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Gwen had been with the LAPD for a month now. Things were going great for her. She got along with pretty much everyone she worked with which made it easier for her. Recently, Gwen has been noticing how short and distant Tim would act towards her. He seemed like he didn't want to have any conversations only simple answers regarding a case or patrol work.
It made Gwen overthink she didn't know if she had done anything wrong but, she tried not to think about it to much. Gwen had asked Angela for advice but Angela didn't know herself, she could only think it was because Tim had a hard time moving past his ex wife.
Gwen looked at her appearance in the mirror she looked nice. She was wearing a pink designer jacket with a black shirt, and some black pants and boots. Gwen took pride in her appearance, she needed to look good to feel good. Gwen gave her self one more look of approval and grabbed her belongings before heading out to work.
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The traffic wasn't that bad getting to work. Gwen had arrived early as usual needing enough time to put her belongings in her locker. Gwen sighed clipping her badge onto her waist band and her gun in her holster.
Walking out of the locker-room she walked to the briefing room, as many officers were already in there conversing.
She sits down on the side of Angela "Did you hear? we have a new T.O joining us this morning" Angela said looking around the room watching as more officers piled in.
Gwen shook her head no "I honestly had no idea. I'm assuming it's Nolan's T.O?" She questioned making Angela nod her head in agreement.
Gwen watched as the room slowly got quiet as Sergeant Grey entered the room. Gwen briefly looked to her side and saw Tim already looking at her. Once she made eye contact with him he looked away.
Grey looks down at his papers before meeting the eyes of the officers "We have a new training officer joining the FTO today. Detective Nyla Harper." Grey said scanning the room for Nyla. Grey found Nyla talking outside of the room with another officer.
"Nyla?" Grey questioned, she poked her head through "What's up?" She asked.
"You're late for roll call" Grey said annoyance laced through his voice. Nyla looked up at him surprised "Oh that's still a thing?" She said walking into the room and having a seat.
Grey continued with his announcements before dismissing everyone. Gwen stood up following Angela to the front of the room. She assumed it was to introduce her self to Nyla.
"Hi Angela Lopez, and this is my partner Gwen Rivers" Angela introduced them both to the newest officer. Nyla looked at Gwen and smiled.
"Nice to meet you both, and you are?" Nyla asked watching as Tim walked up to the trio "Officer Bradford, Tim" he introduced himself.
Gwen felt a sense of awkwardness standing next to Tim. After their last encounter she could've sworn that they were friends.
"Surprised to see a detective volunteer as T.O, most would see it as a step back" Tim says. He was always so brutally honest.
Nyla looked taken back at his statement "While clearly you never moved forward" Nyla bit back causing Angela and Gwen to laugh.
Nyla looked at his facial expression "Don't get your panties in a bunch, handsome" she said. Tim ignored Nyla and looked at Lucy. He motioned for her to follow him "Let's go boot".
Gwen followed Angela out of the room. They were most likely going to start the day with some paperwork before they moved on with a case.
Tim looked at Gwen watching as she talked to Angela. He wanted to curse at himself for being so stupid. He made things get awkward, when he should've just let nature take the course.
** The day was moving slow for Angela and Gwen, they stayed at the station just running names, and helping people. Gwen looked up from her desk seeing Jackson walk up to her.
"What can I do for you?" She asked, putting down her folder that she was reading. She silently hoped that she had something interesting to do.
"Can you run a name for me?" Gwen nodded and clicked a few buttons on the computer "Alice Sheldon" he read out looking down at the notepad.
Gwen typed up the name and read the information "10 years ago, she was on the tenure track at UCLA, teaching chemistry. Had a house, a couple dogs, then everything fell apart" she read out. She felt a tinge of sadness for the women "Now can you run this name please" he said handing her the piece of paper.
"It shows a Katrin Arnoux as the victim of a hit and-run in 2009. No suspects" she looked at Angela who seemed to be already in thought "Seems like Alice stayed under the radar for as long as possible after she hit Katrin. Everything fell apart because the guilt was eating her alive" Gwen said which made Angela nod in confirmation.
"We'll work this case with you Jackson, let's get Katrin into questioning. See if she remembers anything" Angela said. Jackson nodded and took note of Katrin's contact information.
** Hours had past and Gwen had finished her shift. Gwen was tired to say the least but she couldn't help but feel bored. Life back in Boston she was pulled Into danger almost every day. It seemed like here she did more station work then anything. Gwen tried to give her self a pep talk it had only been about a month since she joined the station. Gwen couldn't help but like the feeling of interrogating suspects, and barging into criminals homes.
Gwen laughed to her self as she grabbed her things from the locker. She most likely jinxed her self that she was going to be put into danger. "Have a good night Angela" Gwen said.
Angela smiled and grabbed her things "You too" she says bidding her a goodbye.
Gwen walked out of the station towards her parked car. She couldn't wait to do just unwind with a glass of wine at home.
She looks over and sees Tim walking over to his truck. He looks over at her giving her a brief nod before stepping in.
Tomorrow was another day, a day that everyone in LA would never forget.
Ahhh how do we feel. Needed to make a filler chapter next chapter is going to be intense !!! Let me know your thoughts!
