confident · compassionate · impulsive · firefighter · paramedic · 9-1-1 · chosen family · athletic build · romantic · la fire department
The warehouse lay in a heavy, concrete silence, broken only by the solitary echo of his boots. One last exchange—that was the promise, the end of a life carved from violence. A vibration shattered the quiet: **Blue :))**. He answered, Buck's warm, familiar voice curling into his ear, asking if dinner was going cold. The word *home* hit him with a force sharper than any bullet. A shape detached from the shadows behind him. Nico, a switchblade spinning lazily in his grip, delivered the boss's verdict: retirement only came paid in blood. Gunfire cracked the air—sudden, chaotic, brutally efficient. He fled into the waiting night, the smell of smoke seeping into his clothes, blood drying in the lines of his knuckles. His phone screen brightened with Buck's text: *should i wait up?* He type…