Welcome to the summer of delusion where Bobby is alive and fanfiction is our safe space! For our first podcast after the 9-1-1 Season 8 finale Lizzie and Lyra are talking about our favorite 9-1-1 fanfics on Tales From the 118!
While the fics talked about in this podcast are mainly Buddie, we also talk about needing more Henren and there’s a reason why there aren’t so many Bathena fics. But that’s not all! We also talked about why fanfiction is such a powerful space for community, where we started on our fanfic journey, and some of our favorite and most hated tropes and common themes in fic.
Towards the end of podcast we give a shout-out to our favorite 9-1-1 fanfics within the Buddie fanfic space, including the iconic ice cream before dinner by CloudyDaisies!
Listen to Tales From the 118 Episode 19: Our Favorite 9-1-1 Fanfics below:
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Here are some of the 9-1-1 fanfics Lyra recommended:
1. ice cream before dinner by cloudydaisies
Summary: Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.
But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.
Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.
(or, gerrard messes with the team’s schedules and eddie ‘i just drove my son to flee the state’ diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn’t be a problem at all, right?)
Read it ice cream before dinner here.
2. Left Unsaid by orphan_account
Summary: A woman shows up at the station with a picture of Buck on her phone.
It goes better than last time.
OR:
The discovery of a small facebook group full of tsunami survivors rocks station 118.
3. the kid distribution system by autumnsleaving
Summary: Christopher huffs, then furrows his brows as if he’s seriously upset that Eddie won’t let him keep a random child he found on the side of the road. He then speaks slowly like he isn’t sure Eddie can understand the gravity of the situation. “You’re not supposed to oppose the cat distribution system.”
Eddie sputters as he wraps some ice cubes in a towel. “What now?”
His son looks at him like he’s the unbelievable one. “You know, if you find a kitten on your porch during a storm, or like, under your car, the cat chose you, you can’t reject it– God, you are so old sometimes. I bet Buck knows what that is.”
“She’s not an actual cat,” Eddie whisper-shouts. “Please tell me you are aware that she’s not an actual cat.”
or;
Chris finds a child on the side of the road, who may or may not have been a cat in another life, and decides to bring her home. This is their first year together.
Read the kid distribution system here.
4. we found love right where we were by Polish_Amber
Summary: May realised a very long time ago that Buck was basically her stepbrother. So, when the lightning strike finally provided the impetus for Bobby to admit that he also brought a kid into their family, she had every intention of seizing the opportunity to properly integrate Buck into the Grant-Nash family.
And, look, if in the process she also gains a brother-in-law… clearly the universe was just waiting for the opportunity to make that happen.
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Or, the one where May ensures Buck is enfolded properly into the Grant-Nash clan, which means Bobby (and by extension the firefam, because gossip) suddenly gets significantly more insight into the inner workings of the Buckley-Diaz family, and all roads lead to Buddie…
Read we found love right where we were here.
MORE: Still need more 9-1-1? Read Lizzie’s review of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 18: “Seismic Shifts”
Here are some of the 9-1-1 fanfics Lizzie recommended:
1. Leave the Light On (I’ll Be Coming Home) by HMSLusitania
Summary: “We’re here for our grandson,” Helena says.
“Chris is still sleeping,” Buck says.
“I meant, we’re here to take him back to Texas,” Helena clarifies.
“Yeah,” Buck says. He’s too tired, way too tired to be tactful. “Over my dead body.”
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An accident on a call leaves Buck with custody of Chris after Eddie is… missing presumed.
While they navigate their new family circumstances — and fight to stay together, despite Eddie’s parents’ best efforts — a John Doe wakes up in a coma ward with no memory of his own life beyond the knowledge he has a son named Christopher and, somehow, he needs to get home.
Read Leave the Light On (I’ll Be Coming Home) here.
2. Those Two Firefighters by DarkFairytale
Summary: #thosetwofirefighters starts to gather a following on social media, as everyone tries to figure out if those two cute firefighters from the 118 in LA are a thing or not.
Read Those Two Firefighters here.
3. eddie diaz vs the pta agenda by mmtion
Summary: Really, Eddie doesn’t care that the PTA aren’t his biggest fan. He knows he misses too many meetings, and it’s not like he’s best friends with any of the other parents. It doesn’t affect Christopher, so it doesn’t bother him. He’ll pay for the annual fundraising mugs and consider his duty done.
But then Buck picks Christopher up from a class trip and it all goes to hell.
Like, of course Buck is everyone’s dream guy. He’s responsible with kids, and kind, and funny and interesting and hot to touch. That’s obvious. But now Eddie’s fighting to keep the PTA moms, teachers, and dads, all off an unsuspecting and tempting Buck.
Because Eddie is a good friend. Right?
Read eddie diaz vs the pta agenda here.
4. the mortifying ordeal of being known by Polish_Amber
Summary: The thing was, the 118 was full of gossips.
Eddie had been at the station less than a week before Hen and Chim wrangled details about his “hot young thing” from him (“Buck is only 4 years younger than me, he is not a ‘hot young thing’!” Eddie complained.)
And Bobby was open about his worries for his son’s lack of direction and the secrets he appears to be keeping (“I just wish I could help Evan find the thing that gives him purpose,” Bobby lamented.)
It just made it all the more ridiculous (and horrifying) when Eddie realizes he’s been dating his Captain’s son this whole time (“Defiling his baby,” Chimney cackled, because he clearly wanted Eddie murdered.)
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Or, the AU where miscommunication abounds as Eddie seeks advice about his new relationship, Bobby despairs over his adopted son’s career prospects and his refusal to talk about it, and Evan Buckley-Nash juggles training at the fire academy, building a family with his new boyfriend, and trying to work out how to tell his overprotective dad that he’s already chosen the life he wants, actually.
It takes a goddamn tsunami, of all things, to get the story straight.
Read the mortifying ordeal of being known here.
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