Chapter 24

Rookie Blue and its original Concepts do not belong to me

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"Yea, I`m on it," he said still laughing, before turning to me. "So you'll do it?"

"Gag me," I said sarcastically.

"What have I told you boys about that kind of talk?" Oliver asked playfully.

I grinned at him before looking at Jerry. "Yeah I'll think about it."

"Well good luck with that buddy boy," he said then walked out of the room.

I looked at Oliver to see that he had his eyebrow quirked in question.

I sighed.

"Sit down Oliver."

In about 25 minutes, I had Oliver updated with all that was going on.

He was now sitting in the chair that Jerry had vacated once he left, facing me with one of his hands stroking his chin as if he was doing some major thinking.

I was still in my seat beside Andy's bed, my fingers lightly resting on the top of her hand.

At the end of those 25 minutes, a nurse had come in to check up on Andy. She told me that there were no changes in her condition.

She also told me to 'not worry' and that she 'hoped that things will get better'.

Yea, you and me both.

After she took down a few more notes on the clipboard that she carried, she left with a quiet 'goodbye' as she shut the door behind her.

Neither Oliver nor I had spoken since the nurse left the room.

All of a sudden Oliver cleared his throat, and I looked up from Andy's still motionless body to look at him.

"Do you want to know what I think?" he asked me, and I thought that was a stupid thing to do because even if I had said no, chances are that he would tell me anyway.

"Yea sure," I replied. "Why the fuck not."

"Well no need to be a meany Swarek," he said with mock hurt colouring his voice.

"Ok ok, tell me what you think," I told him.

"Ok, well first off, I am so damn glad that you have finally manned up and admitted to the fact that you are crazy in love with little miss McNally,"

When he said this, I couldn't stop myself from scowling at him.

"What?" he asked innocently.

"I`m just saying that it took a pretty damn long time for you to realize and admit something that I`m sure everyone else at the barn already has."

"Well I`m sorry to disappoint," I ground out through my clenched teeth.

"No need to get all pissy Sam. I`m just making an observation."

"Uh huh. Can you get on with your observation then doctor?"

"Har har. Well anyways, I also think that Jerry has a point. Maybe you should forget about McNally... romantically that is."

I really wished that he would stop with all the lovey dovey references he was making. I didn't say that I was in love with her.

But then again, I didn't say that I wasn't.

"So I was thinking that you should take one of your lady friends out. You know get a drink, go to dinner, maybe go back to her place if you're lucky," he added, bouncing his eyebrows suggestively.

I sighed.

"What is it with you and Jerry thinking that sex is suddenly going to solve all my problems."

"My man, since when has sex not solved a problem?"

I looked up at him sharply to see that he was grinning. I relaxed a little knowing that he was just teasing me.

"Look, I was just kidding about the sex. Well... mostly..." he grinned.

"God Oliver, I wish you would just get to the point," I said in an exasperated tone.

"The point," he began. "Is that you need to get out more. When was the last time you went out on an actual date?"

Before I could answer he continued as if he just realized something.

"Um... ok don't answer that," he said, no doubt remembering that the last real date I went on was with Camille.

"You should find someone else to be with you, you know? Date around, find a nice girl that can help you move on."

"Because let's face it, I hate to see you pinning after a girl who's taken, not to mension a girl who's taken by your own half brother."

At that I groaned.

"Urgh. Don't remind me."

Oliver grinned.

"I say that you ask that Jennifer out on a date. She's obviously interested, if anything that I heard from Nash was true."

I grimaced at the memory of what happened earlier.

"Yeah, about that. How's Nash?"

"Nash? She went back to the barn with Williams. Epstein left too."

"So who's left at the hospital?"

"Um, me, you, and Jerry," he replied.

"Callaghan?"

"He took a call from Boyko and he left right after that. I`m guessing that he got called back to the barn."

I sighed in relief. At least I wasn't going to be running into him any time soon. Another look at Andy had a thought popping into my head.

"Did anyone call her dad? I mean, shit, wasn't that the first thing we were supposed to do?"

"No worries Sammy. We got it covered. Boyko called him before he left here. He also told him that she was stable and that he didn't need to come down right away."

"And what did her dad say. He obviously would have wanted to come anyway."

"Well I don't know what happened, but Boyko said something like McNally was held up with something so he wouldn't be down right now but would be as soon as he could."

"Held up with something?" I asked bewildered. "What could possibly hold you up from coming to see your daughter who's in the hospital in a fucking coma?" I asked angrily.

I knew that he was an alcoholic, but this was crazy.

Oliver held his hands up.

"I don't know Sam, I`m just telling you what Boyko told me."

We were silent for another moment, both of us looking at Andy lying on the bed. The steady beep of the cardiac monitor in the background.

"He'll be here eventually. Now, onto what we were talking about before, so you'll ask the nurse out?"

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"Yea, I will."

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dont be too upset that Sam is going to ask Jen out :) lol

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