Disclaimer: Don't own Rookie Blue (in case you hadn't figured it out already).
A.N. Thanks for all of the reviews! For those of you that are reading both of my stories, I am having a MAJOR case of writer's block for "Just A Virus?" for one scene. Everything else (including the epilogue) is pretty much written so as soon as I am able to finish that scene, it will be posted - don't think I forgot about it.
Enjoy!
They had not been talking for long when there was a tentative knock on the door. Andy looked puzzled. Sam had said that Frank basically told everyone to lay off today. "Come in" she called.
Tommy McNally entered the room. "Andy! How are you doing kiddo?"
Sam stood up and let Tommy take his seat. As he buckled his utility belt and slid the gun in the holster, Andy replied "much better than yesterday."
Tommy smiled. "Of course. You're a McNally, you're made of touch stuff."
Andy smiled and then looked at her father. "Are you okay Dad?"
Tommy looked from Andy to Sam and back. "Yeah. Sam gave me a sleeping pill. I hate taking those things – they knock me out for too long. I tried not to take it. By the time I took it…"
Andy touched his hand. "It's okay Dad. I get it."
She would have said more but there was another knock and a nurse peeked in. "Officer, there is someone in the emergency room who wants to see you."
Sam looked at Andy, mind racing. He was pretty sure that the hospital had pictures of anyone who might be connected to Readago but he was wondering if it was a ploy to get him out of Andy's room. He moved towards her. "I'll be back in a minute." He kissed her forehead. "Use it if you need to" he pulled the gun out of the holster and placed it next to her on the bed. He knew that between Andy and Tommy, Andy would be safe.
The door swung shut behind him and the tears Andy had been holding back for hours began to fall.
Suddenly she screamed. Tommy quickly realized what the issue was and pressed the call button as he grabbed a cloth from the table and held it right above the cut on Andy's face. He didn't turn when he heard the door open; he just said "I need some gauze and waterproof tape."
The nurse quickly returned with the items he requested and taped the cut on Andy's face. When she finished, Tommy dropped the cloth and pulled his daughter to him. "Sh, Andy, it's going to be okay."
Andy cried for a few more minutes before she spoke. "He could get killed. He left his gun. Something could happen to him." Tommy tried to calm her but she was so distressed that she ignored him. "How could he do this to me? He tells me he loves me and wants to marry me and then he leaves. How could he do that?"
She took a breath and Tommy interjected. "Andy, sh, he is trying to protect you." He paused for a second and then realized what her words meant. "Andy, did he propose?" He knew Sam was planning to propose to her soon but he hadn't expected Sam to propose in the hospital while Andy was a patient.
Andy nodded into his chest. "He was going to propose today after the bust. When I figured it out, I asked him to do it anyway even though he wanted to wait for a more romantic setting. How could he do this to me?" The sobs began to tear from her chest again.
Tommy realized that his daughter had tried to show a strong front for Sam and just held her while she cried. She had bottled up so much emotion that now that she lost control, he knew it would be a while before she stopped.
Sam quickly made his way down to the emergency room. As he stepped in, one of the nurses saw him and directed him to a private room. He knocked on the door and let out a sigh of relief when he heard "come in".
"Zack, how are you?" he asked as he opened the door.
Zack smiled. His arm was in a sling. "Fine. My wife," he lovingly nudged the woman in a nurse's scrubs standing next to him, "told me that you were here so I figured I would find out how Andy is doing while I wait for the doctor."
"What happened?"
"One of the guys tried to run and I fell wrong when I tackled him. How's Andy and why are you in uniform?"
"Andy is doing much better." He looked at Zack's wife. "You were one of the nurses that transported her right?" The woman nodded. "And I'm in uniform because my staff sergeant was afraid that someone would try to kill her in the hospital."
Zack eyed him. "Then where's your gun?"
Sam sighed. Nothing got past Zack. "With Andy and her father in case there is a threat while I am here."
Zack rolled his eyes. "Then get back up there and tell her that everyone from our division hopes she feels better."
They shook hands and then Sam left to go back to Andy.
A.N. To answer the question, Andy's fear has to do with Sam being killed. Readago planted it in her head that Sam died and a small part of her still believes that something bad is going to happen to Sam.
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