#Ooof I love au headcanons haha

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Ok ok. I’ve been thinking about Lucy and Jesse. Specifically that scene where he comments on her family money right??

What if her family didn’t have issues with her job??? Like they’re just happy she’s doing something she loves??? Just little Lucy Tara living her best life in Hawaii with more money than she knows what to do with!!! But she keeps it quite cause people look at her differently when they find out

And then one day she makes some benign comment about it. Like they need to get to another island for a case but it’s gonna take too long and she’s just like ‘I’ll get a chopper’ or something?!?!

And the whole gang (minus Jesse and Jane) just look at her dumbfounded and Kate is just wide eyed like ‘WTF??’

Anyway I’ve had too much time to think about this so now you have to as well

Omg, okay okay okay, but...

I see you and I'll raise: Lucy, supportive parents and trust fund and all, only she doesn't really know what to do with so much money.

Her whole life still fits in a duffel bag, she doesn't really buy much for herself (aside from some really nice new outfits now and then, ('cause when you've got that swagger, you gotta dress the part).

So instead, her money mostly goes into helping out random small businesses around the island. Like, proper investments. No one knows about this except the owners, obviously. This means she gets to call in a lot of random favours from a lot of random places.

Need to get to one of the other islands but not in the mood to wait for CGIS' fleet? Call in a favour for a helicopter ride with one of the local tour companies. The sweet old lady down at records retiring? Three different bakeries and a coffee shop mysteriously sponsored a massive amount of pastries and caffeine. Anyone wondering why (and how) she buys so much pizza from that one place down the block? She gets a really nice discount, don't overthink it.

No one knows how she does it, but no one thinks to look into it because it's Lucy, so they just wait it out.

Kate has no clue. Lucy buys a ton of groceries every month, goes half-in on all the rent and utilities (because that's what they agreed on). Kate finds really nice little gifts for her around the house every couple weeks, things she saw online and showed Lucy, or something that Lucy said reminded her of Kate or thought it would look good on her. Small stuff. But the quality is impeccable. She's tried questioning it before only to get distracted by something else Lucy says. So she's mostly learned to let it go.

Until Jesse mentions the favours. Until Ernie (in his own polite way) starts poking at the subject and it gets out. They're all amused, and very embarrassed about underestimating Lucy's business savvy (albeit unintentionally). Kate makes her promise to not spend so much money on gifts and things, though Lucy manages to amend the conditions of the promise with some of her charm before she finally agrees.