Description
They never defined what this was-just traded brief touches, lingering stares, and the kind of conversations that only happen after midnight, when the city sleeps and the job can't find them for a few hours. Jubal Valentine isn't good at balance-especially when it comes to matters of the heart. And Rina Trenholm has built a career on control, on not letting anyone get too close. But when a crisis forces them to work together outside the safety of their usual routines, the feelings they've spent months ignoring start to surface-and this time, it's harder to walk away. How long can two people live in the grey before something-someone-has to break? Or Set during the quieter in-between moments of Season 4, this fic explores the complicated, often unspoken relationship between Jubal and Rina. It weaves canon events with imagined ones-what might have happened behind closed doors, and what they never got to say out loud. Angst, vulnerability, and a little bit of hope. Mild canon divergence.
Chapter 1: After Hours
