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♪ you're telling everyone i know, i'm on your mind each place you go. ♪ 9-1-1 — 7.01 • Abandon 'Ships'

7.02 'Rock the Boat' // 2.10 'Merry Ex-Mas'

Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. Chapter 22 of Right Where You Left Me is up!

Lord. The past two months have been something. I've had a lot of life stuff happen, including a death in the family and a funeral for said death. Still I think grief and mental illness are uniquely complex yet universal experiences, and things that should be normalised. Life goes on and we have to take it one day at a time.

On a more positive note, we've reached the long awaited POV shift, and as you can probably guess, this is Eddie's time in the limelight. Chapter 22 is a 170-page document on Google Docs and is roughly 56k. It's absurd. Truly unhinged when I think of the start of this story.

Moreover, to me it's an exercise in endurance, a character study, too, because we've stayed in Buck's head all this time, and Eddie's perspective is challenging, refreshingly new, and overall an interesting place to be. Given how isolated Buck has been in his declining mental health, delving into Eddie's world means we get to spend more time with the other members of the 118 too.

I hope you enjoy this chapter, and as always I dearly appreciate your engagement. Writing is a solitary endeavour and receiving your support, your encouragement truly keeps me going. It means more than I can say.

Also happy season 7 premiere! 🚒🍿

With the generous BTS and PR material from ABC, I think we'll have a lot to look forward to each week. 🥂🧀

Happy reading and take care. 💜

babies :)

I’ve been following Right Where You Left Me for a while now and have time and time again found myself rereading it and being emotionally destroyed each and every time I’ve read it. I know you have your soundtrack for certain parts which is always amazing because it does help convey the emotions. But sometime I auto play some of my playlists and let me tell you I have hurt myself with that. Reading your story and listening to “The Night We Met” by Lord Huron has nearly made me stop and sob a varying parts of your story.

I just found your tumblr so I wanted to say this here too, thank you for this amazing work. With how long this next chapter is I know it must be so emotionally draining (but satisfying) to write this story. And a second thank you for this upcoming chapter that I know will once again emotionally destroy my heart and soul.

Thank you! This fell through my messy inbox and it's a pleasant surprise for me to find. I truly appreciate you took the time to kindly voice your appreciation here and to share your favourite track to read along with. It's honestly been really nice hearing people tell me they have their playlists and favourite artists be it Noah Kahan, Mitski, and more to accompany their reading experience. Music has a way of letting us connect with our emotions and I'm glad you found your pick to keep you company in this oftentimes sad, but hopefully ultimately uplifting story. And thank you for validating the effort, the emotional work that goes into writing each chapter. 💜

Hey author! Just wanted to send you some love and encouragement! Cannot WAIT for the next chapter of right where you left me (I'm totally not going insane climbing walls chewing my leg in anticipation) I'm so excited and just aaaaaah I love your writing, excuse me if one of these days I rant in your asks about how insane your fic has made me

What a nice serotonin boost. Thank you for sending good vibes my way, I appreciate your kind enthusiasm!! <3

Heyyy I'm very excited for this monster of a chapter and I know that getting Eddie's point of view during chapters 1-21 is going to destroy me. I'm going to be devastated and I'm fully prepared to dedicate a day to it. Do you have a new prediction on the word count for this chapter?? Also you totally dont have to answer this if you want to keep spoilers to a minimum or something but will this new chapter stop once they find Buck or will it go past chapter 21 until they find out what been happening with Wells?? And will chapters 23 onwards be back to Buck's point of view or will it swap between Buck/Eddie/Other povs?? Also I reread chapter 21 like right before writing this and god the Bobby and Buck of it all. The way you've written their relationship SO lovingly I can't get enough of it

Hello. <3

Hopefully we can cap this at 60k.

Despite a good chunk of this is Eddie from earlier timelines, we will definitely go past chapter 21.

Aiming to return to Buck's POV for the next ones, though since this is third person there will also be scenes of the 118 without him. And when this man is K.O.'d, we'll likely spend time with other characters i.e. Maddie &/ Bobby, who are crucial to his recovery.

Speaking of Bobby, thank you for voicing your appreciation for his relationship with Buck in this verse as it is probably my favourite to expand on, I just love this father-son duo in all but blood, same as Buck and Chris. :')

How is the next chapter of Right Where You Left Me going? I saw your chapter word count post the other week and the fact that this 1 chapter could potentially be as long as half the entire fic is crazy! I can't wait to read the fallout of chapter 21.

53k at the moment. In the works. 💀💀

The length is crazy, but it makes sense considering it's more or less everything from Eddie's POV. I am hopefully going back to a humane 10k limit on the upcoming chapters.

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Which one of these do you think most accurately represents how Eddie cries in different parts of right where you left me

Bahaha. I am personally into the stuff from s3 be it the present day or the bits from Eddie Begins. Those hit hardest for me, like he looks destroyed. Definitely not the acid trip one. S5 for Fear-o-phobia and the scene with Ramon are alright. 4x06 isn't bad either. It's all about those shiny eyes.

Hi there! I’ve been following Right Where You Left Me since October, but have yet to express my tremendous appreciation for this fic. So here’s a some fanart of the line that broke all of your readers’ hearts and some love <333. Thanks so much for sharing this story. :)

Oh, my. What a lovely surprise to find in my inbox, thank you for sharing your talent with me! 💜💜 This is such a sweet gesture, and to have paid tribute to one of my favourite scenes, I dearly appreciate it. Thank you kindly! Also the symbolism of Buck in black and white while Chris and Eddie are in colour. 💔💔

Look, my captain is not my dad. But he might as well be. He could have given up on me so many times, but he never did.

EVAN BUCKLEY & BOBBY NASH in 9-1-1 | 6.10 “In a Flash”

Honestly don't know how long this next chapter of Right Where You Left Me is going to be. Current draft is at 37k. I'm predicting 50k at this point. I will look at Eddie's bedhead for strength. 💀💀

Just wanted to say how much I love ‘Right where you left me’ Your writing is amazing and I can’t wait to see what comes next in the story. Amazing work - you should feel very proud of yourself. ❤️

Thank you very much! That warms my heart. Doing heavier WIPs is always a challenge in motivation and time management so I appreciate hearing that validation. 💜

hope you’re okay 🩷

Thank you!

I'm pretty swamped with life, but I've also been busy writing.

Hope you're doing well yourself. 💜

but there was happiness because of you, too

they really went from “I don’t like you and I don’t want you here” to “you’re important to me and I’ll always have your back” in a heartbeat and i think that’s beautiful.