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9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Not Showing Off
Title: Not Showing Off
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Chimney Bashing
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Gen
Tags: Fix-It
Summary: Buck was done.
Word Count: 2,969
Beta: Grammarly
"You are nothing but a show-off!" Chim screamed at Buck.
Buck looked at him where Hen was cleaning the wound on his arm to see if he needed stitches.
"Firefighter Han, lower your voice," Captain Mehta said.
"No, this man is going to get someone killed with his showboating."
"So he should have left the child to fall to her death?" Mehta asked. "You don't understand what it's like to work with him day in and day out. He's a spoiled brat who doesn't understand a damned thing about teamwork."
"What I saw of him today showed that he works well with everyone here but you. He's chafing under you, screaming at him. It's all I heard from where I was overseeing the other vehicles. I'm not sure I could work with someone acting like that."
"I'm his captain."
"You are his acting captain, and right now, you are acting anything like a captain at all. You are acting like a spoiled brat. Buckley, when you are done with his shift, come and see me, and I'll see what I can do about this."
"I forbid you, Buckley."
Buck had no idea what to do. Mehta narrowed his eyes where he was glaring at Chim.
Buck knew that Chim was hurting from Maddie wanting a break, but he wasn't sure what Maddie would do over this. Buck had been half tempted to record the way that Chim talked to him and play it for her, but there was that part of him that was worried about Maddie choosing Chim over him.
"Acting Captain Han, why is Diaz working as a paramedic? With you filling in for Catapin Nash, you should have a paramedic float in your position."
"We don't need that."
Mehta shook his head as Chim didn't even look at him. Buck wasn't sure what Chim's mind was thinking at that moment. It was kind of strange to think about how Chim could change so much.
"Hen, when you are done with your shift, escort Buckely to my station. I would like to talk to both of you. Especially with a probationary firefighter filling in for a paramedic. I know Diaz had medic training and servers overseas as one, but I would hate for something to happen and someone to bring a lawsuit to the LAFD for not having the credentials needed."
Buck looked at Hen to see if she was going to fight it. She was firmly in Chim's camp, but a lot was going on right now that Hen was even having issues with how Chim treated nearly everyone who was male and white on the shift.
There was something wrong with Chim, and it had gotten worse after he had been stabbed. Buck had wondered if it was Maddie leaving him and the whole rebar incident coming back and just mixing in his head.
---
The 133 was one of the ones that Buck had been offered when he had gotten out of the academy, but Buck had liked the idea of Bobby and the kind of man the others said he was. Now Buck wondered if he had been seeking something he would never get from Bobby.
"Thank you for joining me," Mehta said as he waved Buck and Hen over to where the couch in his office was. Mehta took the chair, leaving the couch for Buck and Hen. "I know you are both loyal, but my team submitted about five complaints over the last few hours based on the words they overheard during the car crash we were working on jointly. It was only about verbal things and the way that Han treats Buck, but there was one that touched on something Chim to Parker on the engine, which was helping to work on hosing down the car that was on fire. Hen, I'm going to be frank. Does Chim have a bias against good-looking white men?"
"I am not sure, sir. It looks like that on the outside, but Parker spoke up about Chim and how he has been treating Buck since Maddie broke up with him."
"Who is Maddie?" Mehta looked a little confused.
"My sister and she and Chim were going on their first date when Maddie's now dead husband tried to kill Chim and kidnapped Maddie."
"So, he's taking the breakup out on Buck." The look on his face showed he was putting the pieces together.
"I think so, and Parker speaking up meant that Chim targeted him as well." Hen's tone changed as she spoke, and Buck wasn't sure what she was thinking about.
Buck didn't like this. He hated this. He would rather just stick his head down and not have to deal with any of this. He could survive Chim. He had survived his mother and her being a harpy.
"Well, I don't like it. This man should not be treating a fellow firefighter like this, especially in public where the victims we rescue can see. How much trust does that break if they see a captain bullying one of his own staff? Your next shift is with me, Buckley, go ahead and bring Diaz with you as well. I've already gotten approval, and there will be a float for a paramedic and two firefighters that show up to replace you two and the role that needs to be filled. Hen, you are not allowed to speak of this and warn Acting Captain Han. He will find out when the Chief comes and bring them in. I'm going to have someone get your turnouts, Buckley, because I cannot even try and replace the custom pants you need. I think we have a coat that will work, but the whole thing is coming just to be safe."
"I don't like this." Hen didn't sound like she liked it at all.
Buck had an idea that it was testing what kind of bond there was between Chim and Hen. If she warned him, then things would fall where they may; if she didn't, she took her job seriously.
"I can have the chief call you right now and make sure that you understand this has gone all the way to the top. Given what he went through in his life, Han was given a lot of leeway, but it sounds like he still has anger issues that getting help after the rebar didn't help. It's well known even in the LAFD that he was the cause of his own accident."
Hen opened her mouth o refute that but stopped when Mehta glared at her again.
"The debris in the road would still be there, but if he had been driving at a normal speed, he would have had a longer reaction time. Since no one else was injured because of what he did, he wasn't given more than a reckless driving citation. I don't mind helping people when they need it, and afterward, I understand why the man was not raked over the coals for the accident, but in the end, he needs to be held accountable for what he's done and getting passes for what happened in the past just means he's going to keep on until he was done."
Mehta said nothing for a few moments as Hen took in what he said.
"Now, he is not allowed to dictate what an LAFD firefighter can do in their off time as long as it's not illegal or against LAFD regulations; talking to me is not either of those things. If he asks if you came here, I don't care what you do about that. Are there any questions?"
Buck shook his head as he wasn't even sure he had the ability to think of anything. He wanted to be in the 118 when Chim blew his top with three floaters coming into the station. It was going to be epic.
---
There was peace for Buck at the 133. Despite why he was there, there was nothing big going on that stopped him from enjoying it. He did find out that the three floaters were less three actual floaters, but three from the 133 filled in at the 118, and the 133 got a floater paramedic in the end. Seeing people respecting him and his opinion on something while at an accident was interesting.
Buck was happy that he was getting along with people. He had felt like no one else would ever like him since it seemed the people at ht e118 only liked him when he was the butt of their jokes. It was nice to not be the butt of the jokes for once. That was Simms at the moment, who had been taking a nap after getting his extra work done and tried to forget to put his pants back on before running out to the engine. It had not delayed them all that much in the end, but it had made everyone laugh. There was a little bit of joking about it, but none of it was mean, like at the 118.
"So, Cap, what are you going to do if we don't want to leave?" Eddie asked as he sat down across from where Mehta was working on paperwork in the kitchen area of the station.
"Find you a place that will take you on. You are in your probationary period still, but that's not something that most would blink at given...well, given what rumors have been going around the whole of the LAFD about Acting Captain Han. Seeing everything the other day just made me know that I needed to have an escape plan for you two. I would hate for Han to have run off two of the brightest stars we have."
"I don't need my ego stroked," Buck said.
"No, I know you have a healthy ego, and you have earned it in the time you have been here. We have a lot of people who end up being wonderful firefighters that have issues at the start. There is no one path, and some need a little more help but my guys like you so far. We will let it all shake out how it shakes out."
Buck wasn't one to let things happen like that. he liked having a little more control but knew he couldn't do anything to push this along. He needed to see what happened.
"Shit," someone called out a little while later.
Buck looked where the guy was and saw it was not just the Chief but five other people with him, one of which was Bobby.
"Sirs," Mehta said.
"Your office?" the chief said.
Mehta nodded just as the alarm went off.
"Or we can stay out here, and you can be the one behind. Buckley, Diaz with them. I trust you have someone you trust to run your team?"
"Of course," Mehta said.
Buck really didn't want to be the one to have to leave, but he understood that a hornet's nest had been kicked.
Two hours later, they returned to the station with a smile on his face; Buck bumped into Eddie as he got off the engine. They hung up their gear and looked around for who was left to tell them what was going on. Bobby and Mehta were in the kitchen working on food, and both had smiles on their faces.
"Come on over," Mehta said.
Buck wasn't sure if he was going to be good or not. He just hoped that nothing too bad was going to happen.
"The three replacements were very happy about the way it all went," Mehta said.
"Okay?" Eddie asked.
"Well, the first thing Chim did was try to throw them out. Which would have stopped a rig from going out, and when that was pointed out to him, he acted like he was just testing them. It got worse from there, and there were too many witnesses who ended up calling HR on their own. It was honestly the worst thing I have ever seen since the cameras caught most of the verbal assault that he put on them. There might even be criminal charges for it all. In the end, he's fired, and things at the 118 are not good at the moment. I'm not being made to retire or anything, but I will be going to training, and we will be getting a new captain for a while; I'll be working with them. You don't have to if you two do not want to return to the 118."
"I do," Buck said.
"Are you sure?" Mehta asked.
"Yes, on a trial basis with the out that if I don't like it and things don't get better, I'm gone. I'll find a place elsewhere with your help, Sir."
"That can be arranged. There was more, but I'll leave Bobby to tell you it." Mehta stepped away from the area, pulling anyone else who had gotten close away as well.
"Chim blames you, Buck, about this. He screamed and ranted and raved so much that he got himself settled in for a psych hold since he was unable to control himself. He decompensated so much. I got to watch the video of it, and I still can't believe it. He even blames you for the rebar, and if you hadn't replaced him as my favorite, I never would have even thought of telling him that lying to Tatiana was wrong."
Buck waited for Bobby to finish working on the sauce to talk. "I can't believe he thought anything like that."
"He's been shoving things down, and I think this just made it all erupt. I'm sure that he will pass the hold with flying colors as long as he doesn't rant and rave at everyone, but then again, I could be wrong. I've looked at him wrong for a while now."
Buck shrugged. Bobby liked to help people, and he had probably slotted Chim into the role of being someone that Bobby saved before he killed himself once he hit the number he needed. There was no way to get that looked at differently until something happened, which was Mehta and the Chief pushing others in front of him.
It seemed like Chim hadn't lasted at all on that one.
"He needs therapy to deal with the trauma of the rebar and the trauma of being stabbed and left for dead by Doug," Eddie said.
"Oh, everyone at the 118 is getting therapy. I'm even going. More than just talking to my priest about things. I have been made aware of how much trauma there has been as a whole to everyone there. I'm showing a good example by being the one to go in first. Eddie, you will also be doing a little more to make sure that things about Shannon are under control. No one is going to be exempt from this unless they are already seeing someone, which is just two of them. No one is off rotation as it can take a little time to get a good fit with someone who will work, but there is a point where it will come to suspension."
"That's fine. I'm sure that I can find someone who I can work with. There has to be someone who deals with veterans in the city."
"I'll help you look," Buck said, bumping his shoulder into Eddie's.
"Did this really start because Chim called you a show-off after a maneuver you two have both done more than once during rescues?"
"Yes, and I only got injured because the kid I rescued was freaked out, and I had to hold on a weird way, and I got my arm caught on a stump of a small tree that had been sheered off. Doing my job is not showing off, and Eddie and I might have balked against his orders, but his orders didn't make sense. The family was going to die if we stuck to his orders. Everyone knew that; it's why they all helped us get ready and save them despite Chim's orders."
"Everyone on shift that we talked to has said that Chim only disagreed because it was your idea, Buck."
Buck huffed. He had figured that, but he hadn't wanted to be the one to say it. If it had been anyone else who had suggested what they did for the rescue, Chim would have jumped on it, and Buck knew that. The rest of the people on the call had known it as well. There was too much at stake to listen to Chim when he had given an order that was. There was no way for him to even push that they were wrong.
"Are you sure you want to come back?" Bobby asked.
"On a trial basis, yes. I want...I like it there, but this has shown me a side of things that I think I need to keep an eye on," Buck said.
"It showed a lot of us that we have gotten a little too toxic, as Hen called it. She talked with Karen about everything, and I guess that Karen was not h lot of things. Expect her to want to talk to you." Bobby grimaced a little at that, and it made Buck wonder what Hen had said to Bobby about all of this. There were a lot of issues to be worked out, and as long as people were willing to work on them, Buck was happy to go back.
"You are a show-off, though, just not in the way Chim thinks," Eddie said.
Buck stuck his tongue out at Eddie.
Eddie wrapped his arm around Buck's shoulder and held on, reminding him that Eddie was there for him, partners in all the ways that mattered. Forever.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Chimney Bashing
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Gen
Tags: Fix-It
Summary: Buck was done.
Word Count: 2,969
Beta: Grammarly
"You are nothing but a show-off!" Chim screamed at Buck.
Buck looked at him where Hen was cleaning the wound on his arm to see if he needed stitches.
"Firefighter Han, lower your voice," Captain Mehta said.
"No, this man is going to get someone killed with his showboating."
"So he should have left the child to fall to her death?" Mehta asked. "You don't understand what it's like to work with him day in and day out. He's a spoiled brat who doesn't understand a damned thing about teamwork."
"What I saw of him today showed that he works well with everyone here but you. He's chafing under you, screaming at him. It's all I heard from where I was overseeing the other vehicles. I'm not sure I could work with someone acting like that."
"I'm his captain."
"You are his acting captain, and right now, you are acting anything like a captain at all. You are acting like a spoiled brat. Buckley, when you are done with his shift, come and see me, and I'll see what I can do about this."
"I forbid you, Buckley."
Buck had no idea what to do. Mehta narrowed his eyes where he was glaring at Chim.
Buck knew that Chim was hurting from Maddie wanting a break, but he wasn't sure what Maddie would do over this. Buck had been half tempted to record the way that Chim talked to him and play it for her, but there was that part of him that was worried about Maddie choosing Chim over him.
"Acting Captain Han, why is Diaz working as a paramedic? With you filling in for Catapin Nash, you should have a paramedic float in your position."
"We don't need that."
Mehta shook his head as Chim didn't even look at him. Buck wasn't sure what Chim's mind was thinking at that moment. It was kind of strange to think about how Chim could change so much.
"Hen, when you are done with your shift, escort Buckely to my station. I would like to talk to both of you. Especially with a probationary firefighter filling in for a paramedic. I know Diaz had medic training and servers overseas as one, but I would hate for something to happen and someone to bring a lawsuit to the LAFD for not having the credentials needed."
Buck looked at Hen to see if she was going to fight it. She was firmly in Chim's camp, but a lot was going on right now that Hen was even having issues with how Chim treated nearly everyone who was male and white on the shift.
There was something wrong with Chim, and it had gotten worse after he had been stabbed. Buck had wondered if it was Maddie leaving him and the whole rebar incident coming back and just mixing in his head.
---
The 133 was one of the ones that Buck had been offered when he had gotten out of the academy, but Buck had liked the idea of Bobby and the kind of man the others said he was. Now Buck wondered if he had been seeking something he would never get from Bobby.
"Thank you for joining me," Mehta said as he waved Buck and Hen over to where the couch in his office was. Mehta took the chair, leaving the couch for Buck and Hen. "I know you are both loyal, but my team submitted about five complaints over the last few hours based on the words they overheard during the car crash we were working on jointly. It was only about verbal things and the way that Han treats Buck, but there was one that touched on something Chim to Parker on the engine, which was helping to work on hosing down the car that was on fire. Hen, I'm going to be frank. Does Chim have a bias against good-looking white men?"
"I am not sure, sir. It looks like that on the outside, but Parker spoke up about Chim and how he has been treating Buck since Maddie broke up with him."
"Who is Maddie?" Mehta looked a little confused.
"My sister and she and Chim were going on their first date when Maddie's now dead husband tried to kill Chim and kidnapped Maddie."
"So, he's taking the breakup out on Buck." The look on his face showed he was putting the pieces together.
"I think so, and Parker speaking up meant that Chim targeted him as well." Hen's tone changed as she spoke, and Buck wasn't sure what she was thinking about.
Buck didn't like this. He hated this. He would rather just stick his head down and not have to deal with any of this. He could survive Chim. He had survived his mother and her being a harpy.
"Well, I don't like it. This man should not be treating a fellow firefighter like this, especially in public where the victims we rescue can see. How much trust does that break if they see a captain bullying one of his own staff? Your next shift is with me, Buckley, go ahead and bring Diaz with you as well. I've already gotten approval, and there will be a float for a paramedic and two firefighters that show up to replace you two and the role that needs to be filled. Hen, you are not allowed to speak of this and warn Acting Captain Han. He will find out when the Chief comes and bring them in. I'm going to have someone get your turnouts, Buckley, because I cannot even try and replace the custom pants you need. I think we have a coat that will work, but the whole thing is coming just to be safe."
"I don't like this." Hen didn't sound like she liked it at all.
Buck had an idea that it was testing what kind of bond there was between Chim and Hen. If she warned him, then things would fall where they may; if she didn't, she took her job seriously.
"I can have the chief call you right now and make sure that you understand this has gone all the way to the top. Given what he went through in his life, Han was given a lot of leeway, but it sounds like he still has anger issues that getting help after the rebar didn't help. It's well known even in the LAFD that he was the cause of his own accident."
Hen opened her mouth o refute that but stopped when Mehta glared at her again.
"The debris in the road would still be there, but if he had been driving at a normal speed, he would have had a longer reaction time. Since no one else was injured because of what he did, he wasn't given more than a reckless driving citation. I don't mind helping people when they need it, and afterward, I understand why the man was not raked over the coals for the accident, but in the end, he needs to be held accountable for what he's done and getting passes for what happened in the past just means he's going to keep on until he was done."
Mehta said nothing for a few moments as Hen took in what he said.
"Now, he is not allowed to dictate what an LAFD firefighter can do in their off time as long as it's not illegal or against LAFD regulations; talking to me is not either of those things. If he asks if you came here, I don't care what you do about that. Are there any questions?"
Buck shook his head as he wasn't even sure he had the ability to think of anything. He wanted to be in the 118 when Chim blew his top with three floaters coming into the station. It was going to be epic.
---
There was peace for Buck at the 133. Despite why he was there, there was nothing big going on that stopped him from enjoying it. He did find out that the three floaters were less three actual floaters, but three from the 133 filled in at the 118, and the 133 got a floater paramedic in the end. Seeing people respecting him and his opinion on something while at an accident was interesting.
Buck was happy that he was getting along with people. He had felt like no one else would ever like him since it seemed the people at ht e118 only liked him when he was the butt of their jokes. It was nice to not be the butt of the jokes for once. That was Simms at the moment, who had been taking a nap after getting his extra work done and tried to forget to put his pants back on before running out to the engine. It had not delayed them all that much in the end, but it had made everyone laugh. There was a little bit of joking about it, but none of it was mean, like at the 118.
"So, Cap, what are you going to do if we don't want to leave?" Eddie asked as he sat down across from where Mehta was working on paperwork in the kitchen area of the station.
"Find you a place that will take you on. You are in your probationary period still, but that's not something that most would blink at given...well, given what rumors have been going around the whole of the LAFD about Acting Captain Han. Seeing everything the other day just made me know that I needed to have an escape plan for you two. I would hate for Han to have run off two of the brightest stars we have."
"I don't need my ego stroked," Buck said.
"No, I know you have a healthy ego, and you have earned it in the time you have been here. We have a lot of people who end up being wonderful firefighters that have issues at the start. There is no one path, and some need a little more help but my guys like you so far. We will let it all shake out how it shakes out."
Buck wasn't one to let things happen like that. he liked having a little more control but knew he couldn't do anything to push this along. He needed to see what happened.
"Shit," someone called out a little while later.
Buck looked where the guy was and saw it was not just the Chief but five other people with him, one of which was Bobby.
"Sirs," Mehta said.
"Your office?" the chief said.
Mehta nodded just as the alarm went off.
"Or we can stay out here, and you can be the one behind. Buckley, Diaz with them. I trust you have someone you trust to run your team?"
"Of course," Mehta said.
Buck really didn't want to be the one to have to leave, but he understood that a hornet's nest had been kicked.
Two hours later, they returned to the station with a smile on his face; Buck bumped into Eddie as he got off the engine. They hung up their gear and looked around for who was left to tell them what was going on. Bobby and Mehta were in the kitchen working on food, and both had smiles on their faces.
"Come on over," Mehta said.
Buck wasn't sure if he was going to be good or not. He just hoped that nothing too bad was going to happen.
"The three replacements were very happy about the way it all went," Mehta said.
"Okay?" Eddie asked.
"Well, the first thing Chim did was try to throw them out. Which would have stopped a rig from going out, and when that was pointed out to him, he acted like he was just testing them. It got worse from there, and there were too many witnesses who ended up calling HR on their own. It was honestly the worst thing I have ever seen since the cameras caught most of the verbal assault that he put on them. There might even be criminal charges for it all. In the end, he's fired, and things at the 118 are not good at the moment. I'm not being made to retire or anything, but I will be going to training, and we will be getting a new captain for a while; I'll be working with them. You don't have to if you two do not want to return to the 118."
"I do," Buck said.
"Are you sure?" Mehta asked.
"Yes, on a trial basis with the out that if I don't like it and things don't get better, I'm gone. I'll find a place elsewhere with your help, Sir."
"That can be arranged. There was more, but I'll leave Bobby to tell you it." Mehta stepped away from the area, pulling anyone else who had gotten close away as well.
"Chim blames you, Buck, about this. He screamed and ranted and raved so much that he got himself settled in for a psych hold since he was unable to control himself. He decompensated so much. I got to watch the video of it, and I still can't believe it. He even blames you for the rebar, and if you hadn't replaced him as my favorite, I never would have even thought of telling him that lying to Tatiana was wrong."
Buck waited for Bobby to finish working on the sauce to talk. "I can't believe he thought anything like that."
"He's been shoving things down, and I think this just made it all erupt. I'm sure that he will pass the hold with flying colors as long as he doesn't rant and rave at everyone, but then again, I could be wrong. I've looked at him wrong for a while now."
Buck shrugged. Bobby liked to help people, and he had probably slotted Chim into the role of being someone that Bobby saved before he killed himself once he hit the number he needed. There was no way to get that looked at differently until something happened, which was Mehta and the Chief pushing others in front of him.
It seemed like Chim hadn't lasted at all on that one.
"He needs therapy to deal with the trauma of the rebar and the trauma of being stabbed and left for dead by Doug," Eddie said.
"Oh, everyone at the 118 is getting therapy. I'm even going. More than just talking to my priest about things. I have been made aware of how much trauma there has been as a whole to everyone there. I'm showing a good example by being the one to go in first. Eddie, you will also be doing a little more to make sure that things about Shannon are under control. No one is going to be exempt from this unless they are already seeing someone, which is just two of them. No one is off rotation as it can take a little time to get a good fit with someone who will work, but there is a point where it will come to suspension."
"That's fine. I'm sure that I can find someone who I can work with. There has to be someone who deals with veterans in the city."
"I'll help you look," Buck said, bumping his shoulder into Eddie's.
"Did this really start because Chim called you a show-off after a maneuver you two have both done more than once during rescues?"
"Yes, and I only got injured because the kid I rescued was freaked out, and I had to hold on a weird way, and I got my arm caught on a stump of a small tree that had been sheered off. Doing my job is not showing off, and Eddie and I might have balked against his orders, but his orders didn't make sense. The family was going to die if we stuck to his orders. Everyone knew that; it's why they all helped us get ready and save them despite Chim's orders."
"Everyone on shift that we talked to has said that Chim only disagreed because it was your idea, Buck."
Buck huffed. He had figured that, but he hadn't wanted to be the one to say it. If it had been anyone else who had suggested what they did for the rescue, Chim would have jumped on it, and Buck knew that. The rest of the people on the call had known it as well. There was too much at stake to listen to Chim when he had given an order that was. There was no way for him to even push that they were wrong.
"Are you sure you want to come back?" Bobby asked.
"On a trial basis, yes. I want...I like it there, but this has shown me a side of things that I think I need to keep an eye on," Buck said.
"It showed a lot of us that we have gotten a little too toxic, as Hen called it. She talked with Karen about everything, and I guess that Karen was not h lot of things. Expect her to want to talk to you." Bobby grimaced a little at that, and it made Buck wonder what Hen had said to Bobby about all of this. There were a lot of issues to be worked out, and as long as people were willing to work on them, Buck was happy to go back.
"You are a show-off, though, just not in the way Chim thinks," Eddie said.
Buck stuck his tongue out at Eddie.
Eddie wrapped his arm around Buck's shoulder and held on, reminding him that Eddie was there for him, partners in all the ways that mattered. Forever.