always come back
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Boomerang Begins by SeekingSerpent333
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV), Hawaii Five-0 (2010), NCIS: Los Angeles
22 Aug 2026
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"It was never luck. You read it. Every time. You read your way out of things you shouldn't be able to come out of, and you come back, every single time, like you're on a line."
or: Before L.A., before the 118, Evan Buckley was Boomerang. This is the story of how SEAL Team 9 and a family in Hawaii made the man who'd one day be a member of the best firehouse in Los Angeles.
part of a series: Always Come Back, but can stand alone.
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- Part 1 of always come back
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5 times Buck called it handled + the 1 time he didn't.
For years, Buck's Hawaii family has only ever gotten a sugarcoated version of Buck's worst days. They've always been able to read the edges of what he wasn't saying, until the system completely failed. You can't read silence.
Prequel for the Always Come Back Series aka why Grace finally booked that flight.
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- Part 2 of always come back
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Buck has spent years making sure his two families never meet. It takes Grace Williams exactly one dead sprint across the apparatus bay to undo it all.
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The 118 learns about the SEAL years, the callsign, and the four words Buck says instead of the ones he can't.
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- Part 3 of always come back
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What starts as Danno's trademarked "Shovel Talk" quickly turns into a quieter conversation about how much of himself Buck actually hands the people who love him, about the night after Buck saved Eddie's life, and about a word Eddie let slip without even noticing.
Missing scene from "when it all goes wrong" but you don't need to have read any of the Always Come Back series to enjoy it <3
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- Part 4 of always come back
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diving in, there's nothing left to lose by SeekingSerpent333
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV), Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
25 Jul 2026
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The day hike was Danno's idea. The rope was Steve's. By the time the creek turns into something with a current, only one of those things matters.
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Eddie finds out what Buck's calm looks like in deep water, Grace's boomerang doctrine gets stress-tested 15 years after she wrote it, and Buck finally says the words to Eddie's face instead of hiding them in plain sight.
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- Part 5 of always come back
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you calm the storm in my heart by SeekingSerpent333
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV), Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
02 Aug 2026
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Buck has told the tsunami story a hundred times and never once told it true. He does, finally, at three in the morning, wrecked and cornered by his own nightmare, tell it to the one person who lived the other side of it. What Eddie says back isn't what Buck braced for. Neither is what Christopher has to say the morning after.
Part 4 in the series: Always Come Back. Can stand alone but hits harder if you read the whole series.
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- Part 6 of always come back
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carried the weight (but honestly, i still got left behind) by SeekingSerpent333
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV), Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
06 Aug 2026
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Buck has spent his whole life keeping the people who love him in separate rooms, where none of them can see the full picture and decide he's less than they thought. One afternoon, with the kids at the park, he lets his sister and two of the people who became his parents into the same room on purpose, and tells them everything: the Jeep, the year he doesn't talk about, why he really enlists, and the thing he's only ever told one person.
Part 5 in the series: Always Come Back. Can stand alone but hits harder as a series.
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- Part 7 of always come back
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There was an earthquake the day Chris met Buck. Years later, Grace takes Chris and Theo to a science museum, and the earth moves again. The three of them end up trapped in a pocket of rubble. What gets them through it is entirely Buck, his earthquake lessons in Chris's mouth, his way of shrinking a scary thing down to a band-aid in Grace's hands, the steady care Theo provides via glow-in-the-dark band-aids.
part of a series: Always Come Back, but can stand alone.
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- Part 8 of always come back
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