so much for summer love
rating: explicit
chapter word count: 6,423
The summer before his senior year of college at NYU, TK finds himself in Galveston, Texas, working at a restaurant on the beach. It’s there that he meets Carlos, a fellow server with a heartstopping smile and a need for a temporary break from his own life back in Austin. Without planning it, the two of them fall into a whirlwind romance that’s a bad idea for a million different reasons, yet they can’t figure out how to stay away.
Chapter One
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thank you to @lightningboltreader and @rmd-writes for beta reading and to @reyesstrand and @welcometololaland for the additional love and encouragement <3
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I have nothing against Buddie, quite the opposite, I think it's a very cute ship but in the show, I see them as platonic.
Anyone who follows my blog knows that I love to make parallels between shows and Buck and Eddie make think of Will and Gunnar in Nashville.
They're best friends, share an incredible bond and at one point they even raised a kid together (with Avery). They have shared so many scenes that could be seen as ambiguous but they're not, because that's how best friends act. Because are you even best friends you've never had someone assume you and your best friend were dating?
But they're not dating, they have the strongest bond and have always been there for eachother, but their relationship has never been romantic.
That's how I see Buck and Eddie's relationship.
The reason I'm saying this is because I feel like Buck would have went for it if he had wanted to be with Eddie. He would have been more obvious.
He didn't have any problem doing it when he was interested in other men. He might have done it in a clumsy way or acted like didn't know exactly how to proceed but he "went for it" anyway...
Exhibit A: Buck was hitting on TK in the 9-1-1/9-1-1 Lone Star crossover. Buck didn't say "we should meet up" or "catch up", he said "we should get together". And he didnt say it to the whole group. He waited for a moment when they were both alone.
That's why TK thought Buck was hitting on him, because he was.
Same with Tommy. Buck was flirting with Tommy way before their moment in the kitchen.
Exhibit B: Buck admitted that he asked Tommy for a tour because he wanted to get to know him, he even asked Tommy out, after the tour. He didn't say "we should grab a beer" or "do you want to go out for drinks", he said "you should let me buy you a beer". That man was trying to get a date.
And then in Buck's kitchen, when Tommy still wouldn't get it, Buck told him point blank that he was trying to get his attention.
I really think Buck knows what he wants even if he's a little confused about how to get there. And I never really felt like he wanted to go there with Eddie. Buck and Eddie are each other's person but it doesn't always have to be romantic.
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gwyn promising she’ll always be with tk and her disappearing when tk looks back because he needed to make this choice for himself and she did what she could to save him versus carlos feeling all of gwyn’s love being sent through him and being there when tk looks back a second time because now he needed that reminder that carlos is there, that he’s standing strong, and he can be an anchor to hold onto despite being terrified himself.
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Okay, but the way Carlos puts his whole body around TK on the tarmac. Like, "if I can just keep his whole body into mine, I can maybe keep him safe"
no pressure @paperstorm on 3.08 xoxoxo
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the parallel of Gwyn and TK getting on a plane in the past and Owen and TK getting on a plane in the present and TK doesn't want to go where they're going in both instances. but when he eventually disembarks he embraces an opportunity to honor his mother.
I'm not crying!
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*Tommy kisses Buck in his loft in LA*
Meanwhile, somewhere in Austin Texas:
*TK shoot up in bed, waking Carlos up*
Carlos: Babe? Is everything okay?
TK: It happened.
Carlos: What happened?
TK, smiling: Something amazing.
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Rewatching the 911/911 Lone Star crossover and I am going to explode
Buck starts out shit talking and being competitive with TK then Buck compliments TK after he saved him saying he had "nice moves"
Buck comforts TK when he's upset and offers to do something reckless to help him before telling him, and only him btw, he wants to see him again
TK sees all of this and thinks Buck must be flirting because why wouldn't he but this is EXACTLY how Buck acted when he met Eddie
Someone is reading these situations wrong and I don't think it's TK
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