The Bradford's

Somethings Not Right

A week past with no new drama. I road with Lucy for a few days and we followed Mary Adam in a couple different undercover cars and she seemed to lead a clean life. Until today, we followed her to a known gang area. Lucy grabbed my hand, "this is the area we were held in." I was unconscious when we were rescued but Lucy, was not she was very much awake. I would never tell her this but I still have nightmares of that day. Nightmares were they hurt her instead of me. Nightmares were they hurt me and died leaving Logan and Lila to fend for themselves. I park about a block away from where we saw Mary go and knock on a door.
"Let's get out and peek around," I told her. We were both dressed in plain clothes.
"Tim, I don't know, I can't go through that again. What if they catch us and are taken again." She grabbed my hand and I saw a flash of pain in her eyes and scared. Lucy Chen has been through enough pain and being taken to last her a life time. "I will die before I get taken again. I'll die before I have to watch you get beat so close to death." She shook her head and looked out the window. "I don't want to do this anymore. Let's just turn a blind eye and lay low."

***Flash back***
Lucy, Lila and I had just returned home from her giving her statement on what Emmett had did to her. She didn't look like my Lucy, her eyes no longer held the light she once had. Lucy has always been a cop who never shot to kill. But today, today she had to take her first life. That life happened to be the father of her child, someone she used to loved, and someone who had abused and violated her regularly.
I watched as she picked up a crying child and held her a tear sliding down her face. She looked at me and flinched as she retreated down the hallway to Lilas room and I followed after them shortly and tried to turn the handle but it was locked. I slid down the front of the door and rested my head on it.
Hours passed of her and Lila being locked in that room and I didn't move til I heard footsteps. I moved away and Lucy soon appeared. Eyes dark and rimmed with red.
"Lucy you can't do this again... I know you have been through hell yet again but I can't watch you go down the black hole you were in wh— before. I need you, Lila needs you."
"Tim I was raped and killed someone, I feel so d-dirty and worthless. How can you look at me. I'm disgusting." My heart shattered as she said those words and she walked away and I watched her hopelessly.
Lucy thinks that this would make me not want her. She thinks that I would think she's disgusting. I heard drawers banging around and walked towards the sound. What I saw stopped my heart. Lucy stood there holding a gun. Her eyes unwavering.
"Lucy put that down, now," I said softly to her.
"I can't live with myself. I've shot plenty of people in my career already Tim but I never aim to kill and I killed someone. I can't the feeling of that poker breaking through his flesh." She grabbed the gun and winced as she pulled it up to her head and I felt paralyzed. Scared to set her off I slowly step toward her. "Don't move, I don't want live Tim. I can't keep pushing all the pain and hurt of my life to the back of my mind." Tears ran down her face and she seemed so broken.
"Lucy what he did to you was so wrong. What he made happen to you with Rose... was sick and twisted beyond belief. But you survived, you fought both times and you lived. Yeah you took his life and I know how hard that was on you." Her grip started to loosen on the gun but she didn't move it from her head and I felt the tightness in my chest loosen. "What about Lila? What would she do without you? What about me? We love you Lucy, you are the warmth and light of this family. Without you I'm a hard rock. But you bring the best out of me and Lila she adores you Lucy she's just like you. Happiness and light. What if she loses you? What will that do to her." Lucy face contoured into a look of embarrassment and pain. As her slowly lowered so I took a few soft slow steps toward her. "Just put it down Lucy. You will make it out the end of this with me by your side." She sat the hun downs and I relaxed tremendously and closed the space between us and took her in my arms and comforted her as she let go of all of the pain.
***end of flashback***
"Lucy I know your scared but we can't let anyone else get hurt by these guys. Protect and serve no matter what. Right? We just need to get proof to take to IA and we can step away." I told her she still looked unconvinced. "Okay I'll go and you wait here. I just need a picture of them talking. Our window is closing Lucy."
"Fine let's go, your not going alone." She had the look of determination she had when I first met her and I knew once she got past her feelings she would be ready to take on anything.
Lucy gets into her feelings sometimes especially when it comes to everything we have been through but once she is able to push them aside she is a force to be reckoned with.
We got out jogged the block til we were at the fence line of the house we saw Mary go down. Lucy and I got down low and fast walked to the side of the house.  I looked in the window and it was an empty room. We slowly walked and looked into the windows and inspected the situation. That's when we saw it. Colby and Mary locked onto each other in various states of undress. I felt my stomach churn at the sight. I grabbed my phone and took the picture. But that's when she looked up.
"Go go go," I say and Lucy and I take off before we know it theres 2 men following us. That just pushes us harder and we make it back to our car and I start and drive off as a few shots are fired at us. I haul ass back to the station.
"I told you this was dangerous. We are in over our heads. There's no way she didn't recognize you." Lucy shaker her head at me but I focused on getting us back to the station.
"Look if you want to pull out Luce I won't be mad. I get it but I can't and won't let anyone else slip in and make this department look weak and foolish." After Anderson get as revealed to be dirty Sergant Grey retired and handed his spot over to me I worked hard to recover our name from Anderson making a fool of the Mid Wiltshire and the LAPD. Now this... I take to much pride in being a member of the force to let this go. I love Lucy and I'm going to give the chance to back down. Angela will help me out and we will get IA involved. This picture is enough, but I want more information.
"If you are in I'm in. But you need to promise me if we're in the same position as before you won't take it all on you." I stopped and I looked at her. Knowing that would be impossible I decided to lie for her own good.
"Fine." She hugged me desperately and we stood wrapped up together til there was a knock on my office door.
"Come in." I said and we pulled apart.
"We have a rookie transfer from across town. Here's the file. They start in 3 day." Captain handed me the folder. "Lucy don't you have to get back on the streets? Bad guys aren't going to catch themselves." I inwardly scoffed. The captain hates our situation but has no say over any of it.
"Yes, sorry, sir." She looked at me and headed to the car.
"I want the new rookie with Lucy. The other TOs won't be able to handle it."
"Yes sir." I nodded and he retreated back to his office.
I opened up the file and read, he was being transferred due to complaints that were not found to be true. So why Lucy?