#tk x gwyn

[tkstrandsource]

control freak (derogatory) vs. control freak (affectionate)

#tk strand #tk x gwyn #tk x carlos #911 lone star #911lonestaredit #911lsedit #2x08 #3x04 #ours #actuallysara #useream #tuserhidden #userbones #userthai #nellsdani #tuserjackie #usermimsi #usersteen #by antania

[raypakorn]

Season 3 Appreciation Week - Episode Edition

↳ favorite tearjerker moment - tk & gwyn saying goodbye in 3x08

#tk x gwyn #911 lone star #911lonestaredit #911lsedit #lonestars3epweek #tuserhidden #useream #usernorah #usermbg #usermimsi #usermorgan #usersteen #userthai #usertas #jddryder #nellsdani #tuserjen #tuserangela #tuserjackie #userbones #antedits

[strandmiya]

mama come here, approach, appear

4.2k words / AO3

Gwyn smiled at the pair and sat on the side of the bed to be close to her eldest son.

"How are you feeling, sweetheart?"

"Better now. Though, I'm still kind of cold but the warming blankets are helping with that and I still get tremors sometimes. They're more worried about my heart, lungs and kidneys right now." TK said, grabbing his mum's hand. "We should get some results back soon."

Gwyn nodded and squeezed his hand.

"I feel like I should be used to seeing you in a hospital bed but I never am."

"I'm sorry, mum."

or five times Gwyn was at the hospital with TK pre-canon + 1 time she was with him during canon.

1 - one hour and six minutes old ; 1994

Gwyneth Strand was sitting on her hospital bed, her eyes closed and trying to relax despite all the noises coming from the hallway and the stress she felt at not having her son in her arms and away from her. Owen had gone outside the hospital at her request to try to find some actual good food for both of them. Turns out giving birth to a baby took a lot of energy and left you hungry.

The door opened and Gwyn opened her eyes right away, starting to smile when she saw a nurse coming in, her arms holding her son wrapped in a blanket.

"Here you go, Mrs Strand." The nurse said, giving her back her son. "Everything looks good, you have a perfectly healthy boy."

"Thank you." Gwyn replied, focusing back all her attention on the boy in her arms.

The nurse left and Gwyn found herself alone with her son for the first time since she gave birth. She raised one finger and caressed the cheek of her son before touching his little nose. He scrunched it in response and she leaned down to kiss his now-clean forehead.

She observed him for a minute or so and after a moment, he opened his eyes. His green eyes met hers and while she knew they could very well change colours over time, she hoped they would stay the same colour as hers.

"Hello sweet boy." Gwyn whispered, softly caressing his chin, then cheeks.

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#tk strand #gwyn morgan #911 lone star #911lonestarfic #tarlos #tkstrandweek #tkstrandweek2022 #tk x gwyn #tk x carlos

[doublel27]

frequent- for the word game!

Thank you for this word request, nonny! It took a few, but I found one from TK & Gwyn conversations

~*~ “It sounds very sweet.”

“Does it?” TK asks, sharply.

The image her son crafted of a handsome young man in a button down with freshly baked fish and a warm loaf of bread still lingers in her mind. She laughs, knowing his frown will soften even as he wishes she’d just agree with him. As it goes, she’d take a man waiting for her with dinner and champagne.

“Do you know what I would have given for your father to make me a very nice dinner after a late shift?” Gwyn asks, opening up the box of lo mein.  

They had been focused on the wrong things then, Gwyn thinks. She still isn’t sure she’s focused on the right things. It’s 10PM on a Tuesday and she’s just sitting down to dinner for one while she talks to her son half a continent away. Enzo’s current business trip will keep him out of the city until it’s almost time for her to leave for hers. It’s been happening more and more frequently these days and she’s not sure what to do about it.

“One, you were married to him. Two, you were usually asleep when he got home,” TK points out, unhelpfully. 

“I’m just saying it’s very romantic.”

“I’m not looking for romance right now. I thought that was clear. Besides after the incident at the police station—”

“What incident at the police station?” she interrupts. Silence greets her from the other end. “TK?”

Send a word to my ask box and I'll give you a snippet with it in one of my WIPs

#tk strand #gwyn morgan #gwyneth morgan #tk & gwyn #tk x gwyn #missing gwyneth morgan hours #i feel like he'd maybe tell her some stuff #or at least i hope so #i just want more of her #the flashbacks in 3x08 did me in #wip ask game

[angeltk]

I had some trouble getting out of the house. Again? That's still going on? Oh, if anything, it's worse.

–> or, tk strand being completely and utterly done with his parents

#this scene was hilarious pls #911ls #911 lone star #911ls 2x01 #2x01 #tk strand #tyler kennedy strand #ronen rubenstein #owen x gwyn #strand family #mine #my gifs #my colouring #angeltk #lonestardaily #tkstrandsource #tkstrandedit #911lsedit #tvfilmsource #fc #straight out of a sitcom tbh #✨️👦✨️

[tgonzalez32]

Okay…Unpopular opinion time: Tarlos Wedding Edition:

-“We saved his life, Owen”-When in the previous episode Owen literally said that it was TK who saved himself. Gwyn seems to give herself a lot of credit (I also in general find it strange that in season 1 it’s alluded to that the reason TK and Owen are so close is because Gwyn was always busy with work but in later seasons she’s portrayed as this perfectly attentive mother🤔)

-If we get Gwyn’s spirit at the wedding, WHY NOT GABRIEL’S?? You know…the parent who JUST died?

-In general the wedding seemed very focused on the Strands. Gwyn’s spirit, her favorite song, TK’s culture represented but not Carlos’, we get to hear what TK says when he puts on Carlos’ ring but not the other way around

-Lastly: Both Ronen and Rafa had said things they wanted to see in the wedding and NONE of them were included: 1. Both cultures represented. 2. First dance to The Night We Met. 3. Carlos in a cowboy hat/Chicano gear

Overall the wedding was beautiful and I loved it but I just had to mention these.

#sorry? #it was all just…very white #911 lone star #911 ls #carlos reyes #tarlos #tk x carlos #tk strand #gabriel reyes #gwyn morgan #tarlos wedding

[boasamishipper]

character ask, tell me about Owen baybeeeee 👀👀👀

Sexuality Headcanon: Owen has always been attracted to men and women, but wrote off the former in a 'who hasn't had gay thoughts am i right guys' way for many years. (He likes his men like he likes his women: driven, intelligent, infuriating, and snarky.) Once he comes to terms with his attraction to men, he is slightly overwhelmed by All The Labels out there that well-meaning people try to foist upon him (you're pan! you're bi! are you sure you're not straight?). He feels most comfortable labeling himself as queer and just living his best life.

Gender Headcanon: Cis male.

A ship I have with said character: Owen/Billy has taken over my entire brain (as evidenced by this entire blog and my ao3). Narrative foils!! Snark and sexual tension!! Enemies to friends to lovers!! Chaotic dumbass old men!! This ship has it all. (I also have a soft spot for Owen/Gwyn; they have an Excellent dynamic.)

A BROTP I have with said character: Owen and Tommy are the BEST. Team mom and dad who can be petty and childish around each other (see: Completely Valid and Consuming Hatred for Pearce Risher) while still being supportive friends and co-workers. Give me more Owen&Tommy in s4!

A NOTP I have with said character: Owen/Catherine. I know Rob Lowe is a Republican but you CANNOT ever convince me that Owen is one or would date one, let alone date one who works for the governor of Texas and was canonically called 'Ann Coulter without the warmth'. And honestly?? They can Both do better. I hope to God we have seen the last of her.

A random headcanon: When TK was five and the three of them were at that wedding in Montauk that TK talked about in 3x09, Owen couldn't react or even breathe when he saw TK fall headfirst off the pier. After Gwyn saved TK and he saw that his son was okay, Owen shook TK hard and yelled at him for wandering off, and then hugged him So Hard and apologized for yelling. (He excused himself while Gwyn comforted TK and locked himself in the bathroom and had one of the most excruciating panic attacks of his life). After that, Owen insisted on being the one to teach TK how to swim, and every time he and Gwyn took TK to the ocean or the pool (or any body of water) after that, he didn't take his eyes off TK for even a second. Just In Case.

General Opinion over said character: I was mostly neutral about him at first (I didn't hate him, but I did find him annoying) but he's grown on me a lot, especially over the course of this last season. He's an impulsive idiot who makes a lot of bad decisions, but he's loyal and loves very fiercely and has a lot of pain and guilt beneath the superficial facade he puts on, and I'm very intrigued where they're going to take his character next. (And honestly, some of the hate he gets from the fandom feels very unwarranted. He's not a bad dad or a bad guy! He's just Not Perfect, and that's okay - a realization that I hope is part of his arc in the episodes to come.)

send me a character and i'll answer these questions

#thanks for asking! #911 ls #owen strand #tk strand #gwyneth morgan #billy tyson #owen x gwyn #billy x owen #yes he's annoying. yes he's my blorbo. no i will not clarify <3

[kiankiwi]

I finished the Wedding Episodes of 911: Lonestar

So if anyone wants to recommend me fics, angsty, fluffy, domestic, any of it, I want to read all of it :)

Alright, I'm gonna go back to reading Tarlos fic :)

#tarlos wedding #tarlos fanfic #carlos reyes grieving #carlos reyes x tk strand #they both need a hug #GWYN AT THE WEDDING??? I SOBBED

[alrightbuckaroo]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love❤

Hello!

our love's a protective poison - a character study of tk strand told through the eyes of gwyn. might be one of my favorite things i've written.

anger has told me her real name is grief - a 4 x 17 and 4 x 18 coda in which carlos is trying his hardest to not let his anger manifests itself into grief. includes one of my favorite lines "this anger will make a feast out of him but it’ll never make him feel full."

all my blood for the sweetness of his laugh - during his break-up with tk, carlos realizes he misses the little things, like tk's laugh.

i'd wait a million years for you - tk loves love; he just don't know if love loves him back. then he meets carlos reyes.

come and take a walk on the wild side - a workplace au in which carlos has questions that he thinks tk can be the answer to.

also tagging @three-drink-amy as she sent an ask too! :)

#my titles seem so dramatic in hindsight lmao #but yeah some of my faves <3 #thanks for the ask! #my writing #carlos reyes #tk strand #tarlos

[snowviolettwhite]

WIP Wednesday / Tease Tidbit Tuesday

Was tagged by the lovelies @actualalligator @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad @anewkindofme

Don't know how I feel about this, it is a bdsm world au about Owen Strand from 9-1-1. I have never written something like this.

The higher ups brought Owen down Texas because he is a white straight man and thinking he is a dom to add diversity, but is actually a sub. He is pretending to be a dom while he is actually a sub to keep his job and taken seriously in the intense kind of work, along with dealing with cancer and taking care of his son after relapsing.

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he is a liability so hard to please but, he’s a forest fire

Owen Strand is many things. He is age forty-nine and member of gen x. He is a firefighter. He is Father. He is an ex-husband. He is a 9/11 survivor. He is the fire captain of the 252 stations in New York City. He is a bit of a playboy and gets around. He falls hard and fast. He is still in love with his ex-wife Gwyneth Morgan. He is a repressor of his emotions and needs. He is an ex-Californian. He is a New Yorker. He is a hero but even heroes fall and reach a breaking point.

The Strand and Morgan families are sometimes too open for their own good but too closed off for their own good as well. Owen and Gwyn are strong resilient people. They met, fell in love, got married, had their baby boy. They were man and woman, husband and wife, firefighter and lawyer, father and mother, sub and dom. They were not enough for each other. Now they are nearing their fifties and Owen never got over her and became self-destructive.

Now is moving himself and his twenty-five-year-old kid to Austin, Texas for a fresh start. When he was first offered being captain to rebuild a firehouse 118 after tragically losing ninety eight percent of their people, he turned it down. He did not want step in on a grieving town, he knows what is like. He did not want to move to the south, New York was his home. He has been in New York since he was thirteen years old. His family is here. His kid is here and does not want to be far away from him. The south in known as being more dynamist in terms of behaviors and laws and he did not want to deal with being discrimination for being a sub fire captain or just being a sub in the south or having to hide and lie about part of who he is. They brought him in to bring in diversity because he is a straight white man, they do not want it to be too diverse and assumed Owen was a dom.

But then Owen got diagnosed with lung cancer and his 9/11 ptsd was getting worse and his kid Tk relapsed after his failed proposal to Alex, his now ex-boyfriend and borderline abusive dom. Alex left him and was cheating on him for a year. They want to stop being reminded of their pain.

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Tag Whoever Is Interested In Doing This.

#911 lone star #owen strand #911 lone star fanfiction #911 lone star fic #snowviolettwhite

[tkstrandsource]

(insp) // @melodrama-lorde

#lonestaredit #911lsedit #tkstrandedit #tk strand #tk x gwyn #gwynethmorganedit #s3 #3x04 #3x08 #3x13 #usersteen #swearphil #tusersilence #isastrxnd #reyesstrand #jddryder #usermorgan #usernorah #911verse #gifs #ours #ally

[dailyowenstrand]

#Owen strand #911 lone star #tk strand #gwyneth Morgan #Billy Tyson #Marjan marwani #Judd ryder #Andrea Reyes #Gabriel Reyes #Mateo Chavez #Paul Strickland #Carlos Reyes #Robert Strand #Tommy Vega

[safeaswrites]

welcome to @safeaswrites, writing/fandom sideblog to @safeashousespdf!

charlie, she/her, 21 ꩜ AO3 (18+)

latest fic: and salt the earth behind you

currently writing: bank robbery fic aka carlos begins, gracejudd alternate meeting/phone sex hotline au, lawyer!tk x murder suspect!carlos

fic masterlist under cut!

*blog still under construction*

LONE STAR FIC MASTERLIST

and salt the earth behind you | 16.9k | m

He wants more than anything to feel that way again, seen in his entirety rather than as a collection of fragments. It’s why he brought Carlos here with him, after all; so he could see TK lit from another angle, so he could form a fuller picture. But every slant of light casts a shadow. And Carlos is not Gwyn. And as much as he might want to, there are dark places that TK can’t will himself to lead him into.

six months after his mother’s death, tk brings carlos to visit new york. when nothing is quite as he remembers it, tk must ask the question: has the city changed, or has he?

threadbare | 2.1k | t

Selfishly, he prefers it the other way around. He’d rather be the one twisted up on the cot, guarding the steady beep of someone else’s heart. Stitched up neatly, all his mess on the inside where it should be. He’s always been better with other people’s messes, anyway. His own tend to tangle, forming knots in his stomach that choke him like hairballs.

another 4.04 coda, because there can never be enough.

one of these days | 12.8k | e

He wants his second shot at a life with TK to be so brimming with happiness and light that the inevitable storm knocks him off his feet all over again. He’s so tired of planning for the worst; it’s turned him hard and cynical. This time, he wants to believe.

everything we didn't see in season 3 episode 4.

#pinned #by charlie

[doublel27]

OK my friend, I know we are all losing our collective minds about TARLOS FINALLY GOT ENGAGED! 💍🎊🎉❤️❤️❤️.... But.... I think we also got some really good Owen content too. I need to watch the episode again to really understand it but I'm looking forward to you maybe updating your Owen meta at some point during hiatus.

Oh god, friend, RIGHT?

I'm so thrilled with the development we got with Owen. I'll probably update my meta. Maybe make a part two or an amendment, because that first meta is LONG. Like, a fanfic level long...so...But the back half of Owen...maybe I'll take the section of my predictions of where we were going and what we've gotten from 3x12 forward. Some faciniating things have happened with Owen, and I'm so glad how yesterday closed.

One of my favorite things though, is how Owen stuck in that perfect moment with Gwyn that he wanted to freeze, deep in his grief over what they lost both on 9/11 and afterward and with her death, and how he bitterly says to TK that you can't stop death, but you have to prepare for those moments because they're coming anyway. Because Owen would give anything to have been able to stop 9/11, his divorce from Gwyn, Gwyn's death...and get that lifetime of perfect moments she promised him back.

Owen's grief over not keeping the love of his life is what seems to spur TK into proposing to the love of his life and I just... God, it was beautiful. I'm not over it. I won't be over it.

TK Strand is out here breaking generational curses and I'm so excited for him. And I'm excited for Owen to start to heal, really heal, in a way he never has.

#owen strand #911 lone star spoilers #tk strand #gwyneth morgan #gwyn x owen #tarlos #i will never be over ls 3.18 #911 lone star 3x18 #the way it circle ends and dovetails at the same time #y'all #although i would like gwyn alive please #i will settle for her being owen and tk's consciouses for all time #dolphinqueen10 #doublel27 talks

[maxbegone]

for the favorite fandom asks: 911 ls

Favorite character: TK, closely followed by Gwyn for reasons.

Funniest character: Nancy’s got too many good one-liners, ‘k? (ie: “Holy, God, what is that?” from the lizard fiasco)

Best-looking character: too hard to choose, don’t @ me

Three favorite ships: Tarlos, Judd x Grace, and the brotp ride or die that is Marjan and Paul

Least favorite character: sorry Michelle

Least favorite ship: the way Owen/Michelle was probably gonna happen if Liv didn’t leave the show…thank god it didn’t.

Reason I watch it: it’s fun, it gets me out of my head, and TK’s grief is something that resonates with me deeply, so I feel a lot of relief to see that on screen.

Why I started watching it: fully @roseapothecary’s fault. They sent me TK holding that little teacup from season 2, and I asked who he was and that was the end of that.

#answered #mathombox

[carlos-in-glasses]

First Line Game Tag

Thank you so much for the tag @good-ways and @paperstorm You're such beautiful writers 🥰

Rules: Post the first lines of your last 10 fics posted to ao3. if you have less than 10 fics posted, post the first lines of all your fics.

Afterglow of a Supernova

Carlos speeds into the cul-de-sac and pulls up in his unit before the ambulance arrives at the scene.

To him, the McMansion appears more characterful than the staid identikit houses that flank it, beautified with hanging baskets and a climbing rose. Borders of vibrant summer blooms surround a tranquil water feature in the center of the lawn. Ceramic flowerpots either side of the porch step are lively with rotating pastel pinwheels and miniature Lone Star flags that flutter in the warm breeze. A basketball hoop fixed above the garage door sparks a memory that Carlos tries to ignore, shrugging off the past like an invisible hand on his shoulder.

Man to Man

Carlos doesn’t know where he’s going. When he reaches the end of the long drive, he has three options: turn left towards the city of Austin, turn right onto a potholed dirt track and enter the deeper darkness, or turn around and go back home. He turns right.

On an overcast night like tonight, the dark is a serious, sucking thing, like a black hole on earth. He looks up at a fractal of moonlight – a small dusty shimmer far above. Meaningless. It’s no company. But he doesn’t want company. That’s the whole point. He wants to be alone in a way that he can control, and to achieve this he had to get out, run, self-create the distance that caused his parents’ calling voices to fade to nothing behind him. Does it feel good? No. But it doesn’t feel bad, either. And that’s new. Most days he feels bad about something – and this is the worst thing he’s done for a long time.

Chasers

“Hey.” TK reaches out, brushes his fingers against the earthy red cotton of Carlos’ jacket as he turns towards the door. Carlos stops, meeting TK’s look of adoration with his warm brown eyes. They stand as if suspended in each other’s gravity, glowing for each other like stars.

“Thank you.” TK whispers, meaning his gratitude soul-deep, slightly frustrated that the words don’t convey it enough. So, he follows with, “I love you,” – really wanting to press how he feels into Carlos, so Carlos may never forget and never doubt it – although these words seem insufficient also.

The Ruins of Wonderland

The storm lands north-east of Travis County, sparing Austin the predicted chaos that for several days the emergency services have been primed to contain, with the increasing adrenaline that rises from high alerts. Instead, the city experiences the mere edge of the blizzard – a soft snowfall that settles prettily on roofs and verges. There’s a few instances of vehicles sliding out of control on icy roads, but largely the salt spreading trucks have prevented disaster. That aside, people in inappropriate footwear, totally unused to freezing conditions, slip up and bang knees and wrists, which means an uptick in X-rays at St. David’s – but TK’s Paragon EMS crew hasn’t seen much action.

In Your Adorable Glasses

Before sunrise on Christmas Eve morning, Carlos jolts awake. His eyes adjust to the dark as he stretches beneath the warm white quilt and pats around for TK, finding him low down in the bed and curled up against him like a cat. He strokes through TK's hair delicately, and when TK doesn't move Carlos slips out from under the sheets.

Folded on the chair there’s a pair of green tartan pajama pants his mom bought him last Christmas. He pulls them on quickly for warmth, and from his dresser he chooses the fleecy brown sweater that TK loves because it makes him look like a grizzly bear.

Wrestling Angels

It happens less often these days, which is some mercy, but there are times – out of nowhere – when Gwyn's death floors TK. Invisible arms lift him high off the ground, turn him upside down and slam him onto his back. He is shocked, winded, his nerves crackle with pain. Still, the abruptness of this grief playing out in front of people is rare. It usually topples him at night, at home, when he can’t occupy his mind with work. He'll slink away like a wounded cat, re-emerging only when Carlos reminds him to have dinner.

Because of the intensity of the wedding build-up, Gwyn’s loss feels greater, more recent, and lately it spikes without warning.

A Naked House

“You know we can’t roll up naked to this thing,” Carlos says, pulling on a snug pair of smoky purple boxers and turning to the bedroom mirror to smooth his hair.

TK basks stark nude on the end of the bed and grins ruefully, like he’s been presented with a challenge he knows he’ll breeze.

Carlos stays expressionless, pretending to ignore him as he heads for the closet, but TK pounces and wraps his arms around him from behind. Carlos hums, settling into TK’s warm breath against his neck.

TK sticks his tongue out and licks his ear.

Carlos chuckles from the tickle but jerks his head. “Babe, stop – we have to focus.”

Teardrop on the Fire

Thursday February 24, 2022

The 5:30 a.m. alarm doesn’t stir TK. He remains deeply asleep and curled up in the fetal position when Carlos is ready to leave for his shift.

Another twenty seconds, Carlos grants himself, to look at TK in the cool blue dawn. He leans down and softly kisses TK’s cheek, his neck, his exposed shoulder. He leaves a handwritten note next to TK on his own pillow, and reluctantly backs away.

Bathtime and Black Magic

TK had been lying awake for an hour – maybe more at this point – wondering what was wrong and why the silent-treatment. It must have been a particularly traumatic shift. All he knew for certain was that this had never happened before, and tonight broke the stable pattern of all his nights with Carlos prior.

A Rainy Day in Austin

Carlos finished his coffee and cleared up their breakfast things while TK said his wistful goodbyes to Lou, the wild alligator lizard he’d bonded with (in the way only TK could) during a medical call where he helped extract him from a gaping leg wound.

Although setting Lou free had been TK's suggestion, Carlos was tight-chested with guilt, tense in his shoulders. Not to the extent of deciding Lou could stay, but still.

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