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next time tommy tries to run buck should just sit on him

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tfw your ex-boyfriend is telling you about how is sister got kidnapped and is also pregnant but she’s okay and the two things are unrelated and he’s really pretty and you’ve been driving past his house for months but he hasn’t been living there and now he’s inviting you to see his new place - ❗️

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bucktommy + text posts

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im gonna cry, he's the sweetest 😭💕

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tommy saving the 118 over the years

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Bucktommy but it's the 👀👀 look

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steals firetrucks 💏 steals helicopters

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The thing is like. Even if you take Buck completely out of the equation Eddie's actions and decisions throughout season 7&8 were so shitty. A lot of fans seem to think of this as a "Team Eddie vs Team Buck" discourse or even a "Buddie vs Bucktommy" discourse, but tbh this isn't really about Buck at all.

Eddie started seeing Kim without telling her his true intentions. She probably thought she was just going on dates with this hot firefighter and didn't know her crush was already in a relationship or only interested in her because she looked like his dead wife.

While that was going on he also basically cheated on his girlfriend at the time. Eddie may not have had any romantic feelings for Kim (which I sort of doubt tbh due to the Shannon of it all), but he still met up with a woman and took her on date-like outings (romantic dinners and boat rides) and lied to Marisol about where he was going, who he was meeting and why.

Even when he finally came clean about the whole story to Kim he brought her into his house where there was a chance Kim and Christopher might run into each other - which they did eventually.

Then the whole mess with Chris leaving happened. Now, I personally wouldn't have let Chris leave in the first place, at least not to a city that's 800 miles away. Eddie's parents are retired, they could've stayed in LA (even in Eddie's house while Eddie crashes with Buck or Pepa) for a while. Or Chris could've stayed with Pepa or Buck.

But okay, I'm not Eddie, Eddie isn't me, he did let Chris go to Texas. I would've acted differently, but I'm also not judging this decision. Why didn't he go get Christopher after a few weeks though? Like, not to be insensitive, but what happened between Kim and Chris wasn't a huge new trauma, it more reactivated an old one. He came home and saw a woman who looked just like his mother in his living room. Of course that brought back old memories and old pain. But dare I say that also would've happened had they run into Kim at her shop? It was pure coincidence that only Eddie spotted her that day. It was still reckless of Eddie to risk bringing her around the house, but he probably could've cleared the whole thing up with Christopher a lot sooner had he just talked to him. Teenagers can be stubborn pricks, but sometimes having uncomfortable conversations with your child that they don't want to have is part of being a parent. It is still your duty to sit them down and tell them the things they need to know about the world and about life. Sometimes you need to apologise even when the other person isn't ready to accept the apology. In that situation Chris needed to know that Kim was just a friend Eddie met by accident, that the reason Eddie befriended her in the first place was because he also misses Shannon and that he's sorry he hurt Christopher.

Instead Eddie neglected his parenting duties for months, at least half a year. And I use the word neglect here on purpose. Eddie let his parents take Chris away, he let Christopher isolate himself from everything in LA, he took Chris out of his old school that they jumped through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops to get him into, he didn't visit his child for months and months (Bobby would've given him time off immediately had he asked and Chris is only 13, Eddie at least should've visited and tried to talk to his son in person at some point before the 6 months mark). Eddie is the grown-up, Eddie is the parent and he should've put his big boy pants on by the end of summer break at the very latest, gone to Texas, sat Christopher down, had an open conversation and taken that boy home in time for the new school year.

Eddie did not do that. Maybe because he was scared that he'd screw up again or that this wasn't fixable, maybe because he felt too guilty to see Chris in person yet, maybe because the thing with Kim rattled him so much he himself hadn't recovered by the end of summer. In which case he at the very least should've gone back to therapy. If you feel so scared or guilty or overwhelmed that you can't even vistit your child and have a conversation with him, then go to fucking therapy. Eddie didn't do that either. He just grew a mustache. I'm sure that helped.

Anyway. Eventually Eddie did decide to go get his son back. Several months too late imo, but ok, good for him. Why the fuck did Eddie buy a house in Texas for that? Does El Paso not have rentals? Was there no way he could've lived with a relative (like Isabel) while doing apartment hunting? He went there to get his son back, right? Eddie's best case scenario was to got to Texas, fix things with Christopher and then both of them go back to LA, right? That's why Buck didn't take over the lease entirely he just sublet, right? So why buy the murder shack? That's incredibly financially irresponsible for someone who had only just been scraping by in LA and expected to take back in his special needs kid soon. It's also not logical at all? Why buy a house in a city you're not sure you'll live in for more than a month or two? And tbh? Helena was not entirely wrong to worry about that house being safe for Christopher. Didn't the cupboard basically fall on Eddie when he tried to open it? Yes, Eddie did a lot of repairs around that house, but if I was Helena and if I had raised that kid for the past six months I also would've been protective.

Before he even moved to El Paso though Eddie tried to keep the move a secret from his colleagues. Again, why? Bobby was already Captain again, it's not like he would've kicked Eddie out of the 118 before he actually had a moving date. What did Eddie think was going to happen if he gave his colleagues a heads up about leaving the team soon(ish)? If I remember correctly he tried to keep it a secret right up until the last second. Does the LAFD not have rules about handing in your notice? Does Eddie not care that if he leaves suddenly from one day to the next Bobby will have to scrape by with a) an understaffed team, b) a temp that won't stick around or c) a permanent new member who he had to pick quickly without having time to consider more candidates? Does Eddie not think the 118 might need a bit of a warning before they're suddenly one team member short? That's kind of a dick move, but what makes it worse is that they're not just colleagues, they're supposed to be friends, family even. And he just. Doesn't tell them he is moving to Texas in two weeks? Wtf.

Anyway, he then arrives in El Paso and fair enough, he should get settled before he dives into the deep end. But even after weeks he still doesn't talk to Christopher about what happened. Instead he gets pissed that his parents got used to parenting Christopher in the 6 months when he didn't take care of his own kid. He could've had a calm conversation with his parents about how he is thankful for all they've done (and they have done a lot for Eddie and Chris here, beginning with getting on a plane in the middle of the night to fly halfway across the country because their grandson called them for help and ending with raising Chris for half a year because Eddie refused to get his ass to Texas sooner than that) and about how he understands that they got used to this new dynamic, but that he is still Christopher's father, that he has the last say when it comes to parenting decisions and that they have to keep him in the loop and include him more now that he's in Texas too.

Instead he stays completely quiet, lets his mom walk all over him without challenging her at all, then he follows his father to a chess tournament, leaves him there and blows up at his mom because Chris lied to her about liking chess. Yes, she pressured Christopher too much, but she really thought she was supporting Chris' talent and hobby here. This should've been a calm conversation between all three adults and maybe Christopher as well, not a pseudo-self-righteous revenge plot where Eddie got to play victim yet again. If you have a problem with a person you tell them calmly and figure out a solution, you don't hide that you have an issue with them, bottle it up, yell at them and don't even let them say their piece.

At the end of the season he decides on a whim to move back to LA, uprooting Christopher yet again and leaving behind a half renovated, half dump of a place that he owns now. We don't even know if he asked Christopher about moving back.

Did Eddie at any point think about anything or anyone except what he himself wanted or needed? He definitely didn't think about Marisol's feelings when he cheated on her. He didn't think about Kim's feelings when he led her on. He didn't think about fixing things with Christopher until he got scared he might lose Chris forever, it wasn't about Chris needing a dad or Chris needing to talk about his feelings or Chris seeming unhappy in Texas, it was all about Eddie. He didn't think about Bobby getting into trouble if Eddie up and left basically over night. He didn't seem at all thankful to his parents after they really stepped up for him and Chris (maybe they aren't perfect, but they did Eddie a huge favour and Christopher was mostly happy in El Paso). None of that had anything to do with Buck, it's just who Eddie is and of course that is also reflected in their friendship.

Up until season 6 it was less noticeable because the show was better at making Eddie seem relatable, but recently Eddie has been extremely self-centered and it's almost funny how Eddie keeps calling Buck out for exactly that even though it's Eddie who has been acting like this the entire time.

Eddie lands himself in jail? He gets angry at Buck for not being there to help him. Shannon wants to go to LA to take care of her dying mother? How can she even suggest that. Bobby won't let him back on the job because he doesn't seem ready? He yells at Bobby about killing his children. Eddie feels like a stranger in his son's life because he actually hasn't been in Chris' life for 6 months? Blame the Diaz parents.

Everything has to go according to Eddie's plan and when others don't play along then they're being selfish.

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You know what I want for season 9 of 9-1-1?

I did this last year for season 8, but this time I figured I would focus solely on Buck’s love life.

Give me confident bisexual Buck making new friends and going out. He thinks he’s over Tommy and decides to ask his new queer friends to help set him up on blind dates.

Except every single one ends up with Tommy. His friends all know him for wildly different reasons. ‘Oh, this guy built a ramp for my grandmother’s porch after she fell and broke her hip.’ And ‘I met this cute guy on an insane backpacking trip a few summers ago’ and more things like that.

Every. Single. Time. It’s Tommy Kinard sitting at the other end of that table, eyes wide and a hesitant smile on his face.

So Buck gets to learn more about Tommy on each of these dates, the way he should have done during their first six months of dating. And he shares in turn. Tommy tells him about a summer spent with his aunt and Buck tells him about bartending in Peru.

And they rebuild from there.

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Thinking about a nine-year old Tommy...

Whose father had started teaching him how to build model airplanes and helicopters before he could even read (he built a MH-60L Black Hawk on his own by the time he was seven).

And how to fix them when they were broken.

How to take apart an engine - how to name the parts, how to diagnose the problems - and put it back together better than it was before.

Whose mother let him watch while she patched up his clothes and sewed the buttons back onto his father's work shirts. She'd even let him learn how - though they kept that between them. He hid the sewing kit that she'd given him - it had been her mother's - in the same tin he keeps his craft glue and model toolkit.

Who feels sad and helpless and angry that there’s no instruction manual to pour over - no diagnostic test to run - to tell him how to fix his own life - how to patch up his family being torn to shreds by his father’s drinking, his hostility. How to take out the parts of himself that don’t work right and replace them with ones that do. He doesn’t know how he’s broken - he just knows that he is.

He can see it in his father’s eyes.

When the fighting and shouting becomes too much to bear - when the voice telling Tommy he’s supposed to know how to fix this becomes too loud - and locking himself in his closet with his head between his knees and his hands over his ears is no longer enough - he runs.

He runs out the back door and doesn’t care if his parents hear it slam shut. He runs towards the woods that butt up against their backyard and pretends it’s for good. He skips stones across the creek and stays out until dark.

Looks up at the night sky - at the stars and constellations - and wants to be a part of it. He’s pretty sure constellations can’t be broken.

Even on the quiet nights - the ones where his father hasn’t been drinking or hasn’t come home - Tommy comes out to the woods and watches the night sky.

Imagines his model helicopters come to life and allowing him to fly.

Maybe in the sky, he’d feel less broken, less lonely.

One night he witnesses a meteor shower - Perseid - and he makes a wish. For the universe to give him somewhere to belong, to show him how to fix the parts of him that are broken, to patch over his aching loneliness.

Ten months later, Evan Buckley is born.

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Oh so many options here 😅

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Buck should have taken things into his own hands. He wanted to be kissed so badly that morning.

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probably my fave series of buck photos. like... that is a man in love.

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same energy

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insp.