marjanenjoyer69

9-1-1 | 8.06 Confessions

and the thing about eddie not going to texas to get chris (yet. YET) is the agency thing. eddie never has any agency in his life and taking it from his son is unthinkable to him because eddie knows that pain. he knows it over and over and over and so of course he isn't going (YET!! TIM MINEAR DO YOU HEAR ME?? YET!!!!) which is terrible for chris. because obviously chris does not have those same hangups. what chris needs is for eddie to pull up that fighting almost-killed-a-guy that one time in a cage match SPIRIT and eddie needs to go crawl out of his parents' television like the ring. i lost the plot of this post slightly here at the end but my point stands i think

T U M M Y

—in the rough draft, [s]he loved you—

Through a series of very surreptitious back-and-fourth glances between her own book and the guy’s tray, she watches him stack one of the napkins on the back cover of the magazine, set the tip of the pen to it, and then just… sit there.

It’s almost cartoonish how immediately he stalls out.

After a moment, he has to pick the pen up where the napkin starts pulling a blot of ink out of the nib. He lets out a sharp, annoyed breath and goes back in with determination, writing:

Buck

And then nothing else.

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eddie tries to writes down some things he wants to say to buck during the flight from el paso back to la

[read it on ao3]