I’m putting myself in lockdown to get Chap 5 of WtC finished today so I’m cheating a bit and compiling some snippets here I did for my Make Me Write for my new Buck Whump fic; working title: Echo Mountain-
There’s a moment. Before the pain sinks its teeth in and the adrenaline fully hits, where Buck just lies there. In the dirt. His mother always warned him he’d die in a ditch somewhere.
Buck would really hate to prove her right.
The ground in front of him is a blurry smudge, brown and green and grays. Something drips sluggishly into his left eye and for a panicky moment, Buck’s not sure he can move a hand to wipe at it. He’s pinned again, leg screaming and skin alight, cold dread and bone chilling numbness creeping up from his toes.
“Hey, you’re okay.”
Buck chokes at the sound of the voice. Tommy’s voice. Soothing and warm and clear somewhere just out of his line of vision. He blinks furiously, trying to turn his head, move his body, anything, to find the source. A wounded animal in a trap, a pathetic mewling sound working its way past his lips.
“Hey, hey, shhh,” Tommy says again.
Slowly, painfully, Buck stretches his arms forward, gets his hands underneath him. The sleeves of his jacket are shredded from the fall, forearms stinging, and Buck finds his eyes caught at the sight of them, threads splayed loose and the flash of sluggish blood peeking out between the torn fabric.
“Looks like road rash,” Tommy’s voice says helpfully. Buck blinks, scrubs at his face and feels the tacky catch and pull of blood under his fingers, catalog of bike falls and skateboard injuries flickering behind his eyes. Maddie holding up a band-aid.
“I wasn’t on the road,” he says slowly, shaking his head and immediately regretting it, feels like his brain’s sloshing around in a pickle jar, tastes the salt of the brine at the back of his throat at the movement.
“Yeah, that’s probably half the problem, huh,” Tommy says, not unkindly. Buck wishes he could see him but it’s like he’s moving, shifting just out of Buck’s reach every time he tries to catch him. It’s making him dizzy.
au where buck became a cop instead of a firefighter. joins swat. this is a crossover. he’s on hondo’s team, killing it. he knows rocker pretty well and they mostly get along. they hangout at work and like, spar and stuff. causally pals. but one day rocker’s twin shows up and he’s fully like 👀👀 rocker who is THAT? and rockers like, just my dorky brother tommy. and buck looses his mind. he asks tommy if he wants to hangout. they do the tour of harbor, they go get that beer, they hangout. and then tommy kisses him and it’s like? buck had no idea he was into tommy or men at all but his eyes are OPEN and later rockers like, dude! crush on my brother but not me? and bucks like idk what to tell you he’s hotter.
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