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Tarlos Fic Masterlist

  • The Stakeout - Carlos believes Owen is sleeping with his mom and has a lot of feelings about it. TK (and his partner in crime) are there to help... sort of.
  • Inside a snow globe - The evening after TK gets his one month sobriety chip.
  • First night - TK and Carlos’ first time.
  • Coming and going - TK and Carlos boink so hard that TK passes out.
  • Mr July - Carlos finds his husband featured in a firefighter calendar.
  • An over-the-moon type of enough - Carlos wonders if TK is really okay with not having kids.
  • The Sting - Carlos helps the FBI in a sting operation where he has to flirt with another man. His husband has something to say about it.
  • All's fair - A set of tarlos prompt fills surrounding arguments, scraps, fights, and bickering.
  • Punching bag - A 4x04 coda where TK helps Carlos work through some of his frustration.
  • Amongst the multitude of reasons - A 'Hold the Line' coda.
  • No fix for the fixer - Carlos is attacked. This is how he recovers.
  • Ten thirty-two in progress - TK dresses up in Carlos’ cop uniform and tries to roleplay. (The key word here is tries)
  • The Ride Along - Carlos takes TK on a ride along.
  • Half agony, half hope - A post-Push fic about the stages of getting back together from relief, to reconciliation, to reacquaintance.
  • Gold name and number - Carlos has some feelings about TK in his softball outfit.
  • The Ticket - TK gets a speeding ticket and is not very happy about it.
#tarlos#tarlos fic#911 lone star fanfiction#911 lone star#911 ls#tk strand#carlos reyes
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Happy to present to y'all this 911LS fic list for stories related to one of my favorite episodes 3.13 Riddle of the Sphynx! I try to make these as comprehensive as possible, so if you have any you think I missed, let me know so I can add them. (I also might make edits to these posts to add more fics as they get written. If I ever do so I'll be sure to reblog the post for visibility!)

Enjoy all of our amazing fandom writers and leave them some comments & love!

[Disclaimers: • If you're an author and don't like to be tagged or linked for any reason, let me know and I'll remove the tag and make sure not to do so in the future, no questions asked. • I usually post TWs in rec lists. Due to the episode subject matter, assume all of these have a TW for discussion of addiction/drug use and possibly discussion of parent death/grief.]

◆ Chasers by @carlos-in-glasses (Words: 13.4K; Rating: E)

After 3x13 – while TK is alone with Cooper, Carlos is alone with his thoughts. Both recall times they’ve chased the next high, other men, or each other. When Carlos arrives home, TK still has something important to say – and it's something he didn’t tell Cooper.

◆ trying my best by @reyescarlos (Words: 10.3K; Rating: M)

An exploration of TK's sobriety journey from 2017 to now. Or, a season 3 coda spanning 3x08-3x13

◆ You Showed me How it feels to Truly be Seen by @ramblingdisaster73 (Words: 3K; Rating: T)

Carlos works through the events of 3x13 "The Riddle of the Sphinx".

◆ Measure of a Man by @chicgeekgirl89 (Words: 1.8K; Rating: T)

“I want to be everything you need. That I can’t be, it hurts, T.K. It feels like a failure on my part. And as much as I’m trying to accept it, it’s hard.” A 3x13 coda in which Carlos struggles with a new definition of being "enough."
#thank you so much for including me!!!
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guys life really do be worth livin. It took eating this gyros chicken greek pita on the beach on a perfect sunny day to realise it.

#shut up shannon
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maggieflowers asked:

Thank you for that amazing answer and update with the fic and how your doing with writing it. I have some experience working with addiction, predominantly teens. Addiction is hard and honestly it’s ugly. It makes wonderful people say and do ugly things. It takes a lot of strength, courage and work to come out the other side and I have so much respect for those that do.

You’re an excellent writer so I am sure it will be an honest and respectful piece. Sending you good vibes for it.

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Aww thank you so much for taking the time to write these kind words! It truly means a lot because I have taken a break from other for a few days and now I am diving back in a trying to write a little more! So thank you for the boost! I really hope u like it when I finally get it to 100% xxx

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maggieflowers asked:

How is your fic going that your writing about TK and the friends he left behind? :)

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Aww wow thank you for asking! It's going very slowly. It's definitely the darkest thing I've ever tried to write so it takes it out of me in a strange way, I was full on crying trying to write a particular part lmao.

It's complicated because I want to write what I personally believe and what I want to write but at the same time being conscious of making what I'm portraying not being outrightly offensive and derogatory towards those going through active addiction. My pet peeve in fiction is when it feels like the writer has just shuffled the characters onto a therapy couch and makes them do therapy talk which sounds so unrealistic and out of character so I'm trying not to fall into that trap but also get the conflict resolved but also trying to be realistic and ahhhhhhhh its a lot of spinning plates.

I'm thinking of maybe having a sensitivity writer go through it when I'm done because I don't want what I'm writing to be genuinely harmful but then again I'm not trying to write the most unproblematic thing in the world. A part of me doesn't really care if some things are problematic because they're things I've genuinely experienced and tbh that's life?

It's really hard to remove yourself from your writing and I have a very critical social psychology view of addiction which I don't think will be very popular with some. So I will be putting warnings and tags in wip wednesdays and things and I really don't mind if some people choose to give this fic a miss. TK's friends are NOT in a good place so their behaviour and the things they say aren't very kind, that's not me trying to portray ALL ADDICTS ARE BAD. That's me trying to display the reality of how people behave when they are in active addiction and the effect it has on people around them. Because this is TK's story not theirs.

TK also gets triggered in this fic which was really sad to write but interesting to see how he deals with it immediately in the moment and how he and Carlos communicate about it afterwards.

Thank you so much for letting me get that off my chest!!!!! so for the long answer!!!!! The struggles with this fic have been time consuming and I haven't really spoken about it with anyone so thank you!!! I would say its around 55% done. I have the skeleton, I just need to put some meat on it's bones.

Here is a snippet of 'What we leave behind': No specific warnings on this one but its under a cut in case people want to dodge this fic.

#911 lone star#tk strand#what we leave behind
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TK/Carlos + Touch

↳ 4.16 A House Divided

#literally impossible to encapsulate all the things i love about this so let just focus on one thing at a time#today: aww tk hugging carlos with both arms around his neck#!!!!#i feel like we never see them hug like that but i love it because its so like ‘🥺🥺 hold me pls🥺🥺’#and its so comforting like yes they are hugging eachother but TK is the one BEING HELD if u know what i mean#and carlos is able to take all of the responsibility and weight#tk looks so lil and vulnerable
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