A fix-it au where one night Buck was so heart sick thinking about Tommy, tired of people leaving him and thinking how he doesn't know his damn heart and most importantly, tired of baking, went out, not to clubs to find people to fuck with (cos he's so done with that, fuck you Tommy) but to a quiet bar Tommy once took him for a date and lo-behold, there was Tommy at the corner, looking sad while nursing his beer.

Instead of storming away or yelling at him, Buck just sat in front him and said "Room for one more?" Before ordering his drink.

Tommy, tired and heart-broken too, surprisingly didn't leave and stayed and both of them talked.

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"I need you to stop looking at me like that." Tommy said sadly.

"Like what?"

"Like you see a future with me."

Buck set down his drink and look at him with such sincerity. "And what if I do? Because I really do, I want a future with you where we live together in a house, complaining to each other about our terrible rescues and support each other on our bad days, raising pets and maybe kids one day."

"I'm not anyone's happy ending Evan." He said softly, as if he's trying not to hurt his heart anymore. "You need someone whose less broken unlike me."

Buck scoffed. "That's just stupid. I don't want anyone else. You're my happy ending. I don't want to find any other ending if you're not in it."

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"Wait a minute," buck pulled away from his drink, staring incredulously at him, "They didn't speak to you after the break up?! But I told them to check on you?!! I even asked Chim to drop off some cookies I made to you?!!" By now, Buck was feeling tipsy after their 6th beer together.

"You made me cookies even after our breakup?" Tommy said mournfully, starting to feel the effects of the alcohol too,

"They were your favourite triple chocolate cookies too."

Tears began pooling in Tommy's storm blue eyes. "You're too good for me, Evan."

"Hey,don't cry, ill make you some more ok?" Buck awkwardly pat him on the back.

Excerpt from this fic

“You’re in love with the idea of me being a perfect man,” Tommy explained kindly. “When I’m not nearly as self-assured or as confident as you think I am. You put me on a pedestal when really I’m just a stepping stone in your life.”

“That’s just stupid.” Buck mocked loudly, pointed the mini umbrella that came with his bramble cocktail at him. “So what, you’re telling me I imagined your weird mouth static? Or the fact you are never coherent before your morning coffee? Or did you forget I know about your stupid habit of sticking your socks under the couch while watching the tv, or how you kept buying that stupid everything but bagel seasoning even though you have like, what at this point, 10 unopened bottles at your place?”

“Did you think I don’t know how you never stack the dishwasher properly or how much you just hate laundry that you only do it when everything is dirty?” Buck snorted. “Newsflash Tommy, you might be cool like 90% of the time, but the other 10% you’re just a dork and I love you even more for that.” 

Tommy looked at him in such surprise at his face that he had to duck away to avoid his piercing stare. “What?!” He asked subconsciously.

“You said I love you.” Tommy said back in wonder. “Evan, that’s the first time I ever said you say that.”

Buck smiled softly. “I love you. I’m in love with you the moment you came to the hospital for my sister’s wedding even though you were so tired from fighting the fire just because you wanted to keep your promise to me when you didn’t have to. And ever since that day, you just keep on showing up in my life, with that dry humor and crinkly smile of yours, coloring my life so brightly.”

“So yea, Tommy Kinard,” Buck looked at him with such love and sincerity in his eyes for this silly, wonderful beast of a man in front of him, “I am in love with you. And I haven’t even stopped loving you till now.”

Saw this post and since I've had similar thoughts, I thought time for a little ficlet. Set after Tommy and Buck have got back together of course.

Tommy strolls into the 118 with a smile on his face and a spring in his step, looking forward to his date with Evan. He started heading towards the locker room when a voice from the side brought him up short.

"Just can't seem to leave this place, can you Kinard?"

Tommy froze and turned in disbelief to see Gerrard slowly walking down the stairs.

"It would seem that neither can you," Tommy replied, keeping his voice neutral.

"I'm here because of my job. What's your excuse?" Gerrard stopped at the bottom of the stairs and crossed his arms, his disapproving gaze sweeping over Tommy.

Tommy resisted the urge to cross his arms defensively. "I'm here to pick up Evan."

"Buckley? What for?"

"Hey!"

At the sound of his boyfriend's voice, Tommy turned away from Gerrards and beamed as Buck emerged from the locker rooms, a smile brighter than the sun on his handsome face.

Eyes fixed on Tommy, Buck seemingly didn't notice Gerrard as he bounced over to his boyfriend and pulled him in for a quick kiss.

"You ready to go?" Tommy asked, Gerrard all but forgotten.

"Absolutely. "

"You're GAY?!?"

The pair froze and turned towards Gerrard, who remained at the base of the stairs, now with a look of disgust twisting his features.

"No, I'm not gay," Buck said evenly.

Gerrard raised a disbelieving eyebrow. "You're not?"

"No. I'm bisexual. I like both men AND women."

Gerrard sniffed disapprovingly. "I thought you were better than that, Buckley." He looked at Tommy. "This is why you people shouldn't be allowed in jobs like this. Going around, corrupting perfectly good fire-fighters."

"Oh, he didn't corrupt me," Buck interjected. "If anything, I was the one who corrupted him."

Buck grinned wickedly, a glint in his eye, and grasping the other man's shirt, he pulled Tommy back in for another kiss. Only this time, rather than the chaste peck from before, he opened his mouth and swept his tongue across Tommy's lips, making the kiss filthier than one they would normally share in public (not that there hadn't been exceptions of course, with Chim and Maddie's wedding immediately springing to Tommy's mind).

Breaking away, Buck grasped Tommy's hand in his own before turning to face Gerrard. "Now if you'll excuse us, I have a hot date with the love of my life. See you around Gerrard."

Tugging on his hand, Buck began leading Tommy towards the exit. Allowing his hand to slip free, Tommy instead moved his arm to slip around his boyfriend's waist, pulling him into side and Evan reciprocated, slipping a hand into the back pocket of Tommy's jeans.

Tommy turned his head to glance at Evan and was met with an adoring look that made his heart flutter. Dropping another smaller, softer kiss on his waiting lips, the pair headed off to enjoy a romantic evening together, leaving their stunned, bigoted audience behind.

REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

Last Love's Fight

I turned this post into a much longer story that you can read on Ao3

"Eddie it’s too late, but on the slim chance Evan isn’t listening in I need you to tell him something. I need you to tell him that I love him with all my heart, no matter how damaged it is it was all his. Tell him I’m sorry for being so scared and for leaving him again and again. Now when it really matters I don’t want to leave him but I don’t think I get to make that choice this time. Look after him, make sure he doesn’t hold on to me for too long. Make sure he doesn’t reimagine me as soon perfect boyfriend that no one will live up to. I don’t want him to be alone for too long. Eddie don’t let him lose that big loving heart of his. Tell him, tell him I’m so thankful he was my last.” Tommy’s speech slurs the last few words as he is swallowed by the blackness he fought so hard to outrun so Evan would know how he felt.

The drop into unconsciousness prevents Tommy from hearing the screaming sirens racing towards his twisted wreck, prevents him from hearing Evan screaming into the phone that he loves Tommy. He will always love Tommy.

Tagging some people that commented and reblogged my original post.

@loulou-land @nzchance @fenrirscarsback @chococara25 @cull3nblaze @moonydanny @evanbuckley-kinard

tommy kinard needs to get his insecurities railed out of him by evan buckley's dick

LOU FERRIGNO JR as Rocker S.W.A.T. (2017-) ✣ S01E01

Tommy not getting to see Buck in that pink cardigan feels like an affront to me personally

I read an AITA post a few weeks back about a woman who liked having snacks in the bath when she's had a long day (a result of residual trauma iirc - the bath was her safe space). Her brand new husband of three weeks, a man twice her age who had no job, made her pay all of his bills and do all housework, and spent all day every day gaming because he wanted to make it as a Twitch streamer, had always been fine with this; but, on the day in question, had whisked her bath snacks out of her hands as she was on her way to the bathroom and tried to bin them, telling her it was time to 'break her of that filthy habit in his home'. She told him if he ever actually paid anything towards the house she owns outright he might get a say, took her snacks back, and had her lovely bath. He was since giving her the silent treatment.

(Obviously the judgement was an avalanche of 'NTA and also he's abusing you', which she agreed with, and decided to kick him out, so happy ending.)

Anyway I told my husband about this and he was outraged. "I would never do that!" he told me, furious. "I would find it adorable if you had bath snacks!"

Since then, every time I try to have a bath (which I only do as a rare treat) after about ten minutes there has been an anxious scrabbling at the bathroom door.

"Elanor!" he says. "Do you have bath snacks? Do you need anything?"

My answer is irrelevant. He brings me wine and poptarts. Now I have bath snacks. I'm a bath snacks person. Last time he was literally sleeping on the sofa when I went for the bath. Somehow this still happened. I now have an eager bathroom butler. How did this happen. I have never been so decadent yet bewildered.

me after 8x06: tommy's a little bit of a mess, isn't he?

me after 8x11: oh, he's a BIG bit of a mess

bucktommy fandom every few hours the last couple weeks.

I tried my best, still can't remove the music 100%.

But now we have access to Tommy's (or Lou's) adorable HEHEHE laugh.

The number of things this scenes confirmed to feed fic writers though:

A scene where Tommy is working with the 118 and he's laughing with Hen and Chim about some inside joke they used to share and then it cuts over to Buck who is shaking with rage at how happy they are together and he's not a part of it. And Ravi walks over, curious as to why Buck is making that face, but before he gets too close Bobby kinda tugs him away and mutters, "last time he took out an ankle."