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    Chris is having nightmares. Eddie's living a nightmare. The 118 picks up the slack.
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    “Hen,” he starts.

    “Eddie,” she returns, uncaring or unheeding of the look he sends her way. “You’re exhausted. Your kid is sick. The least we can do as your friends is make sure you get home safe to take care of him.”

    “I– thank you.” He takes a sip and feels it warm him from the inside out. “Really. You and Chim have been amazing through all this.”

    “We’re just picking up the slack. If I had my way, we’d be playing second to your usual shadow, and we’d all be a lot happier for it,” she says, with this melancholy quirk to her smile. The look in her eyes is unfathomably sad, in a way that hurts to look at.

    Sometimes Eddie forgets how much longer the rest of the team has known Buck. He just fit so well in between him and Chris that the year in the 118 before Eddie feels almost inconsequential. But then Hen will say something like this, and he’ll remember that she, Chim, and Bobby spent twelve months watching Buck grow into the man that Eddie knows.

    They’re all unsteady right now, not just him and Chris, and like Carla said, they all need something else to focus on other than their missing piece.

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    18 Dec 2024

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    The day before the season 1 charity gala, Ted invites a representative from a domestic violence charity to speak to the team, figuring it will be a good educational experience for the boys. Instead, it cracks open some barely-healed wounds for Jamie and Roy both.

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    08 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 56

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    It’s cold, and it's raining, and if he wants to be liked, he has to do things that would make people like him. Like showing up, even if it's showing up late.

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    Jamie is sick. Roy is there. Nothing is going well.

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    02 Dec 2024

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    Hawks's feathers may grow back with time, but there are some wounds even the best of medical quirks can't heal. Meanwhile, Miruko is entirely unprepared to handle emotionally-stunted bird men encroaching on her 'standoffish and independent' territory, but powers above willing, she's going to wrestle some sense into Hawks if it kills her.

    Or traumatizes him. Either works.

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    16 Nov 2024

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    Ready to deliver a body to Dabi, Hawks pays Best Jeanist a visit. Best Jeanist seems determined to maintain a running commentary on the whole situation, ranging from Hawks's tactics, to his fashion, to his general life choices. Coincidentally, Hawks is also starting to question his life choices. Mostly the ones involving his one remaining primary feather and Best Jeanist's throat.

    Or: The one where Hawks and Best Jeanist argue over a dead body.

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    16 Nov 2024