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Set in S1, alternate version after their breakup.
Lucy and Kate try to do what professionals do best: keep moving, keep working, keep everything personal locked down. But when a sailor turns up dead at Pearl Harbor and the team gets involved in a complicated case, Kate’s body begins betraying the one secret she refuses to say out loud — she’s falling ill from believing Lucy no longer loves her.All the symptoms point to Hanahaki disease where unrequited love causes flowers to grow inside a person’s body, leading them to cough or vomit petals that worsen over time. In many versions, it’s “cured” either by reciprocated love or by surgical removal—with surgery often costing the patient their romantic feelings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanahaki_diseaseOr: Kate has Hanahaki, which makes her face the hard reality that her unrequited love for Lucy is literally hurting her and surgery might be the only solution.