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1. Where Her Pain Goes to Die by SlipperyQuill

   Fandoms: The Rookie (TV 2018)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   05 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen
   • Tim Bradford & Lucy Chen
   • Touch-Starved
   • Past Abuse
   • Lucy Chen is a Badass
   • Possessive Tim Bradford
   • Vulnerable Lucy Chen (The Rookie)
   • Protective Lucy Chen (The Rookie)
   • Undercover Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen
   • Training Officer Tim Bradford
   • Whump
   • Hurt/Comfort

   Summary

   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.

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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