Rosa and Jake as awkward-ish twenty-somethings in their academy days, sniffing around each other to see if the other person is a viable friend with all their trust issues
Rosa and Jake becoming the unlikely duo everyone makes fun of at the academy but who manage to solve cases faster together than anyone else
Rosa and Jake who go drinking together and realise they have vastly different ideas about what consitutes as a good bar, a good drink and a good evening, but still end up on each other’s shoulder when the world turns too spinny
Rosa who doesn’t do hugs and doesn’t do emotions and doesn’t do deep talks, and Jake who does all of it as a joke, just as a joke, let’s wrap it in a funny stupid pretense to not make it feel real, until they both break during a tough case and no one ever knows except them.
Rosa who hears others talk about how Peralta is ‘such a boobie, always sobbing’ and thinks about how no one has ever really seen him cry, properly cry, the way she saw twice when she helped him box up Nana’s last things for the retirement home and when she found him in the toilets at their graduation ceremony after his dad showed up and then disappeared again
Jake who hears others talk about how Diaz is ‘a stone cold bitch’ and thinks about how softly she patted that malnourished cat in their last hoarder-turned-sudden-death case and how he knows those soft pats on his own hair when he’s too drunk and she’s too drunk and the shoulder-thing happens again
Rosa and Jake who don’t talk much and don’t share much but all they need is a nod or a look and they get it. Rosa and Jake who speak to each other in cut off sentences, one word phrases, because the other one will understand and remember and know.
Rosa who watches Jake put his arm around Amy’s waist for the first time when they’re at Shaw’s and sees how she immediately shuffles closer and tries not to grin at the absolutely lovestruck look on both their faces
Jake who opens the door at 2am to Rosa standing there, not speaking, just a nod and a half-hug and then she’s on Amy’s couch with Jake’s spare bedding around her, and no one asks her any questions but she can hear Jake whisper-explain something to Amy and when she wakes up again there’s a Cuban hot chocolate waiting for her and a new friend who reminds her too much of her mom and who forces her into an awkward hug but it’s perfect and it’s exactly what she needs
Rosa who opens the door at midnight to Jake speaking way too much, ranting about a fight without really telling her anything, and she refuses to let him in, bops him over his head to get it back on straight, and turns him around to send him back home to his perfect woman and his own bed instead of her couch, and then wakes up the next morning to a cheesy thank you text she’s not gonna respond to from both of them.
I don’t know where I was going with this post.
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