I am thinking so many thoughts right now of what we could possibly see this season premiere. I'm thinking this is a flash back to bathena's honeymoon and the boat capsized. Bobby and Athena are trying to help save people but Bobby gets tossed overboard. He washes away, possibly amnesia, then we flash forward to present time, they still haven't found him. Buck and Athena are trying to lead search parties while others are telling them to let him go. I can see Natalia trying to talk Buck out of it and accept his 'death' but he won't hear it. Eddie understands and doesn't tell Buck and Athena to stop searching. Meanwhile, Bobby is out there somewhere trying to remember, but only gets flashes. He hears Athena's voice, sees Buck in passing travelers, the number 118 popping up everywhere. Maybe this lasts for three episodes or maybe the entire half season! It would make an epic mini series season. Mix in the Madney wedding that also symbolizes two loved ones coming together, finding each other.
Ugh! I am so crazy right now. It's wild how one little teaser promo ignites my brain like jet fuel.
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I NEED YOU TO HOLD ON, ‘CAUSE MEMORIES AREN’T ENOUGH (ao3)
Everyone turns to her when they hear her coming, holding Jee-Yun in her arms. She knows that the hospital is not the right place for a 2 year old girl, she feels like the worst mother in the world at that exact moment, but deep down she knows it’s the right thing to do, because they don’t know if he’s ever going to wake up, and if not, his niece deserves to see him one last time. And above all that, she knows no one is judging her, in fact when she looks at them she sees only empathy, closeness and a few small smiles aimed at the little girl, who waves her little hand to every member of her little big family. Chim approaches them, kissing her on the temple and Jee on her cheek, then silently opens the door to Buck's room, moving to let them pass. He is their family too, he knows it, but he also knows that the two Buckleys and their little Buckley-Han need a moment alone, so he stops, leaning his forehead against the wall near the closed door, trying to stop all the bad thoughts that run through his mind.
Maddie sits in the chair next to the bed, holding Jee to her chest with one hand and taking her brother's hand with the other, kissing his knuckles then squeezing it in hers.
Jee squeezes her stuffed animal, leaning over to reach his uncle, placing a small hand on theirs. Maddie looks at their hands, thinking of all the times Buck put his hands on her belly before Jee was born, remembering his smile every time they felt her kicking, and she takes a deep breath. She needed to be strong for her family.
“Do you want to go to uncle Buck, baby?”
“Yes mama”
"Okay but be gentle, princess, okay? Uncle needs to sleep.”
She nods and Maddie carefully places her on the bed, and Jee leaves her peluche in her mother's hands, turning to face her uncle.
“Uncle Buck tired?”
“Yes, baby, he worked a lot and now he needs to rest.” She looks at her while she looks at Buck "so then he can play with you.”
Jee strokes his hand and then lies down next to him, putting a little arm around his waist and her face on his chest, on his heart. Just the way she hugs him when they sleep together on Maddie and Chim’s couch.
Maddie wipes away a tear before Jee can see her, and she sits back in her chair, leaving them close together. She forces herself up after a while, aware that she has to get Jee out of there, and she approaches the bed again “baby we have to go now, say goodbye to uncle Buck.”
Jee nods and sits down again, kissing him softly on the cheek and placing her little hand on his heart “nighty night uncle Buck, I love you like this” she says, opening her arms as much as she can, and Maddie takes her in her arms, then caresses his hair and she feels like she's going crazy because she can almost see a smile on Buck's face. But she knows he's not there with them right now, he's in a coma, and that’s not possible.
Jee takes the stuffed animal from her mother's hand -not just a simple peluche but her favorite one, the one she's always slept with, a firefighter teddy bear that Buck gave her the day after she was born, ‘cause she was a little firefighter according to him, she still remember the expression she made when Chim brought it to her, because Buck couldn’t go and visit them, a bad gift that the pandemic had given them- and places it on Buck's chest.
“Are you leaving it here, with uncle Buck?”
“Yes mommy, so he can sleep well”
And this is what breaks her. She storms out of the room, silently asking someone to pick Jee up (and Bobby immediately walks over picking her up in his arms and walking away) before she collapses to the floor, her back against the wall and her knees to her chest, finally letting the tears she's been holding back fall.
Chim immediately bends down in front of her, taking her face in her hands "I’m here, I’m here"
“I can't…I can't let her lose one of her favorite people in the world. I can't, Chim” she says, looking at him through tears “Jee needs us and she needs her uncle, too. I can't imagine a world where she grows up without him by her side. I want to see them get closer everyday, I want to see her smile and laugh with him, I want to get pissed when he’ll inevitably teach her stupid things, or when he’ll say yes to everything she asks, I want her to learn to be a Buckley from the best Buckley I know."
Chim sits next to her, squeezing her to himself with one arm, wiping away her tears and then his with his thumb, and rests his temple against hers "you will. He will come back, Maddie, I don’t really think he wants to leave his favorite girls so easily.”
They look at each other and then silence falls, and they remain on the floor together, hands intertwined, watching their broken friends around them.
He can't leave them, he would hurt them too much if he did, their lives would never be the same and he still has so many things to do in his life, she just hopes that he knows that too.
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Hi yeah so like I’m wicked proud of Buck, right? He, in his coma dream, had everything he thought he wanted. His parents loved him and he had his older brother. Okay, good. But you know what he didn’t have? He didn’t have his friends (Hen, Chimney, Eddie, Bobby), his should’ve-been-dad (Bobby) had died and didn’t get to live his best life. He didn’t have Christopher. Eddie was angry, alone, lost Chris. Those things and those people meant so much more than wanting his parents approval and I think it’s just really beautiful that Buck put himself first and what he truly wanted in life first and foremost. Like, he wanted Eddie and Christopher to be together and happy more than his parents affection. He wanted Bobby to be happy and alive. He wanted to see Hen and chimney. He wanted Maddie free from Doug.
I’m glad our boy is glad. 💜
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