DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters, except for Matthew and Moxie. The rest of them belong to James Duff and the Major Crimes franchise.

A/N: Okay everyone, here is my next story. I have to give you all fair warning...I am not killing any of the main characters, so don't worry. Also, I started writing this chapter before TNT announced they were not renewing the show for another season, a stupid move if you ask me. I did not know what the writers were going to do with Sharon on the show when I was writing this story. I have 8 full chapters written already and I'm not sure how long this story will be in length. And for a timeline, this takes place a month after my last story Wildfire. Okay, enough with the notes and on with the story...

Chapter 1

His heart was pounding in his chest. He could hear it beating in his ears. He gripped his gun in his hands and glanced over at Sharon. She was right by his side as they waited. He was able to stop the bleeding from Sharon's gunshot wound to her left arm using his tie. It had been a couple of minutes since they had gun shots coming towards them inside the apartment building where they were currently blockaded in.

He pulled out his phone and looked at it. "Dammit," he mumbled to himself as he saw he had no signal. He glanced at Sharon again. She looked a little pale. "Sharon, sweetie, I need you to stay with me," he pleaded to her. "I'm here," she muttered back as she slowly looked at him. "Where's your phone?" he asked her and she pointed to her pants pocket. He took her phone out but quickly realized that she didn't have a signal either.

"So, what's the plan, Commander? We can't stay here because eventually they will find a way inside, and you need a doctor," Andy stated to her, hoping that she could focus on that instead of the throbbing pain in her arm. She closed her eyes for a brief second before opening them again. "Is there a way out of here?" she winced as she shifted herself to sit more upright.

Andy looked around the room that they found themselves in. He had barricaded the door earlier when they ran into the room. "Besides going out that door?" he glanced around. He looked up above them. "There's a window up there," he sighed and then looked around for some sort of ladder to get up to the window. "What kind of room are we in?" she asked him. He got up and looked around. "It looks like some sort of shelter, which would explain why we don't have a phone signal," he stated as he ran his hand along one of the walls.

Andy moved some boxes over to the window to see if he could get a boost up. He was able to and saw through the window, there was a fire escape. He then looked at the window to see how he could open it. He climbed back down and thought about their escape. He looked around the room and then saw all the items that were reported stolen from the art gallery. They had somehow run into the storage room where the robbery ring held everything. 'No wonder we were being shot at,' he thought.

He then came back and sat next to Sharon. Her head was slightly slumped to the side. "Hey, Sharon," he panicked. "Hmm?" she mumbled and slowly opened her eyes again. "You got to stay with me, okay?" he pleaded again to her. She nodded her head but couldn't seem to focus. "I need to get you out of here," he sat there and thought about how they were exactly going to do that.

For all he knew, Blake Harper and the other guy they encountered when they knocked on his door were still outside waiting for them. He glanced at his watch. They had been out of the office since 1:00 and it was now closer to 3:00 in the afternoon. He was hoping that Provenza would figure out that they weren't back yet and would try to somehow get a hold of them.

"Andy," Sharon said, barely above a whisper. He turned and focused on her. "What if we go out the way we came in, make a run for it," she suggested. "Those guys might still be out there, waiting for us," he shook his head.

"I know we haven't heard any gun shots lately, but I'm not going to risk them coming after us," Andy explained to her. She took a deep breath and winced. Andy placed his hand on her shoulder. He had checked her after he tied her wound off to see if she was hit anywhere else, but perhaps he had missed something.

"Let me look at you again," he asked her as he knelt down next to her. "I told you before, I don't think I'm hit anywhere else," she reasoned with him. "Would you just humor me, please?" he asked her and she finally nodded in agreement.

He saw a hole in her vest; it was about the size of a small bullet. He ran his hand on the underside of her vest. "Your vest stopped a bullet," he told her as he felt around the underside of her vest. He had felt smaller holes than the larger one in front.

In removing her vest, he had somehow pressed his hand into her side and she let out a gasp. "Sorry," he whispered as he looked into her eyes. He then unbuttoned her pink blouse. That's when he saw tiny circles of blood on her skin. Although the vest stopped one of the bullets that were sprayed in their direction, it had seemed to have fragmented into her left side.

She had blood seeping through into her blouse as Andy took her jacket and rolled it up. He then pressed it into her side to help stop the bleeding. "Do you think you can hold this to your side?" he whispered to her. She nodded her response and then her arm started to bleed again. Andy cinched his tie tighter around her arm as her blood started to run down her arm again. He quickly buttoned her blouse again and placed her vest back on. "Come on, I'm getting us out of here," he told her as he stood up and lifted her with him.

The makeshift ladder that he used to get up to the window needed to hold both of them at the same time. He didn't know how that was going to happen but he had to get Sharon to a hospital right away. When he looked out the window before, he thought he saw the fire escape and the alley between the buildings. They both heard a banging noise. Andy turned around and knew that it was coming from the door. "Shit," he mumbled to himself and grabbed a hold of Sharon.

They both stepped up on the box and they were closer to the ledge that was by the window. More pounding could be heard from outside the door. "Just leave me, get help and come back," Sharon muttered to him. "No, I'm not going to do that," he shook his head. "Come on," he lifted her so that she could grab on to the ledge and boosted her up there. He then climbed up and joined her as the boxes fell back down.

He looked at the window and saw the latch and opened it. He then took his pocket knife and cut through the screen and pushed it out of the way. The door was starting to budge. "Sharon, get out through the window," he told her as he held her hand. She moved her body and cried out in pain. "Come on baby," he whispered and she was halfway through the window when the door busted open.

Andy pulled out his gun and started to fire at the men entering the room. He shot one of the men and then scooted himself out the window. Sharon was sitting on the fire escape when Andy came through the window. He picked her up and they started making their way down it. "Come on!" he yelled as they both made their way down. Andy looked back above them to see if they were being followed. He knew that they had to make it down to the ground and to their car quickly.

They got to the bottom and heard gun shots from above. Andy held Sharon close to him as they knelt next to the dumpster. Shots were ricocheting off of the object. They quickly ran to the front of the building, Andy basically carrying Sharon on his side. There were lots of people on the sidewalk and as Sharon and Andy moved to their car, people started to run. Andy opened the car door and placed Sharon inside and closed the door. He then ran around to the front of the car, making sure no one followed them, and then got in.

He called it into Central over the radio in the car and dispatch responded. "We will send an ambulance to your location," they said. "Negative Central, it's not safe and I'm transporting the Commander to St. Leo's," Andy said in a huff. "One suspect is down, I don't know about the other. Male, mid-thirties wearing black pants and a green jacket, maybe six foot tall. Armed and dangerous," Andy stated over the radio. "10-4," dispatch stated and then two squad cars pulled up almost instantly.

He glanced at Sharon and her eyes were still open, she was still with him. "Lieutenant!" one of the officers called out to Andy. "There's two suspects, male, I shot one of them as we escaped. My Commander has been hit and I'm taking her to the hospital," Andy informed him. "We got it from here, sir, go, go, go," the officer stated and tapped the hood of the car. Andy then turned the lights and siren on and sped off in the direction of St. Leo's. He pulled out his phone as he was driving and dialed Provenza's number.

"Flynn, where the hell have you two been? We've been trying to get a hold of you" Provenza said over the phone. "Sharon's been shot, I'm taking her to St. Leo's, uniforms pulled up as we took off from the apartment building," Andy shouted into the phone as it was on speaker. "What?" Provenza stated in disbelief. "Look, just get someone to pick Matthew up from school and meet me at the hospital," Andy said and then disconnected the call.

He maneuvered the car through the afternoon traffic, all the time glancing at Sharon. "Sharon?" he said as he grabbed her left hand. It was covered in her blood and she felt cool to him. He turned down the street and into the ambulance bay of the hospital. He turned the car off and jumped out as two nurses and two orderlies came out with a stretcher. Andy opened the car door. "LAPD, she's been shot in her left arm, I tried stopping the bleeding and it looks like there's bullet fragments in her side," he rattled off to the nurses who placed Sharon on the stretcher and wheeled her inside. Andy was right there with them.

They wheeled Sharon into the emergency room and started working on her. One of the nurses turned around to look at Andy. She saw the blood on him. "Sir, are you shot as well?" she asked him as Andy kept looking at Sharon laying there as the Doctor and nurses tended to her. "Sir?" she said again. Andy blinked and then looked at the nurse. "No," he simply said to her. "Are you related to her?" the nurse asked him. "She's my wife," he said and the nurse nodded.

"I need a CBC, and a portable x-ray down here, I want to know what we are dealing with!" Andy heard the doctor barking out orders as he watched from outside the exam room in the ER. "Blood pressure is low but steady," one of the nurses stated. Andy kept watching them work on Sharon. They were moving in and out of her room quickly. Another nurse came over to Andy and handed him Sharon's weapon, badge, and bullet-proof vest. Sharon's purse was still in the car so he placed her badge in his pants pocket and secured her weapon on his belt.

They brought a portable x-ray machine into her room and the technician took some pictures of what the doctor wanted. "Can I stay with her?" Andy asked the nurse that handed him her belongings in a plastic bag, including her wedding rings. "They are going to prep her for surgery. I'll make sure you get a chance to see her before they take her upstairs," the nurse informed Andy and he nodded. The doctor looked at the x-ray picture that the technician handed to him and he saw where all the bullet fragments had penetrated through.

The doctor then turned around and saw Andy standing there. He walked over to him as the nurses continued to prep Sharon. "Are you the husband?" the doctor asked Andy. "Yes, is she going to be okay?" his voice cracked as he watched her.

"She's lost a lot of blood, but once we repair the wound to her arm, we will give her more blood to compensate for what she lost," the doctor started to explain to him. "I'm a little concerned about the bullet fragments on her side. It doesn't look like they penetrated any vital organs, but I'm going to have to remove them via surgery and will do so once we stop the bleeding," he continued further.

"Is she going to be okay?" Andy asked him again. "Yes, you did a good job with the makeshift tourniquet around her arm to apply pressure to her wound," the doctor stated. "How come it started to bleed again after it had stopped?" Andy asked him. "I'm thinking one of the arteries caused it to start bleeding again, I'll see when I go in to repair it," he explained. "We're going to be taking her up now for surgery, there's a waiting room up there for you to wait in," the doctor stated to Andy and he nodded.

The doctor returned to the room where Sharon was located and the nurses were ready to move her. Andy walked up to the gurney to see Sharon as they were wheeling her towards the elevators. He saw that her eyes were starting to get groggy from the medicine they were giving her. "Hey, I'll wait for you," he said and gave her a smile. She looked at him but couldn't stay focused. They got into the elevator but Andy had to wait for the next one. He watched her as the elevator doors closed and suddenly he felt like he got punched in the stomach.

"Lieutenant? You okay?" the nurse he was standing with asked him as they waited for another elevator. Andy just gave her a look and the nurse knew. "She's going to be okay," she said as the elevator door opened and they stepped inside. "How long have the two of you been married?" the nurse asked him, trying to get his mind at ease. "Not even a year, but it seems like forever," he told her as the doors opened and they walked out to the surgery floor. There was a waiting area to the right of the elevators and the nurse directed him over there.

"This is where you can wait; it's not really busy up here now. There's water or soda in that fridge over there, help yourself," the nurse said and pointed where everything was to Andy. "Thank you," he mumbled as he looked around in a daze. "We'll keep you updated on how she's doing," the nurse squeezed his hand and then left the area, leaving Andy by himself.

Andy was still holding her vest and he still had his on. He moved over to the chairs and decided to take his vest off. He didn't need it anymore. As he took it off he examined it, not a mark or scratch on his vest. He placed it on the chair and then took a look at Sharon's vest. FID would probably want to look at it themselves for their investigation. 'FID, shit' Andy thought to himself as he sat down on the chair. He had discharged his weapon several times; Sharon did as well, and knew they would be coming down soon for some sort of statement.

He didn't want to have to deal with them right now, on top of everything, and hoped that Provenza would get here soon so that he could run interference if needed. He sat there, leaned over, and placed his hands on his head. Sharon had to be okay, not only for everyone's sake, but for his as well. He stared at the floor as he sat there thinking about how this latest case got to where they were right now.

TBC