#the rookie reader insert

[starkleila]

Whatever happens (Tim Bradford x F!Wife!Reader)

Summary: do to your work as a high ranking national security officer you and Tim get taken hostage in your own house

Warnings: : torture, not descriptive but is listed what happened. Misogyny and sexism (not from tim), hospitals, kidnap, canon violence

Notes:

Sorry for the grammatical errors. I’m new at writing so feedback is appreciated. Thank you for reading. do not translate or appropriate my work

Comments and kudos are highly appreciated :)

words: 2500

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You unlock the door and enter your house. Tim is already out of uniform, and he is cooking dinner in the open space kitchen. You drop your bag on the floor next to the door as you sigh, tired from the long day. As one of the top-ranking officers of the National Defense some days were really exhausting to say the least. At least you now could relax at home with your husband

‘hey. I thought I would get started on dinner’ he says as he puts on the stove, giving you a hint of a smile to greet you, something that is reserved to you and only you

‘did I tell you that you are the best husband in the world?’ you ask him with complete appreciation as you give him a quick kiss

‘from time to time’ he teases you as he smirks

‘you are. I’m starving. And it was my turn to cook’ you tell him seriously as you place your hands around his neck as he places his on your waist. He kisses you again, now more properly

‘well you can always show your appreciation later’ he teases you again as you roll your eyes lovingly at him ‘deal’ you tell him as you peck him again before you throw your heels out of the way

‘long day?’ he asks as he lets you go to stir the rice

‘the longest’ you reply as you start to set up the table ‘we fear there has been a breakthrough of info on undercover agents and they put me as head  of operation to make sure they are safe, I need to check each of them’ you sigh

‘well that sounds exhausting’ he replies honestly

 ‘your day?’ you ask

‘some standard arrests. And lucy passed my Tim test today.’ He replies as he start putting the food on the plates

‘tim tests? Can’t you leave that poor boot alone?’ you playfully make fun of him as you sit down

‘be careful or you are going to be Tim tested too’ he says pointing the spatula at you

‘you wouldn’t’ you tell him faking shock ‘I’m your wife’

‘don’t test me’ he replies hiding a smile ‘come on. the food is ready’ he says as he moves towards the table with the meal in his hand. But before he places it on the table the room gets filled with smoke and he feels something in his neck, a narcotic that makes him faint instantly as you do too while he calls your name.

-.-.-.

You wake up tied to a chair in your home’s office. Two men stand in front of you

‘hello y/n’ they tell you ‘had a good sleep?’ they mock you

‘who are you and what do you want’ you ask. This is not your first kidnap

‘straight to the point I see. We want the real name of the undercover agents’ they tell you playing with a knife

‘I don’t have them. They are classified’ you reply

‘and that is the first lie of the night. Our intel says only one person has all of the names, and that is you’

You maintain your calm wondering how they know it. ‘I don’t’ you reply as you asses the situation. You are chained to the chair. Is impossible to break free

‘okay let’s see if your memory starts to work after we are finished with you’ they tell you before punching you in the face

-.-.-.-.-.

Are the screams that wake Tim up. your screams. It takes him a few seconds to realize that he is still in his living room and that the screams he is hearing are your screams.

‘y/n!’ he shouts ‘leave her alone!’. but is useless. He is not even tied, he is chained to a metal chair. He mentally curses himself and your shared love for design, at least if it were a wooden chair he could have tried to free himself. He assesses the situation. he is a cop, he was a sergeant in the army , he should know how to get out of any situation. he needs to help you. His wife is being tortured and he is without a scratch and unable to help you

He tries for more than two hours to free himself, trying to not think about what they are doing to you as your screams get progressively worse

Tim is kind of scared of how you held up, how you did not say anything as they tortured you. He knew you were strong, but this, this is almost inhumane.

The screams stops and he fears the worst.

The door suddenly opens and the two men bring you in. he has the first glimpse of you since they took you. tim can’t almost recognize you. Your face is too puffy and full of blood. They had beaten you up, for hours. Tim also notices that some of your limbs don’t look right. The two men throw you on the floor. You are still passed out. Your hands tied together behind you.

His hearts start beating again only when he sees a feeble movement of your chest going up and down. You are alive.

Tim’s blood boils in his veins. Flashbacks of the last time he has seen you like this passes through his mind. more than 10 years ago, when you were both in the army and you got taken hostage for days. He still doesn’t know all of what had happened to you during the captivity, you never talked about it apart from some info then and there. He had killed who did that to you, heading the rescue mission. He had a lot of remorse for what he witnessed in the army but never for that. Now he wanted to do the same to these two men who had entered his house and tortured his wife. Damn the consequences

‘son of a bitch what did you do to her’ he says in anger as he tries in vain to move

‘don’t worry big guy. She is alive. I must say this bitch is strong. Broke more than 20 bones in her body one by one and still has not given a name’

Scratch that. Tim doesn’t want to kill them. He wants to break each and every bone of his body and more. He wants to inflict them 10 times what they did to you.

‘I’ll fucking kill you’ he says rage in his eyes

‘what a knight with a shiny armor. A bit difficult considering your situation right now.’ The guy mocks him

The man takes some water and throws it in your face to have you woke up, it works as you stir. He throws more at you before giving you a kick. Tim tries to move from his chair and the man laughs at him

‘tim’ is your first word as you try to find him, your eye focus still blurry from the blood and the puffiness until you see him, just a bruise on his face, his eyes blurry with tears for you and anger against them. You sigh in relief

‘are you okay?’ he asks his voice almost breaking, he knows he sounds stupid as you clearly are not but he needs to have a verbal confirmation

‘yah’ you say as you spit blood. Tim doesn’t believe you

‘sleeping beauty is awake’ the man says taking your face in his hand roughly to throw you on the floor again

Tim flinches

‘as torturing your body did not work we will try with a psychological torturing. let’s see if your so little to nonexistent self-preserving instinct applies also to others’ the man says pointing his head towards tim

Your biggest fear comes true. Tim is going to suffer because of you.

‘tell me the real names of the undercover agents or I make him my own punching ball’ the kidnapper says pointing to tim

Tim stays silent looking in your eyes saying with them ‘don’t’. you spit some blood and stay silent. Your heart breaking as you just basically agreed for the man to torture your husband

‘well then’ the man says as he punches tim. You look away. The other man grabs your face again and forces you to look as He punches tim again and again . tim tries to not react, knowing that if the situation was reversed he would give in immediately at the sight if you suffering. He tries to be strong for you, to not have you give in to the blackmail

‘okay clearly you don’t care enough’ the man says as he pauses his assault on tim.  ‘who is this one anyhow’ he asks as tim too spits some blood, his face now too puffy and bruised.

‘no one important. The local supermarket delivery guy. He was just dropping my food delivery’ you lie through your teeth

Tim knows you are saying that to protect him, to not have them use him as leverage more than they are already doing, but it hurts anyhow

‘no one important? Hum. There are quite a few pictures of this delivery guy around here’ the kidnapper says as his partner picks up and passes to him a photo of you and tim where you two are kissing

‘no way, this is your bitch?’ the man asks tim connecting the dots

‘don’t call her that’ tim replies his anger violent

‘tim’ you warn him, knowing his rage will only harm him

‘oh I see. You are her bitch’ the man says pointing at tim ‘this changes everything’ the man says to his partner laughing ‘if torture on her won’t work let’s see how she reacts when her man is the one being tortured’

The second kidnapper picks up the boiling hot knife he had been warming up and passes it to the leader who shows you the knife before going towards tim

‘don’t tell them anything’ tim tells you dead serious ‘I can handle it. I promise’

The kidnapper burns tim and cuts him, when he breaks his leg you scream. Tim still tells you to not speak as you start to cry but remain silent.

‘I see. We have a fellow hero here’ the man mocks tim, now bloody almost as you

‘ I didn’t expect this to be this difficult. I will give you that. Okay now time to stop the games’ he says taking out a gun and pointing it to tim ‘speak or I put a bullet between his eyes’

‘y/n don’t tell him anything, I am just one person’ tim says trying to convince you. He is a  cop his job is to protect people. His life counts less than the one of the undercover agents.

‘you choose y/n’ the man mocks you ‘300 agents or the man you love’

‘please-‘  you plead them. The man puts the gun on tim’s forehead

‘last chance’ he says as he charges the gun while tim mouths ‘I love you’ as he closes his eyes waiting for the inevitable end

‘okay okay I will tell you!’ you shout ‘But please let him go.’  You plead them

‘see? It wasn’t that difficult’ the man replies as he drops the gun from tim’s head

‘Let’s make a deal I will voluntary come with you, I will be a valuable hostage, but let him go. Please I beg you’ you continue. You don’t care what happens to you, you just want to save tim and the agents

‘y/n quit the crap don’t-‘ tim says as the man punches him to shut him up before laughing

‘the great y/n y/l/n the youngest  director of Internal Security Special Unit  and one of the top ranking National Defence officers is begging me? Wow. and all for him? a woman is a woman after all, he must fuck you well’ the guy mocks you, while the other laughs

Tim is boiling in rage at the blunt sexism and insults of the man in front of you. You don’t care anymore, you will do whatever it takes to get Tim out

‘please let him go’ you plead him again

‘nah. This is more fun. Speak now or never’ he tells you

‘don’t  tell them’ tim says pleading you with his eyes

‘3 … 2 …’ the man starts counting the gun barrell at tim’s forehead. tim takes in your face for what he thinks will be his last time. He wants to take in every detail of you even if you are so bruised and broken, to him you are still the most beautiful person. As the man reaches two he closes his eyes

‘John Lawrence!’ you scream before he can count to one.

‘perfect. Here we go. See it was easy’ the kidnapper mocks you as tim opens his eyes in defeat, as you can’t bring yourself to look at him

You list all the people taking the longest time possible to hope they will come rescue. You want to buy time, knowing that when the list is done not only the agents will be dead but also you and tim.

Yet Inevitably the list comes to an end

‘thank you very much. Betraying your country and 300 people for one single man’

You keep your head low knowing you just sentenced to death 300 agents.

The man points the gun towards you ‘kill me but spare him please’ you say having given up on your fate but hoping you will still be able to save tim

Tim flinches in his seat at your plead.  ‘she told you what you wanted let us go now’ tim says

‘and let you stop our operation? No way’

‘by the time they find us you will already have done it’ tim tries to make him reason

‘you know what? You are right. I will not kill you’ the man says as he turns

He shoots you in the stomach as tim screams your name and you can’t even cling to your stomach as your hands are tied ‘I will let you die of blood loss so that you can stare at his corpse knowing it is your fault’

He then points the gun to tim’s head

‘no! please!’ you shout

‘its okay sweatheart. I love-‘ tim says looking at you

As you hear the gun shot you close your eyes screaming but then you hear tim’s voice calling your name. you open your eyes as you see the SWAT entering the house and killing the two intruders before you pass out

-.-.-

Tim wakes up in a hospital bed, Lucy goes next to him in a second

‘tim! How are you?’ she asks him

‘y/n. where is y/n’ he asks frenetic looking around ‘tim…’ lucy tries

‘where is my wife!’ he shouts at his rookie. ‘next room but tim-‘ she tries, he doesn’t care he gets of the hospital bed falling down as he realizes that is leg is still broken after all

‘tim- you shouldn’t get up-‘ lucy tries to make him reason as she goes to help him

‘help me or leave!’ he says his eyes look like pure fire she nods as she helps him up and to walk next room where you are staying

Angela, who was sitting next to you, stands up seeing him ‘tim-‘

Tim freezes when he sees you. You are in a bed, more casts on your limbs that he can count. Your face is still swollen even if now is clear from the blood, tubes come and go out of you, one is even in your mouth.

‘y/n’ he sighs. Lucy and angela help him to the chair next to your bed. He sits down and takes your only non-casted hand in his

‘how is she?’ he asks them looking at your broken form, eyes lucid

Angela and lucy exchange a look before Angela speaks ‘the doctor said the situation was critical. Both her legs, her arms and one hand are broken. She had a concussion from the beating and lost a lot of blood, but the gun shot did not damage any major organ’

‘is she-‘ he is afraid to ask as the words die in his throat

‘yes she is in a coma. They are positive that she is going to wake up.’ Angela says

‘when‘ he asks as a knot forms in his throat

‘they don’t know‘ lucy replies as tim just nods never taking his eyes off you

‘the intruders?’ he asks now voice plain and cold

‘they were killed in the rescue operation. Any info they might have gotten never made it to their associates’ angela says, careful to not say or insinuate that you indeed told them something or in this case everything

‘they should have suffered more’ tim says as lucy and angela exchange a look

‘tim you should be resting. You have a broken leg and a minor concussion, and bruises and burns everywhere…’ lucy tries to make him reason

‘leave’ he only replies voice flat

 ‘tim…’ angela tries

 ‘leave!’ he shouts looking at them and they do leave. He turns again towards you worry and regret consuming him

He places your hand in both his as he kisses it before placing his forehead on it.

And for the first time in years tim bradford cries

PART 2

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© Starkleila 2024

[starkleila]

Whatever happens Part 2 (Tim Bradford x F!Wife!Reader)

Summary: part 2 of whatever happens . after the events you are in a coma and tim is desperate for you to wake up

Part 2 was originally requested by @marvel1000 @fyodorssimp1 . i'm sorry it took so long and that is not that great...

Warnings: : hospitals, coma, reference to torture, kidnap, ptsd.

Notes:

Sorry for the grammatical errors. I’m new at writing so feedback is appreciated. Thank you for reading. do not translate or appropriate my work

Comments and kudos are highly appreciated :)

words: 2400

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Part 1

Tim had not left your side since you had got out of the ICU. It did not matter how much Angela and Lucy had pleaded him to go shower or take a bit of fresh hair. He would not leave your hand for one minute.

You were in a coma but the doctors were positive you would wake up as soon as your body had recovered a bit. He just had to wait.

After much persuasion from Lucy and Angela Tim had asked the hospital to have you two moved to a double room, so that at least he could stay on a hospital bed considering he too was full or burns and bruises and with a broken leg. The room had a bathroom too so it was easier as tim could go without worrying someone would get to you to harm you while he was away

Tim could not sleep, when exhaustion took him over while he was holding your hand, flashbacks of you being tortured and shot while he could do nothing to help you continue playing in his mind waking him up.

After two weeks he was exhausted and you still had not woken up.

Your office, the national defence, had sent officers to guard your door and to question Tim on what had happened.

He had lied, he told them you had said nothing, and that is why you had ended up like that. He was thankful that the computer with the list of agents they had written down had been shot during the recovery mission with no hardisk to recover. All the agents were safe, after what you had endured, speaking only to save him, not yourself, he could not have you loose your job or worse go to martial law.

Angela, Lucy, Jackson, Harper, Nolan and the Gray had come visit him daily. Angela and Lucy staying for hours to keep him company or bring him some food.

Tim felt useless. Less than when they had attacked you as he could not protect himself and you and now he could do nothing to help you as you fought to recover. 

Tim talked to you. They told him it could help you wake up and so he does, he talks about anything and everything, he reads you your  favorite books and puts on your favorite music. Anything that could get you to wake up.

-.-.-

The weeks pass and he starts to lose hope. Doctor after doctor says he just needs to wait that eventually you will wake up, but he is losing his mind. After one month the doctors change opinion, that the situation is more critical than they thought, that by now you should have woken up.

Tim’s word collapses, he cries, he had not cried much ever before but in these weeks he did more often that he would like to admit. The funny thing is that you would be proud of him, as you always said he should allow himself to feel his emotions more. 

Tim Bradford never begs, but for you he does, he would do anything for you. He asks you everyday to please wake up, that he can’t do it without you, he makes promises after promise.

And on a late night he is at it again, on a chair next to your bed holding your hand as he begs you to open your eyes.

‘sweetheart you need to wake up please. It’s been a month, i’m losing my mind baby.’ He asks you eyes lucid kissing your hand as he looks at your broken form in the hospital bed

‘you are my world and my sanity. I know I failed you, I did not protect you, I did not protect our home, but please I beg you. Don’t leave me. I need you. I need you to make fun of me, to compliment my cooking, to scold me when I’m too harsh with lucy, to kiss me when I had a hard day. to watch trash tv with me as I hold you pretending I hate the latest show you  got obsessed with. To knock me down when we are sparring, to leave your heels in the middle of the living room to have me trip over them. To making me feel love and complete when everyone else just sees my tough side and as you call it grumpy side. I need to hear your voice, your laugh again, to look at you as you do anything and everything. Please baby. You need to wake up, I beg you. Please for me’

He kisses you hand again, his lips lingering on it as he tries not to sob, you are so fragile and broken in that bed, a far different form of what he used to see you as. The bruises healed but the casts for your broken bones are still there.

‘I don’t think I ever told you, but when you got taken all those years ago when we were both serving in the military, I was so scared, that we were never going to find you in time, that you would die not knowing how much I loved you.  Because as we sneaked around I had been a coward and not told you how much I loved you. And when I found you, all scared and bruised in that hut, I have never been so relieved. It didn’t matter what they did to you because you were alive. I had never been so scared in my life as in those days while you were gone. then I had never been so relieved as when back then you jokingly scolded me asking me why it took me so long to tell you I loved you once I found you. I have never been so scared again until now. Baby I’m so scared for you to not wake up, to lose you, to never hear your voice again. and as back then you ended my fears by showing me you were alright I need you to give me that relief again by waking up.’ he says wiping silent tears

‘you are the strongest person I know. That time you held up, you recovered physically and mentally in a way I had never seen before. I wish I had half your strength. you proved time after time how strong you are. and you did again when you held up saying those names. What you did, resisting so long, was something I did not think any human was capable to. but I need you to be strong again now to and to wake up. I’m begging you y/n. I will do whatever you want, I will even resign and spend the rest of my life soley taking care of you, I will transfer anywhere you want, the only thing I need is for you to wake up, we will figure out the rest from there. Please baby, please wake up’ he pleads you crying as sobs run freely now

‘I swear I will never ask for anything again. if you come back to me again I will never ask for anything else, please’

It's fileable but tim feels it, your hand trying to squeeze his. He shots his head up to look at you your Eyes are still closed with no strength to open them.

‘y/n?’ he asks voice heavy and full of hope

 you manage to press his hand again. only slightly but that is enough for him

he gives a laugh that is kind of weird and ecstatic as he runs to the button next to your bed shouting for help as the nurses run in. they push him out as angela arrives for her visit of the day seeing the commotion

‘what is happening?’ she asks in worry  running to tim and placing her hand on his arm

‘she touched my hand’ he says in a mix of excitement and worry and angela hugs him never having seen him so happy

-.-.-

after a few hours when the doctors had finished run their checks, they let tim enter your room, he had never left the corridor as he and angela waited for the doctors to allow him in. You were awake and the doctors confirmed that you would have a total recovery even if it would take a few months, angela smiled at him and gently tapped his shoulders as the doctors told him he could enter the room

you were finally without tubes and awake, your voice was almost none existent as strained by the weeks with the machine helping you breath and by not having used it , you were still very weak but you were alive

‘hi’ you manage to rasp looking at him but your eyes are heavy struggling to be kept open

Tim let out a breath of relief as he rushed to your side, broken leg permitting, kissing your forehead a single tear running down his cheek. he is afraid to touch you being you still heavy injured

‘thank god you are awake baby, you scared me there’, he looks at you afraid if he tears his eyes away you would be in a coma again , he sits next to you taking your hand ‘I love you so much’ he tells you kissing your hand again

‘I …too’ you manage to say, eyes still heavy and voice almost unherdable

‘its okay rest, I’m here, I’m not going anywhere baby’ he reassures you squeezing your hand as you sleep for a bit, he stays there silently happily crying

.-.-.-.-.

You sleep for another couple of days, tim never leaving your side as the doctors reassure him that you are out of the coma and just resting. when you wake up again you are much better

‘hey baby’ tim tells you as you open and blink your eyes, he scoops nearer carefully caressing your head afraid to hurt you

‘tim’ you say, voice still hoarse but better

‘I’m here sweetheart, what do you need?’ he asks you as you start to tear up

‘the agents…’ you manage to cry out

‘they are okay. The list never made I out our living room. They are safe thanks to you’ he reassures you

‘thank god’ you say closing your eyes in relief ‘I will resign tomorrow’ 

‘no need to, no one knows that the name got out, I lied. They will question you, so stick to my version and all will be fine’ he reassures you, whispering and turning around to check that the guards outside your door cannot hear you

‘I don’t deserve to keep my job’ you say shaking your head

‘yes you do, the way you held up baby, no one would have been able as you did. you are so strong. You are a hero y/n’ he tells you meaning every word, you just nod

‘I should have protected you’ he adds guilt eroding him ‘no tim, I should have protected you’ you reply shaking your head ‘its all my fault’ you add tearing up again at the memory of what they did to him of how they almost killed him to make you talk

‘hey, hey sweetheart. No. none of this was your fault, you hold up and you saved me okay?’ he tells you voice firm, you nod again. ‘but you need to promise me something, never and I mean never again try to trade your life for mine again, okay? I cannot live without you’ he tells you now more serious as he tears up too at the memory of you asking the intruders to take you or kill you instead of him

‘I could not let them kill you, not for my life or this country, all loses importance if you are in danger tim’ you tell him shaking your head, the way they tortured him and almost shot him if the police had arrived a minute later, would hunt you for life, the image of the gun to his head as you were helpless to save him

‘you matter more, to me. More than my life and more than everything. Okay? Now don’t think about it, we are okay. Rest. You need to recover, I will be here every step of the way, no matter how long it takes, okay?’ he reassures you caressing your head as you nod and settle back In the hospital bed.  He presses a kiss to your head as he then sits back in his chair, he draws cirlces on your hand with his fingertips trying to suit you, considering most of the rest of you is still with a cast because of the may bones you broke

‘even new York?’ you ask him after a bit of silence

‘what?’ 

‘I heard you. Everything you said, every day I heard you. It felt like a dream but I heard you, you helped me come back tim’ you explain, eyes heavy again

He is silent taken back from your admission ‘ I meant every word, anywhere you want sweetheart, I love you. So much, you are all that matter to me. You want to move? Good for me’ he tells you giving you a sad smile before kissing your forehead 

‘I love you too tim. And you love los angeles you always say there is nothing quite like it, you have been here your whole life’ you reply as he pecks your lips and he wipes away your tears with his thumb

‘yes but I love you more. now rest. I’ll be here when you wake and then we will do watherver you want. Okay?’ he reassures you. You nod

‘love you’ you say as you close your eyes easing back to sleep finally feeling safe

‘I love you too sweetheart’ tim says as he too now sleeps on the chair holding your hand, for the first time in a month finally fully resting knowing you are okay

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for who enquired for part 2: @starsmoonn @fyodorssimp1 @xi1dius @fuckingsimp4azriel

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[starkleila]

Infected (Tim Bradford x Wife!reader ) The rookie 1x20-2x01 rewrite

Summary: tim gets infected by a deadly virus season 1 finale reader insert

Warnings: normal rookie action

Notes:

Sorry for the grammatical errors. I’m new at writing so feedback is appreciated. Thank you for reading. do not translate or appropriate my work

Comments and kudos are highly appreciated :)

words: 2000

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Like every night Tim had gone to sleep happy and satisfied. After a long shift he was preparing dinner when you had come home. You two had dinner, watched a movie to which you both did not paid much attentions getting lost in each others and then had fall asleep in each others arms. You  two had no idea of what the next day was going to bring you two.

When Tim had woken up he had found the other side of the bed empty and a note on it.  Tim didn’t worry as It wasn’t a strange occurrence. As a high-ranking member of the national defense duty could call you at any time.

‘they called me for an emergency. Be extra careful today please. I love you – y/n’ the note said

Tim sighed and rolled out of bed getting ready and heading to the police station and went normally with his day until he saw you entering the station.

He was shocked to see you there as you had not told him anything. He thought you were making him as surprise so he approached you with a smile on his face that was only reserved to you that quickly fell down when he saw your expression. more than 10 years of marriage, he knew you like an open book.

‘sweetheart is everything okay?’ he asked you seriously

You sighed ‘I’m here for work unfortunately. I need to brief your team. Tim. Is pretty bad’

He squeezed your hand ‘what can I do to help you?’ he asked you

.-.-.

You and Jessica briefed the team on the biological weapon terrorist attack that was threatening LA. You were close with particularly angela and talia but knew all of the team

Months before

As every year the police departments needed special training on terrorism and as every year you asked to be specially assigned to your husband’s station. Even if you were so high ranking in the office that it wasn’t even supposed to be your job but you loved any opportunity you had to work and tease your husband. You and Jessica entered the station and while Nolan was fangirling about Jessica as he had read her book , West was fangirling about you

‘omg that is y/n y/l/n ! the youngest director of internal security special unit. She is highly decorated! I read all her articles’ his excitement soon fell when tim greeted you with a quick kiss

 ‘and why is she kissing Bradford?’ he asked confused as angela replied with a big smirk

‘because they are married’

As the team was assigned their roles you stopped Tim on the way out. He hugged you tight and kissed the side of your head,

 ‘be careful. Don’t play hero. I need you’ you pleaded him knowing very well how dedicated he was to his job

 ‘you too baby’ he replied. You nodded and gave him a quick kiss before both of you went on your separate ways to do your job

.-.-.

It all happened fast too fast. A minute before he and Chen were interrogating the passengers and the next one he was covered in blood from an infected victim and shut the door closed in a small room with him.

‘don’t tell my wife’ he said from the door to chen

‘tim she has the right to know’ lucy argued worried for him and for you

‘you don’t know her rookie. She will come here and try to get me out. Not caring about what could cost to her career or get her infected. I can’t risk that. Also she is so important for this operation that even if we notified her they would not tell her to not let her loose focus’ he argued back

‘if the roles were reversed wouldn’t you want to know?’ lucy asked to make him reason

He did not replied just sighed knowing she was right

.-.-.-

As time passed tim knew the situation was becoming critical

‘tim you need to tell her. If something happens to you and she had not had the possibility to help you or say goodbye to you- she will never forgive you’ chen said with tears almost in her eyes

He knew he had to call you. At least to hear your voice one last time and tell you how much he loved you.

‘I’ll call her. But you don’t say a word. Okay?’ he said deadly serious to lucy that was sitting on the other side of the door.

‘okay’ she replied

Tim head rested against the door as he took his phone and dialed your number.

You were coordinating the operation from the station completely oblivions of the situation. You had just been told that they had found the virous and an infected person but nothing else and not been told tim had been infected too . as soon as you saw tim’s name appear on your phone you picked up worried

‘hey sweetheart’ he replied trying to keep a fake façade of happiness

‘tim? Are you okay?’ you asked worried as you walked closed the office room

‘of course baby’ he said looking at the now dead man in front of him . he could not tell you he just couldn’t . he knew you. You would drop everything and run to him even breaking the door and risking your life just to see him

‘I just wanted to check on you’ he added forcing a smile

‘I’m fine handsome. We will catch him. you?’ you let out a sigh of relief knowing he is ok

‘yah me and chen are fine too just interrogating the passengers’ he lied ‘I love you. So much’ he adds you

‘I love you too, but tim is everything alright?’ you ask him. although tim in private moments told you I love you it wasn’t as frequent as he had a tough façade so it worried you

‘of course- I was just worried about you’ he lies again ‘as you are at the center of the action’ he adds

‘I’m fine handsome. I have to go. they need me. If you need anything call me. I’ll see you when this is all solved and we celebrate at home’ you reply

‘yah of course. By baby’ he replied before hanging the call. He closes his eyes exasperated thinking if that truly was the last time he would hear your voice

‘You did not tell her’ lucy says from the other side of the door

‘were you ear dropping rookie?’ he asks as lucy stays silent ‘it doesn’t matter the vaccine will come soon’

‘yah it will’ lucy agrees with him

Tim laughs ‘you have many qualities but lying isn’t one of them’

Lucy smiles at that and taunts him about the compliment ‘how are you feeling?’

‘sweating like a pig. But probably because here is warm’

‘everything will be fine’ she tries to stay positive

‘I don’t plan in ending up like pete. if I don’t make it please tell her that I’m sorry. And that I love her more than anything. And that this is not her fault. she has been the best thing to ever happen to me’ tim saying holding firmly his gun

‘don’t say that’ lucy replied in the verge of tears

‘I will go at my own rules. If the time comes. Tell her this ’ he says holding his gun too firmly

He knew you would have to see him and seeing him with blood coming from every part of him was something he did not want you to see. He could not do this to you. Always better a clean shot. Less painful also. He just hoped with all himself that it would not come to this

-.-.-

You were coordinating another group when angela came to you running

‘y/n?’ she asked worried

‘yes angie?’ you reply sorting out some papers

‘listen. I was told high up to not tell you this but you need to know. ‘

You froze ‘tim has been in direct contact with patience 0’ your world crumbles as all papers fall down from your hand. Tim. Your tim.

‘when? Where?’ you ask voice trembling

‘a few hours ago from what I heard. He is still with the patient. This is the address’

You did not let her even finish as you ran out of your office. You put Jessica as the head of operation as you got in your car and run to the place.

You don’t even bother to park the car as you burst in the house

‘Madame you can’t be in here’ one of the people with the anticontamination suit says. You ignore her

‘Tim! Tim!’ you shout as Tim stands up hearing your voice while lucy comes near you

‘lucy! Where is he?’ you shout ‘he in the room’ lucy replies

‘y/n! go away!’ tim shouts from the door meanwhile one of the officers tries to stop you

‘That’s my husband !’ you shout back ‘ madame I understand but this is a crime scene’

You take out your ID and through It at them  ‘I have the highest ranking here. So you either call quantico or you fucking let me in!’ you shout. They let you and you go next to the door

‘you can’t come in y/n!’ tim shouts ‘sweetheart stay right there please!’ he shouts. You stop at the door

‘I’m here tim I’m here. oh god how are you feeling? ‘ you ask worried

‘I’m fine I swear’ he replies. Both of you on each of the door’s side put your foreheads on the door. A part of him is relief in earing your voice

‘give me a contamination suit right now!’ you order ‘where is the vaccine?’ ’20 minutes away’ they reply ‘get it here in 10!’

‘why the hell you didn’t call me!’ your worry was replaced by anger

‘I’m sorry sweetheart. I- I know it wasn’t right but I had to protect you’ he says apologetically

‘you fucking idiot you do another time like this and I will fucking kill you’

‘I know baby I know’ he replies laughing

‘I don’t know if I want to kiss you or kick you.’

‘Well you will have to wait for either’ he replies ‘promise me that even with the suit and after the vaccine until the doctors don’t clear me you will not touch me’ he makes you promise

‘tim…’

‘promise me or I’m not getting out’ he was firm. He could not risk your life

‘okay’

‘good. I love you ‘ he replies

‘wow third I love you in a day. You should be in deadly situation more often’ you humor him

‘shut up’ he says trying to suppress his laugh

‘you will make it tim. If not I will fucking kill you’

‘you said it also when they shot me twice in the torso when we were in Afghanistan’

‘and in fact you made it. And then asked me to marry you while the medics were trying to save you. Very romantic’ you reply smiling at the memory as you two laugh together

-.-.

Soon the vaccine arrives and he is injected a dose. You with your anticontamination suit follow him out as the doctor checks on him you get the call that the others had stopped the attacker

As the others of the team arrive and make fun of him you laugh with them as you follow tim and the doctors at the ambulance until Tim falls down

‘tim!’ you shout in worry as you launch yourself at him the others stop you.

You and lucy get in the ambulance with the doctors

‘is it the virous?’ you ask tears in your eyes as you hold his hand

‘no we think is an allergic reaction to the vaccine’ the doctor replies. You sigh as you try to not to cry and lucy tries to comfort you

‘we are almost at the hospital’ she reassures you

As soon as you arrive you can’t get out of the ambulance as the third terrorist starts shooting everywhere.

‘everyone down! Lucy look after him’ you shout as you get out of the ambulance to help the others. Everything happens fast as you shoot the attacked but that doesn’t stop her. You are out of munitions as you corner her and while you recharge you gun she fall down. You turn and your husband is steading in the ambulance having shot her. Nolan rushes and arrests her as tim get down the ambulance and rans to you

He hugs you as you hug him back crying

‘I’m okay’ he swears ‘are you okay? ‘ he asks you afraid you had gotten hurt in the shooting. You nod and hug him again

‘we should have spent the day in bed instead’ he says and you laugh

‘well I’m sure to call sick tomorrow’ you reply as he kisses you

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