#Angela is who Tim calls when he needs tactical support and Angela doesn't offer hugs but to buy an island with no extradition treaty

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You, good Nonny, get a literal wild card after I put options into a random selector - so if the Rookie is not a fandom of yours, feel free to send another ask.

He’d been home for a year and a half now, but his shoulders still tensed when someone was behind him, or he was forced to sit in the open and under the heavy scrutiny of twenty other people, friendly or not. After six years of assessing what kind of target he would be in any given situation, it was harder to let go of the idea that he was not surrounded on all sides by Unfriendlies than he thought it would be.

So he avoided the front row as best he could by picking the row slightly further back because of its proximity to the door. He kept his arms folded across his chest and leaned back to put even more space between him and Sergeant Grey’s podium, and picked the chair closest to the glass wall so he didn’t feel like he was surrounded, and Isabel took the seat next to him.

“You look like you want to kill someone,” Isabel whispered, without turning her head towards him.

“The day is young.”

Isabel was one of the only other recruits at training that wasn’t put off by what she called Tim’s ‘resting bitch face’, which Tim considered another form of armor. People took smiles and pleasantries the wrong way too often, and he was sick of having to backpedal out of awkward conversations he hadn’t realized he was walking into just by being nice. He’d rather be a dick that no one would misinterpret as flirting.

They were two of the four rookies assigned to Mid-Wilshire, but the other two sat on the opposite side of the room - Lopez and Graham.

Tim knew little about either of them, other than Isabel really like Lopez and referred to her as Spicy Lopez - as there were seven at the academy - in appreciative awe of her shooting ability on the range, and the way she managed to flip every guy in their hand-to-hand class with an ease that spoke of having a lot of male relatives to fight while growing up, and a low tolerance for bullshit.

Or that her side hobbies included vigilantism in Gotham.