18 Bookmarks by ysalai
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When Lucy receives an accidental letter from a man in the military, she thinks nothing of it.
When Tim receives a response from a college student and not his sister, he thinks nothing of it.
One wrong address. Two lives changed forever.
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17 May 2026
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When burnout sends Lucy fleeing the spotlight, a broken-down car leaves her stuck - right on the doorstep of Tim, a brooding baker with no time for pop culture or pop stars. She’s a disruption he didn’t ask for. He’s a challenge she didn’t see coming. But the longer she stays, the harder it gets to draw the line between temporary and something that cuts a little deeper.
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Popstar Lucy meets Grumpy Baker Tim
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02 May 2026
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Lucy Chen has no idea how touch-starved she really is, not until a certain TO enters her life and cracks through her defenses.
She keeps the world at arm's length because after a million foster homes, a stint in the military, and more death than any child should ever have to witness, the best option to keep herself safe is to shut down her emotions.
If only Tim Bradford would let her stay that way.
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- English
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- 97,551
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- 30/?
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- 1,039
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22 Mar 2026
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12 Mar 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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- English
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- 33,726
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- 6/18
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- 154
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20 Dec 2025
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Tim and Lucy are moving in together. This includes mostly smut, but I may add some fluffy pieces as well.
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29 Nov 2025
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Genny and Tim Bradford spent their entire childhoods living next door to Lucy Chen. As neighbors and best friends, they grew and changed together. However, there was one constant despite all the change: no matter how much time had past, or how different their lives had become, or even how much Lucy tried to fight it, she had feelings for Tim, and through the years, those feelings grew from a little crush to overwhelming love.
Title is lyrics from “Smash Into You” by Beyoncé.
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- English
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- 289,235
- Chapters:
- 49/?
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- 1
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- 645
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04 Oct 2025
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Lucy wasn’t expecting a text like that from Tim. Neither was he.
Tim makes a mistake. Lucy takes advantage of it. Business as usual.
An accidental text. A bold reply. And maybe, just maybe, a date.
Tim sends the wrong text. Lucy sends the right response.Bookmarked by ysalai
04 Oct 2025
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What would happen if Grey’s threat to transfer Tim in Season 6, Episode 8 played out.
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Inspired by “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” by Benson Boone.
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12 Aug 2025
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“Things are a little complicated with your daddy right now,” she whispers, her thumb brushing over her warm skin. “But we’re gonna figure it out. We have to. For you.”
She imagines all of the milestones — the doctor’s appointments, finding out her pants don’t fit anymore, feeling their baby kick, the baby’s birth — and she’s so fucking uninterested in doing it alone that she fumbles for her phone, firing a quick text off to Tim before laying down.
To: Tim Bradford
From: Lucy Chen
We need to talk.OR
What if Lucy was pregnant when Tim broke up with her?
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- Part 1 of these little wonders
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- English
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- 167,389
- Chapters:
- 69/69
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19 Jun 2025
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Can you use these tears? (to put out the fires in my soul) by ashegaby
Fandoms: The Rookie (TV 2018)
28 Apr 2024
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Lieutenant Lucy Chen is a badass firefighter. Sergeant Tim Bradford is a badass cop. Problem is, Lucy really really doesn’t like cops.
Originally written for Day 6/7 of Chenford Week 2023
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- Part 5 of Chenford Week 2023
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- English
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- 54,596
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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15 Jun 2025
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It's 1999, and the last thing 27-year-old Lieutenant Tim Bradford remembers is stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan after breaking up with his girlfriend. When he wakes up, it's to a world he no longer recognizes. Over 80% of the population is dead...
... ish.
He always thought Zombies were just a plot device for cheesy, apocalyptic young adult novels, but the reality is much more terrifying and bloody.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 36/36
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15 Jun 2025
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“He works at Mid-Wilshire with my dad,” he whispers. “He’s a TO… or at least he was. I guess something happened and he was sent here to teach instead of training, though my father won’t tell me what. But it’s definitely a demotion, so I wouldn’t mess with him. He’s probably pissed about it and out to ruin our lives.”
Lucy chews thoughtfully on the end of her pen as she half listens, half wonders.
What could Officer Bradford have done to deserve a demotion?
And does she want to get on his bad side?
She kind of liked the spark she’d seen in him this morning, and the way he’d approached her and yelled at her had caused something warm and funny to happen in her belly.
She kind of wants to poke at him again, just to see what happens.
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Academy AU
Teacher Tim/Student Lucy- Language:
- English
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- 66,539
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- 23/23
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- 815
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15 Jun 2025
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“Why’d you volunteer, Tim?” Lucy asks quietly.
It’s the question that’s been plaguing her for the past two days, ever since she saw his name on the list. There’s a lot of things that Tim hates, but she’s pretty sure undercover work might be at the forefront. Yet, he had volunteered to do a long-term op, posing as her husband. She knows he’s trying to pay everything back to her—small doses, he had said. But... This is a lot.
This isn’t just some small dose. This is just about as big as a dose that anything could be.
“Because,” Tim starts heavily, “I’ll always have your back. As long as you’ll let me.”
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In which Lucy and Tim go on a long-term undercover assignment…as a married couple…after their breakup. It goes as well as you’d expect. Post S6 finale Chenford fic.
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- English
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- 96,459
- Chapters:
- 14/14
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- 746
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- 2,906
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- 516
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- 99,183
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12 Jun 2025
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Inside the Lines: Missing Moments from Coloring Outside the Lines by Cryssi2386 (Bropez87)
Fandoms: The Rookie (TV 2018)
28 Jun 2025
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The many unseen moments throughout Tim and Lucy's journey in Coloring Outside the Lines, moments will span from S3 up through S7 and the various stages of Chenford's path in this universe.
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- Part 3 of Coloring Outside the Lines
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12 Jun 2025
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12 Jun 2025
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As she gets closer, Tim is immediately drawn to her wide brown eyes; they are broadcasting her emotional state for everyone to see — some combination of eager and excited and nervous. The polar opposite of the cool and guarded expression he is careful to keep on his own face.
Angela turns to look at him, clearly trying to gauge his reaction before she whacks him with her bouquet and hisses, “That is your soon-to-be wife, Tim, not your new boot, so maybe chill out with the death glare. You shouldn’t be trying to intimidate her.”
Tim ignores her; he begs to differ. This woman is supposed to be his wife. Chosen by supposed experts to be his life partner, his perfect other half. He is sure as hell going to be assessing whether she measures up to his standards. The fact that he already knows all of this is bullshit honestly just makes him that much more inclined to prove it.
When she reaches the end of the aisle, she stops in front of him and tilts her head to smile up at him in this sweet, hopeful way that he simultaneously finds incredibly endearing and incredibly irritating — like he holds her fate in his hands, and she is counting on him not to f*ck it up.
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- Chapters:
- 36/37
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09 Jun 2025
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There’s a little jingle that quickly moves from a distance, right to the doorway, and suddenly, there’s a very good dog, sitting and staring at her with a curious expression.
“Kojo?” Lucy whispers, completely confused.
What’s he doing here?
Unless...
If the idea of a drunken one-night stand with a stranger had been dreadful, well, this is objectively about ten times worse.
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In which the Lopez-Evers wedding never gets interrupted, and Tim and Lucy end up doing a lot more than just dancing. Chenford S4 Friends-With-Benefits AU!
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- Part 1 of Dirty Little Secrets
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,357
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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08 Jun 2025