There have been many incredible works posted to the AO3 collection and more to come!
This is the current master list of posted works, but there are so many more that will be featured in 911: Holiday Edition and more to come on AO3 so don't forget to pre-order your copy before December 28th.
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Season of Promise by @do-androids-dream-ao3acc
Trying to create memories for their future by going ice skating turns into a trip down memory lane for TK and Carlos.
The Seasons Upon Us by @bangpop91
Every year the Catan Crew get together to celebrate the Holidays. But this year is an extra-special Holiday Hang because it is Jonah and Samira's very first one.
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santy Clause by Stacie
Athena offers Bobby her final Christmas gift once everyone else has gone for the evening.
whispers of a sleepy winter night by Stacie
Maddie and Chimney have some time alone together during the Christmas holiday’s, and they reflect on how the year is gone, and how grateful they are to have each other.
It's a Wonderful Life by Stacie
Maddie is called in last minute to work Christmas Eve and asks Buck if he would mind watching Jee. After she assures him it’s fine that Tommy is there too, Buck and Tommy help make this Christmas Eve a memorable one for their adorable four-year-old niece.
Cookie Pucks and Cocoa by @fanficsbysteve
Buck gets called into work during a freak snowstorm in LA, days before Christmas, so Tommy takes this as his chance to make the perfect Christmas. Shenanigans and mishaps ensue. Will Tommy be able to have the perfect Christmas for Buck? Or will things fall apart?
911 Holiday Edition Zine artworks by @pluralityofaxes
Two works for the 911 Holiday Edition zine:
- the cover, featuring characters from both 9-1-1 and Lone Star;
- Hen & Karen taking the festivities to the bedroom (M)
Rules: share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of the word you've been given!
Thank you @nine-one-wanton for the tag. I finally have the time and energy this morning to get some writing done as well as catch up on Tumblr tags and asks.
My word is BACK
B: Buck goes silent lost in all of the memories the song invokes.
A: After a few more hours of much needed sleep Paul and Marjan join his mom and Naomi in the kitchen for a late breakfast.
C: Carlos had offered to host the group at his condo and didn't even object when Tk and Paul had giggled while decorating Carlos's condo with silly Christmas decorations and the few Hanukkah and Kwanzaa decorations they could find.
K: "Keep talkin like that, and I'm gonna have to steal you from Jim." Buck laughs because nothing short of being struck by lightening again or having his leg crushed by another ladder truck would make him quit fire fighting.
Summary: The Catan Crew get stranded in a weird little small town overnight.
Word count: 998
Inspired by the prompt "5. After the car breaks down in a small town during a road trip, a group of friends decide to stay as long as it takes to fix the car and explore the town and area surrounding it." found here
24 Days of Tarlos Masterpost
“Okay, this is beyond even my level of expertise,” Marjan sighs as she drops the hood of Nancy’s car and steps back.
“So, what? You mean we’re stuck here??” Nancy groans in frustration.
“Hey, don’t blame me!” Marjan shoots back. “You’re the one who said your car could handle this cross-country road trip…”
“Guys,” Paul puts his hands up. “Let’s just call a tow truck and find the nearest town. It’s going to be dark soon anyways. Not the best time to be stuck on the side of the road regardless of what’s wrong with the car.”
“Paul’s right,” Carlos pipes up from where he’s sitting beside TK on the snowy curb. “It’s getting late, we’re surely all getting hungry. We planned on staying somewhere for the night anyway.”
“Plus it’s so cold out here my ass is freezing off,” TK adds.
“Nice image, babe,” Carlos laughs, pulling his boyfriend closer and rubbing his arm over his jacket.
“Ugh, fine,” Nancy ducks back into her car to make the call and about an hour later with the friendliest tow truck driver ever, Nancy, Paul, Mateo, Marjan, TK, and Carlos are being dropped off in the nearby town of Holly Grove–a town which the tow truck driver could not stop raving about. The driver also encouraged them to go straight to the inn to check into rooms for the night, and after to go to the local diner and order whatever is on special tonight.
Once Nancy’s car has been dropped off with the local mechanic–who has an uncanny resemblance to Santa and showed up in his robe and slippers with the promise to take a look at it in the morning–the friends spill into the inn off Main Street and are immediately greeted with warmth from a fire and a smiling woman behind the counter in a Christmas sweater.
“Y’all are shivering harder than Jack Frost during a freeze, can I get y’all some hot cocoa?” The woman asks with a blinding smile.
“Is this town giving extremely weird vibes to anyone else?” Mateo whispers in TK’s ear.
“Definitely,” TK nods.
“No, we just want rooms for the night,” Nancy explains. “My car broke down a few miles outside of town and we just dropped it off.”
“Oh! Well you are in for a real treat!” The woman laughs. “We’re having our annual Christmas pageant tomorrow if you stick around!”
Nancy glances back at the group, mouthing, ‘what the fuck?’ before turning back to the woman. “Thanks, ma’am, but we’ll probably leave as soon as my car is ready. Any chance we can get three rooms? Two rooms with two beds and one room with one.”
The woman glances around the group, as if trying to figure out who the lone bed could be for before turning back to Nancy. “Certainly! Let me see what we have available.”
Three sets of golden keys later, and they’re all heading up the stairs with their modest luggage and into their rooms.
“I’m glad Nance gave us the room with one bed,” TK grins, sitting on the edge of the mattress as Carlos opens their suitcase, rifling around for both their toiletry bags.
“Well it was pretty obvious Nancy would room with Marj and send the boys off to room together,” Carlos hums. “Kinda just leaves us.”
“Well I’m glad either way, I get enough of rooming with other people at work,” TK laughs, catching Carlos’s wrist. “Plus I like having you all to myself.”
Carlos smiles as he’s pulled into a warm kiss.
A little while later, they venture out into the cold again, in search of the diner, and cram into a corner booth when they find it, and order the dinner special as was suggested to them.
“This town is weird right?” Paul asks, leaning forward across the table to whisper conspiratorially.
“Extremely weird,” Marjan agrees.
“It’s like some sort of Hallmark movie town,” Carlos shakes his head. The rest of the table turns to gape at him, aside from TK, who just laughs and wraps his hands around Carlos’s arm. “What! My mom makes me watch them with her sometimes.”
“He’s your comfort nerd, huh, TK?” Marjan winks.
“Oh, yeah,” TK grins. “Definitely.”
Their food comes out shortly after and it’s plates of admittedly some of the best damn chicken they’ve ever had, coated in some sort of creamy peppercorn gravy, with loaded mashed potatoes on the side, and honey carrots.
“Holy shit,” Mateo practically moans into his bite.
“Same,” TK immediately agrees. “This is so fucking good.”
Dinner is followed by pie and another round of approving moans from the table. It is really good pie.
The next morning, Nancy drags TK and Carlos with her to talk to the mechanic about her car.
“I’m sorry,” he tells her. “The part I need for your car won’t be here until tomorrow.”
Carlos steps forward, eyes flicking to the mechanic’s shirt. His name tag embroidered into his shirt reads N. Kringle. “Mr…Kringle…we really have to get back on the road today.”
“It just won’t be possible,” Kringle says with a shake of his head. “But you lovely folks are welcome to stay and enjoy our Christmas pageant. There’s always a big party at the diner after.”
“Oh, we wouldn’t want to intrude,” Carlos shakes his head.
“No intrusion,” Kringle shakes his head with a kind smile. “We love having guests in town at the holidays! There’s plenty of Christmas cheer to go around, son.”
Nancy groans as they walk away. “I guess we’re staying.”
“It seems like we have no choice,” Carlos frowns.
“Maybe we can just try and make the most of it. It looks like there’s some cute shops on Main Street that might have good Christmas gifts,” TK shrugs.
“Let’s just get back to the inn and find the others and maybe start with breakfast at that diner,” Nancy says. “Hopefully their eggs and bacon are as good as that pie from last night.”
Happy Friday!!! Todays ask is what would a carnival trip for the 126 entail? I think it would be sugar filled chaos lol
Happy Friday!! I'm so glad it's the weekend!
This is such a fun question! A carnival trip for the 126 crew would definitely BE sugar-filled chaos, haha. Mateo would want to try all the special carnival food like cotton candy and funnel cakes. Nancy has to remind him to get his food after they go on the rides.
TK, Mateo, Marjan, and Nancy all strike me as people who would really like going on all the wild rides, even the really tall and spiny ones. They would all be exhilarated by the adrenaline rush! Paul and Carlos would hang back for the crazy rides, but all of the Catan Crew would go on the Ferris Wheel together.
The whole crew also does bumper cars together, and get really competitive. Nancy and TK share a bumper car and drive wildly -- Paul mutters to Carlos that he hopes they don't drive the ambulance like that. Marjan and Mateo are also reckless drivers.
Are there petting zoos at carnivals? I'm saying there is in this one. TK adores the animals and insists on spending like half an hour there. Carlos is slightly worried that he's going to have to arrest his husband for trying to steal one of the friendly goats who keeps climbing in TK's lap.
Carlos wins TK a huge stuffed animal in one of those ring toss games. He picks out a lizard for TK, and he LOVES it. TK immediately names the lizard Lou III and Carlos rolls his eyes fondly. He comes to slightly regret winning TK the stuffed lizard when it sits in the corner of their room that night; Carlos swears it's like the thing is watching him. It turns out Carlos is not a fan of lizards even in stuffed animal form. He makes TK keep it on his side of the room after that!
(also until i get my replying fixed i guess you’re just going to be getting so many asks from me 😂)
PLS WRITE IT. ILL BE FERAL OVER IT
who am i kidding i’m feral over anything you write!
Yesss!! I am thinking a new hot pot spot opens up in ATX. Paul, Asha and TK keep talking about how excited they are and how bad they wanna go. Carlos and Marjan are like …what’s hot pot 👀
And Paul and TK looooooose it. TK’s like, “BABE! How have you never had hot pot??? It’s the most fun soup experience you’ll ever have.”
And Carlos and Marjan keep arguing that of course they’ve never had hot pot, they’re from Texas and Miami. Very traditionally warm environments.
So they bring in Joe as a tiebreaker and he’s like …I am also from Austin. I have never had this wintertime soup.
So they alllll go and TK has the best time arguing with Paul and Carlos over what ingredients they should put in. He wants the fish balls and the pork belly and the lamb. (Irl it would be difficult for Marjan & Joe to do hot pot because hot pot broth is pork based. But we can pretend this place uses beef!!)
Summary: TK, Carlos, and Jonah host a cookie decorating contest for the Catan crew and their partners! Who will win?
Word count: 810
24 Days of Tarlos Masterpost
“On your marks…get set…GO!” TK blows his whistle and starts the thirty minute timer on his phone, signaling to his friends it’s time to start the cookie decorating contest.
Everyone is set up at a spot around TK and Carlos’s dining table, all with a sugar cookie in front of them and numerous colors of royal icing. TK made the batch of cookies fresh this morning with Jonah’s help, and the toddler sits at the head of the table, ready to judge the Catan crew and their partners on who has the best decorated cookie.
Of course, Jonah is decorating a cookie himself as well, and he keeps tapping on Carlos’s hand to ask if he can use his icing instead.
“You have your own right there, bud,” Carlos smiles gently, pushing the icing forward in front of the young boy.
“Yours is better!” Jonah insists.
TK, the referee in all of this madness, kneels down beside Jonah. “Jo-Jo, Carlos is trying to decorate a cookie for the contest too. I can help you with yours.”
They sit together on the chair, Jonah’s tiny, adorable voice asking, “Can you help me?” about every three minutes. TK just laughs and takes it all in stride as he helps his baby brother decorate his cookie. Jonah seems to have a creative vision in mind, and TK lets the master work, taking free moments to glance up at his husband and his friends and their progress.
TK rests a hand on Carlos’s left arm and Carlos glances over at him before looking back at his work. “No distracting the artist, babe.”
TK laughs again. He checks the timer on his phone. “Alright, artists, you have five more minutes to complete your masterpieces,” he says in his best cooking competition announcer voice.
It’s a race to the finish line, Nancy and Paul fighting over snowflake sprinkles across the table, Marjan bartering to borrow blue icing from Carlos, Mateo glancing around in curiosity, having already completed his cookie ten minutes ago…and the ducks begin to quack on TK’s iPhone timer, signaling the end of the competition.
“Alright, artists. Lay down the icing and step back from your creations so the judge can get to work,” TK says.
Everyone gets up from the table and wanders over to the kitchen to pick at the charcuterie board Carlos had put together earlier while TK leads Jonah around the table. Jonah beckons TK to come closer, and he does, kneeling down in front of the small boy and leaning in close.
“Which one is Carlos’s?” Jonah whispers loudly in TK’s ear.
TK laughs, “I can’t tell you that, buddy. No bias, remember? You just have to pick the one you think looks the best.”
Jonah sighs loudly and TK lifts him up and sets him on his hip so they can look around the table again.
“That one!” Jonah exclaims, pointing at his own cookie.
TK laughs, rolling his forehead against Jonah’s shoulder. “You can’t choose your own cookie, sweetheart.”
“But mine is the best!”
“Ouch,” Nancy laughs in the kitchen. “I think we all just got burned by a four year old.”
“No artistic talent amongst any of us,” Marjan agrees with a laugh.
“I thought mine was pretty good,” Mateo grumbles.
In the end, Jonah declares Mateo’s cookie to be the best, but only because he drew Spider-Man on it. Paul gets the award for best snowman, and Carlos gets third place because Jonah figured out which one is his.
“Thank you, mijo,” Carlos smiles as he takes Jonah from TK’s arms, the young boy easily switching between his guardians and happily melting against Carlos’s shoulder.
“Good job on the snowman win, babe,” Asha laughs, rubbing Paul’s shoulder.
“It wasn’t even supposed to be a snowman,” Paul shakes his head. “It was supposed to be a penguin.”
Everyone laughs and TK glances around at all his extended family as he falls into place beside Carlos and Jonah, his perfect, little family.
“I think this was a very fun thing we did, babe,” TK smiles at his husband.
“I think so too,” Carlos wraps a free arm around TK’s shoulders and pulls him closer to kiss his cheek.
“Alright, y’all, let’s play some Catan!” Nancy calls, beckoning everyone around the coffee table in the living room.
TK just smiles again as he watches his friends take their usual seats in the living room. He leans into Carlos for a moment, taking the time to kiss his husband and brother on the cheek before taking Carlos’s hand and dragging him into the living room and their corner of the couch for Catan.
“Um, TK?” Jonah asks from where he’s perched on the arm of the couch beside Carlos.
“Yeah, buddy?”
“Can we eat those cookies yet?”
The room bursts into happy laughter, and TK smiles. “We sure can.”
This is the first of three stories I contributed to @911holidayzine there is still plenty of time to pre-order your copy, and don't forget to check out the rest of the incredible works created for this story in the 911 Holiday Edition collection on AO3.
126 hangs had started early on. At first it had just been Tk, Marjan, and Paul. They had hung out a lot since they didn't know anyone else in Texas yet and they didn't have anyone to rush home to or other friends to hang out with after a shift. Tk felt less tempted to relapse in those early days hanging out with Marjan and Paul. Marj keeps strict Halal and Paul didn't need to drink to have fun. Mateo and Carlos had quickly become part of those group hangs, and then Nancy joined making their little crew complete.
Sometimes they felt bad they didn't invite Judd and Grace, Tommy, or his Dad. But those four had their own friendship and get togethers.
Group hangs were never anything formal or something. They'd eat take out and play video games or Catan, they would enjoy drinks and snacks, they celebrated the wins and mile stones and offered quiet support during losses and hardships. They became their own little family within the 126 family and developed their own traditions.
