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Off the record by melericmoments
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In the spotlight, they are perfection: Sergeant Tim Bradford and Officer Lucy Chen, the heart of The Rookie's most electric dynamic. Eric Winter and Melissa O'Neil bring them to life with effortless chemistry, playful banter in interviews, stolen glances on set, the kind of ease that fuels endless fan edits and hashtags. To the cameras and the crew, it's professional magic. To the world beyond the lot, it's carefully guarded. No posts, no confirmations, just quiet truths shared in dim trailers and late-night drives. But when the lights go down and the microphones clip off, the line between performance and reality blurs. Today, after one too many "off the record" questions, that line snaps. And Melissa makes sure everyone remembers exactly who he belongs to.
Us beyond the Badge by maddih2025
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This is a Chenford story. This timeline follows from the moment tim decides yeah I wanna propose, to a little after the wedding.
I've Got You (But I Don't Know for How Long) by Annie9966
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Tim is drowning in files and schedules, and he won't stop until his body stops for him. Lucy comes home to find him asleep on the couch - and decides enough is enough. Set after 8x04
Oneshots  by THEROOKIE24
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"ONESHOTS PART 2"
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 by therookiefan30
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tim has a newborn baby in Lucy's rookie year. He's a single dad because Isabel ran away from the hospital as soon as his little boy was born. Lucy sees that he's tired a lot and seems to be struggling, he's good at hiding it around other people but Lucy sees right through him in her first week what will happen will Lucy find and help him?
after the flames 🔥 by Chenfordsdaughter09
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.After a devastating explosion rips through Mid-Wilshire Station on Valentine's Day, the team is left fighting for their lives in the burning wreckage. As fire spreads and alarms scream, Lucy and Celina are the first to wake-pulling officers from the flames while Tim lies trapped beneath his desk and Miles is unconscious upstairs, surrounded by fire. In the aftermath, the station is reduced to ashes, several officers are hospitalized, and emotions run just as high as the physical injuries. Tim and Lucy cling to each other in the parking lot as the place where they met burns to the ground. Angela and Grey bring the bomber to justice. Celina refuses to leave Miles' side. Families gather. Decisions are made. From smoke-filled hallways to hospital rooms to the long road of rebuilding, this one-shot explores survival, love, and what it means to come back stronger-together.
Ruin our friendship by melericmoments
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For years they danced around it. A lingering glance between takes. A brush of shoulders in the makeup trailer. Jokes that landed too close to the truth, laughter that lasted a beat too long. Melissa and Eric were friends, best friends, coworkers, constants in each other's chaos. Everyone saw it: the chemistry that crackled brighter than any scripted scene, the way they always ended up side by side, orbiting without touching. They never named it. Naming it meant risking everything, the show, the friendship, the easy rhythm they'd built over seasons of long hours and shared secrets. So they flirted in half-measures. Teased in public. Kept the line firmly drawn. Until one December night, when a stranger's ghosting and a sabotaged text message finally snapped the tension taut enough to break. One push. One pull. One moment where "just friends" stopped being enough. And everything they'd carefully avoided came rushing in.
Halstead Imagines by malewk172
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Imagines about the Halstead brothers, Will and Jay from Chicago Med and Chicago PD. Mostly brother sister moments between Will, Jay, and the reader. Highest ranking: #1 in "imagines" out of 59.5k stories on 5/25/21 #2 in "Will Halstead" out of ~300 stories on 9/7/21
Clingy sick Tim  by therookie_scenarios3
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Tim and Lucy have been dating for two years. Tim is very clingy to Lucy especially when he's sick. Tim is a Sargeant. Lucy is a detective. Tim and Lucy live together in Tim's house along with Kojo.
We're Taking Him Home by JesseMyLove84
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They don't find him broken. They find him trained to survive. Fourteen years old, still living under Pat's roof-where love is conditional, apologies don't exist, and fear is the rule. Jay and Will see it the second they walk in: the careful posture, the guarded eyes, the way their little brother tries to make himself smaller. So they take him. But safety doesn't feel safe to someone who's never had it. Now they're navigating teen years with a boy who's carrying too much-nightmares, anger, shame, and a past that won't stay quiet. And Pat keeps trying to force his way back into their lives, drunk and demanding, like blood gives him the right. Jay and Will will prove him wrong-one hard day at a time.