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goodnightabyss · 4 months ago

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How are you feeling going into the second part of the episodes? I thought it was looking really good for us, but all the bvddie side is SO confident that this is just closure, and bvddie is happening in the last episodes. I don't want to let them get in my head again but it feels so much like they were acting right before the breakup episode!

Hi friend!

So, when I was naught but a young HocusPocus, my sisters and I used to watch cartoon Disney made of The Little Mermaid (I have a point, I promise). And I still, thirty odd years on, remember this one episode where some evil manta ray (why is it always a manta ray?) was sowing discord in the kingdom and turning friends against each other, and the way he's defeated is all the fish are arguing with Ariel about how "manta said this" and "manta said that" and Ariel righteously declares, "Manta can SAY anything he wants, you don't have to listen!"

And that's where I'm honestly at right now with the doom spiraling. Guys, gals, and non-binary pals. First off, IS the other side of this godforsaken ship war acting like they were right before the breakup? Is it really? I don't see that. I see a lot of shifting goalposts, and condescending takes about the fucking "media literacy".

Yes, they were correct about the breakup. What have they been right about since? Cause from where I'm sitting, it's just the hookup and subsequent Buck & Maddie conversation. And let's "media literacy" that fucking kitchen scene.

Was it "introducing the GA to the idea of Buddie"? Or was it Buck taking like three seconds to firmly state that Tommy's worst fear/insecurity is not real? Was it Maddie being the #1 Buddie warrior? Or was it her dubiously asking if her brother's really kinda codependent (on Buck's end) relationship with his best friend could be something more?

On the flip side, we have Buck having expressed onscreen, MULTIPLE times, that he values his relationship with Tommy, sees a future with Tommy, believes everything started going wrong when Tommy left him. We see that Buck still physically desires Tommy. We END THAT KITCHEN SCENE with him thinking about Tommy, not Eddie. Confidently. Firmly. With none of Buck's usual "tells" that he's doubting himself or confused about something.

We have Tommy serving narrative purposes that he does not need to serve. We have him getting a background for why he broke up with Buck. We have him coming back for reasons outside of his connection to Buck in the next episode. I dunno, maybe I'm old-fashioned, but back in my day when a character continually haunted the narrative like that, the audience assumed they were, you know, important and sticking around for a while.

Look. I'm not a TV industry insider, and I've never claimed to be. I'm still a multishipper (although my GOD has this fandom made that even harder than it was just a few months ago recently). All I have seen on my screen indicates to me that at the very least, we are going into the summer hiatus with Buck and Tommy still orbiting each other, and if I would not be at all surprised if the season ends with them agreeing to try again. That is the structure the show has been building with them all season, and no amount of insisting otherwise by people who look for deeper meaning in crockpot recipes in the shark on a highway show is going to alter what is being shown on the screen.

Take a deep breath, yeah?

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goodnightabyss · 7 months ago

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interrupting the uninterruptable

i fully blame the tevan server for pulling this prompt out of me but au where tommy didn't have a shift to get to and well, buck needs some confirmations aka tevan making out in buck's kitchen

T rating | 1161 words

“So that was okay?”

“Better than fake mouth static.”

Tommy laughs shyly, ducking his head. The world has turned upside down.

Because okay didn’t even begin to describe the absolute infestation of winged insects in his stomach, or the possibly worrying rate of his heartbeat, or even the way he was still catching his breath despite the fact that it was the most chaste kiss he has ever participated in.

Okay? Understatement of the century.

Tommy looks back up at him, a playful curve to his lips. Buck zeroes in on them, on the little cupid’s bow, on the rosy tint to them. There is only one thought in his mind.

“Evan?”

Fuck chaste!

Buck’s hands take hold of the back of Tommy’s head and he pulls him into a decidedly-not chaste kiss, swallowing a surprised moan from the other man’s mouth. Hmm.

Just as life-changing as the first.

Because, now that Tommy’s gotten over the shock and has firmly placed his hands on Buck’s hips and is kissing him back in earnest, he knows how perfectly their mouths fit against one another. He knows the way Tommy’s hands feel so warm against him even over his shirt. He knows how soft Tommy’s hair is from where his fingers have tangled in the short locks.

Most importantly, he knows deep in his bones that he was made to kiss Tommy Kinard.

Maybe it’s too soon.

Maybe they should take a breath and talk.

On the other hand, Buck feels like he might die if he stops kissing Tommy, so he keeps tasting the man’s lips, running his hand down his bicep, over his chest, enjoying the way Tommy’s arm wraps around his waist as their tongues join the kiss.

He might be flying, he might be falling. But thankfully, Tommy is a pilot and he’s got a good grip on him so maybe Buck can let himself feel instead of think.

Tommy is all-consuming and consumes him in the same second. Tommy is a door opening to a wider, more vivid world beyond and Buck is allowed to step inside, hand in hand with the man currently taking all his breaths away.

Buck’s pocket is vibrating. He lets out a hum in the same frequency, too focused on the way Tommy’s teeth rasp along his bottom lip.

His pocket vibrates again and it stops Tommy’s wandering hand from landing on his behind. It makes him want to throw away the weird vibration because he needs Tommy’s hands on him, all of him.

His pocket keeps vibrating and it does the most cruel thing ever - it makes Tommy stop kissing him. But all dark clouds have a silver lining because he doesn’t go far, their noses almost touching, his hands are still on his hips.

“Your phone, Evan,” Tommy’s voice is quiet, hoarse, hot and it takes him too long to process what was said. “Someone’s calling you.”

“Oh,” Buck forces himself to reach for his phone in his back pocket, keeping his free hand in a tight grip of Tommy’s shirt at his shoulder - anything to keep the man close. He keeps forcing himself away from the other man but only enough to look down at the screen of the still vibrating phone. “It’s Eddie.”

Tommy nods and for a terrifying moment, Buck thinks he will step back and his fingers tighten on the fabric of his shirt. But he doesn’t, his fingers loop into his belt and his forehead presses against his. Buck can’t control the pleased sigh he lets loose.

“You should pick up,” Tommy usually has great ideas, this is not one. “He’s worried.” He repeats and Buck relents.

Buck owes his best friend an explanation, even if it does interrupt his new-found desire to kiss Tommy for as long as he can. At least the other man doesn’t seem eager to move away.

“Yeah?”

Eddie’s voice is loud through the phone in the quiet of the loft. “Buck, finally, I was worried!”

“Worried?”

Buck’s attention is not on his best friend’s explanation, it’s on the way Tommy is still looking at him, his pupils blown only leaving a thin line of blue visible.

“After the basketball game, I thought maybe you were mad at me or something-”

It’s on the way their chests graze against one another as they breathe.

“It’s not like I can really leave the house with the cast and-”

It’s on the way Tommy’s hand slides towards Buck’s back pocket and the other runs up his arm until it reaches his jaw.

“I asked Tommy to check up on you-”

It’s on the way the other man’s thumb runs along his jawline until it reaches Buck’s chin, sending shivers up and down his spine as he remembers the first world-changing of the night.

“I don’t know if he left already or not but-”

It’s on the way Tommy’s eyes turn to Buck’s parted lips and in the hunger in them, a hunger that he feels reflected on him.

“I just wanted to apologise, I never meant to exclude you or-”

It’s on the way Tommy ducks his head and runs his lips along Buck’s jawline causing a soft gasp to escape.

“Buck?”

It’s on the way he feels Tommy’s lips curl up in a smirk as he moves his kisses down to Buck’s neck, where he is likely to feel his accelerated heart rate.

“Buck, you need to say something or-”

It’s on the way Buck can’t stop the hitch of his breath or the satisfied sigh when Tommy’s tongue soothes the soft bite he left on his pulse point.

“Did something happen, Buck? Do you need me to call someone?”

It’s on…Eddie on the phone.

“Oh, hmm, no, I’m fine,” Buck reassures his friend, his hand tangling once more on Tommy’s hair, while he contents himself with placing chaste - damn chaste - kisses on his neck. “We’re good.”

“O-Okay,” Eddie drawls out and Buck closes his eyes to the pleased hum against his skin. “Did Tommy talk to you? ‘Cause he was-”

“Y-Yeah, Tommy and I talked,” Buck shivers at the way Tommy chuckles against him while his hand grips the meat of his ass. That was different, in the best way. “We’re a-all good.”

“Are you sure? You sound weird.”

“Yeah, I’m j-just busy,” Buck gasps as Tommy’s hand leaves his chin to run down his chest, leaving a trail of goosebumps behind. “Was that all?”

“Uh, y-yeah,” Eddie sounds confused on the other side but Buck is trying to keep from moaning or grinding against Tommy at the way the man is working a bruise to the skin below his collarbone. “Is there someone with you?”

“Yes.” Tommy answers, loud enough that Eddie probably hears.

Buck doesn’t have time for subterfuge now.

Not when Tommy takes the phone from his hand, his eyes pleading - promising.

“See you tomorrow, Eds.”

Not when there’s a hot pilot whose mouth he’s not done exploring.

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