Super Awkward.
Words: 632
Couple: Andy McNally and Nick Collins.
TV Show: Rookie Blue.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize do not belong to me.
Post 4x09.
Established Nick/Andy. (OBVIOUSLY!)

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She's making her way from her bedroom to the kitchen when the smell hits her. Coffee, eggs, tomato – omelets.

There's this part of her that almost thinks they're still UC, it'd been almost every morning that she'd wake up to that smell, Nick Collins in the kitchen doing his little chef-like thing – of which she totally didn't mind, because she'd tried to cook breakfast while UC once and nearly burnt down their cover apartment. That, and he's an amazing cook.

But she walks past the broken lamp, the shards of light bulb cleaned up, the coat stand leaning up against the wall in need of its stand being bent straight again and their clothes littering the pathway and Andy McNally knows for a fact that there is no way that they're still undercover.

Leaning against the entrance, her eyes follow him as he moves around her kitchen freely, and Andy finds herself holding back a giggle at the sight.

Nick Collins.

In only boxers.

Making her an omelet.

At 6 o'clock in the morning.

And she's not going to deny, she's happy. She's happy that they're finally here and that she pushed herself off the fence, giving up every thought that for a moment told her that she couldn't be with him. She's happy that even if she'd turned him around and made him leave that he recognized that small glimmer of hope she has in the chance that they could work out.

"Coffee?"

He turns around finally to look at her, in his hands a coffee mug. Andy's finding it hard to just walk up to him and accept the coffee mug, because he's standing there in her kitchen half-naked and she'd shown him that night that she had little-to-none when it came to self-control.

"It would have been super awkward if I turned around and you weren't there," Nick comments, taking the few steps to stand in front of her, "Or if it was your Mum, because she'd let herself in."
"She'd be ecstatic," she murmurs, hiding a smile behind the mug when she accepts it from him to take a sip.
"Ecstatic to find me walking around your apartment naked?"
"I know I am."

She feels his hand sit on her waist, his thumb dipped underneath her Toronto P.D. shirt and pulling on the elastic of her underwear. Andy lets him take the mug back in his other hand and reach to place it on top of her fridge.

"Yeah?"
"Oh yeah," Andy nods as she reaches up to cup his cheek, "Because there were some promises made last night."
"Were there?"
"Definitely, somewhere between the couch and the bed. I was hoping you still wanted to fulfill those."

His other hand grips her waist to pull her against him, and she can feel the chuckle vibrating through him as she closes her eyes.

"The food will go cold."

Her eyes open and she's biting her lip. His breath hitting her cheek in small, cool puffs and his eyelashes tickling near her hairline. Removing her hand from his face, Andy steps away from him and moves around to take the plate off the bench.

"Where are you going?"
"To bed," she tells him simply, "I'm hungry and it's cold."

She can feel his confusion as she takes a fork from the drawer and turns back to face him. Taking a few steps she manages to break a bit of with the fork and takes a bite.

"Wouldn't want it to go to waste, would you?" Andy questions innocently, walking past him and back to the bedroom.

When she's halfway there, she feels him wrap his arms around her waist from behind and almost drops the plate with a laugh.

"You're impossible Andy McNally."
"Prefer the word magical there Army-boy."

…

I'm dying in McCollins feels and like. OMG. Just. Holy. Shit. They're. Canon. OMG. Guys. Guys. Guys. It happened.

So yes. I'm a McSwarek shipper. But McCollins has been growing on me for a while – I mean come on guys. Look at him! – and this isn't the first McCollins story I've started, but this is the first one I've posted. So. Let's see how we go.

At the moment it's a one-shot (multi-chapter story in progress though. And it sort of re-writes season 4 as though they got together during the UC. Like they should have…) but I have some ideas floating around that may end up becoming a second chapter for this. Like. Some super cute – OMG FLUFF – that's still a post-ep to 4x09 and all that. Plus - actual super awkward moments. Because this one wasn't really awkward. I just named it that because being 'super awkward' can be like, their thing.

So it's marked complete for now. But if it pops up on the first page again, it's 'cos I decided that there were more post-ep fluffy things I needed to write and I'll add them here.

Anyway.

I'm just gonna go dive head-first into more McCollins feels by rewatching their last two scenes, and then go and dive into some Marlo/Sam feels because Sam was totally noticing that somethings up, and that last scene with Marlo just broke my heart because I know that sooner or later she is going to crack and it's going to bring her down. Oh, it hurts loving a character that so many people hate on.

Apologies if they seem a bit OCish. Still getting the hang of these two!

Thank you!

All mistakes are mine.

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