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Words: 551
Couple: Andy McNally and Sam Swarek.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize do not belong to me.
AU of Project Dakota. (Primarily AU with who is UC and how it ends.)

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Prompt: Undercover.

His hand guided her to a seat at the bar, and he was the only thing that was keeping her from turning around and running until she could no longer see the entrance to the bar. Just the idea of being here was keeping her on edge and was making her feel it was going to be impossible to do her job.

(She could feel his lips at her ear and she'd begun to realize that even though he was assuring her that it was going to be alright, she couldn't calm down.)

They'd been on this assignment too long for her to freak out now, six months without going home and she was itching for the night to be over. All she prayed for was for it to go off without a hitch. She just couldn't take much longer of it. Faking identities, kissing him as someone else, lying to people. She could barely lie to her friends without getting some sort of rash.

He'd put the phone on speaker when Detective Blackstone had called them, telling them that they're were getting out that night. Telling them to pack up and be at the bar to meet with the cartel's boss that night, and to try not to get caught in the middle of a firefight.

(All he'd given them as an explanation was a budget cut, and that was all she'd needed. She could go home. That was all she'd wanted after so long.)

His hand slipped to her waist when they finally reached the bar, his hand raised to signal the bartender for their usual drinks. When she took a seat she could feel his shoulders tense as he surveyed the crowd at the bar, trying to pick out the usual customers and identify those who he hasn't seen before.

"Sam, sit, if you're tense when Michaels shows up he'll know something's off."
"Doubting my experience McNally?" he smirked, sitting down and turning his gaze to her.
"Six months UC with you Sam, I most definitely am not, but come on. It's almost over. We can go back to normal soon."

Andy admits that she said it without thinking. Even though they'd been UC for six months, they'd approached the topic, then dropped it instantly. It was still a sore topic, and it hurt both of them to admit that they'd both screwed up.

"Are you ready?"
"To go home?" she questioned, "Yeah. More than ready. If another person tries to get me to fake an accounting book for them, I'm probably going to shoot them."

When his smirk turned into a smile, Andy knew she had him back to his normal self.

"It's giving you a rash, isn't it? All this illegal stuff, you can't handle it."
"I dunno, I've heard that some guys like bad girls. Think I might make it my new thing."
"Are you asking for my opinion."
"Yeah, I am."
"Well personally," he answered, as he inched closer to her, "I've always like rookies who play it by the book."
"Dov will be pleased to find that out."

He kissed her, but pulled away when they hear the voice of their target.

"You ready for this?" he asked her, his arm still wrapped around her waist.
"Six months, yeah, I'm ready for this."

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Because everything I write doesn't fit in here because for some reason U became a lot harder to write than X, I present you with something so AU that it's Sam Swarek instead of Nick Collins, and that nobody hid in the back of a truck at the end of Project Dakota.

Two days ago (think Australian time guys) I finally sat down - in Subway I might add. It was a really strange thing because nobody ever stays in Subway longer than they have to. It's just like. You get the food. You eat the food. And you leave. I was there for an hour and a half - and wrote the final chapter! So if all goes to plan, we have the last five chapters and it's done!

Which is sad. Because I liked this story. But in order for me to begin other things I must finish this one. Which sucks. I know. But the hiatus has to hurt somehow, right?

Thank you!

All mistakes are mine.

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Next Prompt: Vegetables.
"It's cute, Swarek, but I don't think it's the go-to outfit for bad-ass Detective's these days."