36. demisexual. chronic illness. fandoms including 9-1-1, bucktommy, Game Changers, Teen Wolf, and Supernatural. NSFW sometimes. lots of gayness and shipping. chubby love. feminism.
hello ed. if you're still taking au prompts, how about a bucktommy/saltommy/salbucktommy (im not picky) au where one of them is a lifeguard? dealers choice on whether the other(s) is ALSO a lifeguard, a regular civilian, or still a firefighter
Okay so this is......gonna be kind of twee, sorry. It's mostly SalTommy with some SBT crumbs thrown in at the end.
1. Tommy been lifeguarding since he was 16. He's good at it, he takes it seriously, he's had to save a few people over the last few years. He's a college freshman at UCLA on a scholarship and grants. He's in the aerospace program, because he hadn't wanted to join the military and go back into the closet, not after what he risked by coming out in senior year. He'd basically lived on his friend's couch and even his car, because he'd turned 18 and the state couldn't take care of him even if he was in high school. It had been a good basis for an admissions essay, at least. So he's in a dorm and he works as a lifeguard at UCLA, because he was able to get the job easily as someone needing financial aid and with his experience level.
2. Sal is a junior Labor Studies major at UCLA. He's tired of doing the same stuff at the Fitness Center on campus, so he takes a stab at one of the recreation pools. He sees a built water polo type lifeguarding, and she's scanning the pool intently. There's a handful of people there, because it's a warm day, but it's a Thursday. People usually have class, so he'd almost expected it to be empty. Sal jumps into the pool and starts doing laps. When he stops and hooks his elbows over the side, he looks over at the lifeguard stand and does a double take. Water polo chick has been replaced by a hot beefcake who looks more like a football player than a swimmer (Tommy at freshly 19 would be nearly the size Lou was at that age, so...big). He's also scanning the pool, but his eyes pause on Sal when he hauls himself out. Rubbing himself down with a towel, he approaches the stand. "It ever get busy around here on the weekends?" Sal asks casually. "We can't get distracted on shift," the lifeguard says flatly. "Mm, my bad," Sal says. "Hopefully I'll see you around when you can get...distracted." He's proud of himself for that one as he walks away. When he looks over his shoulder, the lifeguard is glancing at him and flushes when he gets caught.
3. They run into each other at B Plate a couple days later. Well, Sal sees Tommy building a monster salad and sidles up next to him. "Didn't recognize you with a shirt on," Tommy says, smiling to himself. "Didn't know you were looking," Sal lies, following Tommy to a line for tri-tip. "Just doing my job," Tommy says. They sit together by a window, and Sal flirts with Tommy relentlessly. Tommy flirts back, but he's a little dry and subdued about it. When Sal asks him what he's studying, he's surprised to find out he's a freshman. He asks him if he wants to go into Westwood to catch a movie. Tommy pokes at his salad for a moment and looks across the table, looking too shy for a guy his size. "You asking me out?" he asks. "Absolutely," Sal says, grinning.
4. Tommy hasn't been on a real date with a guy ever. He's fooled around, he sort of had a boyfriend but not really because they'd just made out a few times and hung out at each other's houses, but when they got caught by Tommy's dad, the guy had bolted and broke things off because he was afraid of his parents finding out. Tommy had doubled down and gotten kicked out for it, over a guy who wouldn't even want to be seen in public with him. Sal does. They walk down from campus and stand between the theaters in Westwood and look between them. "What do you want to see?" Sal asks. They'd both already watched all of the "cool" stuff that was out, because Tommy had always liked spending a day in a theater as a way to stay out of his house. He spends his free time at school doing the same thing. They end up seeing some romantic Christmas movie, and Tommy kind of loves it. He actually really loves it. And Sal holds his hand halfway through and doesn't let go, eating popcorn with his other hand. After, they walk and talk about it. Sal thought the guy with the signs was a dick for doing that to his buddy, Tommy didn't understand how the hell the secretary was supposed to be fat, because guess what movie came out December 2003? Love, Actually, babyyyyy. It's Tommy's favorite because it was their first date. (Revenge of the Sith is his favorite because it's the one they went and saw after they decided to move in together right before Sal graduates.)
5. Tommy lives in a dorm, Sal lives in a student apartment across the street. He has two roommates, but one is in chem labs all the time and never there and the other one is always with his girlfriend who lives in La Brea. So he asks Tommy if he wants to come up, and they end up giving each other mediocre but fun blowjobs. When Sal goes to the pool again, he catches Tommy's eye and smiles and winks, and Tommy flushes before continuing to scan. He flirts as much as he can get away with, and Tommy calls him a liability. Except a girl has a seizure in the water one day, and Tommy's in and getting her before Sal can blink. Tommy turns into a different person in a crisis, sure and steady and commanding. Sal is using his cell phone to call 911 and takes over CPR when Tommy switches out to give specific details to the operator. When the girl is on a gurney and being loaded into an ambulance to go to the ER across from campus, Sal squeezes Tommy's hand and watches the groggy, shaking girl until the doors close. They have life affirming/that was hot how you took charge/oh my god I love you sex that night.
6. They're talking about living together by the time Sal graduates. He opts to go to the fire academy because of the near drowning incident, realizing that helping people in that way means something to him. But he gets involved with the union, too, bringing his educational background into it. When he gets an apartment, Tommy moves with him. He ends up in graduate school and then gets hired at Polytechnic Applied Astrophysics Laboratory. He learns to fly, gets his pilot's license, and it helps at his job. He ends up on a team with Dr. Karen Wilson, and they talk about being with a firefighter. He and Sal go to their place for dinner, and Sal and Hen get to talking about their stations. Sal doesn't like his, he feels like they're just using him as a body. She encourages him to transfer but warns him about Gerrard if he's going to pick her station, because Sal and Tommy weren't there to start the reporting process so he's there a little longer. They hatch a scheme to use the union to leverage getting him the hell out of there. So Sal comes into the station, seemingly fitting in with the rest of Gerrard's sycophants, and he and Hen work together to get him terminated from the LAFD. It works, he's not just transferred.
7. Sometimes Tommy misses being a lifeguard. He misses helping people, misses knowing he's the one keeping people safe. He debates being a firefighter, because he can become a pilot for them. He talks to someone at Harbor and signs up. "You'll be the most overqualified firefighter anyone's ever seen," Sal says. "But I'm proud of you, baby." So Tommy is a probie at Harbor. And then a firefighter, and then he's a pilot. He's on ground crew when there's a call from a lifeguard on duty at a swim school. There's a kid that passed out in the pool. Tommy rolls in and gets hit with the familiar smell of chlorine. The lifeguard is firing off information as the paramedics work on the boy. He still looks worried as the boy is wheeled away, coughing weakly but clearly going to be fine. "You did everything right," Tommy reassures the lifeguard. "He'll be okay now." And the lifeguard gives him a weak smile. "I used to do this," Tommy says. "And you always think you should've noticed something before it happens. You usually can't predict it unless someone's really struggling before they go under. He's probably got an underlying condition his family doesn't know about." "Th-thanks," the lifeguard says. "I, uh, guess I should get a thicker skin. I'm about to start the academy." Tommy grins, his heart doing some complicated and inadvisable shit when the guy grins back. "Yeah? Well, good luck. If you ever need anything, I'm Tommy. I work out of the 217. My boyfriend Sal works at the 118. What's your name?" And the lifeguard flushes a little. "Evan," he replies.
8. Months later, Sal plops down on the couch and cuddles up to Tommy, who's also half dead after the shift he's had. "Got the new probie," Sal mumbles into his shoulder. "He's cute as fuck, gonna be a problem."
did I tell you guys that I used to work on a holiday park and I would test all the hot tubs and I got so good at being able to tell the temperature of them just with my hand I could do it to the .5 degree
anyway recently I had some polyps removed from my uterus which involves them shooting warm water up your pussy to help them see what they're doing or something idk but as soon as they did that I was like huh. do you have that set to 38⁰? and they were all like what the Fuck. anyway my pussy tells the temperature
you can headcanon a character as queer. that's fine, we all do it. but you can not get mad when said character isn't included in posts about canonically queer characters. because they are not queer in canon. if they come out, they'll be included.
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