Sam vaguely remembered walking back to his room, he tried to force down a few bites of dinner, but found himself unable to. He pushed the food to one side of the plate and the other.
"Hey, thought you could use the company" Oliver Shaw walked in.
Sam looked up, and mustered a smile. "I thought you were down for the count brother"
Shaw laughed, "This wasn't my first day, I can handle myself". His face sobered up.
"She's still unconscious" Sam stated, reading between the lines. Oliver walked over to the chair and exhaled as he sat. It was going to be a long night.
"I screwed up brother. I ran away from what I was feeling. I thought I was protecting her. Instead.. it's my fault if I haven't have been such an asshole she wouldn't be... she wouldn't be..." sam paused and looked around.
"Sammy you can't blame yourself for what's happening. Ryan manipulated her. Completely. Made her feel alone and unwanted. You didn't do that you..."
"BUT I DID DO THAT OLIVER. I did do that. I replaced her while she was doing her JOB, and didn't do much as give her an explanation" sam's voices cracked as he tried to cover up the now free falling tears.
Oliver sighed and looked at his friend, the pain etched into all of his features. Oliver knew that if McNally didn't pull through, there would be two funerals instead of one.
"I'm sorry I have to go check on her" sam said excusing himself. Oliver nodded. He understood.
Sam made his way out of his room and down the hall. He paused at the door when he saw Nick in the room.
"Andy please. Please. Wake up. I need you. You are my best friend. Please I love you" nick has been getting closer to McNally especially since the undercover operation, sam didn't know the extent until now. "Andy, you are the one person I can always talk to and who always has my back. I'm sorry I didn't have yours now".
Nick suddenly looked up right at Sam. Nick looked once more at Andy, kissed her hand and walked over to Sam, pushing him out of the room.
"If you are just going to hurt her again you might as well save everyone the trouble and just leave now. She doesn't need this. You. You are the reason she was falling apart before all of this happened. Undercover all she could talk about was you, second guessing if she should have done the job or not. She went through hell undercover, but she thought of you the whole time. She said it made her stronger. That she had to come back to you. When we finally came back, you broke her heart. Again. She was completely devastated. Broken. So if you coming in her is another set up for her, I'm telling you she cannot take it and I will not stand for it". Nick stared long and hard at Sam after his little speech, looking for any reaction from sam. Sam's eyes were fixated on Andy's still form through the window and not once did he blink.
After a few seconds, sam met nicks eyes and said, "She is my story. I love her. I've been such an idiot and there is nothing I will ever be able to do to fix that, but please. Let me try"
Nick studied Sam, then finally granted him passage into the room. Sam immediately grabbed Andy's hand and rested his cheek beside it. Nick glanced over, then deciding it was ok, walked out of the room.
"Please. Please Andy, for traci, for nick, for your dad, for the station, for me, Please pull through".
