Happily Ever After - A Chenford Story

She hates me now. - Chapter 15

Tim's POV

In the morning I wake up to Lucy cuddled up in my arms and Demi is crying. I slowly move Lucy off me and get up to help Demi. I walk into her room and see her standing in her crib reaching for me.
"Daddy!" She cries. 
"Hey Dem." I say as I lift her.
"Hungi!" She says in a cute voice.
"Alright come on baby." I tell her and place her down so she can walk to the kitchen. She can walk but she still topples over sometimes so I hold her hand as she waddles over to the kitchen. I feed her and get her changed and then I turned on the TV for her to watch so I can get ready. I take a quick shower and walk into our room and see Lucy still fast asleep. I shake her lightly.
"Luce you need to get up we have to leave in 30 minutes." I tell her lightly. 
"10 more minutes." She begs. I know when she means 10 more minutes she means another hour.
"No Luce you have to get up unless you want to show up at work looking bad and ruin your reputation of being the hot detective." I tell her with a smile.
"Ugh fine. Just because I don't want to go to work looking like a rats ass." She says huffily and get's up. 30 minutes later we somehow leave the house on time. We drop Demi off at daycare and go over to the station. When I park I look over at Lucy who's asleep against the door. 
"Luce we are here." I tell her. Her head shoots up, looks around and then jumps out of the truck. We head in and Lucy goes straight to her desk and flops down in her chair. I get changed and then see Lucy still flopped down in her chair I feel so bad for her. I shrug it off head off to find metro.

Lucy's POV 
I flop down in my seat and sit there for a few minutes until I notice Angela sit down in her desk that is next to mine.
"Hey Lucy!" She says cheerfully. "How was your night last night?" She asks me. Shit.
"Hey Angela.." I chuckle nervously since I haven't thought of a lie. 
"So your night?" She asks again trying to figure out why I'm mopey.
"Shit." I say plainly.
"Shit or shit shit?" She asks.
"Jesus Christ Angela it's not your business so fucking leave it alone!" I yell at her pissed off that she keeps asking me questions. Then I notice that I just yelled at one of my best friends.
"Oh shit I'm so sorry." I say as tears form in my eyes from the guilt. Damn it Lucy she was just being nice and you fucked it up you idiot. I notice my leg shaking and my nails digging into my leg and realise I need to find Tim.
"I have to go find Tim." I state plainly and get up and speed walk away leaving Angela speechless. I look around the station frantic to find my husband I can't find him so I go to the only other person who would help me right now. My ex. John Nolan. When I find him I'm in tears.
"Woah, Lucy are you ok?" He asks. 
"No, I need help to find Tim." I say.
"Alright how about you sit down right here and I'll go find him, Celina can chat to you about your aura or something because I know this face she's making she wants to tell you about it." John says as he point me to a chair. I sit down and start listening to Celina rant about my aura, but I ignore her and start to overthink everything.

Tim's POV
I'm talking to my team when I see Nolan racing towards me.
"Tim!" He yells at me.
"It's Sergeant Bradford, Nolan." I demand.
"I don't care right now, Lucy needs you." He says frantically. Oh no.
"What happened? Where is she?" I ask panicking.
"She's near role call, she came over to me and was crying and just told me she needed my help to find you." John tells me. I nod and start running towards the role call room. I see her siting on a chair next to Celina who is ranting about probably auras and shit. I notice Lucy is just staring off into space so I know she's overthinking.
"Luce!" I yell when I realise she also partially digging her nails into her leg. When I get over to her I pull her hand off her leg. Her head shoots up when she notices me do this.
"Tim I fucked up. I really fucked up." She says crying. I kneel down in front of her. The worst goes to my mind so I roll up her sleeves but her arms are the same as before. She quickly rolled her sleeves back down before Celina or John could fully see her scars.
"It's not that. I yelled at Angela when all she was doing was asking how my night was and she wanted details and then I just snapped." She tells me with regret in her eyes.
"Baby it's ok, I'm sure Angela won't be mad." I assure her.
"No Tim she hates me now." She cries into my shoulder.
"She doesn't, come on we will even ask her." I say as I drag her up. I wipe her tears, I turn around to see Nolan who is just standing there watching the scene.
"Thanks for getting me Nolan." I tell him. 
"No problem, Hope your ok Luce." He says to Lucy. 'Luce'?! 
"Yeah, Thanks John." Lucy replies back with a smile. I shake off them addressing each other by a first name and nickname and walk Lucy towards her desk.
"Wait, I need to fix my make up Angela will know." She says as she starts to hurry towards the bathroom.
"Lucy I can't go in there with you." I tell her concerned.
"I'll be ok babe." She says with a reassuring smile. She goes into the women's locker room and I wait out the front. I grab out my phone and open Angela and My text thread.

Ange <3 

Tim- I'm about to bring Lucy back to her desk, she thinks you hate her now because she snapped at you. I don't give a shit if you do, tell her you aren't mad and you forgive her.
Angela- Got it. For the record I don't really mind I shouldn't have been poking around. Is she ok? She said she had a shit night.
Tim- Not my place to say, she might tell you idk.

Then Lucy walks out of the locker room looking fresh.
"Hello gorgeous." I tell her as I admire her.
"Hey." She says plainly. I'm worried a bit but she promised she would be ok and I need to trust her. We walk back over to her desk and Angela is siting there doing some work.
"Angela?" She asks timid.
"Yeah?" Angela answers with a warm smile.
"I'm sorry for snapping at me, I get if you hate me now." She says her eyes full of regret.
"Luce it's fine I could never hate you and I shouldn't have been poking around. So how about all is forgiven?" Angela asks.
"Sure, thanks Ange." Lucy says as she hugs Angela.
"Alright Luce are you ok for me to go back to work?" I ask her. She just looks up at me and nods. I pull her into a hug.
"You should tell Angela, she would listen." I whisper to her ear.
"Mhm." She says as she lets me go from the hug and sits back down.