now in chronological order, for historical purposes:
2025
7 Jul - Lou answered a cameo about Tommy saying "You deserve more Tommy, and I will try my damndest to make it happen"
27 Jul - Lou followed Corinne on IG
13 Aug - Elijah and Corinne are announced as new mains & 911's IG account followed Elijah
17 Aug - Lou answered another cameo message about Tommy
20 Aug - Lou followed abc's casting account on IG
25 Aug - 911's set photographer, Chris Willard, followed Lou (and several of 911's cast members)
1 Set - Lou followed abc's IG account
4 Set - Shanna, Lou's sister, shared to her IG stories (out of the blue) one of 911's bts videos featuring Lou
2 Oct - Lou answered a cameo message about bucktommy
3 Oct (or around this time) - Lou liked a 911 bts photo shared by RG (one from a scene where Buck will also be in, probably discussing his love life)
8 Oct - Lou liked Kenny's post about 911's cast
2nd week Oct - Shannon Ryan Bornheimer, Disney's President of Marketing, followed Lou (and Kenny, Elijah and Corinne) on IG
14 Oct - Lou wished a happy birthday to a 911 crew member on IG
15 Oct - Lou liked a 911 bts video of the sound crew & a 911 bts video posted by Kenny
17 Oct - Lou liked a 911's post about the just aired episode
22 Oct - Lou followed 911's set photographer, Chis Willard
27 Oct - Lou liked a 911 IG bts post about the opening emergency
5 Nov - Lou followed Shannon Ryan Bornheimer, Disney's President of Marketing, on IG
8 Dec - Lou replies to a Cameo message about Tommy with "keep your eyes peeled".
2026
between 8 and 15 of January: Lou liked a 911 IG post captioned "Absolute cinema. Been a blast chatting with you all, much love! TUNE IN TO THE NEW EP TONIGHT š¤š½ -AP". this episode had two Tommy mentions: one by Ravi (saying Buck is single by Tommy's choice) and another by Buck ("I haven't felt anything real since Tommy.")
16 Jan - Lou replied to a cameo message about Tommy, saying "clearly Tommy is still alive" and "Hopefully Buck and Tommy's paths cross again"
16 Jan - Lou left a comment saying "This is so beautiful! š" on a bucktommy edit video on youtube.
17 Jan - Lou left a like on a 911's IG post about the 9x08 episode where the captions reads "We're in for a wild ride"
28 Feb - Lou left a comment on a 911 IG post with Julie Murray - showing the make up department at work behind the scenes.
04 Mar - Lou unfollowed Oliver Stark on instagram
16 Mar (or around that date) - the actor A.J. Castro, that played a FBI agent on the 8x15 episode ("Lab Rats"), followed Lou on instagram.
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Written on my lunch break based loosely on something that happened in my office waiting room this morning. Counting this as my participation in Writing Wednesday as tagged by @corporatebanana and @devirnis. If anyone else is sharing you should tag me also I love to be nosy and see things!!!!!
Tommy doesn't get many FaceTime calls. Usually it's one of Sal's daughters, using his phone to show off an achievement or an injury. Occasionally it's Lucy when she's shopping for Harbor's snack cubpard and they don't have the specific brand of pretzels he likes and she needs him to pick an alternative.
So when Tommy answers his phone on instinct while working in his garage, he's shocked when a face fills up the screen. He's even more shocked that the face belongs to a little boy, one who's brow is scrunched up in confusion.
"You're not a game," he says somewhat petulantly. And loudly, the volume making Tommy move the phone further away from his face.
"No, I am not," Tommy confirms, now squinting at the screen to try and see who's calling him. "Sorry, kid."
"Theo, please give me the phone back," a strained voice calls out from off screen. A very familiar voice, one that means this whole situation makes even less sense than it did before.
"But the lady said to play a game on my Daddy's phone while you did boring grown up stuff," the boy who is apparently Theo yells out, just as loud as before. It's the same way that Evan's voice used to rise in volume when he got excited about something. "Who's 'Daddy?'" he asks just as Evan's face enters into frame, turning a furious red at the question.
"Um," he says, refusing to look at Tommy at all. He's crouching down, some sort of desk behind him and Theo, and Tommy thinks he can hear a phone ringing in the background. "J-just let me see the phone and I'll pull up a game for you, okay?"
"No I don't wanna play a game anymore," Theo whines. He apparently still has custody of the phone, Tommy's view blurring as he shakes the phone in his little hands. "I wanna talk to funny eyebrow man."
"Well mister, uh. Tommy is probably really busy right now soā"
"I'm not busy," Tommy finds himself saying. He tells himself that he keeps the call going just out of curiosity, a burning desire to find out what in the fresh hell has been happening in his absence. Deep down, though, he knows it's because he's never been able to see an Evan Buckley in need and not jump in to help.
From somewhere to the side, Tommy hears Buck sigh deeply. "Theo you can talk to Tommy while you wait for me to fill out paperwork, but only if you use your inside voice. Deal?"
Theo nods solemnly, phone moving with his head. "Deal," he says, in what is clearly a small child's impression of a whisper.
"Theo, did you know that I fly helicopters?" Tommy asks, making sure to keep his voice quiet. Just as he suspected, Theo's face lights up in excitement as he turns to face the screen again. Next to him, Tommy can just barley catch Evan standing back up.
"Woah," Theo says, bouncing a little. His hair looks sort of like Buck's does when he first wakes up in the morning. Tommy isn't sure what to think about that.
He and Theo talk about helicopters for maybe five minutes while Buck presumably fills out paperwork behind him, and Tommy only has to suggest they both talk a little quieter one time. Just like Evan, Theo seems to lock in on things he finds fascinating, and Tommy is half way through listing out the various instruments inside a helicopter when Evan ducks back down again.
"Alright, bud, the boring stuff is over but we still have to wait a little bit before the doctor comes to grab us. They receptionist says there are some toys and books in the waiting room, if you want to go play with those?" He says it almost hopefully, like he's worried that Theo is as interested in Tommy as he used to be, and that Evan will never get his phone back.
Theo shakes his head emphatically. "Nooooo, funny eyebrow man is telling my about the click click."
"Cyclic," Tommy corrects gently. "But that was pretty close. You'll be up in the air in no time."
Buck drops his head, sighing in defeat. "You can keep talking while we wait, as long as you stay quiet and hang up when the doctor comes." Apparently, Evan has yet to learn his lesson about bargaining with a kid.
"Yay!" Theo cries, drawing out the word, and pretty soon the sound of tiny sneakers running on linoleum fills the speaker as Theo bounces over to the main waiting room. Evan offers to hold the phone while he climbs onto the seat, but Theo insists on doing it himself, and pretty soon Tommy finds himself getting interrogated once more.
He can see Evan's arm in the corner of the screen, and Tommy tries not to spend the entire call staring at where the sleeve of his shirt wraps tightly around his bicep. After several more minutes of chatting, Tommy hears Theo's name called out, and the little boy groans, slumping in his chair.
"Hey," Evan says, leaning over. "Remember what I said? We have to say goodbye now because the doctor is ready for us."
Theo's pout is on full display, something else that looks achingly familiar to Tommy. "But I don't wanna!"
"Theo you promised you would hang up when it was time to see the doctor." Evan reaches for the phone but Theo pulls it away. "Whatā¦um. M-maybe we can call Tommy again later, after the doctor?" Tommy can't see Evan's face, but he can certainly imagine it.
Curious, Theo looks between the phone and Evan. "Can we?" he asks, directing his queation to Tommy.
"Or," Tommy says. "Maybe we could see each other in person sometime. I could show you what a real helicopter looks like."
"Really?" Theo is practically vibrating out of his seat now.
"Yeah, but you have to hang up and go see the doctor first."
"Okay!" Theo agrees happily, and before Tommy can say anything else the call ends.
Tommy blinks at the dark screen for a few moments, half expecting to get a call back, but when nothing happens he sets his phone down again and tries to focus back on the oil change he had started 20 minutes ago.
An hour later, his phone dings again, this time with a text.
Did you mean it Evan had asked him.
Yes Tommy sends back immediately.
At least, I meant what I said about taking Theo to see a helicopter.
He hesitates a moment before sending one final text. Some other things I've said in the pastā¦I might not have meant those.
Tommy has just started to bite his nails, a habit he thought he kicked decades ago, when his phone screen lights back up.
Good the text reads.
And then: Me too.
And finally: Are you free Saturday?
The sigh Tommy lets out feels like one that he's been holding in for over a year, and he doesn't think he's imagining the tension leaving his shoulders. I am he texts back.
Evan reacts to the message with a thumbs up, and then moments later changes it to a heart. Tommy's own skips a beat.
Sounds like a plan is the response. This time, Tommy reacts with a heart straight away.
There's no other messages after, and he figures Evan is probably somewhere wrangling a small child, if he had to guess. Tommy sets his phone down, whistling while he finishes up the maintenance on his truck. For the first time in a long time, he's got something to look forward to this weekend.
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I like finding out what people my age and older had as their first cell phone. Anybody younger and their answer is a generic Android or iPhone. Phones from the 2000s were some wacky device like the sidekick or samsung x83 or lg env2
I used to really like Buddie, and even during the Tommy/Evan phase, I used to think about how Buddie could come true without hurting Tommy. But then Tommy and Buck had that terrible breakup scene, and then Bobby died, and there was that kitchen fight. I don't get it - after that, everyone just seemed to forget about the fight in the kitchen, forgot that Eddie never really apologized to Buck for it, and everyone just naturally chose to forgive Eddie for his bad behavior at the time, like it wasn't a big deal. But that scene really made me give up on Buddie completely - it was just too bad.
I fell in love with Tommy right away so I was torn for a little while, but then a part of the buddie fandom started acting in such a toxic way for anyone even daring to like Tommy that I quickly lost any affection for the buddie ship.
but, if that hadn't happened, I'd be right there with you, anon. that was an awful scene. I physically recoiled watching it, it really triggered me and I couldn't understand why (I mean, I have been on the receiving end of that type of violent threat so I do understand why it might affect me, but) I'm used to seeing this type of violence portrayed on screen and it had never felt this real to me before. days later I finally knew the reason why: Buck's reaction to Eddie shoving him was Oliver's real reaction to Ryan's unrehearsed acting choice. Oliver didn't know it was going to be played like that and he was caught off guard - for a split second he actually thought he might be punched. it was real, so it felt real to me too.
the way Eddie spoke and acted during that scene made me profoundly dislike him and have zero interest in his and Buck's friendship (if we even can call it that, when Buck is always there to help and Eddie is always there to berate and dismiss Buck's struggles).
