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I Drove All Night (to get to you) by beforeastorm, buffaluffalo (werecadet)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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“What do you mean, we gotta go? The night is young.”
“Yeah, and I’m going to propose by the end of it. No way is Tommy beating me to the punch.” Buck throws down a wad of bills - enough for the beers and apps and a sizable tip before he’s grabbing Hen by the hand and pulling her up.
“Wait, can I at least finish my drink?” Hen cries out, reaching for her glass.
“No time, Wilson. I’m ordering an uber.”
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OR: When Buck and Tommy become aware that the other is also planning to propose, they have thoughts; mainly that they need to be the one to propose first. So they move up their timeline to that very evening. It's not easy to plan a proposal in a couple hours, especially when trying to avoid your significant other, but fortunately they'll have a lot of help to pull it off. Shenanigans ensue. -
I Know, I Know the Silent Sound (just before the walls come down) by beforeastorm for theblasphemouscontessa
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
27 Jan 2025
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"She had 9-1-1 talk her through a field tracheotomy.”
Immediately, Buck’s free hand flies towards his throat. He’s only just grazed a patch of gauze before Hen catches his hand and pulls it away.
“Abby… Is a great dispatcher, but she doesn’t have any field experience. Getting instructions over the phone and using a steak knife isn’t really a recipe for a good outcome.” Buck finally looks back over at Hen, and even in the dim light, he can see the tears forming at the corners of her eyes. “The good news is that she was able to open an airway and keep the oxygen flowing to your brain…”
Hen trails off, and Buck gives her hand a little squeeze.
“…The bad news is knife slipped, or she applied too much pressure, and the incision went much further than it should have.”
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Abby's hand slips when giving Buck a field tracheotomy, and he ends up losing his voice. Despite him thinking so, it's not the end of the world, especially when he meets his replacement. -
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"With a nod to Ravi, Buck leaps into the air while he rips his uniform shirt open, buttons scattering on the wind. By the time he lands, it's no longer on two legs, but four paws, tattered pieces of his uniform fluttering behind him. Knowing his luck, Mallory is going to make him come back to these woods, retrieve every last scrap, and sew them back together himself if he wants to wear pants on duty."
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When Eddie falls into a river while on a call, Buck wolfs out to save him (wrecking his uniform once again). This leads to Buck and Tommy making some inadvertent revelations about their friend, and how he feels about them. To all of their eventual delight. -
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“Can we talk later? Eddie’s son is missing.”
“Well, about that…” Margaret is looking at Chris, like he somehow knows how to break the news. Chris shakes his head. He didn’t want to call any of them in the first place; she can figure it out.
“About – about what?”
“Is someone missing if you know where they are?”
“Do- do you know where Chris is?” Buck’s voice is raised in bewilderment and hope. There’s a clear ‘what!’ in the background, followed by shushing noises.
“I can probably do you one better?”
“Are you – are you telling me that Chris is in Pennsylvania?” Buck is speaking very slowly and very clearly, so different from his usual fast paced ramble. “In Hershey? How did he get there?”
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Chris fixates about what Buck shared during their conversation before he left for El Paso. Seeing similarities between his situation and Buck’s, he runs off to Hershey to learn more about Buck’s past, and hopefully get some answers for his future. -
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“It’s the aquarium. I already bought a ticket for Jee, we’ll make a day of it and have a great time. Now get to work!”
Buck, lovingly, starts corralling his sister towards the door, but at the mention of tickets Maddie reaches into her purse and starts fumbling for her wallet. Buck holds back an eyeroll.
“I swear to God, Maddie – if you try to give us money for Jee, we’re going to have words. I am more than capable of spoiling my niece without any help from you.”
“That’s what I’m afraid of,” his sister grumbles, dropping the wallet back into the purse. “Seriously, though. I know you’re the one who taught her those patented puppy dog eyes, but don’t let her bully you into buying out the whole gift store. And watch her sugar intake!”
“Uh huh.”
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When Chimney is laid up and Maddie has work, Buck and Tommy are lucky enough to have Jee crash their date at the aquarium. They have a day filled with the three fs: fish, food, and fun. -
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“In the firehouse,” Tommy interjects.
“Well, yeah, that is where we work?”
“No, no…” The wickedness in Tommy’s voice has Buck peeling his arm away from his face. Tommy’s grin is devilish. “He can write you up when you’re on the clock. At work. He can’t do anything if it’s out in public."
And thus, a plan is born.
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OR: When Buck can't risk acting out at work for fear of his job, Tommy has an idea. They're going to terrorize Gerrard all over LA. -
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Robbie “Buck” Nash Jr. is living the life. He’s a firefighter working under his dad, he loves his life in LA, and there’s something brewing between him and the hot new firefighter. Plus, his dad and Chimney are having whirlwind romances of their own. It’s all great, except… he’s still living in his ex(?) girlfriend’s apartment, the new firefighter’s wife is dragging her heels on their divorce, and oh, his dad may be lying about everything that happened twenty-two years ago which led to Buck’s adoption.
It seems like every week, their firehouse is responding to yet another kidnapping, and the feeling that his dad is keeping secrets grows. From missing documents to laced brownies to nosy reporters and even little black books, the evidence mounts and finally forces Buck to decide: pull on the thread and make his whole world unravel, or continue to stitch everything back together and give up ever knowing the truth.
Buck pulls on the thread.
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Hen paused, for seconds that almost dragged into a minute. “You know,” she started softly, “We’ve all been going through it the past couple of years. Pandemics, shootings, break ups, mental breakdowns, spleen removals, buildings falling onto people. Kidnappings all around. Just one thing after another. And now, that things are settling down – there’s, –” Hen hesitated, looking for the word, “a void.”
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Buck breaks all the way down after 6A. Featuring; Buck being bad at math, drives with Karen Wilson, Lena Bosko wearing floral print dish gloves, Sue Blevins using slang like she’s a youth, incoming DSM diagnoses, and Eddie Diaz: amateur kidnapper.
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It had started out as a joke. A ‘ha-ha’. Eddie was sure of it. After the Dickensian interruptions of relationships past and Natalia’s abrupt departure, Buck’s night ended with a very pregnant Kameron decamped on his bed. Buck had sat on his couch, holding a jar of pickles, while he facetimed with Eddie. During their conversation, Buck whined “Who needs a relationship when you can have pickles?” as he stuffed his face full of them.
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If Eddie knew then what he knows now, he would have staged an intervention, seized the pickle jar, and thrown the damn pickles off the station’s loft and into the engine bay below. Where he would run them over with the ladder truck, repeatedly. Eddie also would not have mentioned how excited he was to have run into Marisol. But Eddie had thought it was just a joke and didn’t realize his best friend was going to project his abandonment issues and relationship trauma on fermented cucumis sativus and turn it into his overdue breakdown. -
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“I had 12 hours to come up with a speech, and 12 hours to mull over advice I’ve gotten from like four dying old people - how whack IS that, anyway - but” and even though Eddie wasn’t looking at him, he caught the motion of Buck flinging his arms outward, “I don’t have a speech. I just have me, and I have so much love for you and Chris, I think it might actually be the thing that finally kills me. And if you want, you can have me too.”
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Eddie considers a move to Texas during a visit to his parents and drinks coffee. Buck drives for 25 hours, speed runs life advice from four dead old people, and confesses his love. Chris mostly rolls his eyes at his dads. -
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Eddie’s mind wandered to the red folder, tucked high up in the back of his closet. He recalled back to a conversation he had with Buck, almost a year ago at this point:
“It’s an insurance policy; a break glass in case of emergency. A trump card.”
“One I really hope we’ll never have to use.”
“But if we have to, we’ll be really glad we did this.”
When hospital policy doesn't allow Chris, as an unrelated minor, to visit a comatose post-lightning strike Buck in the ICU, Eddie has a solution. Unfortunately, that involves sharing some pretty personal information in a waiting room filled with the 118.
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A mayday call, much like a stone cast into a pond, sends out ripples in all directions. Those closest to the epicenter feel the greatest turbulence, while those farthest away may only feel the slightest tremor. These are the ripples from “Mayday mayday mayday, this is Captain Nash, 118, we have a firefighter down at the MacArthur Park Apartment Fire. We need an additional Task Force and Rescue immediately.”
AKA Trauma has a splash zone, and when you’re Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley getting hit by lightning, it’s a pretty big one. A look at what various 9-1-1 characters were doing when they learned what happened, and how they responded.
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"Hen would know. She probably should have waited and cooled off before confronting them because her own history of being unfaithful to Karen had bubbled to the surface and she could only see red. She had shoved a squawking Chimney into her car and drove only semi-recklessly to Eddie’s house. Well, Buck-and-Eddie’s-soon-to-be-just-Eddie’s house. Her plan was simple: if Eddie answered the door, rat Buck out, door dash a shit ton of ice cream, and let Chim sic Maddie on Buck. If Buck answered the door? Verbally beat Buck senseless until Chim shipped him off to Maddie’s to get another talking to, then find Eddie and door dash a shit ton of ice cream."
Hen sees Buck and Ravi share an intimate moment in the locker room. Buck, who was dating Eddie Diaz. She and Chimney go to confront Buck/console Eddie, but quickly discover there's more to the Buck/Eddie/Ravi relationship than meets the eye.
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There are moments that the words don't reach
There is suffering too terrible to name
You hold your child as tight as you can
And push away the unimaginable
The moments when you’re in so deep
It feels easier to just swim down
So Buck and Eddie move uptown
And learn to live with the unimaginableOR: Chris doesn’t survive the Tsunami – eighteen-ish vignettes on grief and loss as mediated through Hamilton’s “It’s Quiet Uptown.”