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ABSOLUTELY! THIS! I want this one right here!

The whump and angst of it is so good! Maybe them wondering why Buck didn't say anything and that poor boy's pain tolerance is just so skewed that he says, "I thought I just had a bruise." Cue the facepalming.

Someone write this please!

That one hurts, nonnie! IDK if anyone will want to pick it up, but here it is! I personally have so many thoughts about Buck on the road for so long and alone in his travels.

(I'm tagging this with trigger warnings, so I'm very sorry if this comes across someone's dash unfiltered. There are so many different tw tags that I wasn't sure what to use!)

NONNIE! I am genuinely wounded by this prompt. So rude of you to put such an idea into my head without a SIKE! and a link to an already existing story. 😭 Now this idea will live rent free in my head.

I love the idea of someone having that obsession with Buck and the fear that would come with that. Emotional whump at it’s finest! And with protective firefam to top it off? Someone write this!

Oooo I’ve definitely read some good flare up fics! Usually it’s just part of a longer one focused around something else, though, so I can’t think of any off the top of my head.

Thinking on it, it’s kind of an interesting trope for Buck when you consider what a flare up is. I know flare ups can be pretty bad, but I’m sometimes perplexed when some of them are written as intensely as they are in fics, and how common/often it’s implied they happen.

Someone close to me had a break and repair almost exactly the same as Buck’s (though he still has the metal hardware in his bones!), and even did the PT to get back into sports. Considering that Buck’s physical recovery was pretty rock solid, I’m not entirely sure that his flare ups would be that bad, but I’m also not about to discount what people have experienced with flare ups if they say it can be like that with an old injury. I just have an understanding that the typical flare ups we’ve seen in fics are more commonly associated with an ankle break, but it was actually Buck’s leg that broke, so some stiffness is a more likely flare up issue than swelling or random bouts of blinding pain.

Check out below the cut for more thoughts and a bit of a prompt!

Oh oh ohhh, this is fun! But we do have to be realistic. Handcuffs can leave some bite, but for his wrists to bleed he’s got to be connected to something that can withstand his strength and be pulling on those like his life depends on it. Just some tightness and pressure won’t be enough. Not to mention that even if we do make him bleed, the wounds will only be so big, so they likely won’t bleed a life threatening amount in a short time, but you can make him bleed for a long time.

Not sure why he’s kidnapped, but I get a couple visuals. One is a shipping container. Buck’s got handcuffs that have been bolted into the wall of it, and he’s tried for hours to pull it out, but it’s no use. He chides himself for having pulled to the point of bleeding because there’s literally nothing he can do to stop it now. The cuffs are bolted too high for him to lay down and too low for him to stand. He’s forced to sit slumped against the wall. And when the doors to the crate finally open, he peers up into the light, blinking slowly and far too out of it from a combination of blood loss and dehydration.

The second scenario is the chain of the handcuffs hooked around something on the ceiling. Maybe he’s in a basement? Maybe this bad guy was bold and left him in a room upstairs in their house? His arms hang, and the blood runs down his wrists and arms from his weight alone. His arms are stretched above him and his weight falls entirely on his bare toes. He’s hanging limp when he’s found, unconscious at that point.

And when he’s finally being cared for in the hospital? He’s alone. Something inside him is telling him to call his friends, but he doesn’t feel like he can. This lawsuit has changed everything in ways that Buck wasn’t expecting. And part of him knows that at least Maddie would be there for him, but she’s connected to Chim and Chim is connected to the team, and he’s pushed them so far away that he doesn’t think he deserves to call them and ask for help.

(NOTE: I’m taking this route, because I think the way it was portrayed in canon makes it seem like they weren’t legally allowed to contact each other, but because things never went to court, it was more of a “no contact” order which was definitely more of a highly recommended not to contact people type of suggestion.)

But the team would be there for him. They’re mad about how things went down but they love him. They’d drop everything if Buck called and said he needed help, said he needed someone. Which is why when one of Athena’s colleagues (who’s also one of the officers on Buck’s case) remembers that she knows Buck, they contact her. Even when Buck says there’s no one to call, this officer knows there’s never no one.

Athena shows up in the middle of the night with Bobby in hand. They wouldn’t discuss what happened over the phone, so they have no idea how Buck is hurt. Was he in an accident? Did he hurt himself? It doesn’t matter. Family is here now, and they’re going to make sure Buck is okay.

Don’t ask me why this scenario came to me, but it did, so I must share!

Picture this: There’s a stand in captain at the 118 while Bobby is out and recovering from the gunshot wound. And the stand in? He’s quite the fucking tool. He knows what he’s doing but he’s the wrong shade of bossy and a bit arrogant. It doesn’t help that Buck responds super well to communication, whether it’s about something he did wrong or something he did right. This captain? Even if he does a fantastic job and does everything right, he won’t acknowledge it. The entire team could be clapping him on his back and the captain won’t even glance Buck’s way. And that doesn’t bother him. What bothers him is that if he even breathes the wrong way, he’s got the captain giving him a ear full of how he needs to be better.

The captain can’t stand Buck (and to make it a little more believable, he doesn’t like a few other 118 guys for no apparent reason). Maybe it’s literally just something about Buck and the other couple people being millennials.

But things finally come to a head when they’ve had their busiest day all summer and they need to go back to the station to restock, and hydrate. Buck says as much when the acting captain tells them to pack up so they can get moving to a fire a few blocks down where extra assistance is needed. Buck takes one look around at his team mates and they’re all sharing the same look. They will if there’s no one else to respond— it’s their job— but if another station can afford to, they should take this moment to go back to the station. They don’t even need a break, they just need walk instead of run. So he says something.

The captain doesn’t like this suggestion one bit. Not because it’s unreasonable but because it came from Buck. It leads to all of them getting pushed beyond their limits when the fire they respond to takes a turn for the worst. Everyone makes it out okay, but by the time they make it back to the station, Buck’s legs are numb and he feels like he’s going to pass out.

He does when his feet hit the ground as he exits the fire truck and instead of stepping forward, his legs crumble below him. Someone is on him in an instant and they can feel his racing heart rate and how fucking hot his skin is. The captain nearly blows a fuse over Buck being dramatic until he sees another firefighter take a tumble because they’re right on the brink of being as far gone as Buck.

The chief definitely hears about this when they receive several reports throughout the next week from various members of the 118. That captain is gone before Buck ever has to see his face again.

Sorry this turned into a prompt.

Exactly, nonnie! I can imagine it now…

Buck showing up our of nowhere, whether it’s at the station or Eddie’s front door. Once their eyes meet, Buck’s roll to the back of his head and he collapses forward. Eddie catches him and searches his body for injury, only to find a wet patch on the dark black of his shirt and when he pulls his hand away, it’s coated in blood.

Similarly, imagine him being wounded on the job. Buck is very conscious but in too much pain to move on his own. Eddie gets Buck’s arm over his shoulder and one arm around his waist and starts hauling ass out of the building. Once they hit the pavement outside, Buck’s fight starts to leave his body, and his legs start to crumble. Eddie’s muttering no, no, no, no, as they settle to the ground and then yells for help. He presses a hand to Buck’s wound because that’s all he has, and Buck howls in pain as he arches off of the ground.

Hmm… this lowkey turned into Thoughts™. Someone write this please and thank you.