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Lucy Chen had grown up in silk and shadow.
Born to a mother who clawed her way from death into power, she'd learned early that America in the 1920s didn't have room for girls like her: immigrant daughters raised in velvet prisons and taught to smile while the world tried to erase them.
Once every year, though, a stranger came to the door — timeless eyes, too-still posture, a voice like winter wrapped in velvet. Tim, the vampire who had saved her mother’s life, and the only person who ever looked at Lucy as though she mattered.
Now it's1936, and Vanessa has plans. Plans that would turn Lucy into a pawn and America into her battlefield. A forced marriage. A contract.
But before the cage closes, Tim returns.
He'd promised to keep her safe once. This time, she asks him to take her away, even if as his blood bag.
From a New York society that didn't welcome her to a hidden vampire manor in Whitby’s haunted woods, Lucy enters a world older than empires and sharper than hunger; into vampire courts, ancient rules, and slow-burn danger.
Freedom has teeth. So does love.
But Vanessa didn’t survive death just to be abandoned. And war — mortal and immortal — is coming.
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28 May 2026
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Lucy Chen is the kind of teacher who brings cookies to staff meetings and believes every student deserves a second chance.
Tim Bradford runs the gym like a military base and thinks she’s way too soft.
They don’t get along. At all.
But between school fundraisers and meetings something starts to change.
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27 May 2026
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Chenford AU
Lucy thought she knew what forever was supposed to look like — until the night she’s asked to choose it.
This is a story about almosts. About the wrong timing, the right person, and the things you don’t call cheating until it’s too late.
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“That’s all this is. Everything feels heavier after a few too many.
Lucy has always laughed when Tim got too close. Always shoved him off with an eye roll, called him dramatic, told him to knock it off. He’d sling an arm around her shoulders, pick her up without warning, invade her space just to hear her protest. It had always been easy. Predictable. Automatic. The two of them orbiting each other without ever thinking about it.”
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19 May 2026
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"Heath Everett says payback is a bitch."
Those are the last words Lucy Chen and Tim Bradford hear before the world goes black.
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05 May 2026
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from @derangedgoats on X:
Tim Bradford, a mafia man whose enemy is the Chen family. For him to fully possess whole of Los Angeles he must take down their family and the only way to do it is attack from the inside out. So he covets their mafia princess—how? By forcing her to marry him.- Language:
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30 Apr 2026
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Lucy didn’t expect her train ride home to be so eventful. But with a murderer on board and a detective who seems to trust her as little as she trusts him, her quiet trip has turned into a rolling crime scene with no exit. She’s just trying to survive the ride and figure out who’s really behind it all.
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23 Apr 2026
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Dr. Chen puts her hand up, stopping his rebuttal. “I just wanted to reiterate to you that I am more than qualified to be on this mission, and I will not let some jerk with an ego ruin this for me.”
Tim stares at her in shock, unsure of how to respond to this outburst.
Her eyebrow raises, “What? Nothing else you’d like to share about your insistence that I shouldn’t be here?”
Tim takes a breath, slightly shaking out the growing tension in his shoulders. “I believe that you believe you deserve to be here. But understand that if one person in that shuttle doesn’t know exactly what to do in a crisis, we all die.”
Dr. Chen’s lips purse, waiting for him to continue.
“So my apologies if it’s upsetting to you that I don’t trust that someone who hasn’t had the same level of training is joining our crew. Have a nice night, Dr. Chen.”
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Chenford Astronaut AU
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22 Apr 2026
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After the death of her criminal boyfriend, Lucy Chen joins the LAPD to prove she’s nothing like the life she left behind. There’s just one problem. Her training officer is his exact double. Tim Bradford is strict, relentless, and completely unaware that he’s slowly unraveling her. As Lucy fights to prove she belongs, her past threatens to surface in ways she can’t control. And the closer she gets to Bradford, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between who she lost and who’s standing beside her.
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Lucy Chen joins the LAPD to turn her life around after the murder of her boyfriend Jake Butler. Unfortunately her TO, Tim, is Jake’s doppelgänger. Cue the forbidden romance.
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22 Apr 2026
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When Lucy Chen arrives at a remote lighthouse bed-and-breakfast in the teeth of a winter storm, she expects an old lady and a warm room, not the quiet, guarded man who has inherited the place. Tim has built his life on solitude, his dog, his cooking, the steady rhythm of waves against stone. But Lucy’s unexpected arrival unsettles that calm, drawing colour back into the faded edges of his days. As storms batter the coast, both will be forced to face the truths they’ve been avoiding: that sometimes strangers carry the very changes you never knew you needed.
Lighthouse AU | Inspired by The Lighthouse Keeper by Sam Smith
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22 Apr 2026
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I'm Not Scared of Death (I Got Dreams Again) by hayloftown
Fandoms: The Rookie (TV 2018)
18 Mar 2026
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She’s defeated death before— several times over. There’s blood on her hands, a chip on her shoulder, and lost souls in her heart; Lucy Chen will fight tooth and nail to get what she wants— she’s done living in survival mode. She won’t waste her second chance to live.
The sequel to "I've Been Ready For You (For So Long)".
Title inspired by The View Between Villages by Noah Kahan.
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- Part 2 of Lover, Be Good To Me
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18 Apr 2026
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He feels it again.
That same unsettled edge under his skin.
This time, it feels like something’s missing.
His right hand curls into a fist.
He doesn’t need that.
He doesn’t need anything.
Especially not from his rookie.
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Tim and Lucy develop a touch-based grounding relationship during her rookie year.
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16 Apr 2026
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This isn’t how it’s supposed to happen. Tim wasn’t supposed to find his soulmate after she’d just been buried alive, and is now limp in his arms. She isn’t supposed to be dead, after he’d been dismissing her day after day for the last year, none the wiser.
Lucy would tease him, if she could. She’d laugh as she tells him that being a grump means he’s wasted all this time, and she’d probably kiss him.
Because, apparently, they’re soulmates.
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In which Tim and Lucy are soulmates. It’s too bad that she’s temporarily dead when this discovery is made. Chenford Soulmate AU set after DOD.
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15 Apr 2026
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Lucy Chen has everything in ruins: a broken heart, a stalled career, and loneliness as her only companion. Until an unexpected diagnosis forces her to fight for her life. Amid pain, fear, and endless nights, she finds allies in the most unlikely places: Tamara, Marta… and even a young patient who reminds her of her own fragility.
Meanwhile, Tim faces his demons and discovers that he still loves the woman trying to survive it all. A story of loss, resilience, and second chances, where even in the deepest darkness, love and friendship can be the light that saves.
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15 Apr 2026
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Lucy, Jackson, and Nolan are rookies — at teaching. The three of them are new student teachers at Mid-Wilshire High School.
Lucy's mentor teacher is Tim Bradford — a grumpy, slightly intense physics teacher.
He doesn't seem particularly happy to have her around.
Unfortunately for him, Lucy doesn't like being underestimated.
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15 Apr 2026
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15 Apr 2026
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Rosalind Dyer escaped from custody.
Lucy isn’t sure how to navigate that. How to navigate everything when it feels like the whole world is spinning faster than she can hang on.
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A reimagining of 5x01-5x04
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20 Mar 2026
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Six criminals. Six different motives.
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20 Mar 2026
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When it comes out that there's an IA officer who is potentially dirty, Tim Bradford, TO, and Lucy Chen, his rookie, are tasked with pretending to have an inappropriate relationship. How does this affect their dynamic? Does it complicate things? What will rookie Chen do to achieve the task?
THANK YOU to NightRaven789! for being my beta for this story.
Next chapter to come soon!
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19 Mar 2026
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Season 2 Lucy accidentally switches with Season 7 Lucy they both try to navigate their lives as they try to find their way back home.
Part 2 is the follow up story on what exactly changed as a result of time travel
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14 Mar 2026
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12 Mar 2026