In The Light// Station 19 x Reader

𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣

When you've crashed and burned, you might wonder, "How did I get here?" But that part doesn't really matter. What matters is what you do next. Will you let it overwhelm you?

"Where's Gibson?" Y/n asked coming back into the room after she had left to tell Jack something

"I believe he's, uh, resting." Pruitt answered

"I'll fix him a plate." Y/n told him grabbing a plate and going to the counter "You don't want to see Hangry Jack."

"Hey, how is Gibson lately?" Pruitt asked "Does he seem on edge to you?"

"You noticed?" Y/n asked looking at him worried

"Kind of hard not to notice when he's throwing Greg Tanner against a wall over a poker game." He stated making the girl stop in her tracks "I'm worried. Is he getting enough sleep lately?"

"He's been here at Odd hours,called at Odd hours for sure, but I didn't think he was bringing all that to the Station." y/n furrowed her brows

"I've seen this many times before." He nodded "It's dangerous. And it likely won't resolve on its own."

"So, what do we do? "

~

Y/n and Vic raced down the stairs to get Travis only to reach the bottom nd turn the corner to see Travis stumble out of the closet grant following behind

"Pruitt wants to see us in the Beanery." Vic stated knowing what had happened

"Would you like to... to get a seat at Reception?" Travis looked at grant

"Yeah. I'll do that." He nodded walking past the two

"What did Pruitt want to see us about?" Travis ignored their looks

"No clue." Y/n told him begining to walk with vic "But he probably doesn't want to see man-bits. Zip up."

"Sorry, I was... We were..." Travis followed them

"Oh. No. No, I connected those dots." Vic continued walking

"But I was trying to talk to him, and then you got into my head about living in the now, and the now that I wanted to live in was less about talking and more about..." They walked up the stairs

"Man-bits!" Y/n stopped at the top of the stairs "I got it. All good."

"Not all good!" Travis yelled

"We needed to talk." He turned to Vic

"But instead, you had hotty hot spur-of-the-moment sexy time because of me. So you're welcome." She smiled before they continued up the stairs and into the kitchen where everyone else was

"Great. You're all here." Pruitt looked at them "Now listen up."

"He seems mad." Vic chuckled "Why does he seem mad?"

"Because I am mad." Pruitt raised his voice making them all stop"Because the firefighters standing in front of me are not the firefighters I raised. The firefighters I raised communicate. They have each other's backs. And when one of our own shows clear signs of struggling, we help. Because if we don't, it puts civilian lives at risk." He looked down then back up at them "There's something wrong with Gibson. And I suspect all of you have noticed that something's off. Hell, I've been here half a day, and I could tell you that. A sleep-deprived, troubled firefighter is a liability. Snap out of it. Help isn't just gonna magically appear. It's on us to do something about it. Right now."

~

"Hey." Miller went to a now awake Jack "Looks like we drew the short straw. We're on Friendsgiving cleanup duty." Jack didn't move "All right, come on."