When Tidwell had first moved to Los Angeles he had seen it as a way to escape his past. No one had to know what had driven him to the point where he had ended up moving across the country for a job. He had fallen apart. He had allowed his hair to become long and greasy. His third ex-wife had burned most of his clothes in a fit of rage so he got his old clothes from… wow it had been the clothes he had worn when he had met is first ex-wife, out of storage. He was moving to a new job across the country while looking like a hippy.
God did his life suck.
God was he and idiot.
He didn't actually realize what an idiot he was until he got to his new precinct-station. God the only people who really cared what it was called were the idiots who served under him. Ok they weren't all idiots. The Detectives Crews and Reese. They were smart. They were very smart. And Detective Reese was beautiful.
And that was when he made the mistake he swore he could never make again. He fell in love. Or at least it was what he considered to be love. He couldn't help it. Dani Reese looked like her. Unfortunately falling for Detective Reese came with some problems. Namely her partner.
Detective Charlie Crews was an interesting man. He did not have the personality one would expect from a man who had been imprisoned for twelve years. He was calm, and at times he seemed almost content. But he would do the weirdest things. He would repeat certain things that Tidwell said. He would walk out of the room at the strangest moments. And he was always so damn ZEN.
Tidwell did not understand the man, except for one thing. Charlie Crews cared for his partner deeply. How deeply? Tidwell had no idea. All that he knew was that Crews understood Reese in a way that Tidwell didn't. But he hoped he would someday.
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter.
The last part came from Find Your Happy Place when Tidwell says to Reese that Crews is "lucky to have her as a partner" and that he "Hopes he can have someone in his life like that someday".