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prettyboybuckley · 10 months

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30, for buddie please?

hi anon ❤️ thank you for the prompt! exhaustion got to me so it took me a little while to write it, but I hope you like it!

from the soft prompts: ‘this is my husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner etc.’

Eddie never really figured out how to introduce Ana as his girlfriend without feeling awkward. It didn't surprise him at the time, because he'd felt the same about introducing Shannon as his wife, for a long time, at least.

So he'd always assumed that was kind of the norm. That he'd always feel awkward introducing his partner, or that maybe that's how most people feel doing that, even.

In hindsight, that was a stupid thing to assume, probably.

The point is that when he and Buck start dating - and holy shit, they're actually dating - he expects it to be as awkward as it's always been. Perhaps even more awkward, considering that yes, this is Buck, but he's also never dated a guy before. He's never introduced anyone to his boyfriend before.

(Well, that's not entirely true, but those were all people that already knew Buck. It wasn't so much introducing Buck as it was telling those people that they were dating now.)

And then comes the PTA meeting.

Eddie doesn't particularly like PTA meetings, they are long and boring and half the shit that gets discussed is pretty much trivial. He goes anyway because he cares about his son's education, and it's polite to show his face and interact with the other parents.

He doesn't expect Buck to see it on the calendar on the fridge, turn to him with a bright but somewhat hesitant smile, and ask: "Can I come with?"

"Yeah, of course," Eddie answers without even having to think about it for too long. It'll be much more fun with Buck by his side.

The realization that he's going to have to introduce Buck to all these parents - at least the ones that haven't met him before - doesn't cross his mind until they're already getting out of the car in the school parking lot.

It's probably a good thing that it doesn't, or he would’ve been all up in his head about it. As it is, he freezes right there next to the car, watching couples and single parents alike make their way into the school.

"You alright?" Buck's voice sounds, suddenly right next to him. He must have walked around the car while Eddie was lost in thought. Buck's hand slips into his, tangling their fingers together.

"I'm fine, just thinking. C'mon, let's go."

He pulls Buck along to the school entrance, greeting some parents he vaguely recognizes along the way. Once inside, they follow the directions to the gym, and it's only when they're there that Eddie finally pauses. His hand is still wrapped tightly around Buck's, and he has no intention of letting go, but that also means that someone is going to notice.

"Eddie, hi!" someone says, and he turns around too quickly, pulling Buck along and making him stumble a bit. See, there's the awkwardness already. It's Katie's mom, Jennifer, who Eddie has talked to on multiple occasions. He's pretty sure she tried to flirt with him in the beginning, though he isn't sure why she stopped. "I see you've brought someone along this time?"

This is usually where it gets awkward, where Eddie stutters out an introduction and embarrasses himself and his partner in the process.

But this time he follows Jennifer's gaze to look at Buck, and he finds Buck smiling at him, soft and so damn happy, as if there's nowhere he'd rather be than here at this PTA meeting with Eddie, and it's not awkward at all.

"Yeah, this is my boyfriend, Buck," Eddie replies, only taking his eyes off Buck at the end of it, and he pulls Buck a little closer as he smiles at Jennifer. "Figured it wasn't fair that he's only been getting the fun parts of raising a kid now that we finally got our shit together."

He and Jennifer both laugh at the indignant squawk Buck lets out at that, and Eddie only grins wider when he stumbles because of the little shove Buck gives him with his shoulder. It's not as if he's in any danger of falling when they're still holding hands, and as soon as he's stabilized himself again, he's pressed right back along Buck's side.

Buck is grinning, too, when Eddie looks at him, and he allows himself a moment to get lost in his boyfriend's eyes. Turns out that didn't feel awkward at all, it simply felt right.

"Just kidding, we both know you've been helping with the less fun parts all this time, too." He pauses for a moment, then turns back to Jennifer. "Now, Jen, have you heard any good gossip lately?"

Next to him, Buck snorts, and Eddie is going to get teased later for caring about gossip in the first place, but he's pretty sure that his boyfriend listens just as attentively while Jennifer tells them of the rumor she heard about two of the teachers hooking up.

#oh look the mailman came by!#anon.tag #buddie #soft prompts #gary writes prompts #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 fic #buddie fic

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chronicowboy · 9 months

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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 💖

180 years of searching and i'm three feet away (from you)

"Wait, you were in the army?" Buck asks. Eddie nods. "So, couldn't you have, like, fought your way out of the whole kidnapping situation?"

"Alright, cowboy." Eddie laughs heartily, shushing himself when Chim startles half-awake and murmurs something unintelligible that only sets him off again. Buck is grinning along too, infected by Eddie's light happiness. "They had guns. I'm reckless, not stupid."

"Couldn't have gone all GI Joe then?" Buck raises an eyebrow and watches Eddie roll his eyes.

forget-me-nots

"I don't remember anything." He whispers, hands on the back of his neck. "I don't remember this house. I don't remember Chris' bedroom. I don't remember my room, our room. I don't remember the living room. I don't remember the bathroom. I don't remember this room, but I know this room. I know it. How is that possible?" He looks up at Buck, surprised at the gentle smile he sees.

"If you were to ask me what the most important room in this house was, I'd say the kitchen." Buck bites his lip and Eddie absolutely does not wonder what it would be like to be the one biting Buck's lips. "Its the heart of this home, I think. Well, no. You and Chris are the heart. But the kitchen is... Its where we spend the most time as a family. We cook together, we eat together, Chris and I bake in here sometimes—"

"I cook?" That pulls a laugh from the man and Eddie tries not to read into the heat in his cheeks.

all you have to do is call my name (i'll be there)

"You made a friend?" Chris quirks a sceptical eyebrow and Eddie bites down on the laugh that bubbles in his chest.

"I can make friends!" He shoots back. "Look at how many friends I made in our first week."

"They made friends with you." Chris corrects him even as he follows Eddie towards the diner.

"Well, I made a friend, so do you want to meet him or not?" He asks, feeling irrationally nervous. He's just getting his kid a slice of pie, what's there to be nervous about?

A six foot tall Greek god whose biceps you really want to bite, his traitorous brain supplies.

ten seconds

"Ten seconds." He whispers, voice broken and wet. Karen appears in the doorway, face etched with concern. "Apparently, ten seconds is all it takes for me to ruin my whole life."

please? (can't say no)

"Bud, last time was different, okay?" Buck sweeps a hand through Christopher's curls and cups his cheek to tilt his face upwards. "With Covid and everything we couldn't see each other as much and I was really scared that I'd pass it onto you without knowing. And I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I'd made you sick." Which was an understatement. He'd started having panic attacks every time he was supposed to see Christopher the first few months after lockdown. It had taken two emergency sessions with Dr Copeland and a long talk with Eddie to calm him down. "So I kept my distance a bit, yeah, but it wasn't all because of Ana. If your dad does get a boyfriend," Buck really hopes his voice is being normal, "then it might be just the three of us less, but you and I will still hang out all the time. I promise."

#sami answers #okay i know i already did this but they were all very recent fics so i'm promoing some older ones #<3333

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lover-of-mine · 3 months

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i don’t know about you but for me personally, the possibility of buddie in the future depends on how season 7 goes. if the season ends with one/both in a relationship and not a single hint towards buddie, however subtle, i don’t think it will ever happen. i know slow slow slow burn is a thing, but i also feel like they would have done it by then after 6 seasons of buck and eddie. nevertheless, fingers crossed for a HINT of future buddie by the end of s7 even if they’re nowhere near canon YET

I am mostly with you on this, yeah, like, I think everything that happened in s6 put them in a place where they have to separate them permanently or stop ignoring the fact that there's more going on between them. Movement in one direction will have to happen. Any direction. Because slow burn is one thing, keep making them go around in a circle is another. I'm never gonna fully lose hope is gonna happen, unless one of them gets killed off, but it is 5 seasons of them being deeply tangled together, and that became even harder to deny because of the choices they made in s6, everything about them surrounding Buck's death upped the expectations there, so we are at a point where the show needs to make a statement about them loving each other or let them truly move on without the whole emotional infidelity aspect of them. Let Eddie date because he wants to date not because people keep telling him he's gonna die sad and alone after having a conversation with his tia that actually highlights stuff he did with Buck the episode before. Let Buck date someone because he feels like dating someone not because she came back and he thinks that the only thing that matters because Abby fucked him up by never coming back. Or let them crash together. Like, let them have the meaningful relationship you've been hinting at with each other or let them find meaningful relationships with other people, but like, stop making them go around in circles. Marisol and Natalia narratively to me feel exactly like Taylor and Ana and that's boring, we've done that. I think we need a statement, something, anything really, I don't think s7 can keep them in the limbo in a way that's not going to just be annoying for the audience.

#if any of the speculation is correct and we are in for a divorce era 2.0 then things could get interesting #because for them to move back to each other feelings will have to be acknowledged #and there are a LOT more feelings now than there were after the lawsuit #it will all depend on how they decide to go with that #i am curious #and cautiously optimistic #but we have to wait and see #911 #i really need a tag for asks #anon 😌

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m3r1m4r5u333 · 11 months

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Know what time it is? That's right! Time for my daily post about Eddie's panic attacks!! (Those scenes haunt me, blogging is free therapy, deal with it or don't!)

Ahem. The more I think about Eddie's panic attacks the more I think they're triggered by his feelings for Buck, and not just the one-sided relationship with Ana.

Like the scene at the fire station. The way Eddie's focus drifts to Buck again and again. Eddie is realizing that he's got a Buck-induced daydreaming & staring problem right when Ravi assumes that Eddie is married to Ana... And then Eddie looks at Buck who is grinning at the the assumption, like the idea of Eddie marrying Ana doesn't bother Buck at all.

Can you imagine how hopelessly one-sided Eddie must think his feelings are?!!! That would certainly trigger panic, to be facing those feelings AND the reality of how much his relationship with Ana is a failure.

Then Eddie runs away... and then same person who was triggering the panic wants to know what triggered the panic! What can Eddie say? It certainly wouldn't be easy to just honestly explain what just happened. "Oh yeah I just realised I have feelings for you and it's totally hopeless." So Eddie avoids that by lying/telling a half-truth - that the trigger was Ana.

The way he kinda pauses after he says that "if I'm being honest with myself..."? The pause could be hesitation to open up, but it feels to me like he's just pausing to come up with an alternative explanation, or a half-truth, because it's not like he would want to tell Buck that hey, I just realised I have a staring problem when it comes to you and to realise that while you were standing there, seeing me with my girlfriend, or maybe future wife, not showing a hint of jealousy... Yeah that's what made me spiral!

Anyway, the great thing about being honest with oneself is that it can be done without saying a word.

It's when you're honest with others, that's when you need to say things out loud. So Eddie can totally be honest with himself and right after that... lie to Buck about what caused the panic.

Buck: Okay... what triggered it? I mean you did just get shot and almost killed by a sniper, I guess that could be considered anxiety-inducing...

Eddie: That wasn't it! Okay I.. If I'm being honest with myself... uh..

(Let's have a flashback, and this isn't even where it starts btw, first Eddie and Buck hug Chris pretty much in an identical fashion, it's the aerial dad hug, Eddie stares at Buck talking with Chris, talking with Ravi, spaces out wearing a giddy grin... Anyway!)

Christopher: Not yet! 😉,

Eddie and Ana reacting to the idea of marriage (and Chris expecting them to marry) like their very souls are instantly withering:

Buck and Ravi reacting to "Not YET (his wife)!":

Eddie turns a bit towards Ana when she says that.

Shuts his eyes and opens them like he's trying to reboot his brain.

Eddie: You've never been here!

Ana: (wtf?) ... No, I haven't.

Eddie tells Ravi to give Ana a tour, really tries to avoid looking at Buck again,

FAILS,

freaks out and escapes...

- end of rewind -

Eddie about the cause of panic:

"If I'm being honest with myself... *pause*

I think it was Ana."

Buck: Uh.. I thought things were great with her.

(And then let's remember that right after the shooting Buck and Carla were actually the ones taking care of Christopher!! We see Chris with Buck anxiously waiting for news about Eddie's surgery, Buck breaking down in front of Chris...

We see Carla and Chris video-call Eddie:

Chris: Dad. I miss you.

Eddie: I miss you too. I'm gonna see you real soon. I'll be home before you know it.

Carla: Let yourself heal first, PLEASE! You don't have anything to worry about, Buck and I have it under control.

They end the call, Buck is by Eddie's bedside.

Eddie: I appreciate you staying with him.

Buck: Carla offered to bring him to her house but I figured this was overwhelming enough without having to sleep in a strange bed.

Eddie: He doing okay?

Buck: Better than me. I kinda lost it when I told him you got shot. I'm sorry, I should have held it together.

Eddie: You were there for him when I couldn't be. That's that matters.

Buck: Still. I think it might have been better for him if I was the one who got shot.

Eddie: 😨

...

Of course soon after that Eddie reveals Buck that Buck is Christopher's legal guardian in Eddie's will!

....

So it's quite obvious that it was mostly Carla and BUCK, not Ana, who were parenting Christopher after the shooting. Buck is even legally Christopher's guardian in Eddie's will.

So when Eddie starts talking about the way that being a ready-made family with Ana is what was making him panic, it really sounds like a half-truth. Like he's just switching the pronoun to she and actually talking about Buck.

Eddie: She's been a godsend through all of this. Staying with Christopher... I think that's what's causing the panic. Somehow we became a readymade family and I... I don't know if I'm ready for that.

He's literally looking at Buck as he says "Somehow we became a ready-made family and I don't know if I'm ready for that.

And how could Eddie be ready for that? He's somehow ended up in a situation where he's got a girlfriend he doesn't love and is acting like a family with her...

AND ALSO pretty much parenting his son with Buck, like they're a family, like they're partners...

Even when Eddie goes on dates with Ana he's coming home to Chris and Buck.

But Buck doesn't know how Eddie feels about him and does not appear to return his feelings. To realise all that would certainly make Eddie freak out, no wonder he says that he doesn't know if he's ready for that.

Buck's pained/conflicted expression after Eddie talks about a ready-made family says a lot.

Also there's the way that Eddie is trying to decide if he should break up with Ana, and Buck tries to get him to understand that the the relationship is hurting Ana.

"Eddie, I have been Ana. I know what it's like to be in love with someone who's not all the way in. Deep down you know it, and it hurts. It hurts worse than the truth. So if you don't want to hurt Ana you owe it to her to be honest."

And it's really a messy situation Eddie finds himself in, right?! Ana is in love with someone who's not all the way in. Eddie's in love with someone who's not all the way in... and that person is actually even giving him relationship advice!

Eddie getting anxious again: It just feels like a lot, man. *lies down*

Buck retorts, almost disgusted,

"Well, go to sleep! No need to decide right now, it's not like we're going home anytime soon." *leaves*

And there's Eddie, trying to decide between his two almost-perfect - yet painful - ready-made families. Even as he's deciding Buck's last words must keep ringing in his ears.

"...It's not like we're going home anytime soon."

Which is painfully true because even without Ana in the picture the ready-made family he has with Buck and Chris is kinda an illusion which shatters if you try to touch it. Buck is parenting Chris, he is their family... But Eddie's not dating Buck. Buck doesn't know how Eddie feels, and does not appear interested. Buck only visits but never stays for long. Buck has his own life, his own home.

#911 buddie #buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #tv: 911 #buddie 911 #evan buck buckley #911 on abc #eddie's pining era #eddie panicking

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baddygab-bi · 18 days

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yep yep yep to all your spec about eddie. i've been saying, since 6B where they dragged up his *magical* relationship with shannon, and made his grief over her the reason he's scared to date - they really just erased all the queer awakening potential from his s5 therapy arc and that tense awkward break up with Ana where she touched him and he looked like a statue. but no, it wasn't because he was a repressed queer man uncomfortable with his gf, the show basically said it's just because he was still upset about shannon, his dead WIFE, a WOMAN, who was his high school sweetheart and first and ONLY love, etc etc. and then bringing up shannon again in 7x01, unnecessarily mentioning him having sex with her, and the platonic vibes of his and buck's conversation?? i was like ohhh they're making him STRAIGHT straight. then add on everything you've mentioned - the masculine hobbies and activities with tommy, eddie as the oblivious straight cockblocker, marisol all sexied up with legs out and cleavage out - it seems blindingly obvious where this is going...

Like, I don’t think him considering Shannon as magic was necessarily super straight, I think if they hadn’t rushed the season 6 ending and actually explored his feelings about that magic and what it all meant, that it could’ve very naturally moved into a Demi realization plot. I also think his grief is a part of why he doesn’t date, it feels connected to the ready-made family thing with Ana, but they could’ve dug deeper.

Instead since the end of the season was rushed to wrap it all up with a bow, they had Eddie totally ignore multiple episodes where he’s been dealing with all of this, plus everything Bobby said, and they erased everything they had been building up. It really felt like it was leading somewhere and it just didn’t reach. Bobby saying not to go looking and Eddie literally saying “exactly what I’ve been looking for,” will always drive me crazy.

Mentioning Shanon in 7x01 was important to set up her appearance (which I love), but yeah, the weird inclusion of Buck talking about how they had sex was weird. It wasn’t like that was something the audience had to know if they didn’t already. Eddie basically had it covered with “the first girl I dated” which can more or less imply that she was the first girl he slept with. But the way they had it so pronounced was very in your face.

The manly hobbies, yeah… I want to clarify in case anyone thinks I think only “dudes” can like those things. I don’t, they’re obviously for anyone. But the way that the show treats a person who likes those things is specifically what I’m looking at. The way Buck made the comparisons between how Eddie and Tommy both like those things, meanwhile the show made it explicitly clear that Tommy is queer and Eddie is talking about his girlfriend and is seen with her wearing a (for this show) revealing outfit. The hobbies themselves don’t make someone more or less masculine, but the way they treat someone who likes those hobbies because they know the connotations, does.

#911 spoilers #just gabbing about #eddie diaz #911 abc

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reachgirl · 3 years

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us: eddie?

them: did you say you want more buck? more buck, yes?

us: no, both! buddie!

them: how about eddie gets shot...

us: i mean don't kill him but if you whump him and we get a real ptsd storyl-

them: you didn't let me finish, eddie gets shot so that we can advance buck's storyline

us: right, but then we see his recovery and how he deals w-

them: not as such, no. we'll focus on how BUCK deals with it and how it affects his relationship w-

us: eddie? we'd be interested in that, sure, just also focus on edd-

them: -ith taylor

us: wait

them: okay we'll throw in some buck and chris

us: always appreciated, yes! but let's go back to why this is all about buck?

them: silly you.. it is also about taylor

us: why is eddie getting shot about buck and taylor at all though

them: i mean ana's there too, she's at the hospital and she has 3 whole seconds of screentime! so you see, if you squint it's about eddie as well.

us: that makes no sense

them: you're not squinting hard enough

us: in no way is this what we asked for

them: OH MY GOD just don't worry about it

us: but

them: eddie telling buck he made him chris' legal guardian?

us: amazing!

them: cool cool. of course that will be the last we hear of this whole eddie getting shot business

us: but can't you show his recovery and buck helping him out in season 5? It would even set up why albert and ravi are there and we'd get lots of buddie scenes and...

them: uh-huh, absolutely, you got it. what we'll actually do, and i think you'll love this idea even more, we'll actually do a time jump and just skip all of that. so in summary, eddie gets shot and we make the whole episode about buck dealing with it and we're on the same page about this, yeah?

us: we made it very clear what we want it's-

them: eddie gets shot and we make the whole episode about buck dealing with it and how eddie believing in him enough to make him chris' legal guardian sets him up for a relationship with-

us: Eddie?

them: Taylor, obviously.

us: It doesn't feel like you've been listening AT ALL

them: look at it this way: buck's been through a lot, what with Eddie getting shot and almost drowning, and we really want to show he feels safe now

us: yes

them: so that's where Taylor comes in

us: why do we even talk to you.

#buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #911 #911 on fox #911 4x14

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outrunningthedark · 3 years

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I support a lot of what you say, but I will agree with some of the people commenting on your posts, you're being incredibly exclusionary and ignorant with some of your posts.

I understand that your personal experience with family and your disability has been extremely negative. You've faced ableism, restriction and prejudice for your disability and you haven't had the support network you should've.

But.

Imposing your personal experience as gospel on the community and declaring that "Ana isn't ableist enough" or "Christopher doesn't face enough ableism" and "viewing Buck's support as anything except paternal makes you ableist and against the disabled community" is actually incredibly harmful and very dismissive of experiences in the disabled community that do not align with your own.

Ableism and prejudice and discrimination exist on a multitude of levels. It exists in both conscious and subconscious acts and thought patterns. Ana's ableism was actually perfectly in-line with the layout of her character. She's an outsider not wanting to overstep but also believing that as a person in education (with simultaneously little to no understanding of CP) she has a certain "inherent knowledge".

Invalidating other disabled people based on your own experience and attempting to gatekeep the shared experience of the fandom by imposing your own experience criteria on the show and the community is not the way to go. You could be using your platform and the very accurate depictions of casual ableism on the show to educate and correct members of the community, but instead you're using your platform to aggressively outlet your own experiences and to be angry that what they're showing in 9-1-1 isn't the same as your personal experience.

Everyone in the disabled community has their own experiences with ableism and discrimination and addressing the micro-aggressions and the casual ableism that we face is actually just as important as addressing the extremes.

I see the point has been missed entirely yet again.

I am not angry that my personal experience is not what’s being reflected on the show.

What concerns me is that able-bodied folks are going to witness the storyline and use it to form opinions about a disabled child’s experience without doing research and asking questions.

“Shannon Diaz didn’t deserve what the writers did to her!!!” Yeah, well, I don’t deserve a mother who complains about driving me to appointments, tells me to shut up at least five times per day, and thinks I’m too stupid to cook for myself, but what can you do?

Same with Buck and Christopher’s relationship. “He’s being a good family friend.” My father never had my back the way Buck had Christopher’s in the skateboard episode. I don’t care if people see Buck as a father figure or not. I will not allow anyone to try and shame me for seeing him that way because it’s how I wish my father was.

I AM using my platform to educate others. It just so happens that my experiences make people reaaaally uncomfortable and they’d like me to shut up.

If your childhood wasn’t as “extreme” as mine, congratulations! You got lucky. 👏🏻👏🏻 Maybe try celebrating that instead of hating on me for making you feel bad.

#anonymous #tv: 911 #tv: 9-1-1

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agentmarymargaretskitz · 3 years

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Are any of us fine after that episode?? It absolutely murdered me, thanks for asking. I am messaging you from the afterlife.

My ghost will probably die after the next episode though...

Anyway, really hope it's Ana who asks Eddie out. And he takes it like it's a sign or something. They go out a couple of times, which prompts Buck to get back into the whole dating thing.

As for actual endgame Buddie... I'm cautiously optimistic. I can see the potential, and I know the writers and showrunners aren't afraid of gay characters and stories, but...

When you've been burned and queerbaited as many times as I have... they better not pull a Teen Wolf or Supernatural on us is all I'm saying. (For f*cks sake, I watched 10 years of Hawaii Five-0 queerbaiting with absolutely no payoff. At least Destiel got an I Love You before the end.)

-Quarantine Anon

I’ve been trying to answer this for days and keep forgetting. But yeah, was definitely not fine after that episode. The Buckley parents are on my shit list.

Oh we’re gonna find out in a week and then we can go feral for the next two because somehow we’re still going to get some kind of Buddie moment that makes everyone lose their shit.

I’ve been burned so many times, but the one consolation is that there is a ton of content to hide myself in. Still remember how Agents of SHIELD ripped the rug out from under me all those years ago and things haven’t gotten much better. I’m a cursed person, and I’m gonna get S3 Chilton crispy with these two.

#anon #quarantine anon #ask box #911 #buddie #let's get hurt

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hargreeveslftv · 4 years

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The Occult: DOOMSDAY | an umbrella academy fanfic

chapter ten | word count: 3,170

CHAPTER TEN | looming ( song | oh ana - mother mother )

"If he's in here, you owe me ten bucks." Klaus comments to Melanie as he leads the way to the door of the Irish pub, not all that far from the academy.

"Deal." She shrugs, shaking his hand but sighing as he pushes open the door, pointing to the large silhouette of their number one.

"I'll give it to you later." She says begrudgingly, following Diego inside the pub.

"Trying a little hair of the dog are we?" Klaus asks Luther, the siblings filling the space around him.

"Leave me alone." He comments bitterly.

"Give us a moment." Diego tells them, the three looking at him confused as he puts his gloves down on the table.

"Okay. Come on. Maybe they'll brood each other to death." Klaus sighs, Five and Melanie following him to another table a couple away, close enough to watch for any signs of hostility.

"Isn't this basically the plot to Batman vs Superman?" Melanie asks, watching the two men talking.

"Kinda, but Martha has a better ring to it than Reginald." Klaus replies, Five scoffing at their conversation.

"It's more like Beevis and Butthead but sure, let's go with the hero's thing."

Melanie is almost about to pat herself on the back at making Five's humor appear for a moment, but doesn't get a chance as Luther bolts up, running out of the door and leaving the rest of them to follow, breaking the door as he runs through it.

Luther instantly spots the car they arrived in, yet another one from Reginald's garage, and quickly makes his way over, only stopping for a moment as Five calls to him.

"I'm driving. Get in the back."

Luther does as instructed, everyone else catching up to him and Five climbing in the drivers seat while Klaus calls shotgun.

Diego opens the door for Melanie, but she hovers a couple steps back, rooted in place as Diego frowns when she glances up to him, a panicked look on her face.

"Hey, you good?" He asks quietly, tears starting to burn in her eyes as her words escape her, Diego recognising the look of fear.

"Somethings wrong. I don't know what." She signs.

Diego's heart drops at her actions, placing a supportive hand on her shoulder.

"It'll be okay. We'll protect you. I'll protect you." He reassures her, the anxiety still washing over her body, but feeling returning to her hands and feet instead of the cold shivers of her approaching panic attack.

Melanie nods slowly, letting Diego lead her to the car, where she slides in beside a slightly drunk Luther, Klaus looking over the back of his seat with a worried look on his face, unshed tears burning in his eyes.

"You too?" He asks as Diego closes the last door, Five starting the car and pulling away from the curb.

Wordlessly, Melanie nods, Klaus smiling at her sadly before turning around in his seat.

The journey from the city to the remote cabin takes most of the remaining sunlight, a blue haze falling over the world as Melanie sat between Diego and Luther, being squashed between the two larger men offering some form of comfort as they traveled.

The majority of the journey was passed in silence, apart from Luther's prompting to go faster and Five's loose threats, a sense of impending doom hanging like early morning fog between those that sat in the car, not lifting until the wooden cabin came into view.

"We're here." Five announces, darkness fully taking over as night settled in.

Melanie takes a deep breath as she follows Diego out of the car, hanging close to him as the five of them bolt up the stairs, Luther leading the way and bursting through the cabin door.

"Allison! No!" He yells, immediately falling to his knees.

Klaus, Five and Diego rush in, and until Melanie makes it past them, she doesn't see her sister laying on the floor in a pool of blood, her throat slashed and eyes barely responsive.

Klaus barely glances back at Melanie for a moment, but it's enough for them to know.

This is what they felt coming.

Luther's tears are the first to fall as he calls Allison's name, Klaus hovering above him scared to make a move at all, while Diego and Five stood in shock at what they saw, Melanie standing behind them all, her body locked in terror as she watched on with the only thing she felt being the slightest touch of a shaking hand holding hers.

The whole trip back to the academy is a blur, Melanie and Klaus stuffed into the front on the way back, their hands joined tightly as they tried to silently comfort each other through the horror they felt.

Melanie ran around the car as they arrived back, shutting the doors of the car behind her brothers as they ran inside the house, Allison in their arms much like Five was in hers and Melanie's only the night before.

Tears fall down Melanie's face as she stands between Klaus and Pogo in the medical room, Grace quickly inspecting Allison as Five helps her.

"She's suffered a severe laceration to her larynx and requires operation, one of you will need to give blood." Grace informs them, everyone in the room replying at once.

"I will." The men and Melanie reply, all rolling sleeves out of the way instantly.

"I'm doing it." Luther insists, before Pogo speaks up.

"I'm afraid that's impossible, dear boy. Your blood is more compatible with mine." He reminds him, Klaus jumping in instead.

"Hey don't sweat it. I got this, big guy." He declares, running around the bed and slapping his arm. "I love needles."

"Master Klaus," Pogo interrupts, "Your blood is… how shall I say this? Too polluted."

"Move, I'll do it." Diego says next, moving in front of Klaus.

But, as Grace turns around with the needle, a whimper is all that is heard as Diego faints at her feet.

Pogo nods, looking down at his passed out body before looking up to Grace.

"Stick him."

Luther helps pick him up, setting him down in a chair pushed beside Allison's medical bed before Grace goes about hooking him up.

"We'll need more than just one doner. Master Five, Miss Melanie, I'm afraid you'll have to contribute as well if we hope for Miss Allison to recover." Pogo warns them, both nodding instantly.

"I'll go next. Five is still healing, he needs more time." Melanie insists, Pogo agreeing to let her know when she was needed so she could finally leave the room.

She doesn't take notice of what happens next, only knowing her feet lead her out of the medical room and towards the bedrooms, but not close enough to make it to the bedroom itself, it seems.

With exhaustion catching up to her body, Melanie collapses in the hallway outside the bedroom doors, her memories brought back as vividly as in her dream, but instead of being picked up by her best friend, Melanie instead pulls herself closer to the wall, leaning against it with her knees curled to her chest as the near constant tears of the night continued to fall down her face.

Sick of the helpless feeling clinging to her body, she pulls herself up from the floor, kicking her boots off on the way as she walks into the bathroom, filling the sink with cold water.

Tying her hair back with the hair tie around her wrist, she splashes the cold water in her face, the salt water of her tears getting lost as the temperature shocks her system.

Gasping for breath after splashing her face again, she almost can't hear Klaus as he calls her name from his bedroom.

"Coming!" She calls back, grabbing a towel and drying off her face quickly, before sidestepping her abandoned boots and bursting into Klaus's room.

"What's going… on?"

Klaus stands with his eyes wide in shock, staring directly at Ben who was still frozen in place, looking down at his hands.

"Can you see Ben?" Klaus asks her carefully, her eyes following his line of sight but seeing nothing but his room.

"No, not since that time in the car." She denies, brow knotting in confusion, "Why?"

"Because he just punched me in the face and I think I'm losing my shit." He replies in a whisper.

"Wait, you're serious aren't you?" She asks, her face softening as she realised how shaken he was.

With a small nod, Melanie moves closer, settling a comforting hand on his shoulder as she tries to make sense of things.

"Well, you said it yourself, you're a day sober, that's more sober than you've been basically the whole time we've known each other." She rationalises, Klaus nodding in understanding.

"Yeah, yeah you're right. You know, maybe with this whole world ending thing it'll actually be kinda helpful." He shrugs with a wave of his hands, Melanie smiling at him encouragingly.

"Exactly, then Ben can join the group hug as we kick it." She jokes, looking to the side where Klaus could see Ben shaking his head, arms crossed, but a small smile still on his face.

"You two," Five interrupts, head poking in the doorway, "living room. Now."

Melanie, Klaus and Ben watch him as he walks off, Melanie letting out a sigh as she looks back to Klaus.

"We'll come back to this after, yeah?" Melanie asks, to which Klaus nods, sighing deeply.

"Was he always this bossy?" She asks.

"Yeah, more or less." She hears from beside her, eyes going wide as she realises it wasn't Klaus who spoke.

"Okay, we're coming back to that as well."

Melanie, Ben and Klaus rush downstairs, joining a now conscious Diego and Five as they both pace the living room, Klaus curling up on one couch while Melanie and Ben took the other.

"The bastard that nearly killed our sister's still out there, with Vanya." Diego says, obvious bitterness in his tone. "We need to go after her."

"Vanya is not important." Five interrupts, causing the eyebrows of everyone in the room to rise.

"Hey, that's your sister. A little heartless, even for you, Five." Diego scolds.

"I'm not saying I don't care about her," He defends himself, "but if the apocalypse happens today, she dies along with the other seven billion of us. Harold Jenkins is our first priority."

"I agree. Let's go." Diego nods, before he's interrupted.

"I have a question," Melanie asks, raising her hand and watching as they turned to her.

"Say we find this sick son o' bitch, does anyone specific have to kill him or is it whoever sees him first?"

Five frowns for a moment, before shrugging slightly.

"Well, I'd say he was fair game, nothing else has said it needs to be otherwise." He replies, Melanie nodding with a small smile, a plan already formulating in her head as they continued to speak.

"You guys can count me out." Klaus speaks up as Melanie stands up, ready to follow Five and Diego out, all stopping in their tracks at his words.

"I mean, you know, no offence or whatever. It's just… I kind of feel like this is a whole lot of pressure for newly sober me, so…"

"You're coming." Diego insists, but Klaus keeps trying to fight his point, the bickering growing more irritating by the second.

"Klaus, get up."

"You can't make me." He replies, eyes squinting at Diego as his face changes to a look one might describe as "oh really bitch" as he reaches for one of his knives, sending it directly into the couch between Klaus's legs.

"Okay then again, a little exercise couldn't hurt." He sighs, getting up from the couch and leading the way out.

"Idiots." Melanie says under her breath, Five being the only one to hear her.

"At least some things never change."

By the time the four arrive at Harold Jenkins house, the last of the moonlight is replaced by bright sunshine, Diego climbing out of the car first as the rest followed him.

"You gonna jump through the door again?" Melanie asks him as he leads them to the front door.

"You ever get tired from being the comedic genius of the family or does it just come naturally?" He asks her back sarcastically, frowning as they see the front door ajar.

"Stay behind me." Melanie warns Five, stepping in front of Diego with her hands already starting to glow as she pushes the door open, ready to jump into action.

Five squints at her attempt at protecting him, following behind Klaus and Diego as they quietly walk in behind her.

"Oh, shit. Nevermind." She says, drawing back her powers as she stands in the archway of the kitchen, Harold's body laying lifeless in the middle of the room.

"It's not exactly what I was expecting." Diego comments as the siblings filter around the chaotic scene.

Just about every sharp object within the house sat lodged into his body, one hell of a grizzly corpse being left on top of the shattered remains of a dining table and various other items of the kitchen.

"The understatement of the year." Five agrees, Klaus taking a closer look before looking to the rest of them.

"No sign of Vanya."

"Good, hopefully she's somewhere safe." Melanie comments, turning to follow Klaus and Diego as they walk out.

"Let's get out of here, before the cops come." Diego instructs.

"In a minute." Five stops them, bending down beside Harold's body.

Five pulls a handkerchief from his pocket, dropping a prosthetic eye out of the folded fabric and taking the bandage off of Harold's face, slipping the eye into the socket with a disturbingly moist sound.

"Same colour, same pupil size. Guys, this is it. The eye I've been carrying around for decades, it-" Five says happily, "it's found its rightful home."

"Poetic cinema." Melanie says sarcastically, speaking mostly just to cover up the noise of Five removing the eye again.

"We got the guy we needed to kill to stop the apocalypse." Diego says in disbelief, Klaus quick to celebrate jokingly.

"Yay! Let's go."

Quickly turning to leave, Diego grabs the back of his shirt, pulling him back into the group between him and Melanie as Five speaks.

"No, no. Wait. It can't be this easy." He frowns, standing up again, "look, this is the note I got from the commission. The one that says protect Harold Jenkins, aka Leonard Peabody."

He pulls the paper from his pocket, the siblings gathering around him.

"Yeah?"

"But who killed him? Who did this?" Five asks, Klaus immediately chiming in.

"I have a crazy idea. Crazy, but why don't we find Vanya and ask her what happened?"

Before he can even finish his sentence, Five blips away, Melanie nodding at his idea and ignoring the fact Five was gone again.

"I agree with him." Melanie says to Diego, who nods as well.

"If Vanya got away from this asshole, she might be headed back to the academy." He theorises, looking to Melanie as she claps her hands.

"Let's get back then so we can set up the welcome party."

It doesn't take the three of them long to get back to the academy, Five already searching for Vanya as they arrive and start assisting in his efforts.

"No sign of Vanya." He sighs, as the four of them converge on the upper level of the foyer.

"She's not in any of the rooms." Diego replies, Klaus flailing his hands helplessly.

"She's not downstairs, either."

"Or anywhere else in this damn place." Melanie adds, hands on her hips.

"Well, I'm out." Diego announces, patting Klaus on the shoulder as he walks past him.

"You're what?" Melanie asks, frowning as she watches him.

"Wait, where are you going? Vanya's still out there, and so are Hazel and Cha-Cha." Five says, not able to detour him as he stops at the end of the hallway.

"I know. I'm gonna get my things then I'm outta here. I've got some unfinished business with those fools."

"And nows the time for the macho man saves the day act?" Melanie calls after him, annoyance reaching a fever point.

"Good a time as any." He calls back, disappearing around the corner.

Melanie sighs, leaning against the railing beside Klaus as Five turns to them.

"Hey, did Dad say anything about the apocalypse when you spoke to him? Any clue on how it happens?" Five asks Klaus, who just shakes his head in response.

"No, no clues. Truly terrific shave. But no clues."

Five sighs aggressively before he starts walking away, Klaus running to keep up with him as Melanie crossed her arms and followed along.

"Well come to think of it he did mention something about my potential, and how I've barely scratched the surface of my-"

"How did he know about the apocalypse?" Five asks, interrupting him.

"I don't know, but listen. This whole jumping through time thing of yours, how did… how did you know how to do that?" Klaus asks, stopping him at the bottom of the stairs.

"I didn't." He admits, "you'd realise that if you were actually sober."

Melanie frowns at his words, completely discrediting his brother for no good reason.

"Hey I am sober. I've been sober for two, almost two days now. It feels like forty-five years." He argues, but Five just walks away towards the living room.

"Who are you kidding, Klaus? I've seen you fidgeting all day." Five frowns, Klaus taking a step closer to him.

"If he wasn't sober I wouldn't be able to hear Ben. But I've been hearing him for at least the last day now so maybe you're actually wrong for once." Melanie defends, walking down the stairs and standing by her brother's side.

"Exactly. At least I have back up for what I'm saying. I guess we're both fighting our addictions." Klaus says lowly, Five shaking his head in denial.

"I'm not an addict."

"Yeah you are." Klaus says, "You're addicted to a drug called the apocalypse."

"You're wrong."

"First sign. Denial." Klaus points out, turning to walk away but getting stopped as Five blips into his path, finger pointing in his face.

"You and I, we're not the same."

"I've seen that look in the eyes of someone who doesn't know who they are without their high anymore. Trust me. You gotta just let it go."

With a scowl on his face, Five throws the prosthetic eye past Melanie, it shattering against the wall as he storms off.

Melanie watches Five walk off again, before looking to Klaus, who stands wringing his hands beside her.

"I know you're not lying. I think they just might need a bit more convincing than I do." She smiles sadly at him, placing a supportive hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, yeah, maybe." He agrees with a sigh, watching as she pats his arm before walking away.

chapter eleven coming saturday, oct 12th

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