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    Once he’s safely in the Jeep Buck lets his head fall back against the seat. He’s not having a panic attack, he’s not going to be sick, and he’s certainly not going to cry. Buck just feels lost. Suddenly he’s as much the kid the others think him to be. How is he supposed to cope with this.

    “Why are you still fucking dead?” Buck asks the imaginary Bobby in the passenger seat. “You were supposed to be here for me for this sort of shit. You were supposed to tell me what to do.”

    In the wake of Bobby's death and the birth of his nephew, Buck receives a diagnosis and makes some well meaning, but ultimately ill considered life choices. Will the path he's set himself on break him? Or will it be the making of the next new iteration of Buck?

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    Evan hates Doug Kendall.

    He isn’t supposed to hate anybody. That’s what love thy neighbor means. Doug isn’t actually their neighbor, he lives a few streets over, but Maddie said that when God says neighbor, he means like if the whole world was a neighborhood. Evan thinks that God should just say that he means to love everybody, then, but one time he said that and Mom and Dad made him pick out a stick from the yard and they hit him until he cried, so he doesn’t say much about God anymore.

    He can’t say that he hates Doug, either. Doug is friends with Mr. Brooks, and Evan doesn’t really like Mr. Brooks, but everybody else does. He even gets to give the sermons sometimes instead of Pastor Daniel. Mr. Brooks is nice, and he pays way more attention to him than Mom and Dad do, which Evan likes, and he even gave him a Hot Wheels car once, and sometimes in school he has other little treats just for Evan, but Evan still—he just doesn’t think that Maddie needs a Mr. Brooks, is all.

    or: how Evan and Maddie make it out of Pennsylvania, and Buck and Maddie build a family.

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    It becomes a thing, Evan often showing up for karaoke night, or trivia, or on one memorable team outing, a rage room. The kid is around all the time. And yeah, Tommy knows it’s the same as any of his other colleagues, and that firefighters spend a lot of time together by design, but all of a sudden it feels like it’s all Evan, all the time.

    It all comes to a head for Tommy.

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    Buck gets injured on a call. As he recovers, he struggles with memories of feeling smothered after he was in a coma from the lightning strike and lashes out until he’s left alone.

    Unfortunately for him, being alone was the last thing he should be.

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