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There'll Be Icicles and Birthday Clothes, and Sometimes There'll Be Sorrow by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting)
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
12 Oct 2025
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TK and Carlos face a whole new parenting challenge when six-year-old Jonah is excluded from the class bully’s birthday party, and it seems like he’s even losing his best friend because of it. With the help of Owen, Andrea and Buttercup – and an unexpected turn of events – the husbands find a way to muddle through and heal a couple of little broken hearts.
As soon as Carlos steps out from the passenger side of the truck, silhouetted against the cold white sky, TK’s chest blooms with warmth.
“Papa!” Jonah shouts.
“Hola, mijo!” Carlos shouts back, his hat off because he knows the drill – TK and Jonah will get hit in the face with the brim when they embrace him if he keeps the hat on, and lord knows Jonah’s had enough of things hitting his face for one day.
“What are you doing here?” TK asks. The nice surprise is making him laugh. He hurries along with Jonah, and Carlos jogs to meet them halfway. Sam casually saunters along behind.
Playing cool and corporate, Carlos answers, “Well, sir, when you informed me of what happened, I thought we'd better take a detour and check out the scene.”
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TK spent 5 years hiding his classification only for it to be uncovered shortly after his move to Austin.
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- Part 1 of Reclassified
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And His Last Breath Spoke (Walk Away Me Boy) by Zellieze
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
06 Jul 2025
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Owen's mind was rarely a quiet place. Sirens, crying, worries, voices of long dead men. He'd gotten used to it all playing on repeat. So much so that he missed it when it finally silenced.
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“I have cancer,” Owen heard the footsteps stop, “and I buried my son a few days before coming down here.” Owen stood momentary to turn his chair towards where Judd had stopped to give listen. “The thing is Judd, we've all got troubles and we all have to face them. Just like I'll have to face this diagnosis and my grief, and you'll have to face what you've lost.”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------OR TK died when he accidentally overdosed in episode 1, so Owen moves to Texas to distract himself, but he can't pretend forever.
Title: what's left of the flag by Flogging Molly -
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Unlike the first book, these stories aren't based on anything we saw, some that we heard, but most are just things we thought up randomly.
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- Language:
- English
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- 448
- Chapters:
- 1/11
- Hits:
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TK's first summer in Austin isn't what he expected, but he still finds a way to beat the heat.
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One year ago, TK was reluctantly unpacking boxes in a room that couldn’t feel any less like his if it tried in a state he didn’t belong. He’d been depressed, filled with an anxiety he didn’t think he’d ever be able to shake, lonely as hell, and getting through the next hour felt impossible, let alone the next year.
Today, he’s bolting upright in the bed he shares more often than not with the love of his life, exclaiming, “Oh my god, babe. We have two classes together? And homeroom. And two free blocks.”
Yeah, life has a funny way of working itself out, but that doesn’t stop it from happening.
‘It’ being, well, for TK today, school.
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Now solid in their relationship, TK and Carlos navigate senior year at Travis Heights High and all that brings. A sequel to written in the stars.
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- Part 4 of wits-verse
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After the wildfires TK and Buck stayed in contact, it started with a few dms on insta, then they started to text and talk on the phone once in a while.
Then Covid came and everything changed, quarantine hit them both hard, and they started to talk and even FaceTime daily.
When the world is falling apart who do you turn to?
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Carlos gets the flu; TK can’t get him to rest so he takes care of him
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- Part 12 of Tarlos + Jonah sickfics
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Why Does It Hurt To Leave What's Killing Me? by Taro_Whisper
Fandoms: Chicago Fire, 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020), 9-1-1 (TV), Law & Order, Chicago PD (TV)
10 Apr 2025
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Having Benny in his life as a child didn't bode well for Kelly. Having Stella in his life now is destroying him, even as the two people he refuses to let himself love struggle to keep him from shattering completely.
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- Part 4 of How Our Lives Were Meant To Be
- Part 1 of One Chicago L&O Shenanigans
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Buttercup and Owen meet The Dogist in New York.
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Carlos's last call had gone very long, and when he could finally check his phone he was horrified to discover 8 missed calls and dozens of texts from TK, Owen, and assorted other members of the 126. He’s been able to gather that TK broke his foot, that TK is stupid, that Mateo was involved, that Mateo is stupid, that Buttercup had something to do with it, but it was absolutely not his fault, and there was a cat who might be a sweet baby angel (according to TK) but also might be the spawn of Satan. So Carlos is a little confused.
In which TK and Mateo get a cat out of a tree.
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Where You’ll Find Me by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting) for lemon__lyman
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
04 Mar 2025
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TK feels pretty mortal himself right now, back in the hospital like this, even on the other side of the veil as a visitor rather than a patient in the ICU. From time to time, TK still feels like something is wrong with him. Like he never left. For weeks after he came around from his coma, he’d question if he remained in a coma dream. Sometimes reality had a jolt to it, jarring lines and waves like he could only see the world through a VHS tape.
One night, curled like a cat in Carlos’ arms, he asked, “Are you real?”
The question threw a slumbering Carlos into an existential crisis. “I don’t know,” he groaned, which didn’t help. But then he nosed TK’s hair, breathing the particles that made him. “If this is a dream I don’t want to wake up.”
“That’s so cheesy,” TK whispered, his head jerking a little on Carlos’ chest when Carlos began to laugh.
After a missing and critically injured Marjan is rescued, the 126 await news of her recovery, and TK holds tight to Carlos as he struggles to contemplate losing a friend who has become like family. Two weeks later, it’s finally Marjan’s party, and she’ll dance if she wants to. Coda for 4x09, Road Kill.
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so much more than romance by lyricallyharley for stormwriting
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
18 Feb 2025
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TK never anticipated that a dogsitting favor would result in a spontaneous baking quest, a makeshift holiday celebration, and a difficult conversation with his family brought forth by an impromptu, late-night trip to the vet.
With Jonah still adjusting to being at home, and their marriage strained by the stresses of parenthood, the unexpected twists and turns of this adventure turn out to be exactly what they needed.
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Broken. That was a word that Piper Strand was familiar with as it is exactly how you would describe her family. Yet the brokenness brought her closer to her twin brother TK. It was because of him that she was able to join the New York Fire Department's EMS program. Her life was perfect. That was until she found TK's lifeless body. After TK recovered their father decided to take TK to Austin. Luckily for Piper, her dad secured her a position in the Austin EMS organisation. It was there that she and her brother rebuilt their perfect lives.
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Wake: "a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft," and "used to refer to the aftermath or consequences of something."
The story of what happens to Mateo in the 129 and the aftermath.
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TK swoons when he discovers a sentimental scrapbook full of notes he and Carlos have left for each other – but he also finds a book of poems that closeted teen-Carlos wrote about his struggles, including a few dedicated to his high school crush. An adorably mortified Carlos recalls the stir he caused when he was published anonymously in the high school paper, and everything he went through to write his wedding vows for TK years later. With TK as a hype-man, maybe Carlos can embrace his creative side again.
“The third time we hooked up, I asked if you wanted tea and cookies. You looked at me like I was so weird.”
TK’s exhausted face breaks into a dazzling grin. “You were being such a Boy Scout.”
“Then you said yes and ate half the cookie jar.”
“You called me the Cookie Monster.”
“That was the first time I really made you laugh.”
“Tea came out my nose.”
“It was beautiful.” Carlos pauses then to qualify: “Your laugh.”
TK gazes up at him. “I can’t believe you remember that.”
“The first time you made me laugh was when we were dancing at the honky-tonk.”
“Hey!” TK swats his arm. “I was trying my best!”
“You were so goofy,” Carlos chides. “I just loved it. I loved you.” -
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Mateo regrets a lot of things lately. He regrets not doing more, he regrets not telling his captain how much he meant to him before he left for "hill country".
now it's just so hard to wake up.
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- Part 13 of Whumptober 2024
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Fall On Your Knees by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting) for EnchantedToReadYou
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
21 Dec 2024
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During their breakup, TK and Carlos pine for each other on Christmas Eve – both remembering a time when it felt like nothing could tear them apart. Can conversations with family help guide them along the path towards reconciliation?
Carlos’ gentle laugh floats up to the ceiling like a gold balloon.
A thrown pillow lands on his face. A plush torpedo.
“Hey!” He throws the pillow back, hits the wall.
TK grabs the pillow again – again aims perfectly for Carlos’ face. All those Little League games paying off years later with his good aim. But Carlos’ sportsman strength is to wrestle, which TK well knows, and Carlos knows when he’s being goaded. He opts not to throw the pillow back this time, preferring to kneel up on the air mattress and enter a pillow fight duel. TK scrappily defends himself and starts batting away at Carlos – and they giggle and snicker and gasp at each other’s audacity, TK’s knees inching closer and closer to the cliff edge of the bed as he raises his pillow mightily for the final blow. Carlos withstands the impact like the mountain of pure muscle that he is, but TK tips over face-forwards into Carlos’ arms... -
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After Owen finishes up the last few things at the station, the pair drive separately to his house, skipping the warmth of the indoors and heading straight to the backyard through the side gate. Snow blankets the yard in a pristine white sheet, and TK kicks at it lightly as they walk, watching the powder scatter.
Owen claps his hands together. “We’re gonna build the perfect snowman.”
“Sure, Dad,” TK says, shoving his hands into his hoodie. “Shouldn’t we get gloves?”
“Fair point,” Owen agrees easily, heading inside through the sliding glass door. “Wait here.”
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It snows in Austin, so the Strand boys make a snowman.
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- Part 3 of Yuletide Whimsy (31 Days of Fluffcember)
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In which Buttercup takes care of Carlos, even before Carlos knows he needs taking care of. He lets TK help.