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Life with the firefam Instagram
Chapter one: the start of it all
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It all starts because one day everybody gets together at the station and they wind up taking a group photo in front of the engine. Bobby is standing in the middle with Athena on his left, and he’s got his arm around her waist. Michael is standing on Athena’s other side and May and Harry are standing in front of the three of them. Chimney is on Bobby’s other side with Maddie standing next to him. Hen is standing next to Michael with Karen next to her and Denny standing in front of them. Buck is standing next to Maddie with Eddie next to him and Christopher is standing in front of the both of them.
It’s a really good picture, and Buck even has it framed and set on his night stand next to his bed. And he can’t help but think about how much of a family they all look like. And honestly he does think of them as his family. So he starts up an Instagram and calls it “Life with the Firefam”, and that group picture is the first picture he posts to the account. He captions it “the whole fam together at the station”.
The team, minus Eddie, sees the pic on his new Instagram, and all do a double take. Because the way it’s framed, the way they’re all standing together makes it look like Buck and Eddie are together. Athena, Bobby, Michael, May, and Harry are standing next to each other because they’re a blended family, even if Bobby and Athena are only dating at this point. Hen, Karen, and Denny are standing together because Hen and Karen are married, and Denny is their son. Chim and Maddie are dating so that’s why they’re standing together. And Maddie and Buck are siblings, so it makes sense that they’re standing next to each other in the picture.
But the way Eddie and Buck are together in the picture with Christopher in front of them makes them look like a family. And it doesn’t just look like they ended up standing next to each other with Christopher standing in front of Eddie. No Christopher is literally standing in front of both Buck and Eddie, in the same way that Denny stands in front of both Karen and Hen. And both Buck and Eddie have a hand on either of Christopher’s shoulders.
After seeing the picture they can’t help but pay extra attention to the way Buck and Eddie interact. And they all come to the same conclusion; they’re both absolute oblivious idiots who are in love with each other but don’t know it. Hen starts a bet on whose gonna confess to who first and how long it’s going to take for it to happen. The two people in question are once more completely oblivious to what’s going on around them…
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Buck starts making regular posts on the firefam account. The first couple of posts after the group pic are individual pics of the team. Each one is captioned with the person’s name and a nickname/tittle/role in the firefam that he’s given/assigned them.
The first one he posts is a pic of Bobby standing in the kitchen area of the station. He captions it, “Captain Bobby Nash aka firedad”. The next one is a pic of Athena in her uniform when she stopped by one day to see Bobby. He captioned that one: “sergeant Athena Grant aka Copmom”. Then after that is a pic of Hen sitting in the ambulance with the caption, “Henrietta ‘Hen’ Wilson aka fireauntie”. Next is Chimney standing by the engine laughing. That one gets the caption, “Howard ‘Howie/Chimney’ Han aka firebro1”. Next up is a picture of Eddie standing in front of a punching bag in a tank top with boxing gloves on. He captions it, “Edmundo ‘Eddie’ Diaz aka firebro2”.
Then there’s a picture of Maddie he took on her first day of work as a 9-1-1 operator which he captions, “Maddie Buckley aka firesis”. He has the four kids all pose together for a group photo that he posts with the caption, “{from left to right} May and Harry aka the surrogate Step-siblings, Denny Wilson aka firenephew, and Christopher Diaz aka firekid”. The last one he posts is a selfie of himself that he took when he was trying to win the spot on the fire fighter calendar. He captions it, “Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley aka fireson”.
The whole team laughs at all of his descriptions of them under their photos. And Bobby just gives him that amused raised eyebrow thing that he does, when he sees that he’s been given the tittle firedad. He gives Buck a bit of a hard time about it, but really he’s touched that Buck thinks of him that way.
Buck starts posting random photos and videos of the team doing stuff at work, all the time after that. Him and Bobby making breakfast/lunch/dinner. Hen and Chimney restocking the med kit and ambulance. Eddie working out. He gets a few followers here and there, and some likes on some of the photos. But he doesn’t really care about that. He’s just having fun taking photos and videos of his found family and posting them.
Several weeks after he starts the account he does a video of him and Bobby making Lasagna for dinner for the team. He posts the video with the captions, #firedad, #heteachesmehowtocook, #firedadmakesgreatfood, #shouldabeenachef. He then takes a pic of the table set up and ready for the team dinner and captions it, “in this house we eat together #familydinner”. After that he starts another video and records Bobby calling the team to the table for dinner.
“And Without fail, every day just as we go to sit down to eat Bobby’s amazing food the bell rings and we have to leave on a call!” Buck states, heading towards the table as well.
And in a moment of absolute serendipity just as his ass hits the seat, the bell rings, and he’s halfway towards the engine before he remembers he’s still recording. He posts the video and a picture of all of them sitting in the engine on the way to the call, all of them putting on their best sad faces. That one get’s captioned, “what did I tell you #coldfood, #hungryfirefighters, #withoutfail, #cantwehavejustonemeal”.
He puts his phone away and doesn’t look at it again till three hours later after the call. It had been a big fire in an apartment complex that had taken a while to put out. But luckily they hadn’t lost anyone on this call. No they were all just covered in ash and soot and left feeling tired as all hell. And Buck couldn’t help but take a pic of all of them on the ride back, and he’s decided he’s going to caption this one as, “after a rescue #weneedshowers”.
But before he gets the chance to post it he notices that he has like a million Instagram notifications. And he’s pleasantly surprised to see that his last couple posts now have over a million likes and comments. The comments all range from things like; “That’s so funny”, “Did you plan that?” “Aw those poor firefighters never get to eat a hot meal!” and “Man I wish I had a firedad like Bobby to teach me how to cook!”
Buck practically starts vibrating in his seat as he reads all the comments, and he starts reading them out loud to the team. Every body’s amused and kind of shocked that people are interested in their lives. Buck posts his newest picture and within a few minutes it’s got over a million likes.
He’s on cloud nine for the rest of the shift. And by next shift “Life with the Firefam!” Instagram page has over a billion followers. People had gone back through all of his previous posts and liked and commented on each of them. Buck is very happy, and the rest of the team are just happy that he’s happy. And they all know, this is just the beginning of “Life with the Firefam” Instagram…