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For years, Christine Cagney has loved her partner in ways she refuses to name.
Mary Beth Lacey is married, devoted to her family, and the most important person in Christine's life. The sensible thing would be to leave it there.
Instead, a thousand small moments begin to change the shape of their partnership: late-night stakeouts, ferry rides, shared lunches, phone messages, private jokes, and the growing realization that some forms of love refuse to stay in their assigned place.
Set against the familiar rhythms of the 14th Precinct, Between Boroughs is a slow-burning story about friendship, longing, loyalty, and the complicated choices people make when love arrives too late—or perhaps right on time.
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1982. Two women in a city full of noise, secrets, and long nights.
Mary Beth Lacey never meant to fall for her partner. Christine Cagney never dared hope she could have her.
As promotions shift their world and desire changes the rules, they fight to hold on to their work, their families, and the truth that keeps pulling them toward each other.
A slow, tender unraveling — and rebuilding — of two lives meant to collide.
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1983. New York City, in the throes of spring.
Mary Beth Lacey has built a careful life she believes in. Christine Cagney has spent years pretending she doesn’t want more than she’s allowed to have.
When longing finally outpaces restraint, they cross a line neither of them can unknow — and discover that desire, once named, demands honesty, courage, and risk.
A charged, intimate awakening about love found late, claimed fiercely, and chosen anyway.
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After surgery to revise an old scar from having been shot and had chest surgery, Christine Cagney is supposed to spend the weekend resting. Mary Beth Lacey decides to stay and make sure she actually does.
What follows is a quiet stretch of recovery: board games, groceries, pain medication, late-night jazz, and the slow realization that some forms of care are harder to accept than others.
Sometimes healing a scar means more than fixing what’s visible.
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A bottle of pink wine, a bowl of baba ghanoush, and a stack of rented tapes. Mary Beth invites Christine over for a movie night that isn’t just about the movies—and Christine shows up with more than pita wedges on her mind.
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- Part 1 of Interlude
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Saturday, January 21, 1989 - Saturday, February 4, 1989
The year begins with threats: Nora’s camera flashing in the dark, a photograph mailed to Christine meant to turn fear into control. But Christine refuses to be prey. She brings the truth to Eliza, who sees how fragile she really is, and Mary Beth anchors her through tears in the precinct restroom. At last, in the safety of her loft, Christine lays it all bare: the blackouts, the shame, the manipulations—and the confession she can’t hold anymore, that she’s loved Mary Beth since the late ’70s. To her astonishment, Mary Beth answers with honesty of her own: she loves her too. What follows is a shift as intimate as it is dangerous—family dinners, lullabies, shared keys, a new rhythm of belonging. And one night, when the signs are too clear to ignore, Mary Beth stops resisting.
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- Part 12 of Second Shift
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- 30,135
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- 1/1
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Monday, January 2, 1989 - Saturday, January 21, 1989
The new year brings hard truths. Mary Beth takes the first step toward divorce, choosing a lawyer and admitting the house must be sold. Eliza holds her steady, even as Christine presses closer—watching the alexandrite at Mary Beth’s throat like it’s a secret only they share. A family dinner turns charged when Christine lets her yearning slip, and Eliza responds with her own claim: Mary Beth may wear Christine’s gift, but she comes home to Eliza. The night ends in Eliza’s arms, even as Christine unravels into bars and strangers, shame chasing her back to SoHo. Meanwhile, Nora watches from the edges, sketching plans and gathering proof. By week’s end, Mary Beth’s decision is made—papers will be filed, daycare chosen, her path set. But Christine’s longing only grows sharper, the pendant glinting between them like a promise too dangerous to name.
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- Part 11 of Second Shift
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- English
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- 30,476
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Monday, December 5, 1988 - Sunday, December 25, 1988
Grief remakes everything. When Charlie collapses again, Christine is forced to face the unthinkable: the father who defined her is gone. In the blur of ICU vigils, funeral parlors, and a wake that veers from laughter to collapse, she leans harder than ever on Mary Beth—sometimes without words, sometimes without shame. Mary Beth shoulders the weight, even as Marcus Petrie quietly warns her of the rumors already circling about them. Eliza sees the truth too: Christine’s love for Mary Beth isn’t speculation, it’s fact. And at Christmas, with Alice squealing over toys and the tree glowing in Queens, Christine slips her partner a gift chosen only for her: a pendant meant to honor change, and the grace to survive it. In that moment, their mutual pining ceases to be subtext and becomes the quiet center of everything.
And on Christmas night, when the gifts are given and the tree keeps watch, Christine risks one more—reckless, delicate, impossible to take back.Series
- Part 10 of Second Shift
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- English
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- 29,154
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- 1/1
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- 2
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Thursday, October 6, 1988 - Thursday, November 17, 1988
It’s the month everything shifts. Mary Beth picks up the packing tape and refuses to stop—spices, scissors, photo albums, all the pieces of a life that no longer fits. Harvey hovers, silent and bitter, while Muriel waits like a judge in the next room. But in the Village, Eliza waits with tea and warmth, a key to a new place, and the kind of love that feels like building instead of breaking. Christine helps shoulder the weight—carrying boxes, pushing leads at the precinct, and watching Mary Beth with a devotion she can’t admit out loud. And just beyond the door, Nora prowls, leaving tokens behind, reminding them she isn’t done. One drawer at a time, Mary Beth learns that leaving is an act of courage—and that love, in all its dangerous shapes, is what comes after.
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- Part 8 of Second Shift
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- English
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- 29,237
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- 1/1
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Saturday, September 24, 1988 – Thursday, October 6, 1988
For one luminous weekend, Mary Beth, Eliza, and Alice live as if they already belong to each other—sunlit breakfasts, birthday music, and nights where love feels steady instead of stolen. But when Monday comes, the ground shifts. Harv presses for clarity and sets a deadline: October. The boys are told, the house grows heavier, and Mary Beth’s writing begins to carry truths she can’t yet speak aloud. At the squad room, Christine steadies her as best she can—partner, protector, and something more—but a secret meeting with Eliza leaves fault lines of its own. As Mary Beth learns that safety isn’t the absence of change but the courage to claim herself, she begins to see her future not in halves, but whole.
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- Part 7 of Second Shift
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- English
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- 27,236
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Saturday, August 27, 1988 – Monday, September 19, 1988
For one golden weekend, Mary Beth, Eliza, and Alice live as if the world has already given them permission—bedtime stories, lazy breakfasts, painted stars on Alice’s cheeks, even a quiet dance in the kitchen. But shadows gather: Isbecki notices more than he should, Nora reappears with unnerving precision, and a midnight streak across Eliza’s window suggests danger closer than anyone wants to admit. Harv feels the distance deepen, Michael senses the shifts, and Christine watches from the edges—both protector and friend, already aching with a yearning she can’t yet name. What should be ordinary days begin to feel like turning points, and Mary Beth knows she can’t walk backward into the light she’s left behind.
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- Part 6 of Second Shift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,999
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Monday, August 8, 1988 - Saturday, August 27, 1988
A series of threatening letters draws Christine and Mary Beth into their darkest case yet—a man who turns women into characters and keeps their endings locked away. The work leaves scars: evidence rooms stacked with film, interrogations that cut too deep, and sleepless nights filled with ghosts. But life doesn’t pause. Eliza and Mary Beth entwine more deeply, Harvey feels the ground shifting beneath him, and Nora reemerges with dangerous timing. Through it all, Christine watches Mary Beth more closely than she admits—half partner, half protector, already aching with something she can’t yet name.
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- Part 5 of Second Shift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,912
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Monday, July 4, 1988 - Saturday, August 6, 1988 (with some short flashbacks to the 1950s & 1970s)
When Mary Beth’s appendix ruptures, the walls between her lives collapse: her husband, her lover, and her partner all gathered at her bedside. What follows is a season of revelations—letters smuggled under pillows, afternoons stolen in Eliza’s apartment, and late-night arguments that threaten the fragile truce at home. Christine shoulders the role of confidante and co-conspirator, even as something deeper stirs in her own heart. Love, loyalty, and longing begin to redraw the shape of what comes next.
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- Part 4 of Second Shift
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Thursday, May 26, 1988 – Wednesday , June 8, 1988
When Harvey leaves town for work and the boys are visiting their cousins, Mary Beth seizes a chance to have Eliza not just in her arms, but in her house—sharing meals, laughter, even Alice’s bedtime. The dream can’t last, and its aftermath ripples through her marriage with consequences she can’t ignore. Christine, meanwhile, edges closer to happiness with Nathan, only to be reminded of how fragile it is when violence on the job—and Nathan’s fear—bring everything to a breaking point. In Queens, in the Village, and in the squad room, the weight of desire presses down, reshaping every bond they thought they could count on.
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- Part 3 of Second Shift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,244
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
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Tuesday, April 5, 1988 - Wednesday, May 25, 1988
Confession changes everything. Mary Beth admits to Harv that another woman has captured her attention, and his unexpected response opens a door she can’t close. As she and Eliza step further into forbidden territory, Christine becomes both confidante and distraction—sharp as ever at the precinct, yet quietly falling into her own romance with Nathan. Amid grief, temptation, and the steady pull of home, Mary Beth learns that awakening is never tidy—and never without consequence.
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- Part 2 of Second Shift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,143
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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begins Friday, December 2, 1983 - early January 1984 + then jumps to Tuesday, January 26, 1988 - Tuesday, April 5, 1988
It begins with a case like any other—a consignment shop robbery in Manhattan. But for Detective Mary Beth Lacey, meeting Eliza Hennessey sparks something she can’t shake. Years later, when they meet again at Queens College, that spark grows into a dangerous, undeniable awareness. As Mary Beth balances her marriage, motherhood, and partnership with Christine Cagney, she finds herself on the edge of a life she never imagined—and maybe always wanted.
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- Part 1 of Second Shift
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Christine and Mary Beth get the lead roles in a drama contest. They must play two women falling in love. But fiction and reality begin to mix...
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Christine en Mary Beth krijgen de hoofdrollen in een toneelstuk. Ze moeten twee vrouwen spelen die verliefd op elkaar worden. Maar fictie en realiteit raken met elkaar verweven...
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You said I'm holdin' onto heartache, you said I wear it like a crown, it's gonna drag me down by SilverShadow1
Fandoms: Cagney and Lacey
03 Feb 2023
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“I’ve known him since he was a kid.”
“His parents have known him his whole life. Imagine all of their preconceptions.”OR
Michael Lacey is found in the last place anyone expects.