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1. Minimum Recovery Time by foxthread

   Fandoms: Women's Association Football | Women's Soccer RPF  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   17 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ona Batlle/Lucy Bronze
   • Lucy Bronze
   • Ona Batlle
   • Griedge Mbock
   • Patricia "Patri" Guijarro Gutiérrez
   • Second Chances
   • Complicated Relationships
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Slow Burn
   • Getting Back Together
   • Idiots in Love
   • Learning To Communicate

   Summary

   Not everything heals on schedule.

   A year and a half on from how it all unravelled in Barcelona, Lucy Bronze joins a UEFA task force designed to protect player welfare. It’s the kind of work she values after a lifetime spent giving everything to the game. She knows intimately what it costs to stay at this level. She's paid the price in full.

   She’s prepared for meetings, negotiation, consensus-building. What she isn’t prepared for is her past walking back into the room, or how to move forward when healing a heart proves more complicated than any physical recovery could be.

   Language:

   English

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   10,700

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   4/16

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