#they threw off my lyrics from a soundtrack song naming scheme so the title is from the song rock the boat instead
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7x02 coda
Hen drives to the firehouse, and changes her mind with every stoplight she hits.
Red light. Maybe this is an overreaction.
Green light. Bobby and Athena need help.
Red light. Cruise ships are built to withstand the weather, and the Uno had turned away from the storm. The Coast Guard has to be aware of the storm by now, and they’ll be on high alert for any distress.
Every rational thought points to everything being fine.
But—the light turns green, Hen hits the gas, and she remembers a sunny afternoon six years ago. Then, too, every rational thought had pointed to everything being fine, until she and Buck had found Bobby passed out cold.
There’s just one nagging thought at the back of her mind.
“Hey, Siri,” she says, slowing down at yet another red light. “Call Karen.”
“What did Maddie say?” Karen asks as soon as she picks up. Her voice is concerned, and Hen loves her for it. Karen, at least, understands.
“Am I overreacting?” Hen asks instead of answering. The question had been building so long it needed to escape.
“Tell me what Maddie said first,” Karen says. “I can’t answer without all the information.”
“She thinks something happened,” Hen says. “She called the local 911 down in Mexico, apparently they got a bunch of calls from the ship that all dropped.”
“Sure sounds like something happened,” Karen says. “So, you’re going out there?” She sounds the way she always does when Hen is about to run headfirst into danger, proud and terrified all at once.
“I—” Hen says, her fingers gripping the steering wheel. “I was going to, but I ran into Chief Simpson.”
“Oh,” Karen says, then, “oh no, he didn’t fire you?”
“No,” Hen says. “Just told me to get back to work. I told him about the ship, but he just said it’s not in our jurisdiction.”
“Oh,” Karen says again. There’s a humming on the line like she’s about to say something else, but she stays silent and lets Hen gather her thoughts.
“Is he right?” she asks, after another few seconds of silence. “Am I making the wrong call again?”
“What do you mean again?” Karen asks. “Didn’t you just say he told you to go back to work? That means you made right call, doesn’t it?”
“Just because it wasn’t wrong doesn’t mean it was right,” Hen says. “It was—Karen, I honestly don’t know what it was.”
“We don’t need to figure that out right now,” Karen says. “Do you think going after Bobby and Athena is the right call?”
Hen takes a breath. One second stretches into two, then five, and still, she doesn’t answer.
“Hen,” Karen says. “What does your instinct say?”
“Something is wrong,” Hen says. “I know it is. And the ocean may not be part of the LAFD’s jurisdiction, but Bobby and Athena are my jurisdiction.”
“Then go get ‘em,” Karen says. “But, Hen?”
“Yeah?”
“Come home to me.” Karen’s voice doesn’t shake, but Hen knows that’s only thanks to years and years of practice.
“I will,” Hen says. “I promise.”
By the time she hits the red light around the corner from the firehouse, Hen is certain that she’s made the right decision. She might have forgotten it for a moment, but she trusts her instincts.
The only uncertainty remaining is how she’s going to convince the rest of the team to accompany her, with nothing but a map of ships off the California coast and a bad gut feeling to go off.
But when she walks into the app bay, Chimney, Eddie, and Buck are lined up and waiting for her.
“Get changed and let’s go,” Eddie says. “Chopper’s on the way.”
Hen blinks. “How did you—”
“Maddie called,” Chimney says, brandishing his phone. “So I called Tommy, called in a favour.”
“Don’t you still owe him from last time?” Buck asks, and Chimney frowns.
“Well techincally—”
“We can settle it on the way,” Hen says, before the two of them can really start bickering, but her heart feels like it grows a size with every half-jogged step towards the locker room.
Bobby and Athena are their jurisdiction, and they’re on their way.
#911fic#hen wilson#911 7x02#911 spoilers#shush emma#emma writes#they threw off my lyrics from a soundtrack song naming scheme so the title is from the song rock the boat instead#this was hard bc everything is kind of unfinished and i like to do look back and reflect codas lmao#but here we are anyway
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