so my dad does dumb things and gets hurt a lot and when i was little he cracked his head open. apparently not the first time it had happened to him either. but anyway it was bad. i didn’t understand how bad it was as a kid but like he had to walk down the street to get home and you could see his path in blood. anyway i’m telling you this because after he got out of the hospital his way of reassuring me he was fine was buying me food and explaining that adult men have too much blood anyway, women don’t have this problem because they have a menstrual cycle but with men it just builds up and there’s no way for the old blood to get out and it causes problems like stupidity, so therefore it’s actually beneficial to men’s health for them to experience catastrophic blood loss every once and a while and it really ought to happen to every man now and again. as a little girl with a milkshake i had no reason to question this. it added up
Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’
I’m bored at work so you get my take on a potential helipad at sunset reunion. This quickly devolved into much more than I anticipated, but who’s surprised.
Buck could feel his heart racing all the way in his throat. He had heard the all clear call through the radio, but wouldn’t believe it until he could see for himself. He was the reason Tommy was wrapped up in this mess in the first place. Buck felt guilty that it had escalated far more than he had anticipated. Especially since they hadn’t talked about their relationship, instead focusing on what they had to do to keep everyone safe.
Athena was standing next to him along with about 20 other assorted government officials and cops. Buck could see her turn to him out of the corner of his eye, but in that moment they heard the sound of the helicopter approaching.
Buck’s entire being narrowed in on that sound. He forced himself to stay where he was, despite every muscle in his body wanting to run out on to the helipad. So he watched the descent, as the sun began to dip below the horizon, staying out of the landing zone.
But then the cockpit door was opening and out came Tommy in his blue flight suit that Buck couldn’t fully appreciate in this moment. Instead he took off toward the pilot, ignoring the shouts from Athena and some of the FBI agents. He didn’t care if there was a chance that Tommy could be contagious, he just needed to feel for himself that Tommy was alive.
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