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Andy Herrera hesitates outside of BC Sullivan's office door; starts to knock, pulls her hand back, then steels herself and completes the action. After she's invited in, she shuts the door and faces her boss. "Can we... talk? It's about us.” Sullivan nods in the affirmative. "I, um, I know that I shut you down the other day...and I regret doing that. I wish now that I had given you the opportunity to speak your piece; I'm sorry...so, that's the first part. The second part isn't...isn't so easy."
"Just say it." Andy looks at him with a sense of dread: HE KNOWS ...
Her stomach is suddenly queasy, and she pushes down a growing sense of panic. Still, she pushes on. "I've been sleeping with Jack."
"SLEEPING with Jack Bishop...so...you and he are getting PLENNY REST? (plenty of rest) No
issues with fatigue?" He's devastated by having his suspicions confirmed.
"Don't be...please don't be like that", Andy whispers. A pair of tears escape her eyes. "WE'D broken up;
I blamed you for YOUR PROMOTION; for my NON PROMOTION...RYAN...and...my dad's sick...SHIT! these
sound like excuses, I know that...
"REASONS...It's a lot. You have a lot on your plate. And once you have worked it all out, I'll be here.
The way that you were for me." He sounds so...COLD..
"So...I'll be punished...for being HUMAN; for losing control of my feelings, my emotions: for not
dealing with my grief and my sadness appropriately...for being angry about not getting Captain,
my Dad's cancer. For being too angry to hear that you needed me that day. For putting the
responsibility and blame for all of these negative events on your shoulders. And I suppose that I
deserve it. But...I'm not going to slee-HAVE SEX with Gibson anymore."
Her heart stutters when he shrugs his big shoulders in response to the last part of her statement.
"I understand that you don't believe me about that. But I'm not."
"Lieutenant: what you do or don't do in your personal life is up to you. Good talk." He begins leafing
through documents on his desk.
And what would you say if I called on you now
And said that I can't hold on?
There's no easy way, it gets harder each day
Please love me or I'll be gone, I'll be gone