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Couple: Andy McNally and Sam Swarek.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize do not belong to me.
AU after 3x13.

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Prompt: Keeping Score.

This time when the door to the Black Penny opened, he didn't look away from the drink her was nursing between his hands. He'd been sitting at the bar for half-an-hour, and he was ready to admit she wasn't going to show.

When the stool to his right was pulled out, and someone took a seat, he still didn't look away from the drink he was nursing. He just believed it was Peck coming back to pester him some more to keep herself from going crazy with boredom while she waited for Collins to show up.

When she spoke, telling him that her garbage day was Thursday, he finally glanced at her with a broad smile and chuckled. He knew that she was going to hold him to those promises each and every day.

"This isn't a yes," she said accepting the beer that was placed in front of her, "But this is me giving you a chance to prove it."
"I can take that."
"Good, because I'm, I'm-uh-serious about this. And we're playing by my rules, just so you know."
Taking a swig from his bottle, Sam smirked, "Oh is that right?"
"Yeah, that's right. And there's no keeping score in this one. So I don't know if you'll be able to handle it."

With a shake of his head, the training officer turned to face her completely. He watched her as her eyes scanned the bar in search of the other rookies.

"I turned down the taskforce, even though I asked for it. I realized that running wasn't my thing."

Andy turned to look at him, and leant into his touch as he lifted a hand to her cheek.

"No more running, please?" she asked.
"No more running."

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So this is under the prompt 'Keeping Score' as it was mostly prompted by the quote from Sam in 3x13 when he's talking to Oliver about getting back with Zoe and he's talking about how they shouldn't keep score. And to make sure it was a bit with the prompt I put Andy's comment in there – well, really just extended it from what it originally was.

This was originally going to become a multi-chapter – with the next chapter already written – but I think that I'll do the post 3x13 a different way. I'll probably end up re-writing the entire last ten minutes or so of the episode. Or really re-write the entire tail end of season 3 to be able to put it some where – 'cos I'm sort of proud of the chapter that would have been after this one if it was really going to become a multi-chapter story. It's just. ASDFGHJKL;.

Anyhoo.

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