Flogsam
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"I'm promising it now. Any day, every day, as long as it's with you."
He feels Carlos lean in, hovering right next to his face. Now is the time TK needs to open his eyes and prove Andrea right—their love is a fucking telenovela, and Carlos is going to kiss him awake like Sleeping Beauty, and they will get their goddamn happy ending. He puts everything he has into opening them, every thought and hope and microscopic muscle into getting his eyes to open—
But they don't. And Carlos doesn't even see any of his efforts.
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BTHB Prompt: Organ Theft
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- Part 9 of Flogsam's Bad Things Happen Bingo
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There are times—few in number, but not insignificant—that he fears the day Jonah grows up. Sometimes the wonder of whether the wolves he's hunted had families just like his own keeps him up at night. He'll never know, and that's a pain no amount of reassurance from TK can touch.
He's changed a lot since he met TK. They both have, and mostly for the better. He just can't help but wonder if his past will come back to haunt him—or worse, his family.
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When a new face shows up in Austin, Carlos is forced to face his past.
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- Part 8 of Flogsam's Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 4 of i will come back (supernatural au)
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"Was this a mistake? Am I—am I only making things worse?"
He doesn't ask Can I do this? because he doesn't know what he'll do if the answer is no.
"No. No, Carlos, don't think that for a second." TK says it with so much force that he leaves no room for argument. "This is new, but it's only the first night. Jonah needs us."
Carlos pulls away, hating himself for it. He can't look at TK when he says, "He needs you. He needs to be surrounded by wolves, a—a pack, or something. Not a human who's stumbling in the dark for the right answers." He shuts his eyes tightly. He doesn't want to cry, because TK is right: it's only the first night. What will it say about him if he's reduced to tears on the first night?
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TK and Carlos bring a very frightened Jonah home. When Jonah starts to show signs of his first shift, Carlos struggles with how to support him.
BTHB Prompt: Bundled Up in Blankets
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- Part 3 of i will come back (supernatural au)
- Part 7 of Flogsam's Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Up ahead, a logging truck turns onto the highway. It's going quite a bit slower than the rest of the cars, but is accelerating to catch up. Carlos slows down to accommodate it, and that's when the guy behind him lays on the horn.
There's a split second where Carlos gets nervous—an irrational fear from watching the second Final Destination movie with their friends a few days ago. He reminds himself that it's just a movie. It's still daylight out, the roads aren't slick with rain or ice—these are ideal driving conditions. He's never so much as scratched the paint on any car he's owned. It's fine.
Just a dumb movie.
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- Part 6 of Flogsam's Bad Things Happen Bingo
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He watches as she sets the IV to high flow, something he's only seen TK do a few times while they were in the field together. "This won't make him come."
"Oh, yes it will," she counters. "Computer, start a broadcast on all local television frequencies."
"Starting broadcast…"
"The drug trials have only ended in one of two ways," she tells him, a sinister grin on her face. "Either you manifest some kind of enhanced ability, or your body overloads from the change and you die. I imagine neither of you wants to take that risk." She turns to the screen, which displays their mirror image in the recording. "The clock is ticking. If the Blizzard has a conscience, he'll have to come here and try to stop me."
For the sake of humanity, Carlos really hopes the Blizzard is selfish.
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TK has lived a double life since before Carlos ever met him. What happens when his family is put at risk because of his secrets?
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- Part 5 of Flogsam's Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Now, and in the hour of our death by tailoredshirt for WhenSheReads
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
07 Jan 2024
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Carlos couldn’t see TK, but he could hear him gasping for air. Trudie was looking down at him with genuine anguish on her face.
“I really wish you hadn’t done that,” she told him.
(How 4x04 could have gone if TK had gotten suspicious of Trudie and sweet-talked himself into the house)
For whenshereads for the 2023 Tarlos Secret Santa exchange.
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28 Jul 2026
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Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here by Princessfbi
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
21 Oct 2020
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“All units be advised: please be on the lookout for missing off duty police officer, Carlos Reyes. Repeat all units be on the lookout for missing off duty police officer, Carlos Reyes. Missing person is twenty-six-year-old latino male; black hair; brown eyes; height: six foot one inches. He was last seen leaving his home in a pair of grey running shorts and blue tennis shoes. Be advised that he’s believed to be injured.”
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18 Jul 2026
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Two Rangers. Two Spouses. All of them alone in one way or another.
OR: When the execution of a seemingly routine search warrant goes horribly wrong, Carlos's life is left hanging in the balance and it's up to Sam to put together the pieces of the deadly puzzle, alone.
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- Part 1 of 911: Texas Rangers
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TK shrugs. “I think the script is meant to be Gabriel in conversation with his version of you.”
Carlos chuckles, a little bitterly, a little tired. “His version of me isn’t the real me.”
“It’s real to him.”
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Or: Gabriel has a new script to film and wants Carlos to star in it. Carlos hates his father for even asking.
(or: it's a Sentimental Value AU)
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- Part 3 of Award Season AUs
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With a dislocated hip after a chase, Carlos refuses to let the medical team touch him until TK arrives. In the ER, caught between shame and the agony of reduction, his body forces him to surrender to vulnerability and collapse into the only safe harbor he knows: his husband’s arms.