"Andy, you're gonna be late!"

Oh my God, it's like I'm back in highschool

"Coming dad, chill"

A month and a half passed. 43 days since she left her house and went back to live with her father. A month since she last heard of her bank, 24 days since she went to the Penny. 15 days since George suggested her to give up her apartment and put the money together to buy another house, eventually. 12 days since Marlo started her maternity leave. 7 days since she last saw Luke. 2 minutes since she last felt annoying numbness on her legs.

That day she was paired with Chris. The shift was going smoothly, until before lunch break, when the radio cracked to life signaling that a grocery store was being robbed.

That's when what she was most afraid of happened.

One of the robbers came out from the shop running and went after him. She was just about to take him down, when she couldn't feel her legs anymore, and fell on the ground.

"Andy are you ok?"

"Ye…yes Chris take him"

Chris went after the robber, while she struggled to stand up. By the time she had the strength to walk to the squad car, Chris had already the robber in custody.

"Andy are you ok?"

"Yes Chris I already told you, I'm fine. I trip over something…."

She spent the rest of the shift in pain and decided to go to the hospital on her first free day.

After two day she gathered her courage and went to the doctor. She got checked out, but the first exams didn't show anything to worry about. When she was coming out from the studio, Luke called

"Hey, Sorry I was MIA but I had too much work these days"

"It's ok Luke I was busy too…"

"I was wondering if you wanted to have lunch with me tomorrow"

"Uhm, Yeah, as long as it's early. I work the afternoon shift"

"Yeah ok. I'll pick you up at 12 ok?"

"Yes, see you tomorrow then. Bye."

"Bye"

The next day, as planned, Luke took her out for lunch

"So, any news?"

"I sent a copy of your mother's file to Vancouver and Ottawa, they're now looking for her. Sooner or later anyway, we'll have to send the files to the districts, including 15, cause we don't really know if they've left the city"

"I know"

"What about you? Any news from the bank?"

"No, but I spoke with George and we agreed that it would've been better to give up with my apartment, and keep the money I can keep, put it asideand then buy another apartment"

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be. I was stupid, and I'm paying for my stupidity. Sam was right, I shouldn't have trusted her"

"No Andy. Yes, Sam was right, but he isn't his son, so it was easier to keep a straight opinion. She's your mother, and you saw the occasion to rebuilt a relationship with her. You couldn't have known."

-"Here's your food"

"Thanks"

"Andy you hand"

She looked at her hand and noticed it was trembling. She took it with her other hand and put it down.

"Andy…"

"I don't know what is it. I went to the doctor, but I don't know anything yet."

"Ok"

"OK?"

"Yes, do you want a ride to work?"

"Yes, thank you"

The ate and then Luke gave her the promised ride. When she was getting out from the car he spoke to her again

"Look Andy, I'm going to say this once because I don't want to annoy you talking about something you clearly don't want to talk about, but, if you need anything, I don't know, a ride to the doctor, or to share the results, whatever they say, you can call me ok?"

"Bye Luke"

The next day, she arrived at work early to workout. During parade, she noticed Oliver looking at her before start speaking

"Ok guys, today detective McKenzie will join us to debrief us about a case… Detective…"

"Morning people. I'm detective McKenzie and I work at the Financial Crimes division. I'm here to debrief you on a case we're working on. Ok, so, These two people (Pointing at the pictures) Jordan Matthews and Claire McNally, are accused of fraud. They stole money and sold no-existent apartments for years. Couple of months ago, they had free access to McNally daughter's bank account. So they took the money, mortgaged the house and then disappeared with the money"

By now, all of her friends were looking at her, while she was too busy hoping for a hole to swallow her.

By the time parade was over, Traci, Chris, Dov and Nick tried to talk to her, but she just got rid of them shrugging and saying "Don't worry guys, no big deal".

When she was coming out from the locker room, however, Sam stopped her

"Andy wait, what… what happened with your mother? I How did you find out?"

"The bank called me, and I went to find her, but she wasn't there anymore.

"Andy…"

"I have to give my statement to the detective, and I don't really want to talk about it anymore"

She gave her statement and then went on patrol.

After shift she arrived home, and by the time she took off her jacket, someone knocked on her door.

"Luke"

"Hey…Can I come in?"

"Sure…"

"I couldn't hold them any longer"

"It's ok. At least they know and I don't have to find excuses not to invite them"

"Glad you're taking it so well, even if I'm not believing you"

"You and me both…I don't know why I was so sure that I could've kept it from them. I guess I thought that we would've found her by now"

"If it helps, I thought that too. Well ,I guess I better go ok?"

"Why don't you stay for dinner? My father's at a meeting, but he left dinner ready. I only have to warm it up. "

They had dinner while talking about a lot of things, carefully avoiding Andy's health.

He went away and she had a shower, before going to sleep. She took her phone and noticed a voicemail

"Hello Miss McNally, I'm calling from Dr Ramirez studio. You're results are ready, but the doctor wants to talk to you as soon as possible. Please call us back to set an appointment. Thank you"

Hey guys!

I hope I didn't disappoint anyone but that the transfer I was referring to at the end of the previous chapter was from her apartment to her father's house. But I'm open to new ideas.

I know I have some grammar limits, but English is not my first language so FORGIVE ME. That's the reason why I don't write very long chapters.

Anyway, Next chapter, we'll found out what Andy problem is. I'm already saying that it's one of the reasons why I wrote this FF. I'm not going to focus my attention on the disease, I'm going to write about how I think someone like Andy could deal with a disease like that.

Also, I felt like I was leaving Sam out of the picture too much, so I had to include him.

Just to be clear, I'm not going to picture Marlo as the bad one.