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  1. Rec 12

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    "It's not about … not wanting a relationship."

    "Oh." Something about the way Eddie said it, hushed and hesitant, felt dangerous. A precipice loomed before them, and Eddie danced on tiptoe towards it. Buck wasn't sure what they'd find over the ledge, but he knew he'd hurl himself over, if only Eddie asked. "No?"

    In the privacy of the desert, miles away from anything they know, Eddie opens up to Buck.

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    14 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 25

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    It's Eddie's turn to drive on their road trip back from Nashville, and his mind takes him places he hasn't been in years.

    Inspired by Sacha

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    14 Feb 2026

  3. Rec 48

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    "He knows very little about this bottle that’s just been unearthed from the freezer. The only thing he’s sure of… it isn’t his.

    He pulls it out with a frown, examining the label. Something expensive, imported. It’s not something he drinks, and he’s sure that Buck doesn’t either. The last time he’d really indulged in something like this was at Chim’s bachelor party when he was already past drunk and the bubbles had felt good dancing against his tongue. He twists the bottle in his hands again, frown deepening."

    Or, Eddie finds that bottle of champagne in his freezer that he knows he definitely didn't put there...

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    13 Feb 2026

  4. Rec 45

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    Eddie shoves a legal pad and a pen against Buck’s chest. He sits next to Buck, so close their thighs touch.

    “Write your contract,” Eddie says.

    “Our contract.”

    “Such a romantic.”

    This isn’t romance, though. But Buck doesn’t want to remind Eddie of that, because he might take the legal pad—or, more importantly, the promise of Buck getting to touch his body—away. So Buck scrawls Buck and Eddie’s Friendship Sex Contract.

    Or: Eddie and Buck strike up a friends with benefits arrangement. Every good understanding needs a contract. And a detailed list of likes and dislikes, while they’re at it.

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    12 Feb 2026

  5. Rec *

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    Before Eddie can think of any more excuses, Buck bursts back through the surface of the water with Eddie’s body in his arms.

    Eddie looks down at himself, still kneeling on the dock, and then at what is unmistakably also him in the water. Buck sucks in a great gasp of air, but the Eddie in the water doesn’t. His head slumps limp onto Buck’s shoulder, and the puzzle pieces of the last few minutes suddenly fall into place.

    Finding himself back on the dock with no memory of how he got there. Buck unable to see or hear him. Eddie’s hand passing right through him.

    Oh. He didn’t make it out of the water. He drowned.

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    After an injury on a call, Eddie finds himself something he never expected to be...

    A ghost.

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    12 Feb 2026