Aphyxia



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    There’s something here, something in the tub, something horrifying and incomprehensible and inhuman—

    No. Not inhuman. It’s— It’s Eddie.

    Buck’s lungs shudder for air, every cell in his body begging him to move closer, to get a better look, to bare his neck in submission. The candles only provide a meager light source, flickering and dim as they are, but there’s no doubt to what Buck sees before him: Eddie, lounging in the bathtub, and the elegant drape of his otherworldly tail where his legs used to be.
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    Buck has always been drawn to Eddie. There’s just… something about him.

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    He knew, somehow, that it’s been Eddie this entire time. Buck would only trust one person to touch him like that, and it’s Eddie. His body is frozen, but he wouldn’t move anyway. Eddie holds the scalpel, the blade hovering over Buck’s skin, and he pauses. The knife stills, waiting, as he asks, “Are you ready?”

    Buck prefers when he had normal nightmares, about being trapped under a truck or drowning or losing the people he loved, rather than undergoing surgery in his dreams.

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    Eddie thinks about it, sometimes, showing up to the 118 and forcing Buck to deal with him. Maybe it would’ve played out the same way, Buck all huffing-mad at him and Eddie trying to figure out how to work with him without stepping on his tail. Eddie didn’t go back, because the 118 was Buck’s first.

    Buck returns to Los Angeles; Eddie follows, like an echo of years before.

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    Buck’s hair is gray at the temples, buzzed neatly on the sides and a bit longer and curlier on top than Chris remembers him wearing it, and there’s a new scar through one of his eyebrows. He looks good, like he’s living a happy life, and the only possible reason Chris can imagine for Buck to be here at Helena Diaz’s funeral in El Paso is that Chris’s father brought him.

    “Why would you come?” Chris snaps at him.

    Buck blinks. “Why wouldn’t I come?”

    “She didn’t mean anything to you.”

    “I’m not here for her,” Buck scoffs. “She is dead. I’m here for him.”

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    Chris is forced to grapple with the choice he made eleven years ago when his father comes back for Helena’s funeral.

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  5. Public Bookmark 76

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    Buck nods, biting down his own smile. “I know we, like-- melded our minds together,” he says with a wet huff. “But-- I feel like-- I’ve known you my whole life.”

    “Yeah,” Eddie says softly, and he doesn’t add, I feel like I’ve been waiting for you my whole life.
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    Eddie is ten years old when the first Kaiju makes land in San Francisco. When another Kaiju appears six months later, and Eddie’s school gathers all the kids in the auditorium, he realizes with a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach:

    This was not going to stop.

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