ABC.
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Couple: Andy McNally and Sam Swarek.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All character you recognize do not belong to me.
AU.
Drabble.
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Prompt: Coffee.
I have known Sam Swarek a very long time, our entire careers in fact. Long enough to have learnt one very particular thing about him.
Sam Swarek does not buy coffee in the morning before shift, for anybody but himself.
Not when he was dating Marlo Cruz, not as a thank you to Oliver for letting him crash at his place after a poker night.
(Though he usually did thank him by buying the first few rounds after shift. But that's something different entirely.)
I had summed this knowledge up under a big heading that stated, in large, bold, capital letters: SAM SWAREK DOES NOT SHARE. Of course, when I'd used this as an explanation, I'd have to explain it a few times before anybody could even remotely understand what I was talking about.
(And then I'd have to listen to Frank Best refer to my idea as a bi-product of my hormones still being affected by my having a child. Not exactly what I'd been looking for as a reaction.)
Now mind you, he'd only broken this 'sacred Sam Swarek' rule once. And when called out on it he blushed like a little school girl going in for her first kiss.
(Not before throwing the extra coffee out at the sight of something that made him step back into the real world. The world where she was not dating him and she had not broken it off with Homicide Luke.)
So believe me when I say that I watched his every step as he entered the barn Monday morning with two take-away cups of coffee in his hands, and watched every move he made until that second cup was deposited into someone else's hands.
From where I sit, I realize that they have to know that they aren't fooling anyone.
(They work with cops for crying out loud!)
So the Tuesday morning after that Monday, when the exact same thing happens, Sam Swarek with two coffees and that 100% noticeable shit-eating grin on his face, if I wasn't the one to bring it up, it would be Oliver.
Because Sam Swarek and Andy McNally were completely out of their minds if they thought that he could bring two coffees into work every morning and not be noticed sharing a kiss when he handed the second one over to her before Parade.
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A bit of an OCish Noelle POV chapter was needed after the fight I had with my muse-dragon about which prompt to do for 'C'. Oh Lord. I was going to use 'Chocolate' if I didn't get a good enough one by the end of the night. I was going crazy.
So I was thinking about more frequent updates. Because right now it's a Monday and I'm just going – I have the next chapter written. I really want to posted.
Which would work, because at the moment I am only in need of writing for the letters J, K, U, V and Z. I have a basic idea of what I want to do for K, U and V, but I'm a bit fuzzy on J and Z. Beside that, I'm almost done!
Thank you!
All mistakes are mine! (And I apologize for how OC Noelle's narrating sounds. But I couldn't change anything before I went crazy.)
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Next Prompt: Dinner.
In order to try again, they needed to take a step forward. And this dinner was the step.