#s6e10 in a flash

[tails89]

911 6x10 coda - 561 words

AO3

I’m getting in on the action 😂

He looks like he’s sleeping.

That’s the worst part— that it looks like he could open his eyes at any moment.

Eddie stares at Buck through the window into the room. He’s not supposed to be here. He’d followed a nurse at Bobby’s insistence he get checked out, and after being cleared hadn't been able to face returning to the waiting room.

He hadn’t made the conscious decision to go looking for Buck, but now that he’s here, he can’t bring himself to leave.

He stares, eyes tracing the mechanical rise and fall of Buck’s chest. He clenches his fists, remembering the feeling of Buck’s rain slick skin beneath his hands. In all his years as a medic, then a firefighter, nothing could have prepared Eddie for the sick crack of Buck’s ribs as they caved beneath his hands.

The gown hides the bruises that must be blooming across Buck’s pale skin, just like it hides the vivid branching marks that claw across his chest.

Eddie has a matching mark on his hand, feathering up from where he’d been gripping the side of the ladder. It doesn’t seem fair. They’d both been there on that truck, and all Eddie had to show for it was a burn and a few bruises, while Buck…

He looks like he’s sleeping.

“You’re not supposed to be here.”

Eddie jerks back from the window. “Sorry, I didn’t— he’s—” He doesn’t have an excuse ready and the words fail on his lips.

“You’re Eddie?” The nurse's expression softens at Eddie’s nod. “They’re looking for you downstairs.”

“Yeah, I’ll go—” he trails off, turning back to the window, his feet making no attempt to carry him away. “How much longer,” he asks instead, “until he can have visitors?”

The nurse makes a soft noise beside him.

“I’m about to go get his sister.” She turns to Eddie, her expression fixed into something unreadable. “You can sit with him for a minute, just until we get back.”

“Thank you.” Eddie’s already reaching for the door, before she can change her mind. The door swings shut behind him, and the busy hum of the ward fades beneath the beep and whir of the machines in the room.

From the bed, Buck looks like he’s sleeping.

Eddie crosses the room with short, uncertain steps, his shoes squeaking on the linoleum.

Up close, the illusion is shattered.

Buck’s chest rises and falls, with the slow even tempo of the machine counting his breaths.

“Hey.” Eddie almost chokes on the word, clearing his throat to start again. “Hey Buck.”

He reaches out, his fingers hesitating over Buck’s limp hand. He wants to grasp it, feel the warmth of Buck’s skin, the proof he’s still alive.

“I need you to wake up. I can’t—“ he gives in to the urge, his fingers squeezing around Buck’s, careful of the IV lines that disappear beneath his skin. “I need you Buck.” The words that have been playing in the back of his mind come spilling out. “Chris needs you, we— fuck—“ Eddie drops his head down to rest against their joined hands. “You need to wake up.”

He glances up, breath caught in his throat, hoping for some kind of sign that Buck can hear him.

But Buck doesn’t flinch. He doesn’t shift. His fingers stay limp in Eddie’s grip.

He looks like he’s sleeping.

[epicbuddieficrecs]

Weekly Recap | January 27th-February 2nd 2025

Had the audacity to go on a daytrip over the border to the US and all I got was spending way too much money at Target and a cold :(

Complete

the sincerest form of flattery by canadadry (S8E3: Final Approach, Brad POV | 1,7K | Teen): “Your boy—Buck,” Brad says. “First marriage?” “Pardon?” “Well, your wife is—” Brad starts, stops. Remembers at least a third of the lecture he’s been given at least a dozen times by his publicist on the danger of making assumptions. “He calls your wife by her given name—I mean, does the same to you, but I’d reckon that has more to do with professionalism than personal grievances, given the fact that you clearly get on.” — in which Brad Torrence only almost passes out, and observes the aftermath.

The couch is a lawless place by paleredheadinascifi (Getting Together | 1,8K | Teen): Eddie had kissed him. He knows it happened, because the smudge of chocolate on his pants is still there, courtesy of the peanut butter cup he’d dropped when Eddie lent over and kissed him.

Call Ended (beep beep beep) by paleredheadinascifi (Wine Nights, Getting Together | 2K | Teen): Or, Buck wakes up to a series of increasingly horrifying calls from Eddie. He gets to the bottom of it.

Who you gonna call? by scarmaddiewrites (Post-S8A, Buck&Ravi | 1,7K | General): Buck has his first bad leg day since Eddie moved to Texas (Part 1 of The Chainsaw Gang)

Avoidance or Denial by scarmaddiewrites (Post-S8A, Getting Together | 4K | Not Rated): Eddie is back from texas and has some theories about Buck and Ravi....he's never been good at theories (Part 2 of The Chainsaw Gang)

and i'd do it over and over again by playinginthunderstorms/ @playinginthunderstorms (PWP, S8E6: Confessions | 4K | Explicit): Gun to his head, Buck honestly doesn't think he could say which one of them made the first move, but somewhere in between the six-pack he'd brought over and whatever was left of a dusty bottle of tequila in the back of a kitchen cupboard, Eddie—beautiful, radiant Eddie, with his pink shirt and tiny underwear—had ended up in his lap, thighs bracketing Buck's, gasping and grinding helplessly into Buck's hips, the most delicious whines spilling out of his mouth and straight onto Buck's tongue, white-hot pleasure spiking through him as potent as the lightning bolt, so he figures he'll at least die happy.

We’re Looking For Something Dumb To Do by scarmaddiewrites (Bachelor Party, Secret Marriage | 5K | Not Rated): “We should get married.” “What?” Buck chokes, his heart doing some weird fluttering thing in his chest. “Really?” “Yeah, I mean… I’m not a redhead or double your age, but maybe I still have a chance?” In the background, Buck hears someone chuckling—probably Ravi, whose drunk giggles have turned into full-on cackles. “Please, Eddie,” Buck says, his voice a mix of exasperation and something warmer, something fond. “Have you seen your ass? To hell with all the other requirements.” Or Buck and Eddie get married during the bachelor party and Ravi encourages it.

Your Life Was My Life's Best Part by saveyourblood/ @saveyourblood (S6E10: In A Flash | 5K | Mature): A neglected child. A soldier who saw people die. A veteran with PTSD. A first responder. A single father. A widower. Eddie Diaz became everything that was supposed to break him. What is he supposed to call this? What does he call the thing that may actually destroy him? - The one where Buck dies, then he doesn't, and their life flashes before Eddie's eyes.

lights will guide you. by dylaesthetics (Social Media, Eddie Sexuality Crisis | 6K | Mature): Am I (M33) comphet or an impostor???!!! For the record, I am straight. I think so, anyway. Or I did, all of six hours ago, before my coworkers introduced me to the term ‘comphet’. And now my entire world has kind of spun on its axis and I’m wondering if I’ve been secretly craving dick this whole time. - OR after breaking up with Tommy, Buck goes on a deep-dive on sexuality. He needs to tell someone about all he learns, of course, and Eddie seems like the best option.

Golden Morning Sunbeams by Buddiesmutslut (Post-S8E8: Wannabes, Getting Together | 10K | General): Or: As Eddie is debating his move to Texas, a few texts from his son in the middle of the day set him on a course to getting everything he's been wanting.

🔥 An Angry Blade by Daisies_and_Briars/ @cal-daisies-and-briars (Post-8x05: Masks, Cursed Buck | 43K | Mature): Buck finds out that the curse of Billy Boils is VERY real, and far more complicated and dangerous than he could have expected.

🔥 oh brother, I see (you burn like me) by canadadry (Adriana & Maddie POV, Post-S7E10: All Fall Down | 47K | Mature): Adriana doesn’t tell their parents that she’s going to LA. She doesn’t tell Eddie, either—or ask, for that matter. She does ask Chris, and he thinks it’s a good idea—says as much, on the phone, and doesn’t say much else. “Buck will probably be hovering,” is what Chris does volunteer. It still surprises her when the man who opens the door is not Eddie. It’s—Captain America, is the thing that actually comes to mind—a man close to a foot taller than she is, if not more than that, with blond curls and broad shoulders, and he’s got a question in his very blue eyes that’s probably less friendly than the one he actually asks her. “Uh,” he says. “Can I help you?” — Or: Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time.

🔥 Things We're All Too Young to Know by Daisies_and_Briars/ @cal-daisies-and-briars (Canon S1-S6, Divergent Post-S6 | 472K | Mature): This is a love story. Even if it doesn’t always look like it. Even if it doesn’t always feel like it. A look back on Eddie and Buck's lives up to now, and what led them to each other, interpreted from the current 9-1-1 canon.

WIP

🔥 Doe & a Drop of Golden Sun by ohstars/ @oh-stars (Canon Divergent, Dad Buck | 10/? | 45K | Teen): Buck doesn't mean to keep secrets from everyone, but he also can't talk about the pain he experiences on a day to day basis. With his nine-year-old living across the country and his custody limited to one monthly visit, Buck doesn't know how to share this part of himself. How does he tell his team of six years that he's had a kid this whole time? How does he tell his sister? How does he tell his Edd-- best friend? It's fine. The universe isn't going to give him a choice in the matter when the worst thing imaginable becomes his reality.

🔥[Podfic] Promising Light by cottagepodfics @cottagepodfics / fic by @cal-daisies-and-briars (Post-S8E8: Wannabes, Time Travel | 80min | 2/3 | Mature): Buck and Eddie fall asleep drunk and in separate rooms after the night of Buck and Tommy's breakup. They wake up seven years later, in an unfamiliar future, only to find out that they're married.

[aashiqeddiediaz]

chinese proverb // red, white & royal blue (2023) // yeh sham mastani — kati patang (1971) // 9-1-1 s6e10, "in a flash" // our red string of fate — alex bentley // maine pyar kiya (1989) // jane eyre — charlotte brontë

(ID under the cut)

[Image ID: four text images and three gifs, alternating from various sources.

IMAGE 1: A Chinese proverb reading, "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break."

IMAGE 2: a gif of Alex and Henry sitting together after swimming. Henry looks tense and mournful, and behind him, Alex traces patterns on his skin while he says, "it's like there's a rope attached to my chest, and it keeps pulling me towards you."

IMAGE 3: A lyric from Yeh Sham Mastani from the movie Kati Patang (1971.) It reads, "mujhe dor koi kheenche / teri ore liye jaaye" and the translation reads, "a string pulls me / pulls me towards you"

IMAGE 4: Eddie rapidly climbing the ladder to where Buck hangs lifelessly from his red harness.

IMAGE 5: A poem by Alex Bentley that reads, "To think, I was one decision away / from living an entirely different life / But as fate would have it, / we were destined to meet after all / I was on the brink of disaster, / but you pulled me in with a tug / On a single thread of invisible red string, / but now we’re a love story for all the world. / To see. To breathe. To believe.

IMAGE 6: Prem helping Suman get up because of her hurt leg, both of them limping towards the bathroom so Suman can wash Prem's wound.

IMAGE 7: A quote from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë that reads, "“Because,” he said, “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”"

/endID]

[mrhappyjavaman]

911 Tag Game

rules: answer your opinion on these nine topics, then tag nine other people to give their opinion as well

I was tagged by @sugdenlovesdingle

Favourite Character: That would be one Tommy Kinard at this time

Character You Relate to the Most: As a 40 year old gay man, who had an abusive father growing up, and came out later in life, this answer would also be on Tommy Kinard.

Favourite Episode: I don't have a single favourite, but the following are mine: Sink or Swim (S3E2), In A Flash (S6E10), Buck Bothered and Bewildered (S7E4), and Masks (S8E5)

Hottest Take: Buck's character will never truly change because the writers continue to infantilize him with other characters. If they truly want any change for this character then need to have the other characters realize he is a grown ass man and stop meddling in his life.

Favourite Lone Star Character: I have a special place in my heart for Paul and Carlos.

Favourite Ship: Tevan (my preferred ship name cause why does every other ship get a Blend word (look at me using big linguistics words) name, while these two just get their names BuckTommy)

Most Underrated Character: Basically any "side character" who is pushed to being a single one note thing. Karen is basically just Hen's wife, Josh is just Maddie's gay bestie, etc. They don't get much development beyond maybe a single episode.

Most Underrated Ship: I have to say Henren for this one. They need to be shown more than as people having marital problems or family problems.

One Thing You Would Love to See: actual substantial character growth for many of the characters. That and Buck and Tommy getting back together because they done fucked up on that break-up.

Here are some tags. No pressure and if you have already done it, please feel free to ignore: @jamieroyjamieroy @lightfiretomypaperwings @ohheyitsthatlfjrfan @cull3nblaze @cliophilyra @beanarie @phillystrega

[dulcejulsae]

haven't seen ep 10 yet. but i know what's going on... i'm just not emotionally prepared to actually watch it 😭

[swanimagines]

FANDOM CHECKLIST

Got inspiration from @moonlit-imagines because her list is so much better idea than my old one XD

I created this list to keep you in track on what I’m planning to watch, and these fandoms at the list party are possibly coming to the fandom list after I’ve checked them out.

You can ask me to include you in their taglists already if you want, but keep in mind that I necessarily am not starting to write for these after checking them out if I don’t like them enough.

As a side note, I’d love to get show/movie/game recs to check out so if you don’t find a fandom you’d like to see me writing for in here or in my fandom list, you can always send in a rec and I’ll check if it’d be something I’d be interested in c:

IN PROGRESS

The 100 (S6E5)

Peaky Blinders (S2E3)

Bones (S8E24)

Timeless (S1E12)

Teen Wolf (S6E10)

Nevermoor: Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend

Horizon Forbidden West

PS4 Avengers (I’m stuck at that prison fight and keeping a break from it because of that + the game is kinda boring tbh 😅)

Guardians of the Galaxy (stuck at the final fight)

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood (stuck at the beginning of it)

Watch Dogs: Legion (stuck because the game is boring...)

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (stuck because I have no idea how to gain power without raids, all the raiding locations have too high difficulty compared to my power state and I can’t go to Asgard because of that)

IN LINE

TV SHOWS

9-1-1

Anne with an E

Arrow

Beforeigners

Black Sails

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Chicago Fire/M.D/P.D series

Cobra Kai

Criminal Minds

Deadly Class

Euphoria

Grey’s Anatomy

His Dark Materials

Shadowhunters

BBC Sherlock

Suite Life with Zack & Cody

The Flash

The Mandalorian

The Mentalist

The Vampire Diaries

Killing Eve

Marvel series (Defenders, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Punisher, WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier etc)

Merlin

Outer Banks

Outlander

Pretty Little Liars

Sex Education

Timeless

Multiple Disney XD/Disney Channel shows

MOVIES

Back to the Future movies

To All the Boys movies

Unknown Soldier with English subtitles (2017)

Dead Poets Society

Descendants movies

Dunkirk (rewatch since I didn’t understand anything the first time)

High School Musical

Indiana Jones

Kingsman movies

MCU movies I haven't seen yet (anything that came after Far From Home, Black Widow, Shang-Chi, No Way Home etc)

Mission Impossible movies

Night at the Museum (I’ve seen the first and parts of the rest)

Pride and Prejudice

Any Disney and Pixar movies I haven't seen yet

GAMES

Infamous: First Light + Second Son

Hitman

The rest of the Dragon Age games

Forspoken

Mafia series

BOOKS

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Caraval Trilogy by Stephanie Garber

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Lukitut by Salla Simukka

Taikuri ja Taskuvaras Trilogy by Anniina Mikama

Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (reading them before watching Shadowhunters)

The Smoke Thieves series by Sally Green

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

Six of Crows + Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

King of Scars + Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

[gascon-en-exil]

Joining the Game Late: S6E10 “The Winds of Winter”

Synopsis

Loras’s trial gets underway, featuring ceremonial mutilation. Tension ramps up the at the Red Keep as the Mountain prevents Tommen from leaving and Pycelle gets knifed by birds and so does Lancel. Margaery figures out the plot a minute too late, and the High Sparrow traps everyone inside the sept as it explodes and Cersei enjoys her wine. She enjoys it even more on Septa Unella’s face, right before she sends the Mountain in to have his undead way with her. Tommen beholds the devastation and nopes right out of window. Jaime puts Walder Frey in his place, and Arya takes notes from Titus Andronicus when it comes time to kill him. Sam and Gilly make it to Oldtown; Gilly is still excluded from everything, but she’s also spared the sight of Sam cumming from the sight of the Citadel’s library. Jon exiles Melisandre from the North after Davos forces her to confess about burning a little girl alive. Jon and Sansa come to an understanding about the battle and about trust, but Sansa may be courting Littlefinger on the side. Olenna makes an alliance with the Sand Snakes, and also Varys is suddenly there. Daario gets reassigned to governing Meereen on Tyrion’s advice, and Tyrion sucks at consoling but becomes Dany’s Hand anyway. Benjen gets Bran as far as the Wall, where Jon Snow’s parentage is finally revealed via a flashback tree. Jon is the king in the North this time, while Jaime returns to King’s Landing to see Cersei crowned queen. Dany sets sail with about half the world behind her.

Commentary

Where do I even begin with this episode? It jerks the plot forward toward the beginning of the end of this story in so many different ways, and so much just happens, that covering it all in one post would be an exercise in futility. Hmm...I think I’ll follow the show’s example and do some heavy consolidating to just get this down to two major points.

I have to say that, however the last two seasons may fumble the fallout (or lack thereof) from Cersei’s mass vengeance, in the moment it’s absolutely brilliant to watch. The tension builds constantly throughout the opening scenes, helped along by a musical scoring filled with contemplative piano and other instrumentation not usually used in GoT, and even as you know what’s going to happen the experience of seeing it is an utter thrill. Despite how horrible this all is - how Cersei’s personal body count skyrockets into the hundreds in an instant, how vicious the specific punishment she doles out to Septa Unella is, how coldly she dispenses with her son’s body after his suicide, and how she ascends the Iron Throne a tyrant draped in black and flanked by her zombie bodyguard and her mad scientist - it’s so satisfying in a twisted way that you can’t help but feel her triumph. It’s easy to compare the explosion of the Sept to the Red Wedding, a shocking twist that kills off an assortment of named characters. Where the difference lies is whose arc is important here. The Wedding was the culmination and close of Robb and Catelyn’s arcs, with the perpetrators being comparatively underdeveloped petty villains (also Roose Bolton, but it’s not like he amounted to much in the end other than as a weak excuse for Ramsay’s villainy). Notably this episode also features the execution of Walder Frey, and it’s telling that Jaime telling Walder in the scene before his death that the Freys lucked into infamy and have been weak and useless besides landed harder than Arya feeding Walder his sons and then slitting his throat. He’s just stop #1 on her murder tour of Westeros.

But the destruction of the Sept of Baelor is all about Cersei getting back at her numerous enemies. You could make the argument that several of the characters who died this episode, like Margaery, Tommen, and possibly Loras, were in positions where they still could have had ongoing arcs had they not been blown away by Cersei - and that in this sense the act was a cheap bit of condensing the show’s plots down as it heads into the endgame. I’ll come back to that idea as my second point, but for as much as I personally identified with the Tyrells and didn’t care for their greatly reduced story presence come Season 5 I’m less bothered by their deaths than I thought I would be. Cersei is just a much stronger character than all of them, and that she would do something as large and atrocious as this speaks to both her resourcefulness and her lack of subtlety. She didn’t bother trying to play the High Sparrow like Margaery was, or make a show of devotion to get out of torture as Loras did in his last moments. She just blew them all up, damn the consequences...even when one of those consequences was her son’s life.

Of course it is also true as I said that this single episode narrows the focus of the King’s Landing story significantly, which is something you can witness the rest of the episode doing on a larger scale. This is most obvious in the scene where Olenna meets Ellaria and the Sand Snakes, where she lampshades how pointless they are as characters by not even bothering to learn their names or let them speak. Then Varys shows up out of nowhere, and next we see of any of these characters they and their armies are sailing alongside Daenerys as she finally leaves the tired Meereen arc behind (in the hands of her lover, whose arc can’t go much anywhere else) and sets off for Westeros. Already the show is visibly coalescing around the three major contenders for the Iron Throne in its final two seasons: Cersei reigning over King’s Landing, Jon proclaimed king in the North with Sansa loyally(?) at his side, Daenerys commanding an armada of the many friends and allies she’s made on both continents. It’s all very predictable table setting for the last act, but with a show as big as GoT there was inevitably going to be a time when this was necessary as there just aren’t that many players in its game still on the board. There’s still a few loose threads floating around, like Sam being a nerd in Oldtown or Arya on her murder spree or Bran flashing back to major plot reveals (Jon’s not a bastard, but a Targaryen! - I’m not shocked, but I did enjoy the ironic cut from the flashback to the Northern houses hailing Jon as king based on his false paternity) or Brienne and the Hound just MIA, but these are the three big players. I’m very eager to see how the show stumbles as hard as I’ve heard it does from here.

One last note, however: while the way it was worked into the story was incredibly clumsy Davos confronting Melisandre was a beautifully raw bit of catharsis against a character who’s never had to face external consequences for her actions. Davos has always been one of those characters I’ve found quietly enjoyable even if there’s not much personal appeal there, and his anguish and rage over Shireen’s death sells this moment even if you stop and think that this is coming an entire season too late. This is one example of what GoT’s critics means when they point out that most of these actors are strong enough to smooth over questionable writing choices such that they’re easier to excuse even if you still notice them.

[brwnsugvr]

Can someone make a gif set of Danielle Panabaker from Grey’s Anatomy S6E10 “Holidaze” saying “Snow is my favorite thing” then have her as Killer Frost from The Flash.

Thanks

[skewedlights]

The Female Blerd Podcast Episode 8 (The Flash S6E10 – Marathon)

[blackladisdestrcz]

Sleduji - watching The Flash S6E10 (Xbox One/Netflix)

18:50, 17.4.2020

[withanaccent]

REVIEW: The Flash, S6E10 - Marathon

REVIEW: The Flash, S6E10 – Marathon

The Flash came back with a bang in “Marathon,” which elevated an otherwise lackluster season to a whole new plane of existence. Perhaps  preparing for Crisis on Infinite Earths, and its inevitable conclusion that nothing could happen to Barry, tied the new showrunner’s hands for the first half. Or perhaps he was just warming up before settling into a speedier storytelling pace. Either way, the…

[blackladisdestrcz]

Sleduji - watching The Flash S6E10 (Xbox One/Netflix)

18:48

[dulcejulsae]

ok i watched it. It was actually a really refreshing episode, w/ some closure post-crisis. I adore Cisco for how he continues to extend his grace to each Wells, and i'm excited and nervous for Iris!!

haven't seen ep 10 yet. but i know what's going on... i'm just not emotionally prepared to actually watch it 😭