#911 9x13

[sintari]

Some Sentences... Tuesday

Thanks for the tags @soupfic @circledwithaheart and other people who have tagged me over the past (oh no) 6 weeks or so where I haven't been writing.

Still plugging away on my 9x13 buddie & sad maddie/eddie fic where Buck remains kidnapped and the two people who love him most try to find him. And get a little lost themselves along the way... previous part

They fall silent for a while after that. For a few rounds, the only sound is the bottle cap screwing off, the tequila pouring. They’d somehow both silently agreed to keep their pours shot-sized in their Solo cups. When the bank’s security light comes on outside Eddie’s window, Maddie simply unscrews the cap one last time and then sits it on the particle board coffee table between them. Eddie should go to sleep. They both should. But he was a teenager the last time he passed a bottle back and forth with somebody he barely knew. Back then, nights like this held possibility. Tonight, he’s just hoping that crawling to the bottom of the bottle allows him to pass out for a few hours.

They hear voices under Eddie’s window. A man with a strong New England accent wails about being hungry.

Maddie breaks the silence. "That's the most Boston accent I’ve heard since well… Boston.” 

Eddie’s eyes flick to hers. This is a tender subject. 

“I was in a support group back there,” she says. She’s rotating her cup in a slow circle so that the tequila sloshes around meditatively. “It was for women with postpartum.” 

Eddie knows this. Has heard all about it from Buck, of course. He doesn’t say anything. 

“The things these women shared. I mean, I’d tell Jee ‘These are inside thoughts.’” She takes a sip, stares into the cup. “Your body can really betray you. Make you crazy. Sometimes I would look around that group terrified. Like, some of these women, I’d look at them and think, ‘There’s not a thing in the world that you wouldn't do, is there?’ And then I’d remember, I’m in this group. I’m here.” 

Eddie feels goosebumps raise on his arms and the back of his neck.

“Evan isn’t my child, obviously. You know how we grew up, the lines were blurred, but it’s not the same. Except, with him out there, somewhere. I don’t know where. I feel crazy. I feel like, to find him, there’s not a thing in the world that I wouldn’t do.”

He isn’t on high-alert because he’s scared, Eddie realizes. The goosebumps are because Maddie has just put into words exactly what he’s been thinking this whole time.

To find Buck, there’s not a thing in the world that Eddie Diaz wouldn't do. 

There, in his rented two rooms over a laundromat, Eddie thinks that there’s no one, not even Buck—maybe especially not Buck—who feels the way that he and Maddie do. And that’s why, Eddie tells himself later, it feels like the most natural thing in the world—not a betrayal of Buck, or Chimney, or their family back in LA—when Eddie takes her to bed.

Tagging the usual suspects, like my enemy @zinnydark @exhausteddiaz @heyyoubuckaroo @bucksgreyhairs @sunflowerbuckleys @buddie-in-love

[pineapplehazard]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Evan "Buck" Buckley & Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) Characters: Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Evan "Buck" Buckley, Bonnie Sheets, Sheriff "Woody" Woodson Additional Tags: Episode: s09e13 Mother's Boy (9-1-1 TV), Hurt Evan "Buck" Buckley, Hurt Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), POV Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Pre-Relationship, Unreliable Narrator Summary:

He needs to calm down. Getting angry will get him nowhere now. He tries to relax, to calm his racing heart, but every breath hurts more than it seems to help. 

The paramedics start setting Buck on a gurney. He looks over at Eddie and smiles and isn't that the best thing ever? 

Buck is okay. 

Buck is okay. 

Buck is okay.

Buck is okay.

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What Mother's Boy should also have included.

[lemotmo]

Unpopular opinion: I did not like Mother’s Boy. It wasn’t a buddiesode in my opinion, it was an Eddie-to-the-rescue with nobody having any regards for his safety, bc it’s Buck 🤨 Athena’s “it’s not about you” followed by Maddie’s tearful nod pissed me off. I don’t care if Buck is Athena’s late husbands little boy or Maddie’s baby brother (the man is 34 fing years old!)—the three of them did nothing to put themselves at risk and were perfectly content letting Eddie, a man with a motherless teenage son, hobble out into the dessert without so much as asking if he’s okay or telling him to be careful. On top of that, everyone allowed two severely injured men to drive 10 hours home in a tiny car while they all continued to sit on their asses, at a party the guest of honor didn’t even attend! And I’m seeing words like “masterpiece” and “no notes”—I have plenty of notes 😆 In my opinion, Dumb Luck was a masterpiece and is my comfort episode

I am so sorry, I am having a terrible day and that’s causes intrusive thoughts to creep in. I also have a bit of a parasocial relationship with Eddie in which I’m probably way too protective and think he’s more overlooked than he probably is (that says absolutely nothing about how I see myself…jk) And it makes me resent Buck, who I used to love but now think just gets way too much attention, and will continue to get it, yet still occasionally gripe about feeling unloved.

You do not have to reply to this. I also didn’t send it to rage bait you. You’re just a very positive person in your responses and I know if anybody could validate and/or reframe these chaotic thoughts, it might be you!

Have a good one

Hi Nonny! Well, it's okay to have your own opinion on things. The world would be a boring place if we all thought the same. 🤷‍♀️

I definitely identify most with Eddie as well. He is 'my guy' when it comes to this show. I do love Buck, but not nearly as much as I love Eddie. When Buck and Eddie are on my screen, my attention will be on Eddie the whole time. That's how I roll. 😁

You probably already know just how much I loved 'Mother's boy' as a buddiesode, sure... but also... I loved it even more because it was an awesome Eddiesode. As an Eddie centered person this episode just hit all the right buttons for me.

The way he was looking for Buck while being wounded hit all my 'Die Hard' buttons. It had John McClane written all over it and I admit that I have a soft spot for the first 'Die Hard' movie. I love it when characters are in peril themselves, but they still venture out to save others despite of their own wounds.

And I get what you are saying with the others not lifting a finger and expecting Eddie to do the heavy lifting while being wounded. But they were very far away and Eddie was their 'only hope'. He was their Obi Wan. LOL!

So listen, in the real world all of those people would have NEVER (not in a million years) told Eddie to jump out of the window while having just survived a car crash, but this is 911, so anything can happen. I mean... Bobby once had a storyline where he got into trouble with the cartel. The man was a Fire Captain, not James Bond, but he still got involved. Shit happens on 911. Can't escape it.

And in my twisted little '90s Die Hard John McClane world' I kind loved it when Eddie was running all over to look for Buck. It was kinda romantic. 🤭🤷‍♀️

I fully agree that Eddie is an overlooked character though. He deserves better storylines who actually lead somewhere and he deserves more than to just get stabbed and die in an elevator, because they didn't know what to do with his character. 😤

And don't say sorry! It's fine. We all have terrible no good days where everything seems worse than it really is. I've been there and I'm sure I'll be there again.

I fully understand that you didn't mean to ragebait. Your post didn't feel like ragebait at all. Trust me... I've gotten enough ragebait to last me a lifetime. I KNOW what it looks like.

I don't know if my reply will help you out in any way. I'm just a rambling fan like all of them out here. 😆 But I do tend to try to stay positive and optimistic. I don't see any value in making myself miserable over a TV show that I genuinly love.

Hopefully I have brightened up your day somewhat!

You have a good one as well!

[panikara]

my conspiracy theory is that the purpose of 9x13 was testing the waters with the concept of a buddiesode

because narratively it doesn't serve any purpose. Buck's painkiller dependency fit into it narratively, but they could just write it in as if it's him coping with the anniversary of Bobby's death

what 9x13 does serve a purpose for, is as a test on how GA reacts to exclusive buddie stories. it is the highest rated (or second highest after 3x03) episode in the show. mother's boy really showed that both GA and the fandom enjoy having stories revolving around Buck and Eddie, and it could be testing of what would GA say if we give them an exclusive episode where Buck and Eddie act married and everyone around them assumes they're old strict gays

and people loved it

so, this is your daily dose of buddiemaxxing from me

[indigo2831]

'911' Fan Fic: The Dark Reprieve

Summary:

Post 911's 9.13's "Mother's Boy."

Another nurse, a man with muscles bulging through his scrubs, hovers near the door, trying not to look like he’d been called in for security purposes. There are soft restraints in his hand.

Eddie shoots him a withering glare. “Get out,” he grizzles. He doesn’t bother hiding the edge of combat-borne lethality this whole ordeal has resurrected.

The man slinks out of the door.

-or-

Buck is understandably traumatized after being rescued. Eddie steps up again to take care of him.

Read on Ao3

[kikibridges13]

I'm rewatching 9x13 because the second chapter of Hold On is *loosely* based off it, and I just have one question:

How in the absolute HELL did Eddie's phone survive a rollover crash and be an iPhone with absolutely ZERO cracks in it?

ANSWER ME THAT TIM!

[livesbetweenpages]

I’m four weeks late to the party and I wrote this on the tags of this gif set but I get it now: the ending of 913 is basically the same as 413/414, shot for shot:

Eddie targeted because he's a firefighter, the uniform, rather than because of who he is specifically/Buck targeted because he looks very similar to Derek, rather than because of who he is specifically

Eddie hurt/Buck hurt

The drawn out gazing at each other with enough space between them that

Eddie falls to the ground/Buck falls to the ground

Buck/Eddie helpless to just stand there and watch it happen

Buck held back by Captain Mehta/Eddie held back by the Sheriff Woodson until

Buck breaks out of the hold, dropping to the ground to get to Eddie/Eddie breaks out of the hold, dropping to the ground to get to Buck

Buck's hand hovering over Eddie's face telling him to hold on, while Eddie asks if he's hurt/Eddie's hand holding on to Buck's face telling him he's okay, while Buck makes bad jokes

Eddie is rushed into the hospital, while Buck stands back and the shot rests on him/Buck is wheeled into the ambulance while Eddie stands back and the shot rests on him

And of course, Buck’s white shirt is unsalvageable covered in blood. Even the episode numbers are the same

[frightfullytreeish]

daydreaming about eddie not finding buck so quickly in new mexico and going full string on a pinboard hunkered down in a motel for days on end trying to crack the case of what happened to buck. (ok realistically earl's truck is VERY distinctive and idthink it would take days to put two and two together in a small town with athena and the national guard on the case but LET'S PRETEND that somehow nobody in town has ever noticed earl's incredibly distinctive truck before and he and bonnie manage to cover their tracks and the cops are all convinced buck's buried in a shallow grave somewhere in the desert but eddie can't let it go, he can't let buck go. and meanwhile in a boy's bedroom with bars on the windows, derek is also finding it hard to let buck go, despite what he promised)