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The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.
Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son.
The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins.
In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church.
But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search.
He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them.
"The quest has taken me 13 years.”
Family has always been at the heart of 911, whether it's the family you're born into or the one you choose. This week's recs celebrate the relationships and connections that hold Buck and Eddie together.
(click here for previous lists!)
22 fic recs under the cut:
1. the plant on the windowsill (and other things that grow) by avidreader0202 (7.1k, General) Warnings: none
Theo does not want to bed without getting a story and goodnight from Eddie. After being convinced by Theo, Buck takes to the firehouse were they all fall asleep together in the couch. They get teased by the fire fam, buck has a crisis, and finally they get together.
Reccer says: It has a very cute Theo and some of my favorite tropes like falling asleep together, being teased by the fire fam, and co-parenting.
2. oh brother, I see (you burn like me) by canadadry (47.9k, Mature) Warnings: mentions of ptsd/suicide
Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time. (buddie character study through their sisters)
Reccer says: i like the different perspectives of adriana and maddie and all the family dynamics. it's just very fun!
3. fourth floor balcony jump by iriswests (@fcntasmas) (20.3k, Teen) Warnings: Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
sophia moves to LA, gains buck as a roommate, and immediately regrets all her life choices
Reccer says: love love love love love this characterization of Sophia! the entire fic is such a delight to read. it's one of the first i read in this fandom and it's really stuck with me since i read it!
4. Pocketful of Sunshine by kae_118 (4.9k, General) Warnings: none
Buck didn't think twice when he set a photo of Christopher as his lockscreen. Eddie, however, spirals a little when he finds out.
Reccer says: Very sweet and true to character! Buck WOULD do something like that without realizing the implications of it, and Eddie WOULD crash out a little about it.
5. there's more than teenage wasteland by iphigenias (4k, Teen) Warnings: post-partum depression
Buckleys don’t ask for help. Buck and Maddie try to change that with each other.
Reccer says: buckley siblings my beloved! there's something so tender about buck and maddie trying their very best to be good to each other despite it all, and finding family outside of each other while still loving each other so so much.
6. one dad, two dad by maygrantnash (@eddiebodywantssome) (3.8k, Not Rated) Warnings: none
christopher has a realisation and subsequent question for his two favourite adults
Reccer says: a younger chris questioning buddie is always so fun, and this really captures that kid feeling without going too saccharine.
7. sweet kid, running by Chancy_Lurking (4k, Teen) Warnings: Panic Attacks, Suicide Mention (no attempt), Running Away
Chris flies back to L.A. without asking forgiveness or permission.
Reccer says: incredible teenage chris fic, captures all the angst and anger of being a teen in his situation, and the dynamic with both eddie and buck is pitch perfect.
8. two truths, one big-ass lie by collieflower (2.9k, General) Warnings: none
Where they're hosting the first party of the school year, and two truths/one lie is too easy a game for the Buckley-Diazes.
Reccer says: chris and his friends are so fun, and it's always a delight to see buck and eddie dealing with the teen sass of their kid! the buckley-diaz ability to make their ndes into fun trivia is also always excellent.
9. help is on the way (they said, they said) by donationwayne (@donationwayne) (6.7k, General) Warnings: Minor Injuries, Suicidal Ideation
The 118 venture up to Washington to help battle a wildfire. Buck gets his foot caught in a animal trap. Hen and Buck have a heart to heart about how Buck really feels about his best friend moving to Texas.
Reccer says: hen and buck are such a good pair, and this captures their dynamic so well! with a bonus of the other members of the firefam caring for each other.
10. Team Up for Fire Safety by CourtepointeClementine (@CourtepointeClementine) (17.8k, Teen) Warnings: none
Eddie has been parenting solo for a long time — except maybe he hasn’t? Maybe he doesn’t have to?
Reccer says: a really grounded take on buddie coparenting, incredibly nuanced and sweet and eddie you are such a moron i SWEAR.
11. it's all fun and games (and family) by becausebuckley (@becausebuckley) (8.2k, Teen) Warnings: none
five times buck plans a game night, and one time he's invited.
12. pick me, choose me, love me by trysetmeonfire (@try-set-me-on-fire) (8.3k, Teen) Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Injury
Eddie wants to scream. Eddie wants to talk to Buck. There are questions he should ask - Do you know when the bleeding started? How long has it been? How bad does it hurt? Are you injured anywhere else? There is a conversation he wants to have - If I leave you here I don’t know that you’ll be alive when I get back. There are protocols, in disaster situations. If you can only save one person, you save the one most likely to survive. Beyond protocol, you always fucking save the kid. Beyond that, it's our kid. It’s our fucking kid, it’s Christopher, and I am going to get him to the surface and in doing so I am going to leave you for dead. But it’s Buck, and they never really needed words to talk, and Buck is still looking at him, and Eddie knows what he'd say. He'd downplay the injury. He knows the protocol. And he’d already said it, damned him out loud, he’s going to take you back up top and then come back for me.
Reccer says: buckchris nde is always a hit, and this is such a good take on it with established relationship buddie!
13. coastal shelf by theundiagnosable (12k, Teen) Warnings: none
A fic which allows Shannon in death what she didn't get the chance to have in life -- a fully realized and individual personhood-- through the lens of a ghost watching the boys she left behind keep going and the family she lost keep growing.
Reccer says: I liked it!
14. candy bar by snowflake194 (@snowflake194) (1.4k, Teen) Warnings: none
In the immediate aftermath of Buck's kidnapping, Maddie finds the faith and strength to let someone else watch over her brother's hospital bedside.
Reccer says: I liked it!
14. what's waiting out there (we can never know) by Rehearsal_Dweller (@agentsnickers) (112.8k, General) Warnings: franker-than-canon discussion of Buck's canonical self-harm and suicidal tendencies (not very heavy though!)
At 22, Buck got one of his hookups pregnant and decided to keep the baby himself rather than let her be put up for adoption. At 26, he joined the 118. You know the rest, right?
Reccer says: This fic is so so so so wonderful, oh how i wish i could read it for the first time again!! A re-read will have to do <3 Lovely delicious slow burn canon rewrite with Buck and Eddie both as single dads weaving their family into one! Buck's OC kid is such a delight!
15. Exhibit B by Daisies_and_Briars (@cal-daisies-and-briars) (10.9k, Teen) Warnings: none
Seven years in the future, an adult Christopher has a chance to see his grandparents - and subsequently, his father - in a new light, on a family trip to El Paso.
Reccer says: This is a very interesting and nuanced take on the difficulties of family members having different relationships with one another, and growing up to realise that someone you love maybe doesn't treat the other people you love in a way that you can bear.
16. three clicks and i'm home by astrolesbian (9k, Teen) Warnings: none
eddie moves back to el paso. adriana tries to pick up where they left off fourteen years ago, with mixed results.
Reccer says: a true tour de force of sibling relationships, of the messiness of family dynamics, and of figuring out what your relationship is like now you've both grown up and apart
17. we're overdue for a revival by saintsnames (21.3k, General) Warnings: ableism, religious trauma
While in Texas, Chris starts going to healing services at the church.
Reccer says: This really grapples with ableism, religion, and trauma. On what it means to let someone else make choices in how to raise your child, especially if you realise too late that you disagree with the choices they make. It's aching and carefully written and painful and truly beautiful
18. I'll stand by you (won't let nobody hurt you) by heroic_pants (5.3k, General) Warnings: none
Maddie is there on the day Buck is born, and the day his daughter is. She can't help but compare the two.
Reccer says: This is soooo lovely! Makes me weep, but in the best way, just a perfect little microcosm into how much Maddie loves her little brother(s)
19. lonely little love dog by little ghost (@ghostlandtoo) (24k, Mature) Warnings: None
When the 118 is closed for reconstruction after an earthquake, Buck is a floater for different stations around the city. He tries not to let it get to him. Much.
Reccer says: this is one of the most aching, lonely, devastating fics in the fandom. you really feel the lack of ties, buck slowly floating into the ether, and how important the firefam is, how much they love and support each other
20. a cold world for such a long life by Daisies_and_Briars (@cal_Daisies_and_Briars) (12.9k, Teen) Warnings: none
Eddie befriends Bobby's estranged older brother in a virtual support group for queer adults struggling to come out. The only problem? He has no idea that's who Charlie is.
Reccer says: The difficulty of estranged relationships, of trying to mend broken bridges, of coming out to the people you love. Of making up for the hurt you've caused, and growing and bonding in your most vulnerable moments.
21. oh, come when you're called by lesbianrobin (@lesbianrobin) (8.3k, Teen) Warnings: none
Chris wants his dad. He wants his bed. But he can't have those yet, and he and Dad never really text because if Dad’s not working they’re usually together or one of them is too busy to text, so texting Dad feels weird, but Buck… He can text Buck.
Reccer says: Chris spends his time in El Paso thinking about his relationship with his dad, and his dad's relationship with his parents.
22. bashed out by ProsperDemeter (37.3k, Teen) Warnings: Minor character death, implied referenced canon self harm and suicidal tendencies
Margaret dies while Eddie's in El Paso with Chris, and Buck's not initially inclined to tell him.
Reccer says: A deeply painful and cathartic look at difficult family relationships and grief
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really in love with this fic just have to, you know, write it
A moment’s hesitation. Is it dishonoring Shannon to ignore this shade? Or is it dishonoring her to go talk to it, to her? The woman gives a sly grin that Eddie saw a hundred thousand times on Shannon’s face, and as she looks up, she makes direct eye contact with Eddie, and it softens into a different smile, into an expression he never thought he’d see again.
This has to be a sign from the gods. Eddie might not like to call on them, not if he can help it, was always taught it’s safer to escape their notice, but he knows better than to ignore their direct wishes. History is littered with examples of exactly why that’s dangerous, the knock on effects of hubris are myriad and world-changing. It doesn’t matter whether he wants to approach this woman, he has to.
“Hey, I’m going to hit the head, I’ll be right back,” he says, getting up from the table, and Chris and Marisol wave him off easily, chattering away.
He circles, just a little, walking up past the bathrooms, wending his way closer and closer to her shop. Throughout, as she talks to customers, she throws glances his way. It’s like she can’t help herself, finding him like it’s fated. Eddie feels outside his own body, like he’s in story, a myth of old.
It’s rare for the gods to bring people back from the dead, and he didn’t make the journey to the underworld himself, and besides, he can see she’s not Shannon. She’s just also not not Shannon.
one last time! if you wanna make me write more, you can
of course my darling, you know I'd never actually make you choose
He’s been woken up by pain before, though it’s been years now. You don’t forget what that feels like though. Pain so sharp it dulls again, a throbbing ache that makes up the backbone of your world. He lies there, panting through it, aching waves of pain that wash over him in rhythm.
It takes a little too long to realize an alarm is blaring as well. The pain sharpens in waves because there’s a loud noise screaming at him in those moments. It all seems very urgent for a guy who was sure he wasn’t waking up ever again.
He’s up and moving before he even realizes it, the nature of their training so drummed into them. You hear alarm, you start moving. It’s infinitely easier to fall back on training, to practically let autopilot take over, and focus on the realities of what this all means later.
once again, if you wanna make me write more, you can
As he approaches the pew with the 118 sitting in it, he can hear the susurrus of whispers around the room, and then clearer than any of the others by virtue of who’s talking, “So that’s him?”
“Yeah, Adriana,” says Eddie. “That’s him.”
“He seems sweet,” says Adriana.
“He can hear you,” says Eddie pointedly, and Buck has to stifle a little laugh.
“I’m not complaining,” he mutters, as he takes a seat between Maddie and Bobby.
“I’m sure,” says Eddie dryly, and in the same moment Bobby asks, “What was that?” so Buck has to focus up.
“Oh, nothing, just talking to myself,” says Buck airily. “How are you doing?”
Bobby looks like he’s aged years in the few days since the hit and run.
Buck pauses, hyper aware that they have a much larger audience than Maddie could know. It can’t hurt to remind everyone here that he’s on good terms with the head of their pack.
“Yeah,” he says after a moment. “We met after she broke her leg, she cooks the best enchiladas I’ve ever had.” As they get closer to the front, and he sees how incredibly stiff looks up ahead, he adds, “She loves Eddie and Chris more than anything.” Up ahead, he sees Eddie soften just a little at the reminder.
“I’m glad,” says Maddie, “And it’s nice to see so many of his family flew out for this as well.”
“Yeah,” says Buck, tries to be as neutral as he can be. “They’re a close family, for all that they’re across multiple states.”
A beat of silence, and Buck thinks for a brief moment about the difference between the Diaz pack and his own. Between the fact that the Diazes might not have approved of Shannon in a variety of ways, but so many of them are here to show their love and support for Eddie and Chris despite that. Between the unshakeable fact that his own pack can only really rely on the people in this room, and Athena Grant, who was working today. The 118 has almost inadvertently collected people who don’t really have anywhere else to turn, who don’t have a strong support system. They’re a close knit group, and there’s a reason for that.
as everrrrr if you wanna make me write more, you can
okay so let's start with a lil snippet from pt 2 of canine teeth
“Evancito,” says Isabel, from just inside the entrance, “It is good to see you.” She pulls him close, drops a kiss on each cheek, and Buck can feel his own shoulders relaxing. “Thank you for coming,” she says, earnest, as she holds him by each shoulder.
“Nowhere else I’d want to be,” says Buck earnestly. “Here, let me introduce you to my sister, Maddie, and our coworkers, Chimney, Hen, her wife Karen, and our Captain, Bobby.”
“It’s a pleasure to meet you all,” says Isabel, “Eddie is up at the front with Christopher, I’m sure he’ll be glad to see you all.”
“She seems nice,” says Maddie in an undertone as they walk up the aisle towards Eddie and Chris.
“Isabel?” asks Buck, “Oh yeah, she’s the best.”
“Didn’t realize you knew his grandmother so well,” says Maddie thoughtfully.
and then as a bonus! also doing make me write!
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🐺 - canine teeth (in the side of my neck) - season 2 electric boogaloo
🪐 - the stars look very different today - martian au will return from the war
🌱 - put down roots - s7 era curse au
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lavonte finishing that conversation with maya by doing a lil shovel talk for coming in between him and his boy bestie….. my guy you are simply never going to beat the allegations
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