Rest of Yesterday – Jilly James

Thank you to Keira and Greeneyesblue for their strong support and encouragement.

The LA Reservoir black balls can be learned about here. (the sideswipe at science was for my Saturday STEAM team.)

Regarding warnings:

• The kink in this is a bit under-negotiated, but they do pretty much talk about everything at some point. Still, it’s not the overt communication I would normally like amongst healthy adults. People do trip into power dynamics all the time, so it’s realistic, if not ideal.
• The erotic asphyxiation is not manual strangulation. It’s using oral sex as a means of oxygen deprivation, in the complete control of the bottom.
• There’s an overt turn, though a fairly tame turn, towards BDSM at the very end of the story (the D/s aspect is less tame). It’s not the majority of the story.
• Regarding character bashing: The story is sort of anti-everyone at one point or another. Buck is the main character and even he isn’t so great at times. The story is about figuring out what can be fixed in a bad situation, forgiving, and moving on. It’s not a bash fest, but it is ultimately not friendly to Chim for most of it, and I don’t think Maddie comes off great either. I always warn for character bashing, however, because a lot of fandom can’t distinguish between consequences and ripples versus character bashing.

The world…ish:

• LAFD doesn’t have lieutenants in their command structure, but it makes more sense to me that each apparatus in a multi-apparatus station has its own leader, so go with me on this. In reality, it’d probably be another captain. I’m going with lieutenants.
• They require 4 years time-in-service to be an engineer. I shortened it to 2. This reference in the story is very oblique, and this point isn’t all that noteworthy. I’m more putting it here so someone doesn’t email me.
• We never see where the bunk rooms actually area in 9-1-1 canon. I have them being off the loft area, but it’s likely that they’re downstairs, and this is what’s more conventionally accepted in the fandom. I’m just stuck on them being upstairs. I actually think I took out the part of the story that dealt with the bunk rooms, but, meh. I guess the note stays.

Timeline:

• Takes place mid season 5. I started writing around 5×05 airing and pulled in a few details from later episodes. Story references events in the first 5 episodes of season 5 and may or may not take into account events from later in the season. Since this was plotted and started long before Boston aired, most of those details are ignored.

Rest of Yesterday by Alana Davis

Hermoso – Beautiful

Ay Dios – Oh God

Abuela – Grandma

Abuelo – Grandpa

Tía – Aunt

Querido – Darling

Mi amor – my love

Obras son amores, que no buenas razones – actions speak louder than words. Literal: works are love and not good reasons.