Buddie Ficlets
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The guy who walks by their table is tall, not obnoxiously so, but a good height. And thick. Broad-shouldered. Big, strong arms. Biceps stretching the credulity of the seams of his short-sleeved polo. And a waist that would make Eddie’s hand’s look normal-sized.
Heat swirls in Eddie’s stomach and he takes a slow sip of his drink, letting rum slide down his throat.
Four sets of eyes silently turn to him.
OR - Eddie finally joins Wine Night
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- Part 1 of Buddie Ficlets
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So I didn't know the @118 Daily Drabble thing was a thing until just now. So. Going to try and catch up.
As a drabble challenge, these will all be exactly 118 words. Which is...not a lot. But hey, that's the challenge.
I'll put the Daily Word in as the chapter title.
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- Part 2 of Buddie Ficlets
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Eddie squeezes Buck’s thick thigh under the table. Just to touch him. Just to ground himself.
He knows - Eddie knows Buck hooked up with Tommy while he was in El Paso. In his house. In his bedroom. In the space where he once broke down, destroying everything around him, and Buck him helped rebuild. At least it didn’t happen in his bed.
or: Eddie runs into Tommy at a bar and has something to say about it
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- Part 3 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Do you think I look stupid?” Eddie twists in front of the mirror again, examining himself in the reflection.
He’s wearing a black tank top with drop armholes, exposing the shadows of his ribs, the subtle curve of his pecs, the long flexing muscles of his lats. And, if he stretches the right way, a dusky flash of nipple. Across the chest of the tank is a black, white, purple, and gray rainbow. It’s not subtle and that’s the point.
Buck peeks his head around the bathroom door. He grins when he sees Eddie, a flash of teeth. “You look hot.”
or: Buck and Eddie go to their first WeHo Pride Parade together.
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- Part 4 of Buddie Ficlets
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Eddie rubs metal under his thumb until it warms. “How many of these things are there?”
“In the country?” Buck thinks. “Over 3000.”
Or: Eddie discovers something new to love about Buck
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- Part 5 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Were you scared?” Chris asks. He’s where Eddie left him, snuggled under the blankets, hair a mess, glasses off and set on the nightstand. He’s perfect.
Buck sits on the bed next to him, head curved towards Christopher, the selfsame shape Eddie has made a thousand nights over.
Or: Eddie eavesdrops on a bedtime conversation between Chris and Buck
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- Part 6 of Buddie Ficlets
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One of them is dressed in full regalia, including helmet. He’s big; she doesn’t usually like that in men, although she does in women. Which is maybe something she should bring up with her therapist next week.
“That was a good save,” the big guy says, and he bumps his shoulder into the medic Alyssa’s pretty sure is named Eddie. “With the femoral bleed.”
“Only got to him in time because you got the windshield off so fast,” Eddie responds.
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- Part 7 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Do you think he’s good over there?” Eddie asks, glancing at the door connecting their adjoining motel rooms.
Buck flops back on the bed, the old mattress groaning under his weight. “Yeah, Eds. I think Chris is gonna be fine. I think he’s gonna like having the room to himself.”
or: scenes from a road trip
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- Part 8 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Sit up,” Eddie commands, coming into the living room with his hands full of bags and takeout boxes.
Buck hasn’t felt hungry in a week, but the loft fills with the aromatic scents of turmeric, lemongrass, chili pepper, garlic. Buck’s mouth waters for the first time since he was crushed.
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- Part 9 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Why do you live here?” The question bursts out of Eddie before he can stop it, but it’s been burning inside him for weeks. Ever since the last of Buck’s boxes loaded out.
Buck blinks. Pale eyelashes fluttering. “What?”
Eddie’s jaw works. “I – you had a place. We were…”
or: Eddie visits Buck's new home
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- Part 10 of Buddie Ficlets
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“You’re great at this,” Eddie offers. “The kids all love you.”
Buck scoffs. He doesn’t mean to, but he does. Denial refusing to go quietly.
“Hey,” Eddie chides. “You’re great with them. You’ve been – Chris loves you.”
or: Buck has some big emotions after a day of babysitting
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- Part 11 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Are you a werewolf?”
Eddie chokes and piña colada shoots out of his nose, dribbling down his chin onto the already sticky table
“Buck, what the fuck?” Eddie wipes at his mouth. The rum burns his nose, makes his eyes water a little.
or: Buck gets a little high and a little handsy
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- Part 12 of Buddie Ficlets
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“My,” Buck purrs, letting it come from deep in his chest. “What big ears you have.”
Eddie snorts. “Really?”
Buck pouts, just a little. “Don’t kink shame.”
or: Buck and Eddie get some alone time during Halloween
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- Part 13 of Buddie Ficlets
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Now Buck’s awake before the sun, waiting for the alarm to go off for work so it doesn’t look like he was sneaking out of bed first thing in the morning to avoid any sort of awkwardness. But he doesn’t want to sneak. This is his bed. Because they came back to Buck’s house after the 118 Christmas party. They came back together.
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- Part 14 of Buddie Ficlets
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And now the dining table in his newly rented house is covered in apples. They’re both peeling the fruit, because Buck has a couple recipes in mind and if he doesn’t get these peeled and chopped now, he’ll never do it.
Buck grabs the next apple from the pile and starts to twist the stem between his fingers, counting up each twist purely out of habit.
or: apple peeling and revelations, in that order
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- Part 15 of Buddie Ficlets
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“Okay,” Buck says again, and differently this time. He wipes his hands dry on a dish towel and turns towards Eddie. “Do you want a hug?”
“What?” Eddie scoffs. “No.”
“Come on,” Buck holds his arms out, “I think you need a hug.”
or: everything happens in the kitchen
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- Part 16 of Buddie Ficlets
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Eddie barely lets Buck put his bags down in entryway before he’s on him, pulling Buck into his arms by his lapels and kissing him soundly.
“But the fireplace,” Buck tries to protest, because the fireplace was very important to picking the house, but Eddie swallows his words.
“Later.” Eddie bites at his lower lip and then surges inside, licking at Buck’s teeth, his tongue. He has a point; Eddie’s kisses are more important than the fireplace.
or: I mean, Eddie deserves a vacation
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- Part 17 of Buddie Ficlets
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Buck claps his hands together and the sharp sound echoes down the quiet street. “Okay, I’m kicking the door in.”
“Buck!” Eddie exclaims, too loudly.
“What?” Buck doesn’t see the problem here. He’s broken in plenty of doors, although usually he has a halligan or a ram. Doors and door jams are replaceable – he even knows how to do it himself.
or: sometimes Buck and Eddie need adult-er supervision
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- Part 18 of Buddie Ficlets
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Eddie can’t see their faces. He doesn’t care to see their faces, but he can see Buck’s. He’s laughing, open-mouthed, all teeth. Head thrown back and eyes crinkling shut with it as if something could ever be so funny. His neck is long, tendons stretching, throat bared and glistening with sweat under the pulsating lights. Eddie thinks if he were closer he’d be able to see Buck’s pulse thrumming away under his skin.
“—you know what I mean?”
“What?” He didn’t hear what Ravi was saying. He hasn’t been listening.
or: Buck and Ravi take Eddie out for drinks. It gets complicated.
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- Part 19 of Buddie Ficlets
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He shouldn’t be thinking about this at all. He’s not — they’re not Buck’s keeper. He’s a grown man who can make his own choices and clearly, he did. He chose to not enter into a nontraditional relationship and that’s fine. It didn’t surprise Eddie at all. Eddie’s pretty sure Buck’s a one and done at heart, even if he hasn’t found his one yet.
And Eddie’s not…he doesn’t know what he is. He doesn’t think about what he is or is not, because if he starts walking down that switch-backing path he may never find his way home.
or: Eddie thinks about the whole...affair later.
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- Part 20 of Buddie Ficlets