Six Months
Words:
538
Couple:
Andy McNally and Nick Collins.
TV Show:
Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer:
All characters you recognize don't belong to me. Quotes are from 4x01.
Post 3x13.
During 4x01.
Established Andy/Nick.

Month Six.

Andy McNally frowns, walking over to where he was lying on the couch fast asleep. He hadn't come to bed the previous night, and she hadn't been surprised to find him asleep with some foreign film playing on the television. Since their target had begun believing that people were going to be moving in on his turf, last night hadn't been the first time he had been working on nights they were supposed to have to themselves.

She weighed the bag of frozen peas in her hand gingerly, sitting carefully beside his sleeping form and lightly pressing the bag to his eye. Andy could hear him mumble under his breath, and could only sigh as he went to push her hand away from his face.

"Blackstone got you pretty hard Nick, you're going to have to let me hold ice to it or it'll probably get bad again," she tells him quietly, in fear of actually waking him up.
"Hm, 's cold," he murmurs in reply.
"Yeah, but it's good for you," Andy smiles, "Unlike sleeping on the couch."

She's watching him smile slightly, his eyes opening slowly as he reaches up to hold a hand over hers. Helping him sit up, she pulls the bag away from his eye only to return it when he's sitting up straight.

"What now?"
"We lay low, wait for them to make the next move."
"God I love it when you're all professional," Nick smirks, wincing when he moves against the bag of ice, "Such a turn on."
Andy shakes her head, her lip between her teeth, "Well if they think McAllister is moving in on their operation things are bound to move faster. Which is good. Six months hanging with these idiots."
"Oh I don't know. Some of it's been fun."

She bites harder down on her lip, trying to stop herself from jumping him. They're hardly left with much of a choice in how things will turn out after the operation. There'll be people to deal with and things to confess.

"Yeah," she nods, raising her other hand to his cheek, "Yeah it has."

Entering 15 Division, both Andy McNally and Nick Collins feel the adrenaline wearing off slowly. Smiling and greeting officers they recognize on the way to Frank Best's office, the pair begin to let it settle in.

They're home.

Just as they're about to reach the desks, Andy's hand reaches for his, partially to assure herself that it was real. That he was still there. That they made it out. When he stops her, turning her to face him, Andy has to take in a deep breath to calm whatever nerves were building up.

"I'm sorry," she hears him whisper.
"We'll talk about it after the debrief."
"Tomato omelets and French movies?" Nick asks, with a smile.
Andy can't help the smirk that graces her lips, "You talking about dinner or breakfast?"

He shrugs, just as Traci Nash's voice is heard calling their names. Andy reaches up on her toes to kiss him quickly, flashing him a smile before dropping his hand and greeting her best friend.

Everything else could wait until later, because all that mattered was that they did it. They made it home.

And here we go! All done, tied with a bow and everything.

If anyone from the Haven fandom notices the egg I dropped, no matter how minor it was, you and I shall become best friends. Especially after the season premiere we got!

Off the top of my head there was only one thing left out of this story related to their UC mission – 'More than Words'? OMG. What I would have given to see Nick Collins sing to that – but by the time I'd finished everything else I didn't know where to put it.

Plans have sort of started for a sequel to this. Can't say when it'll be up, if I go through with it at all. But like I said in an earlier AN, it'll be McCollins and Swaruz throughout.

Though besides that maybe-gonna-happen McCollins story I currently have nothing planned or the couple right now! Will probably have to work on actually doing work for the time being, tie some loose ends on the McSwarek and Densi stories I currently have going and then invest everything into a multi-chapter McCollins that has more of a plot and a lot more fluff. Let's see how it goes, shall we!

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