✦They were born into different stories. Fate decided they would bleed through the same one.✦ •ELLA ROSSI × ETHAN MILLAR• •HELENA CARTIER × ZEN KNIGHT•

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.

Five years ago, Lucy Chen slept with a stranger at a bar. On Monday morning, he introduced himself as Officer Tim Bradford, her new TO. What followed was a history of bad timing and worse choices: stolen nights, broken vows, Isabel's return, Lucy's silence - and a secret that drove them apart. By the time Lucy transferred out of Mid-Wilshire, she swore she'd never look back. Now, she's a sergeant at Hollywood. A single mom. And she hasn't seen Tim in half a decade. Until a joint LAPD project forces them into the same room again. Until the memories they buried refuse to stay buried. Until the people they are now have to face everything the people they were left behind. Enemies. Lovers. Strangers. Partners. Some mistakes don't fade. Some of them grow - into scars, into secrets, into children with eyes too familiar to ignore. | the 1st (out of 3) book of this fanfiction has been publish! you can find it under the same title "Where Dahlias Bloom" on Kindle Store for the ebook version, or at the Amazon store/website for the printed version! |

Lucy never planned to fall for anyone, let alone her boyfriend's best friend. But when Eli walks out the second she finds out she's pregnant, it's Tim Bradford who shows up. Big, broad, brutally protective-and exactly the kind of steady she swore she didn't need. He's not supposed to want her. She's not supposed to crave him. But late nights turn into soft touches, teasing banter turns into stolen kisses, and suddenly, Lucy's falling-hard-for the man who's been there since the moment everything fell apart. He cooks for her. Rubs her feet. Worships every curve of her changing body like it's the most sacred thing he's ever touched. She's carrying another man's baby. But Tim's the one holding her heart. And when the truth about just how many babies she's carrying finally comes out... everything changes.

When Officer Lucy Chen is abducted by serial predator Caleb Wright and buried alive, Sergeant Tim Bradford realizes the depth of his feelings for her in the moments he nearly loses her. Wracked with guilt over having encouraged her relationship with the man who betrayed her, Tim becomes both her fiercest protector and her most conflicted secret. Bound by rules that forbid personal entanglements between supervisors and subordinates, Tim and Lucy bury their feelings just as deeply as she was once buried in the desert. But shared trauma, unshakable loyalty, and an undeniable connection keep pulling them closer together. As Lucy recovers and rises through the ranks, the walls between them erode. Each chapter of their journey follows them navigating the blurred line between duty and desire - through guilt, longing, secrecy, and trust. When Lucy earns her sergeant's stripes, the power dynamic that once kept them apart dissolves, forcing them both to confront what they've been running from: the chance at something real. At its heart, this is a story of survival, healing, forbidden love, and two people learning that sometimes the rules worth breaking are the ones that keep them from happiness.

Tim Bradford, a training officer at the Mid-Wilshire Division, is a man of discipline and routine. Behind his tough exterior, though, he's a single father raising his six-year-old daughter, Hope Alexandra Bradford. Hope's mother walked out when she was just a child, leaving Tim to navigate fatherhood on his own. Lucy Chen, recently transferred from Hollywood Division, moved to Mid-Wilshire to be closer to her best friends, Detective Angela Lopez and Officer Celina Juarez. When Chen met Bradford, she saw the kind of seasoned cop who seemed all grit and no play. But behind his walls, Tim was a soft-hearted man devoted to those he loved. Slowly, Lucy and Tim became friends, and soon, Chen and Hope developed a close bond as well. One day, Tim and Lucy finally confessed their feelings for each other but the LAPD rules came crashing down. Officers in the same unit cannot be seen dating. Now, they're stuck between duty and desire. How will they navigate the rules, their growing love, and the delicate balance of family with Hope caught in the middle?

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She turned her head slightly to the left. Lucy opened her mouth to speak, but only silence followed. Paralyzed, her lips stayed sealed, but her eyes watched. Her breathing quickened, her chest rising faster and faster, a knot forming in her throat. Who was this man standing beside her bed? Who was this man who knew her name while she knew nothing of him? She studied him, thoroughly, head to toe. "Who... who are you?" she finally managed to say. "Lucy, it's me, Tim..."

What if Lucy called Tim upset after her mom left in season 3 episode 1-?

What if La Fiera was Lucy's biological mother