Lou’s Lips Sink Ships

And if we don’t live forever Maybe one day we’ll trade places

ohohoho YES

okay this is the title for the buddie x-files AU I’m never going to write

Instead of Samantha, something happened to Daniel, and Buck finds out about it in college and—since it’s Buck—that’s kind of what spurs his conspiratorial thinking and he cuts contact with his parents. Bobby is Skinner reskinned, Hen and Chim are maybe the Lone Gunmen but I guess add in Ravi? Maybe Karen and Maddie?

This is a longfic, very well-plotted with a lot of twists and turns, and veeeeeeery slow burn. I don’t think I’d want a plot analogous to the show so I’d come up with some conspiracy of my own somehow tangentially related to aliens and fires. Can’t spoil it here tho !!! (lol. lmao even.)

IMPORTANTLY !!! This is the most vital part of the fic okay. Eddie wears white button up shirts left open at least one too many buttons and the gold cross is always visible. As slutty as possible while adhering to the fire bureau of investigation’s stringent dress code. Also Buck’s suits are always ill-fitting and slightly too big. The man is huge !!! Where is he shopping !!! Someone buy him a suit that fits. (Bobby help him out here)

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*claps hands* letters! It's epistolary time! Partly under cut for length.

We're gonna fudge the timeline a little bit: Buck nicking the ladder truck for hookups happens almost simultaneously with Tommy absconding with the water drop plane. Let's say Buck reverted to his 1.0 habits post-Abby?

Because consequences apply when and only when we want them to, just like in canon they don't get sacked on the spot. They do, however, get hearings to decide their fate.

So they turn up for their respective hearings, all done-up in their dress blues. Tommy is stoic and unrepenting (he helped save a kid and a firefighter, he will not apologize for that), Buck is contrite and defensive. And who should they run into in the hallway but eachother?

There's some ribbing from Tommy ('kid, if you're going to abuse the uniform to get laid, i hear there's perfectly servicable storage closets in most fire houses instead'), but they get along quickly. Especially once they figure out their paths crossed at Doheny Park. "That was you?!" "Oh shit, you're Howie's probie, aren't you."

The conversations flows so smoothly it almost makes them forget, for a few moments, both their jobs are on the line. Just before they're both called in, Buck snags Tommy's phone and puts in his own number and, for good measure, also the hotmail address he's had since he was 15 and hasn't actually used since arriving in LA.

"Let me know how it went, okay? You saved our asses, if there's anything i can do..." Buck says. He's looking endearingly out of place, with the boyish charm of his smile at odds with the stark lines of the formal uniform.

Tommy is a little helpless in the spotlight of Full Force Buck, so he promises to check in. Word will get back to Howie this way and Tommy hadn't planned on telling him any of this, but fuck, this guy Evan has a really nice smile.

They both get slapped with a suspension. Without knowing it about the other, they both decide they need some time away from the LAFD and LA in general, and go do some light roadtripping. Buck is going back south with a vague idea to see if Peru has changed since he left, Tommy is headed, slowly and meanderingly, towards Canada. He grew up in the cold and wants to see if he can still stand it like he used to, which is not a metaphor, oh no, not at all.

Tommy Kinard very fun to draw☺️

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I have the most perfect idea for this, @nine-one-wanton 🤭

This would be a fic that travels through years of yearning, starting with Tommy only working at a restaurant as a waiter at this point. Every month, he sees this customer coming in, always ordering the same thing and always showing up alone. Tommy learns that his name is Evan Buckley, and he is immediately captured by his energy when he asks questions about the food and what wine pairs well with it. It doesn't take long at all for Tommy to fall for this frequent costumer.

There are some days when Evan shows up alone. Others when he's bringing a date, sometimes the same date more than once in one particular year. Other times, he brings his sister and her husband and kid, and then Evan shows up alone again, and he chats with Tommy whenever he's in his vicinity. Tommy learns that Evan is a firefighter, and Tommy in turn tells him that when he has the time, which isn't very often now, he likes to fly on his helicopter. The suggestion to take him on a ride is on the tip of his tongue, but never leaves his mouth even as Evan looks at him most earnestly.

Time goes by. Evan brings another date the next four years. The lucky woman shows off her ring in one occasion, and Tommy congratulates the couple and swallows the sting down his throat as he goes to get them a bottle of champagne on the house, unaware of Evan's gaze following him.

More time goes by and... Evan stops showing up. Tommy thinks that maybe it's for the best and moves on with his life. He co-owns the restaurant with Lucy by now. He's dating more seriously now, but gets cheated on, and he finds himself working harder than ever.

It's just before closing time when someone shows up, and Tommy is about to tell the costumer that they're about to close, and stops himself when he sees Evan. It's been almost 2 years since he last saw him, and he looks just as beautiful as ever. Just sadder.

They sit down and Evan tells him that his engagement ended and his captain died shortly after, and his life has been a mess. Tommy makes them food. Something easy. He brings out some wine and Evan then tells him that the engagement had been a mistake. Tommy doesn't pry, and he doesn't need to, because Evan asks him if he's seeing someone.

"Not anymore," he says and that earns him a small, beautiful, heart-thundering smile from Evan.

"I'd like to change that," he says, and reaches out a hand to place it on top of Tommy's, and Tommy doesn't dare to blink in case this is a dream.

Evan tells him that he used to come here for the food, but at some point, the food stopped being the reason and he just didn't realize why until he had seen the hurt look on Tommy's face when they had announced the engagement. It had all fallen into place, and Taylor had clocked it, and then tragedy happened, and Evan's focus was elsewhere, understandably.

Tommy can't believe what he's hearing, but he squeezes Evan's hand in his and tells him that he'd love to take up on the offer to change if he's seeing someone, and Evan smiles brightly.

Just a pass-by visit to Daddy Buck at the station after picking up Theo from school☺️

A quick snack and an eternal memory that Tommy will now cherish forever🥹

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Immediately thought of Tommy teaching Buck Muy Thai... except while Buck doesn't know Muy Thai... he's actually a really decent boxer. So he takes Tommy by surprise the first time and manages to pin him to the mat ;)

Tommy is very shocked but then incredibly turned on. "I forfeit."

tie your man down with your red string of fate

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I fear this would be another tommy character study about how he makes himself into whoever he needs to to survive. I always joke about tommy's fight or flight response being flight, but what if it's fawn? when he says gerrard is a lot like his dad, does that mean he acted the same way at home as he did in gerrard's 118?

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