DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters, except for Matthew and Moxie. The rest of them belong to James Duff and the Major Crimes franchise.

A/N: Thanks again for the reviews! I'm not sure what's going to happen to Sharon in tonight's episode but I wanted to get this chapter published before it aired. I wrote this particular chapter when the World Series was on, there's a small reference to it. Enjoy!

Chapter 6

20 hours earlier

Matthew was sitting at the kitchen table doing his homework. It was a little after 7 at night and Andy was sitting there with him. Sharon was in the den going over a report for their latest case. Something kept bothering her during this investigation. She believed that if they found Blake Harper or Martin Lipinski, it would lead them to the ring leader and her team would bring down this robbery ring that seemed to steal high-end items.

She was reading the financial report they had on Blake Harper when Matthew walked into the den. "What are you doing?" he said as he looked over Sharon's shoulder at the paper she was reading. "Just going over some things for work. Did you finish your homework?" she asked as she looked at him. "Yes, Dad's checking it right now," he said as he walked around the desk and picked up the baseball that was on a stand on one of the bookshelves.

"When do the Dodgers play again?" he asked Sharon as he flipped the baseball in the air. "Friday, Game 3 of the World Series," Sharon said as she continued to read Blake's financial report. Matthew placed the baseball back on the stand and turned around to face Sharon. "Matthew?" Andy called from the kitchen. Matthew heard his name and ran back into the kitchen leaving a smile on Sharon's face.

"Here, you might want to look this problem over. Read it and try again," Andy told him as he sat at the table. Matthew looked it over again and worked out the problem on the piece of paper. He finished it and handed it back to Andy who checked it over again. "Good, anything else you have to do tonight?" Andy asked him as he handed the math paper back to Matthew. Matthew put the paper in his folder and then placed the folder in his backpack. "No," he replied.

"Can I go watch TV now?" he asked Andy as he started to walk out of the kitchen. "Um, can you do me a favor first?" Andy asked him as he stood up from his chair and walked over to join him in the hallway. "What?" grumbled Matthew. "I need you to go clean your room, and make sure you actually put your clothes away, not throw them in your closet and shut the door," Andy walked with Matthew towards the stairs.

"How'd you know I did that?" Matthew asked as he paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Because I'm the Dad and plus, I went into your room this morning with your clean clothes and saw your closet floor," Andy smiled at him as Matthew hung his head. Matthew then ran up the stairs and went into his room to clean it up. Andy chuckled as he turned around and walked into the den to see what Sharon was up to in there.

Andy walked into the den and Sharon was intently looking at another report from the case. Andy stood behind her and gently placed his hands on her shoulders and began giving her a massage. Sharon sighed as she could feel the tenseness in her muscles. She leaned her head back and Andy moved closer and placed kisses up and down her neck. "I love you," she whispered to him.

Present time

Andy woke up to a beeping alarm going off from Sharon's monitor. "Sharon?!" he yelled as he sat up and looked to see why there was an alarm. Two nurses rushed into her room to see what was happening as well. One of the nurses looked at the monitor while the other one attended to Sharon.

"Her blood pressure is dropping!" the nurse called out. Andy stood there, shaking, feeling helpless as he watched. "Why is her blood pressure dropping? What's going on?" he asked questions that he didn't get answers to. "Lieutenant please, let us work on her," another nurse came in with a doctor and moved Andy over to the side of the room as the doctor and the other nurses worked on Sharon.

"She was fine a couple of hours ago," Andy mumbled to the nurse who stood with him as he watched Sharon lying on the hospital bed. The doctor called out some orders for the nurses as he worked on Sharon. They administered a shot of epinephrine into her iv line. "She's stable!" he heard a nurse yell out as she checked her blood pressure again. "I'd like a complete CBC. Let's find out why this occurred!" the doctor ordered and then turned around and walked over to Andy.

"Lieutenant, let's talk out here," the doctor said as he pointed to the hallway. Andy looked at Sharon and then walked out of her room. He started to pace out in the hallway but the doctor placed his hand on Andy's arm.

"Lieutenant, my name is Doctor Fishman, I'm one of the doctors that looked over your wife when she was brought in," the doctor told him. "What caused this to happen to her?" Andy asked him as he looked with concern.

"She could be bleeding internally, that's why I'm running her blood count again because I want to see where her numbers are," the doctor explained to Andy. Andy ran his hand through his hair and the slumped down in the chair outside of Sharon's room.

The doctor sat down next to him. "We administered a shot of epinephrine, which stabilized her heart. Normally, adrenalin and acetylcholine are balanced by your body, but sometimes it becomes imbalanced and causes your blood pressure to drop to a lower state, as what was happening with your wife," he explained as Andy listened to him.

"What, what's the next step?" he asked the doctor. "We're going to look at her blood work and see where her numbers are, depending on the results, we can determine what's happening," the doctor stated.

"How long will that take?" Andy asked him as his head was against the wall. "Not long, we'll send it to the lab and the results should come back within fifteen minutes," the doctor answered him. One of the nurses stepped out of Sharon's room.

"She's doing much better now. She's awake and asking for you," she said to Andy. "I'll be back when I have the results," the doctor informed Andy and they both stood up from the chairs. "Thanks doc," Andy said and then walked back into Sharon's room.

Andy took a deep breath as he saw Sharon was looking back at him from her bed. "Hey," he whispered to her as he joined her at the side of her bed. "I heard I gave everyone a scare," her voice rasped and gave him a slight smile.

"You did sweetheart," he nodded as he gently caressed her face with his hand. "I love you," he told her as tears formed in his eyes. She reached out for his left hand and held onto him. "I love you too," she looked in his eyes and saw a tear slide down his face.

Twenty minutes later, Sharon was still holding on to Andy's hand and they heard a knock at the door. "Okay, Mrs. Flynn, I have the results of your blood work," the doctor said as he looked at the report.

"I'm ordering a CT scan because I want to see if there's any internal bleeding in the area of your spleen or other organs around your abdomen, just as a precaution. We are also going to give you some platelets and see if that helps with your numbers. Your platelet count was lower than normal, which is why I want to see if there's any internal bleeding," the doctor explained to both of them.

Andy looked at Sharon as she looked at him after hearing what the doctor was explaining to them. "What causes the low platelet count?" Andy asked the doctor as he looked over at him. "Mrs. Flynn, have you taken any drugs like Tylenol or Advil recently for any reason?" the doctor asked her.

"No," Sharon responded. The doctor nodded. "I'm thinking that the recent trauma to your spleen caused by the shrapnel of the bullet is the underlying cause of this," the doctor answered Andy's question.

"The CT scan will tell us more. Your blood pressure dropped due to the imbalance of adrenaline and acetylcholine, like I explained to your husband earlier. That drop could be caused by a bleed somewhere," the doctor explained to Sharon and then two technicians walked in to take Sharon for the CT scan.

"These women are going to take you for your test now. Don't worry, we'll get to the bottom of this," the doctor reassured both Sharon and Andy as Andy watched them prep Sharon. "Hi Sharon, my name is Liz and this is Stephanie. We are going to be taking you for your CT scan," Liz told them.

Andy held onto Sharon's hand and gave it a little squeeze. She looked at him and he smiled. "Everything's going to be fine, sweetheart," he told her and she nodded. "Okay Sharon, we are going to take you for your CT scan. This will last maybe at the most thirty minutes. Do you have any jewelry on?" Liz asked her.

"Yes, my wedding ring," Sharon let go of Andy's hand and pulled her rings from her finger. She then handed them to Andy. Andy took them from her and held them in his hand. "I'll wait for you," he told her and then he watched them wheel Sharon out of the room.

He sat back down in the chair and held her rings in between his thumb and finger. He then placed them both on his left pinky finger for safe keeping until he could place them back on her left ring finger where they belonged. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He then began to pray.

16 hours earlier

Andy laid in bed and held Sharon close to him. They had just tucked Matthew in after Andy looked at his room. Matthew did a better job at cleaning his room this time around than last. He heard Sharon sigh into his chest and he smiled.

"Why is your son been acting up a lot lately?" she said as she looked up at him from where she was laying on his chest. "Oh, so when he's good, he's yours but the minute he starts acting up, he's mine?" Andy chuckled and pulled her in for a kiss. "I wonder if something's going on at school?" she said as she broke their kiss.

"I asked him that before, he told me that everything at school was fine. He likes his teachers and the subjects, so far, seem to be easy for him," Andy told her as he initiated another long, sensual kiss with Sharon. His hands were all over her body, gently caressing her.

She broke their kiss again when she needed oxygen. "What's gotten into you?" she panted as she looked at him. "I've missed you," he confessed. "I've been right here," she said as she kissed him again with more determination. They moved together on their bed, sheets tangled between them.

Hours later, their alarm went off as dawn was just starting to break through the clouds. Andy shifted in bed as he was spooned up against Sharon. He lifted his head and rubbed his eye with his free hand as he leaned over Sharon to turn the alarm off. Sharon woke up to see Andy leaning over her.

"Good morning handsome," she smiled at him. "Morning beautiful," he leaned down and kissed her lips. Sharon moaned into his mouth as he kissed her. He then propped himself up on his elbows and looked at her laying there next to him.

"Couldn't we call in sick today? I mean I know we are in the middle of a case but, I just want to stay here with you in bed together," he whispered to her. "Hmmm, I don't think Chief Mason would approve of that, both his Commander and a Lieutenant playing hooky while trying to solve this case? Plus you said the same thing yesterday morning and it didn't work then," she raised her eyebrows as she said that.

She started to get up after she said that and Andy groaned. "You're killing me, do you know that?" he asked her as he watched her walk away from him completely naked. "I know," she said and then closed the door to their bathroom behind her.

Andy laid on his back and stared at the ceiling, trying to calm himself down. The truth of the matter was no, they couldn't just take the day off today, because today, they needed to find Blake Harper and Martin Lipinski. Andy knew that as he still laid there, willing himself to get up and get ready for work. He did just that as he walked into their closet to pick out his suit for the day. He heard Sharon in the shower and knew that it would be tempting to join her, but they needed to get to work on time this morning.

Andy picked out Sharon's favorite tie, the multi-colored pastel striped tie that she always liked tugging and playing with whenever he wore it. He heard the shower turn off and knew that Sharon would be coming out to get dressed. He waited for her at the door and when she opened it, wearing a towel around her, he leaned in and kissed her. He gave her a wink and a smile and then headed into the bathroom while she went to their closet and picked out a pant suit to wear. She decided to go with a pink blouse to match Andy's tie.

Present time

Andy waited for Sharon to return to her room after the CT scan. He heard some movement coming from the hallway and stood up from his chair. He then saw them wheel Sharon back into the room. "The doctor is reading the scan now and he'll be in shortly," one of the nurses said to Andy.

Andy was focused on Sharon. He was surprised she was still awake. "Hey," he whispered to her and pulled a piece of hair out of her eyes. Sharon focused on watching him as he leaned over her bed and tended to her. "Hey," she responded. He started to take off her rings to give back to her but she stopped him. "I heard him mention I might need surgery again, so just keep those with you," she whispered to him.

His heart dropped again after hearing those words come from Sharon. He shook his head and closed his eyes briefly. "You're going to be okay," he reassured her as they waited for the doctor to return with the results. Sharon looked at him as he sat by her side.

"I'm worried about you," she told him as he held her hand. He looked up at her. "Me?" he questioned and she nodded. "You're the one who got shot," he tried to lighten the mood.

"Andy I'm worried about your health through all of this," she gestured at the room with her right hand. "Don't worry about me, I'm fine. You just concentrate on getting better," he told her as he leaned in and gave her a kiss. He brushed her hair out of her eyes and looked at her face. She looked fragile and pale again to him.

The doctor then walked back into Sharon's room. "Okay, I have the results from your CT scan," he said as he placed the film up on the light board so that he could show them the results of Sharon's scan.

"Your spleen is enlarged, slightly, which could be the reason why your platelets are on the low range," he informed them both as he pointed to the film on the board. "What caused her spleen to be enlarged, doc?" Andy asked him.

"Well, my guess is the trauma you sustained yesterday," the doctor answered him. "When we ran your blood test, we also tested for Leukemia. Your white blood cell numbers are good so that's why we can rule that out," he explained further.

Sharon took a deep breath at the mention of cancer as she glanced at Andy sitting next to her. Andy's sister had cancer. "Are you completely sure about that?" he asked the doctor.

"Yes, Sharon's numbers of her white blood cell count is normal. In a person that has Leukemia, their white blood cell count is very low," the doctor explained to Andy and then he turned to Sharon.

"Have you had any flu-like symptoms of the past couple of months, like fatigue, fever, chills, bone pain, anything like that?" the doctor asked Sharon. "No," Sharon shook her head as she listened to the doctor. "Any pain or discomfort when you eat?" he asked her and she replied "No".

"Yes, so my guess is that the trauma from the gun shot caused your spleen to become enlarged, which in turn, caused your platelet count to be low. We are going to monitor it for right now. I'm going to give you a bag of platelets to see if that gets your numbers back up into the normal range," he explained. "I also want to do a bone marrow test, and collect a tissue sample, just to rule out a few other things," he added and Sharon agreed.

"What if that doesn't work?" Sharon asked him. "Then we will discuss removal of your spleen," he said. "But, one step at a time first, okay?" he added. "Okay, doctor," Andy said as he glanced at Sharon.

The nurse came into her room with a needle while the doctor prepared the area of Sharon's pelvis to get the bone marrow sample from. "Okay Sharon, I'm going to insert the needle here. It's a local anesthetic so you'll feel a little numbing sensation, okay?" the doctor explained and Sharon nodded. She held onto Andy's hand and squeezed it when the needle was inserted.

"You're doing great sweetie," Andy whispered to her as he watched the doctor take a sample of her bone marrow. The doctor then handed the needle to the nurse and she capped it and left the room. "Okay Sharon, you did great. We're going to get you your platelets now and I should have the results of the bone marrow test by mid-morning," the doctor said and then left her room.

Andy watched as the doctor left Sharon's room. He then turned his attention to Sharon. "Hey," he said as he squeezed her hand. "We're going to get through this, okay?" Andy smiled and she nodded her head. He could see tears welling up in her eyes. "One step at a time, alright? We're not going to jump to any conclusions until we know," he told her as he tried to soothe her.

"But what if?" she started to say but Andy interrupted her. "Shhh, one step at a time," he repeated to her. "Now you need to get some sleep because it's 4:30 in the morning," he whispered to her and she gave him a slight smile. She closed her eyes as she held onto his hand still.

Andy sat back in his chair and ran his free hand over his face. He just hoped all of the tests that the doctor wanted to run would come back normal as he watched Sharon sleep. He then looked at the bag of platelets hanging from her IV pole and prayed that this would work out and that Sharon would get better.

TBC