#not me overthinking a fucking navy cop procedural relationship

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kate rightfully deserves all the fanfare and love she's getting for stepping back into confident whistler mode to win her girl back, but without lucy pushing through and admitting she loved kate, there is likely no chance of romantic reconciliation between them

if 1x20 ends with "you ruined everything, you broke my heart into a million pieces," it's a sign to kate and the audience that the hurt is insurmountable, that lucy will always associate kate with pain and anger, that she’ll always see kate as the person who broke her, but instead she confesses "I loved you, Kate"

maybe because she wants kate to feel the level of hurt she’s feeling or really understand the magnitude of what they’ve lost or maybe she just can’t hold it in anymore, but the confession is what makes everything click into place for kate and what gives her the resolve to chase after lucy and fight to salvage this, makes her think ‘hey lucy did something huge admitting that to me after everything that’s happened and i have to show her the same effort and honesty” even if it means stepping out of her comfort zone and making a grand gesture in front of everybody they work with

it's about two people finally being brave enough to put themselves fully out there, to be completely open and utterly vulnerable to the person who's most capable of destroying them and deciding to meet each other halfway regardless because its worth it and you love them

#ncis hawaii #kacy #lucy tara #kate whistler #ik we got some lucy dislikers out there but guess what I'm built different i love them both baby #not me overthinking a fucking navy cop procedural relationship #kacy isnt the best written or most nuanced wlw ship ever but theres something so captivating and different about them #a lot of credit to tori and yasmine tbh bc lbh we're here bc of them lol #w/o the confession kate probably thinks oh man the woman i love is not nearly as hung up on me as i am on her #but now she knows oh...she did all those things bc she Loved me and probably still does... that means i still have a chance #ik ppl dont like to give lucy credit bc 'well if she just let kate talk earlier this couldve been solved faster' #if only emotions were so clear cut and easy to process like that huh like it took kate 5 episodes to apologize #and when lucy brought it up kate honestly thought she already had #its human for this to be so messy and complicated and hard its not like fanfic where u just lay out everything methodically and organized #emotions get in the way of logic a lot of the times especially when theres so much hurt being repressed #and there was like no breathing period for them they immediately had to work together and see each other all the time after the breakup #anyway HUJOEIFKW i love them both dearly and theyre both so damn stupid