Hi everyone! Thank you for your reviews. It's pretty cool and encouraging me to continue. Still looking for a ten chapters kind of thing. We will see. I repeat, everything in the beginning of season five DID happen BUT Andy and Sam DIDN'T get back together...until today. It's a little AU. So here it is! Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Thanks Ireland76 for the correction!

The sun hasn't have risen yet and he's wide awake while she's still sleeping. Yesterday he was just a man drinking alone at the Penny, wondering what he could do to have five minutes with her and have the talk he needed to have with her. Now, he's right here, next beside her and he's gonna be a father. He's still trying to wrap his head arount it. He, Sam Swarek will be a father. A baby with Andy McNally.

He's scared to death but at the same time he can't wait to touch, feel the rush and hold this baby growing inside her. Their baby Still can't believe that he is beside her again. He had lost hope of that pretty fast after Andy started avoiding him. With three little words, she set his world on fire. It wasn't an I love you, but it was the same for him. Carrying his baby is the most beautiful proof of her love to him. Since that day in the alley he has only one desire and it's her. Always her. Something with her like he said to Oliver. And he would gladly give his life for one more night beside her. People would think he's moving too fast, that he should be angry, but since when he's been shot, he doesn't care, he doesn't have any time to lost.

She steers and tries to be closer to him. He never loosened his hold on her since she fell asleep.

"We have to stop doing that" she said, not really convincing herself. "It's the reason we are in this situation", she mumbles.

"You mean together being in the same bed and you pregnant?" he said while laughing as she feels the rumble of his laugh in his chest.

" Yeah…" she said without enough conviction

"Why stop having fun?". In a fluid movement she sits up in the bed and looks at him. He groans knowing he made a mistake. Too soon for that kind of jokes.

As he tries to get a hold of her, she struggles to be free.

"Wait, wait… Andy please." When he knows she has calmed down, he turns her over, always gentle for her and the baby not putting his weight on her. But enough that she can't go anywhere.

"While sex is something fun and never been an issue between us, its always been more than that and you know it." He takes a moment to breath and continue " I want you to listen to me Andy."

" It's not like I can go anywhere, Can I ? " she asks with a little arrogance as she looks at how Sam have put her. " Smart ass…I'm serious." And she can see in his eyes that he's dead serious, in his tone too even if he's smiling a little.

So she doesn't say anything else. She lets him do the talking for a change and tries to not let his proximity interfere.

"I never felt more loved of more known than when I'm with you." In front of her shocked face he knows that he has made a point. He threw her words back to her. She didn't believe that he remembered it. " You, Andy McNally makes me feel alive. I'm tired of these games. I want it all with you, and if you're welling to try, I'm all in" Without missing any beat he opened his hear like he never did, ready to see it crushed. Never in his life he have told somebody that. " I love you Andy."

In that moment she knew that everything would never be the same. That he was sincere and loved her enough to be vulnerable. Never had she seen Sam Swarek talked without any barrier. She sobs a little and nods. As she kissed him hard and put her hands around his neck, she whispers at his ear a little " I love you Sam."

He can't hold any longer the lopsided smile on his face. For once in his life he's hopeful for his future that he will (he hoped) share with Andy McNally, the love of his life. Never he would have thought to say those words, the love of his life, but it was true. Since she litteraly barged in his life he didn't need anyone else. It was always Andy, even when he was with Marlo. She always had been it.

She woke up alone in her bed. Had she imagined all of this? When she hears sounds coming from the kitchen, she's not sure what's going on. So she takes the first thing she can find and goes in the room calmly on her guard, and it's where she sees him, putting some grocery into the fridge. He doesn't even look at her when she enters the room.

" Trying to scare me with a book McNally?" he asks her. He knows she didn't really think, she's a deep sleeper and takes some time to wake up completely. She sighs and puts the book on the table and takes a seat.

" What are you doing?" she knows he's putting some grocery but he's putting these groceries in HER fridge, in HER condo.

" Filling my promise." He tells her as he closes the fridge.

" It was more cooking than filling my fridge thought." She answer, and Sam can't help but smile, it's true he promised her to cook, to take out the garbage and the dog, their potential dog.

"Need stuff to do the cooking McNally." And he's sincere.

"Ugh…I want coffee…" she says with a yawn, sleep deprived. As she try to grab a coffee cup, Sam is faster and takes it to his own lips.

" Hey, that was mine!" says Andy with a pout.

" Nope, coffee is all mine for the next seven months or so. Don't even try." He says while she's about to argue.

"Aghhh, Sam, Come on."

"Pregnant woman can't take coffee, caffeine is bad for the baby. So I bought decaf coffee" Sam puts a cup in front of her and succeeds to get a smile from Andy.

After a moment of silence, a little smile finds his way on Andy face.

"Are you gonna be like that everyday?" she asks, still smiling and not touching the cup.

"Like what?"

"Like…Like…I don't know…this…all protective." Andy knows deep down than Sam always had been a protector when it comes to her, even when he was with Marlo, but this caring side of him was new, good, but new. " Bring me the old Sam please!."

Sam arches his eyebrow, the old Sam. "Seriously?"

"Okay, well.. I do like the new emotional Sam, but please, don't be to overly protective."

He brings himself closer to her and kisses her deeply. God he loves this woman.

"Hey…I'm trying here, please be gentle."

"And if I'm not" she challenges him.

He smiles again and he knows she will be the death of him someday. She can see the hunger in his eyes. One more kiss and he takes her bridal style to her room…for now. Because Sam has a clear plan in his mind, but he will be patient because he doesn't want to scare her and see her running again. He doesn't want to take that risk...not yet.