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Two and ½ weeks until season 2!

~~ Nikka~~~

He flexed his hands, tightening and loosening his grip on the steering wheel a few times. Rationally, there had to be an explanation for her odd behavior. It still burned though, that she would lie to him. Sam Swarek had an ugly way of intruding between him and Andy and it was starting to piss him off. He was willing to accept that she didn't tell him about the incident with Sam coming on to her, and hell, Sam had come to him a fessed up. He thought that had been Sam letting him know that he was done trying to get to Andy. He trusted that, and he needed to trust Sam, especially to keep Andy safe.

But then the whole Calasik case popped up and Andy had accidentally admitted that she and Sam were keeping secrets again. Not only that, her inadvertent admission had told him that she trusted Sam more than she trusted him. The trust was inherent, and to his dismay, Luke acknowledged that he had watched them together and knew that they were perfect partners. On one hand, he couldn't have been happier, Sam would keep Andy safe. But the knowledge that that they had a unique relationship was a difficult pill to swallow. They were like magnets, when one moved, the other unconsciously adjusted to keep the other within eyesight. In theory, this was great on patrol, but it happened all the time, whether is was at the barn, or at the Penny. Both were acutely aware of when the other was in any kind of proximity and responded unconsciously.

Luke sighed heavily and begin to get out of the car. At least he could talk to Andy alone, in her home. The most Swarek has ever done is drop her at the curb, he hoped. He shook his head angrily at the thought that Andy may have invited Sam inside even for a moment regardless of the situation. Homes were intimate, getting invited in implied an intimacy and Luke wasn't willing to allow that Sam and Andy's relationship was intimate enough to include hanging out beyond work related places such as the Penny or sanctioned police events.

Running his hand through his hair, Luke tried to shake thoughts of Swarek from his head. The only thing that mattered was Andy. They would have a nice relaxing dinner, maybe if he was lucky, she'd surprise him with the new dress she'd bought today. Well, if she did in fact actually by a dress. Balling up his fist, Luke just prayed that Andy's lie about being with Traci was innocent, and he prayed with a new vehemence that Swarek had not helped her pick out her new dress.

Just as he was about to reach for the buzzer to let Andy know he was here, he noticed her jogging down the block. Her face looked concentrated in thought as she came towards him with her ipod presumably up way to loud for her own good and she was probably fighting the urge to sing along to her favorite tracks. Luke smiled a bit at her concentration and as she approached him her step faltered a bit before she offered him a slow smile. A thought struck him, he had only seen Andy go for a run after she had spent the night with him. Something about her not being able to sleep afterwards. He tried to resist the thoughts that were creeping into the back of his mind.

"C'mon Sam," she whined. "Just think about it about. Seraphina has a beautiful ring to it. And it's the sound of the name not the spelling of it that matters!"

"Enough," he ground out. Same was not impressed with his sister. In his wildest dreams, he'd love to have be having this discussion about he and Andy having a baby and naming her after Sara, but he just couldn't do that now.

"Sarah," Steven cut in. "Don't you think you've aggravated Sam enough?" He smiled over at Sam catching the exasperated look on his wife's face and the relief that washed over Sam's. Then he grinned, "After all, it's not like Sam would ever break the rules at work and jeopardize his rookie."

Sam's face darkened as he turned to his burger. "She's not my rookie anymore," he muttered stuffing his burger into his mouth.

Sarah's face lit up as she glanced from Sam to her husband. Sam definitely had it bad for this girl and he was definitely sulking.

He watched as she stirred the pot one more time before taking a bite of the chili to taste it. "Almost done," she smiled at him. "Sorry I didn't have time to get anything else together. I got back kind of late."

He folded his arms and leaned against the counter trying to banish thoughts of the last time she had made him dinner at her place. "Oh yea, so the dress shopping went well?"

She turned to him flustered a bit with a blush spreading up her neck. "Yea it went ok. I had to take it for alterations though to make sure it fit."

"Did Traci find something too?" His question seemed casual enough, but he was sizing her up. Andy didn't notice the way his eyes slanted waiting for her response.

She shrugged before turning back to the chili on the stove. "Yea, she always finds something she likes." Andy couldn't look him in the face and lie directly to him. This was bothering her quite a bit, and it was stupid. She should just tell him that she was with Sarah picking out a dress for her wedding.

Her phone beeped on the counter next to him indicating that she had a new message.

Andy was reaching up into her cupboard for a spice and barely paid attention. "Could you grab that for me, I'm expecting to hear from my dad about his meeting."

Luke looked for her phone on the counter and flipped it open. New text message from Swarek. He flicked his eyes over to her and then hit open on her phone.

That dress was made for you. You took my breath away today...

Luke slammed the phone shut and and felt his anger grow ten fold. "You know what Andy," he watched her spin around at the sudden venom in his voice. "I know you weren't with Traci today because she was working the desk all day."

Her face paled considerably and she felt a tidal wave of guilt. She should have just told him the truth, but he'd been so angry at Sam lately, she wasn't sure he would understand her being in Sarah's wedding or the dance lessons.

He grabbed his coat and headed towards the door. "That must have been some dress, you took Swarek's breath away," he spat and slammed her door shut.

Andy stood there shell shocked and still holding the spoon she had been tasting the chili from. Oh my god! Immediately, she went to pick up her cell phone that Luke had tossed on the counter on his way out. Flipping it open, she went to call Sam, he was going to need a heads up about Luke.

Then she saw it. The message that hadn't been opened yet.

That dress was made for you. You took my breath away today … Btw my battery died … this is Sarah. Come see us at the Penny before we leave tonight.

Andy looked down at her phone in disbelief. Luke must have only read who the message was from and only the beginning of it. Oh God!

She quickly turned off the burner on the stove and ran out the door. Maybe she could explain to Luke.

Sam was laughing heartily with Steven as Oliver told them the highly amusing story about how rookies Dov Epstein and Chris Diaz had managed to not only leave their keys in their cruiser one night, but that they're car had been broken into for information on local drug dealers by a masked cape crusader. By the time Oliver got to the part where the rookies had added further amusement by actually radioing in their mistake and it being played the next day at parade, everyone had been in tears.

Seeing the rookie table's attention on the boisterous TO's and their laughing guests, the rookies looked confused. When Oliver Shaw raised his glass to them and smiled. He laughed harder when he saw them groan knowing the joke was on them.

They were having such a good time laughing and telling jokes, the the boisterous group missed the door being thrown open and the pissed off detective that had entered on a specific mission. It wasn't until he had stormed up to Sam and got in his face that they noticed Callaghan's presence.

"You think you're beyond the rules don't you Swarek," he spoke in a controlled voice. He took some satisfaction in the way that Sam jumped and spun towards him. The table had quieted down to a silence as they stared at him, but that didn't bother Luke. The anger and resentment were rolling off of him in waves.

"I get it, I do. You don't like rules but how about having some common decency?" Luke nearly spat at him and his body tensing.

"Callaghan what the hell are you talking about?" Sam shot back clearly both perplexed and annoyed with his intrusion.

"Andy," he growled her name out. "I was willing to buy your story the last time about you coming on to her and getting shut down, but I thought you'd learned your lesson there." Luke's voice picked up another notch. "Did you know I asked her to move in with me? Is that why you couldn't leave it alone, huh? It's all just a game to you isn't it, you just have to prove that you could get to her?"

Then attention of almost everyone at the bar was focused what was going on at the TO's table. When the door opened again, everyone's eyes shot to the figure standing rooted in place with her chest heaving from running the 5 blocks to the Penny.

Sam's eyes wandered over Luke's shoulder to see Andy's worried face then looked back to Luke. "Buddy, you've got your facts all wrong," Sam stated with extra emphasis on all.

Luke would have laughed if he wasn't so angry. "Really, Sammy, I do? I guess that's why she took your breath away in that dress today right?"

Sam looked at him in disbelief. How the hell could he have known what he though about Andy and the dress Sarah had picked out for her? He watched as Luke turned to storm out and bumped Andy's shoulder slightly as if he hadn't seen her standing there.

There eyes met and he could see that she was shaken up. As he took a step towards her she struggled to swallow and then spun on her heals and high tailed it out of the Penny.

"Oh Sam," Sarah said quietly as she reached to place a hand on his forearm and shoulder as if to steady him. "This is all my fault."