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Tim knew that the feeling came with the territory. His line of work was brutal on every member of a family; being in a relationship with another cop was a whole new ball game. Yes, he had married Isabelle, but this was different, being with Lucy was different.
He could see the similarities in the two of them, it would take a fool not too. Both of them were brilliant UCs, they were witty, and kind, and he could see a future with Lucy like he had once with Isabelle. That future had crumbled before him, Tim didn’t know if he could live through that again. To devote his life, his love, and his soul, to Lucy is all he wanted to do, but the question was could he live with himself if she met a similar, or God forbid a worse, fate than his ex-wife had.
He could also see the differences, Lucy was open and honest with him. She let her walls down when they were together, and in doing so, she allowed Tim to lower his. She trusted him, wholly, completely, and entirely; she trusted him in a way that Isabelle could never.
So the wait for Lucy to come back from her latest undercover operation did eventually become easier as he allowed himself the knowledge that she would return to him as she always did. He would allow himself the comfort in the knowledge that he wouldn’t be alone again. He would allow himself to breathe deeply and sleep easily because the bad news he always dreaded wouldn’t come for him; he wouldn’t allow it.