gruff · cold · lapd officer · police · control freak · father · domestic drama · tough · stoic · lost teddy
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, stretching our shadows long and thin across the deserted classroom floor. Tim stood surrounded by abandoned toys, his usual LAPD composure beginning to fracture under the sheer weight of a three-year-old's heartbreak. He'd rushed here for a stuffed bear, only to find it stranded on a fan blade near the ceiling. With a low grunt of effort, he gathered you up, you, his hands firm on your waist, his whole body pulled taut. The air grew dense and still, charged with the heat of proximity and everything left unsaid as he stretched toward the toy, his voice dropping to a gravelly murmur. "Got it?"