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🌻 Multi-chapter Fics 🌻
You deserve peace, you deserve healing 42k • 11 Chapters
Summary: Following TK after the events of the finale episode. TK struggles to balance his injury and addiction as he returns to work, persuading everyone he is fine when in fact he is the complete opposite.
Stay in my arms or must I imagine you there. 5.8k • 2 Chapters
Summary: 5 times TK refused to sleep without Carlos by his side and 1 time he had to.
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. 11k • 6/6 Chapters
Summary: Sometimes TK still found it hard to believe this was his home, and that he was lucky enough to share it with his fiancé. TK smiled as the word filled his mind; fiancé.
🌻 Single chapter Fics 🌻
Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice 2.7k • 1 Chapter
Summary: TK tries to deal with the consequences of Sadies actions while trying to decide how to move forward.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end. 3.6k • 1 Chapter
Summary: A series of snapshots following Iris and Carlos's disappearances and how TK tries to find the man he loves and reconcile with the fact that their perfect life had once again been shattered.
False hope is a terrible thing, if it's the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn. 1.7k • 1 Chapter
Summary: Following the end of 4.04, as TK continue to blame himself, Nancy provides TK with some advice.
I've heard of a love that comes once in a lifetime and I'm pretty sure that you are that love of mine. 5.1k • 1 Chapter
Summary: 5+1: Five times TK borrowed Carlos's clothes and one time Carlos borrowed TK's
I’d give up forever to touch you. 2k • 1 Chapter
Summary: A 3.03 coda which picks up right after the episode finishes where we see Carlos deal with the idea of losing TK.
There is comfort in knowing, no matter what happens today, the sun will rise tomorrow. 3.6k • 1 Chapter
Summary: After his parents arguing gets too much, TK seeks comfort in Carlos. “Can I sleep here tonight?” + hurt/comfort.
Stay close to people who feel like sunshine. 1.2k • 1 Chapter
Summary: Written for a discord flash fic writing challenge: 20 minutes to write and the prompt was: "I let you down" + the word "Savor"
TK attends a call which brings back feelings and memories he had buried deep. After, Carlos and Tommy provide TK with some words of advice and comfort.
You make me want to enjoy life tomorrow 5.5k • 1 Chapter
Summary: A coda for 1x03 with tarlos at the police station; this fic looks at Carlos's reaction to TK being arrested and his perspective during their conversation. After their talk, Carlos offers to drive TK home and learns a little bit more about the man he's pretty sure he's already fallen for.
Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark 3.2k • 1 Chapter
Summary: TK and Carlos struggle after losing everything in the fire, including their feeling of safety. Grace and Judd offer some words of advice and support to the boys.
Do all things with love. 3.7k • 1 Chapter
Summary: TK is looking forward to his first Christmas with Carlos but work threatens to ruin their plans.
🌻 Bad Thing Happens Bingo 🌻
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today. 3.7k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo
Summary: TK had gone to his parents for advice, not to have them turn the conversation into another argument. Broken-hearted over his fight with Carlos, TK finally tells his parents how their behaviour has made him feel. Later TK seeks advice from Paul about how to fix things with Carlos.
fear is the relinquishment of logic, but so it seems is love. 5.7K • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Used as bait + Tarlos.
Summary: Someone from Carlos's past comes looking for revenge and stumbles upon TK Strand. After a long day, Carlos comes home expecting to find his boyfriend curled up on their sofa but instead, he finds an empty house and a pool of blood.
Sometimes out of chaos comes clarity. 4.3k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Withholding medical treatment + Tarlos
Summary: Carlos was stuck inside the bank, bleeding out. TK was outside doing everything he could to get inside, but once inside would TK be able to help or just be forced to watch the man he loved slip away.
Tomorrow is another day. 3.4k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo "Crying into the chest” + Tarlos
Summary: The 126 lose a member of their family on a call and TK struggles to deal with it.
Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind. 11k • 2/3 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Flashbacks + Tarlos
Summary: There hadn't been many places that had made TK feel safe, made him feel at home. But Carlos's house had, wrapped up in bed with the man he loved TK had managed to find a home that made him feel loved and safe.
Now TK was staring at the charred and broken remains of that home and the man he loved was in a coma, doctors unsure if he would awake.
Would you come home? 2.2k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo "Voice-breaking” + Tarlos.
Summary: Coda to 911 Lone Star 2x03: after learning about the helicopter crash and the commander's refusals to send a rescue team, TK calls Carlos for support (essentially me sprinkling some tarlos h/c on this episode)
Stop fighting yourself and start fighting for yourself. 6.9k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo "What have I done” + Tarlos.
Summary: After losing Tim, then nearly his dad in the helicopter crash and now finding out his mom's pregnancy could endanger her life TK's couldn't stop seeing the danger around him and those he cared about. Wanting to numb the pain TK falls back into bad habits.
With every breath hope rises. 5.7k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Punctured lung + Tarlos
Summary: While on a call together, TK stays behind to try and find a kid trapped inside a house. Outside, Carlos watches as the house collapse, no sign of TK and the boy anywhere.
Stuck underground TK fights to stay awake and breathing, on the surface Carlos does everything he can to bring TK home.
My home is next to you. 4.4k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo trail of blood + Tarlos
Summary: After getting injured on a job TK patches himself up confident it is a minor injury and everything is fine. Hours later Carlos comes home to find a trail of blood throughout his house and TK is nowhere to be found.
I can't breathe until you're resting here with me 8.7 • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Slammed into a wall + Tarlos
Summary: The screeching of metal on metal fill the truck, the noise bouncing off every surface, burrowing into TK's ears and penetrating his mind.
The breath was ripped from his lungs, and nothing was left but emptiness and a deep aching spreading across his whole chest. The screeching halted; a resounding thud and crash cut through the air. The blurry scene before him turned to darkness.
How do you go on after you lose everything: Take a breath, then another. 3.5k • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Never got to say goodbye
Summary: This picks up right after 3.07 and looks at how TK and Carlos react to Gwen's death and how they both find some comfort in the other.
Panic is like a weed it doesn't need watering it just grows 5.2 • 1 Chapter • Bad Thing Happens Bingo Clawing at own throat + Tarlos
Summary: While waiting at the hospital for his dad to come out of surgery, TK receives some distressing news and must make a choice he's not sure he can make.
🌻 911LS Angst Week 🌻
I believe in something, I believe in us 4.5k • 1 Chapter • 911 angst week ● Day 1: Emotional whump + “How do we fix this?”
Summary: TK wants to move in with Carlos and is about to ask him when he receives some advice from his father that sends him spiralling, causing him to doubt everything he thought.
forgot to tell you i'm someone else now 2.8k • 1 Chapter • 911 angst week ● Day 2: Physical whump + “Does it hurt badly?”
Summary: TK just wanted to feel something, anything that wasn't the emptiness in his chest. A fistfight in a bar leads TK to a new way of dealing with the emptiness that changes his life forever
I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. 2.7k • 1 Chapter • 911 angst week ● Day 3: Coda / fix-it fic
summary: During a weekly 126 hang out, Mateo lets slip that TK once called Alex his soul mate and he proposed to him before they broke up. TK spends the rest of the evening believing Carlos is angry TK never told him about the proposal, but the truth is far more heartbreaking than TK could have imagined. Yet the small heartbreak and confusion makes TK realise something he should have long along, and maybe something he did know along.
Everything sounds sweeter from your lips. 6k • 1 Chapter • 911 angst week ● Day 5: Mental health + “I’m so tired of feeling like this.”
Summary: 5 times TK hated being called Tyler and one time he didn't mind
Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? 4k • 1 Chapter • 911 angst week ● Day 7: Free choice
Summary: Alex comes to Texas to apologise to TK and to clear the air, a reluctant TK agrees to hear him out but gets more than he bargains for when Alex drops a bomb that TK could have never predicted.
🌻 TK Strand Week 2020 🌻
Go for a good heart. 1.5k • 1 Chapter • TK Strand Week 2020 • Day 1: Prompt: “You're so cute when you pout.”
Summary: Carlos comforts TK after he is not allowed on a call due to his healing injury.
All is not what it seems. 1.7k • 1 Chapter • TK Stand Week 2020 • Day 2: Prompt: "Wait are you jealous?"
Summary: Someone TK knew from New York comes to visit and Carlos ponders how the two know each other when the truth is revealed it's not what he was expecting.
Nothing lasts forever. 2.4k • 1 Chapter • TK Strand Week 2020 • Day 3 Prompt: “I can’t believe you dragged me into this.” + friendship
summary: After seeing that TK is overwhelmed with work and his dad's illness Judd decided to take him horse riding, much to the dismay of TK.
It's okay not to know. 1.6 • 1 Chapter • TK Strand Week 2020 • Day 4 Prompt: “I’m proud of you.” + future
Summary: TK shares an important milestone in his life with Carlos and looks towards their future
🌻 AU 🌻 All along there was some invisible string tying you to me. 7.9k • 1 Chapter • AU Meeting while waiting for hours on end in the emergency room
Summary: TK just wanted his dad to be okay; strike that, he needed his dad to be okay. He also needed to know more about the man that had managed to pull him back from the edge of a complete breakdown. For now, his name would be enough, and that TK knew; Carlos Reyes. With nothing to do but spiral, TK meets someone that makes moving to Austin seem more like fate than a punishment.
Life is but a strand of happy accidents 14k • 4/? Chapter • AU
Summary: An alternative first meeting of Carlos and TK + Bartender!Carlos and Paramedic!TK
After all of the years, all of the tears, you are here somehow. 61k • 12 Chapters • AU Bodyguard!Carlos and Witness!TK.
Summary: Carlos took a breath, a polite smile on his face, “TK Strand, right?” He greeted, “Look I know this isn’t ideal-” “Ideal?” The man interrupted, “What, spending the next month in the middle of nowhere with strangers?” TK scoffed, shaking his head, “No this is perfect,” He mocked.
I see forever in your eyes, I feel okay when I see you smile 8.7k • 3/? • AU Each genuine emotion your soulmate expresses to you adds colour to your world
Summary: “You can see it too?” TK choked, his eyes never leaving the sole colour in the room.
“It’s red,” Carlos said, looking over at TK
🌻 Dealing with grief 🌻 There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.3.5k •1 Chapter • Grief
Summary: TK tries to balance moments of joy with grief/guilt following the months after his mother's passing.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on 2.8k • 1 Chapter • Grief
Summary: TK struggles with telling the people closest to him the real reason he opened the narcotics safe the day of his mother's funeral.
Now I have to remember you for longer than I have known you 3.1k • 1 Chapter • Grief
Summary: Based of this prompt I received: "Sad TK...what about Gwyn's first birthday after her death?"
TK tries to balance moments of joy with grief/guilt following the months after his mother's passing.
