#also i think ryan and lou would DEVOUR such a scene

[laurenttheninth]

hear me out: trapped dads but it’s eddie and tommy

we’ve all seen firefly yes? we all know episode ten: war stories? wherein captain malcolm reynolds and pilot hoban washburne are captured and tortured by sadistic crime lord adelai niska? and mal, in an incredible but convoluted act of care, picks a fight with wash and insults his marriage and implies he slept with his wife in order to keep wash alert and angry, to keep wash from succumbing to fear and hopelessness and giving in and letting niska break and kill him? yes?

so we’ve got tommy bleeding out/smushed by debris/whathaveyou and eddie is trying to keep him awake and he’s like c’mon man i haven’t even had a chance to give you hell for breaking my best friend’s heart. and eddie gives him shit for it. and tommy defends himself. and eddie gives him more shit, saying tommy never deserved buck, etc. and tommy defends himself because at least he had the guts to admit how he felt about evan.

and they managed to amp each other up enough that they can finally lift the big heavy thing off of tommy and now eddie is trying to save him from these injuries with only the turnouts on his back and bits of debris surrounding them in the rubble. and tommy is like you gotta get out of here man because evan can’t lose us both. and eddie’s like he’s not losing either of us. and they get rescued and tommy’s so much worse off than eddie and buck sees eddie first and sprints over and hugs him and is so so so relieved and then he sees tommy and goes to him and takes his hand and we see tommy and eddie make eye contact and it’s so so clear to the audience that we’re seeing not an eddie feelings realization but an eddie feelings acknowledgement