Having Thoughts™️ about Buck & Tommy having a pride garden flag. To represent them but also to let others know they’re accepted. Like a big queer beacon. This leads to them taking in a queer teenage kid who was kicked out of the house.
Tommy wasn’t sure he ever saw himself having kids but this is different. He reminds Tommy a lot of himself at that age. Angry, full of confusing and conflicting feelings, needing someone who understood him.
Tommy wants to protect him and helps facilitate conversations with his parents. Even though every time ends in Tommy wanting to punch a wall. Unsurprisingly, the parents don’t budge. Not the aunts, uncles, or grandparents either. No one seems to want to claim this kid. It breaks Tommy and Evan’s hearts.
They keep fighting for him. Evan takes him around the firehouse, Tommy takes him up in the bird sometimes. He accompanies them to every cookout at Bobby and Athena’s.
It shouldn’t surprise Tommy the night the words slip out of his mouth. They’re both in bed, reading before sleep when it escapes.
“We should just adopt him already.”
Evan snaps his Kindle case shut and turns cautiously. Tommy prepares for a litany of reasons why not even though he’s sure Evan has already been working up to the same conversation. A soft grin slowly spreads across his husband’s lips.
“I thought you’d never ask.”
