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    “LA Dispatch to Engine 118, be advised–”

    Eddie’s head snaps up.

    Maddie. Dispatch cadence – clean, clipped, controlled.

    Chimney’s eyes flick to the radio, then to Eddie, before he answers.

    “118, go ahead.”

    Maddie continues, steady as a metronome.

    “We have a reported MVC on the Fletcher Drive Bridge, repeat: multiple-vehicle collision. Units en route have visual confirmation of two cars at the scene.”

    Eddie’s pulse stutters. He leans forward without meaning to, the seatbelt tugging tight across his chest.

    Maddie keeps going, all professionalism, no tremor, until she hits the words that break.

    “One of the vehicles is… a Jeep that went over the railing into the water.”


    A car crash, the kind of cold that settles in your bones, and a desperate attempt to keep Buck alive long enough for help to arrive.

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    The Jeep nde you didn’t know you needed.

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    10 Jan 2026

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    It’s not ideal, being dead. He can’t bake, he can’t take a shower, he can’t go to work. And he can’t tell Eddie he loves him.

    It occurred to him in the too-fast flash of a second it took to fall 48 feet into the fiery subfloor full of rubble, glass, and rebar.

    Oh, Eddie.

    Not ideal at all.

    or: Buck is haunting Eddie's house. That's not the end of the story.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    There is something about watching Moreau tear himself apart that makes him afraid. Andrew is both the child version of himself that prays that for a night, just for one night, his bedroom door will stay closed, and the adult left alone on the pavement staring at the pitiful abandoned remnants of Neil Josten’s life. Both are too vulnerable for California streets and so Andrew shoves them down with revulsion, threading his fingers through Moreau’s hair to force his head up and examine the gouges of his throat with a clinical disinterest. History sounds too close to misunderstanding for him to find any true detachment. “Did Johnson ever touch Neil?”

    Or: When Andrew asks Jean if Grayson ever touched Neil, he has a different answer.

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    27 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 13

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    Eventually, Eddie clears his throat. “How aren’t you okay exactly?” he asks, voice steady.

    “I’m just…” He waves a hand in the air. “I’m just not,” he settles on. “You know, I wanted to be. I really tried. But nothing is helping.” He thinks about what it was like to sit on that floor and know Bobby was going to die. He thinks about what it was like to know he couldn’t do anything about it. “Don’t think I ever really got off that floor.”

    Eddie hums. “That sounds rough,” he says, voice strained. Buck can tell he’s holding himself back, and of course he is. They haven’t talked like this before. This was the only way for Eddie to get Buck to open up—and why did it have to be? Why couldn’t Buck just talk to him? “Do you feel stuck there?” he asks. He’s looking down at the clipboard he brought with him. “On that floor?” he clarifies a moment later.

    Eddie acts as Buck’s therapist.

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    03 Dec 2025

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    Buck's plan for the evening is simple: eat calzones with Eddie, pretend he's not in love with his best friend, and absolutely never think about one desperate night he hooked up with Tommy in Eddie's house, and the conversation they had the morning after in Eddie's kitchen while Eddie was in El Paso.

    Then Eddie mentions a missed call. And a voicemail. And a text from Tommy asking if Eddie thinks he's "competition."

    Before Buck can spiral, Eddie holds out his hand for Buck's phone, finds Tommy's still-blocked number, and calls him back himself. What follows is ten minutes of calm, surgical destruction: Eddie dismantling Tommy's ego, burning every bridge, and saying things like "You call that competition? You were never in the fucking race," and "I left him behind and he was still fucking mine."

    Buck's pressed against the corner of the kitchen, half-hard and fully in shock, because they aren't even dating.

    Yet.

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    24 Nov 2025