Change is Inevitable
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Lucky.
The word snagged in his chest.
He’d heard it a lot lately. Lucky the bolt hadn’t stopped his heart for good. Lucky the damage hadn’t been worse. Lucky to be back.
He wasn’t sure it was luck.
It felt more like a clerical error.OR
He had died. Three minutes. And he doesn't know how to deal with that.
Buck had been back with 118 for a month now and he still doesn't feel readjusted. He doesn't feel real, it's like he is an imposter in his own life - watching life happened to him through a wall of glass.Series
- Part 1 of Change is Inevitable
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Buck shifted slightly. “Sorry.”
Eddie frowned. “For what?”
Buck kept his eyes closed. “For making you responsible for me all the time.”
Something inside Eddie cracked quietly. He turned toward him. “You’re not a responsibility.”
Buck’s face tightened immediately. Didn’t believe him.
So Eddie said the truer thing. “You’re someone I love.”This time, when sleep started pulling at him again - he let it. Not because the fear was gone. Not because he trusted himself completely. But because Eddie was there.
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After a crisis changes everything, Buck ends up staying with Eddie and Christopher while he recovers and tries to figure out what life looks like afterwards.
What starts as temporary becomes routine. Routines become habits. Habits become something neither of them really knows how to name.
Buck learns that getting better doesn’t mean becoming who he was before.
Eddie learns that taking care of someone and needing someone might not be the same thing.
Meanwhile Christopher has plans, the 118 has opinions, therapy is deeply annoying, and two people who are absolutely convinced they’re just being normal continue making increasingly questionable friendship decisions.
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- Part 2 of Change is Inevitable