This story is Rated T

I do not own Rookie Blue, but if I did…..

"I need your help Sarah."

"Finally fighting for Andy?"

"Yeah, you were right, I can't live with out her and I need your help."

"I can't help you fight for her."

"But you can give me advice, can't you?"

"Yes, Yes I can."

"So how do I start?"

"Don't smother her, you woo her. Try starting with coffee, even a ride. Think of things that she would need after a hard shift. Something to make her smile but not overwhelm her. You are also going to have to get her partner on your side."

Sam chuckled, "I think Collins would help me if I don't screw this up. Do you know he threatened me if I break her heart again."

"Let me make this crystal clear for you Sam, if this is what you want to do, you are going to have to work your hardest, be nice to her partner and put up with a lot of shit. It will work but remember, I will hold you down for Collins if you are going to break this poor girls heart again."

"Ha Ha HA, I can take you and kill you with one hand. Give me a break."

"Please I am going to be around to dance at your wedding, when ever that will be and dance on your grave, so bringing it little brother."

"Ok, now that we have that cleared up, can I get the near heavenly chocolate cake recipe of yours?"

"Yeah, I will email it to you, along with some good wines that go with my stuffed chicken I think she would like."

"Thanks Sarah, I owe you."

"Just pay me back by coming up for a visit with her."

"You got it."

Andy locked her door to her apartment and then came down the stairs. As she reached the sidewalk there stood Sam coffee in had. "Sam is something wrong?"

"No, No, just thought you would like a ride and some coffee this morning."

"Umm, ok." Andy took the coffee from him and got into the truck.

When they arrived at the barn, they got out of the truck and walked in together. Andy turned to Sam and said, "Thanks for the ride in and coffee. Makes my morning a bit easier."

"No problem. See you later." Step one down.

Three days later Andy came in from shift and opened her locker, inside was a card. She looked around to see who was around and opened it. The card said thinking of you. Inside a nice passage about love and needing her was written inside. She looked at the other side of the card and saw Sam had written, Can we have dinner Tuesday 8 o'clock at Rizzos?

Andy smiled and pulled out her phone, "Dinner sounds lovely, will meet you there."

Several dates and two months later, Andy came home to find flowers on her dinning room table and card. She smiled and opened the card, "When a girl works as hard as you, she deserves a few days off. On your next three day break, lets run away together." Andy giggled, went to the kitchen and picked up her phone and called Sam knowing he was still on a murder scene. His voicemail picked and Andy left him a message, "I would love to run away, tell me what to pack and I am there. See you soon."

Six months later, Sam stormed into the emergency room and found Collins sitting with Frank in the waiting room seats. "What happened?"

Collins quickly stood up. "Dov and her where dealing with a drunk that stumbled into a restaurant. He got a little combatant and before they could contain him, Andy got a bottle of wine upside the head. It knocked her out and he then turned on Dov. All we know is Dov has a broken jaw and Andy was awake when they brought her in. They let Gail back there with Dov right now but they wouldn't let any of us back there with Andy. They are saying something about a concussion and want to make sure she has all her bits and pieces before you go storming back there."

Sam sighed, "Nothing against Dov and all, but why was she partnered with him? Putting the two of them together with her streak of luck and Dov's streak of luck, they had no hope of making it through a shift without someone getting hurt."

Collins started laughing. Then Frank started laughing. Sam tried not to laugh, this was serious but he couldn't help it. He started laughing too. The three of them got it under control and looked at each other, Sam took deep breaths and then said, "I am no way making fun of the love of my life and soon to be wife but damn it Collins, do me a favor and stay partnered with her until after the wedding. None of us want her having to walk the isle in crutches."

Collins snickered, "Oh dear lord, she would fall on her train and oh, what a mess."

They all three started laughing again, Frank piped in, "Ok, as funny as you two think you are, she did get seriously hurt, the drunk is in the tank for tonight but really, we are luck it was not much worse." Sam and Collins agreed as Frank continued, "I also promise to not pair Dov and Andy until after the wedding. Deal."

Sam and Nick said at the same time, "Deal!"

Eighteen months later, Sam sat at his desk staring at the case file in front of him. He glanced over at the picture of Andy and him at their wedding. It has been a beautiful wedding and a romantic honeymoon. Andy had told him on the drive to the airport after the wedding, that she never dreamed she would have a fairy tale wedding. That made Sam smile that he was able to give that to her. Life had been good since, even with their ups and downs. At one point, he had to beg Andy not to leave when he flipped out about something Collins and her had done on scene that he found out through the grapevine and not from his wife. He was pissed that they purposely put themselves in danger and Andy saw it as protecting a child from harm at all cost. It was when Nick had shown up with his girlfriend, Heather, at the house that the both of them calmed down. Nick proceed to come to an understanding with Sam that if he thought Sam needed to know, he would seek him out and tell him. But sometimes things they did didn't need his opinion or fix. Sam just needed to be supportive. From that point on, they stuck to that.

As he started to focus on one the case file before him, a rookie came running into his office. Stuttering, "hmmm, sir, ummm… Dispatch called and ummmm…"

"Rookie want to spit it out sometime today while I am still young?"

"Dispatch called and asked that you report home at soonest, per Officer Collins." The rookie cringed for the explosion.

Sam jumped up, grabbed a radio and rushed passed the rookie. He was in his car and out of the parking lot before he grabbed the radio trying to contact Collins. Collins came back over the radio and asked him to meet them at St. Luke's. Sam floored it and headed there. He parked the car and jumped out running in through the front door. He first spotted Heather standing at the elevators. "Sam, over here, come on, we have to get to the fourth floor quickly."

"Ok," Sam said as Heather and he jumped into the elevator, "what happened, she was fine when I left this morning."

The elevator doors opened and Heather pulled him out and down the hall. "Well, she was until Simon knocked her down on the stairs. I thought my fiance was going to kill him."

They turned a corner and there was Nick standing at the door with scrubs, "Here put this on," Nick said as Heather and him throw all the required scrubs on Sam. Heather put on his booties as Nick was throwing gloves on him. Nick took a deep breath, "She is a bit freaked out but everything is ok, alright."

Nick than shoved him in the room before he could ask anymore questions.

Sam walked into the room to see the nurse holding Andy's hand, another nurse prepping and the doctor talking to her. The nurse motioned him over to take Andy's hand as she looked up at him, "I am sorry, I didn't see him and next thing you know I am at the bottom of the stairs and ewwwwwwwwwwwww…." Andy shrieked.

Sam looks up at the nurse, as the nurse said, "The fall broke her water and now she is at 10. Your about to meet your son here in a few minutes."

Sam mouth dropped, "but, but ... she's not due for two more weeks."

Nurse patted his shoulder as she walked by to check the machines behind him, "It's going to be ok Dad."

One hour later, Sam walked out into the hallway to find Traci, Nick, Heather, Gail, Dov, Oliver, Chloe, Noelle and Frank standing against the walls quietly talking. Sam stepped forward and cleared his throat. Nick was the first to speak, "Well?!"

"He is healthy, five fingers, five toes, seven pounds even, twenty one inches long and a full head of hair. He is great. Her fall didn't do anything to him."

Everyone erupted in cheer and claps. Nick reaches over and grabs his hand, "Oh, thank god, I thought I was going to have cat soup for dinner tonight. I almost punted that cat out the window when she got tangled with him."

Sam laughed and he shook Nick's hand and hugged Heather, "Thank you guys, I don't know what I would have done without the two of you."

Nick smiled, "Well, glad we could help. Congratulations Daddy, can I go see my partner?"

"Yeah, Yeah, I came out to get everyone."

Everyone came into the room, congratulated Andy and all ohh and ahhhhed over the baby. Traci was the first to ask, "So what did you name him?"

Andy giggled, "Alex, we named him, Alex."

Three years later, Sam sat at the park with Heather. Alex was playing with a group of boys on the playground and Nicky sat at Heather's feet on a blanket chewing everything he could get his hands on. Sam remembered that age with Alex, at 5 months everything was slobbered on. He swore that if he could bottle it into a glue, they would be rich. Heather looked up at the sky, "This might be our last park day for a while, a storm is coming and its getting cold."

"Yeah, looks that way. Andy found this really cool indoor playground for Alex. Maybe we can start meeting there until spring comes."

Heather smiled, "Where do you two find the time? I mean now that Andy and Nick are detectives; you're a detective, where do you guys find any down time. It is so hard for Nick and I to find it and I am a civilian as you guys call it."

"Some how we just make it work. I am not sure but we do. You do realize we couldn't do it with out the two of you though."

Heather smiled, "I am glad I could help. To be honest when Nick and I first got serious I had a hard time with their partnership."

Sam snickered, "You are not the only one. Nick had some girlfriends head for the hills and in the beginning of Andy and I, I struggled to."

"So you know the whole story then."

"Yeah, Nick and I had beers one night for Oliver's engagement party. Nick had a little to much and told me all about how the two of them almost died but they saved each other and even went on to finish the UC."

"I didn't know the whole story until the warrant round up happened, just before Nick and I got married. Remember, when the house exploded on them."

"Yeah, I got caught up north and it took me forever to get down here."

"As Nick is being rushed into surgery, he looks at me and says no matter what, unless I am dying, stick with Andy. I was floored and almost stormed out thinking how dare he, I am his girlfriend. But something told me don't so I went to Andy's room when she came out of recovery. When Andy came to, she started to cry. I was so heart broken for her, she then told me the story and why she was crying. From that point on, I understood what drives them, why they are the way the are and that they love both of us dearly."

"Yeah, I tell my partner all the time, Nick is her work husband as Andy is Nick's work wife."

Heather laughed, "You could say, were one is, the other is close behind."

Sam smiled as Alex ran up, "Daddy, Daddy, I got a boo boo."

Two years later, Sam was rushing to get Alex out the door when he heard a soft knock. Alex raced to the door and opened it before Sam could stop him. There stood Frank and Sam's heart about stopped. "Is Andy home?"

Sam sighed with relief, "God Frank, don't scare me like that, Nick and her were called out around 4 am."

"Sam, its Tommy."

His heart dropped "No, No Frank, we just saw him for dinner two days ago."

"He had a massive heart attack."

"I'll call Nick."

A week later, Sam stood by Andy and tried to support her as best he could. While Nick and Heather tried to keep Alex occupied with their two boys while the funeral was held. There wasn't a dry eye in the house and the reception seemed to never end with all the people wanting to pay their respects to Andy. By the time it was all over, Andy was exhausted.

Sam walked over to Nick and Heather to take Alex. "Thanks guys, I don't know how we would have done this without you."

Heather gave him a big hug, "You guys were there for us when my mom passed, we were just returning the favor."

Nick looked over at Andy sitting on the bench, "Has she eaten today at all? Water?"

Sam looked behind him and then turned back to Nick, "Traci made her eat a salad around ten and Dov has been pushing the water. I just have to keep it up at home."

Nick smiled as Sam turned to watch Andy, "I know this is not the right time but she needs to share some news with you. Make her tell you."

Sam snapped around, "Nick, don't do that to me. What's wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong per say, just remember, you guys had a very long, nice holiday with out Alex." With that Nick patted him on the back, "Come on Alex, lets help Aunt Heather get the boys into the car." Nick turned back to Sam, "Will take Alex, see you at the house."

"Thanks guys."

Sam walked up to Andy and sat down. "Nick says we need to talk, that your holding out on me again."

Andy looked up at him and tried to smile when she saw Sam grinning ear to ear. "I had this whole plan for this weekend to tell you. Nick and Heather were in on it. I sorry Sam, I just wanted to be sure."

Sam kissed her on the forehead pulling her into him. "I know you did, I know you wanted to make it special but we never really had perfect timing. So how many weeks?"

"I have no idea, my appointments on Tuesday. Will you come."

"Oh, please, wild horses couldn't keep me away." Sam kisses her again, "Come on, we have to get Alex before Collins and Heather are over run by the boys."

"You know Heather is pregnant right?"

"Again, I swear to god, does he not realize you have to wait six weeks before resuming anything? I mean the two boys are only 11 months a part, Aaron is only four months old."

"I know, I know. Heather told me she thinks he only makes boys."

"What?"

"Heartbeat was in the same range as Aaron and Nicky, she thinks it's a boy again."

"Oh, poor Nick, will he have any hair left when this is all over."

"Not if it's a girl, girls may be easier when they are little but the teenage years, I think Nick would go to jail when each boy looked at his little girl."

"So what do you want?"

"A healthy baby." Andy smiled at him.

Sam put his finger up, "Oh, and Simon, Peter and Mary get locked up before you use stairs this time. I am not explaining to the ER why my wife has fallen again because of one of those stupid cats."

Andy giggled and softly whispered, "I want it to be a girl."

"Fine by me Andy, Fine by me. I got you and that is all that matters in the world." Sam grabbed her hand, stood her up and led her to the car.

Life may have its up and downs, the surprises and the disappointments but one thing that never changed was they had each other.