#josh russo

[miminwords]

it's like, one of the dynamics where there's actual conversations about both work and personal stuff equally is Maddie and Josh. they have both been in different work dynamics with each other and have kept their friendship through ups and downs and tend to have conversations even if they're awkward or tough. and to me, that's a good thing when you're showing a dynamic that's got a friendly bond, even family to each other in a way, but knowing that they're uniquely different people in their working approach who still have something to learn from each other. that's the kind of angle I was considering for Eddie and Chim through the s9 opening arc conflict. because it's a refreshing dynamic in a place where everyone is stuck together like glue with long known relations. to have a dynamic who are close but still work better with a bit of rearrangement from time to time is fun.

[momotonescreaming]

wip weekend

I haven't been tagged by anyone, but @harmless-variety-of-garden-snake posted a saljosh snippet and it inspired to bring my own saljosh wip out from the depths of my files. They're a fun rare pair, what can I say!

"Well, well, well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes." Sal drawls, words tumbling out rusty and worn. Josh turns to the sound of his boyfriend's voice, breath catching in his throat at the sight of him. Leaning in the doorway as if it's the only thing keeping him upright.

Sal's smirking, as he always is, coy and cocky and settled in his skin. Cool even now, despite the exhaustion Josh can see settling into him. Into the slope of his shoulders, his tired eyes, the way he's slumped into the wall. Hair still damp from the station’s showers, collar of his white t-shirt clinging to his neck. He must’ve rushed through it, washing up, to arrive here still half-damp. Josh lets his heart thump in his chest at the thought of it, of his boyfriend so excited to finally see him he speeds through his post-shift shower with precision.

"Hey you," Josh says, smile slowly growing. Something in him settles as he sees Sal, soft and easy and content. His boyfriend is finally home, finally with him, and they can both relax. Sal is safe, there's no more calls to worry about, nothing to pull him away. The people of LA can be safe in someone else's hands.

"Hey yourself," Sal replies, voice flirty and soft and weary. Words just a little bit rough around the edges. He holds out an arm, holding it open, and Josh lets himself be pulled in. Dropping his oven mitts on the counter and easing himself into Sal's embrace.

Arms wrapping around Sal's waist, smoothing down the fabric of his worn shirt with one hand, and the other feeling the gentle scratch of the canvas jacket on Sal's back. Feeling the muscles underneath, the strength in him, the hard planes of his body and how he relaxes out of it.

[harmless-variety-of-garden-snake]

thing thursday

I got tagged by @firehose118 today but I've been tagged so many times and have been awful about doing this because I've been jumping between stuff that's getting so long. But here's some werewolfJosh/humanSal wip that's all @trombonechurchill's fault:

Sal knocks the fuck out when he gets home, wakes up, goes grocery shopping, and knocks out again at a normal hour. When he wakes up, he has to go to work.

He staggers into the locker room and wrestles with the combination for a moment before he's able to shove his duffel inside.

“Welcome back,” Howie says, and Sal grunts. “Glad to hear it. Tell your boyfriend he needs to stop sending us on the annoying calls.”

“Pretty sure he doesn't control who gets sent where,” Sal mumbles, yanking his shirt off. “Otherwise he'd never send us on the dangerous ones.”

“Huh.” Howie crosses his arms over his chest and looks consideringly at the ceiling. “Yeah, I guess he wouldn't. That must suck for him.”

“It does,” Sal confirms, because he's had too many days where he’shad to smooth out the worried wrinkle between Josh's eyebrows.

“Unless he's into the big hero thing,” Howie adds.

“He's not,” Sal says flatly. “He likes that I can pick him up like a sack of flour, though.”

“That doesn't sound sexy.”

“It is the way I do it,” Sal says, winking.

“Hey, Tommy, if you got picked up like a sack of flour, would you be into that?” Howie asks, and Tommy freezes halfway across the room. “Oh wait, I did that once. Thoughts? Feelings?”

“None,” Tommy says, going to his locker and putting his back to them. Guy's got a shit poker face, but Howie might also be oblivious enough that he doesn't realize Tommy carried a torch for him for a long time. “Other than gratitude.”

“Well, you're no help. Hey, Hen!” Howie calls.

—

Sal drops in at dispatch with dinner for Josh. Their schedules suck right now. He's off today, but Josh is working. He's working tomorrow, Josh is off. They probably won't see each other until the day after that, because he's pretty sure Josh has two days off in a row.

“Aw, look at you bringing me—what is this?” Josh asks, peering into the bag.

“Meatballs from Gio’s, egg rolls and wonton soup from Golden Fortune, and carne asada tacos from that truck by my house,” Sal replies.

Josh kisses him, smiling. “You're so sweet. C'mon, I need help eating all of this.”

They post up in the break room, and Sal pulls out the burrito he ordered for himself and steals some of the soup. When Linda comes in, Sal blows her a kiss and grins at her surprised expression.

“You didn't tell me my boyfriend was coming to visit,” she teases, pouring herself some coffee. “How's your aunt?”

Sal looks over at Josh, who shrugs, and it makes him smile that Josh is apparently spreading the word about him at work. “She's good.”

They start chatting a bit, and Sal asks her if she's working the next day.

“Yep, as always,” she says, rolling her eyes. “You know, if I could just get one full moon off, I'd stop threatening to leave this place.”

Sal nudges Josh with a grin. “For the good of Los Angeles, take her shift.”

Linda snorts and starts heading toward the door. “Josh hasn't worked a single full moon since he started. I don't know what deal he cut with Sue, but I want in on it. Bye, handsome.”

Sal blinks and looks at his boyfriend. “How the hell’d you swing that?”

“She's crazy, I've totally worked full moons,” Josh says, scoffing. “They're awful, everyone gets so crazy.”

“Yeah,” Sal agrees before taking a bite of his burrito. “Wait, did you work the one last year with the clown on acid?”

Josh makes a face. “I…did not. That sounds horrifying, though.”

“Guy was out of his mind. He broke into someone's shed to hide from monsters and sliced himself on some hedge trimmers.” He shudders at the memory of the screaming, bleeding clown trying to grab Sal’s arms.

“What kind of monsters?” Josh asks, picking up a wonton with his chopsticks.

“Giant dogs. Pretty sure he saw a Pomeranian and lost it.” Sal shrugs and steals a meatball. “Actually, I don't know for sure that it was acid. He could've just made too many balloon animals and cracked.”

Josh lets out a laugh, but it sounds forced.

Tagging @frogsinflannel @corporatebanana @mushysquashythingamajig @exhaustedpirate

[air--so--sweet]

I was just thinking about Maddie covering for Sue (although I feel like this is probably permanent, like why move a character forward in her career and then undo it later?) and I get wanting to find a reason for Maddie to be the one who does it over Josh, but the writers could have handled it much better. Sue's reasoning about Josh caring too much doesn't match up with his character imo but also we've seen him cover after Sue was run over inna episode that featured a scene designed to show how competent and good at his job he is. It's not believable that Sue would think he can't handle it.

Personally what I thought was going to happen was that Maddie and Josh would realise they both have different strengths and both cover Sue, splitting the role between them to play to those strengths. But if, we have to have it be just Maddie take over by herself then I think it would have bothered me way less if Sue expected Josh to cover and he actually turned down the role.

He could say he's doesn't want to progress to senior management as he thinks he's better as a senior dispatcher or having covered it previously, while he did well he realised he doesn't like having so much responsibility and is more confortable at his current level or any of the many reasons some one may choose to not progress past a certain level in their career. Like it's not particularly exciting but I'm sure they could have introduced conflict some way, have him initially take over out of duty to Sue, have a shitty day where things blow up sonehow and then a heart to heart with Maddie where he explains he didn't want to be doing this anyway (it is after all just the B story it doesn't have be all that dramatic).

It's fairer to Josh, yes, but also it gives him more agency for it to be his choice. Rather than him choosing to be okay with it because he doesn't want to quit. Like he would be perfectly in his rights still want to work there while also being upset. Especially as it's such a specialised job he doesn't have the same options he would in another industry to just get a job somewhere else.

[desertdinerbuddie]

Prayer circle for even a single Buck & Josh friendship scene in season 10.

[desertdinerbuddie]

Oh god 5x04: Home and Away, when the truck crashes into the high school parade? Brb crying forever.

Also, Claudette's first episode. She's so awful. So. Awful. She is very good at her job though. And we find out later she had a husband and (two?) kids, so I do feel bad for what happens to her.

Josh is at his worst when she's around though, just desperate to make sure the bully doesn't pick on him. Josh! Be better!

It's interesting though, Claudette knows Linda, and Linda was in the same intake as Maddie, which means Claudette should know Maddie. But they never interact, so we'll never know.

Also, unrelatedly, Eddie looks hot af in this episode, for some reason. Maybe because he just broke up with Ana and he's expressing his happiness via not wearing hair gel? Idk. He looks good though.

[deargoodbye]

My Jeddie Fics:

7 fics as of 11/15/25. Bad At Love Better Late Than Not At All  Can’t Get Out Fall For You  Get Out of Your Head Going Crazy  Nobody's Business But Ours

[apollabarnes]

not the sort of thing that fits on the back of a postcard

buckjosh, past bucktommy. s3 au. 1.8k. read on ao3

first @au-roulette entry

Daniel, Buck thinks, but immediately discards the thought. He couldn't save his brother the first time, so going back wouldn't do anything. If he went back as himself, now, or if he could pick how old, then maybe he could meet Daniel, but if he was a baby, like he was when it actually happened — I'm your first, not your last, rattles through Buck's head. He takes another drink. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were setting us up, trickles in after, and Buck pauses.