#chimney my beloved

[menace-behaviour]

*Station 118 Shift Swap Group Chat*

B-Shift Paramedic: I need to swap out on Saturday. Someone HMU please.

Bobby: Wait, so HMU isn't "hold my umbrella"?

Chimney: No. It’s actually "hummer med underkläder", which means "I love you" in Swedish and I think that's beautiful.

Eddie: "Hummer med underkläder" means "Lobster with panties".

Hen: How do you even know that?

Eddie: My Mother wanted at least one child that could speak to her parents when they called so she wouldn’t have to.

Chimney: You know what, Diaz. Your childhood trauma and resulting multilingualism is really getting in the way of my best work.

Eddie: Your best work? Tricking Bobby into thinking hook-up slang means something innocent?

Bobby: HOOK-UP SLANG!!?!? I texted the Commissioner “HMU” during that hurricane last week??

Chimney: *Ignoring Bobby* That’s “Gaslighting the Elderly” to you, Rosetta Stone.

[firefighterkinard]

This moment from Kevin's funeral when you see Chimney with Eli and Tommy in the background, knowing that Chimney will put his life in danger to save Tommy, and that Tommy will pick up the phone when Chimney calls years later and choose to put his life in danger to help Bobby and Athena.

[hmslusitania]

Me, years ago: if buck was in a time loop Chim would believe him without question

9-1-1, this day: Chim believes buck about his coma dream without question!

Me:

[mcdennis]

can i interest u in my pookie? my silly little fella?

[el-huddpudd]

#sometimes your work crush from back when you were closeted calls you and asks for a favor #two nickels @slippery-soapbox

9-1-1 -> 2x12 ❝ chimney begins ❞

[aunmenosheteroenespanol]

2.12 Chimney Begins - 2.09 Hen Begins - 2.16 Bobby Begins Again - 7.04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered

Tommy's family arc

[tevanbuckley]

thinking about the fact that chimney was on the way to the bachelor party when he pulled over.

because yeah he didn’t really want one, but buck clearly put a lot of effort in and it’s his way of showing he cares and he really does love his dumbass little brother enough to indulge him, and when the dust settled he probably felt bad that buck spent all night thinking he’d ghosted him.

[cranberrymoons]

thinking about chim finding out that buck and albert hooked up and being like YOU SLEPT WITH MY BROTHER??? and buck is like "well yes and you literally got my sister pregnant, so can you please stop yelling, anyway it was years ago before I even knew I was bi so it doesn't even really count" and then there has to be a bro2bro meeting about what buck thinks "counts" and "what do you mean you didn't know you were bi if you were fucking dudes including my brother" and anyway, turns out he's been Helping Friends Out and Blowing Off Steam with guys since the dawn of time but that's just a thing guys do together, right? like obviously he wasn't going to SAY THAT when he was talking to maddie that one time, but that's normal right? right??

[peppermintquartz]

The second time Tommy meets Philip and Margaret is not under the best of circumstances.

Maddie is wrecked with worry, Jee is confused about why her daddy can't sleep at home and why her Uncle Buck isn't here, and Tommy himself is approximately three broken Kit-Kat bars from completely snapping.

So when the Buckley parents show up at the hospital, Tommy is not in the best of moods.

"Why are you here?" Margaret says when she sees him, instead of asking "How's my son?"

"Because I'm waiting for the outcome of the surgery," Tommy says, pretty curtly, but after fourteen hours following a full shift he is about to keel over. He's seated right now, having no further energy to pace, with his elbows on his knees, his head aching from the fluorescent lights and endless activity all around him, and his heart steeled against the worst possible outcome. "I mean, it's certainly not for the ambience."

"Maddie called and told us that Howard and Evan were in the building when it collapsed," Philip says before Margaret can react to the sarcasm. "We wanted to be here for Maddie."

"For Maddie, of course it's for her," Tommy says, and he is so beyond sick with worry that he can't force aside the irritation nor hide it with civility. "She's gone home with Jee-yun. I promised to keep her updated. If you're looking for her, I suggest doing so tomorrow morning when she's had hopefully at least an hour of sleep."

Margaret glances at the light above the operating theater doors and wrings her hands. "How long has it been? I can't bear this."

Tommy doesn't even look at his watch anymore. "Fourteen hours, thereabouts. Howie's just come out two hours ago."

A whole building. A three-storey building. Howie was on the top floor, so he was freed from the rubble first. Evan was on the ground floor. The 217 and the 124 had been on the scene, Tommy flying five casualties from the wreck directly to hospital, one of whom was his friend. All the while he had to internally battle the screaming need to claw apart the debris, with his bare hands if necessary, to get his Evan out of there.

Philip hugs Margaret. "He'll survive. He's always done so, since he was a kid. You know how it is with him. Scrapes and cuts and falls. He'll come out of this without trouble."

"I can't bear waiting here," Margaret whispers again. "You know I don't like..." She shuts her eyes and shakes her head.

"I know, I know it feels like it's Daniel inside, but it isn't."

And Tommy loses it.

Logically, he knows that Philip is merely trying to reassure his wife. Logically, he knows that they are trying; the mere fact that they are in hospital to check on Evan and Howie is a statement that they are trying.

Every other part of Tommy, however, explodes with incandescent rage.

"Daniel? Daniel?! Evan's in there, fighting for his life, and you can't even focus on that?" he spits out. "The only reason why I am even talking to you is because you made Evan. You brought him to this world. And you don't deserve him. Every day I see how much he loves, how openly and how bravely he loves, and to know that you both treated him the way you did... And now you come here, to the hospital, and you talk about being here for Maddie and, and thinking about Daniel, instead of your son who could've died today!"

Taking a deep, shuddering breath, Tommy realizes that he's on his feet, his fists clenched, towering over two older persons who are shrinking away from his six foot two frame. Suddenly drained, Tommy licks his dry lips.

"Go see Howie," he says in a low voice. "You probably can't go in yet, but find out what you can to tell Maddie."

Philip clears his throat. "You'll let us know when Evan is out?"

"I'll call Maddie." Tommy sits again and stares at the wall opposite. Green. Dull, lifeless, bland hospital green. He hears the Buckleys walk away. "Philip, wait."

"Yes?"

"Sorry about the outburst. Also, you're supposed to call him Buck. Remember that."

Philip sighs again. "Of course. We'll see you later, when Ev- Buck is out of surgery."

[kenneth-black]

I missed their shenanigans so much 🥹🥹🥹

[menace-behaviour]

Maddie: *Covers Chimney’s eyes*

Maddie: Guess who? She’s gorgeous and so smart <3

Maddie: And she’s gonna be very mad if you get it wrong <3

Chimney: *shaking with fear* How are you saying “<3” out loud?

[mairaiscarrierofthepaperclips]

Chim: I think that's Buck's date over there, why don't you go and introduce yourself?

Eddie: What would I even say?

Hen: Just be yourself, say something nice.

Eddie: Which one, I can't do both.

[flimsy-spine]

my favorite madney scenes: [45/?] ⇢ Dumb Luck, 5.14

[thatsojasminesworld]

Precious

[princessfbi]

The cast really had no right to look as good as they did in Jinxed.

[911-incorrect-quotes-dispatch]

*Commercial of a hot knife cutting foam plays in the background*

Chim: Imagine stabbing someone with that knife.

Hen: It would instantly cauterize the wound, so the person wouldn't bleed. It's not very useful.

Buck: If you want information, it is.

Eddie: Why would you stab a person when you can have toast?