to have to hurry if we want to make it in time to meet Best,' she said looking at the clock. Andy quickly drank her coffee and then grabbed some breakfast for on the way to the station. After quickly changing, the two women made it to the office just in time.

'Come in,' Best said at their knock. They did so and he gestured for them to sit down in the chairs in front of his desk.

'Thank you both for making it here. I want to talk to you both about something that I hope will stay within the four walls of this office. McNally, I know you and officer Shaw had a little run in with officer Swarek yesterday and I'm guessing that you know about this too,' he added to Traci. When she nodded he continued. 'I need to ask you to keep the place where you saw him to yourselves. I spoke to Officer Shaw, who has already agreed to this. It is in the importance of the operation and officer Swarek's safety that you don't share any information you might have and that you won't go looking for him.' As he said the last thing, he looked specifically at Andy. 'Understood?'

'Yes, sir, absolutely.'

'Yes, sir, understood.'

'Alright, than let's get to parade.' Best stood up and the three of them walked to parade. It was the usual talk, nothing special that caught Andy's attention. It was however the first time that she didn't look around to see if she saw Sam. She knew where he was and it sure as hell wasn't here.

She was paired with Gail for the day, and if what Traci had said last night was true, it was going to be a very long day.

They drove around for the first hour, neither one of them saying much. It was far into the second hour of their shift when they got their first call, a car accident. After questioning tons of witnesses, as the accident happened at a busy road, they soon came to conclude that the owner of the blue car had driven into the other car purposefully. When they had done all they had to do, they went back on the road. It remained quiet until right after lunch.

'Fifteen-oh-three, please respond,' the radio suddenly cracked to life.

'This is fifteen-oh-three,' Andy said.

'Officer McNally, you are needed at the station,' the radio said.

'Copy, on our way.'

'What did you do?' Gail asked surprised, as she turned the car and started driving back to the station.

'Why do you automatically assume it's something I did?'

'Yeah, right. I saw you and Traci in Best's office this morning.'

'That was about something else,' Andy said, turning to look out the side window.

'Right. How do you know that for sure, when you don't know what you're being called in for?' Gail said. Though Andy hated to admit it, she did have a point. But there was no way that she was being called in because somebody told that she saw Sam last night. How could anyone even have told that to someone? Unless Sam had told on her. Would he be capable of doing that? In order to keep her safe, he probably would.

They reached the station and Gail dropped Andy off at the gate.

'See you later,' she said before driving off.

Andy, a little worried now, walked inside. She walked up to Best's office, but stopped as she noticed someone already inside with Best. When Best noticed her standing there, he waved at her to come in.

'McNally, thanks for coming on such short notice. You already know detective Boyd I believe,' he spoke, gesturing to the man sitting across from him.

'Hi,' Andy said, sitting down in the second chair.

'Detective Boyd came to me about an hour ago with a request.' Andy looked at him questioningly.

'Thing is, I've got one of my best undercover cops under, but it seems that he could do with a little help. He's going to need a partner, someone who can help him get more information.' Andy looked at him, not quite sure where he was headed.

'Apparently, the guys he's trying to bring down have confided in their girlfriends with some crucial information. I need you to work your way into their little circle of friends and find out a little more. The moment you find out what we need, we'll get you out of there, we'll keep you out the danger zone.'

'Wait, you want me to go undercover?' Andy asked as it suddenly hit her.

'Yeah.' Boyd said simply. 'Actually, Sammy asked me to get you for the job. Said that since the two of you have been partnered so long, you know each other's every move. I know you could do it, I saw it with the drugs case. He'd keep you out of the danger zone, you've got nothing to worry about.'

Andy sat frozen for a moment. From all the things she could have been brought in for, this was the reason she least expected. Sam had asked if she could be assisting him on his undercover operation? When? How? Why?

'McNally, I can promise you that you will be safe. The second things get too dangerous you can get out of there, but we could really use your help.'

Andy sighed, pretending to think about it, though her mind had been made up since the second she knew what they were asking of her.

'Fine,' she said. 'I'll do it. I'll go undercover.'

That's it for now. Thank you so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. Don't know when I'll be able to upload the next part, but it should be somewhere later this week.

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