ABC.
Words: 326
Couple: Andy McNally and Sam Swarek.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize do not belong to me.
AU.

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Prompt: Dinner.

He invites her to dinner after a case, it throws her off guard and Andy is almost a hundred-percent sure that her jaw was about to hit the floor in shock. She says yes, flustered and tripping over her words. It had been months since he'd said a word to her on a non-professional level.

(She'd blame that on her turning around and telling him that she knew when to give up, that she knew that they would never happen again, and that she was happy that Marlo made him happy.)

With a smile he suggests a diner around the corner from her place, and asks her if she was free after shift on Friday. When she tell him she was, he nods and turns on his heel, heading back to the D's office and leaving her in the hallway by herself.

She's frowning and staring after him, and she's terrified of moving in case she trips and falls and wakes up, realizing that this was a dream.

(When she pinches herself and yelps, it's Gail Peck who stops at the end of the wide hall to stare at her with a confused look, questioning the brunettes odd behavior.)

So when she's sitting across the table from him, in a corner far away from the bustling noise and activity of families coming and going from the small diner, that is when it hits her finally.

He was going to try.

And it's that thought that has her remembering what they'd been, what they'd tried to be, where'd they'd been going, and she lays it all out on the table. Why she left, what it was like, what she was thinking.

"So we take a step forward," he finally tells her when she finishes, "And we try to do it right."

Andy just nods. Because she knows that right now, it's not much. But the truth is there.

It's a step forward, and that's all that matters.

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Eh. Honestly, not too happy with how it turned out.

Like C this was so many other things before I finally landed on something that I couldn't change.

Eeeeeh.

Guys. I'm like two away from finishing this. Holy. Like. What?

Only have U and Z to write guys! I'm pree excited!

Anyway.

Thank you!

All mistakes are mine.

Next Prompt: Everything.
But then she'd remember that he'd promised her. He'd promised her everything.