#911 season 5 speculation

[hmslusitania]

That perfect one word no one’s heard yet

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Eddie tries to be as quiet as he can when he unlocks the door in case Buck’s on the couch. He’d told him that it would be stupid to sleep on the couch when Eddie was going to be in a whole other state, but Buck sometimes refuses do the sensible thing.

But Buck is not on the couch. His shift bag is in a neat pile by the door and there’s a half finished Lego construct on the coffee table that’s being colonised by Chris’s dinosaur toys. The jackets hanging on the hooks in the hallway are Buck’s too, from his myriad collection. There’s no light on in the house and Eddie checks his watch. It’s later than he’d thought; there had been an accident on I-5 and Eddie’s Uber driver hadn’t been stupid enough to take it, but the spillover traffic had made every other route between LAX and Eddie’s house stupid busy for being after midnight.

He gently opens Christopher’s door and sees him completely passed out and drooling a little into his pillow. Eddie shuts his door and heads to his own room.

Buck is not a restful sleeper. Eddie had found that out the hard way when they’d been quarantining together, but it holds true now in Eddie’s room. Buck has managed to wrap himself and the comforter into some kind of non-Euclidean knot and has one of the strings from his hoodie stuck in his partly open mouth. One of his feet is visible from the blanket knot, the sock rolled down to halfway off his heel. He’s mostly — by a very slim margin — on the left side of the bed, and has his arms wrapped around the other pillow. Eddie’s pillow.

Eddie’s heart squeezes in his chest and he wants to reach out and pull the sweatshirt string out of Buck’s mouth and roll the sock back up his foot, and then he wants to tangle himself into the knot of Buck and blanket.

And then he realises its two in the morning and he’s just standing stupidly in his own bedroom staring at his—

“Eddie?”

Buck’s voice is deeper from sleep and fuzzy from confusion.

“Hey,” Eddie says and realises he should put his bag down and maybe put on his pyjamas. He rounds the foot of the bed and—and those are definitely more of Buck’s things than he could’ve realistically needed for Eddie’s three day trip to El Paso.

“Did I miss—fuck, I was supposed to pick you up, oh my god I must’ve slept through my alarm—”

Buck fumbles to explain Eddie’s presence and when he falls silent, Eddie glances over at him, pausing in the act of unbuttoning his shirt. Buck is sitting half up in the bed with his phone in hand, frowning intensely at it. Like he can see that its 2am and knows Eddie wasn’t supposed to be in until 8am and also knows Eddie is standing in front of him half-undressed.

“I left early,” Eddie explains before Buck can fully ask. He turns around and drops his jeans, fishing his sleep shorts out of the dresser. “Changed my flight.”

“You should’ve called me, I would’ve come and got you,” Buck says. Eddie shrugs, and shrugs out of his undershirt, reaching for a fresh one from the drawer. “Oh, fuck, this is your bed, I should go—”

He pauses and when Eddie turns around, he’s sitting all the way up and staring into the middle distance.

“What’s up?” Eddie asks.

“Uh, the farthest I can go is your…couch,” Buck says.

Eddie mentally throws a stifling hand over his own instinctive response (“you don’t have to go anywhere ever for any reason you should just stay”) because Buck looks confused and guilty and perversely like he might be about to smile.

“What happened?” Eddie asks.

“Uh, I—I said she should keep the apartment since it was only fair since I got her to give up hers,” Buck says. He does grin just a little then and then seems to force himself to sober. Eddie’s heart does an odd, joyous pirouette. “When—when I broke up with Taylor.”

He does sober then, frowning. “And I’m back to being the useless couch crashing perpetual roommate.”

“You’re not crashing on my couch,” Eddie says firmly. “And you’re not useless.”

“No, I know, I’ll—I think Albert’s getting a new place right, I can just—”

“No, I meant—” Eddie steels himself and then catches sight of Buck’s dangling foot and half dislodged sock. He grabs Buck’s ankle and ignores the way Buck is staring at him, all mussed and rumpled and confused, and pulls his sock back up for him. When he lets go of Buck’s foot, Buck’s tilted his head sideways in that confused-Buckley-puppy dog expression that Buck got from Maddie and that Jee-Yun’s already starting to show off.

“I meant you don’t have to crash on my couch,” Eddie says. He circles around to his side of the bed and picks up his pillow where Buck’s relinquished his hold in his confusion. “But you do have to budge over and untangle part of the blanket for me.”

Buck obliges and Eddie tucks himself into the spare half of the bed. Eddie hadn’t turned on the light but it isn’t really dark until Buck’s phone goes out. They lie there in silence just the wrong side of perfectly comfortable for a while until Buck clears his throat.

“You left Texas early?” Buck asks.

“We can talk about it in the morning,” Eddie says. “When it’s been more than six hours since I fled my childhood home for probably the last time ever.”

“Right,” Buck says. “Sorry it went badly.”

“It didn’t actually,” Eddie says. He sighs. “My dad had a heart attack, but he’s going to be fine, and we left it in a place where if they ever want to see Chris again, they’re going to have to be the ones to reach out.”

“What if they want to see you?” Buck asks softly.

“That, we can definitely talk about tomorrow,” Eddie says. “We can talk about Taylor then, too, but she’s not welcome in my bedroom even for a conversation about her.”

Buck, to his relief, laughs. “Yeah that’s probably not gonna be nearly as big a conversation is it.”

“The decision making process that led to you breaking up with the wicked witch of the west? Maybe not,” Eddie agrees. “But, like, she is the first partner you’ve ever lived with and ending that even on your own terms can fuck you up in ways you don’t expect.”

Buck hums in agreement, or at least acknowledgement, and Eddie registers a second later that he isn’t actually speaking from experience. It feels right though, so he leaves it be as a statement.

“Sorry about your apartment through,” Eddie says.

“Its okay,” Buck says and he sounds like he’s falling asleep again. “I kinda hated it in the end anyway. Guess it kinda sucks to be homeless for a sec though.”

“You’ve always got a home here with me,” Eddie says before he can stop himself. “With us.”

Buck doesn’t respond, and after a moment, he lets out a soft exhale that’s not quite a snore. Eddie smiles and lets himself fall asleep.

When he wakes in the morning, Buck’s worked himself into another inconceivable Escher knot with the blanket. But this time, Eddie’s tied up in it, too inextricable to move.

And there’s nowhere else he’d rather be.

#buddie #911fic #buddie fic #the ghost ship scribbles #9-1-1 #911 season 5 speculation

[theladyyavilee]

if ramon experiences HEART ISSUES (or even more pointedly and actual heart attack when eddie started the season thinking he had one) I might actually, for real, seriously just completely lose it

#9-1-1 #911 spoilers #911 season 5 speculation #eddie diaz #heart metaphors my beloved

[stuckyevanstanfan]

So what do people think the buddie moment(s) in the finale will be?

A) Buck moving in with Eddie and Chris

B) Buck and Eddie sharing a moment at the vow renewal (significant eye contact, dancing as a family with Christopher)

C) feelings realization / visible "oh" moment

D) the wall repairing we saw in the trailer

Do you think the show cares to have something significant to keep the fandom interested over the break? Or will it be a more low-key moment?

#Buddie #911 season 5 speculation #911 season 5 spoilers #911 on fox

[bucksboobs]

From what I've seen written the past little while in Buddie fanfic I think it's time to say it out loud: we all desperately want and need Eddie to have his "Buck, Actually" moment of seeing two husbands have a boundless love for one another. Sure there's Hen and Karen staring him in the face and Michael and David tangentially in his life but something has to jostle Eddie into seeing plainly and unavoidably that queer love is something he could have.

If circumstances had been different I think maybe the season 5 finale wedding would have been that moment, having David and Michael exchanging their vows and Eddie absorbing it like a revelation. What that revelation was would be up to the viewer but I think a pointed close up of Eddie during their vows would have been the beginning of explicitly mlm Eddie.

However, circumstances being what they are, it's impossible to say when or if an equivalent moment will occur but I can see in the Fandom that we're waiting for it with bated breath

#buddie #911 season 5 speculation

[oneawkwardcookie]

Thinking of possible season ending songs, to play during the wedding reception: any thoughts people?

#911 fox #911 spoilers #911 season 5 spoilers #911 season 5b spoilers #5x18 #911 season 5 speculation #my 911 soundtrack #i'm listening to my shuffle and thinking about upbeat songs that match the starting over theme 🤔 #op

[nisbanisba]

I hope we get a scene in season 5 where someone says about TK “he’s an impressive guy” and Carlos says “he’s my husband 🥺”

#911 lone star #911 Lonestar season 5 #carlos reyes #tk strand #tarlos #911ls speculation

[canonicallyobserving911]

Buck & Eddie

S7??? S6??? S5???

Who knows where this is from but IMO, based on Eddie’s beard, it looks like S5.

But who knows?

BTS???

#buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #911 abc #911 on abc #911 season 7 #911 season 7 speculation #911 season 6 speculation #911 s5 #911 season 5 #911 season 6

[thisbuildinghasfeelings]

I'm so curious about what kind of time jump we'll be getting at the start of season 5. The show generally likes to anchor the episodes in real time (whether or not that has any internal consistency with the in-universe timeline of course), so I have to believe from this precedent that we'll be getting references to fall 2024 in season 5.

I don't think this means we'll necessarily be getting an explicit 16 month time jump, but I do think their tendency to try to place the episodes in real time means we won't just be picking up where we left off time-wise. I feel like there has to be a time jump. I think the most likely time jump is a year, just because it's simpler and cleaner than the more specific 16 months.

I kind of hate this because it would mean that we miss out on the entire first year of TK and Carlos' marriage. I hope that we can at least get a little something at the beginning of the first episode...maybe they could do what they did at the start of season 3...Start out pretty much where they left off and then, a few minutes in, hit us with the time jump. Give us a tiny crumb of newlywed Tarlos PLEASE.

One storyline that I think will benefit from a big time jump is the Judd/Wyatt situation. Picking up where we left off there would have Judd at home caring for Wyatt and away from the firehouse. Obviously Judd is going to come back to the firehouse, and a year time jump will give him an easy way to do that--Wyatt can have healed enough to be able to move on to a different living situation, maybe moving in with his girlfriend and their baby that has presumably been born by now. (Oh my god, if they give us a year time jump, she better not still be pregnant! But I wouldn't put it past them 😂)

Another interesting thing with such a large time jump is that it puts them in a position to make big changes. A lot can happen in a year. Couples could break up, someone could be engaged, someone could have a different job, relationship dynamics could have shifted, a new character could have become integrated into the group, etc. To a certain extent, this is true at the start of any new season, but if we miss a whole year of these people's lives, they could realistically make big moves without having to build up to it. I could see them taking this opportunity to shake things up a bit...if I'm being honest, this thought terrifies me a little 😂 But it also opens up a lot of interesting possibilities!

#911 lone star #lone star season 5 #lone star speculation #<-oh i haven't used this tag in so long 😭 #i've missed speculating so much!

[littlespoonevan]

and when buck comes into work, angry and upset after fighting with taylor, and stops in his tracks when he sees eddie through the glass doors of the locker room putting on his uniform in a direct parallel to 2x01 and realises the person he needs more than anyone else in the world is finally home what then, huh???????????????

#get it? #bc in 2x01 he says 'what do we need him for?' #and now it's like #eddie is the person buck needs the most actually #love that :') #buddie #911 #season 5 speculation #i guess lol #regardless i'm putting it in a fic

[lover-of-mine]

God I'm so happy I sat down with my dad to watch a random episode of lone star and that star+ recommended me the og when I tried to watch grey's anatomy again and I'm here to watch this happen real time.

#not to be a i was here first person because i did come in in season 5 #but like #experiencing this not knowing #not finding the show in some random list of canon bi characters #to wait and speculate and go be called crazy #just to get be here now #its such a high #i cant imagine experiencing the show without it yk #thoughts thoughts thoughts #911 spoilers

[deluweil]

I saw the ask on @911bts about Ryan's presence on set.

My speculation is that whatever it is that they're filming, they can't show it.

Historically, however, both Ryan and Oliver have that habit to post on ig when they film with each other.

The fact that Oliver shares his photos and not something from the set means that it's not spoilerable (did I just invent a word? 👀)

If it was just one of them, I'd be worried, but both posted today, so I'm optimistic.

Let's manifest Buck recovering in the Diaz household together 😌🙏✨️

#evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #seasons 4 and 5 bts made us all observant #manifest buddie scenes with me ✨️✨️✨️ #911 speculations #911 on fox #911 fox

[hmslusitania]

Sharing different heartbeats in one night

5x18 spec! Spoilers for the things we know or can guess accurately about 5x17 and 5x18

"Penny for your thoughts?" Eddie asks, handing Buck the beer he'd gotten from the bartender. Buck is leaning against one of the trees in the park, staring into the middle distance, and he doesn't look particularly anything. Not happy, not sad, not...

"A whole entire penny?" Buck asks, taking the bottle while the corner of his mouth twitches.

"Eh, I was rounding up," Eddie says and Buck knocks his shoulder into Eddie's in reprimand. "But seriously, you look very out of it."

"Oh, yeah, just thinking," Buck says. Eddie opens his mouth and Buck cuts him off with a quick, "I know, I know, always dangerous."

Eddie snorts and sips his beer, scanning the party. Hen and Karen are absolutely absorbed in each other on the dance floor, and near them, Maddie and Chim are having a tentative slow dance that doesn't quite match the tempo of the song, but it looks hopeful anyway. Near death experiences will do that, Eddie supposes. Bring people back together.

"Where's Taylor?" Eddie asks, forcing himself to sound neutral. Neutral is the best he's ever been able to get.

"We broke up," Buck says.

Eddie has to remind himself a few times that "congratulations" is not the appropriate response to someone ending their longest ever relationship.

**

The party continues late into the night. Hen and Karen leave for their second wedding night sometime around sunset, but the rest of their group stays to dance the night away. At some point, Eddie loses Chris to Toni and Clive's offer to take all three boys -- Denny, Chris, and Harry -- for a slumber party, and Eddie gets to stay and have fun. He dances with Maddie for a minute, and takes a turn with Athena while Bobby laughs, and with some of Karen's friends, and the entire time it weighs on him.

Buck is single now.

Buck is single. And Eddie is single. And Eddie's in love with him.

Not only is he in love with him, but he's doing well enough now that he can admit that to himself, he can hold that thought in his mind -- in his heart -- and it doesn't feel like a live wire anymore. It feels hot to the touch still, sure, but more like cupping a warm mug of coffee in his palms than something deadly.

And Buck is single.

And Eddie could tell him.

"Come dance," he says instead when he finds Buck sitting by himself at one of the tables. It's a relatively safe request, since it's a fast song, and Eddie's been dancing with a group of people that includes Chim, Ravi, May, and someone who might be in charge of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"Yeah, alright," Buck says, and allows himself to be dragged to the dance floor.

There's a pervasive sense of joy that seeps through the whole reception. A happiness and acceptance and general wellness that settles in Eddie's bones. And yeah, he's still got some shit to work through, but he's doing so, so much better.

He could tell him.

They share an Uber home -- Taylor's keeping the apartment and Buck's been sleeping on her couch, so it makes good sense for him to just come home with Eddie -- and they're about to turn onto Eddie's street when he finally works up the courage.

"Buck--"

"I've been thinking--"

They both fall silent and do a shuffle of you go, no you go first that results in Buck going first.

"I've been thinking I need to try being single," Buck says and Eddie's stomach falls out through his ass while his heart jumps to his throat. "I -- I think the only time I've really been single, it wasn't my choice, right, because Abby left and then Ali broke up with me, and it definitely wasn't like it was something I chose and so I didn't want it and I didn't try to use it. But now, now it's like, I broke up with her, so I should try to embrace it, right, and I should, like, figure out how I can just be me. With-without trying to be a certain version of myself just to try and make someone else happy. I have to figure out how to be happy with myself. You know?"

"Yeah," Eddie says softly. Because it makes sense, it definitely makes sense, even if it takes that nascent shred of joy and courage that had been bubbling in Eddie's chest and smashes it like a bug on a windshield. "Yeah, that sounds like a healthy and mature decision to make."

Buck smiles, ducking his head in that bashful way he does.

The Uber stops at the foot of Eddie's driveway.

"What were you gonna say?" Buck asks while they slide out of the backseat and simultaneously fish for keys. Buck finds his first and lets them in to Eddie's house.

"Nah, nothing much," Eddie says. He swallows the lump in his throat and warms his hands on the cup of coffee in his head. It'll still be there, when Buck's ready. "Just that you can stay with us as long as you want."

#the ghost ship scribbles #9-1-1 #911fic #buddie #buddie fic #anti bucktaylor #cue season 6 Extreme Pining Era #911 season 5 speculation #911 spoilers

[theladyyavilee]

is buck in the hoodie at the loft? 👀👀 is he talking to taylor in the white hoodie? both paralleling the white hoodie he was wearing when he kissed lucy and wearing white to signal that something upsetting is happening/is gonna happen in relation to taylor that is gonna be painful but in the end bring change and good change at that?????

#9-1-1 #911 spoilers #anti bucktaylor #I just #really want that #911 season 5 speculation #the other option is that he is maybe talking to maddie after chimney goes missing but I think that that scene is more likely to happen at #chimney's place so my bet is that he is talking to taylor and I will justaslkfdhalskdfhlwkefhaks

[stuckyevanstanfan]

Why do so many people want Eddie to confess his feelings for Buck only to have Buck say he's not ready/doesn't want a relationship/needs time?

#buddie #911 season 5 speculation #911 speculation

[what-do-1000-swords-look-like]

Soooo last season Albert survived a horrific car crash, after being saved by the 118 while Chim was with Maddie during the birth of Jee-Yun, and the season ended with him passing his training to become a firefighter, like his big bro.

This season is coming to a close and now Albert doesn't want to be a firefighter, is saved by Chim (which brings his whole Kevin story line full circle in a way), and is given Chim's blessing to quit. "You were trying to tell me something the other day and I wasn't listening." Pretty much, Albert is following his heart.

Last season, Eddie got shot, was told to follow his heart instead of Christopher's, and revealed to Buck that he's Christopher's legal guardian should something happen to Eddie, in response to Buck thinking (and saying) that he's basically "expendable".

This season, Eddie finds his way back to the 118, the universe has been telling him to follow his heart all season (and we've pretty much seen him beginning to do that minus the 118 hiccup), he's dealing with his trauma and repression, and we have two more episodes to go (one that will have Eddie returning home and trying to resolve things with his father). Soooo my question is, what will be told to Buck by the end of this season if Eddie follows his heart even more? Or what will Buck tell Eddie if we're following the same type of circling back that happened with Chim's and Albert's story line?

"God has spoken"

#buddie #buck x eddie #evan x eddie #911 fox #911 speculation #911posts #bring it on season 5 finale #buddieposts

[babyboy-buck]

ethical conflict truthers how are we feeling?? vindicated?? avenged??

#911 on fox #911 fox #evan buck buckley #evan buckley #buddie #eddie diaz #buddie 911 #911 season 5 #911 spec #911 speculation #911 spoilers