Okay here is chapter 2. This chapter is written from Sam's point of view. Thank you for all the comments and story subscriptions. Your advice and comments are really encouraging and are making me a bit more confident in doing this. Please comment whatever you think and tell me how i can improve.

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Andy had been sitting beside me in the cruiser for almost two hours and she had hardly said anything. My first thought was that I had done something wrong but I figured that couldn't be it seeing as just last night she had called me to come help her with her dad.

But for the past half hour she had started staring and the unforgiving need to know what she was thinking right now while she was looking at me was making me forget about the privacy part of our friendship.

I thought the best way to approach this was a humorous approach cos I knew If I tried too heavy at the start she'd run.

"McNally would you just tell me if I have ketchup down my face already cos the staring is weirding me out" I said but smiling at the same time but she still jumped and blushed seeing me catch her staring.

"Sorry I was just thinking" she said quickly turning her head around so she was looking out the windshield.

"Yeh I noticed, what's eating you?" I asked carefully still trying to not scare her because I knew she would just shut me out if I did and I was starting to get worried.

I got no response even though I had waited for what felt like forever. It must be something really bad because she looks zoned out right now and hasn't even noticed that we just drove by her favourite coffee shop which would normally have her begging to stop.

"McNally, you don't have to answer the question but a reply or even a change of subject would be nice"

I was starting to get a bit annoyed now. Maybe she's dating Luke again, that would be terrible, not only is he an idiot and didn't realise what a good thing he had but now I wouldn't be able to tell her how I felt about her.

"Sorry I guess just everything that's been going on recently I've realised that you are pretty much always there for me"

I almost gasped. How could she do this whenever I was thinking, say something so close to the truth and now I was torn. I could tell her, just tell her that I love her but then she would freak out and run and I need her in my life. I was going to have to play it cool, real cool.

"Well I am your partner I'm supposed to have your back"

There that sounded like something anyone would say, didn't it? Maybe I should just tell her, maybe it wouldn't be that bad maybe she would say she loved me too. Yeh keep dreaming Sam.

"Yeh I know I just want you to know that I really appreciate it and ..."

"We have shots fired all available units respond"

"1504 responding" I said as I flicked the lights and sirens on and pushed the pedal down while thinking what was she going to say next. I decided to push my luck for the day, "so what were you about to say?"

"Doesn't matter" she sighed sounding almost as disappointed as I felt but I dropped it knowing that I had to concentrate on work now.

We approached the community centre which was where we had been called out to and I looked around. I knew we were the first to respond so I was taking it slowly and carefully, so far there were no dead bodies, no gunmen hanging out of windows so it seemed safe enough to get out of the cruiser.

As we were approaching the door of the community centre there were four more gunshots making me speed up a bit knowing that whoever was in there was getting impatient.

I looked over at Ally giving her my warning look which normally came along with a speech but there wasn't enough time for that today. I tried to put my feelings into that look but from her expression she didn't get the "I love you" vibe from it. If only she realised that I wasn't doubting her, I just needed her to be safe and I needed to feel like I protected her even if it was just doing silly little things.

We approached the room where whimpering and heavy breathing was coming from but even I had never seen what lay behind the door.

There were around twenty people just lying on the floor with no guard watching them, no blood anywhere, no gun. It was downright puzzling why hadn't they left. I took the lead and went farther into the room hearing McNally behind me. I could see a door at the far left corner of the hall and felt more than knew that whoever was responsible for this was in there. I could tell Andy had picked up on this too but if she thought that I would let her go in there while I watched the front door she had another thing coming.

I opened the door and entered the room leaving the door slightly ajar so I could still keep an eye on Andy and the twenty hostages. The room looked like a kitchen with a bathroom in the back. There were four men lying on the ground all with visible gunshot wounds to the head. I could see through to the bathroom and I couldn't see anyone so I assumed the shooter had ran when he heard the sirens so I holstered my weapon and checked the men for signs of life but there was none, so just as I was about to put a call in for ambulances and homicide to come analyse the scene, I heard a noise behind me and just as I span around to see what it was a arm snaked around my neck instantly constricting my breathing and I felt the barrel of a gun being pushed into my temple meanwhile my gun had disappeared from its holster and was now lying on the ground around a metre to the left of me.

I knew then I had made the biggest mistake of my life. Why hadn't I looked around more for the shooter now I was putting Andy in danger and if I died I would die without telling her how I feel and I would leave Sarah alone. I couldn't do that. I tried to move my head around to get a visual of the shooter but he was pretty strong and I seemed to be kinda stuck.

He started to push me back towards the main hall. I would never forget the look of shock and terror on Andy's face as she saw me, the shooter and the four dead bodies on the ground behind me. She quickly stifled all emotion on her face but in her eyes it was still plainly visible to me.

She was still pointing her gun at the shooter but I knew she wouldn't be able to shoot him without shooting me too.

"Drop your weapon or he dies and maybe I'll chuck in a kid or two as well" I relaxed as the shooter said this because first he was only really threatening to kill me and not her and second I knew because she was my partner she would do the right thing and drop her gun. I had total confidence in her and she did exactly that but I could see she was starting to panic a bit more.

Just as I had relaxed thinking the back-up would be here soon I saw the gun move around so it was now pointing at Andy and then he pulled the trigger.

It hit her with a loud thump and she fell to the ground. At the same time she was falling I tilted all my weight to the balls of my feet and threw the shooter over my head and onto the ground. While he was dazed I ran to get Andy's gun and pointed it at him. I then took his gun off him and handcuffed him, face down on the floor.

As soon as I heard the locks click I was running to where Andy had landed. She was in between two little boys who seemed to be choking back tears. She was dazed and her breathing was laboured. It looked like the bullet had been stopped by her vest but must have broken a rib and pushed it into her lung because she was having a real hard time.

I radioed for an ambulance at the same time as I heard footsteps running down the corridor. Assuming it was the other units arriving as back-up I wasn't really paying attention and was more trying to make out what Andy was saying. She sounded drunk and hoarse and her words were non understandable. I saw a shadow falling over her and looked up.

There was a man there. He was not a cop. He was holding two guns, one pointed at Andy's head and the other pointed at me. This day was just getting worse and worse.

Andy looked up and I saw the look of terror in her eyes and then a change something almost like understanding. I aimed my gun (or should I say Andy's) at him.

"Drop your weapon" I yelled letting him know that I was in charge.

Just as I saw him tense his finger getting ready to shoot me, he yelled in pain and dropped his gun just after pulling the trigger making the bullet fall downwards and into Andy's thigh. She blacked out, still with her mouth around the guy's ankle and it was then that I understood. She knew he was going to shoot me and so she sacrificed herself so I would be okay.

I quickly ran and put handcuffs on the guy before he thought he could get cute and try something else. I then looked at Andy whose leg was bleeding heavily and whose breathing had got even worse. It was then I heard the sirens.

I rushed over to Andy, praying that she would be ok, when her eyes flickered open. She saw me and then she started trying to speak.

"Sam ... I ... love ... you" she gasped and before I could even process this information she blacked out again. This time though her breathing stopped. All the hostages had crowded around me but I didn't care that they were scared and that they wanted to know they were safe. All I cared about was Andy.

"Don't do this to me McNally, I love you, do you hear me I love you Andy".

I started giving her mouth to mouth knowing that if I got her back, no when I got her back we would be happy together.

The medics rushed in and took over from me but I refused to leave her even when Oliver and Jerry were asking me questions trying to figure this thing out. All I cared about from now on was her.

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