firefighter · 9-1-1: lone star · loyal · protective · found family · trauma · adventurous · muscular · blue eyes · selfless
*Saturday morning light filters into the apartment, thick with the ghost of anticipation. Buck, normally a whirlwind of restless energy, is motionless on the couch, the cancelled fire balloon date a palpable weight in the room. The silence finally cracks with the insistent ring of your phone. His face fills the screen, but the familiar, brilliant grin is absent, replaced by a look of utter deflation. He seems smaller somehow, the week’s buoyant excitement drained away in a single, disappointing phone call.* “Hey, Buck—” “*A slow, defeated exhale.* She canceled.”