#911 lone star 4.04

[doublel27]

You know, we’re talking about how the Tarlos of it all will live in our heads forever, but I want to go back and watch TK tell Detective Grier she’s underestimated Iris and Carlos and he’s not about to let her continue. And then have Major Ranger Papa Reyes ask her if she’s had forensics go through it and her stutter.

That was something I needed after our interactions with Detective Grier.

[tkstrandreyes]

Tarlos talking about losing each other.

[911lsbts]

Roxana Brusso & Benito Martinez BTS of 911: Lone Star Season 4 Ep4 “Abandoned”

[ronenrubinsteinsource]

Sneak peek: 9-1-1: Lone Star | T. K. Tries to Track Down Carlos.

[decafdino]

Seven sentence sunday!!!!

Guys i did it!!! its actually seven this time HALLELUJAH

Without further ado, another snippet of my sequel coda, Fermata:

Carlos isn't sure TK even heard him, until he says, "Lexi told me she found you face down."

"What?" he asks, the statement catching him completely off-guard.

"In the park," TK expands, "you were passed out in the grass, asleep. She said it looked like you'd fallen over and just decided not to get up."

"TK, please, come here," he begs. He has a sinking feeling he knows where this is going, but he's sure that if he could just get ahold of his fiancé, he can stop the storm before it starts.

"But you didn't fall, did you?"

i can see the end of this fic, and idk if yall are going to like what i have in store >:) probably because I'm thinking about leaving it on a cliffhanger

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[bluepines]

I was just thinking about this and I was gonna post about it but stopped myself because I thought, 'it's probably just a coincidence'

But I remembered this when I thought back on the scene between Owen's "Give me the Narcan" in 1.01 and TK's "Give me" then stabbed it into the same leg.

[trkstrnd]

carlos and iris starving in a cell

iris: you’re so stupid what were you thinking

carlos: i need the divorce papers immediately.

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[91-1lover]

I don't think he didn't want to TK to hear him scream. I think its more about the fact that TK would came running to him and Truly could harm him. Even kidnapped Carlos make sure TK stay safe. He's ok with anybody else coming through that door where Trudy stay with knife unless they are TK

the way Carlos starts yelling behind the duct tape when he sees Trudy grab the knife to go to the door where TK is… the way Carlos asks if TK’s still in the neighborhood before letting out the most painful screams for help so he doesn’t have to hear him like that… the way Carlos is moments away from dying and he’s thinking about how TK’s going to cope with his grief if he’s not there to pick up the pieces… the way Carlos makes a joke to prove to TK that he’s okay after TK literally had to breathe life back into his body…

even in the worst situation of his life, Carlos is gonna take care of TK <3

[guardian-angle22]

911 Lone Star | TK Strand in 4.04 Abandoned

[safeashousespdf]

trudy said gay rights!

911: LONE STAR | 4.04

[chaotictarlos]

Can I request a super duper feral tk searching for his carlos or possessive tk claiming his maaan???

I'm too impatient to wait for 4.04༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

HERE YOU GO BESTIE.

[doublel27]

I don't really understand why you think that Carlos didn't outwardly blame TK in 4x03. He spent most of the episode being angry and glaring at him (even after Iris was rescued) - not to mention the "bad relationship" comment. He also basically confirmed it when TK asked if he thought it was his fault. It was all pretty pointedly directed at TK, no one else (except, you know, a suspect).

Okay, nonny, gonna be totally honest, I have not gone and rewatched the episode more than the times I watched it a week and a half ago now, so I'm going to go off of my memory and my theory of Carlos as a character as he's been expressed to us thus far. I'm also gonna need you to remind me of the "bad relationship" comment because I don't remember it. Was it in the car? It might have been in the car. I'm going to rewatch.

Carlos DID spend most of the episode angry, but he was really glaring at everyone that wasn't Iris IMO, from what I saw. He was skeptical of Detective Grier except when she played on his worst fears.

And let's talk about Carlos and what was happening in 4x03 and how it relates to his past and his present and his future.

So, several things:

One: This is not the first time Iris has gone missing, this is the second time. The first time Carlos thought she was dead for three years. She wasn't dead, she'd had a mental break due to schitzophrenia and was missing in Austin for three years, during which Carlos told Michelle to give up. There's a big wound that exists here with how Carlos accepted that she was in her right mind when she went missing and it (IMO part of the reason he didn't see her afterwards) because they'd already drifted apart by this point. Carlos didn't know her friends, he didn't know her life, he didn't know how odd things had gotten.

NOW, he's finally gotten back in touch with her, after guilt and other things likely kept him away and she's disappeared again. In fact, she's disappeared again IMMEDIATELY AFTER Carlos asked for something he needed. Carlos tends not to ask for his needs, like ever. And he asked Iris for this thing, and she's now missing. The level of guilt I am sure he felt after the detective told him that his wife went missing after he handed her divorce papers would have been massive.

We could see it on his face, weighing on him. It weighed on him in the interview with Grier in the apartment, and when TK admits that actually, he had gone to talk to Iris, but it was fine-- we would have hit another level of Carlos spiral.

Carlos is very used to handling everything himself. There is a level of perfectionism and control issues that cause Carlos to do everything himself. Like, this is a man who bought a whole ass house without telling TK as a surprise. He's also a man who has tried to finagle things. It was entirely growth to tell TK about Iris before the divorce was complete. I am certain there's a part of Carlos that immediately worried that by involving TK he had set off a chain of events that had inadvertently caused her to have another break.

Doesn't matter that Iris thought she was fine. Doesn't matter that TK thought she was fine. Last time Carlos and Michelle thought she was fine and she was found under a bridge.

We are also looking at a man who any time HE messes up for real, gets petty and starts projecting. Do I think he actually blamed TK? No. I think he blamed himself for involving a free radical like TK to offset the balance. I think he was so caught up in his own fears and his own decisions that he couldn't think past it.

And it's not the first time we've seen this from Carlos.

In 3.13, which is perhapse one of the most egregious levels of Carlos petty bitch moods, Carlos isn't mad at TK having a relationship with Cooper. Carlos is mad that someone else is able to provide acts of service to TK that are making him better and Carlos can't. Carlos's main act of things is acts of service. And he keeps trying to provide the services Cooper is providing and TK doesn't want them from him and Carlos feels not enough. So he's a petty fucking bitch to TK to the point that he doesn't make him food and is like "I thought Coop would feed you."

He does a similar move in 2x04 after the incident with his parents where he tries to gaslight TK into thinking the interaction WASN"T WEIRD. It was weird, you were talking about not being able to hold out for sex that long and how you and your boyfriend had sex in a honky tonk bathroom and then had a "This is my friend from work, TJ, who actually isn't a cop but a firefighter, Dad, don't be mad."

And TK wasn't wrong. But Carlos is both terrified that he's upset his parents with the existence of TK and that he's upset TK to the point of leaving. When TK does come back, Carlos has a very petty bitch moment of "Or did we break up already, because it felt like we did?" Because he's scared.

This is a common occurance all the way back to 1x02 when he calls TK crazy, but we know he knows he's being weird in 1x02 when he's like "I KNOW IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT BUT IT"S NOT BUT IT"S SUPER EASY IT"S JUST A FISH FROM THE FARMERS MARKET NO WORRIES< CHAMPAGNE?" and then when TK is like "This is a booty call. I am only up for booty calls right now" and Carlos then knows he's gone too far but he freaks out and tells TK he's acting crazy but he later tells Michelle he didn't ask TK out because he was worried about him running.

Whenever Carlos fucks up, or is worried he fucked up, he gets defensive and he gets petty and it's SO COMMON. It's just never been so glaringly projection until 3x13 and 4x03.

Also, narratively, the writers set TK up to feel guilty and worried so he didn't worry too much when Carlos didn't come home at first but wasn't immediately terrified when Carlos never respond. TK thinking Carlos is furious with him and isn't responding is the whole reason TK is wondering if he's over reacting with his worry or if he's thinking of doing the right thing in the ways he wants to make it up to Carlos or demand Carlos comes home.

Here's the thing. Carlos didn't leave the apartment in 4x03 or didn't come home later in 4x03 because he was mad at TK. He left the apartment and then didn't come home because he was searching for Iris. We saw it on the call where he showed up to the woman over the cliff fearing it was Iris and was immediately in a panic. When he tells TK he's staing with Iris, he's actually investigating the house again, and lets be real, he knows TK will tell him not to. He's so focused on uncovering what's going on with Iris, he's not paying attention to TK.

He's so lazer focused in the phone call with TK. He's just staring at the house the whole time and is distracted. I've got to rewatch it for the bad relationship comment. That's the one part I don't remember and I'll go back.

And I think, there is a justifiable thing to worry about your childhood best friend who is missing and maybe having another mental break and try and solve what's going on.

I do not feel that how TK was made to feel was fully intentional but it doesn't make it okay any more than his behavior in 3x13 was okay, or in 2x04 was okay or that 1x02 was okay. However, Carlos DOES fix it and change when he is wrong. He asks TK out on a real date. In 2x04 he apologizes and then gets to the point where he sets up a dinner with their families so that he can be boldly out after his dad confirms they know in 2x08. He calls Cooper and makes TK dinner and refuses to let TK say no in 3x13. In this case, Carlos was held captive by murderers, but his focus was still on keeping TK safe every time TK got close.

I think we'll see some progress from here, but that's my take. I understood if people took it other ways. I think we were supposed to be unsure, but I'd love to ask Rafa. He'd know.

[tkstrandreyes]

911: Lone Star Season 4 Episode 4 "Abandoned" Stills Part 1.

[911lsbts]

New Stills of 911: Lone Star Season 4 Ep. 4 "Abandoned"

[ronenrubinsteinsource]

Sneak peek: 9-1-1: Lone Star | T.K. Calls His Dad for Advice.

[decafdino]

Seven??? Sentence Sunday

This is from the sequel I'm writing to Da Capo. Literally nothing i put for this challenge is going to be in seven tho lmao

"You think I'm an idiot, don't you?"

TK shakes his head. He stands his ground, even under Carlos' piercing, hurt stare. "No, I don't, Carlos."

"Then why? You're going to confine me to something… to something I don't want, and for what?" He feels tears, those goddamn tears, prickling at the corners of his eyes. He pulls his hand away when TK reaches for it. "I thought you loved me," he says, his voice barely above a whisper.

"I do," TK says. He sucks in a breath. "I do love you."

"Then why—"

"Because it's not just about what you want, Carlos!" he snaps.

Read Da Capo here