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“When I was little, maybe six or seven, I remember my mom saying that she ‘had to live with a reminder of her loss, staring her in the face every day.’ That’s all I ever was to them. Their grief was a cage, a gilded one, but still. And they locked me and Maddie in there with them. Maybe, doing this, asking them to sign away any claim they have to me? It-it sets them free, sets us all free.”
Bobby’s not thrilled about the metaphor, and even less thrilled about the anecdote.
Stories like that remind Bobby why simply telling the whole truth – that Bobby and Athena were pursuing an adult adoption of Buck – is out of the question. Margaret and Phillip are manipulative at best, abusive at worst; and their reaction to such an announcement would be wholly unpredictable. Keeping the adoption out of things is the best course of action, Bobby knows that. But God does he want to rub it in their faces that, for the rest of his life, he gets to be Buck’s dad and claim him as his son.
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They tolerate the plaque.
Bobby deserves the honor, even if he would’ve absolutely loathed having his name on the wall. And Chimney was right: The 118 is and always will be Bobby’s house.
So they tolerate the plaque.
What obliterates Buck’s tepid tolerance, what snaps one of the fraying threads holding him together is the portrait the Department hangs above the plaque.
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pourin' out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't poor the whiskey by nav2012
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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Buck jogs up the stairs inside the community center, all the while trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. It had taken him a small eternity to find parking, and once he did he was certain it was because the universe was waiting to laugh at him because the newly-freed spot was right behind Bobby’s truck.
Buck gets to the second floor and glances at the directory to find the right room. He’s conscious not to let his feet fall too heavily against the linoleum floor lest he give himself away, and he walks until he hears Bobby’s familiar tenor float out of the small meeting room towards the end of the hallway.
“...for the same reason as a lot of you. Because I am selfish as hell.”
Buck slows his steps until he’s more or less tiptoeing down the hall, then he leans against the wall just to the right of the door. He doesn’t belong inside the room, that space is not for him; but after last night? He can’t let Bobby do this alone, not again.
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Bobby’s alone in his hospital room for the first time in what feels like days, but is probably more like hours when his phone starts vibrating on the bedside table with an incoming call. The muscles in his chest pull uncomfortably as he reaches over to pick it up, raising his eyebrows at the name flashing across the screen.
“Hello?”
“What’s this I hear about you burning down my house?”
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Somehow, Liz and Ressler always find strength in each other.
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by schemingreader
Fandom: Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Captain America (Movies), Iron Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (2012), The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom
18 Apr 2013
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05 Sep 2018
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“They found Captain America, the Captain America… the legend himself.” The Captain’s thawing had brought up an entire wealth of emotional baggage Tony had thought he’d buried long ago.