domestic , sad , smutty. Just everything chenford.

Lucy Chen is a 40-year-old doctor. She is one of the best surgeons. Every patient immediately falls in love with her. Every child she treats draws her a picture. There is no one who does not like her and thank her for saving their life. She is also popular among her colleagues. She has only one close colleague, nurse Tamara. Otherwise, she is not particularly close to anyone else. She has a boyfriend of 18 years. His name is Emmett, and they have a daughter, Lori. She is 15 and is Lucy's sweetheart. Even though she is 15, she is sensible and does not act out like a typical teenager. Emmett and Lucy are not married. Lucy never wanted to get married, and neither did Emmett. Emmett is a firefighter, but he is often away, and lately he has been disappearing so often that Lucy suspects he has found someone else. Over time, things between them have not been the same as they used to be. For the last 5 years, they have been more like roommates with benefits. But Lucy wanted Lori to grow up in a complete family. Tim Bradford works at METRO. He is 44. He loves his wife with all his heart. He always rushes into everything. Everyone tells him that one day it will come back to haunt him... especially his 15-year-old daughter, Ave. Ave is everything to him. She is the center of his life. He has been alone with her since she was a baby. Her mother packed up and left one day. No one knows where she went or even if she's alive. Tim got used to being alone with Ave. Since Isabel ran away from him and little Ave, he hasn't had anyone else. He doesn't want anyone else.

Tim Bradford doesn't do dates. But when his sister insists he brings one to her wedding, he knows exactly who.

What if Tim and Lucy met before they worked together?? Would their relationship/partnership/TO and boot-ship change a lot?

After the breakup, nothing explodes. Tim Bradford follows the rules too well. Lucy Chen learns how to breathe without him. They don't fight. They don't confess. They don't rush back to what they were. Instead, they move through silence, habit, and unintentional intimacy-partners again, but broken differently now. As Lucy begins to heal and Tim quietly unravels, both are forced to confront the truth they avoided: love wasn't what broke them. Fear was. This is a story about restraint and repair. About choosing honesty over safety. About two people learning-slowly, deliberately-that staying takes more courage than letting go. Because some love doesn't end. It waits.

Tim and Lucy go to their home for the first time after getting back together. To mark their reconciliation and the fact that they're moving in together, they celebrate in their sheets. Missing scene from 8x1

Tim Bradford's complicated past with his abusive and estranged father resurfaces when his father falls gravely ill. Wracked with anger, frustration, and unresolved pain, Tim struggles to cope - pushing away everyone, including Lucy Chen, the woman who loves him and refuses to let go. As Tim confronts the harsh realities of his childhood and his father's final days, Lucy stands by him with unwavering support, gently breaking down his walls with compassion and fierce love. Through shared confessions, painful visits, and quiet moments of vulnerability, Tim and Lucy navigate grief, forgiveness, and the fragile path toward healing. When Tim's father dies, Lucy attends the funeral by his side, strengthening the bond between them. As they face their uncertain future together, Tim finally admits the depths of his feelings, and Lucy embraces the promise of love and hope beyond the past.

Lucy Chen doesn't crumble - she rebuilds. But after Tim Bradford ends things with a single, painful choice, rebuilding comes with silence, distance, and walls no one can seem to break through... until a new detective decides she's worth understanding. Tim tries to move on. Lucy tries to forget. And Ethan Shaw tries to help her breathe again. But the heart never forgets what it once held close.

Tim and Lucy were in a perfectly fine relationship until Angela picks up one of her 9year old cases. And she deeply regret that now. The case brought something back that brings pain and suffering for all three of them.

Everyone in Mid-Wilshire knows Officer Tim Bradford is a wall-hard, unyielding, and impossible to climb. They think he's breaking Officer Lucy Chen because she's a "hot shot" rookie. They don't know that Lucy is already breaking. Between a boyfriend who is slowly stealing her light and a secret night with her TO that could end both their careers, Lucy is starving for a way out. When the truth finally bleeds through her uniform, Tim has to decide: follow the rules he lives by, or burn the world down to save the one person who finally saw behind his wall.