LA's Finest - Tim Bradford

5

It's been an hour since Nancy woke up, Nancy's mother hadn't woken up yet. She answered all their question but didn't remember much. They learned that Nancy's mother's name was Hannah and that Mr. Smith was her stepfather, Jason.

All four officers stayed behind to protect Nancy and her mother. They still don't know who the shooter was and is waiting to see if they'll show up to finish the job.

Valerie was in the elevator looking down at the pile of files she had in her arms, skimming through them when the elevator doors opened. Valerie looked up to lock eyes with Tim, they stared at one another for a bit before he walked in and stood next to her. They both stared forward in silence with smiles on their faces.

"I wrote a note," Tim started, looking down at her.

"I saw. Best adult sleepover huh?" Valerie teased, taking a glance at him. Tim chuckled, nodding his head.

"I didn't put my number," He nervously said, scratching his neck.

"You didn't put your number," Valerie's confirmed nodding her head, with a teasing smile on her lips.

"And I've been beating myself about it for the past two days," Tim said watching as her smile grew wider.

"Oh yeah?" She asked.

"Yeah," He confirmed before standing behind her and bent down to her ear, "I can't stop thinking about you. Can't stop thinking about that night," Valerie bit her lip before turning around.  She looked up at him, both smiling at each other.

"Then what are you going to do about it," She whispered, looking down at his lips. Tim cupped her cheeks, and slowly leaned down to kiss her, but pulled away when they heard the elevator ding. They stepped out as people stepped in.

They moved towards the nurses station where there were a few people there. Brian stood afar out of their view but not out of his. He hid behind the computer and listen to their conversation being the nosey person he was.

"Can I have your number?" Tim asked, pulling out his phone. "I want to get to know you better. When we are not drunk," She chuckled and nodded her head.

"I agree, I wanna get to know you too, also not about the hard ass I keep hearing about," She teased causing Tim to furrow his eyebrows.

"Hard ass?" He questioned before realizing, "Lucy?" She nodded her head conforming to her source.

"Tim test?" She asked chuckling.

"Something I picked up while growing up," He frowned a little but quickly covered it up. Valerie caught it but didn't say anything. "Are you going to tell me to take it easy on her?" He joked and she shook her head.

"No, I think it's good that you are hard on her," Tim looked at her surprised. "It'll shape her to be a good cop in this cruel world," She chuckled looking down at her charts.

"I'm glad to hear that," The two stared at each other before they were interrupted by his radio. "I have to take this."

"Of course, I should go as well. I have patients to check up on," Tim excused himself and went to walk away but she stopped him. "Hey, Tim?" He looked at her with a confused smile. Valerie grabbed her pen from her coat and grabbed a sticky note behind the counter and wrote her number down before handing it to him.

Tim looked down at it and closed his eyes and sighed, "Sorry, I-"

"It's fine, it's a good thing I remember," She walked away without saying another word, Tim watched as she walked away with a smile. Brian who was behind Tim quickly went to catch up with her.

"You can cut that sexual tension with a knife," Valerie jumped not expecting him to be behind her.

"Jesus Brian. Were you eavesdropping?" She asked.

"Maybe," he sheepishly said, grinning at her.

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Tim walked towards, Angela, Jackson, and Lucy. As he reached the group.

"Where were you?" Angela asked, he was missing for a while, "I was about to send out a search party."

"Relax, I was only gone for like thirty minutes," Tim said, taking a seat on one of the chairs. Angela gave him a look. Tim set his right arm on the armrest and covered his mouth to hide his smile.

"Boots, why don't you go get us some food down at the food court," Angela said, the two rookies happily obliged as they were starving, "Spill," she said once the two were out of earshot. Tim stared at her for a bit before answering.

"Dr. Tan is the girl I slept with," Angela's eyes widen in shock.

"Chen's cousin?! Oh my god," She started laughing making him roll his eyes. "She's hot, good job."

"Right," He said agreeing with her while she gave him a high five.

"Did you remember to get her number," He rolled his eyes.

"Yes, I'm not that of an idiot." He told her, not bothering to tell her he almost forgot again. He looked down the hall where Valerie was, slapping Brian on the shoulder.

"You said it, not me," Angela followed his gaze. "You should take her out to Firefly. It's a nice restaurant, Weasley took me and it's nice and has amazing food. Portions are small though."

"If you said it's good then I'll take her," Tim said.

"Officer Lopez, I need you and West back at the station."

"Copy that, on my way," Angela looked down at Tim. "Don't get distracted, Bradford." She pushed his head playfully. Lucy and Jackson came back with food in their hands. "We are taking that to go West, we are headed back at that station." The two said goodbye and left. Lucy handed Tim his food and sat down next to him.

"How come you never mention your cousin," Tim asked Lucy, who shrugged.

"I don't know to be honest. I have four cousins, we'll six since my aunt basically adopted two boys," Lucy told him with a smile and took a bite out of her sandwich. "My older cousin is actually in S.W.A.T."

"Really?" He said surprised.

"Yeah, Valerie's big brother."