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Lucy steps into Tim’s office, her nerves buzzing and her head pounding. He’s at his desk and he’s looking at something but she can tell he’s not really focused. His eyes are down but he’s tense.
She is tense too and she knows she looks it, she feels like all the pressure of the last few days pressing down on her shoulders. She feels Aaron’s impending doom sitting on her chest. He had to be okay. He just had to make it or she’s not sure what she would do if she lost another friend.
And Tim.
There’s no way she can lose him because if she does if something happens to him. She won’t survive. He’s her safe place, her lifeline, her battle partner. The man she would do anything for. And who she knows would do anything for her, he would risk his life just to know she’s okay.
“Hey.” She says. He looks up and his face softens a bit when he sees her. He puts down the pen and stands up walking from behind his desk. He stands in front of her, in his long sleeve metro shirt. His face still bruised from the fight, Lucy has to resist the urge to touch his face.
“Hi.” He says. He does step forward a little bit and reaches out. She falls into his touch and he sighs.
“You heard about Aaron?” She asks. Tim licks his lips and nods. Grey had told them Celina had called and told him Aaron was bleeding internally. It sucked not knowing if he was going to be okay, it hurt her heart that they might lose another one. Another friend.
Tim must know what she’s thinking because he pulls on her arm to get her even closer to him. “Don’t think that way Lucy. Aaron will be okay.” He says. There’s a shakiness to his voice but he tries to steady it.
She nods. And then pauses for a few minutes. “I almost lost you. I can’t lose you Tim. I can’t lose the most important person in my life. I can’t lose you because—” She trails off her eyes darting down but Tim lifts her chin up with his finger.
“You won’t lose me Luce.” He says. It’s so soft and tender and sweet she almost melts into his arms. He pulls her in for a hug, and rests his chin on the top of her head. He rubs his hand up and down her back.
And god…
She loves him.
And she almost lost him.
“I love you.” She whispers. She feels him pause his movements and look down at her. His face is soft, softer than she’s every seen it. He cups her face, careful of the bruises and kisses her. It’s soft and gentle, much like their first real kiss. She smiles against it, happy that she can kiss Tim whenever she wants, however she wants.
They don’t have to hide their feelings anymore. They don’t have to skirt around each other. They know their feelings for each other, they know that they are it for each other and losing one another is not an option.
“I love you too.” He whispers against her lips. “I almost lost you too.” She looks up at him and he kisses her on the lips and then places them on her forehead. He leaves them there for a minute. And she just melts into him thinking about how they are both here. Alive and here with each other.
“It’s going to be okay Lucy.” He mutters. “Everything is going to be okay.”
“And if it’s not?” She asks. Tim sucks in a breath and kisses her again.
“Then we will get through it together.” He says. “Together is a better anyway.”
Lucy smiles into his chest, because yes together was better.
Tim was right they would get through this because they had a family and they each other. And with those two things she knows they will make it.
No matter what.