Cedar Hospital L.A.
"Here! Drink that!" The rough voice of Louis Provenza filled the empty waiting room. Without even looking up Sharon shook her head refusing the cup of coffee that was offered to her. "Now you listen, and you listen good", the voice that he normally only used for windy suspects made Sharon lift her head. Her eyes were puffy, her complexion was even paler than usual and her hair was still sticky with blood, as was the red dress she was wearing. At the sight of the rather miserable state she was in Provenza´s voice mellowed quite a bit as he continued: " You´ve been here for the past 2 days without eating and sleeping at all! You wanna end up in that bed next to him, keep it up!" He practically forced the cup with the hot liquid into her hands. She gave him a tired smile and a barely audible: "Thank you, Lieutenant!" They sat next to each other in silence for a while. "Is Nicole still with him?" Sharon´s voice sounded hoarse. "She´s talking to the doctor as we speak! I told her we would wait here for her update," Provenza replied with a deep was another moment of silence before Sharon spoke again, her voice achingly feeble: " He wanted to talk to me about something important that night, you know, he was so adorably nervous all the way from my apartment to the restaurant, like a school boy…", a smile played around her lips at the thought of him standing unusually sheepish in her door frame. A single tear made it`s way down her right cheek. She didn`t want to finish that thought, didn`t want to know what he would have said to her. Provenza opened his mouth to say something but closed it again and handed her a tissue instead. He knew exactly what Flynn was about to confess to the Captain, knew it because they´d had a fierce argument about the whole thing only hours before this so called date. He had called his idiot friend every name in the book for being stupid enough to think someone like Sharon Raydor would be interested in him. And although he would never say it out loud ,but hell yes, he was jealous. He didn`t want to lose his best friend to a woman, any woman for that matter and he wasn`t thinking about twenty or thirty year old flings. This was obviously serious and he saw bar nights and baseball games and sports broadcasts in his living room drifting away for good. So now his bad conscience was badgering him badly. And witnessing Sharon breaking down in that parking lot and the terrible state she was in right now didn`t help that matter at all. Their feelings were obviously mutual, even if they hadn`t told each other yet. For a fleeting second he thought about sharing his knowledge with her in an attempt to make amends for his argument with Andy but in the end he decided that the selfish act of calming his own conscience would make matters worse for Sharon, at least for now.
Some time later Nicole walked in looking a lot like news she had were not very promising. The shoot went straight through his left lung and also graced his heart. He had lost a lot of blood and at one point the oxygen supply to his brain was interrupted but they couldn`t really determine for how long exactly and what damage it had caused. Although Andy was out of danger for the moment , he was in a Coma and it was impossible to say if and when he would wake up. He was currently hooked up to a respirator to give his heart und lung time to heal. To wait was all they could do….