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leupagus · 3 months

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Guys I Might Have Three Nickels

I've been watching "Agatha Christie's Marple" for the past few days and it's pretty good! Marple adaptations all tend to have a better caliber of actors than a lot of bog-standard mystery shows (looking at you, "Madame Blanc"), and while Joan Hickson's Marple is right up there with David Suchet's Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes as "literally can never be beaten, these are the best anyone's done it," both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie do a fantastic job as Miss Marple.

Then I got to "The Secret of Chimneys," Season 5 episode 2

and guys

Guys

So there's a murder of a viscount, like there is, and this detective Finch rolls up and immediately spots Miss Marple (in her NIGHTIE! standing at the window like some kind of hussy, honestly Jane) and doffs his cap to her with that little smile that makes you go, "huh."

At this point I've watched a couple dozen Miss Marple episodes where she goes through detectives like wildfire and this guy's supposed to be a "*guru*" so I'm expecting some battle of the egos or something and like, Stephen Dillane is great! But bleh, I might have to skip this one.

Then my dude asks Miss Marple to SHOW HIM THE BODY, with a pleased little smile at her as she goes "uhhhhhhhh but my knitting?" (He even does that thing where you use someone's honorific and wait for them to give you their name, and that's when I was like "ohhh this bitch knows exactly who she is.") What follows is what I can only describe as a meet-cute in the secret passageway where the viscount was shot (and in fact the body is STILL THERE) and where Miss Marple literally asks the police equivalent of "is there a Mrs Finch" and he looks at her like this:

At which point I'm like "ohhh my dude not only knows who she is, he deliberately came here without a sergeant so he could draft her," and sure enough he just starts...handing her pieces of evidence like "hey babe can you decipher this note for me thanks love you" while Miss Marple is like, "this approval and camaraderie coming from a cop... not sure if want."

Next is a series of romantic strolls through the gardens while they discuss murder, during which Finch reveals his undying love I mean his research into Miss Marple and the "dozen case files" of her previous exploits that he's collected like some deranged fanboy. Miss Marple responds to this by BLUSHING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL and stammering about how pish tosh it's nothing really, and I couldn't find a gif of it but he's staring at her like this:

Yeah I bet u r tempted

He also makes a half-hearted attempt at negging her "amateur sleuth" status, only to then immediately assure her that he makes like, so much money being a big fancy detective and can keep her in all the yarn and garden seed she could ever desire.

There's also a late-night tryst at the compost pile right after Finch has been (mildly) poisoned and Miss Marple is like "men are so weak" as she roots through the garbage for clues.

Not how he wanted their first date to go D:

The next morning there's another murder which: bummer, but also allows the two of them to read love letters together and for Finch to give Miss Marple the following look as she explains how secret assignations among lovers can "quicken the ardor":

Miss Marple then goes onto solve the murders and btw hands over the priceless diamond that's been literally missing for two literal decades that she found in her spare time. The entire scene features Finch looking at her like this:

After the dust settles, Finch and Miss Marple have a lovely moment where he calls himself "another one of your casualties," then super casually mentions that he's probably going to have to go on assignment to use the diamond in a daring international espionage case and I can't decide if he's asking Miss Marple to go with him or simply trying to show her that he is cool and smart and would make an excellent wife, but either way the episode ends with her turning him down and Jane, we need to talk about your priorities.

Anyway I've already written 2K about the subsequent 10-year epistolary romance these two have following this episode because I make poor choices.

#agatha christie's marple #miss marple #julia mckenzie #stephen dillane #special thanks to introvertedpedant for their exceptional gifs #anyway yeah I fully did the 'haha what if I jokingly shipped them' and then 30 minutes later was like 'oh no'#miss marple rhymes with parple #seriously though what's the explanation for these choice #other than dillane reading through the script and saying to mckenzie #'ok so I'm gonna play him like SO SO down bad for you is that cool'#and mckenzie saying 'you jump I jump jack'

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moonsharky · 1 year

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comalandia ∘⁠˚⁠˳⁠° 911 fox + not so obvious nods to buck's memories

only the not really obvious ones, and i'm sure theres probably some i missed but oh well. image descriptions have explanations too. see the end for honourable mentions

[Image Description:

10 gifs of Evan "Buck" Buckley (and others) from 9-1-1, during his coma dream in season 6 episode 11, with older episodes too.

Gif 1: Buck - in his coma dream - sits on the couch between his brother and their father, beer in hand for all three of them. To the left of the couch is a shelf that holds a lamp, and in front of the lamp is a framed picture of the bar Buck tended in Peru. The picture contains the dark wood bar top encircled by a bunch of colourful barstools.

Gif 2: In Peru, season 4 episode 5, we see Connor talking to an off-screen Buck. Connor leans his elbows on the bar top. Next to him we can slightly see the same bright barstools as in the photo. In the background are tables and chairs that match the vibe. It's not a glaringly obvious nod, but it's definite.

Gif 3: In the lobby of the hospital within the coma dream Buck stands with Hen and Chimney as they try to figure out why it feels like Buck is dying and how he can get back to his life outside. Behind Buck walks two people in traditional South Asian attire; one in a dark blue and silver detailed sari, and the other wearing a head covering, but with an indiscernible outfit because Buck's body stands in the way of view.

Gif 4: In season 1 episode 5, a bride-to-be stands in front of a tall mirror, wearing a bright red sari with gold details, as her friend/bridesmaid helps her prepare for the wedding. We know the last gif is a nod to this specific moment (and not just people in the background) for two reasons; one, because it's an important part of Bobby's story in season 1, and two, because we have never seen Indian people in traditional clothing before or since.

Gif 5: The camera focus is mainly on Bobby, following him as his quickly rushes past Buck in the coma dream, so the background is a blink and miss it situation. A doctor tends to a patient with a high heel shoe embed in their left cheek.

Gif 6: Season 2 episode 6, has Chimney talking to one of the parents of the child beauty queens, who has a high heel shoe stabbed into the left cheek.

Gif 7: In the background of a few shots within Buck's coma journey throughout the hospital, you can see two people in khaki/beige ensembles. They stand as if they're guarding whatever is on the other side of the glass doors behind them. At first inspection, they could easily be passed off as nurses. But looking closer, it seems like no other nurses have worn this colour of scrubs before in the show. Mostly it's blue, sometimes maroon or even pink. But never khaki. This combined with the way they hold themselves, makes me think of the two prisoners that pretend to be guards.

Gif 8: In season 5 episode 6, two prisoners have taken the uniforms of guards in order to blend in and escape. They rummage through the personal belongings of said guards, seeing what they can take. The colour is the exact same as the two from the hospital in Buck's coma dream. And again, the way they stand brings me to think of these two.

Gif 9: Buck and Bobby walk through the hospital, past some open curtains where beds are. They pass a few pregnant people, all in varying degrees of athleisure wear. It appears that they may all be in labour.

Gif 10: Buck and Bobby respond to a call where pregnant parents begin to go into labour one after the other. All wearing clothing comfortable enough to do yoga in.

honourable mentions:

When Buck first awakens within his coma, he looks up at Daniel as Daniel talks, giving the rundown of what happened. In the top left corner, the television is on, a news segment playing. The headline reads "VA HOSPITAL WAIT TIMES." The second line is hard to read, but this is going on the same time that Buck has his first memory, which just so happens to be of Eddie. Eddie, who is an Army Vet. Whom in comalandia fights to keep his son, but doesn't have the right support systems. It feels like this is somehow a little hint to that storyline.

When Buck arrives home in his voma dream to his parents waiting for him, he wears a white shirt with wide spaced grey pinstripe. Much like the one he was wearing when Eddie got shot. It's not the same shirt I don't think, but hugely similar. Also there's a photo on his computer desk, but the image is too pixelated and far away for me to figure out what it is, though it may be another nod to something.

In the hospital waiting room of comalandia, another TV is turned on to the news, black smoke billowing on the footage on screen. I can't make out what the headline says. But it can definitely hint at many different things in the show, as Buck is a firefighter after all.

Christopher shows up in Buck's coma dream, and he wears a three toned horizontally striped tee under a hoodie. The stripes alternate between an almost green shade of blue, a dark blue, and white. Not sure where from, but I swear Chris has worn this shirt before, or even something similar.

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#911 abc #evan buckley #moonsharkygif #userhotdog #userdahlias #useraust #usermoonlight #usercorinne #ajlook #911edit #evanbuckleyedit #buddie #if u squint i kinda hint at it lol #eddie diaz #alcohol tw #blood tw #gore tw

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j4gm · 7 months

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SPOILERS!!! REFERENCES AND EASTER EGGS IN F&C ep. 5: DESTINY

I'm a week late on this post because I had some stuff going on last week, but let's go!

The opening scene reintroduces us to Ice Finn, who was briefly cursed by Evergreen's crown. We see him abducting a family, who will become part of the pile of frozen bodies that made up the area where he and the Lich opened a portal to the Multiverse in Crossover. At the end of that episode Prismo moved the crown to the site of the Mushroom Bomb's explosion, freeing Farmworld Finn from the curse. But he remains a frightening figure in Farmworld's mythology, as demonstrated by this scarecrow that Simon steals his new clothes from.

Fionna telling Simon to relax because she's an expert at post-apocalyptic RPGs is ironic considering that Simon has survived and raised a child in an actual apocalypse.

Big Destiny appears alongside returning Destiny Gang members Tromo (far left) and Trami (fifth from left, just next to the mast). Tromo was assumed to be a boy in her first appearance; it's possible she's transed her gender. Big Destiny claims he was the one who defeated Ice Finn, which is most definitely not the case, but it seems like nobody is in the mood to dispute his claim.

This is Farmworld Wildberry Princess. She's a butcher just like her Ooo counterpart. Fionna also assaults Farmworld Starchy, and Farmworld Chet is the guy who was surprised to hear that Cake could talk. I'm not sure if there are any other recognisable characters amongst the crowds at the Farmworld meeting place, except of course for...

Choose Bruce! He was the person who gave Farmworld Finn his sword-arm in his debut episode, and is obviously the Farmworld version of Choose Goose. The evilness of his Ooo counterpart doesn't seem to have manifested in quite the same way, except that he is as shady a salesman as ever.

Fionna has a copy of a magazine called Mle, which seems to be the Fionna and Cake version of Ble. She also has Finn's iconic flute.

Peanut exclaims "magic fist" when he sees Cake use her powers, which was the name of Finn and Jake's wizard disguise when they entered the tournament in the episode Wizard Battle.

Peanut also mentions Fionna's missing nose, which is the first time someone has brought up the art style discrepency in canon. Fionna does in fact have a nose. It's just not drawn in her universe's art style.

Farmworld Finn's house is reminiscent of the Tree Fort, with its corrugated roof, haphazard wooden construction, steel chimneys, and the ladder steps leading up the trunk of the tree behind. But it still has its own unique design.

And here is Farmworld Finn himself! His retractable axe-arm is cool.

He is a widower with five children. As you probably already know, Jay (previous image) and Bonnie (third on left) are named after Finn's kids from Puhoy, who were themselves named after corruptions of Jake and Princess Bubblegum's names. The other three kids on the right are unnamed in the episode's credits, but have characteristics of some of Finn's other "children". The first on the right could represent Neptr, who Finn created in the episode What is Life. The middle on the right likely represents Stormo, who was spawned from Finn's DNA in the episode Goliad. The far right can't really be identified with any existing characters, but he has green eyes like Huntress Wizard, perhaps symbolising the potential of Finn's relationship with her or even being an explicit indicator that Farmworld Huntress was the mother of these children.

Jake is still alive in this universe. He was possessed by the Lich for a while, but was freed at the end of Crossover.

Finn throws a stick of bubblegum into the soup for some reason. I've seen various theories about what this is meant to mean but none of them really seem likely to me. It was probably just a nod to the fact that Princess Bubblegum doesn't appear anywhere else in Farmworld.

Old lady Marceline's broken laser gun and Farmworld Finn's sword arm are mounted on the wall, alongside other artifacts.

Bonnie has doodled a Candy Kingdom on the wall.

This is the first of at least two times that Cake suggests selfcest.

This is the crater from when the Mushroom Bomb blew up. Just like in its original appearance, it remains unclear why its impact was small compared to the bombs that exploded during the war. Perhaps time dulled its power, or perhaps the Lich's spirit was enough to make it more threatening than any conventional nuclear weapon. As previously mentioned, the crown got blown up here because Prismo teleported it here in Crossover. Out-of-universe, this was an explanation for a minor continuity error where the crown was present in a scene it shouldn't have been in during Finn the Human.

Little Destiny is afflicted by a lesser version of the curse of Evergreen's crown, since she's only wearing one of the jewels. This is why Jay says she feels cold.

Bartram! This is Farmworld Finn's beloved mule. He was reluctant to sell Bartram in order to pay off the Destiny Gang, which was the catalyst for his discovery of Evergreen's crown. It's good to see that he was at least able to keep his mule after that whole ordeal.

This show has conditioned us to expect blood when someone dies, so perhaps Farmworld Finn isn't dead despite this looking like a killing blow. Either way, I don't think we'll be seeing him again.

The dream in this episode's credits is a bunny with a sword.

#adventure time #fionna and cake #easter egg posts

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kitkatpancakestack · 2 years

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Ad Meliora

Based on this tumblr post, because Eddie serves "going back to school later in life" vibes and I'm capitalizing.

3.2k || also on ao3

In Latin, the phrase "ad meliora" means "toward better things."

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“Eddie’s been acting weird lately.”

Chimney glances up from his phone, pausing in smacking his gum between his molars. “What makes you say that?”

Buck nods across the loft to where the man in question is sitting at the bar, zoning out as he stares blankly at the countertop. It had been a decidedly uneventful day so far, with no calls in the last twenty minutes, and for that entire time, Eddie hasn’t moved. “He’s just sitting there.”

“He might be deep in thought, Buck. A man is allowed to be alone with his thoughts.”

“He’s staring.”

“Like a person who is deep in thought.”

“Like a weirdo.” He leans back, squinting at Eddie, whose eyebrows furrow, like he’s about to give the bar top a shakedown.

Hen materializes at the top of the steps, then, and Buck beckons her over before she can make a beeline toward the kitchen. She narrows her eyes at him behind her lenses, looking at Chimney curiously before saying, “What am I walking into?”

“Buck thinks Eddie is acting weird.” Chimney puts air quotes around the last word.

Buck huffs. “He is. Look at him. Do you think he’s having some kind of episode or something? That kid from that house fire the other day, his sister was telling me about how he has these things called petit mal seizures while we were sitting in the back of the ambulance, and I think—”

“He’s not having a seizure, Buck,” Hen cuts him off, but she tilts her head dubiously as she regards Eddie. “Besides, those are more common in kids. He’s probably just deep in thought.”

Chimney snorts, grinning down at his phone.

“Guys,” Buck mutters, but he doesn’t take his eyes off Eddie’s pensive form.

“You should just go ask him.” Hen drops to the couch beside Chimney, pressing her lips together when she nudges his arm with her foot and knocks his phone out of his hand. “If the curiosity is killing you this bad, I know a surefire way to get to the bottom of it.”

Buck’s knee bobs up and down, his fingers tapping out a rhythmless staccato against the arm of the chair. It’s probably nothing. Ever since Eddie came back to work, he’s just been a little bit more . . . hypervigilant of his best friend, who has noticed said hypervigilance. It was hard to miss the message written in the folded lines of Eddie’s forehead when he got a papercut and Buck smothered him like he’d amputated a finger instead.

So, maybe he’s being a little excessive about it all, but that’s his best friend in the world. Sue him.

“It’s probably nothing,” he decides, settling back in the chair. Chimney and Hen exchange a look but don’t say anything. Buck spends the next five minutes waiting for Eddie to move, but then the bell rings, and it takes a good ten seconds before he jerks to attention and leaves his place at the counter.

Buck knows something is up when he pops his head into the Diaz kitchen the next day and Eddie snaps his laptop lid shut so fast Buck wouldn’t be surprised if he threw his shoulder out of socket.

“Um,” he mutters, hand curling around the doorframe. “Awkward?”

Eddie scowls, rubs a hand over his face. “I didn’t hear you come in.”

“Because you’re losing your hearing in your old age.” He dodges the apple that’s thrown at him from the bowl on the table, hears it thud to the ground behind him. “That’s gonna bruise. It’ll be inedible.”

“Do you come here to get pelted with fruit, or is there a reason you’re annoying me today?”

Buck grins, dropping into a chair on the other side of the table. “I promised Chris I’d help with his homework.”

“Okay. Have I been blacklisted from homework help?”

“Nah, I’m just better at it.”

“You’re better at it.”

“Is there an echo in here?” His smile falters at the pinched look on Eddie’s face. “Dude, hey, I was just kidding. We just kind of got into a routine while you were in your therapy sessions, but I can . . . I can leave you guys to it, I don’t mind.”

Eddie shakes his head, and he smiles, but it looks a little too on the side of forced. “No, he’ll ignore me for the rest of the night if I do that.” He angles his head toward his son’s room. “Hey, Chris! Your partner in crime has arrived!”

The door creaks open and Chris makes his way out with a folder clutched in his hand, using the wall for support until he reaches the table and guides himself into the chair. “Hey, Buck.”

“Hey, buddy. You got your assignment?”

They sit at the table and work on his latest art project, which is a picture of the brain and its basic structures, and what the actual hell? He doesn’t remember having to look up what a ‘corpus callosum’ is when he was ten. He leaves most of the work to Christopher, glancing up every so often to watch as Eddie flits about the kitchen to prepare dinner. He’s still not used to this version of Eddie Diaz who is a decent cook.

“This another one of Linda’s recipes?”

And . . . silence.

Buck frowns, watching the muscles in Eddie’s back work as he chops tomatoes. “Eddie.”

Silence.

“Eddie.”

He jumps, glancing over his shoulder. “What?”

“Nothing,” he finishes after a beat, and then to lighten the mood, “I just didn’t smell anything burning yet, so I was confused.”

Eddie rolls his eyes back to the meal prep in front of him, and the oddity surrounding him bothers Buck through dinner, all the way to the two of them on the couch watching a baseball game drinking beers while Chris is playing video games in his room, when Eddie asks, “You went to college, right?”

Buck scoffs. “Maddie would probably call it flunking out, but I guess you could technically say I went to college, yeah.”

Eddie makes a noise of acknowledgement in the back of his throat, eyes glued to the television screen while he picks at the label around his bottle. “Did you like it?”

“I’m not sure I liked anything at that age. Well,” he amends, “The keggers were pretty fun.”

“Of course you would say that.”

“I resent your implications.” The Dodgers hit a homerun, and a few beats pass as they watch the stadium lose its mind. Christopher cheers in his room. The steady hum of the dishwasher fills the house. It’s all very homey. Lived in. Extremely juxtaposing to what awaits him at his loft. “Why do you ask?”

He shrugs, predictably. “No reason.”

And Buck doesn't believe that, but he also doesn’t push, because in the end, Eddie always tells him.

He pushes up from the couch and leaves to grab another beer from the fridge.

By the end of the week, Buck’s got three working theories:

1. Eddie is thinking about leaving the 118 again (he nixes this one immediately because the mere idea is preposterous).

2. Eddie is legitimately having petit mal seizures and Buck’s just been watching him like an idiot the entire week letting it happen (again, unlikely, as Hen keeps reminding him).

3. Eddie is running his own online office supply store.

“He doesn’t have his own office supply store, Buck,” Bobby laughs, dumping pasta noodles in the boiling water on the stove.

Buck gestures to him with the knife in his hand. “You don’t know that. I found boxes of pencils and pens and a worrying amount of notebooks and loose leaf paper hidden away. Maybe you need to up the salary a bit, Cap.”

Bobby shakes his head. “I’ll be sure to take that up with the city.”

Buck continues chopping the vegetables for the pasta dish, but he’s distracted, staring at Eddie out of the corner of his eye. He’s sitting with Hen and a few of the other crew on the couches, everybody engaged in quiet reading or muted conversation before dinner. Eddie is a bit detached from it all, joining in when prompted, but always returning his constipated gaze to his phone.

“Buck.”

He turns back toward his captain. “What?”

“We’re ready for the vegetables.”

He finishes chopping and then slides it into the pot, depositing the cutting board in the sink and leaning back against the counter. “You don’t think he’s being weird?”

“Well, have you asked him?”

“You sound like Hen and Chim.”

Bobby dries his hands on a dish towel before slinging it over his shoulder. “Do you feel like it’s something serious?”

The knot in his gut doesn’t give him any kind of nervous sensation, but he’s been fooled before. “Not really. I don’t know.”

“Well, if anybody knows what’s going on with Eddie, it’s you.” Bobby sticks the garlic bread in the oven and glances at his watch. “Tell everybody dinner in fifteen.”

Bobby’s words stick with him the rest of the shift. If anybody knows what’s going on with Eddie, it’s you. Which is, historically, an accurate statement. With less than a handful of exceptions. After everything, Buck thinks, Eddie would tell him if it was something serious, so he’s been fine with waiting. But the ball of worry in his stomach is getting harder to ignore.

Fortunately, he never ends up having to ask. Eddie comes clean on Saturday night while they’re sitting at the kitchen table putting together movie snacks.

He’s fidgeting with several kernels of popcorn in his hand, turning them over and over, when he says, “I know you’ve noticed I’ve been a little weird lately.”

He doesn’t pump his fist and shout “vindication!” but it’s a near thing. Insead, he shrugs and says, “I might have,” mentally giving himself a high-five for the casual tone.

A pamphlet is slid across the table, for the local community college, and Buck’s eyebrows shoot up into his hairline. “Wow, I knew Christopher was smart, but—”

“Shut up.” The words are belied by the smile tweaking Eddie’s lips. “I’ve been, uh . . . I signed up for a couple classes.”

Buck opens the pamphlet to a wide array of diverse, smiling faces, backpacks slung over shoulders, students looking raptly engaged in class in a way that can only be staged. “You did?”

“Yeah.”

“Is this . . . is this some kind of midlife crisis? Because, I gotta say, you’re the only person I know who’d panic-enroll himself in college rather than buy a Harley.”

The smile doesn’t drop, but tension pulls the skin around Eddie’s eyes tight. He reaches for the pamphlet. “It’s stupid.”

Buck pulls it out of reach. “Whoa, man, I’m joking. This is . . . I just had no idea you were even considering this. You never talk about college. I didn’t think it was something you were interested in.”

He shrugs, tracing invisible circles on the table. “I guess I didn’t either, until May kept talking about USC while I was working at dispatch. It just got me thinking about everything I missed out on, getting married so early, having Christopher, joining the army. I just . . . whatever. It’s stupid.”

“Jesus, Eddie, it’s not stupid.” He thumbs through the pamphlet, more considering. “You hardly talk about yourself pre-Christopher.”

A strangled noise claws its way out of Eddie’s throat. “For a reason.”

“Was there . . .” he bites down on the inside of his cheek, thinks about how to word this right. “Was there something you wanted to do? Someone you wanted to be?”

Eddie mulls over his words, propping his chin on his fist. “Probably. I mean, there must have been. But it’s been so long I don’t even remember.”

Buck nods. “You’re not gonna, like, find your passion in accounting or something and leave the 118 again, are you?”

“Accounting?”

“You’re right, you’d never survive the basic math course. Do they have a major in Gossip or Telenovela Watching?”

“Alright.” Eddie swipes the brochure back and pops a piece of popcorn in his mouth. “I’m not enrolling as a full-time student, that would be impractical. I’m just taking a couple classes online. I only have to show up in person a few times.”

Buck nods again, hoping he appears cool and collected on the exterior, because he feels like he could burst apart on the inside with how proud he is of his best friend. He doesn’t know quite how to put it into words. “What classes are you taking?”

Eddie’s jaw works back and forth, like he’s debating whether or not to say anything. As if. “Intro to Psychology and,” his face warms, “Spanish 102.”

“Eddie.” The grin cracks so wide across Buck’s face that his cheeks hurt. “Good for you.”

“It’s impulsive and dumb is what it is. I shouldn’t be wasting the money on this.”

“Well, as a someone well-versed in impulsive and dumb decisions, I can tell you that this is so far from that.” He kicks him under the table. “For real, man. You deserve to do this. I’m proud of you.”

The look in Eddie’s eyes when he glances up is cut-open and vulnerable. Honest without any sort of pretense. “Yeah?”

“Yeah. Of course. Always.” And then they stare at each other for a bit too long, and Buck’s heart trips over itself in his chest again. He clears his throat and scoots back from the table. “Come on, I’m sure Chris has picked out a movie by now.”

“It’s probably some Spiderman movie.”

“What would make you think that? Because the last fifteen times were all Spiderman movies?”

“I don’t know how you put up with us.”

The first answer that comes to Buck’s mind is way to raw and honest for the occasion, but he knows it has to show all over his face as he sits down on the other side of Chris, that it must bleed into the room around them when he pretends to wrestle Chris for the popcorn, that it must carve itself into the nooks and crannies of Buck’s body when Eddie wraps an arm around Chris and his knuckles brush Buck’s shoulder.

“What’d you pick, buddy?” Eddie asks, shoving more popcorn in his face.

Christopher clicks play on the remote and the opening sequence of Spiderman starts up.

“At least it’s Tobey Maguire this time,” Buck offers.

Eddie dumps a fistful of popcorn over his head.

After Eddie tells Buck, he unfurls like a shaky flower to the rest of the team. They’re supportive, of course, it’s what a family does. And like with Chimney’s deepdive into fatherhood literature and Hen’s med school study spillovers into work time, the team absorbs Eddie’s new schedule into their framework.

“I’ve already scheduled you off for your test days,” Bobby tells Eddie one morning over coffee, while it’s quiet and the station feels liminal and fragile in the delicate sunlight.

Eddie often forgets that he is a living, breathing person who is allowed to take up space and ask for help, so it feels like a big step when he smiles and says, “Thanks, I appreciate that.”

Eddie is also not someone who does things simply for the sake of doing them, so when one of the firefighters playing pinball asks over their shoulder what he’s planning on doing with his classes, it feels like another big step when Eddie replies, “Nothing at all. I just think they’re fun.”

Buck often bursts into the Diaz house to find both Diaz boys pouring over homework at the kitchen table, and it’s so fucking endearing he doesn’t know how to hold the sheer magnitude of the feeling that washes through him at the sight.

One evening, Christopher tells his dad that he likes them being in school together at the same time, and that it means Buck has double the homework to check over now.

After that, Buck orders a comically large red pen and makes an elaborate production of marking up Eddie’s assignments.

They’re up late in the loft at the firehouse one night, the rest of the team in the bunkroom. Eddie’s working on a paper and Buck is flipping through the TV with the volume on mute, because it’s more for something to look at than the desire to consume actual content. It’s dark, Eddie’s face illuminated by the glow of his laptop screen. The sharp pierce of a siren can be heard in the distance, cutting through the night.

Eddie’s fingers still over his keyboard, and in a voice husky from a prolonged time of disuse, he comments, “I wanted to be a cowboy when I was a kid.”

Buck glances over, pillowing his head on his bicep. “Yeah?”

“I had the ten-gallon hat and everything.”

The visual is an amazing one. He’ll have to ask Pepa or Abuela for pictures later. “I feel like aspiring to be a cowboy is a prerequisite for all Texan children.”

Eddie laughs, a soft puff of air rushing through his lips, tilting his head back to rest against the chair. “When I was in middle school, I wanted to be a professional baseball player.”

“That tracks. I wanted to be a ninja.”

“You would be a terrible ninja.”

“I would be an amazing ninja.”

“In your dreams. I swear, you’re just like bambi sometimes, all long-legged and clumsy. You’d never sneak up on anybody.”

“Jeez, okay, let’s not turn this into Characte Assassination Hour.” He shifts more on his back to get a better look at him.

A pained look crosses Eddie’s face. “They were phases, though. Doomed to pass.” He picks at a loose thread on his uniform pants. “Whatever I wanted to be in high school, it passed, too.”

Buck sits up, scoots so his back is against the arm rest. “You’re allowed to be angry about it, you know.”

“I’m not.”

“But you can be. And maybe you should. Then that constipated look on your face would go away.”

Eddie rolls his eyes. “I don’t look constipated.”

“You had to grow up too fast, Eddie. You missed out on stuff. That sucks. It’s shitty. There are alternate timelines where you become a professional baseball player or a cowboy or even a freaking interior designer, and you’ll never know what could have happened if things had been different.”

A sour look crosses Eddie’s face.

“But you’re also here, you know. Being a firefighter. Doing something you love, with a kid you love, even if every day isn’t full of sunshine and rainbows. You can appreciate where you are now, too. You’re allowed to feel both ways.”

Eddie’s eyes pop open, staring at the ceiling, and then they draw slowly down to lock with Buck’s. “You ever wish you finished college?”

“God, no. College was never for me. I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”

“Right.” Eddie kicks his feet off the table and tosses his laptop onto the couch beside Buck. “Look over my paper before I turn it in?”

“Duh, I love pointing out your mistakes.” He braces against the pillow that’s thrown at him, trying to keep his laughter from waking up the entire firehouse. “Hey. Eddie.”

“Yeah?”

“For what it’s worth, I think you’re right where you’re supposed to be, too.”

Eddie looks down at the badge on his uniform, and then up at the episode of House Hunters playing without sound. He smiles. It comes easier this time. “I think I’m finally starting to believe that.”

#kitkat writes #eddie diaz #eddie diaz goes to college #the only discourse i want to engage in is how eddie handles his evolution into a gen z college student

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Yoooo another banger episode! Hot dang this feels great, y’all. ✌️ I’m really impressed with their balance of dramatic/emotional scenes with comedic scenes in this episode. It was so fast paced, but somehow they got everything in. Once again seeing the connection of the 118 is all I want. ❤️ That’s a team and a family. This was Athena, Bobby’s, and Hen’s episode.

Now my initial Spoiler Thoughts for 7x3:

Bobby is a badass! Hahaha Athena saying she wishes Buck could see Bobby do the rescue, and Bobby wishing he’d seen Buck do it instead.

Wes! My man!! So good under pressure helping Bobby and rescuing Norman. And then… yeah I cried when Wes died. What didn’t help was him telling his captain to tell his wife and kid he loves them. =(((((( Another lovely touch was Bobby holding Wes’s hand before he had to leave.

Corey’s family is like Home Alone with Kevin being left. Twice. I enjoyed the chaotic comedy the family gave though.

Norman believes in Bobby. <333 Norman is such a great hype man for Bobby and Wes, but he’s also a bit of a savage with Lola. Well deserved.

Huh, Tommy ready and willing to help people he knew from the 118 to uh, go above board? Well to do a rescue that wasn't sanctioned or whatever the term is. Nice. He’s got a sense of humor too, which I certainly appreciate.

“I think this is an open channel.” himbo Buck 😆

Loved the comedy in the helicopter both times. Honestly great comedic timing from everyone.

I like that Eddie will have a better memory now in association with helicopters.

Really impressed with the balance of heavier moments with lighter moments, as I said in the non spoiler part, but it’s true.

Dude I was getting misty eyed when the chopper was coming down because they saw the flare. Wtf. 🥲

"Need a lift?" Eddie and Buck saving Bobby and Corey! <333

Don’t think I didn’t miss the blocking on that rescue ship. Buck and Eddie standing next to each other, then Tommy being in the middle. Then Buck doing a “thank you for the help” shoulder grab. People can interpret that however they please, but it really did just look like grateful thanks from Buck to Tommy. And btw, I’m not opposed to Buck and Tommy possibly being romantically involved for a time. Like, I don’t feel strongly about Tommy one way or the other right now, but he seems like a decent dude I guess. While I’m still hoping for a Buck and Eddie endgame, it’s perfectly okay and fine if Buck dates other guys before dating Eddie. That’s life, yeah? (...although I am wondering if Buck will still have a bi awakening, but may not date someone. like. i really don't know, but who knows? maybe Buck and Eddie will still be the first guys they're with. we'll have to wait and see.)

And Lola is back to jail? Prison?? Probably prison this time. I did appreciate that she owned up to her big mistakes and apologized to Norman.

The Bobby and Athena reunion hug? That was sweet.

Oh so Hen will not get in trouble. I still feel like she’s going on some kinda arc this season, something to deal with… maybe some biases and how she makes calls? Someone else may have phrased this better than me. In any case, I’m curious where it’s all going for her.

Yay more Hen and Maddie scenes! Heh, and Hen thanking Maddie for - I can’t remember the phrasing now, but basically for being a gossip with Chimney haha.

Athena and Bobby just. laughing at the stress of it all once back home, then…. *sexy music starts playing* 👀 Heyyyyyy. 🤙

Oh! Before I forget. Once again Buck and Eddie were, I think, in every scene together. Never separated. Others in fandom have spotted this *gestures* thing going on this season so far. Any scene Buck is in? Eddie is with him. 👀 Okay. 👀 👀

Another really fun episode. Again I was so happy to see our 118 family talking/calling/communicating with each other. That’s when this show is strongest, when they’re together and not separated *cough* unlike in season 6 and some of season 5 *cough*. Anyway!

Hm, I do think this 3 episode story could’ve been 4 episodes if they had a longer season. But given the time constraint, I think they did a great job. =))

#911 spoilers #9-1-1 #my thoughts

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thisismyroadtothethrone · 1 year

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So I started watching 9-1-1 while waiting for my other show to come back and I’m not even gonna lie I was under the impression before even starting the show (and a pretty reasonable one at that if I do say so myself especially the more I watch) because of all y’all I really thought that Buck and Eddie were dating in the later seasons so imagine my shock upon realizing that they in fact are still not dating!!! LIKE WHAT!! Don’t get me wrong the slow burn will be fantastic…that is if whoever needs to green light it to happen actually goes through with it but if they don’t I feel like it’d be such a disservice to them at this point because there are waaayy to many moments that might seem small at the time but they all add up to more ya know. Now I’m only in the back half of season 3 but I already know a lot of stuff in regards to both their plot lines in the later seasons and I have lots to say about a lot of things.

But first I need to scream about the transition between scenes I just watched in episode 3x18 What’s Next? I mean Abby saying “No he stopped waiting for me a long time ago” and THE FREAKING TRANSITION to Buck looking at the summer camp brochure and low key freaking out about Christopher being away for two whole weeks acting like a total dad!! Like y’all YALL!! I was literally screaming!! I mean the undertones and insinuating of that alone like what is any of this for if they don’t go through with it by the end of all this!!!

Also can I just say THE GROCERY STORE FIGHT!! Not even ashamed to say I watched it like five times in a row I’m such a sucker for shit like that…and the tsunami episodes I literally went insane!!

And the episode where Buck meets Red and finds out that none of the guys from his firehouse even speak anymore and worrying that that could happen to the firefam and Eddie trying to reassure him it won’t happen to them. As someone with severe anxiety who freaks out about everything even stuff I know I shouldn’t have to freak out about I get Buck’s anxiety especially since he has some severe trauma in regards to family and abandonment issues and the innate need to help everyone and fix everything but as an outsider looking in it’s honestly hilarious and so cute because like Eddie’s right that would NEVER happen to them. I’m just like Buck sweetie you and Eddie are literally best friends and soulmates (romantic or platonic tbd) and you might not know it yet but you are literally Christopher’s legal guardian. And the grocery store fight Eddie was so mad at you for the lawsuit because that meant he couldn’t talk to you which meant Christopher couldn’t talk to you and they missed you like hell there’s nooo way you are getting out of this relationship whatever it ends up being. And Bobby he’s literally your pseudo dad and really the only dad you’ve got because well I haven’t gotten to the episodes with his family issues but I’ve seen stuff and I can guess the rest…y’all have been to Springsteen concerts and he loves and worries about you like you’re his own flesh and blood. You sir are his kid inside and outside that firehouse which mean you get Athena too. And Chimney is dating YOUR sister and I know they have a kid…and Hen and Chim are best friends. Where one goes they all eventually follow. Like your lives are so tightly interwoven with one another there would be no escaping that or walking away. This is the family you chose and they all decided to choose you back and that is so wonderful and important and I need him to know this!!

Anyways I really love this show so far and you can probably guess I’ve grown completely attached and if anything ever happens to chimney I will kill everyone in this room and then myself!

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dark-elf-writes · 11 months

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You don’t have to if you don’t want to, but I would like to hear about your break up stories, mainly out of morbid curiosity but also cause I have a weird sense of humor and I probably would find it funny (like in a that’s messed up way not a that’s a normal thing)

Have one of my tamer ones as a teaser:

This isn’t technically a breakup because we werent officially together but we were pretty close friends and super physically affectionate and we’re dating in all but words tbh.

My house was the hang out house because my dad was never home and even when he was he was probably drunk and it was very easy to sneak guys in (read: walk through the front door and gaslight this frown man that it was just me what are you talking about) also on some level I don’t think people liked leaving me there alone for obvious reasons.

BUT.

This day it was me and for of my guy friends including that best friend I mentioned in the ambulance story pre the fight (now that I’m thinking about it this could have been the reason for the fight).

So we’re all in my room which is the entire attic. Two of the guys are on the couch, best friend is down stairs making snacks, and I am on my bed with the guy I wasn’t dating but kinda was.

Only I’m someone who can be super fine with physical affection one moment and super not fine with it the next. (My current friends treat me like a cat that has chosen them whenever I decide to give affection. I once asked for a hug and they stared at me for ten seconds before asking what was wrong.) Not BF put his hand on my leg and this was not a touch friendly time so I told him to stop.

He didn’t.

I moved his hand.

He moved it back.

I start getting annoyed. I tell him to stop being a dick and keep his hands to himself.

He says “You know you want it.”

Now at like fifteenish when this story takes place I was deep in the depths of so many untreated mental illnesses including a healthy dose of BPD that meant my reactions to anger aren’t always the best. And i recognize that violence isn’t always the answer now but at the time… look man I didn’t get to see a psychiatrist until after the ambulance episode where they all but forced me too.

I got up. Went to the lamp at the foot of the bed.

One of these mother fuckers but shittier and all black (I was a little emo what can I say) that was missing a few shades because my friends were shitty and broke my shit constantly.

And I picked up that lamp and threw it with all the force in my body directly at that kid and started shrieking at the top of my lungs.

BFF comes up from downstairs. Sees me losing my mind sees the boy who mind you was like six feet tall and built like a brick shithouse. Sees the other two on the couch gaping at me with something between shock and awe because while they all knew I was feral no one had ever seen me actually lose my temper before/be hurled so deep into the middle of a BPD episode so quickly.

BFF says I’m overreacting (I mean yes but also kinda no. Inset a boundary. It was crossed. It was laughed at to my face. I set a different boundary with a lamp) I punched BFF. Finally the other two get with the program and start restraining people. (Mostly me and bff because he was trans and the favorite and I was at the time the only “girl” I’m screaming the whole time telling them to get the fuck out of my house and that no one was allowed to fucking touch me and all sorts of things I don’t remember. Pretty sure I called BFF something for taking the other guy’s side I was pretty hurt about that. Punched the brick chimney at some point in all of this and probably broke my hand idk.

And the rest of the memory is gone because my teen years are not something I remember very clearly tbh.

As a fun small town USA anecdote:

That kid I threw a lamp at? His dad is a lawyer. THE SAME LAWYER THAT WORKED WITH MY PARENTS AND SISTER TO GET SOLE CUSTODY OF MY NEICE LIKE SEVEN YEARS AFTER ALL OF THIS WENT DOWN

Needless to say they never invited me to talk to the lawyer even though I had been one of the people threatened my by sisters baby daddy

#the elf talks #I was unhinged at the time #rightfully so I had so much trauma and no help tbh #and this was before the rest of the bad things happened #don’t throw lamps kids it’s bad #but also set clear boundaries and don’t let people break them #also if your friend is being pressured to do somethign they don’t want and are pissed about it maybe don’t say they’re overreacting #13-19 really was my villain era #incidentally I was diagnosed with bpd at 20 so maybe there’s a correlation there

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honeyflies05 · 2 years

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i, once again, come with my 911 thoughts for today’s episode

also my mom said multiple times that I needed ritalin so I think the 911 writers did good this episode

oh hello dispatch

may<3

ew claudette🙄

SHE DID NOT JUST TAKE MAY’S ADVICE AS HER OWN

“2 steps forward and then get stabbed in the back” SMCICJNDJECNANA

i love May’s outfits

sue<3

i missed sue so much

ALBERT GOT RID OF THE PORN STACHE WE WON BOYS WOOOOOOOOO

Albert and Chim Bonding™️

WNFJFKDJDNS “it’s probably user error, again” SCREAMING

E D D I E

i hate claudette

EDDIE AND LINDA WATCHING THIS GO DOWN AKFICNDJDJFJDJW

josh is having a Gay Panic

meanwhile Claudette and May are Going At It

YEAAAS SUE IS ON MAYS (kinda) SIDE!!!!!!!

sue really put them in time out akficudjs

dispatch is Having A Day

eddie grabbing his radio is probably the smartest thing that boy has done

NOT EDDIE USING HIS RADIO TO SWIPE AWAY THE BROKEN GLASS AKDJFICNDBDJSIS

UH OH THE FIRE ALARMS DONT WORK

FIREFIGHTER EDDIE DIAZ!!!!!

claudette is a horrible person

EDDIE IMMEDIATELY GOING FIREFIGHTER MODE WITH BOBBY AAAAAHHHHHH

jonah😐

did they really forget about claudette and may🤭

claudette and may having a therapy session

wow that’s the best thing claudette has ever said

WAS SHE BEING MEAN TO TRY AND KICK MAY OUT????

YESSS TURNOUT EDDIE!!!!!!!

if I see diaz on the back of that jacket I will not shut up for the next 47 minutes

claudette does not like fire. noted!

…hi taylor

OH! SHE REALLY DONT LIKE FIRE

eddie screaming buck in the middle of the fire>>>>>>>>>

“today you’re a guest in this house” I AM SCREAMING!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY FERAL!!!!!!

Oh No they’re venting the roof

ALBERT!!!!

“just the one, I couldn’t handle another” ASICJFJDUDJDJSISNSNA

claudette is Going Through It

bobby is getting tunnel vision AND flashbacks Oh Boy

the “today you’re a guest in this house” and eddie yelling buck while they’re in turnouts and covered in soot is replaying over and over in my mind

buck and eddie working together I’m crying

“oh well, the building is on fire”

“…well that’s embarrassing”

“I’m gonna be the next contestant on ‘so you think you can sit’”

“hey I had a whole firetruck on my leg, you’ll be fine”

“the worst part is the blood clots afterwards”

BUCK STOP TALKING.

“you guys should take this act on the road” SO HE AGREES THEYRW AMAZING TOGETHER

Bobby is running on pure spite and wanting to find his family

ooo fun flashovers!

“don’t tell your mother about that” TRUE DAD ENERGY

HE GRABBED HIM

OH THANK GOD CHIM GRABBED HIM

B O B B Y A N D M A Y

…aren’t eddie and buck still in the basement

BUCK AND EDDIE RUNNING TO BOBBY IM GONNA SOB

god what’s up with their sad music

if anything happens to may I’m killing myself and then everyone in this room

HE COVERED MAY

“she alright?” IM SOBBING

“alright 118” WHILE STARING AT EDDIE I AM G O N E

LINDA I LOVE YOU

buck has That Look

TAYLOR KNOWS TAYLOR KNOWS TAYLOR KNOWS

“that’s my dad, I wanna ride with him” so I’m actually sobbing

I’m still waiting to see if eddie had “diaz” on his turnouts

even if he didn’t that’s His Jacket and no one can tell me otherwise

ALBERT!!!!!!!!!!! CHIMNEY!!!!!!!!!!

Albert and Chimney bonding moments have me WEAK

Athena AND MAY being a #girlboss

PAPABEAR I WILL S C R E A M

taylor knows.

and buck knows taylor knows.

taylor knows her place that she’s always second to the 118

CLAUDETTE

claudette didn’t deserve to die :(

ANGEL OF DEATH JONAH GREENAWAY.

AND HEN KNOWS.

KAREN!!!!

#911 on fox #911 fox #eddie diaz #evan buckley #honey thinks #this episode was a masterpiece #5b is everything 5a wasn’t #i will die on this hill #thank you #now onto the lone star episode #welcome to the Owen Strand show😑

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youngbloodlisk · 2 years

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9-1-1 and Lone Star reactions (2 days late cause i was so busy this week)

5/11/22 (aired 5/9/22)

9-1-1 (Hero Complex)

GUILLOTINES ARE COOL AS HELL actually

banger music man

captions just said "Young Jonah" YO? Okay

oh my god yeah i just remembered how last week's episode ended OH MY GOD IM SO EXCITED

god corinne massiah is so pretty

"Feels like it should be somebody's fault" and judging by the preview for this episode last week i'm gonna guess it is !

chim and hen my fave bffs i wanna be their friend

OH THE SPIDER GUY OH YEAH...... oh my goddd

UGH I MISSED THESE TWO TOGETHER when chim wasn't on the show while he was looking for maddie i missed him and hen being the best friends EVER soooooo much

no I'm never gonna not mention the chemistry and tension between eddie and buck Sorry

PRE LONE STAR COMMENT CAN I PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET SOME MARJAN THIS EPISODE I FUCKING MISS MY GIRLFRIEND....,,,.....back to 9-1-1

wait wtf is bobby's password rewind

NashBby_118 i mean okay but- Yeah. Okay

chim wiping the desk of prints with his sleeve is so funny

"You're a terrible liar."

"And you're too good." LMAO

chim and hen are so funny

"They never start with murder."

"I'm sorry, Pat, I'm gonna need to buy a vowel."

THEYRE SO FUNNY I LOVE THEM 10/10 comfort characters right here

this is such an interesting plotline I love it

no cause honestly? go off eddie speak the truth good job

taylor annoys me more every goddamn episode!!!

please tell me she runs the story and buck gets rightfully pissed and he dumps her PLEASE I WANT TAYLOR OUT OF HERE

wait but that would probably lead to buck and lucy being a thing. nvm there's no win here

OHMYGOD HEN

CHIM?? OH NONONONONO

Stop Oh no no no no

i always forget that kenneth choi has 사랑 tattooed on his chest but i love it every time i see it the font looks so pretty

this guy is so unbelievably psychotic my god

yes chim YES CHIMNEY YES

GO HOWARD

okay actually crying i love these two

BEAT HIS ASS BOBBY

taylor you BITCH.......

chim sucking down a capri-sun yes sir!

"You're the best friend I've ever had, Chim, and I can't imagine my life without you."

"And you're never gonna have to."

cue the waterfalls from my eyes

9-1-1: Lone Star (Spring Cleaning)

okay the ad before the episode is playing. cmon marjan give me marjan please even just a little bit of marjan. please let this episode have some marjan

oh i have a bad feeling abt this trash chute.

oh no no no Oh no dude don't do that- and down he goes

MARJANNNNNNNNN MY LOVEEEEEEEE

one second of her beautiful voice and i am a happy person

OH GOD OH NO THE COMPACTOR?

mateo with the fix thank god love him

OH MY FUCKING GOD IS THAT COACH BOLTON.

BART JOHNSON?? It says 2 episodes on IMDB did i just totally MISS him being in another episode idk whatever IM SO EXCITED BART YOU KING HI

nANCY? can i call this wlw erasure cause she's so absolutely a lesbian (im playing around dont jump me)

mateo ✨avoiding✨

CATANNNNN great game. Great game

damn maybe if mateo and nancy communicated like couples should do idk

tommy???? goddamn???? alright maam go off

catan IS spicy tk you're so right

oh this is already terrifying my anxiety is already through the roof this seems like a bad bad bad situation

OH NO ITS IN NEUTRAL oh my god

"Hulk smash." MATEO 😭

oh that was so clever. getting him arrested that was so clever thank god

wtf why is he getting picked on for dressing nice 😭 better to be overdressed than underdressed ur not too good for a suit man cmon

i need to kiss marjan on the mouth

HELP THEYRE ALL LIKE didn't see that coming uhhh

this is so sweet

"coffee" yeah okay go on go bang it out

julius is sweet :(((((

judd what on earth are you abt to do.

oh bad feeling. gas leak + judd in the elevator ? Sounds like a recipe for a stuck elevator?

THE BUIKDING JSTFUCKINGGG COLLAPSED okay so I was a LITTLE UNDERESTIMATING THIS CLIFFHANGER.... WOW

goddamn

Final Comments

right okay so next week's gonna be a fun week i am excited

i got to see two of my favorite things:

- chim and hen being the iconic duo they are

- marjan

good week of 9-1-1 for me !

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after-nine-at-the-oasis · 25 days

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Dang o.o

Why does this feel like a crossover lol

Checking the corners for stuff xD

Saw Gray's Anatomy being next and thought it was with that for a second LOL

Can you imagine, that would be wild xD

OHH wait it's probably WITH The Bachelor :OOO!!

Oh gosh that's wild lol

Fiction and reality (technically) together xD

I mean or it may be a fake cast, that would make sense but- ahh wait it's probably like the host or something who's real

Anyway dang girl o.o

And SLFKGJDKDS everyone freaking out over it xD

"If we can't find love at the mansion maybe we can find it at the firehouse" AOFUHDOAIGOHHGHF??!?!! EXCUSE ME 😳😳 SLFHFKSLD??

I- xD

XDD LOL Maddie and Josh :)) xD <33

That was wild lol

That's gonna be wild too o.o xD

Crazy slfhds

Looks fun though!

[double check that for bits you're missing because I'm doing that on memory lol, 20 minutes later]

I'm leaving that note to self in slfjsj (hi it's me from a week later)

Okay, that's the last of my thoughts, now it's time for the. . .

REVIEW

I really loved this episode!!! I thought it was great, and I'm glad everything worked out :). Relations of the 126/Chim and Hen, and rescuing Bobby, Athena, and the others wise lol.

This will be really quick because the next episode is in 5 minutes lol. I might come back later and add more xD

Buck and Eddie! They were just hilarious the whole time, third wheeling and 👁️👄👁️ and being idiots xDD. I love them <33.

Hen and Chimney!! Glad they made up :)). We know we'll all have each other's backs <33. And they did :')). I love them <33.

Maddie!! She slayed tattling lol. It really was for the best, and I'm glad she and Hen are still good :)). She was really great this episode <33. I love her :D.

Bobby and Athena!! YAYYY they're rescued :'DD. I'm so glad they're okay <33. They really slayed getting everyone out of there, even through everything :'). And they were so cute at the end lol! I love them so much <333.

Overall, I really enjoyed this episode! Losing the people we did in the wreck sucked :((. But I'm glad everyone else is okay <33. It was a really cool concept for the first three episodes and I loved this as a starting plot :D. Also for developing Bobby and Athena's relationship. Loved it!!

So yeah! I really liked this episode, I thought it was amazing. I'm so excited for the next one!! This has been my review of. . .

9-1-1, Season 7, Episode 3:

I loved it!! I'm so excited for the next episode, it looks totally wild. I'm not sure what'll happen but I'm sure it'll be great. I'll be back next week with my review of. . .

9-1-1, Season 7, Episode 4:

#9-1-1 #911 #oasis's 9-1-1 chatter

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ghosthunterbuck · 2 years

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the flood that wrecked our home

(gen) (744 words) (spoilers for 5x12)

this is a short exploration of the time between maddie's thyroiditis diagnosis and the beginning of her outpatient therapy. while i don't delve as heavily into depression as the episode did, this is still a reasonably heavy fic, so please keep that in mind if you choose to read. while i am not a doctor, to my knowledge, everything below is medically accurate

The minute Doctor Thompson leaves her alone, Maddie cries. Big hiccuping sobs, because what else is left? She’s cured. Or, she will be. She’ll take a pill smaller than the nail on her pinky finger thirty minutes before breakfast every day for the rest of her life, and she’ll never suffer like this again. She can’t call this feeling in her chest happiness, but it’s the closest she’s been in what feels like a lifetime.

It’s hope, maybe. That sounds right. She’s been drowning in an endless ocean for months and finally, someone’s throwing her a life vest.

They do another test, and another, and Maddie’s suddenly aware of her body in a way she’s never been before. She catalogs her symptoms, one after another, and the more she counts the angrier she is.

She’s cold all the time, never takes her robe off if she can help it. That’s one.

She’s exhausted, even when she sleeps ten hours straight. That’s two.

Her nails are brittle, three, and every time she takes a shower she loses a fistful of hair. Four.

She’s angry at the universe, because what did she do to deserve this? What did Chimney, or Jee-Yun?

Her feet ache. She’s depressed. She can barely string one thought together with the next. Five, six, seven.

She’s angry at her mother, too, because now that she sees the symptoms in herself, she’s sure Margaret Buckley had them. She could have warned Maddie. She could have spared her all of this, if only she’d cared to.

She’s gained weight since Jee-Yun was born, not lost it. Eight. Her skin is dry and her face is puffy, nine, ten, and she was taught all of this! She should have known.

More than anyone, she’s angry at herself.

She takes her first dose of Synthroid, just seventy-five micrograms, and she’s desperately, desperately sad.

Seventy-five micrograms is what she’s been missing all this time. Seventy-five micrograms between her and her ability to feel anything that doesn’t hurt. A tiny gray pill, and if she’d had it the entire time, maybe Jee-Yun would have been safe in her care.

Maddie swallows it dry just to make sure she feels it go down.

Seventy-five micrograms. How could it possibly be enough?

Slowly, Maddie’s free T4 begins to rise, and her TSH begins to drop. She’ll feel better soon, she thinks.

She’ll feel better, and she’ll go home, and she’ll have Jee-Yun’s pediatrician put a note in her file, because she’ll be damned if her daughter ever has to go through any of this.

She’ll feel better soon, but right now the anger has faded and the numbness has too and the air that she breathes is thick with grief.

Doctor Thompson frowns at Maddie’s lab results and bumps her up to eighty-eight micrograms and that’s – fine. Good, probably. Maddie’s not better, but some of the clouds are receding and she thinks maybe, on the distant horizon, land is in sight. Maybe eighty-eight micrograms will bring it closer.

Days pass, and then weeks, and the number of symptoms Maddie counts on her fingers gets lower and lower. Her labs say it still isn’t enough, and she tends to agree. She isn’t losing hair, and getting to her feet no longer feels like stepping on knives, but the twisted wires of her brain refuse to untangle and she’s still so incredibly tired.

So eighty-eight doesn’t bring her to shore, but the hundred microgram pill is a sunny yellow and Maddie thinks that maybe it’s a sign. A hundred micrograms between her and home. Just a hundred micrograms.

“I don’t understand,” Maddie sobs, “I’m supposed to be better.”

“Physically, you are,” Doctor Thompson explains gently. “Your thyroid panel is normal now, Maddie. That doesn’t mean the rest of it just… goes away. I wish it did.”

“But I’m supposed to be fixed,” she whispers. “I’m supposed to go home.”

“You will.” Doctor Thompson lays a kind hand over hers. “The horomonal source of your depression is gone, but the thought patterns you’ve learned aren’t. There is a way out of this, though, I promise. We’ve got programs that can help.”

So there’s more than a hundred micrograms between her and home. More wrong with her than a sunny yellow pill can fix. Maddie takes a breath and pushes her way through the doors of the women’s clinic.

She’s still miles away from shore, but this time, Maddie thinks she’s ready to swim.

#911 #911 spoilers #911fic #911 fic #911 fox #maddie buckley #fic #abbie writes #userceecee #cw depression

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tawaifeddiediaz · 3 years

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in shadows (made of you and me)

Spoilers for episode 5x05, warnings for mild language, anxiety, mentions of canonical storylines (also nuance is wonderful)

[AO3 Link]

Word Count: 2366 words

“Would you have done it?”

The question breaks the easy air between them, a tangible tension settling in the room. It feels suspiciously like glass, shattering at the slightest touch, at the slightest nudge to peer behind it. If he looks close enough, Eddie thinks he can see some of those shards piercing the fragile normality that they’ve curated — pretending that everything’s normal when it’s not.

Eddie doesn’t flinch when Buck whips his head around to look at him in a move that makes his own neck twinge in sympathy. Just as sudden, Buck drops his gaze back to the peanuts he’d been rifling through, absently picking shells and threads from them. “Do what?”

Eddie’s quiet as he moves around his kitchen, coming to stand where Buck can’t hide from him anymore. He stops next to the counter Buck’s staring hard at, pressing their shoulders together and waiting patiently.

“Transfer,” Eddie clarifies after a few minutes. The word is heavy, makes something in Eddie’s chest contract, and the weight of it was the whole reason he tried to avoid saying it in the first place. It’s an ugly feeling, curdling in Eddie’s stomach with a resignation that if Buck went, Eddie would probably go with him, too.

It’s ridiculous to even think about, no matter how true it is. Eddie’s worked with thousands of people, stood back to back with them when bullets and rubble were flying at them, has walked through fire countless times without Buck watching his back. He’s perfectly capable of not working with his best friend.

Or so he thinks.

Eddie watches Buck’s expression close in on itself, and thinks to himself that no, he couldn’t work without Buck by his side permanently.

The months Buck was out because of his leg were uncertain ones, filled with am I going to work again? and what if I can’t be a firefighter anymore? and any other number of doubts flitting across his best friend’s mind. Eddie has never been in the business of lying, but he does know a thing or two about being blunt gently. It was pure instinct to turn Buck’s focus from his leg not healing into what he can do to make it better. But privately, he missed the constant presence of Buck by his side like an arm, like a missing limb.

Without Chimney, work feels like it did back then. He presses his own worry for his friend down in favour of making sure Buck and Hen are coping okay, but Eddie’s picked up the phone to text him more times than he cares to count.

(He'll take the sparse replies if it means Chim and Jee-Yun are safe, too.)

Eddie takes it in stride when he and Hen encounter a few clashes, because they’re both working differently without the implicit understanding their regular partners bring to the job. Eddie can’t hold out a hand and expect for his partner to read his mind anymore, and he knows that Hen can’t do that with him, either. Both of them miss that seamless understanding, but they try their best to adjust, and that’s enough for Eddie.

Moving to the paramedic circuit doesn’t bother Eddie — he could use the break for his shoulder, could do with going home aching less on that side. The thing that does bother him is not being able to make sure Buck’s alright, not being able to make sure he’s got someone watching his six, because he knows Buck in and out.

Buck focused his whole attention on making sure that Ravi’s prepared for any situation that may come at him, but the idea that Buck was preparing Ravi to replace him is painful in a way Eddie doesn’t expect.

When Eddie turns back to the conversation (or lack thereof) at hand, Buck’s still sorting through those damn peanuts that Eddie only buys for him, pointedly not looking at him. It’s a clear dismissal, but somehow, the fear that’d tucked itself in the corner of Eddie’s ribcage won’t let him leave it alone.

Sighing, Eddie touches the back of his wrist and pulls the peanut bowl away. “Buck.”

“I-I don’t know,” he answers finally.

Something had gone through Buck’s mind to prompt him towards the idea of transferring, and Eddie wants to know what it was, because it sure as hell wasn’t nothing.

“You do know,” Eddie says quietly. “I just want you to tell me why you thought about it.”

“You wouldn’t have let me transfer, anyway, so this conversation is pointless,” Buck snorts. His tone is edged in a sharp warning, a petulance that Eddie knows he’s putting up to protect himself. He’s not quite itching for an argument at eight o’clock at night, but his voice isn’t far from it either.

Eddie allows the dig, knowing that he did entertain the fleeting thought that he’d follow Buck wherever he went. Instead, he softens his tone more, ducking to meet his eyes. “Last I checked, you’re an adult. It’s not my decision to make. If this was something you genuinely wanted, you know I wouldn’t have said anything.”

The fight drains out of Buck instantly, and he deflates, nodding. Eddie waits a beat, then continues. “But that’s not why you said it, is it? You were saying it because you think it’s your fault that Chim left, that the firehouse is adjusting to not having him around on top of training a new probie. But it isn’t. None of this is on you.”

The silence is deafening, and Eddie knows he’s hit the nail right on its head when Buck gives an imperceptible wince and focuses his hands on gripping the counter, dropping his head.

“Then why couldn’t I stop him?”

His voice is already wobbly, and for a second, Eddie doesn’t know what he’ll be able to say to make him feel better.

The truth is a good place to start, he decides. “Buck, Maddie is Chimney’s partner. No matter what, he was always going to go after her.” Like I would for you , he doesn’t say. “Wild horses wouldn’t have been able to stop him. Hell, even if all of us said no, he wouldn’t have stopped, because he loves Maddie and he’s scared for her.”

It seems to sink through Buck’s head, just like the last time they were standing in Buck’s balcony pressing ice to his eye over a couple of beers. Eddie relaxes a bit, pulling himself up on the counter next to Buck and letting his legs swing over the cabinet.

“It just feels like the 118 has gone through too much in the past six fucking months. And-and Bobby once said Chimney’s the heart of the firehouse, and it’s true, Eddie. Nothing feels the same without any of us missing, let alone him. We always said the 118 was more than a team, and it just...doesn’t feel like that right now.”

Eddie stays quiet, knowing that six months ago, it was his absence that they — and especially Buck — were feeling. But Chim’s been a vital part of the 118 for years, far before even Bobby. Missing him is exactly as Bobby said — like the heart of the firehouse has been ripped away from them.

“Why didn’t you tell me Chim talked to you?” Buck turns to him then, and like this, standing inches apart, Eddie’s acutely aware of how much bigger Buck is than him. With him propped on the counter, this close together, they’re eye-level. Eddie can count every shade in Buck’s eyes, and knows that it wouldn’t take much for him to get lost.

It’s not the sort of thing he should be focusing on right now, but he can’t stop himself from noticing it.

“Wasn’t my story to tell. I went to see him, make sure he was okay, and he was packing his and Jee-Yun’s bag,” Eddie tells him.

Buck shakes his head. “I just wish he’d talk to me, forgive me already.”

“He’s only focused on Maddie right now. I don’t think he has the space to think about anything else, but that’s okay , Buck,” Eddie explains patiently. “He’s going to come back and you two are going to be back, cracking gross jokes and puns in no time. You both just need some time and space, that’s all.”

Buck looks like he wants to protest but when he opens his mouth, it’s only to say, “You love our puns.”

Eddie laughs, returning the peanut bowl and hopping back down. “Does it matter if I do? You’re gonna crack them anyway.”

They manage to restore some of the levity from before,

“So, not gonna tell me I’m making it all about me?” Eddie pauses, turning to face him. Something must be written on his face, because Buck drops his gaze again, fiddling nervously with his fingers as he stammers out a reply. “J-Just making sure.”

“This does involve you,” he says after a minute. “She’s your sister. And you’re allowed to feel scared for her, and torn because she asked you not to say anything to someone else you love. That’s not making it about you. If you need to rant, rant away. It’s what I’m here for.”

Eddie thinks about the frantic way Chimney had been shoving clothes into his bag, probably not even checking if he’d packed the same socks or if he’d even packed underwear. The only bag that had been neatly set aside was Jee-Yun’s, and as Eddie cradled her and watched Chim pace around the apartment grabbing things off the shelves, all he could do was pray that they’d find Maddie, safe and sound.

Eddie knows what it’s like to be in both positions — he’s been the one to leave, and the one to be left.

He says as much to Buck now. “When Chris was born, I didn’t think I was worth being his father. A big part of me still doesn’t.” Buck goes to interrupt but Eddie holds a hand up. “No, wait. Chris was seven by the time you met me, but those years in El Paso, they were a struggle. We didn’t know how to do anything . Shannon and I were barely adults ourselves, and then we added a kid to the mix. Suddenly, everything was just...so overwhelming and it didn’t feel like I could control anything.

“I fell into these roles that I was raised with, started making decisions without my wife, and Buck, I may regret that now, but back then, I had no way to tell my head from my ass. I didn’t know how to do anything else. I came to LA because I hoped we could be near Shannon. That it would be easier to reach out, get in touch, but she was struggling with her own form of guilt, too — one I didn’t even know about until she came back. If we’d been better partners, maybe we could’ve understood that about each other before we broke apart.”

Buck’s expression changes multiple times as he listens, and Eddie thinks carefully before he says his next words.

“I’m not saying it’s the same. It’s different from Maddie, in so many ways, but what I’m trying to get you to understand is that Maddie needs someone to help her see that she isn’t a bad mother, and that Jee-Yun is always, always going to be safe with her. You love her with all you have, and Maddie knows she has you in her corner, but that person will be Chimney, because he’s her partner. He’s the one she’ll let take care of her in ways she might not want you to, or need you to.”

He waits again, watches realization dawn across Buck’s face, watches the puzzle pieces fall into place. “You’re basically saying what you did the other day.”

“Yeah,” Eddie replies, nodding and tapping his fingers on the countertop. “You and Chim love Maddie in different ways. Everyone has versions, and the version Chim sees isn’t necessarily the version you do. Thought you, Mr. Software Update, would get that,” he teases gently.

It works, because Buck chuckles, swiping a hand down his face. “Yeah, yeah. Chim’s got her, this isn’t something I can fix.”

“Not everything needs fixing. You’ve done the best you can, Buck. Now’s the hard part — the wait.” The same shattered look enters his best friend’s eyes, and Eddie’s heart clenches.

He reaches forward then, curling a hand around the back of Buck’s neck and squeezing once to ground him. “Chim’s going to come back, probably with Maddie and Jee-Yun in tow. And when he does, I’m going to get my partner back, because he won’t have transferred.” He hesitates, and then masks his tone with a playful one he doesn’t feel with his next words. “But if he does, I’ll go with him.”

Buck nods, sniffing and clearing his throat like Eddie can’t see the glisten of his tears under the low light of the kitchen. He lets him think that he’s gotten away with it, clapping him on the shoulder once before pushing off the counter to grab his own bowl of chips.

“Come on. Let me beat your ass at Mortal Kombat a few times.”

“You wish, Diaz,” Buck laughs wetly, knocking their shoulders together as they plop down on the couch. “Thanks, Eddie.”

“The 118 isn't a family without you, either, Buck. Just remember that.”

Buck nods and Eddie knows he's been heard. He smiles and t urns on the game.

They settle back into this familiar pattern of snacks and video games, one piece of normality when everything feels afloat. Eddie ribs Buck when he loses five games in a row, and Buck throws a peanut at him for his troubles. The two games Buck does win are accentuated with the worst victory dance Eddie has ever seen, but by that time, the two of them are laughing hard enough that he can’t bring himself to care.

But throughout the night, Eddie watches Buck’s grin return, shining like a beacon in the middle of his own damned living room. It casts familiar shadows across Eddie’s home and he thinks to himself...everything’s going to be okay.

#zee writes #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buck x eddie #in that eddie is pining #buck's clueless #but this is more about the transfer #911 spoilers #911fic #911fanfic #911 fanfic #911 on fox

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sherlocking-out-loud · 2 years

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911 5x15 "FOMO"

I'm in the mood for some "sherlocking" so here I am connecting dots from synopsis, interviews and bts (I'll probably forget a lot of stuff and connect the wrong things, but that never stopped me before, so 😁)

- Lucy: I'm guessing that at some point, during a rescue, she'll be frustrated by Buck always taking the lead and will complain about how she's missing all the action, and Buck will solve that by leaving the lead of the next rescue to chance with a rock paper scissors game

- Athena: the last episode's events will make her wonder if she's missing Harry's growing up and how will that impact his teenage years. maybe she'll contemplate a career change?... (i have no idea how these things work, but if she was promoted, as her boss had previously offered, would she had better hours?)

- Hen and Karen: after realizing that Karen spends too much time playing poker with her own mother, as Hen is often away for work and classes, she fears they are missing out on some couple's fun and decides to make up for it with a night out

- Maddie: maybe she goes to a park with Jee and another parent there strikes up conversation and children's firsts are mentioned (first step, first tooth, first smile), and Maddie can't share much because she only knows about them because of Chimney's emails, and she gets sad about it. I'd love for her to talk about it with Chimney and for him to gift her a journal where he took note of every single one of Jee's firsts.

- Taylor: no idea if she's in the episode but if she is, maybe she'll feel she's missing out on her boyfriend because since she moved in he has spent more time at Eddie's than with her? (🕯️manifesting 🕯️)

- Eddie: my initial guess was that he'd be thinking how he's missing out on the 118, but if he's going to be talking about his life before the military in therapy, how does that connect with the "FOMO" theme?... maybe he'll think about who he was back then and who he could have been if he hadn't made the choices he did? idk...what I do know is that the writers have been surprising me, in the best way possible, every single episode when it comes to Eddie's arc so I'm ready for it to happen again :)

#911 speculation #9-1-1 #911 on fox #911 fox #911 5x15 #911 spoilers #my thoughts

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on-maars · 3 years

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Indigo Night

Just a cute lil fic based on this post because it was honestly hilarious.

Title doesn’t really have anything to do with the fic, I just like the song.

Read it on AO3.

It’s a quiet night inside the fire station.

Eddie is comfortably seated on the couch, waiting for their next call but secretly hoping he can sleep until the end of his shift.

Hen is seated on his right side. She seems focused on a book but from the way her eyes keep shutting every few seconds, Eddie knows she’s one second away from falling asleep.

Chimney’s there too, sprawled on the armchair, his eyes fixed on the television currently broadcasting an old episode of Friends, his mouth agape.

And then there’s Bobby, seated at the table, focused on some documents. Only Buck is absent, probably still fast asleep in his bunk downstairs.

“What you doing, Cap?” Hen asks from the couch, her voice low.

“Just getting the paperwork ready for when Eddie and Buck finally get together.” Bobby answers and his voice is deadly serious but a small smile still stretches up his lips at the edges. Eddie whirls his head around and rolls his eyes at him.

“That’s hilarious, Cap.” He says sarcastically and sighs, throwing his head backwards until it touches the backrest of the couch.

“He’s not wrong, y'know.” Chimney adds. “Just tell the damn man you’re in love with him already. This is getting embarrassing.”

Eddies lets out a small laugh and shakes his head in disbelief. There’s no point in denying it any longer – he thinks. Because he is. In love with Buck, that is.

And it’s not breaking news either. It might have been a few years ago, might have been a few months ago, even. But not anymore.

It seems to be a widely accepted truth among the 118. Whether it be among his closest co-workers or among the b-shift as well, everybody just seems to be in the confidence. Nobody questions it. No-one even doubts it. It’s just there, so vibrant, so loud, and Eddie just came to the conclusion that there was simply no need to acknowledge the elephant in the room. No need to make it clearer than it already is. Not after what happened. Not after that day.

Not after the shooting.

Christopher knows, too. Eddie thought he had been discreet enough not to arise suspicion from his own son, but when this one asked him whether the reason he broke up with Ana was because he was in love with ‘his Bucky’, Eddie realized that he had read it all wrong once again. Christopher was just too damn smart for his own good.

Even his own family. Abuela, Tia Pepa, his sisters, all of them confronted him with the truth the day after his break-up with Ana.

“For the love of god Eds please tell him because we’re getting real tired to hear you whine about it every single time we have you on Skype.”

And in his defense, Eddie’s trying. He’s trying really hard to get the message through the thick brain of his best-friend but he may as well waste his breath.

“Yeah well.” Eddie starts and rubs his temples with his hands, holding back a yawn. “I’ve been trying, guys. Buck is just… Clueless.”

“Maybe it’s time you use a more direct approach?” Bobby dares asking after a few seconds.

“Clearer than making him the legal guardian of my own son?” Eddie asks, raising his eyebrows at him, unimpressed.

“Fair enough.” Hen admits quietly. “But you know, maybe you should just be m-”

The rest of the sentence dies in her throat as Buck makes his way upstairs. His steps are heavy with sleep, a steady beat that gives Eddie more comfort than he’d care to admit. His hair is completely disheveled, his face grizzled as he makes his way towards the couch. He takes a seat next to his best-friend, their thighs pressed together and that’s just another thing that drives Eddie crazy, the way Buck always seems to seek comfort in his arms, whether it be after a short nap inside the fire station, after a long shift or a hard call.

And who’s Eddie to deny him? He can’t.

So once again, he lifts his arm and his face softens when Buck instantly leans against him, shyly, discreetly, as if he’s still wondering if it’s allowed, as if he’s still wondering if that’s not crossing a line in their friendship. Eddie wraps his left arm around his shoulders and ignores the knowing looks of both Hen and Chimney, tracing small patterns on Buck’s chest instead.

“What were you guys talkin about?” He says, his voice still groggy from his nap.

“Eddie’s new crush.” Hen says so naturally Eddie almost misses it. But then Buck suddenly sits straight, whirling his head around until his eyes are fixed on him.

“Your… Your new crush?” Buck asks and his face scrunches up in the most adorable confusion Eddie has to physically refrain himself from cradling his chin and kiss him right there on this couch. “You… You didn’t tell me you were… Interested in someone.”

“Yeah well… That’s actually the reason I broke up with Ana.” Eddie tells him, looking at his best-friend without batting an eyelid. For a few seconds, Eddie thinks he can see a flash of hope and longing cross his best-friend’s eyes but it’s gone just as fast. Buck’s eyes still shuttle back and forth, though, as if performing an internal scan of his face and Eddie only wishes he could know what kind of thoughts invade his best-friend’s brain.

“Oh.” Buck only answers, looking away. His eyebrows are furrowed in confusion and there’s that faraway look plastered on his face, the one he gets when his brain is working too fast for his head to catch up. “I- I didn’t know.” He adds. “That’s cool, man.” He says, his tone so cheerful and it’s like a switch flipped in his brain. There’s no confusion, anymore. No hesitation. No hope either. Almost like he pushed these feelings far, far in the back of his brain and forced himself to adopt his good old careless, bright and sparkling attitude.

“Yeah. I’ve actually been dropping them the most insanely obvious hints for, like, six months now. No response.” Eddie says. Hen snorts next to him.

“Wow they sound stupid, Eds.” Buck answers.

“But they’re not.” Eddie contradicts him. “They’re really smart, actually. Just… dense.”

“Maybe you need to be more obvious? Like I don’t know… ‘Hey I love you.’”

Eddie raises his eyes until they fall on Chimney and Hen who’re both watching him with so much expectation and what the hell? Eddie thinks, the opportunity is right there and it’s too good to be true and he would be damned if he didn’t use it.

“Yeah I guess you’re right.” He says, and takes a deep breath before adding: “Hey Buck, I love you.”

“Yes exactly!” Buck answers, smiling big and Eddie raises his eyebrows in confusion. “Just say that!”

“Holy fucking shit.” Eddie whispers while pressing his hand on his forehead, disbelief clearly shown on his face. Hen dissolves in laughter and Chimney hits his head with his book, like he can’t quite believe he saw that scene with his own two eyes.

“If that flies over their head then sorry Eddie, but they’re too dumb for you.” Buck adds after a few seconds, and really, Eddie always prided himself for being a patient man but there’s only so much he can do. “What’s her name?” Buck goes on asking and Eddie sighs.

“She’s a he, Buck.” Eddie instantly answers, exasperated. “He. Masculine. A guy. I like dudes, alright?”

“Really?” Buck smiles. “Do I know him?”

“Oh for Christ’s sake.” Hen groans, rolling her eyes.

And just when Eddie thinks he got through to Buck-

The bell rings.

The call is not bad. Nothing too major. No fire. No major injuries. Just a small car accident, the people involved more frightened than injured. They still take a few minutes to make sure everyone is okay and Eddie’s honestly thankful for the distraction.

Buck is there with him and they’re working in sync just like they always do, but his friend seems to be in a faraway land, his face constantly scrunched up in confusion. Eddie can feel his gaze out of the corner of the eye and there’s nothing more he wants than to turn around and kiss him to finally remove any doubt from his best-friend’s head but they’re on a call and Eddie knows that this is probably the least suited place to have that kind of conversation.

They need to keep it professional.

The drive back is silent, filled with an uneasiness no-one dares to question. Buck is seated right next to him in the ambulance, their shoulders touching with every turns and jolts. No-one questions it anymore. They stopped doing that a long time ago. Hen and Chim are there as well, facing them, invading their safe space and so Eddie gently nudges Buck, making sure his best-friend knows he’s there and ready to talk as soon as they can have some form of privacy.

When they get back inside the fire station, Eddie is once again drawn to Buck. He takes a seat next to him on the couch and smiles to himself when Hen, Chim and Bobby all collectively decided to give them the room.

Eddie can sense the anxiety radiating from his friend’s body and so he decides to take the matter into his own hands and gently catches Buck’s wrist and regularly taps his soft skin with his index, until he can feel his best-friend’s body relaxing next to him.

“Eds, this… this guy.” Buck starts, his voice uncertain, filled with doubt. “Is he uh... a good friend of yours?” He asks and Eddie knows there’s more to it than Buck lets himself express.

“Yeah, Buck.” He answers, squeezing his wrist and looking up at him. “The best-friend I’ve ever had.” He says and Buck’s breath catches in his throat.

“Well for the record, I- I’m pretty sure he likes you too.” Buck says, glancing at him nervously but looking away just as fast.

“Oh, you think?” Eddie teases him and that brings a smile to Buck’s face.

“I know.” He corrects himself. “I know he does. He just- I guess he just didn’t know how to tell you, and- and he also needed to be 100% sure that this was the direction you two were taking to- to actually do something about it.”

When Buck looks up, Eddie smiles softly at him and runs his right hand through his hair, letting it on the back of his head afterwards, making sure he has his undivided attention before saying these next few words.

“Then maybe you should tell him he’s it for me.” He says, and then adds: “I’m all in, Buck.”

“I love you.” Buck blurts out but he doesn’t stop there. “And I love Christopher. So damn much.” He adds. “So damn much.” He repeats. That makes Eddie smile. “But- Eds, you- I’m a lot of hard-work and I- I’m so messed-up man you have no idea how messed-up I am.” Buck marks a pause, and adds. “I mean, who am I kidding, of course- of course you do because you’re you and you’re putting up with my shit all the damn time and I’m just-”

Eddie cuts him off by pressing their lips together.

His thumb rubs his cheek while the rest of his fingers play with the roots of his hair. Buck’s palm is pressed on his chest and the next second, Eddie can feel Buck’s fist hold his shirt tightly, creasing it.

“There’s nothing to put up with.” Eddie says against his lips, cupping his cheeks with his hands to make him look up. “Alright?” He adds.

“Alright.” Buck’s voice is still fragile.

“Good.” Eddie says. “Glad we got that cleared up.” He adds casually and Buck scoffs. “Next time though, maybe be a bit quicker on the uptake?”

“Oh fuck off.” Buck says, nudging him playfully. He stays silent for a while before adding: “Can we go back ho-” He closes his eyes and shakes his head, correcting himself. “Can I hang out at your place tonight?”

Eddie sighs and intertwines their fingers together.

“Course you can.” He only says. “This is your home too, Evan.”

#buddie #buddie fic #9-1-1 #911 #my writing #buck x eddie

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buddiebeginz · 3 years

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I just caught up to the current episode of 911. Jesus that ending 😭 I’m pretty sure I sat there and stared at the tv for a good five minutes afterwards in shock right along with Buck.

Okay get comfy because this is going to get long. I have a lot of thoughts on why I think it’s more likely than ever that Buddie will become canon. I’ve seen a lot of fandom talking about why they feel the same and honestly it’s not surprising given the way that shooting scene played out. But I have some other thoughts I haven’t seen talked about yet too.

I’ve gone back and forth on whether or not I think Buddie will happen. I want them to get together in canon and I think the show should definitely make it happen and not just because us fans want it to happen either.

Since Eddie arrived the show has continually written Buck and Eddie in a way to say to the audience there’s more going on there. So I don’t think it’s some far fetched idea that so many of us ship them or want to see them end up together. I’ve shipped many characters who I knew were never going to get together in canon but Buddie has always felt different. It’s not just wishful thinking there’s a lot of substance there provided by the writers.

Still more recently I’d kind of lost hope that Buddie was ever going to happen. Throughout season 4 I’ve been wondering if the show was working on pulling Buck and Eddie in different directions. I figured maybe they were just tired of listening to the fans yell about Buddie. I figured it’s why we had been seeing a lot more of Taylor and Ana and why we rarely see Buck and Eddie and Chris spending time together the way we used to in season 3. It had actually been bumming me out a lot because I miss that dynamic in the show.

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Last night’s episode changed my mind on that though and not just because of the shooting. I was worried at first when I saw that Carla was meeting Ana because I wondered where this was going. Like was the show trying to solidify Ana as a more substantial part of Eddie’s life now? Were they trying to show that she was important enough to start meeting more of the people in Eddie’s life? But I realized after watching that the whole reason Ana was even included in the episode was for Eddie and Carla to have the convo they did.

Eddie and Carla talk about Carla’s dad. Carla says that she was thankful she got to spend time with him (before he died) and she was sorry she left them (Eddie and Chris) Eddie says “you were where you were supposed to be”. When Eddie says that Carla gets this look on her face like she’s considering his words and thinking about the meaning and responds with a line of questioning that gets her to asking Eddie about Ana. Mainly I think because Carla is one of the people who knows Buck and Eddie better than anyone and when Eddie said to her “you were where you were supposed to be” she was likely thinking so how come you’re not where you’re supposed to be with Buck?

Eddie and Carla talk about Chris and how Eddie had been worried about him (after what happened to Shannon) and how happy he is to have Ana around. Carla presses Eddie about how he feels about Ana and Eddie simply says “it’s easy being with her” (aka he doesn’t have to be emotionally invested). Carla responds and says she’s glad Eddie is moving on but most importantly she tells him “just be sure that you’re following your heart and not Christopher’s”.

The show easily could have framed this whole scene in a different way if they were planning on making Ana and Eddie into a more significant thing. Eddie could have responded and said he was following his heart being with Ana. The show could have shown Eddie watching Ana and Christopher with a sense of ease and love on his face instead he clearly looked like he was thinking about what Carla said and it was obvious he’d been running from the fact he was only with Ana for Christopher.

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The other thing that made me feel like Buddie is much more of a certainty and the main thing I wanted to write this for since I haven’t seen anyone else really talking about it is what’s going on with the other couples and how that correlates with Buddie.

911 is obviously an ensemble show so some characters and ships will inevitably get more attention than others still there’s usually some that are the consistent main. For example Hen and Karen they’re a great couple but I wouldn’t necessarily call them a main couple of the show. To me the central canon couple of 911 is Athena and Bobby and second to them I think would be Chim and Maddie at least in season 4 where they’ve had a lot of focus given the baby storyline.

I think we’re headed towards both of these couples being on the rocks. Clearly Athena and Bobby are about to go through some stuff. I’m hoping Bobby doesn’t die but no matter what their marriage is in trouble at this moment. As for Maddie and Chim I think it’s likely that they’re headed for a postpartum depression storyline so that will probably spell some trouble for them too.

My point in all of this is if you watch the ending of the recent episode right after the argument between Athena and Bobby we saw the shooting with Buck and Eddie. In the promo for the next episode the majority of what we see is Buck and Eddie juxtaposed with what’s going on with Athena and Bobby and Chim and Maddie.

TV shows particularly drama ones like 911 ebb and flow and there’s usually some kind of balance. If you have one or more of your main couples in the middle of the worst times chances are you’ll see other couples in the best times. So while Athena and Bobby might be unraveling which hopefully is just temporary) in the midst of this shooting Buddie might be coming together or at least closer to getting there. More on that below. 👇

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I don’t necessarily think that Buddie will just magically get together in the last episode of season 4. Part of me doesn’t even want that to happen. I think it makes much more sense for things with Buddie to happen gradually. Besides which nothing in tv ever wraps up that neat and tidy anyway. Shows like 911 thrive on drama so if Buddie is going to happen there has to be conflict involved before they get to that point.

My guess is that this shooting will push one of them to recognize their feelings for the other and he’ll want to tell the other one but something will stop him. I think it could be Buck. Like maybe while Eddie is recovering Buck talks to Taylor and finally realizes/admits his feelings for Eddie, to which she says something snarky like she knew that already. She pushes him to go tell Eddie the truth but when Buck goes to the hospital he ends up seeing Ana there and decides not to tell him. Maybe in season 5 we have to watch Buck figuring out his sexuality and dealing with his feelings for Eddie while seeing Eddie with someone else.

911 could also surprise us and it could be Eddie who realizes his feelings for Buck. We had that scene with Carla and Eddie and it’s clear that Eddie is only with Ana for Christopher. We had Carla telling Eddie to follow his heart. When you look at the symbolism of what happened during the shooting Eddie’s blood ended up all over Buck which is like a trail to this heart (albeit a morbid one) not to mention Eddie reached out for Buck when he was on the ground. So Eddie could wake up and realize the truth about his feelings for Buck and want to tell him but be afraid to loose his best friend. Or maybe Eddie is afraid to change anything now that Christopher seems happy again finally.

There could also just be a scene with them in the hospital or maybe Buck comes to stay with Eddie and Christopher to help take care of Eddie and and it’s clear the atmosphere has changed between them. Like we don’t get anything super serious yet but there’s something more there and they both feel it but aren’t acting on it yet. Maybe Buck tells Eddie how he felt when he saw him get shot maybe Eddie tells him he reached for him. Maybe they both realize they couldn’t bare to loose the other.

Everything that’s happened thus far with Buck and Eddie feels like it’s leading towards something. It definitely feels like something is going to change with them heading into season 5. I feel like they’re going to leave us on some kind of cliffhanger and then drag out whatever happens next season. Which makes sense as it incentives more people to watch. But I’m more optimistic than ever that Buddie will happen now.

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I do agree with what others have said that there’s no place really for the writers to go now than to put Buck and Eddie together even if it doesn’t happen immediately. The shooting scene was completely framed like Buck watched the man he loved get shot and they were even wearing complimenting colors which is something I’ve seen done often in movies and tv for lovers. They were staring at each other and reaching out. I mean how do you explain that if it doesn’t lead anywhere?

Not to mention the whole thing was done in slow motion and the scene didn’t focus on anyone else besides Eddie and Buck for a few minutes. It even had an almost a freeze frame with the two staring at each other across the street and since there was blood and the ambulance the whole scene was lit up bright red. And apart from everything else red is pretty much universally known as the color for love.

One other thing I forgot to add was that the convo with Eddie and Carla happened in an episode called Suspicion where people are keeping things from the people they love. The mother keeping things from her bridezilla daughter, Bobby and Athena keeping things from each other, Maddie keeping her depression from Chimney, Hen’s mom keeping how sick she was from Hen.

Why would 911 choose this episode in particular to feature all this important Buddie stuff? That important convo with Carla and Eddie where Carla basically tells Eddie she knows he’s not following his heart. That crazy intense moment with the shooting where Buck and Eddie are just staring at each other like soulmates having to watch the person they love die.

Maybe because both Buck and Eddie have things they’re hiding? Things they’re hiding from themselves and things they’re keeping from the person they love the most. Each other.

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