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    The adrenaline is gone. What's left is quieter, and harder.

    After Lucy is forced to use deadly force in the line of duty, Tim finds her in the tunnel and does the only thing the job allows him to do, he reads her the protocol. By the book. Completely.

    But Lucy is hurt in ways she isn't saying, and the night is far from over. An ambulance. A question neither of them expected. A hospital. Interviews under fluorescent lights. The long drive home in the rain.

    This is a story about two people who know exactly how to hold themselves together for the job, and what happens in the small hours when there is no more job left to hold onto. About the things that get said above a whisper, and the things that don't need to be said at all.

    Pillow talk. Falling asleep.

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    15 Mar 2026

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    Chenford + Touch Starved + Angst + Possessive behavior, is there anything better?

    (series editting underway - read the description on each fic for details)

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    05 Nov 2025

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    Detective Tim Bradford saw his life drastically changed when he and his ex girlfriend, former Officer Lucy Chen, were almost killed in the line of duty. Ripped apart by life, they team up to take down a serial killer when Tim discovers his current homicide case is connected to Lucy’s missing person’s case, as she’s now a private investigator. Will the case bring them back together? Or will it rip them apart forever once the killer sets his sights on Lucy?

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    25 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    Everyone knew that Tim Bradford was a grumpy hardass.

    Not everyone had to spend 12+ hours a day with him as a direct supervisor capable of getting them fired.

    Everyone knew that Bradford was in a foul mood today.

    Not everyone had to figure out why.

    Touch-starved, Lucy thought. That’s what her therapist would call it. The kind of man who’d die for people, but didn’t think he was allowed to need them.
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    Tim is touchstarved, Lucy Notices

    This was previously posted as the first 11 chapters of "the Off Switch", due to series restructuring it is now being posted as it's own work.

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    21 Jul 2025

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    She fights the Angel and the Devil on her shoulder regularly over which limb falls victim to the teeth of a blade

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    02 Jul 2025