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  Fandoms: The Rookie (TV 2018)  

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  15 Aug 2026

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  • Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen
  • Lucy Chen (The Rookie)
  • Tim Bradford
  • Angela Lopez
  • Chris Sanford
  • Tamara Colins
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • canon divergent 5x09
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Major Character Injury
  • in which we mildly dislocate the canon to add extra angst
  • and the chen/sanford break-up is complicated by a bullet wound
  • which naturally tim handles like a completely reasonable adult

  Summary

  Lucy isn’t expecting it, is the thing.

  She’s ready for it to be a bad day. At some point in the very near future, she’s going to dump her boyfriend for another man, and – despite all the questionably-helpful practice runs with Aaron – there’s no way either of them makes it through that without it hurting, especially since Chris has no idea it’s coming.

  So today was always gonna suck, even before the addition of a missing baby at Hep-C Central. Lucy’s ready for today to suck.

  She’s less ready for the bullets.

  aka

  canon-divergent 5x09 where the shooty guy at the hotel has slightly better aim.

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