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He met Oliver outside of her room, "bet you're pretty glad I made you go home and have a shower eh brother?" He smiled at his friend. "I just need to see her", he drove all the way to the hospital thinking about what it was going to be like when they first saw each other, he didn't know what he was going to do, smile, maybe shed a few manly tears because she was awake, and back here; with him. Oliver stepped aside allowing his friend to pass, he grabbed the door handle and slowly opened the door.
Their eyes instantly met, "Hey," he said quietly.
"Hi," she paused as her eyes filled with tears, "It's really good to see you."
"You too," he said as he sat down beside her.
He just looked at her, watching her blink.
It was like he could breath again, knowing that she was here and was going to be okay. Like while she was in a coma he was on pause, waiting for her to wake up so he could resume his life; their life, together.
He didn't really do much, nothing that would have an impact on his life he just ate the terrible hospital food, with the meal from friends stopping by to visit and check up on her, sleep; beside her when he did management to fall asleep it would be with his head laying on his arms which resided on her bed, and lastly he'd talk to her about well everything. Whether she could hear him or not it felt good for him to just let out all his emotions. He had never really been much for talking, you know but he woke up one morning, after she left and realized that no one truly knew him.
So he thought this was good practice for opening up if she couldn't hear him, but if she could; she was finally getting to know him.
"Sam... I uhh" she started, but he slowly moved towards her, leaning down he kissed her ever so slightly. "You really scared me there, I thought I had lost you.. both" Reaching for her hand as he spoke.
"Sam, I'm so sorry" she whispered, as tears began to fall from her eyes. She was scared, for a while she thought was never going to see Sam or their baby again. Then when she did wake up she realized that she could of lost their baby; again.
It broke her heart, that she had lost the one thing that she and Sam both could love more than each other. Their baby would be a product of how much they loved each other, and the thought of that being lost again, would be earth shattering.
"Andy, it's okay, there's nothing you have to apologize for," He was confused about what she was apologizing for but he had an idea it was about the baby. "If anything I should be thanking you for coming back to me..."
"Did I... lose it?" Tears continued to fall from her eyes. She knew what Oliver had told her when she first woke up but he could have been trying to keep her calm.
"Sweetheart, the doctor still has to do an ultrasound to see if it's okay but either way, I'm not going anywhere okay?" He meant what he said, he wasn't going anywhere, so matter how hard she may try this time, she wasn't going anywhere without him.
The time between him walking through her hospital room door, and the doctor preforming the ultrasound was spent just being; there with each other. "Sam?" she said as he drew circles on her arm with his fingertips, "uhhh ya?" He furrowed his brow, "I just wanted you to know that, there is no other place I would rather be than here, okay maybe not in a hospital bed, with weird attached to me, but being anywhere with you is where I want to be." He smiled, "I love you McNally." He said placing a kiss on her forehead, "And I love you Sam Swarek," she whispered into his neck.
Time passed slowly, but they didn't mind, just being with each other; happily was all they could ask for at this point in time. Sam debated awhile internally to break the peaceful silence of the room, "Hey, I-uh I need to ask you something." He said, continuing to gently tap her arm, "Ok," she said meekly, hoping it was nothing that would ruin this moment they were in.
"Could you, uh, hear me while you were asleep there, me talking to you, holding your hand.." He trailed off, remembering all the things he said to her, how emotional he was, the pain of that time slowly crept up on to him. "Do you remember any of that?"
Andy didn't know what to say, she vaguely remembers feeling someone holding her hand, and she picked up the last bit of Oliver's conversation with her right before she woke up, "Sam..." she began, "I'm sorry, I wish I did, I wish I had heard even word, but I uhh I don't remember anything except feeling a warm, strong set of hands holding mine."
In a way he was kind of sad she didn't hear him, he hoped in a way that his words would be the guiding light to bring her back to him, "Hey, how about this?" She said bring him back to reality, "You can tell me all the things you said to me while I was gone, you know except I'm right here, and I'm going to hold on to you and I'm never going to let you go." She finished with a smile, leaning up she kissed him lightly on the cheek.
"Okay, well normally, I would sit right there," he said point to the chair that he occupied many days and nights by her side, "And I uhh- I would ask you to wake up because you're it, you're all I need, I needed you to wake up and just smile at me. You know see that amazing smile that lights up all of 15 Division. I also said I uhh, I can't live in a world where I don't get to see that, amazing smile of yours. I wasn't ready for that to happen, see a world without you in it, see my life without you in it. I did it for a while there and honestly I was just uh, going through the motions, just getting up, going to work, feeling this pit in my stomach because I knew when I walked through the front door you won't be there, or be walking through that door with me. I don't know how I did it for so long, after seeing you and just knowing you were there again I know I can't and won't don't ever again." He paused, letting his lovely words fill the room again, but this time he looked down into her eyes, and she was crying.
"Sam, I'm so sorry for leaving you, I just really need you to understand that, when I was asleep, all I did was think of you and our baby, this baby," She said putting her hands over her stomach, "And I might not have been able to hear you or feel you, but you were the reason I fought like hell to get back to you."
"Sweetheart, I don't want to upset you or anything let's just relax for a bit and wait for the doctor." He said placing a kiss on her forehead, "Sam, I could never get upset hearing how much you love me."
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