This was a great episode of Lonestar.

Always happy to watch a Paul storyline, I have just never loved a job enough to put my life on the line for it so I can’t understand how someone would rather die than not do that job. I don’t think outside of people, I love anything enough to die for it. So Pauls decision seems crazy and kind of selfish to me. That doesn’t mean he deserved to wake up the way he did though. I kind of like how after he asked Marjan to leave he still said thanks. Kind of like he knew he was being unfair to her in the moment. I dont think as someone who has no power of attorney or anything over Paul, Marjan would not have had any say in him getting the pacemaker?

- Owen’s dry ass chicken sounds honeslty revoulting. 100% would not want to eat

- I love this bird. He is obviously a great judge of characther. He loves Mateo but dislikes Owen. Also him saying ‘bitch and moan, bitch and moan’ was the best most on point thing ever

- Part of me hopes Gwyn did leave him the bird to torment him, yhe idea of her being like this is how I will one up him forever just makes me giggle. Also I enjoy her lawyer. She’s a boss.

- I love how much Judd is enjoying himself this episode. Raising his hand like a kid only to make fun of Owen. The joy on his face when he found out that Owen started the fight with the bird and when he heard the bird kissed Mateo. His just there living his best life.

- Said it before, will say it again. Gina Torres is so beauitful. She has an infectious smile and hair of my dreams

- Mateo is right, Axe throwing is fun as hell. Reccomend it. Also the fact that Owen doesnt ALREADY own a vegetable sprializer is more surprising than the fact he ordered one

- I would like it to be known that you should never strap your baby into a car the way that woman did. I actually dont think you even could if you wanted to that is obviously just sitting in the prop car

- I love Paul but the way he makes pasta is a freaking crime. What did that poor spaghetti do to you?

- The fact that Marjan could kick that door in is pretty hot

- They did not just kill the bird. Why was that neccesary!?!?! Noo Ginsberg! (Also kudos Gwyn, great name) He could have just gone to Mateo and they would live happily together for 30 years

- Finally. Where was Nancy? I can get why Carlos and Grace where not in the ep. It makes no sense that Nancy was not there with no explanation. I get that Tommy and T.K. where having a moment this ep but it just makes no sense that they where running a man down.

I can also understand that not every actor needs to be in every episode. But it always the same ones. I would love to see a episode that spends the whole time with Grace and Carlos and thier jobs/lives The only time the rest pop up is when they have screentime shared with those two. It could be a cop storyline that involves 911 phone calls and some personal stuff in the side. I think when people talk about how upset they are that Carlos or Grace is not in a episode it’s because it happens reguarly with them and almost never with the others. I mean its OK to leave them out to focus on firefighter storylines but it jas to go both ways. Which is si t right now.

I hate to say it but even though Pearce is an asshole he is not completly wrong in his assesment of the 126. I love them and love that they are a family but they are reckless sometimes and they collectively have a ego the size of Texas. Carlos wasn’t completly wrong in the way he said cops view them too. No he can’t play a game becauae his working was gold. Some of the perks of a firefighter jobs are real good. They work super hard but the downtime they can have is amazing.

Also this time they kind of treated Pearce like crap, he got detained because of the rivarly and I mean I wouldn’t want to get involved in a brawl I have no stake in eithier (although history shows I would get involved to stop it). Owen especially has zero impulse control. I mean the cop was a d**k but Owen antagonises the situation the whole time and hoesntly is no better than the cop. I mean he punched a guy in the face over a softball game (lets be real, it wasn’t because someone tripped Nancy or he would gave done it before offering to play another round It was because the cop had the last word) Why does Owen have to win every argument, he legit only takes the high ground when he has won the situation and comes off as the good guy.

Carlos cheering for the firefighters was the best and basically going into the fray for the 126. You can’t tell me he wouldnt have tackled anyone who hit TK. I bet his ass got a lot of teasing at the precinct the next day. (Aw Carlos wasnt sure if you would turn up today or if ya decided to become a firefighter)

Also Mateo’s face when the slide is on the table is pure joy and I love him so much and I am in love with Nancy

So tonights episode of 9-1-1 was… OK. I loved Gina Torres and my heart broke for her and I will def miss Charles. Gina really knocked it out the park and I love to start a episode crying in the first 30 seconds. It’s like Lonestar went you think your heart is broken after watching Eddie nah sit down we can beat that.

I think thso epsiode just struggled little with pacing. I miss the emergency calls to keep excitement up and I kind of felt like the shooter story was just meh. I get it was to realte to what Tommy was going through but I never felt like I could buy it (I mean sure Owen is a charmastic guy but you expect me to beleive he convinced a SWAT team he had never met to stand down and to let him enter a building) or even that I cared either way. Especially the miracle of the kid waking up just at the right moment kind of ruined the message of letting go eveb when it breaks your heart. I just wanted to see more of Tommy with the girls. I would have liked to see her breaking the news to them and how that plays out.

I just wanted to give the twins a big hug.

- We can confirm that Judd and Grace will be amazing parents like we didn’t already know. Also I love that baby cowboy hat and boots are in the register.

I missed the fire fam this episode but can handle that as thos qas Gina’s episode.

Seeing we have one episode left of the season I am kind of disappointed we wont he learning nore about Mateo this season. I think out of all the characthers his the only one we leanrt nothinf extra baout this season. Ok he got a tattoo and his house blew up but whete are his parents, why did he jave no one to go to after hia house yet has presumbly lived in Austin all his life. Hoping next season we get a heavy Mateo episode.

- Also hoping next season we get some stand alone cop scenarios because we haven’t REALLY seen Carlos at work unless it is at a fire call. Like does he have work friends, what his realtionship like with his partner. Remember Carlos is a characther outside of TK. Season 2 was better as we actually saw him more than a few seconds but more is needed.

- Next season needs more of the twins, I think it will be interesting to see how Tommy goes as a single parent, a paramedoc and protentially a mortage on a house of the flashback indicated anything.

RIP Charles you seemed like a great guy and amazing dad.

9-1-1 LS s02e12 thoughts

- First off I feel like 9-1-1 excels at it’s comedy and fun episodes like tonight. (And the beigns episodes) Where as the best LS episodes IMO are best when the really dig deep into thier charchter and the relationships and tell a suspense filled story.

- Still annoyed that Owen literally thought going to a old fire site was more important than the dinner. I get he forgot but when TK rang and reminded him he still decided to prioritise that over the dinner. Great parenting.

-I am two hours late cause I couldn’t find limes. My phone went dead hence why I couldnt tell yoh I was running late. OWEN you could see all the missed calls when Billy handed it over so obs that was a lie that TK could have seen straight through as the phone was still ringing. Idiot.

- Poor Judd literally put between two of hos friends

- I feel like Buttercup would be loving having Mateo live with him somehow I doubt Owen has food that is that intersting to him and TK prob doesnt feed him human food out of love. Mateo providing the goods and is a pushover.

- The fire station sceme was a hard one because I felt for TK so bad at the beggining but it kind of frustrating to see the blind faith he has in his father despite the fact he was the first one to talk about him smelling like smoke yesterday yet he was annoyed that Carlos felt the same about his father, Carlos trusts his dad to not do something like this without real evidence the same way TK knows Owen didn’t do this. I love TK so much but he can get tunnel vision some times

- Then TK shoved Carlos mutiple times. Tk feels things so intensely and I think Carlos calm demanour in that situation probably didn’t help as it could feel cold but you do not shove your partner. I also felt so bad for Carlos in that moment because I guarantee you if Carlos had shoved TK, Judd would have him against a wall in a second flat. We havent seen Carlos outside of TK but I hope he has his own set of friends because as much as the fire fam love him they always seem to be TKs support system and Carlos look so hurt when he walked away. He was put in a tough spot there.

-  Mateo’s blind faith in Owen is adorable and I also did not know that was a pasta cutter.

- I am really glad it is not Billy, well done Lonestar on not taking the easy route. I also enjoy how smart the arsonist is.

- I love that my boy is with his kid ❤ Hell yes Gabriel

- Dude he set himself on fire!

- Owen he said he was going to take the most important thing in the world from you and you thought of the firehouse (and I am hoping your house) yet it didnt occur to you that TK was on that list. You really are a self obssesed guy. Gabriel needs to take one here too. Ya a Texas Ranger and the idea that he could get to both of you in one move didnt occur? I am hoping Gabriel at least had his house checked.

- I don’t have time to explain. And then Owen explained.

-  Carlos, TK does have to apologise. I get it was a bad situation for both of you and TK qas hurt but TK overstepped and acknowledging that is imporant. Tk needs to examine why violence is an oulet for him in a non healthy way

- Billy has really grown on me

-  I love the fire scene. It was hot and intense with doubling it with the fire going. But could they have picked another song. It was so corny it kinda took me out of the moment. But Rafa and Ronen where so good I got over it.

- TK left his phone downstairs but when he gets off the bed he has a phone in his pocket. Gonna assume that is Ronen’s phone. (Rafa may not take his on set but Ronen ovs does)  Also the fact that they are wearing shoes in bed is hilarious

-  Carlos and TK more or less saying goodbye and that the love each other broke me. These guys have my heart.

- Poor Carlos. The way he tried to say he was good before breaking down and thinking it was his fault for not having an extingusher upstaors. I loved seeing him let his guard down and let TK be there for him, I think that was important for him and TK stepped up.

- No Charles! I really hope his OK

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rage and tenderness existing simultaneously in the same body

Owen Strand needs to grow up. Like I’m sorry, I don’t buy this a man’s gotta be able to look at himself shit. As much as I don’t like Billy, Owen still punched him and signing an apology page is just being an adult. He doesn’t have to like it but OWEN is the reason this whole punching thing has gone on as long as it has. Marjan is completely right. Owen is acting like a child.

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wtf!!! was watching 3x16 and had a feeling it was about ownen (ofc) and that the other kid was his brother. but the name reveal brought me to tears!! TYLER!! and why his son is named Tyler Kennedy Strand. TK is named after his uncle. Owen’s brother. damn….all the times TK’s life was in danger Owen had to fear the loss of his son but also relive the moment when his brother died. If TK ever died then both of Owen’s Tyler’s would be gone

Okay but can we talk about how it’s practically canon at this point that Owen AND Gwyn were both absent during TK’s childhood?

Like the scene where Gwyn tells him it’s Enzo’s child, he says about how Enzo took care of him when “you and dad were too busy”

There are loads of examples and it confuses me because Owen seems to switch from being a great father to an absent and guilt tripping one.

Subtly Un-Subtle

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Your prompts were a whole load of fun to work with, and I gotta say, they definitely brought back my love and motivation for writing, so I thank you for that!

Anyway, I went with relationship reveal from your prompts, and it IS a 5+1. I hope you enjoy it, and happy holidays!

As always, a giant shout-out to the one, the only, the wonderful, @lire-casander, for being the bestest beta I could have ever worked with, and for helping me out with this fic. I couldn’t have done it without you ❤

Gwyn didn’t know who the shirtless man TK was cuddling was. Paul, Marjan and Mateo seem to agree that they’re definitely more than friends. Judd and Grace didn’t expect to see people they know in this restaurant. Tommy and Nancy try to give them as much privacy as they can in the back of an open ambulance. Evie and Izzy need to find the truth.

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Five times Carlos and TK get caught living their life in a relationship, and the one time they decide they’re done hiding.

AO3, G, 7956 words

Characters: Carlos Reyes, TK Strand, Gwyn Morgan, Owen Strand, Paul Strickland, Marjan Marwani, Mateo Chavez, Judd Ryder, Grace Ryder, Tommy Vega, Nancy Gillian, Evie Vega, Isabella Vega, Mentioned Charles Vega.

Additional Tags: Canon Divergence, Fluff, Secret Relationship, Relationship Reveal, Established Relationship, Minor Injuries

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Maternal Mission

A fourteen-hour flight was a pain in the ass, Gwyn knows it, and yet, she still thought it wasn’t the worst thing in the world. Her only son being hurt — getting shot and entering a four-day coma — while she was fourteen hours away was definitely the worse thing to ever happen. She knows it’s been a month since he was discharged, and that he’s been home and resting and healing ever since. But her heart won’t slow down, and her brain won’t shut up, until she sees him with her own two eyes.

As she walks through the airport, standing in lines and moving from one queue to another queue at the pace of a snail, she can’t help but mutter a few choice words in anger. TK getting hurt while she was away wasn’t enough. No. It had to happen while a global pandemic was starting and travel restrictions were being put up. It’s by a mere miracle that she was able to leave and find herself a seat on a flight returning back to the States. And after that, she’s had to quarantine in a hotel before being allowed out into the public. And so, she finds herself coming to Austin much later than she would have liked.

It’s sad, and it hurts her entire soul, and she’d like to blame it on everyone and everything around her. Her brain somehow goes to Owen, and she hopes she could make this his fault, but she can still recognise that that’s a stretch, even by the standards of their rocky relationship.

The man in front of her moves, and Gwyn focuses her attention on the woman behind the counter, supplying all the required paperwork, hoping that this goes as smoothly as possible; she just wants to get to TK’s side, to hold him in her arms, make sure that he is indeed safe and sound, and alive.

When she’s finally done with that, she heads to baggage claim, thanking the universe that her bag appears moments after she stops in front of the belt, and then she’s out of the door, getting into the first empty taxi she sees, rattling off the address from her phone.

The drive is no longer than thirty minutes, yet it feels like centuries. She usually stays alert, eyes on the roads they’re travelling down, but she’s got better things on her mind right now.

She must have dozed off, for one moment she’s staring out at the vast expanse of land surrounding the airport and in the blink of an eye she’s suddenly rolling through big, beautiful houses all lined up in perfect rows.

“Excuse me, ma’am, we’re here,” a voice calls, and Gwyn feels her brain reconnect with reality, thrusting her consciousness back to the back of the cab she’s currently seated on.

“Oh, oh, okay,” she stutters her way out of the taxi, rounding the vehicle to take her luggage bag out of the trunk and then paying the man. It’s only when he moves that she turns around and comes into view of the house.

The suburban two storey home is as classy as Owen himself can be — it’s very much classy and pristine. It reminds her of the late years of their marriage when their lives looked nice from the outside. She can only hope that the inside isn’t nearly as much of a mess.

Dragging up her bag, she crosses the expanse of the white-picket front lawn before she bends at the door to retrieve the extra key Owen said he’d leave out for her under the mat.

There’s a string of thoughts that remind her TK might be asleep, so she makes sure to make as little noise as possible, fighting the urge to call out to him the way she really wants to. Instead, she pushes the door just open enough to get her and the bags through, then she closes it just as slowly.

Owen had given her a basic tour of the house, so she knows that Tk will either be in the living room to her left, in the kitchen to her right or the bedroom a little further after the kitchen.

A quick scan of the living room reveals vacant couches, so she immediately crosses to the other side of the house. When she finds the kitchen and dining room bare as well, she makes her way towards TK’s bedroom. It takes everything in her to stop in front of the closed door and softly knock, but when there isn’t an answer, she opens the door anyway.

Gwyn fully expected to see a completely sick and bed-ridden TK, wraps and bandages covering more skin than showing, or a full moving and healed TK singing and dancing around in the room. What she finds instead was a seemingly normal-looking and sleeping TK, hair spiked in every direction from rolling around on the bed no doubt, a blanket low on his hips, and the edge of a bandage visible in the high of his collarbone. That’s all expected though.

The man whose chest is currently being used as TK’s pillow isn’t.

There’s a full man, dark hair curled into the picture of a perfect mess on top of his head, one hand intertwined with TK’s hand on his chest while the other arm wraps around TK’s shoulders. TK’s head seems to find a comfortable pillow on the man’s chest — if the small and satisfied smile on her son’s face is anything to go by. He doesn’t look like a casual visitor either; with no shoes in sight and soft sweatpants, a jacket thrown over the back of a chair in the corner of the room, he looks like he’s been here for a while.

The scene would be cute, if she wasn’t endlessly confused. She doesn’t remember seeing him, even though she’s met the entirety of the team numerous times whenever she’s Facetimed TK and someone from the crew is over to help out. This man is definitely not Marjan or Michelle, and he’s not Judd, Paul or Mateo. There’s one more person that she’s only ever heard of, never actually saw, a friend of TK’s — Carlos.

“Oh,” she finds herself whispering. Owen mentioned a Carlos once, and it elicited a deep blush and a mumbled “no, dad, it’s not like that” from TK.

Is it Carlos?

There’s no way this is the just friends that cuddle and hold aren’t platonic, she doesn’t think.

This is more like the, at least, friends with benefits stage she’s seen TK have with other boys before. She’s never seen him so at ease with any of them, and she’s walked in on TK with his boyfriend several times throughout the years.

With a final glance, she decides that the sight of an asleep TK is enough to calm her heart for a bit. And the sight of a happy and comfortable TK with this mystery man is more than enough to soothe the pain she feels for him.

Troublesome Trio

Paul had the entirety of his focus on the game, he really did. It’s not his fault that TK is being suspiciously tense around a person that he claims to be very close friends with.

He’s aware that TK has been in a bad mood from the moment that door was opened, probably carried over from his house. But he still keeps his eyes on him, watches as Mateo asks if he got the cheeseballs, and TK goes on a rant about how ”my friend goes through a lot of trouble to make us healthy snacks and provides us with a safe place for us to gather, so we can at least have some human interaction in this uncertain age, and I’m going to spoil that with cheeseballs,” only to gingerly admit that he forgot mere seconds later. He watches as TK makes his way straight to the kitchen, opening the fridge and moving things around like he knows where things go and where they are. He watches as TK leans in close to Carlos only to appear as if he suddenly remembered where he is and tense away.

Interesting.

Mateo, who was half bent over the dining table thus far, turns around and makes deliberate eye contact with Paul, almost as if to say did you see this?

Paul sees it. He thought he was the only one that saw it, but he’s starting to think otherwise, especially when Marjan proclaims her win and then, as she’s dancing, throws a smirk at an oblivious TK and Carlos, still in the kitchen, still talking amongst themselves, in their own world.

The three of them take a moment to stare at the pair, and then at each other. Paul is almost entirely positive now that they’ve all noticed the two before, just never said anything. Yet, as Mateo makes his way towards the living room and sits with wide eyes full of gossip, Paul knows that they’re now discussing it.

“You guys see that, right?” Mateo whispers the moment his butt touches the surface of the armchair, elbows on his thighs as he leans closer to where Paul and Marjan sit.

“Oh, I see it alright,” Marjan whispers back, looking over at the pair and then back at Paul. “What about you, Mr. Know-It-All?”

“I ain’t blind, you know,” he snarks, rolling his eyes at them. He’s glad the conversation was started by someone else, because he wouldn’t have allowed himself to speak on it. If TK and Carlos didn’t say anything to him, it has to be for a reason, and he’d rather cut his own tongue before he breaches their privacy.

Marjan and Mateo stare at him, agape at his outburst. He sighs. “It’s one thing that we’ve noticed, and it’s another that there’s something there, or, you know, that they want to make it known.”

“So you admit you think they’re more than friends,” Marjan says with a sense of finality.

“I’m not admitting to anything,” Paul insists, reaching out for the remote to keep his hands busy. He’s never liked talking about people who aren’t there to defend themselves, and he’s not one to gossip. If TK and Carlos have something going on, it’s their decision to tell everyone or to keep it to themselves.

“Well, for what it’s worth, I think they’re a cute couple,” Mateo intersects, grabbing a snack from the bowl in front of him and grimacing when he sees it’s definitely not a cheeseball. “Let’s hope that next time TK isn’t so blinded by love that he doesn’t forget about the good stuff.”

“I think he was a bit mad,” Paul points out, but Mateo isn’t listening to him anymore.

“Hey, guys,” TK makes his presence known by flipping down on the couch between them. “What are we talking about? We ready to watch a movie?”

As he’s speaking, Carlos brings another bowl to the table and sits on the floor, in between TK’s leg, eliciting a knowing glance between the three of them.

“Sure thing,” Marjan says. “It’s Mateo’s turn to pick.”

And while Mateo takes his sweet time choosing between Thor and Superman, Marjan and Paul share another glance, more intimate, silently agreeing to not say anything if TK and Carlos aren’t open about their relationship.

Even if it means turning a blind eye to the way they think they’re subtly holding hands, right in front of them all.

Curious Couple

There’s a jump in Judd’s step that’s been following him around the entire day. From the moment he got a call from Grace’s favourite restaurant informing him that a reservation was cancelled and he was pushed up from the waiting list, he’d been on cloud nine. There was no denying that they were in need of a break — between Grace’s physical therapy and the pregnancy and his own unforgiving job lately, they’ve been stretched thin and have been craving a moment to breathe.

What better breath than a fancy, upscale restaurant that will be followed by beer on their deck?

So he keeps his head steady, does the job well and safe, and then races home. By the time he’s walking into the house, Grace is out of the shower. By the time he’s done with his own shower, Grace is almost ready. And fifteen minutes later, they’re both walking hand-in-hand out of the door and towards the car.

The car ride is like every other car ride with Grace, Judd thinks. They’ve got their hands intertwined, they’re talking and joking and having a good time, so much so that he doesn’t even realise they’re at the destination until the GPS alerts him to the last turn into the restaurant parking lot.

It’s a quick thing to get from the car to their table, and then they’re sitting across from each other between dozens of other couples.

Judd is so engrossed in Grace and the happiness that he’s experiencing, the food and conversation keeping a wide grin stapled on his face, that the time passes and before he knows it, it’s an hour later and they’re waiting on dessert. He takes the lull in conversation to look around the restaurant, the dim lights and chandeliers giving the place a perfect date sensation. As he lets his eyes roam though, he notices a familiar mop of brown hair a few tables to his left. But once he sees him — once he sees the salmon shirt that fits him like a glove and the watch on his wrist that seems to be heavy and expensive, even if he can’t pick up the actual brand — Judd seems to be entranced by the mere sight of him here, let alone why he might be here. So much so that he finds himself pulled out of his brain by a snap of fingers in front of his face.

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Also I haven’t watchers the full ep yet.. did tk ever see his dad in his dream? Or just his mom.. like this is just adding on to my list of reasons why Owen is a shitty father. Like tk didn’t even wanna see him subconsciously before he died. Such a mamas boy wow