He needed to talk to Andy. Really try and talk to her.

And he needed to do it now.

"McNally… what I said earlier…"

"I get it Sam. You could use some space. And I'll try to give it to you, honestly, I'll try, but I really need you to back me up on this. I texted Traci and asked her to see if there were any storage-"

"No, McNally, not about that. Before that, before I became a total doofus and left you. When I said..." Sam tried.

"When you said what?" Andy prompted.

"When I said that…uh…that anybody who cares for you is going to figure out what Luke did. Yeah, well I meant it." Sam sputtered. It wasn't like him to get all choked up with words, but this was different.

"Yeah, thanks Sam. I get it. I'm a terrible liar. Would you like to critique my policing abilities more, or have you filled your quota for this shift?" Andy shot back, sounding terse. Sam, abandoning all plans to reveal how he felt right now, decided to just try to lessen her anger with him.

"No, McNally that is not what I meant. Why would I critique you, when I trained you? If someone as awesome as me trained you, there's obviously nothing to critique. Okay?" Sam said smiling.

Andy couldn't help but laugh. "Okay, fine, Sam, I'm perfect." She said, laughing at how utterly un-perfect she felt right now. Sam smiled, too, because he thought it was so good to hear what he had been thinking for months out loud, and because she didn't question him on his original intentions of explaining something.

And was quiet the rest of the drive back to the station, having texted Diaz and Epstein to check out the storage facility after sensing something was still unsaid with Sam. A lot of things, actually, have yet to be said with him. She decided to press the issue later tonight, at the Penny, after Sam had a few drinks to loosen him up.

"Um, McNally? You just drove past the station." Sam noted, chuckling.

"What? I did? Oops…um, here we are." She said as they arrived at the station after her and Sam had driven around the block in comfortable silence, which Sam used to think wasn't possible with McNally, the woman so strongly opposed to silence. Sam didn't know she was plotting just how to press the issue without Sam closing up like usual. Andy didn't know she wouldn't have to wait until the Penny that night.